Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Off-load TLB invalidations to host for !GTSE

[Nicholas Piggin]

Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of July 17, 2020 12:08 pm:
> Excerpts from Qian Cai's message of July 17, 2020 3:27 am:
>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 11:06:05AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
>>> Hypervisor may choose not to enable Guest Translation Shootdown Enable
>>> (GTSE) option for the guest. When GTSE isn't ON, the guest OS isn't
>>> permitted to use instructions like tblie and tlbsync directly, but is
>>> expected to make hypervisor calls to get the TLB flushed.
>>> 
>>> This series enables the TLB flush routines in the radix code to
>>> off-load TLB flushing to hypervisor via the newly proposed hcall
>>> H_RPT_INVALIDATE. 
>>> 
>>> To easily check the availability of GTSE, it is made an MMU feature.
>>> The OV5 handling and H_REGISTER_PROC_TBL hcall are changed to
>>> handle GTSE as an optionally available feature and to not assume GTSE
>>> when radix support is available.
>>> 
>>> The actual hcall implementation for KVM isn't included in this
>>> patchset and will be posted separately.
>>> 
>>> Changes in v3
>>> =============
>>> - Fixed a bug in the hcall wrapper code where we were missing setting
>>>   H_RPTI_TYPE_NESTED while retrying the failed flush request with
>>>   a full flush for the nested case.
>>> - s/psize_to_h_rpti/psize_to_rpti_pgsize
>>> 
>>> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20200626131000.5207-1-bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
>>> 
>>> Bharata B Rao (2):
>>>   powerpc/mm: Enable radix GTSE only if supported.
>>>   powerpc/pseries: H_REGISTER_PROC_TBL should ask for GTSE only if
>>>     enabled
>>> 
>>> Nicholas Piggin (1):
>>>   powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix: Off-load TLB invalidations to host when
>>>     !GTSE
>> 
>> Reverting the whole series fixed random memory corruptions during boot on
>> POWER9 PowerNV systems below.
> 
> If I s/mmu_has_feature(MMU_FTR_GTSE)/(1)/g in radix_tlb.c, then the .o
> disasm is the same as reverting my patch.
> 
> Feature bits not being set right? PowerNV should be pretty simple, seems
> to do the same as FTR_TYPE_RADIX.

Might need this fix

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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 9cc49f265c86..54c9bcea9d4e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static struct ibm_pa_feature {
 	{ .pabyte = 0,  .pabit = 6, .cpu_features  = CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE },
 	{ .pabyte = 1,  .pabit = 2, .mmu_features  = MMU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE },
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU
-	{ .pabyte = 40, .pabit = 0, .mmu_features  = MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX },
+	{ .pabyte = 40, .pabit = 0, .mmu_features  = (MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX | MMU_FTR_GTSE) },
 #endif
 	{ .pabyte = 1,  .pabit = 1, .invert = 1, .cpu_features = CPU_FTR_NODSISRALIGN },
 	{ .pabyte = 5,  .pabit = 0, .cpu_features  = CPU_FTR_REAL_LE,