Re: [PATCH] kvm/powerpc: Handle errors in secondary thread grabbing
On 16.10.2012, at 21:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:00 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch entitled KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary threads submitted back on August 28. OK thanks. It seems that patch didn't make 3.7 ? I don't see it in kvm-ppc-next either. Alex, WTF ? Hrm. Not sure what happened there. I think I waited for your ack, but never actually applied things when it came. My bad :) Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm-ppc in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] kvm/powerpc: Handle errors in secondary thread grabbing
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 14:13 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: Michael, On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary threads of the physical core. If for some reason a thread is stuck, kvmppc_grab_hwthread() can fail, but currently we ignore the failure and continue into the guest. If the stuck thread is in the kernel badness ensues. Instead we should check for failure and bail out. I've moved the grabbing prior to the startup of runnable threads, to simplify the error case. AFAICS this is harmless, but I could be missing something subtle. Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch entitled KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary threads submitted back on August 28. OK thanks. It seems that patch didn't make 3.7 ? I don't see it in kvm-ppc-next either. cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm-ppc in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] kvm/powerpc: Handle errors in secondary thread grabbing
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:00 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch entitled KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary threads submitted back on August 28. OK thanks. It seems that patch didn't make 3.7 ? I don't see it in kvm-ppc-next either. Alex, WTF ? Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm-ppc in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[PATCH] kvm/powerpc: Handle errors in secondary thread grabbing
In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary
threads of the physical core.
If for some reason a thread is stuck, kvmppc_grab_hwthread() can fail,
but currently we ignore the failure and continue into the guest. If the
stuck thread is in the kernel badness ensues.
Instead we should check for failure and bail out.
I've moved the grabbing prior to the startup of runnable threads, to simplify
the error case. AFAICS this is harmless, but I could be missing something
subtle.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mich...@ellerman.id.au
---
Or we could just BUG_ON() ?
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 22 ++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 721d460..55925cd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -884,16 +884,30 @@ static int kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
if (vcpu-arch.ceded)
vcpu-arch.ptid = ptid++;
+ /*
+* Grab any remaining hw threads so they can't go into the kernel.
+* Do this early to simplify the cleanup path if it fails.
+*/
+ for (i = ptid; i threads_per_core; ++i) {
+ int j, rc = kvmppc_grab_hwthread(vc-pcpu + i);
+ if (rc) {
+ for (j = i - 1; j ; j--)
+ kvmppc_release_hwthread(vc-pcpu + j);
+
+ list_for_each_entry(vcpu, vc-runnable_threads,
+ arch.run_list)
+ vcpu-arch.ret = -EBUSY;
+
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
vc-stolen_tb += mftb() - vc-preempt_tb;
vc-pcpu = smp_processor_id();
list_for_each_entry(vcpu, vc-runnable_threads, arch.run_list) {
kvmppc_start_thread(vcpu);
kvmppc_create_dtl_entry(vcpu, vc);
}
- /* Grab any remaining hw threads so they can't go into the kernel */
- for (i = ptid; i threads_per_core; ++i)
- kvmppc_grab_hwthread(vc-pcpu + i);
-
preempt_disable();
spin_unlock(vc-lock);
--
1.7.9.5
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Re: [PATCH] kvm/powerpc: Handle errors in secondary thread grabbing
Michael, On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary threads of the physical core. If for some reason a thread is stuck, kvmppc_grab_hwthread() can fail, but currently we ignore the failure and continue into the guest. If the stuck thread is in the kernel badness ensues. Instead we should check for failure and bail out. I've moved the grabbing prior to the startup of runnable threads, to simplify the error case. AFAICS this is harmless, but I could be missing something subtle. Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch entitled KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary threads submitted back on August 28. Regards, Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm-ppc in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
