Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 3 authors, 2022-01-11

Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] KVM: PPC: mmio: Return to guest after emulation failure

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-01-11 03:24:06

Excerpts from Alexey Kardashevskiy's message of January 11, 2022 9:51 am:

On 1/10/22 18:36, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
quoted
Excerpts from Fabiano Rosas's message of January 8, 2022 7:00 am:
quoted
If MMIO emulation fails we don't want to crash the whole guest by
returning to userspace.

The original commit bbf45ba57eae ("KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM
implementation") added a todo:

   /* XXX Deliver Program interrupt to guest. */

and later the commit d69614a295ae ("KVM: PPC: Separate loadstore
emulation from priv emulation") added the Program interrupt injection
but in another file, so I'm assuming it was missed that this block
needed to be altered.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>
---
  arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 6daeea4a7de1..56b0faab7a5f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ int kvmppc_emulate_mmio(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  		kvmppc_get_last_inst(vcpu, INST_GENERIC, &last_inst);
  		kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, 0);
  		pr_info("%s: emulation failed (%08x)\n", __func__, last_inst);
-		r = RESUME_HOST;
+		r = RESUME_GUEST;
So at this point can the pr_info just go away?

I wonder if this shouldn't be a DSI rather than a program check.
DSI with DSISR[37] looks a bit more expected. Not that Linux
probably does much with it but at least it would give a SIGBUS
rather than SIGILL.
It does not like it is more expected to me, it is not about wrong memory 
attributes, it is the instruction itself which cannot execute.
It's not an illegal instruction though, it can't execute because of the
nature of the data / address it is operating on. That says d-side to me.

DSISR[37] isn't perfect but if you squint it's not terrible. It's about
certain instructions that have restrictions operating on other than
normal cacheable mappings.

Thanks,
Nick

DSISR[37]:
Set to 1 if the access is due to a lq, stq, lwat, ldat, lbarx, lharx, 
lwarx, ldarx, lqarx, stwat,
stdat, stbcx., sthcx., stwcx., stdcx., or stqcx. instruction that 
addresses storage that is Write
Through Required or Caching Inhibited; or if the access is due to a copy 
or paste. instruction
that addresses storage that is Caching Inhibited; or if the access is 
due to a lwat, ldat, stwat, or
stdat instruction that addresses storage that is Guarded; otherwise set 
to 0.
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