Re: [PATCH] kvm/ppc/booke64: fix build breakage from Altivec, and disable e6500

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On 10.05.2013, at 11:40, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 6:15 AM
>> To: Alexander Graf
>> Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wood Scott-B07421;
>> Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
>> Subject: [PATCH] kvm/ppc/booke64: fix build breakage from Altivec, and
>> disable e6500
>> 
>> BookE altivec support brought two new exceptions, but KVM was not
>> updated, so the build broke for all 64-bit booke with KVM enabled.
> 
> We couldn't do that in KVM before having BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL/
> BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST. As Tiejun noticed earlier we should have
> done this in Kumar's tree but we missed that chance. We will face similar
> issues every time an exception handler will be added.

How hard would it be to add? I suppose it's broken in 3.10, so we need something quick before it gets released?

> 
>> 
>> Add the new vectors, but there's more than this required to make
>> Altivec work in the guest, and we can't prevent the guest from turning
>> on Altivec (which can corrupt host state until state save/restore is
>> implemented).  Disable e6500 on KVM until this is fixed.
> 
> To be more precise it can corrupt Altivec host state.
> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S |    4 ++++
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c             |    2 --
>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
>> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
>> index e8ed7d6..6397613 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
>> @@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DOORBELL_CRITICAL,
>> EX_PARAMS(CRIT), \
>> 	SPRN_CSRR0, SPRN_CSRR1, 0
>> kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_HV_PRIV, EX_PARAMS(GEN), \
>> 	SPRN_SRR0, SPRN_SRR1, NEED_EMU
>> +kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL, EX_PARAMS(GEN), \
>> +	SPRN_SRR0, SPRN_SRR1, 0
>> +kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST, EX_PARAMS(GEN), \
>> +	SPRN_SRR0, SPRN_SRR1, 0
> 
> Why not NEED_ESR as we did in our SDK?
> 
>> kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_HV_SYSCALL, EX_PARAMS(GEN), \
>> 	SPRN_SRR0, SPRN_SRR1, 0
>> kvm_handler BOOKE_INTERRUPT_GUEST_DBELL, EX_PARAMS(GDBELL), \
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
>> index 753cc99..19c8379 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
>> @@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ int kvmppc_core_check_processor_compat(void)
>> 		r = 0;
>> 	else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e5500") == 0)
>> 		r = 0;
>> -	else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e6500") == 0)
>> -		r = 0;
> 
> Hmm ... I made it clear in the commit message that Altivec is not
> supported, why couldn't we be more gentle:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
> index c3bdc0a..4f43a36 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
> @@ -172,8 +172,11 @@ int kvmppc_core_check_processor_compat(void)
>                r = 0;
>        else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e5500") == 0)
>                r = 0;
> +#ifndef CONFIG_ALTIVEC

This would still be wrong, since running 2 guests with altivec would break each other.

Alex

> +/* ALTIVEC is not supported now by KVM so only one of them can work */
>        else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e6500") == 0)
>                r = 0;
> +#endif
>        else
>                r = -ENOTSUPP;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> index 82f155e..bb1a9e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> @@ -973,6 +973,16 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>                break;
> #endif
> 
> +       case BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_UNAVAIL:
> +       case BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ALTIVEC_ASSIST:
> +               /*
> +                * Guest wants ALTIVEC, but host kernel doesn't support it.
> +                * send an "unimplemented operation" program check to the guest.
> +                */
> +               kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, ESR_PUO | ESR_SPV);
> +               r = RESUME_GUEST;
> +               break;
> +
>        case BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DATA_STORAGE:
>                kvmppc_core_queue_data_storage(vcpu, vcpu->arch.fault_dear,
>                                               vcpu->arch.fault_esr);
> 
> 
> Kconfig should also be updated (in both proposals).
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 
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