On 17/05/2016 10:37, Alexander Graf wrote:

On 05/17/2016 10:35 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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On 12/05/2016 16:23, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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On 12/05/2016 11:27, Alexander Graf wrote:

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On 05/12/2016 11:10 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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On 11/05/2016 13:49, Alexander Graf wrote:

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On 05/11/2016 01:14 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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On 11/05/2016 12:35, Alexander Graf wrote:

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On 03/15/2016 09:18 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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While writing some instruction tests for kvm-unit-tests for
powerpc,
I've found that illegal instructions are not managed correctly
with
kvm-pr,
while it is fine with kvm-hv.

When an illegal instruction (like ".long 0") is processed by
kvm-pr,
the kernel logs are filled with:

         Couldn't emulate instruction 0x00000000 (op 0 xop 0)
         kvmppc_handle_exit_pr: emulation at 700 failed (00000000)

While the exception handler receives an interrupt for each
instruction
executed after the illegal instruction.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <redacted>
---
     arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c | 4 +++-
     1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c

b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
index 2afdb9c..4ee969d 100644

--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c

@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_op_pr(struct kvm_run

*run,
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
           switch (get_op(inst)) {
         case 0:
-        emulated = EMULATE_FAIL;
             if ((kvmppc_get_msr(vcpu) & MSR_LE) &&
                 (inst == swab32(inst_sc))) {
                 /*

@@ -112,6 +111,9 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_op_pr(struct kvm_run

*run,
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
                 kvmppc_set_gpr(vcpu, 3, EV_UNIMPLEMENTED);
                 kvmppc_set_pc(vcpu, kvmppc_get_pc(vcpu) + 4);
                 emulated = EMULATE_DONE;
+        } else {
+            kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, SRR1_PROGILL);

But isn't that exactly what the semantic of EMULATE_FAIL is?
Fixing it
up in book3s_emulate.c is definitely the wrong spot.

So what is the problem you're trying to solve? Is the SRR0 at the
wrong
spot or are the log messages the problem?

No, the problem is the host kernel logs are filled by the message
and
the execution hangs. And the host becomes unresponsiveness, even
after
the end of the tests.

Please, try to run kvm-unit-tests (the emulator test) on a KVM-PR
host,
and check the kernel logs (dmesg), then try to ssh to the host...

Ok, so the log messages are the problem. Please fix the message
output
then - or remove it altogether. Or if you like, create a module
parameter that allows you to emit them.

I personally think the best solution would be to just convert the
message into a trace point.

While at it, please see whether the guest can trigger similar host
log
output excess in other code paths.

The problem is not really with the log messages: they are
consequence of
the bug I try to fix.

What happens is once kvm_pr decodes an invalid instruction all the
valid
following instructions trigger a Program exception to the guest
(but are
executed correctly). It has no real consequence on big machine like
POWER8, except that the guest become very slow and the log files of
the
host are filled with messages (and qemu uses 100% of the CPU). On a
smaller machine like a  PowerMac G5, the machine becomes simply
unusable.

It's probably more related to your verbosity level of kernel messages.
If you pass loglevel=0 (or quiet) to you kernel cmdline you won't get
the messages printed to serial which is what's slowing you down.

The other problem sounds pretty severe, but the only thing your patch
does any different from the current code flow would be the patch below.
Or did I miss anything?

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
index 5cc2e7a..4672bc2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c

@@ -302,7 +302,11 @@ int kvmppc_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_run

*run,
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
                         advance = 0;
                         printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't emulate instruction
0x%08x "
                                "(op %d xop %d)\n", inst, get_op(inst),
get_xop(inst));
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
+                       kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, SRR1_PROGILL);
+#else
                         kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, 0);
+#endif
                 }
         }

Do you want I send an updated patch with your changes?

Well, you reported the issue and narrowed it down, so feel free to send
it under your name :). I merely simplified your patch a bit.

Well, while I was trying to update the patch, I've re-tested this... and
it fails. I don't know what I'm doing bad now or what I did bad before
but it seems it doesn't work. :(

Thomas, could try the patch from Alex?

I'm trying to understand what happens...

Laurent