Re: [PATCH] kvm-pr: manage illegal instructions

[Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>]

On 11/05/2016 12:35, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 03/15/2016 09:18 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> While writing some instruction tests for kvm-unit-tests for powerpc,
>> I've found that illegal instructions are not managed correctly with
>> kvm-pr,
>> while it is fine with kvm-hv.
>>
>> When an illegal instruction (like ".long 0") is processed by kvm-pr,
>> the kernel logs are filled with:
>>
>>       Couldn't emulate instruction 0x00000000 (op 0 xop 0)
>>       kvmppc_handle_exit_pr: emulation at 700 failed (00000000)
>>
>> While the exception handler receives an interrupt for each instruction
>> executed after the illegal instruction.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c | 4 +++-
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
>> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
>> index 2afdb9c..4ee969d 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
>> @@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_op_pr(struct kvm_run *run,
>> struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>         switch (get_op(inst)) {
>>       case 0:
>> -        emulated = EMULATE_FAIL;
>>           if ((kvmppc_get_msr(vcpu) & MSR_LE) &&
>>               (inst == swab32(inst_sc))) {
>>               /*
>> @@ -112,6 +111,9 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_op_pr(struct kvm_run *run,
>> struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>               kvmppc_set_gpr(vcpu, 3, EV_UNIMPLEMENTED);
>>               kvmppc_set_pc(vcpu, kvmppc_get_pc(vcpu) + 4);
>>               emulated = EMULATE_DONE;
>> +        } else {
>> +            kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, SRR1_PROGILL);
> 
> But isn't that exactly what the semantic of EMULATE_FAIL is? Fixing it
> up in book3s_emulate.c is definitely the wrong spot.
> 
> So what is the problem you're trying to solve? Is the SRR0 at the wrong
> spot or are the log messages the problem?

No, the problem is the host kernel logs are filled by the message and
the execution hangs. And the host becomes unresponsiveness, even after
the end of the tests.

Please, try to run kvm-unit-tests (the emulator test) on a KVM-PR host,
and check the kernel logs (dmesg), then try to ssh to the host...

Laurent