Re: [RFC] powerpc/kvm: Fix spinlock member access for PREEMPT_RT

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 12:04 PM Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 8094a01974cca..568dc856f0dfa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ config PPC
>         select ARCH_STACKWALK
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC    if PPC_BOOK3S || PPC_8xx
> +       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT                 if !PPC || !KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
>         select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
>         select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF         if PPC64
>         select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
> I tried rebuilding with the above diff as per your suggestion
> though it works when KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV is set to N, but for
> pseries_le_defconfig, it's set to M, by default, which then requires setting it
> to N explicitly.

Yes, that was intentional (the "!PPC ||" part is not necessary since
you placed this in "config PPC"). I understand however that it's hard
to discover that you need KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV=n in order to build an RT
kernel.

> Will something like below be a better solution? This will set
> KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV to N if ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT is set.
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
> index dbfdc126bf144..33e0d50b08b14 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ config KVM_BOOK3S_64
>
>  config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
>         tristate "KVM for POWER7 and later using hypervisor mode in host"
> -       depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64 && PPC_POWERNV
> +       depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64 && PPC_POWERNV && !ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
>         select KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
>         select KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
>         select CMA

No, that would make it completely impossible to build with KVM enabled.

Paolo