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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-04-19 08:22:20 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-04-19 08:22:20 +0200
commit56376c5864f8ff4ba7c78a80ae857eee3b1d23d8 (patch)
tree489c1bb5876431b2d692bd9f6bdde6a0b04f9875 /arch/powerpc
parentpowerpc/eeh: Fix enabling bridge MMIO windows (diff)
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powerpc/kvm: Fix lockups when running KVM guests on Power8
When running KVM guests on Power8 we can see a lockup where one CPU stops responding. This often leads to a message such as: watchdog: CPU 136 detected hard LOCKUP on other CPUs 72 Task dump for CPU 72: qemu-system-ppc R running task 10560 20917 20908 0x00040004 And then backtraces on other CPUs, such as: Task dump for CPU 48: ksmd R running task 10032 1519 2 0x00000804 Call Trace: ... --- interrupt: 901 at smp_call_function_many+0x3c8/0x460 LR = smp_call_function_many+0x37c/0x460 pmdp_invalidate+0x100/0x1b0 __split_huge_pmd+0x52c/0xdb0 try_to_unmap_one+0x764/0x8b0 rmap_walk_anon+0x15c/0x370 try_to_unmap+0xb4/0x170 split_huge_page_to_list+0x148/0xa30 try_to_merge_one_page+0xc8/0x990 try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x74/0xf0 ksm_scan_thread+0x10ec/0x1ac0 kthread+0x160/0x1a0 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x78 This is caused by commit 8c1c7fb0b5ec ("powerpc/64s/idle: avoid sync for KVM state when waking from idle"), which added a check in pnv_powersave_wakeup() to see if the kvm_hstate.hwthread_state is already set to KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL, and if so to skip the store and test of kvm_hstate.hwthread_req. The problem is that the primary does not set KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KVM when entering the guest, so it can then come out to cede with KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL set. It can then go idle in kvm_do_nap after setting hwthread_req to 1, but because hwthread_state is still KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL we will skip the test of hwthread_req when we wake up from idle and won't go to kvm_start_guest. From there the thread will return somewhere garbage and crash. Fix it by skipping the store of hwthread_state, but not the test of hwthread_req, when coming out of idle. It's OK to skip the sync in that case because hwthread_req will have been set on the same thread, so there is no synchronisation required. Fixes: 8c1c7fb0b5ec ("powerpc/64s/idle: avoid sync for KVM state when waking from idle") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
index 79d005445c6c..e734f6e45abc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
@@ -553,12 +553,12 @@ ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
lbz r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_STATE(r13)
cmpwi r0,KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL
- beq 1f
+ beq 0f
li r0,KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL
stb r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_STATE(r13)
/* Order setting hwthread_state vs. testing hwthread_req */
sync
- lbz r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_REQ(r13)
+0: lbz r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_REQ(r13)
cmpwi r0,0
beq 1f
b kvm_start_guest