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POWER8 and POWER9 machines have a hardware deviation where generation of a hypervisor decrementer exception is suppressed if the HDICE bit in the LPCR register is 0 at the time when the HDEC register decrements from 0 to -1. When entering a guest, KVM first writes the HDEC register with the time until it wants the CPU to exit the guest, and then writes the LPCR with the guest value, which includes HDICE = 1. If HDEC decrements from 0 to -1 during the interval between those two events, it is possible that we can enter the guest with HDEC already negative but no HDEC exception pending, meaning that no HDEC interrupt will occur while the CPU is in the guest, or at least not until HDEC wraps around. Thus it is possible for the CPU to keep executing in the guest for a long time; up to about 4 seconds on POWER8, or about 4.46 years on POWER9 (except that the host kernel hard lockup detector will fire first). To fix this, we set the LPCR[HDICE] bit before writing HDEC on guest entry. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.