From: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
To: maddy@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
chzigotzky@xenosoft.de
Cc: sshegde@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com,
christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
msuchanek@suse.de, ritesh.list@gmail.com, harshpb@linux.ibm.com,
gautam@linux.ibm.com, amachhiw@linux.ibm.com,
venkat88@linux.ibm.com, nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Replay pending interrupts before entering the guest
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:34:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928110411.844582-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928110411.844582-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
After applying preempt disable patch, i.e PATCH 1/2, Christian reported
a subsequent warning stopping his board to boot properly.
WARNING: at .kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry+0x10/0x28, CPU#0: qemu-system-ppc/4667
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 4667 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Tainted: G W 7.3.0-rc4-2-powerpc64-smp #1 PREEMPT
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: varisys,CYRUS5040 e5500 0x80240012 CoreNet Generic
NIP [c00000000005dc3c] .kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry+0x10/0x28
LR [c00000000005f298] .kvmppc_handle_exit+0x5b4/0x5e8
Call Trace:
[c000000086587780] [c00000000005ee10] .kvmppc_handle_exit+0x12c/0x5e8 (unreliable)
[c000000086587830] [c000000000062068] .kvmppc_resume_host+0xb8/0x10c
It triggers below warning...
static inline void kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry(void)
{
trace_hardirqs_on();
/*
* To avoid races, the caller must have gone directly from having
* interrupts fully-enabled to hard-disabled.
*/
WARN_ON(local_paca->irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS);
This happens since kvmppc_prepare_to_enter does first local_irq_disable
followed by hard_irq_disable. This leaves a small window where interrupt
may occur and it could set the irq pending bit in PACA. When that
happens replay that interrupt before entering the guest.
Fixes: 12013e3d4695 ("KVM: powerpc: Use generic xfer to guest work function")
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b8f82519-9ae5-c247-e020-e79c627e57df@xenosoft.de/
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 9194cf492d1c..847ff07c364b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -147,6 +147,19 @@ int kvmppc_prepare_to_enter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
continue;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ /*
+ * Interrupt arrived between the soft and hard
+ * disable. Replay it and retry guest entry.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(local_paca->irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS)) {
+ local_irq_enable();
+ local_irq_disable();
+ hard_irq_disable();
+ continue;
+ }
+#endif
+
guest_enter_irqoff();
return 1;
}
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 11:04 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: BookE: Fix boot hang on preemptible kernels Shrikanth Hegde
2026-09-28 11:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: BookE: Disable preemption before loading guest FP and Altivec Shrikanth Hegde
2026-10-01 11:26 ` Narayana Murty N
2026-10-01 11:53 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-09-28 11:04 ` Shrikanth Hegde [this message]
2026-10-01 11:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Replay pending interrupts before entering the guest Narayana Murty N
2026-10-01 11:57 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-10-06 15:37 ` Gautam Menghani
2026-09-29 15:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: BookE: Fix boot hang on preemptible kernels Christian Zigotzky
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