Re: [FSL P50x0] KVM HV doesn't work anymore

On 20 May 2021 at 01:07am, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

Hmm, okay that probably rules out those notifier changes then.
Can you remind me were you able to rule these out as suspects?

8f6cc75a97d1 powerpc: move norestart trap flag to bit 0
8dc7f0229b78 powerpc: remove partial register save logic
c45ba4f44f6b powerpc: clean up do_page_fault
d738ee8d56de powerpc/64e/interrupt: handle bad_page_fault in C
ceff77efa4f8 powerpc/64e/interrupt: Use new interrupt context tracking scheme
097157e16cf8 powerpc/64e/interrupt: reconcile irq soft-mask state in C
3db8aa10de9a powerpc/64e/interrupt: NMI save irq soft-mask state in C
0c2472de23ae powerpc/64e/interrupt: use new interrupt return
dc6231821a14 powerpc/interrupt: update common interrupt code for
4228b2c3d20e powerpc/64e/interrupt: always save nvgprs on interrupt
5a5a893c4ad8 powerpc/syscall: switch user_exit_irqoff and trace_hardirqs_off order

Thanks,
Nick

Hi Nick,

I tested these commits above today and all works with -smp 4. [1]

Smp 4 still doesn't work with the RC4 of kernel 5.13 on quad core e5500 
CPUs with KVM HV. I use -smp 3 currently.

What shall I test next?

Thanks,
Christian

[1] https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=53367#p53367