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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] spapr/rtas: disable the decrementer inte
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Cédric Le Goater |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] spapr/rtas: disable the decrementer interrupt when a CPU is unplugged |
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Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:25:19 +0200 |
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On 10/12/2017 12:46 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 10/11/2017 08:45 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 05:49:28PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> When a CPU is stopped with the 'stop-self' RTAS call, its state
>>>> 'halted' is switched to 1 and, in this case, the MSR is not taken into
>>>> account anymore in the cpu_has_work() routine. Only the pending
>>>> hardware interrupts are checked with their LPCR:PECE* enablement bit.
>>>>
>>>> If the DECR timer fires after 'stop-self' is called and before the CPU
>>>> 'stop' state is reached, the nearly-dead CPU will have some work to do
>>>> and the guest will crash. This case happens very frequently with the
>>>> not yet upstream P9 XIVE exploitation mode. In XICS mode, the DECR is
>>>> occasionally fired but after 'stop' state, so no work is to be done
>>>> and the guest survives.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect there is a race between the QEMU mainloop triggering the
>>>> timers and the TCG CPU thread but I could not quite identify the root
>>>> cause. To be safe, let's disable the decrementer interrupt in the LPCR
>>>> when the CPU is halted and reenable it when the CPU is restarted.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>
>>>> - used a new routine ppc_cpu_pvr_match() to discriminate CPU versions
>>>> - removed the LPCR:PECE* enablement bit when the CPU is initialized
>>>> if it is a secondary
>>>>
>>>> hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> target/ppc/translate_init.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>>>> 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>>> index cdf0b607a0a0..dfdbf1e2c6f8 100644
>>>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
>>>> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
>>>> #include "qemu/cutils.h"
>>>> #include "trace.h"
>>>> #include "hw/ppc/fdt.h"
>>>> +#include "target/ppc/cpu-models.h"
>>>>
>>>> static void rtas_display_character(PowerPCCPU *cpu, sPAPRMachineState
>>>> *spapr,
>>>> uint32_t token, uint32_t nargs,
>>>> @@ -174,6 +175,15 @@ static void rtas_start_cpu(PowerPCCPU *cpu_,
>>>> sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>>>> kvm_cpu_synchronize_state(cs);
>>>>
>>>> env->msr = (1ULL << MSR_SF) | (1ULL << MSR_ME);
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Enable DECR interrupt */
>>>> + if (ppc_cpu_pvr_match(cpu, CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_3_00)) {
>>>
>>> Sorry, I didn't reply to your earlier mail in time. Going via the PVR
>>> in this way seems bonkers to me - I like it even less than checking
>>> the mmu type. After all, classifying a bunch of precise models (PVRs)
>>> together by behaviour is kind of exactly what the CPU classes are for,
>>> so using object_dynamic_case() (==instance_of) is a better idea here.
>>
>> hmm, and which type should I use ? we don't have any TYPE_POWER9* we
>> could use for a object_dynamic_cast(). I don't think so ? I could use
>> the name and strcmp("power9") probably but it looks ugly.
>
> Actually there is, but, yeah, it's a lot less obvious than I thought.
> It's constructed by the POWERPC_FAILY macro and will be
> "POWER9-family-powerpc64-cpu"
>
>> The only thing we have is "CPU_POWERPC_POWER9_BASE" and it only
>> applicates to PVR.
>>
>> May be I don't understand your idea.
>
> Urgh, sorry. This got much muckier than I thought it would be. I
> think maybe it's best to go back to the mmu type test, and later on we
> can fix up both the previously existing test like that, and the new
> one to something better.
Given that the bits are the same on all processors, why not just use :
env->spr[SPR_LPCR] |= LPCR_PECE_L_MASK;
and
env->spr[SPR_LPCR] &= ~LPCR_PECE_L_MASK;
Thanks,
C.
