Re: [PATCH] kvm: arm/arm64 : fix vm's hanging at startup time
From: Christoffer Dall
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 06:06:36 EST
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:56:54PM +0800, peng.hao2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On 19/11/2018 09:10, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 10:58:37AM +0800, peng.hao2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>> On 16/11/18 00:23, peng.hao2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>> When virtual machine starts, hang up.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I take it you mean the *guest* hangs? Because it doesn't get a timer
> >>>>>> interrupt?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The kernel version of guest
> >>>>>>> is 4.16. Host support vgic_v3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Your host kernel is something recent, I guess?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It was mainly due to the incorrect vgic_irq's(intid=27) group value
> >>>>>>> during injection interruption. when kvm_vgic_vcpu_init is called,
> >>>>>>> dist is not initialized at this time. Unable to get vgic V3 or V2
> >>>>>>> correctly, so group is not set.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mmh, that shouldn't happen with (v)GICv3. Do you use QEMU (which
> >>>>>> version?) or some other userland tool?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> QEMU emulator version 3.0.50 .
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> group is setted to 1 when vgic_mmio_write_group is invoked at some
> >>>>>>> time.
> >>>>>>> when irq->group=0 (intid=27), No ICH_LR_GROUP flag was set and
> >>>>>>> interrupt injection failed.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 2 +-
> >>>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> >>>>>>> index 9c0dd23..d101000 100644
> >>>>>>> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> >>>>>>> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> >>>>>>> @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ void vgic_v3_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>>>>>> struct vgic_irq *irq, int lr) if (vgic_irq_is_mapped_level(irq) &&
> >>>>>>> (val & ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT)) irq->line_level = false;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> - if (irq->group)
> >>>>>>> + if (model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This is not the right fix, not only because it basically reverts the
> >>>>>> GICv3 part of 87322099052 (KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Signal IRQs using
> >>>>>> their configured group).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Can you try to work out why kvm_vgic_vcpu_init() is apparently called
> >>>>>> before dist->vgic_model is set, also what value it has?
> >>>>>> If I understand the code correctly, that shouldn't happen for a GICv3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Even if the value of group is correctly assigned in kvm_vgic_vcpu_init, the group is then written 0 through vgic_mmio_write_group.
> >>>>> If the interrupt comes at this time, the interrupt injection fails.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does that mean that the guest is configuring its interrupts as Group0?
> >>>> That sounds wrong, Linux should configure all it's interrupts as
> >>>> non-secure group1.
> >>>
> >>> no, I think that uefi dose this, not linux.
> >>> 1. kvm_vgic_vcpu_init
> >>> 2. vgic_create
> >>> 3. kvm_vgic_dist_init
> >>> 4.vgic_mmio_write_group: uefi as guest, write group=0
> >>> 5.vgic_mmio_write_group: linux as guest, write group=1
> >>
> >> Is this the same issue fixed by EDK2 commit:
> >>
> >> 66127011a544b90e ("ArmPkg/ArmGicDxe ARM: fix encoding for GICv3 interrupt acknowledge")
> >>
> >> ... where EDK2 would try to use IAR0 rather than IAR1?
> >>
> >> The commit messages notes this lead to a boot-time hang.
> >
> >I managed to trigger an issue with a really old EFI implementation that
> >doesn't configure its interrupts as Group1, and yet tries to ACK its
> >interrupts using the Group1 accessor. Guess what? It is not going to work.
> >
> >Commit c7fefb690661f2e38afcb8200bd318ecf38ab961 in the edk2 tree seems
> >to be the fix (I only assume it does, I haven't actually checked). A
> >recent build, as found in Debian Buster, works perfectly (tested with
> >both QEMU v2.12 and tip of tree).
> >
> >Now, I really don't get what you're saying about Linux not getting
> >interrupts. How do you get to booting Linux if EFI is not making any
> >forward progress? Are you trying them independently?
> >
> I start linux with bypassing uefi, the print info is the same.
> [507107.748908] vgic_mmio_write_group:## intid/27 group=0
> [507107.752185] vgic_mmio_write_group:## intid/27 group=0
> [507107.899566] vgic_mmio_write_group:## intid/27 group=1
> [507107.907370] vgic_mmio_write_group:## intid/27 group=1
> the command line is like this:
> /home/qemu-patch/linshi/qemu/aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt-3.1,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,gic-version=3 -kernel /home/kernelboot/vmlinuz-4.16.0+ -initrd /home/kernelboot/initramfs-4.16.0+.img -append root=/dev/mapper/cla-root ro crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=cla/root rd.lvm.lv=cla/swap.UTF-8 -drive file=/home/centos74-ph/boot.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0 -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=1 -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -k en-us -device virtio-gpu-pci,id=video0,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.3,addr=0x0 -device pvpanic-mmio -msg timestamp=on
>
> This is strange. That's probably the Linux 4.16 kernel setting group to 0, and I'll continue to track in guest.
Could you try the following patch:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
index c0c0b88af1d5..6fa858c7a5a6 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
@@ -231,13 +231,6 @@ int kvm_vgic_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
irq->config = VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL;
}
- /*
- * GICv3 can only be created via the KVM_DEVICE_CREATE API and
- * so we always know the emulation type at this point as it's
- * either explicitly configured as GICv3, or explicitly
- * configured as GICv2, or not configured yet which also
- * implies GICv2.
- */
if (dist->vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3)
irq->group = 1;
else
@@ -298,6 +291,16 @@ int vgic_init(struct kvm *kvm)
if (ret)
goto out;
+ /* Initialize groups on CPUs created before the VGIC type was known */
+ kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
+ struct vgic_cpu *vgic_cpu = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS; i++) {
+ struct vgic_irq *irq = &vgic_cpu->private_irqs[i];
+ irq->group = 1;
+ }
+ }
+
if (vgic_has_its(kvm)) {
ret = vgic_v4_init(kvm);
if (ret)
Thanks,
Christoffer