* [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable preemption around host-side HPT lock users
@ 2026-10-14 18:52 Amit Machhiwal
2026-10-15 3:44 ` Ritesh Harjani
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Amit Machhiwal @ 2026-10-14 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Madhavan Srinivasan, linuxppc-dev
Cc: Amit Machhiwal, Nicholas Piggin, Michael Ellerman,
Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP), Ritesh Harjani (IBM),
Shrikanth Hegde, Alexander Graf, Avi Kivity, kvm-ppc, kvm,
linux-kernel, Gautam Menghani, Harsh Prateek Bora,
R Nageswara Sastry, linux-hardening, stable
A previous change ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add preempt_disable() around
virtual-mode HPTE bit-lock users") at [1] added preempt_disable() around
guest vCPU HPT hcalls and page fault handlers executed in virtual mode.
This ensures vCPU threads cannot be preempted while holding
HPTE_V_HVLOCK or the reverse-map lock.
However, several host-side virtual-mode paths in book3s_64_mmu_hv.c also
acquire HPTE_V_HVLOCK and lock_rmap() in process context with preemption
enabled. Specifically, kvm_unmap_rmapp() and kvm_age_rmapp() take both
locks during MMU notifier callbacks and memslot flushes, while
resize_hpt_rehash_hpte() acquires HPTE_V_HVLOCK during HPT resizing. If
a host thread is preempted while holding either bit-lock, any guest vCPU
thread scheduled on the same CPU spinning for the same lock with
preemption disabled will never yield, resulting in a permanent CPU hang.
Fix this by disabling preemption across these host-side critical
sections.
For kvm_unmap_rmapp() and kvm_age_rmapp(), place preempt_disable()
before lock_rmap() so that both the rmap chain lock and the subsequent
HPTE_V_HVLOCK bit-lock are held under a single non-preemptible window.
To preserve the ABBA lock ordering between the two locks, re-enable
preemption after dropping the rmap lock on any retry or early-exit path
before spinning on cpu_relax(), allowing the lock holder to be
scheduled.
For kvm_htab_write(), the HPT migration restore path, replace the direct
calls to kvmppc_do_h_remove() with kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(), a thin
wrapper that brackets kvmppc_do_h_remove() with preempt_disable() and
preempt_enable(), mirroring the existing kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_enter()
helper.
For resize_hpt_rehash_hpte(), place preempt_disable() before the
try_lock_hpte() spin loop and preempt_enable() after unlock_hpte() at
the function exit.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/abbbe5ff83e7c9ed3a4d61b73011f1df7bf87907
Fixes: 6165d5dd99db ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add virtual mode handlers for HPT hcalls and page faults")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes in this version:
- Separated host-side fixes in book3s_64_mmu_hv.c into a standalone patch
(guest-side paths were merged from v1 resend).
- Previous discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261007182116.12479-3-amachhiw@linux.ibm.com/
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
index 2ccb3d138f46..8d85ce3440ae 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
static long kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_enter(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long flags,
long pte_index, unsigned long pteh,
unsigned long ptel, unsigned long *pte_idx_ret);
+static void kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long flags,
+ unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn,
+ unsigned long *hpret);
struct kvm_resize_hpt {
/* These fields read-only after init */
@@ -308,6 +311,22 @@ static long kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_enter(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long flags,
}
+/*
+ * Virtual-mode H_REMOVE. kvmppc_do_h_remove() is also called from real mode,
+ * where preempt_disable() is not usable, so the guard stays here. The function
+ * spins on HPTE_V_HVLOCK and then lock_rmap() (via remove_revmap_chain());
+ * preemption must be disabled across both bit-locks so that spinning callers
+ * holding preempt_disable() can make forward progress.
+ */
+static void kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long flags,
+ unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn,
+ unsigned long *hpret)
+{
+ preempt_disable();
+ kvmppc_do_h_remove(kvm, flags, pte_index, avpn, hpret);
+ preempt_enable();
+}
+
static struct kvmppc_slb *kvmppc_mmu_book3s_hv_find_slbe(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
gva_t eaddr)
{
@@ -810,9 +829,11 @@ static void kvm_unmap_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
rmapp = &memslot->arch.rmap[gfn - memslot->base_gfn];
for (;;) {
+ preempt_disable();
lock_rmap(rmapp);
if (!(*rmapp & KVMPPC_RMAP_PRESENT)) {
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
+ preempt_enable();
break;
}
@@ -826,6 +847,7 @@ static void kvm_unmap_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
if (!try_lock_hpte(hptep, HPTE_V_HVLOCK)) {
/* unlock rmap before spinning on the HPTE lock */
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
+ preempt_enable();
while (be64_to_cpu(hptep[0]) & HPTE_V_HVLOCK)
cpu_relax();
continue;
@@ -834,6 +856,7 @@ static void kvm_unmap_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
kvmppc_unmap_hpte(kvm, i, memslot, rmapp, gfn);
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
__unlock_hpte(hptep, be64_to_cpu(hptep[0]));
+ preempt_enable();
}
}
@@ -890,6 +913,7 @@ static bool kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
rmapp = &memslot->arch.rmap[gfn - memslot->base_gfn];
