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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/48] spapr: allocate the ICPState ob
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Cédric Le Goater |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/48] spapr: allocate the ICPState object from under sPAPRCPUCore |
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Tue, 16 May 2017 17:18:27 +0200 |
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On 05/16/2017 02:55 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> On 16/05/2017 14:50, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 05/16/2017 02:03 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>> On 26/04/2017 09:00, David Gibson wrote:
>>>> From: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>>
>>>> Today, all the ICPs are created before the CPUs, stored in an array
>>>> under the sPAPR machine and linked to the CPU when the core threads
>>>> are realized. This modeling brings some complexity when a lookup in
>>>> the array is required and it can be simplified by allocating the ICPs
>>>> when the CPUs are.
>>>>
>>>> This is the purpose of this proposal which introduces a new 'icp_type'
>>>> field under the machine and creates the ICP objects of the right type
>>>> (KVM or not) before the PowerPCCPU object are.
>>>>
>>>> This change allows more cleanups : the removal of the icps array under
>>>> the sPAPR machine and the removal of the xics_get_cpu_index_by_dt_id()
>>>> helper.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>> hw/intc/xics.c | 11 -----------
>>>> hw/ppc/spapr.c | 47
>>>> ++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>>>> hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>>>> include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 2 +-
>>>> include/hw/ppc/xics.h | 2 --
>>>> 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> This commit breaks CPU re-hotplugging with KVM
>>>
>>> the sequence "device_add, device_del, device_add" brings to the
>>> following error message:
>>>
>>> Unable to connect CPUx to kernel XICS: Device or resource busy
>>>
>>> It comes from icp_kvm_cpu_setup():
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS, 0, kernel_xics_fd,
>>> kvm_arch_vcpu_id(cs));
>>> if (ret < 0) {
>>> error_report("Unable to connect CPU%ld to kernel XICS: %s",
>>> kvm_arch_vcpu_id(cs), strerror(errno));
>>> exit(1);
>>> }
>>> ..
>>>
>>> It should be protected by cap_irq_xics_enabled:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> /*
>>> * If we are reusing a parked vCPU fd corresponding to the CPU
>>> * which was hot-removed earlier we don't have to renable
>>> * KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS capability again.
>>> */
>>> if (icp->cap_irq_xics_enabled) {
>>> return;
>>> }
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(...);
>>> ...
>>> icp->cap_irq_xics_enabled = true;
>>> ...
>>>
>>> But since this commit, "icp" is a new object on each call:
>>>
>>> spapr_cpu_core_realize_child()
>>> ...
>>> obj = object_new(spapr->icp_type);
>>> ...
>>> xics_cpu_setup(XICS_FABRIC(spapr), cpu, ICP(obj));
>>> ...
>>> icpc->cpu_setup(icp, cpu); -> icp_kvm_cpu_setup()
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>>
>>> and "cap_irq_xics_enabled" is reinitialized.
>>>
>>> Any idea how to fix that?
>>
>> it seems that a cleanup is not done in the kernel. We are missing
>> a way to call kvmppc_xics_free_icp() from QEMU. Today the only
>> way is to destroy the vcpu.
>
> The commit introducing this hack, for reference:
>
> commit a45863bda90daa8ec39e5a312b9734fd4665b016
> Author: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu Jul 2 16:23:20 2015 +1000
>
> xics_kvm: Don't enable KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS if already enabled
>
> When supporting CPU hot removal by parking the vCPU fd and reusing
> it during hotplug again, there can be cases where we try to reenable
> KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS CAP for the vCPU for which it was already enabled.
> Introduce a boolean member in ICPState to track this and don't
> reenable the CAP if it was already enabled earlier.
>
> Re-enabling this CAP should ideally work, but currently it results in
> kernel trying to create and associate ICP with this vCPU and that
> fails since there is already an ICP associated with it. Hence this
> patch is needed to work around this problem in the kernel.
>
> This change allows CPU hot removal to work for sPAPR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
OK.
Greg is looking at re-adding the ICPState array because of a
migration issue with older machines. We might need to do so
unconditionally ...
But for that specific issue, I think it would have been better
to clean up the kernel state. Is that possible ?
Thanks,
C.
>> Else we need to reintroduce the array of icps (again) to keep some
>> xics state ... but that just sucks :/ Let me think about it.
>>
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent
>> C.
>>
>