Doorbell emulation is broken for KVM on PAPR guests as support for DPDES was not added in the initial patch series. Due to this, a KVM on PAPR guest with SMT > 1 cannot be booted with the XICS interrupt controller as doorbells are setup in the initial probe path when using XICS (pSeries_smp_probe()). Command to replicate the above bug: qemu-system-ppc64 \ -drive file=rhel.qcow2,format=qcow2 \ -m 20G \ -smp 8,cores=1,threads=8 \ -cpu host \ -nographic \ -machine pseries,ic-mode=xics -accel kvm Add doorbell state handling support in the host KVM code to fix doorbell emulation. Fixes: 19d31c5f1157 ("KVM: PPC: Add support for nestedv2 guests") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.7 Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c index 35cb014a0c51..21c69647d27c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c @@ -4116,6 +4116,11 @@ static int kvmhv_vcpu_entry_nestedv2(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, int trap; long rc; + if (vcpu->arch.doorbell_request) { + vcpu->arch.doorbell_request = 0; + kvmppc_set_dpdes(vcpu, 1); + } + io = &vcpu->arch.nestedv2_io; msr = mfmsr(); -- 2.45.1