Re: [PATCH V2] powerpc/pseries/svm: Remove unwanted check for shared_lppaca_size

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 08:47:52 EST


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:31:13 +0530, Satheesh Rajendran wrote:
> Early secure guest boot hits the below crash while booting with
> vcpus numbers aligned with page boundary for PAGE size of 64k
> and LPPACA size of 1k i.e 64, 128 etc, due to the BUG_ON assert
> for shared_lppaca_total_size equal to shared_lppaca_size,
>
> [ 0.000000] Partition configured for 64 cpus.
> [ 0.000000] CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core
> [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 0.000000] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c:89!
> [ 0.000000] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
> [ 0.000000] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
>
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/pseries/svm: Fix incorrect check for shared_lppaca_size
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b710d27bf72068b15b2f0305d825988183e2ff28

cheers