There is a hardware bug in some POWER9 processors where a treclaim in fake suspend mode can cause an inconsistency in the XER[SO] bit across the threads of a core, the workaround being to force the core into SMT4 when doing the treclaim. The FAKE_SUSPEND bit (bit 10) in the PSSCR is used to control whether a thread is in fake suspend or real suspend. The important difference here being that thread reconfiguration is blocked in real suspend but not fake suspend mode. When we exit a guest which was in fake suspend mode, we force the core into SMT4 while we do the treclaim in kvmppc_save_tm_hv(). However on the new exit path introduced with the function kvmhv_run_single_vcpu() we restore the host PSSCR before calling kvmppc_save_tm_hv() which means that if we were in fake suspend mode we put the thread into real suspend mode when we clear the PSSCR[FAKE_SUSPEND] bit. This means that we block thread reconfiguration and the thread which is trying to get the core into SMT4 before it can do the treclaim spins forever since it itself is blocking thread reconfiguration. The result is that that core is essentially lost. This results in a trace such as: [ 93.512904] CPU: 7 PID: 13352 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 5.0.0 #4 [ 93.512905] NIP: c000000000098a04 LR: c0000000000cc59c CTR: 0000000000000000 [ 93.512908] REGS: c000003fffd2bd70 TRAP: 0100 Not tainted (5.0.0) [ 93.512908] MSR: 9000000302883033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]> CR: 22222444 XER: 00000000 [ 93.512914] CFAR: c000000000098a5c IRQMASK: 3 [ 93.512915] PACATMSCRATCH: 0000000000000001 [ 93.512916] GPR00: 0000000000000001 c000003f6cc1b830 c000000001033100 0000000000000004 [ 93.512928] GPR04: 0000000000000004 0000000000000002 0000000000000004 0000000000000007 [ 93.512930] GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000000000004 [ 93.512932] GPR12: c000203fff7fc000 c000003fffff9500 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 93.512935] GPR16: 2000000000300375 000000000000059f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 93.512951] GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000080053 004000000256f41f c000003f6aa88ef0 [ 93.512953] GPR24: c000003f6aa89100 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 93.512956] GPR28: c000003f9e9a0800 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 c000203fff7fc000 [ 93.512959] NIP [c000000000098a04] pnv_power9_force_smt4_catch+0x1b4/0x2c0 [ 93.512960] LR [c0000000000cc59c] kvmppc_save_tm_hv+0x40/0x88 [ 93.512960] Call Trace: [ 93.512961] [c000003f6cc1b830] [0000000000080053] 0x80053 (unreliable) [ 93.512965] [c000003f6cc1b8a0] [c00800001e9cb030] kvmhv_p9_guest_entry+0x508/0x6b0 [kvm_hv] [ 93.512967] [c000003f6cc1b940] [c00800001e9cba44] kvmhv_run_single_vcpu+0x2dc/0xb90 [kvm_hv] [ 93.512968] [c000003f6cc1ba10] [c00800001e9cc948] kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x650/0xb90 [kvm_hv] [ 93.512969] [c000003f6cc1bae0] [c00800001e8f620c] kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x34/0x48 [kvm] [ 93.512971] [c000003f6cc1bb00] [c00800001e8f2d4c] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2f4/0x400 [kvm] [ 93.512972] [c000003f6cc1bb90] [c00800001e8e3918] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x460/0x7d0 [kvm] [ 93.512974] [c000003f6cc1bd00] [c0000000003ae2c0] do_vfs_ioctl+0xe0/0x8e0 [ 93.512975] [c000003f6cc1bdb0] [c0000000003aeb24] ksys_ioctl+0x64/0xe0 [ 93.512978] [c000003f6cc1be00] [c0000000003aebc8] sys_ioctl+0x28/0x80 [ 93.512981] [c000003f6cc1be20] [c00000000000b3a4] system_call+0x5c/0x70 [ 93.512983] Instruction dump: [ 93.512986] 419dffbc e98c0000 2e8b0000 38000001 60000000 60000000 60000000 40950068 [ 93.512993] 392bffff 39400000 79290020 39290001 <7d2903a6> 60000000 60000000 7d235214 To fix this we preserve the PSSCR[FAKE_SUSPEND] bit until we call kvmppc_save_tm_hv() which will mean the core can get into SMT4 and perform the treclaim. Note kvmppc_save_tm_hv() clears the PSSCR[FAKE_SUSPEND] bit again so there is no need to explicitly do that. Fixes: 95a6432ce9038 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamlined guest entry/exit path on P9 for radix guests") Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c index 02365d1a9848..879a1fc0b461 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c @@ -3446,7 +3446,9 @@ static int kvmhv_load_hv_regs_and_go(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, vcpu->arch.shregs.sprg2 = mfspr(SPRN_SPRG2); vcpu->arch.shregs.sprg3 = mfspr(SPRN_SPRG3); - mtspr(SPRN_PSSCR, host_psscr); + /* Preserve PSSCR[FAKE_SUSPEND] until we've called kvmppc_save_tm_hv */ + mtspr(SPRN_PSSCR, host_psscr | + (local_paca->kvm_hstate.fake_suspend << PSSCR_FAKE_SUSPEND_LG)); mtspr(SPRN_HFSCR, host_hfscr); mtspr(SPRN_CIABR, host_ciabr); mtspr(SPRN_DAWR, host_dawr); -- 2.13.6