Running a L2 vCPU (see [1] for terminology) with LPCR_MER bit set and no
pending interrupts results in that L2 vCPU getting an infinite flood of
spurious interrupts. The 'if check' in kvmhv_run_single_vcpu() sets the
LPCR_MER bit if there are pending interrupts.
The spurious flood problem can be observed in 2 cases:
1. Crashing the guest while interrupt heavy workload is running
a. Start a L2 guest and run an interrupt heavy workload (eg: ipistorm)
b. While the workload is running, crash the guest (make sure kdump
is configured)
c. Any one of the vCPUs of the guest will start getting an infinite
flood of spurious interrupts.
2. Running LTP stress tests in multiple guests at the same time
a. Start 4 L2 guests.
b. Start running LTP stress tests on all 4 guests at same time.
c. In some time, any one/more of the vCPUs of any of the guests will
start getting an infinite flood of spurious interrupts.
The root cause of both the above issues is the same:
1. A NMI is sent to a running vCPU that has LPCR_MER bit set.
2. In the NMI path, all registers are refreshed, i.e, H_GUEST_GET_STATE
is called for all the registers.
3. When H_GUEST_GET_STATE is called for LPCR, the vcpu->arch.vcore->lpcr
of that vCPU at L1 level gets updated with LPCR_MER set to 1, and this
new value is always used whenever that vCPU runs, regardless of whether
there was a pending interrupt.
4. Since LPCR_MER is set, the vCPU in L2 always jumps to the external
interrupt handler, and this cycle never ends.
Fix the spurious flood by masking off the LPCR_MER bit before running a
L2 vCPU to ensure that it is not set if there are no pending interrupts.
[1] Terminology:
1. L0 : PAPR hypervisor running in HV mode
2. L1 : Linux guest (logical partition) running on top of L0
3. L2 : KVM guest running on top of L1
Fixes: ec0f6639fa ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Ensure LPCR_MER bit is passed to the L0")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
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