This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Exit KVM on failed mapping

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: kvm-ppc-book3s-pr-exit-kvm-on-failed-mapping.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 15:16:04 CET 2018

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:48:10 +1100 Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Exit KVM on failed mapping

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru

[ Upstream commit bd9166ffe624000140fc6b606b256df01fc0d060 ]

At the moment kvmppc_mmu_map_page() returns -1 if mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() fails for any reason so the page fault handler resumes the guest and it faults on the same address again.

This adds distinction to kvmppc_mmu_map_page() to return -EIO if mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() failed for a reason other than full pteg. At the moment only pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert() returns -2 if plpar_pte_enter() failed with a code other than H_PTEG_FULL. Other mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() instances can only fail with -1 "full pteg".

With this change, if PR KVM fails to update HPT, it can signal the userspace about this instead of returning to guest and having the very same page fault over and over again.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru Reviewed-by: David Gibson david@gibson.dropbear.id.au Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras paulus@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c | 5 ++++- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c @@ -176,12 +176,15 @@ map_again: ret = ppc_md.hpte_insert(hpteg, vpn, hpaddr, rflags, vflags, hpsize, hpsize, MMU_SEGSIZE_256M);

- if (ret < 0) { + if (ret == -1) { /* If we couldn't map a primary PTE, try a secondary */ hash = ~hash; vflags ^= HPTE_V_SECONDARY; attempt++; goto map_again; + } else if (ret < 0) { + r = -EIO; + goto out_unlock; } else { trace_kvm_book3s_64_mmu_map(rflags, hpteg, vpn, hpaddr, orig_pte); --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c @@ -625,7 +625,11 @@ int kvmppc_handle_pagefault(struct kvm_r kvmppc_mmu_unmap_page(vcpu, &pte); } /* The guest's PTE is not mapped yet. Map on the host */ - kvmppc_mmu_map_page(vcpu, &pte, iswrite); + if (kvmppc_mmu_map_page(vcpu, &pte, iswrite) == -EIO) { + /* Exit KVM if mapping failed */ + run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR; + return RESUME_HOST; + } if (data) vcpu->stat.sp_storage++; else if (vcpu->arch.mmu.is_dcbz32(vcpu) &&

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aik@ozlabs.ru are

queue-3.18/kvm-ppc-book3s-pr-exit-kvm-on-failed-mapping.patch