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Re: [for-5.0 PATCH 0/4] ppc: Fix interrupt controller emulation
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Cornelia Huck |
Subject: |
Re: [for-5.0 PATCH 0/4] ppc: Fix interrupt controller emulation |
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Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:07:35 +0100 |
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 11:59:47 +0100
Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:14:28 +1100
> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:43:31PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > Guest hangs have been observed recently on POWER9 hosts, specifically
> > > LC92x
> > > "Boston" systems, when the guests are being rebooted multiple times. The
> > > issue isn't POWER9 specific though. It is caused by a very long standing
> > > bug
> > > when using the uncommon accel=kvm,kernel-irqchip=off machine configuration
> > > which happens to be enforced on LC92x because of a host FW limitation.
> > > This
> > > affects both the XICS and XIVE emulated interrupt controllers.
> > >
> > > The actual fix is in patch 1. Patch 2 is a followup cleanup. The other
> > > patches are unrelated cleanups I came up with while investigating.
> > >
> > > Since this bug always existed and we're already in rc4, I think it is
> > > better
> > > to fix it in 5.0 and possibly backport it to stable and downstream if
> > > needed.
> >
> > Applied to ppc-for-5.0.
> >
> >
>
> According to Cornelia's comments, it seems I need to respin this against
> the s390-next branch to avoid conflicts.
Aren't these ppc-only patches, though? Confused.
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- [for-5.0 PATCH 0/4] ppc: Fix interrupt controller emulation, Greg Kurz, 2019/12/04
- [for-5.0 PATCH 2/4] xics: Don't deassert outputs, Greg Kurz, 2019/12/04
- [for-5.0 PATCH 1/4] ppc: Deassert the external interrupt pin in KVM on reset, Greg Kurz, 2019/12/04
- [for-5.0 PATCH 3/4] ppc: Don't use CPUPPCState::irq_input_state with modern Book3s CPU models, Greg Kurz, 2019/12/04
- [for-5.0 PATCH 4/4] ppc: Ignore the CPU_INTERRUPT_EXITTB interrupt with KVM, Greg Kurz, 2019/12/04
- Re: [for-5.0 PATCH 0/4] ppc: Fix interrupt controller emulation, David Gibson, 2019/12/08