retry:
+ preempt_disable();
lock_rmap(rmapp);
if (*rmapp & KVMPPC_RMAP_REFERENCED) {
*rmapp &= ~KVMPPC_RMAP_REFERENCED;
@@ -897,6 +921,7 @@ static bool kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
}
if (!(*rmapp & KVMPPC_RMAP_PRESENT)) {
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
+ preempt_enable();
return ret;
}
@@ -912,6 +937,7 @@ static bool kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
if (!try_lock_hpte(hptep, HPTE_V_HVLOCK)) {
/* unlock rmap before spinning on the HPTE lock */
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
+ preempt_enable();
while (be64_to_cpu(hptep[0]) & HPTE_V_HVLOCK)
cpu_relax();
goto retry;
@@ -931,6 +957,7 @@ static bool kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
} while ((i = j) != head);
unlock_rmap(rmapp);
+ preempt_enable();
return ret;
}
@@ -1219,6 +1246,7 @@ static unsigned long resize_hpt_rehash_hpte(struct kvm_resize_hpt *resize,
if (!(vpte & HPTE_V_VALID) && !(vpte & HPTE_V_ABSENT))
return 0; /* nothing to do */
+ preempt_disable();
while (!try_lock_hpte(hptep, HPTE_V_HVLOCK))
cpu_relax();
@@ -1346,6 +1374,7 @@ static unsigned long resize_hpt_rehash_hpte(struct kvm_resize_hpt *resize,
out:
unlock_hpte(hptep, vpte);
+ preempt_enable();
return ret;
}
@@ -1868,7 +1897,7 @@ static ssize_t kvm_htab_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
nb += HPTE_SIZE;
if (be64_to_cpu(hptp[0]) & (HPTE_V_VALID | HPTE_V_ABSENT))
- kvmppc_do_h_remove(kvm, 0, i, 0, tmp);
+ kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(kvm, 0, i, 0, tmp);
err = -EIO;
ret = kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_enter(kvm, H_EXACT, i, v, r,
tmp);
@@ -1897,7 +1926,7 @@ static ssize_t kvm_htab_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
for (j = 0; j < hdr.n_invalid; ++j) {
if (be64_to_cpu(hptp[0]) & (HPTE_V_VALID | HPTE_V_ABSENT))
- kvmppc_do_h_remove(kvm, 0, i, 0, tmp);
+ kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(kvm, 0, i, 0, tmp);
++i;
hptp += 2;
}
base-commit: 129f5d395fd66b6587a5ac156b232cca060d6512
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)
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* Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable preemption around host-side HPT lock users
2026-10-14 18:52 [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable preemption around host-side HPT lock users Amit Machhiwal
@ 2026-10-15 3:44 ` Ritesh Harjani
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ritesh Harjani @ 2026-10-15 3:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Amit Machhiwal, Madhavan Srinivasan, linuxppc-dev
Cc: Amit Machhiwal, Nicholas Piggin, Michael Ellerman,
Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP),
Shrikanth Hegde, Alexander Graf, Avi Kivity, kvm-ppc, kvm,
linux-kernel, Gautam Menghani, Harsh Prateek Bora,
R Nageswara Sastry, linux-hardening, stable
Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> A previous change ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add preempt_disable() around
> virtual-mode HPTE bit-lock users") at [1] added preempt_disable() around
> guest vCPU HPT hcalls and page fault handlers executed in virtual mode.
> This ensures vCPU threads cannot be preempted while holding
> HPTE_V_HVLOCK or the reverse-map lock.
>
> However, several host-side virtual-mode paths in book3s_64_mmu_hv.c also
> acquire HPTE_V_HVLOCK and lock_rmap() in process context with preemption
> enabled. Specifically, kvm_unmap_rmapp() and kvm_age_rmapp() take both
> locks during MMU notifier callbacks and memslot flushes, while
> resize_hpt_rehash_hpte() acquires HPTE_V_HVLOCK during HPT resizing. If
> a host thread is preempted while holding either bit-lock, any guest vCPU
> thread scheduled on the same CPU spinning for the same lock with
> preemption disabled will never yield, resulting in a permanent CPU hang.
>
> Fix this by disabling preemption across these host-side critical
> sections.
>
> For kvm_unmap_rmapp() and kvm_age_rmapp(), place preempt_disable()
> before lock_rmap() so that both the rmap chain lock and the subsequent
> HPTE_V_HVLOCK bit-lock are held under a single non-preemptible window.
> To preserve the ABBA lock ordering between the two locks, re-enable
> preemption after dropping the rmap lock on any retry or early-exit path
> before spinning on cpu_relax(), allowing the lock holder to be
> scheduled.
>
> For kvm_htab_write(), the HPT migration restore path, replace the direct
> calls to kvmppc_do_h_remove() with kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_remove(), a thin
> wrapper that brackets kvmppc_do_h_remove() with preempt_disable() and
> preempt_enable(), mirroring the existing kvmppc_virtmode_do_h_enter()
> helper.
>
> For resize_hpt_rehash_hpte(), place preempt_disable() before the
> try_lock_hpte() spin loop and preempt_enable() after unlock_hpte() at
> the function exit.
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/abbbe5ff83e7c9ed3a4d61b73011f1df7bf87907
>
> Fixes: 6165d5dd99db ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add virtual mode handlers for HPT hcalls and page faults")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
> Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes in this version:
> - Separated host-side fixes in book3s_64_mmu_hv.c into a standalone patch
> (guest-side paths were merged from v1 resend).
> - Previous discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261007182116.12479-3-amachhiw@linux.ibm.com/
>
Thanks. Looks good to me. Please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
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