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Michael Ellerman 56376c5864 powerpc/kvm: Fix lockups when running KVM guests on Power8 
When running KVM guests on Power8 we can see a lockup where one CPU
stops responding. This often leads to a message such as:

  watchdog: CPU 136 detected hard LOCKUP on other CPUs 72
  Task dump for CPU 72:
  qemu-system-ppc R  running task    10560 20917  20908 0x00040004

And then backtraces on other CPUs, such as:

  Task dump for CPU 48:
  ksmd            R  running task    10032  1519      2 0x00000804
  Call Trace:
    ...
    --- interrupt: 901 at smp_call_function_many+0x3c8/0x460
        LR = smp_call_function_many+0x37c/0x460
    pmdp_invalidate+0x100/0x1b0
    __split_huge_pmd+0x52c/0xdb0
    try_to_unmap_one+0x764/0x8b0
    rmap_walk_anon+0x15c/0x370
    try_to_unmap+0xb4/0x170
    split_huge_page_to_list+0x148/0xa30
    try_to_merge_one_page+0xc8/0x990
    try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x74/0xf0
    ksm_scan_thread+0x10ec/0x1ac0
    kthread+0x160/0x1a0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x78

This is caused by commit 8c1c7fb0b5 ("powerpc/64s/idle: avoid sync
for KVM state when waking from idle"), which added a check in
pnv_powersave_wakeup() to see if the kvm_hstate.hwthread_state is
already set to KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL, and if so to skip the store and
test of kvm_hstate.hwthread_req.

The problem is that the primary does not set KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KVM when
entering the guest, so it can then come out to cede with
KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL set. It can then go idle in kvm_do_nap after
setting hwthread_req to 1, but because hwthread_state is still
KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL we will skip the test of hwthread_req when we
wake up from idle and won't go to kvm_start_guest. From there the
thread will return somewhere garbage and crash.

Fix it by skipping the store of hwthread_state, but not the test of
hwthread_req, when coming out of idle. It's OK to skip the sync in
that case because hwthread_req will have been set on the same thread,
so there is no synchronisation required.

Fixes: 8c1c7fb0b5 ("powerpc/64s/idle: avoid sync for KVM state when waking from idle")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-04-19 16:22:20 +10:00
arch powerpc/kvm: Fix lockups when running KVM guests on Power8 2018-04-19 16:22:20 +10:00
block blk-mq: Revert "blk-mq: reimplement blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped" 2018-04-11 07:59:15 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20180415 2018-04-15 17:24:12 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-4.17-part2-tag 2018-04-15 18:08:35 -07:00
include Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm, slab: reschedule cache_reap() on the same CPU 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
net Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
samples remoteproc updates for v4.17 2018-04-10 12:09:27 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
security + Features 2018-04-13 15:38:53 -07:00
sound amdgpu, omap and snd regression fix 2018-04-12 20:56:10 -07:00
tools Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
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.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Changes to chrome-platform for v4.17 2018-04-13 16:20:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc1 2018-04-15 18:24:20 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.