From: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
To: maddy@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
chzigotzky@xenosoft.de
Cc: sshegde@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com,
christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
msuchanek@suse.de, ritesh.list@gmail.com, harshpb@linux.ibm.com,
gautam@linux.ibm.com, amachhiw@linux.ibm.com,
venkat88@linux.ibm.com, nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com,
mkchauras@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: PPC: BookE: Load FP and Altivec before enabling the interrupts
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:02:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110053238.3794500-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110053238.3794500-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Christian reported that booting preemptible kernel on FSL Cyrus+ board
causes boot hang.
The logs pointed that system was busy in printing below warning.
WARNING: at .enable_kernel_fp+0x30/0x78, CPU#3: qemu-system-ppc/4884
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 4884 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 7.3.0-rc1-powerpc64-smp-preempt #1 PREEMPT
NIP [c000000000003338] .enable_kernel_fp+0x30/0x78
LR [c00000000005de84] .kvmppc_load_guest_fp+0x30/0x80
Call Trace:
[c000000085ca7700] [c00000000005de84] .kvmppc_load_guest_fp+0x30/0x80
[c000000085ca7780] [c00000000005f2a0] .kvmppc_handle_exit+0x5bc/0x5cc
[c000000085ca7830] [c00000000006204c] .kvmppc_resume_host+0xb8/0x10c
Which is...
void enable_kernel_fp(void)
{
unsigned long cpumsr;
WARN_ON(preemptible());
And...
Though irq's are hard disabled after kvmppc_prepare_to_enter, but
kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry enables the softmask's IRQ state.
That causes the irqs_disabled to return false.
Hence leading to the warnings.
Fix it by re-ordering the code to load the FP and Altivec
before enabling the softmask IRQ state.
Fixes: 3efc7da61f6c ("KVM: PPC: Book3E: Increase FPU laziness")
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/33342fbf-eb7b-bde6-2c8c-254fe8bfb993@xenosoft.de/
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
index 13ad4cf5fa71..c35e98d544ec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
@@ -1404,10 +1404,13 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int exit_nr)
if (s <= 0)
r = (s << 2) | RESUME_HOST | (r & RESUME_FLAG_NV);
else {
- /* interrupts now hard-disabled */
- kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry();
+ /*
+ * Interrupts are still hard disabled and soft enabled
+ * after loading the FP and Altivec.
+ */
kvmppc_load_guest_fp(vcpu);
kvmppc_load_guest_altivec(vcpu);
+ kvmppc_fix_ee_before_entry();
}
}
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 5:32 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: PPC: BookE: Fix boot hang on preemptible kernels Shrikanth Hegde
2026-11-10 5:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/irq: Add ppc_hard_irq_disable() Shrikanth Hegde
2026-11-10 5:32 ` Shrikanth Hegde [this message]
2026-11-10 5:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: PPC: Use ppc_hard_irq_disable before guest entry Shrikanth Hegde
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