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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prohibit setting illegal transaction state in MSR</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T00:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
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<published>2015-11-12T05:43:02+00:00</published>
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Currently it is possible for userspace (e.g. QEMU) to set a value
for the MSR for a guest VCPU which has both of the TS bits set,
which is an illegal combination.  The result of this is that when
we execute a hrfid (hypervisor return from interrupt doubleword)
instruction to enter the guest, the CPU will take a TM Bad Thing
type of program interrupt (vector 0x700).

Now, if PR KVM is configured in the kernel along with HV KVM, we
actually handle this without crashing the host or giving hypervisor
privilege to the guest; instead what happens is that we deliver a
program interrupt to the guest, with SRR0 reflecting the address
of the hrfid instruction and SRR1 containing the MSR value at that
point.  If PR KVM is not configured in the kernel, then we try to
run the host's program interrupt handler with the MMU set to the
guest context, which almost certainly causes a host crash.

This closes the hole by making kvmppc_set_msr_hv() check for the
illegal combination and force the TS field to a safe value (00,
meaning non-transactional).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Currently it is possible for userspace (e.g. QEMU) to set a value
for the MSR for a guest VCPU which has both of the TS bits set,
which is an illegal combination.  The result of this is that when
we execute a hrfid (hypervisor return from interrupt doubleword)
instruction to enter the guest, the CPU will take a TM Bad Thing
type of program interrupt (vector 0x700).

Now, if PR KVM is configured in the kernel along with HV KVM, we
actually handle this without crashing the host or giving hypervisor
privilege to the guest; instead what happens is that we deliver a
program interrupt to the guest, with SRR0 reflecting the address
of the hrfid instruction and SRR1 containing the MSR value at that
point.  If PR KVM is not configured in the kernel, then we try to
run the host's program interrupt handler with the MMU set to the
guest context, which almost certainly causes a host crash.

This closes the hole by making kvmppc_set_msr_hv() check for the
illegal combination and force the TS field to a safe value (00,
meaning non-transactional).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-11-12T22:34:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-12T22:34:06+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Four changes:

   - x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs
     while another is being delivered.  The endless stream of exceptions
     causes an infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or
     SMIs can interrupt; in the virt case, there is no possibility to
     exit to the host either.

   - x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate.  Long supported by
     AMD, the patches mostly move things from there to common
     arch/x86/kvm/ code.

   - generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and
     exit paths when context tracking is enabled.  The patches are a few
     months old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit.  Andy
     will pick up from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user
     entry/exit paths.

   - PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits)
  KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept
  KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB
  KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
  context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit
  context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled check
  KVM: VMX: Dump TSC multiplier in dump_vmcs()
  KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC
  KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded
  KVM: VMX: Enable and initialize VMX TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc()
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset()
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio
  KVM: x86: declare a few variables as __read_mostly
  KVM: x86: merge handle_mmio_page_fault and handle_mmio_page_fault_common
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split
  ...
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Pull second batch of kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Four changes:

   - x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs
     while another is being delivered.  The endless stream of exceptions
     causes an infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or
     SMIs can interrupt; in the virt case, there is no possibility to
     exit to the host either.

   - x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate.  Long supported by
     AMD, the patches mostly move things from there to common
     arch/x86/kvm/ code.

   - generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and
     exit paths when context tracking is enabled.  The patches are a few
     months old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit.  Andy
     will pick up from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user
     entry/exit paths.

   - PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits)
  KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept
  KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB
  KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
  context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit
  context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled check
  KVM: VMX: Dump TSC multiplier in dump_vmcs()
  KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC
  KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded
  KVM: VMX: Enable and initialize VMX TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc()
  KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset()
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function
  KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio
  KVM: x86: declare a few variables as __read_mostly
  KVM: x86: merge handle_mmio_page_fault and handle_mmio_page_fault_common
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T07:38:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T07:38:43+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
   Feng
 - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
 - Emit GNU &amp; SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
 - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
 - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
 - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
 - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
   K.V
 - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
 - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
 - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
   Fontenot
 - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
 - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
 - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
   Mendoza-Jonas
 - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
   Colin Ian King
 - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
   Kumar K.V
 - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
 - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
 - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
 - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
 - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
   Gortmaker
 - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
 - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
 - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
 - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
 - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
 - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
 - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
 - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
   Kirjanov
 - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
 - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
 - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
 - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
   Koskinen
 - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
 - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
   Michael Ellerman
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
   with O= from Michael Ellerman
 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
   kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
   changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
   some fixes.
 - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
   MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
   documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.

* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
  powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
  powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
  powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
  powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
  powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
  powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
  powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
  powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
  powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
  powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
  powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
  powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
  powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
  powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
   Feng
 - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
 - Emit GNU &amp; SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
 - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
 - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
 - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
 - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
   K.V
 - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
 - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
 - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
   Fontenot
 - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
 - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
 - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
   Mendoza-Jonas
 - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
   Colin Ian King
 - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
   Kumar K.V
 - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
 - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
 - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
 - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
 - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
   Gortmaker
 - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
 - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
 - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
 - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
 - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
 - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
 - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
 - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
   Kirjanov
 - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
 - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
 - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
 - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
   Koskinen
 - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
 - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
   Michael Ellerman
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
   with O= from Michael Ellerman
 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
   kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
   changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
   some fixes.
 - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
   MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
   documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.

* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
  powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
  powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
  powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
  powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
  powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
  powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
  powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
  powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
  powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
  powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
  powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
  powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
  powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
  powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T05:02:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-03T05:03:30+00:00</published>
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In static micro-threading modes, the dynamic micro-threading code
is supposed to be disabled, because subcores can't make independent
decisions about what micro-threading mode to put the core in - there is
only one micro-threading mode for the whole core.  The code that
implements dynamic micro-threading checks for this, except that the
check was missed in one case.  This means that it is possible for a
subcore in static 2-way micro-threading mode to try to put the core
into 4-way micro-threading mode, which usually leads to stuck CPUs,
spinlock lockups, and other stalls in the host.

The problem was in the can_split_piggybacked_subcores() function, which
should always return false if the system is in a static micro-threading
mode.  This fixes the problem by making can_split_piggybacked_subcores()
use subcore_config_ok() for its checks, as subcore_config_ok() includes
the necessary check for the static micro-threading modes.

Credit to Gautham Shenoy for working out that the reason for the hangs
and stalls we were seeing was that we were trying to do dynamic 4-way
micro-threading while we were in static 2-way mode.

Fixes: b4deba5c41e9
Cc: vger@stable.kernel.org # v4.3
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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In static micro-threading modes, the dynamic micro-threading code
is supposed to be disabled, because subcores can't make independent
decisions about what micro-threading mode to put the core in - there is
only one micro-threading mode for the whole core.  The code that
implements dynamic micro-threading checks for this, except that the
check was missed in one case.  This means that it is possible for a
subcore in static 2-way micro-threading mode to try to put the core
into 4-way micro-threading mode, which usually leads to stuck CPUs,
spinlock lockups, and other stalls in the host.

The problem was in the can_split_piggybacked_subcores() function, which
should always return false if the system is in a static micro-threading
mode.  This fixes the problem by making can_split_piggybacked_subcores()
use subcore_config_ok() for its checks, as subcore_config_ok() includes
the necessary check for the static micro-threading modes.

Credit to Gautham Shenoy for working out that the reason for the hangs
and stalls we were seeing was that we were trying to do dynamic 4-way
micro-threading while we were in static 2-way mode.

Fixes: b4deba5c41e9
Cc: vger@stable.kernel.org # v4.3
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Synthesize segment fault if SLB lookup fails</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T04:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-27T05:10:20+00:00</published>
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When handling a hypervisor data or instruction storage interrupt (HDSI
or HISI), we look up the SLB entry for the address being accessed in
order to translate the effective address to a virtual address which can
be looked up in the guest HPT.  This lookup can occasionally fail due
to the guest replacing an SLB entry without invalidating the evicted
SLB entry.  In this situation an ERAT (effective to real address
translation cache) entry can persist and be used by the hardware even
though there is no longer a corresponding SLB entry.

Previously we would just deliver a data or instruction storage interrupt
(DSI or ISI) to the guest in this case.  However, this is not correct
and has been observed to cause guests to crash, typically with a
data storage protection interrupt on a store to the vmemmap area.

Instead, what we do now is to synthesize a data or instruction segment
interrupt.  That should cause the guest to reload an appropriate entry
into the SLB and retry the faulting instruction.  If it still faults,
we should find an appropriate SLB entry next time and be able to handle
the fault.

Tested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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When handling a hypervisor data or instruction storage interrupt (HDSI
or HISI), we look up the SLB entry for the address being accessed in
order to translate the effective address to a virtual address which can
be looked up in the guest HPT.  This lookup can occasionally fail due
to the guest replacing an SLB entry without invalidating the evicted
SLB entry.  In this situation an ERAT (effective to real address
translation cache) entry can persist and be used by the hardware even
though there is no longer a corresponding SLB entry.

Previously we would just deliver a data or instruction storage interrupt
(DSI or ISI) to the guest in this case.  However, this is not correct
and has been observed to cause guests to crash, typically with a
data storage protection interrupt on a store to the vmemmap area.

