A huge number of spurious interrupts can be seen immediately after a KVM
on PowerNV guest boots up in XIVE mode.
$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep SPU
SPU: 223705 192439 273526 147623 Spurious interrupts
This bug was introduced by commit ecd10702baae5 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV:
Handle pending exceptions on guest entry with MSR_EE"). The root cause
is that once LPCR_MER bit is set, it is supposed to be reset by
software. But when a vCPU starts running with LPCR_MER set, the vCPU does
not exit back to the host until the decrementer expires or there is an
hcall, etc. This is because KVM on PowerNV guests have support for
native XIVE, so they are not dependent on host for interrupt emulation.
Due to this behaviour, a huge number of spurious interrupts are seen
since LPCR_MER continues to be set and LPCR_MER cannot be reset until the
vCPU exits to the host.
Fix this behaviour by not using the LPCR_MER bit whenever native XIVE is
available (currently in case of KVM on PowerNV only), as the XIVE hardware
can present interrupts to the KVM guest vCPU directly. So the LPCR_MER
functionality is not required. This reduces the number of spurious
interrupts drastically.
Fixes: ecd10702baae5 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle pending exceptions on guest
entry with MSR_EE")
Cc: [email protected] # 6.8+
Reported-by: Timothy Pearson <[email protected]>
Closes:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/582904882.11159.1786719390349.javamail.zim...@raptorengineeringinc.com
Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <[email protected]>
---
v5:
1. Drop the redundant check for the presence of the native XIVE
device. (Ritesh)
v4:
1. If interrupt mode is changed to XICS during guest reboot, MER should
be used. (Amit)
v3:
1. Continue the use of LPCR_MER when kernel-irqchip=off (Sashiko)
v2:
1. Handle the case where xive_interrupt_pending() is true and also the
external exception bit is set. (Narayana)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 22283d46e8fe..41012b0accf4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -4984,7 +4984,7 @@ int kvmhv_run_single_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64
time_limit,
if (!kvmhv_on_pseries() && (__kvmppc_get_msr_hv(vcpu) &
MSR_EE))
kvmppc_inject_interrupt_hv(vcpu,
BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL, 0);
- else
+ else if (!kvmppc_xive_enabled(vcpu))
lpcr |= LPCR_MER;
} else {
/*
--
2.55.0
