• Suresh E. Warrier's avatar
    powerpc: Save/restore PPR for KVM hypercalls · 8b91a255
    Suresh E. Warrier authored
    The system call FLIH (first-level interrupt handler) at 0xc00
    unconditionally sets hardware priority to medium. For hypercalls, this
    means we lose guest OS priority. The front end (do_kvm_0x**) to the
    KVM interrupt handler always assumes that PPR priority is saved in
    PACA exception save area, so it copies this to the kvm_hstate
    structure. For hypercalls, this would be the saved priority from any
    previous exception. Eventually, the guest gets resumed with an
    incorrect priority.
    
    The fix is to save the PPR priority in PACA exception save area before
    switching HMT priorities in the FLIH so that existing code described above
    in the KVM interrupt handler can copy it from there into the VCPU's saved
    context.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    [mpe: Dropped HMT_MEDIUM_PPR_DISCARD and reworded comment]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    8b91a255
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