Instead, what we do now is to synthesize a data or instruction segment
interrupt.  That should cause the guest to reload an appropriate entry
into the SLB and retry the faulting instruction.  If it still faults,
we should find an appropriate SLB entry next time and be able to handle
the fault.

Tested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T00:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T00:26:26+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T09:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-21T05:03:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33'/>
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This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition
Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had
multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional
memory corruption.

In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the
source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what
was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to
by r0.

The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could
be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly
defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the
buffer.

The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the
write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the
case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical
core from the one where the write-out was initiated.

These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the
function (since the measured performance improvement from using the
feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is
the best option.

Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition
Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had
multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional
memory corruption.

In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the
source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what
was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to
by r0.

The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could
be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly
defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the
buffer.

The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the
write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the
case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical
core from the one where the write-out was initiated.

These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the
function (since the measured performance improvement from using the
feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is
the best option.

Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle H_DOORBELL on the guest exit path</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T05:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R. Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-15T05:59:58+00:00</published>
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Currently a CPU running a guest can receive a H_DOORBELL in the
following two cases:
1) When the CPU is napping due to CEDE or there not being a guest
vcpu.
2) The CPU is running the guest vcpu.

Case 1), the doorbell message is not cleared since we were waking up
from nap. Hence when the EE bit gets set on transition from guest to
host, the H_DOORBELL interrupt is delivered to the host and the
corresponding handler is invoked.

However in Case 2), the message gets cleared by the action of taking
the H_DOORBELL interrupt. Since the CPU was running a guest, instead
of invoking the doorbell handler, the code invokes the second-level
interrupt handler to switch the context from the guest to the host. At
this point the setting of the EE bit doesn't result in the CPU getting
the doorbell interrupt since it has already been delivered once. So,
the handler for this doorbell is never invoked!

This causes softlockups if the missed DOORBELL was an IPI sent from a
sibling subcore on the same CPU.

This patch fixes it by explitly invoking the doorbell handler on the
exit path if the exit reason is H_DOORBELL similar to the way an
EXTERNAL interrupt is handled. Since this will also handle Case 1), we
can unconditionally clear the doorbell message in
kvmppc_check_wake_reason.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Currently a CPU running a guest can receive a H_DOORBELL in the
following two cases:
1) When the CPU is napping due to CEDE or there not being a guest
vcpu.
2) The CPU is running the guest vcpu.

Case 1), the doorbell message is not cleared since we were waking up
from nap. Hence when the EE bit gets set on transition from guest to
host, the H_DOORBELL interrupt is delivered to the host and the
corresponding handler is invoked.

However in Case 2), the message gets cleared by the action of taking
the H_DOORBELL interrupt. Since the CPU was running a guest, instead
of invoking the doorbell handler, the code invokes the second-level
interrupt handler to switch the context from the guest to the host. At
this point the setting of the EE bit doesn't result in the CPU getting
the doorbell interrupt since it has already been delivered once. So,
the handler for this doorbell is never invoked!

This causes softlockups if the missed DOORBELL was an IPI sent from a
sibling subcore on the same CPU.

This patch fixes it by explitly invoking the doorbell handler on the
exit path if the exit reason is H_DOORBELL similar to the way an
EXTERNAL interrupt is handled. Since this will also handle Case 1), we
can unconditionally clear the doorbell message in
kvmppc_check_wake_reason.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Implement extension to report number of memslots</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T05:31:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikunj A Dadhania</name>
<email>nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-16T04:57:53+00:00</published>
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QEMU assumes 32 memslots if this extension is not implemented. Although,
current value of KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS is 32, once KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS
changes QEMU would take a wrong value.

Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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QEMU assumes 32 memslots if this extension is not implemented. Although,
current value of KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS is 32, once KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS
changes QEMU would take a wrong value.

Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make H_REMOVE return correct HPTE value for absent HPTEs</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T05:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-18T04:10:54+00:00</published>
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This fixes a bug where the old HPTE value returned by H_REMOVE has
the valid bit clear if the HPTE was an absent HPTE, as happens for
HPTEs for emulated MMIO pages and for RAM pages that have been paged
out by the host.  If the absent bit is set, we clear it and set the
valid bit, because from the guest's point of view, the HPTE is valid.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This fixes a bug where the old HPTE value returned by H_REMOVE has
the valid bit clear if the HPTE was an absent HPTE, as happens for
HPTEs for emulated MMIO pages and for RAM pages that have been paged
out by the host.  If the absent bit is set, we clear it and set the
valid bit, because from the guest's point of view, the HPTE is valid.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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