>>>> + env->spr[SPR_LPCR] |= LPCR_DEE;
>>>> + } else {
>>>> + /* P7 and P8 both have same bit for DECR */
>>>> + env->spr[SPR_LPCR] |= LPCR_P8_PECE3;
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> env->nip = start;
>>>> env->gpr[3] = r3;
>>>> cs->halted = 0;
>>>
>>> The other option I'm wondering about here is to actually add a
>>> "shutdown" (or something) method to the cpu class, which does whatever
>>> is necessary to put the vcpu into a quiescent state that won't be
>>> woken up unless it's specifically requested.
>>
>> yes. That is a good idea.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> C.
>>
>>
>>>> @@ -210,6 +220,16 @@ static void rtas_stop_self(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>>>> sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>>>> * no need to bother with specific bits, we just clear it.
>>>> */
>>>> env->msr = 0;
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Don't let the decremeter run on a CPU being stopped. This could
>>>> + * deliver an interrupt on a dying CPU and crash the guest.
>>>> + */
>>>> + if (ppc_cpu_pvr_match(cpu, CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_3_00)) {
>>>> + env->spr[SPR_LPCR] &= ~LPCR_DEE;
>>>> + } else {
>>>> + /* P7 and P8 both have same bit for DECR */
>>>> + env->spr[SPR_LPCR] &= ~LPCR_P8_PECE3;
>>>> + }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> static inline int sysparm_st(target_ulong addr, target_ulong len,
>>>> diff --git a/target/ppc/translate_init.c b/target/ppc/translate_init.c
>>>> index 0d6379fcc5b4..1a62159843e7 100644
>>>> --- a/target/ppc/translate_init.c
>>>> +++ b/target/ppc/translate_init.c
>>>> @@ -8905,6 +8905,7 @@ void cpu_ppc_set_papr(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>>>> PPCVirtualHypervisor *vhyp)
>>>> CPUPPCState *env = &cpu->env;
>>>> ppc_spr_t *lpcr = &env->spr_cb[SPR_LPCR];
>>>> ppc_spr_t *amor = &env->spr_cb[SPR_AMOR];
>>>> + CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu);
>>>>
>>>> cpu->vhyp = vhyp;
>>>>
>>>> @@ -8946,8 +8947,15 @@ void cpu_ppc_set_papr(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>>>> PPCVirtualHypervisor *vhyp)
>>>> } else {
>>>> lpcr->default_value &= ~(LPCR_UPRT | LPCR_GTSE);
>>>> }
>>>> - lpcr->default_value |= LPCR_PDEE | LPCR_HDEE | LPCR_EEE |
>>>> LPCR_DEE |
>>>> + lpcr->default_value |= LPCR_PDEE | LPCR_HDEE | LPCR_EEE |
>>>> LPCR_OEE;
>>>
>>> But I guess we'd also need a "set_papr" method to go with that.
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Only let the decremeter wake up the boot CPU. The RTAS
>>>> + * command start-cpu will enable it on secondaries.
>>>> + */
>>>> + if (cs == first_cpu) {
>>>> + lpcr->default_value |= LPCR_DEE;
>>>> + }
>>>> break;
>>>> default:
>>>> /* P7 and P8 has slightly different PECE bits, mostly because P8
>>>> adds
>>>> @@ -8955,7 +8963,14 @@ void cpu_ppc_set_papr(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>>>> PPCVirtualHypervisor *vhyp)
>>>> * will work as expected for both implementations
>>>> */
>>>> lpcr->default_value |= LPCR_P8_PECE0 | LPCR_P8_PECE1 |
>>>> LPCR_P8_PECE2 |
>>>> - LPCR_P8_PECE3 | LPCR_P8_PECE4;
>>>> + LPCR_P8_PECE4;
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Only let the decremeter wake up the boot CPU. The RTAS
>>>> + * command start-cpu will enable it on secondaries.
>>>> + */
>>>> + if (cs == first_cpu) {
>>>> + lpcr->default_value |= LPCR_P8_PECE3;
>>>> + }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> /* We should be followed by a CPU reset but update the active value
>>>
>>
>
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