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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h3
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/paravirt.h22
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S10
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c3
4 files changed, 33 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
index 443050906018..e3b29eda8074 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
@@ -448,6 +448,9 @@
*/
long plpar_hcall_norets(unsigned long opcode, ...);
+/* Variant which does not do hcall tracing */
+long plpar_hcall_norets_notrace(unsigned long opcode, ...);
+
/**
* plpar_hcall: - Make a pseries hypervisor call
* @opcode: The hypervisor call to make.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 5d1726bb28e7..bcb7b5f917be 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -28,19 +28,35 @@ static inline u32 yield_count_of(int cpu)
return be32_to_cpu(yield_count);
}
+/*
+ * Spinlock code confers and prods, so don't trace the hcalls because the
+ * tracing code takes spinlocks which can cause recursion deadlocks.
+ *
+ * These calls are made while the lock is not held: the lock slowpath yields if
+ * it can not acquire the lock, and unlock slow path might prod if a waiter has
+ * yielded). So this may not be a problem for simple spin locks because the
+ * tracing does not technically recurse on the lock, but we avoid it anyway.
+ *
+ * However the queued spin lock contended path is more strictly ordered: the
+ * H_CONFER hcall is made after the task has queued itself on the lock, so then
+ * recursing on that lock will cause the task to then queue up again behind the
+ * first instance (or worse: queued spinlocks use tricks that assume a context
+ * never waits on more than one spinlock, so such recursion may cause random
+ * corruption in the lock code).
+ */
static inline void yield_to_preempted(int cpu, u32 yield_count)
{
- plpar_hcall_norets(H_CONFER, get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu), yield_count);
+ plpar_hcall_norets_notrace(H_CONFER, get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu), yield_count);
}
static inline void prod_cpu(int cpu)
{
- plpar_hcall_norets(H_PROD, get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu));
+ plpar_hcall_norets_notrace(H_PROD, get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu));
}
static inline void yield_to_any(void)
{
- plpar_hcall_norets(H_CONFER, -1, 0);
+ plpar_hcall_norets_notrace(H_CONFER, -1, 0);
}
#else
static inline bool is_shared_processor(void)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
index 2136e42833af..8a2b8d64265b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
@@ -102,6 +102,16 @@ END_FTR_SECTION(0, 1); \
#define HCALL_BRANCH(LABEL)
#endif
+_GLOBAL_TOC(plpar_hcall_norets_notrace)
+ HMT_MEDIUM
+
+ mfcr r0
+ stw r0,8(r1)
+ HVSC /* invoke the hypervisor */
+ lwz r0,8(r1)
+ mtcrf 0xff,r0
+ blr /* return r3 = status */
+
_GLOBAL_TOC(plpar_hcall_norets)
HMT_MEDIUM
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 1f3152ad7213..b619568a4d04 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -1830,8 +1830,7 @@ void hcall_tracepoint_unregfunc(void)
/*
* Since the tracing code might execute hcalls we need to guard against
- * recursion. One example of this are spinlocks calling H_YIELD on
- * shared processor partitions.
+ * recursion.
*/
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, hcall_trace_depth);