[PATCH] ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at linaro.org
Fri Apr 12 09:04:35 EDT 2013


kvm_target_cpus() checks the compatibility of the used CPU with
KVM, which is currently limited to ARM Cortex-A15 cores.
However by calling it only once on any random CPU it assumes that
all cores are the same, which is not true for big.LITTLE parts.

After doing about 40 boots on a TC-2 core tile, I found it running
in all but one case on one of the A7 cores (which correctly denied
KVM initialization). On the 39th boot however the code ran on
an A15, leading to a hang after returning success:

...
TCP: reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
kvm_target_cpu() on CPU #1, part is c0f0
 ... (pause for a while) ...
INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPUINFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPU
s/tasks: { 1} (detected by 0, t=6002 jiffies, g=4294966999, c=4294966998, q=15)
Task dump for CPU 1:
swapper/0       R running      0     1      0 0x00000002

So iterate over every CPU to correctly determine the capability of
the system to run the current KVM implementation.
In case a big.LITTLE configuration is the reason for denial, give
the user a hint how to get it running anyway (maxcpus= on the kernel
command line).

Please push this still into 3.9.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index 5a93698..9b53cdd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1128,20 +1128,35 @@ out_err:
 	return err;
 }
 
+static void check_kvm_target_cpu(void *ret)
+{
+	*(int*)ret = kvm_target_cpu();
+}
+
 /**
  * Initialize Hyp-mode and memory mappings on all CPUs.
  */
 int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
 {
 	int err;
+	int count = 0, ret, cpu;
 
 	if (!is_hyp_mode_available()) {
 		kvm_err("HYP mode not available\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	if (kvm_target_cpu() < 0) {
-		kvm_err("Target CPU not supported!\n");
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		smp_call_function_single(cpu, check_kvm_target_cpu, &ret, 1);
+		if (ret >= 0) {
+			count++;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (count)
+			kvm_err("big.LITTLE not supported, limit to A15 CPUs with maxcpus= to use KVM\n");
+		else
+			kvm_err("Target CPU not supported!\n");
+
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.12.1




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