On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 02:53:17 UTC, Jordan Niethe wrote: > kvmhv_switch_to_host() in arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S needs > to set kvmppc_vcore->in_guest to 0 to signal secondary CPUs to continue. > This happens after resetting the PCR. Before commit 13c7bb3c57dc > ("powerpc/64s: Set reserved PCR bits"), r0 would always be 0 before it > was stored to kvmppc_vcore->in_guest. However because of this change in > the commit: > > /* Reset PCR */ > ld r0, VCORE_PCR(r5) > - cmpdi r0, 0 > + LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r6, PCR_MASK) > + cmpld r0, r6 > beq 18f > - li r0, 0 > - mtspr SPRN_PCR, r0 > + mtspr SPRN_PCR, r6 > 18: > /* Signal secondary CPUs to continue */ > stb r0,VCORE_IN_GUEST(r5) > > We are no longer comparing r0 against 0 and loading it with 0 if it > contains something else. Hence when we store r0 to > kvmppc_vcore->in_guest, it might not be 0. This means that secondary > CPUs will not be signalled to continue. Those CPUs get stuck and errors > like the following are logged: > > KVM: CPU 1 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 2 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 3 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 4 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 5 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 6 seems to be stuck > KVM: CPU 7 seems to be stuck > > This can be reproduced with: > $ for i in `seq 1 7` ; do chcpu -d $i ; done ; > $ taskset -c 0 qemu-system-ppc64 -smp 8,threads=8 \ > -M pseries,accel=kvm,kvm-type=HV -m 1G -nographic -vga none \ > -kernel vmlinux -initrd initrd.cpio.xz > > Fix by making sure r0 is 0 before storing it to kvmppc_vcore->in_guest. > > Fixes: 13c7bb3c57dc ("powerpc/64s: Set reserved PCR bits") > Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@xxxxxxxxx> Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7fe4e1176dfe47a243d8edd98d26abd11f91b042 cheers