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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>2019-08-13 13:03:49 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2019-08-16 07:16:04 +0300
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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in re-enabling XIVE escalation interrupts
Escalation interrupts are interrupts sent to the host by the XIVE hardware when it has an interrupt to deliver to a guest VCPU but that VCPU is not running anywhere in the system. Hence we disable the escalation interrupt for the VCPU being run when we enter the guest and re-enable it when the guest does an H_CEDE hypercall indicating it is idle. It is possible that an escalation interrupt gets generated just as we are entering the guest. In that case the escalation interrupt may be using a queue entry in one of the interrupt queues, and that queue entry may not have been processed when the guest exits with an H_CEDE. The existing entry code detects this situation and does not clear the vcpu->arch.xive_esc_on flag as an indication that there is a pending queue entry (if the queue entry gets processed, xive_esc_irq() will clear the flag). There is a comment in the code saying that if the flag is still set on H_CEDE, we have to abort the cede rather than re-enabling the escalation interrupt, lest we end up with two occurrences of the escalation interrupt in the interrupt queue. However, the exit code doesn't do that; it aborts the cede in the sense that vcpu->arch.ceded gets cleared, but it still enables the escalation interrupt by setting the source's PQ bits to 00. Instead we need to set the PQ bits to 10, indicating that an interrupt has been triggered. We also need to avoid setting vcpu->arch.xive_esc_on in this case (i.e. vcpu->arch.xive_esc_on seen to be set on H_CEDE) because xive_esc_irq() will run at some point and clear it, and if we race with that we may end up with an incorrect result (i.e. xive_esc_on set when the escalation interrupt has just been handled). It is extremely unlikely that having two queue entries would cause observable problems; theoretically it could cause queue overflow, but the CPU would have to have thousands of interrupts targetted to it for that to be possible. However, this fix will also make it possible to determine accurately whether there is an unhandled escalation interrupt in the queue, which will be needed by the following patch. Fixes: 9b9b13a6d153 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Keep XIVE escalation interrupt masked unless ceded") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16+ Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190813100349.GD9567@blackberry
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