Excerpts from Paul Mackerras's message of April 1, 2021 3:32 pm:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:02:32AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Move the GUEST_MODE_SKIP logic into KVM code. This is quite a KVM
>> internal detail that has no real need to be in common handlers.
>> 
>> Also add a comment explaining why this thing exists.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_entry.S 
>> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_entry.S
>> index 7a039ea78f15..a5412e24cc05 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_entry.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_entry.S
>> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
>>  #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
>>  #include <asm/cache.h>
>> +#include <asm/exception-64s.h>
>>  #include <asm/kvm_asm.h>
>>  #include <asm/kvm_book3s_asm.h>
>>  #include <asm/ppc_asm.h>
>> @@ -20,9 +21,12 @@ kvmppc_interrupt:
>>       * guest R12 saved in shadow VCPU SCRATCH0
>>       * guest R13 saved in SPRN_SCRATCH0
>>       */
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
>>      std     r9,HSTATE_SCRATCH2(r13)
>>      lbz     r9,HSTATE_IN_GUEST(r13)
>> +    cmpwi   r9,KVM_GUEST_MODE_SKIP
>> +    beq-    .Lmaybe_skip
>> +.Lno_skip:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
>>      cmpwi   r9,KVM_GUEST_MODE_HOST_HV
>>      beq     kvmppc_bad_host_intr
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE
>> @@ -34,3 +38,48 @@ kvmppc_interrupt:
>>  #else
>>      b       kvmppc_interrupt_pr
>>  #endif
> 
> It's a bit hard to see without more context, but I think that in the
> PR-only case (CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE undefined), this will
> corrupt R9.  You need to restore R9 before the unconditional branch to
> kvmppc_interrupt_pr.  (I realize this code gets modified further, but
> I'd rather not break bisection.)

Very good catch, thanks.

Thanks,
Nick

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