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Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Replay pending interrupts before entering the guest

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From: Narayana Murty N <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-01 11:29:20
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Hi Shrikanth,

On 28/09/26 4:34 PM, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
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After applying preempt disable patch, i.e PATCH 1/2, Christian reported
a subsequent warning stopping his board to boot properly.

WARNING: at .kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry+0x10/0x28, CPU#0: qemu-system-ppc/4667
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 4667 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Tainted: G        W           7.3.0-rc4-2-powerpc64-smp #1 PREEMPT
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: varisys,CYRUS5040 e5500 0x80240012 CoreNet Generic
NIP [c00000000005dc3c] .kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry+0x10/0x28
LR [c00000000005f298] .kvmppc_handle_exit+0x5b4/0x5e8
Call Trace:
[c000000086587780] [c00000000005ee10] .kvmppc_handle_exit+0x12c/0x5e8 (unreliable)
[c000000086587830] [c000000000062068] .kvmppc_resume_host+0xb8/0x10c

It triggers below warning...

static inline void kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry(void)
{
         trace_hardirqs_on();

         /*
          * To avoid races, the caller must have gone directly from having
          * interrupts fully-enabled to hard-disabled.
          */
         WARN_ON(local_paca->irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS);

This happens since kvmppc_prepare_to_enter does first local_irq_disable
followed by hard_irq_disable. This leaves a small window where interrupt
may occur and it could set the irq pending bit in PACA. When that
happens replay that interrupt before entering the guest.

Fixes: 12013e3d4695 ("KVM: powerpc: Use generic xfer to guest work function")
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b8f82519-9ae5-c247-e020-e79c627e57df@xenosoft.de/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
---
  arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 9194cf492d1c..847ff07c364b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -147,6 +147,19 @@ int kvmppc_prepare_to_enter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  			continue;
  		}
  
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+		/*
+		 * Interrupt arrived between the soft and hard
+		 * disable. Replay it and retry guest entry.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(local_paca->irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS)) {
+			local_irq_enable();
+			local_irq_disable();
+			hard_irq_disable();
+			continue;
+		}
+#endif
+
  		guest_enter_irqoff();
  		return 1;
  	}
It look good to me.

Thanks,
Narayana

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