Patch "powerpc/64: Don't try to use radix MMU under a hypervisor" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/64: Don't try to use radix MMU under a hypervisor

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-64-don-t-try-to-use-radix-mmu-under-a-hypervisor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Nov  6 10:07:36 CET 2017
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:21:34 +1100
Subject: powerpc/64: Don't try to use radix MMU under a hypervisor

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>


[ Upstream commit 18569c1f134e1c5c88228f043c09678ae6052b7c ]

Currently, if the kernel is running on a POWER9 processor under a
hypervisor, it will try to use the radix MMU even though it doesn't have
the necessary code to use radix under a hypervisor (it doesn't negotiate
use of radix, and it doesn't do the H_REGISTER_PROC_TBL hcall). The
result is that the guest kernel will crash when it tries to turn on the
MMU.

This fixes it by looking for the /chosen/ibm,architecture-vec-5
property, and if it exists, clears the radix MMU feature bit, before we
decide whether to initialize for radix or HPT. This property is created
by the hypervisor as a result of the guest calling the
ibm,client-architecture-support method to indicate its capabilities, so
it will indicate whether the hypervisor agreed to us using radix.

Systems without a hypervisor may have this property also (for example,
skiboot creates it), so we check the HV bit in the MSR to see whether we
are running as a guest or not. If we are in hypervisor mode, then we can
do whatever we like including using the radix MMU.

The reason for using this property is that in future, when we have
support for using radix under a hypervisor, we will need to check this
property to see whether the hypervisor agreed to us using radix.

Fixes: 2bfd65e45e87 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add radix callbacks for early init routines")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
+#include <linux/libfdt.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -421,6 +423,28 @@ static int __init parse_disable_radix(ch
 }
 early_param("disable_radix", parse_disable_radix);
 
+/*
+ * If we're running under a hypervisor, we currently can't do radix
+ * since we don't have the code to do the H_REGISTER_PROC_TBL hcall.
+ * We tell that we're running under a hypervisor by looking for the
+ * /chosen/ibm,architecture-vec-5 property.
+ */
+static void early_check_vec5(void)
+{
+	unsigned long root, chosen;
+	int size;
+	const u8 *vec5;
+
+	root = of_get_flat_dt_root();
+	chosen = of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name(root, "chosen");
+	if (chosen == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
+		return;
+	vec5 = of_get_flat_dt_prop(chosen, "ibm,architecture-vec-5", &size);
+	if (!vec5)
+		return;
+	cur_cpu_spec->mmu_features &= ~MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX;
+}
+
 void __init mmu_early_init_devtree(void)
 {
 	/* Disable radix mode based on kernel command line. */
@@ -428,6 +452,15 @@ void __init mmu_early_init_devtree(void)
 	if (disable_radix || !(mfmsr() & MSR_HV))
 		cur_cpu_spec->mmu_features &= ~MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX;
 
+	/*
+	 * Check /chosen/ibm,architecture-vec-5 if running as a guest.
+	 * When running bare-metal, we can use radix if we like
+	 * even though the ibm,architecture-vec-5 property created by
+	 * skiboot doesn't have the necessary bits set.
+	 */
+	if (early_radix_enabled() && !(mfmsr() & MSR_HV))
+		early_check_vec5();
+
 	if (early_radix_enabled())
 		radix__early_init_devtree();
 	else


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paulus@ozlabs.org are

queue-4.9/powerpc-64-don-t-try-to-use-radix-mmu-under-a-hypervisor.patch