[PATCH v2] arm/arm64: KVM: detect CPU reset on CPU_PM_EXIT
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Feb 25 05:00:08 EST 2014
On 21/02/14 17:12, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:46:56AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Commit 1fcf7ce0c602 (arm: kvm: implement CPU PM notifier) added
>> support for CPU power-management, using a cpu_notifier to re-init
>> KVM on a CPU that entered CPU idle.
>>
>> The code assumed that a CPU entering idle would actually be powered
>> off, loosing its state entierely, and would then need to be
>> reinitialized. It turns out that this is not always the case, and
>> some HW performs CPU PM without actually killing the core. In this
>> case, we try to reinitialize KVM while it is still live. It ends up
>> badly, as reported by Andre Przywara (using a Calxeda Midway):
>>
>> [ 3.663897] Kernel panic - not syncing: unexpected prefetch abort in Hyp mode at: 0x685760
>> [ 3.663897] unexpected data abort in Hyp mode at: 0xc067d150
>> [ 3.663897] unexpected HVC/SVC trap in Hyp mode at: 0xc0901dd0
>>
>> The trick here is to detect if we've been through a full re-init or
>> not by looking at HVBAR (VBAR_EL2 on arm64). This involves
>> implementing the backend for __hyp_get_vectors in the main KVM HYP
>> code (rather small), and checking the return value against the
>> default one when the CPU notifier is called on CPU_PM_EXIT.
>>
>> Reported-by: Andre Przywara <osp at andrep.de>
>> Tested-by: Andre Przywara <osp at andrep.de>
>> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at linaro.org>
>> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Looks good.
Thanks. I'm thinking of pushing this to 3.14 as a fix. Any objection?
M.
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