From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check for updated HDSISR on P9 HDSI exception
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:32:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4220ec45-248b-3561-8740-0b794b51e194@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170922103040.GK4998@umbus.fritz.box>
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On 22/09/2017 12:30, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:46:36AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 15/09/2017 07:26, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>> On POWER9 DD2.1 and below, sometimes on a Hypervisor Data Storage
>>> Interrupt (HDSI) the HDSISR is not be updated at all.
>>>
>>> To work around this we put a canary value into the HDSISR before
>>> returning to a guest and then check for this canary when we take a
>>> HDSI. If we find the canary on a HDSI, we know the hardware didn't
>>> update the HDSISR. In this case we return to the guest to retake the
>>> HDSI which should correctly update the HDSISR the second time HDSI
>>> entry.
>>>
>>> After talking to Paulus we've applied this workaround to all POWER9
>>> CPUs. The workaround of returning to the guest shouldn't ever be
>>> triggered on well behaving CPU. The extra instructions should have
>>> negligible performance impact.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
>>> ---
>>> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 14 +++++++++++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
>>> index 663a4a861e..70dca60569 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
>>> @@ -1118,6 +1118,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
>>> BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
>>> mtspr SPRN_PPR, r0
>>> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
>>> +
>>> +/* Move canary into DSISR to check for later */
>>> +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
>>> + li r0, 0x7fff
>>> + mtspr SPRN_HDSISR, r0
>>> +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
>>> +
>>> ld r0, VCPU_GPR(R0)(r4)
>>> ld r4, VCPU_GPR(R4)(r4)
>>>
>>> @@ -1947,9 +1954,14 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX)
>>> kvmppc_hdsi:
>>> ld r3, VCPU_KVM(r9)
>>> lbz r0, KVM_RADIX(r3)
>>> - cmpwi r0, 0
>>> mfspr r4, SPRN_HDAR
>>> mfspr r6, SPRN_HDSISR
>>> +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
>>> + /* Look for DSISR canary. If we find it, retry instruction */
>>> + cmpdi r6, 0x7fff
>>> + beq 6f
>>> +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
>>> + cmpwi r0, 0
>>> bne .Lradix_hdsi /* on radix, just save DAR/DSISR/ASDR */
>>> /* HPTE not found fault or protection fault? */
>>> andis. r0, r6, (DSISR_NOHPTE | DSISR_PROTFAULT)@h
>>>
>>
>> Applied to kvm/master, thanks.
>
> I'm not seeing it; have you pushed out the tree?
No, not yet (doing some tests).
Paolo
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-15 5:26 [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check for updated HDSISR on P9 HDSI exception Michael Neuling
2017-09-20 6:46 ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 8:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-09-22 10:30 ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 10:32 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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