[PATCH] ARM64: errata: Add workaround for HIP10/HIP10C erratum 162200803

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Jul 3 03:44:11 PDT 2025


On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:57:13 +0100,
Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2025/7/1 16:14, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:36:31 +0100,
> > Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2025/6/26 21:27, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:41:42 +0100,
> >>> Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> For GICv4.0 of Hip10 and Hip10C, it has a SoC bug with vPE schedule:
> >>>> when multiple vPEs are sending vpe schedule/deschedule commands
> >>>> concurrently and repeatedly, some vPE schedule command may not be
> >>>> scheduled, and it will cause the command timeout.
> >>>>
> >>>> The hardware implementation is that there is one GIC hardware in one CPU die,
> >>>> which handles all vPE schedule operations one by one in all CPUs of this die.
> >>>> The bug is that if the number of queued vPE schedule operations is more
> >>>> than a certain value, the last vPE schedule operation will be lost.
> >>>>
> >>>> One possible way to solve this problem is to limit the number of vLPIs, so
> >>>> the hardware could spend less time to scan virtual pending table when it
> >>>> handles the vPE schedule operations, so the queued vPE schedule operations
> >>>> will never be more than above certain value.
> >>>>
> >>>> Given the number of CPUs of die, and imagine there is 100 vPE schedule
> >>>> operations per second one CPU, it can be calculated that we can limit
> >>>> the number of vLPI to 4096 for virtual machine to avoid the issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  Documentation/arch/arm64/silicon-errata.rst |  2 ++
> >>>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                          | 12 ++++++++++++
> >>>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h            |  4 ++++
> >>>>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c              | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >>>>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c          |  5 +++++
> >>>>  arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps                    |  1 +
> >>>>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h          |  1 +
> >>>>  7 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >>>> index ae4c0593d114..495a56e9dc4b 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >>>> @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ static unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_v3_misc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>>>  		if (vgic_has_its(vcpu->kvm)) {
> >>>>  			value |= (INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_ITS - 1) << 19;
> >>>>  			value |= GICD_TYPER_LPIS;
> >>>> +			/* Limit the number of vlpis to 4096 */
> >>>> +			if (cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_HISI_162200803) &&
> >>>> +			    kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4 &&
> >>>> +			    !kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4_1)
> >>>> +				value |= 11 << GICD_TYPER_NUM_LPIS_SHIFT;
> >>>
> >>> This really doesn't solve your problem. Yes, the guest *may* honor
> >>> this limit. But KVM doesn't care and will happily allocate 2^16 vLPIs
> >>> if the guest asks -- there is no code enforcing this limit.
> >>
> >> Hi Marc,
> >>
> >> I am not sure if there is any other place guest can ask vLPI over
> >> the limitation except for MAPTI/MAPT below?
> >>
> >>> And even if we did. What would we do on a MAPTI command that tries to
> >>> map a vLPI outside of the allowed range? Do we need to tell the guest
> >>> it has screwed up?
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing this. Yes, we miss the lpi_nr checking in vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi.
> >> In fact, the fix of this errata introduces the usage of GICD.num_LPI,
> >> so we need make related logic right as well.
> > 
> > Exactly.
> > 
> >>
> >> I am not sure that if we could add related checking for lpi_nr in MAPTI/MAPI
> >> as part of this errata fix, or we should add the basic support for
> >> GICD.num_LPI before adding this errata?
> > 
> > You definitely need to handle that before allowing such limit to be
> > enforced. Which also means allowing the limit to be saved/restored
> > from userspace in order to support migration.
> 
> Seems that in KVM we do not consider GICD_TYPER in migration.

What do you mean by that?

Today, we don't support anything being written to GICD_TYPER, just
like on a HW implementation. If you want it to be writable from
userspace (and I think you do), then it needs to be added.

> How about making GICD_TYPER.num_LPIs as a default configuration,
> when KVM version is same between source and destination during
> migration, the logic is still right.

The default configuration should be that GICD_TYPERR.num_LPIs is 0,
indicating that the hypervisor doesn't limit anything at all.

>
> Something like:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> index eb1205654ac8..2071b1445b22 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ int vgic_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>  	/* freeze the number of spis */
>  	if (!dist->nr_spis)
>  		dist->nr_spis = VGIC_NR_IRQS_LEGACY - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS;
> +	dist->nr_lpis = 2 ^ (INTERRUPT_NUM_LPIS + 1);

No, this really should default to 0, and 0 being treated as "no limit
other than the architectural one", as per the architecture spec.

> 
>  	ret = kvm_vgic_dist_init(kvm, dist->nr_spis);
>  	if (ret)
> @@ -433,6 +434,7 @@ static void kvm_vgic_dist_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
>  	kfree(dist->spis);
>  	dist->spis = NULL;
>  	dist->nr_spis = 0;
> +	dist->nr_lpis = 0;
>  	dist->vgic_dist_base = VGIC_ADDR_UNDEF;
> 
>  	if (dist->vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3) {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> index 534049c7c94b..c770eadc5188 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> @@ -1047,7 +1047,8 @@ static int vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi(struct kvm *kvm, struct vgic_its *its,
>  	else
>  		lpi_nr = event_id;
>  	if (lpi_nr < GIC_LPI_OFFSET ||
> -	    lpi_nr >= max_lpis_propbaser(kvm->arch.vgic.propbaser))
> +	    lpi_nr >= max_lpis_propbaser(kvm->arch.vgic.propbaser) ||
> +	    lpi_nr >= GIC_LPI_OFFSET + kvm->arch.vgic.nr_lpis)
>  		return E_ITS_MAPTI_PHYSICALID_OOR;
> 
>  	/* If there is an existing mapping, behavior is UNPREDICTABLE. */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> index ae4c0593d114..224d0d88c823 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_v3_misc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		if (vgic_has_its(vcpu->kvm)) {
>  			value |= (INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_ITS - 1) << 19;
>  			value |= GICD_TYPER_LPIS;
> +			value |= (ilog2(vgic->nr_lpis) - 1) << 11;
>  		} else {
>  			value |= (INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_SPIS - 1) << 19;
>  		}
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h
> index 4349084cb9a6..e11792dafcdf 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> 
>  #define INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_SPIS	10
>  #define INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_ITS	16
> +#define INTERRUPT_NUM_LPIS	14
>  #define VGIC_LPI_MAX_INTID	((1 << INTERRUPT_ID_BITS_ITS) - 1)
>  #define VGIC_PRI_BITS		5
> 
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> index 4a34f7f0a864..b637dc9460d9 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ struct vgic_dist {
>  	 * else.
>  	 */
>  	struct its_vm		its_vm;
> +	int			nr_lpis;
>  };
> 
> However,migration between different KVMs will be broken :(
> I am not sure that should we consider this case as well?

This isn't optional. You cannot break migration on existing systems,
and the only case that *must* break is to restore a VM that hasn't
seen this limitation on a HW that enforces it.

Thanks,

	M.

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