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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2015-11-03 16:03:30 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2015-11-06 16:02:59 +1100
commitf74f2e2e26199f695ca3df94f29e9ab7cb707ea4 (patch)
tree67bc4239089514a1fbaa1c07b1a2705cb28b4743 /arch/powerpc
parentcf29b21595b91eecce6ca69b0f92d60bca076ef0 (diff)
downloadlinux-f74f2e2e26199f695ca3df94f29e9ab7cb707ea4.tar.bz2
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split
In static micro-threading modes, the dynamic micro-threading code is supposed to be disabled, because subcores can't make independent decisions about what micro-threading mode to put the core in - there is only one micro-threading mode for the whole core. The code that implements dynamic micro-threading checks for this, except that the check was missed in one case. This means that it is possible for a subcore in static 2-way micro-threading mode to try to put the core into 4-way micro-threading mode, which usually leads to stuck CPUs, spinlock lockups, and other stalls in the host. The problem was in the can_split_piggybacked_subcores() function, which should always return false if the system is in a static micro-threading mode. This fixes the problem by making can_split_piggybacked_subcores() use subcore_config_ok() for its checks, as subcore_config_ok() includes the necessary check for the static micro-threading modes. Credit to Gautham Shenoy for working out that the reason for the hangs and stalls we were seeing was that we were trying to do dynamic 4-way micro-threading while we were in static 2-way mode. Fixes: b4deba5c41e9 Cc: vger@stable.kernel.org # v4.3 Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 228049786888..becad3ababe3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -2060,7 +2060,7 @@ static bool can_split_piggybacked_subcores(struct core_info *cip)
return false;
n_subcores += (cip->subcore_threads[sub] - 1) >> 1;
}
- if (n_subcores > 3 || large_sub < 0)
+ if (large_sub < 0 || !subcore_config_ok(n_subcores + 1, 2))
return false;
/*