From: Paul Mackerras Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 23:49:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix bug leading to deadlock in guest HPT updates X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.2.0-15.16~18083^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51bfd2998113e1f8ce8dcf853407b76a04b5f2a0;p=mirror_ubuntu-eoan-kernel.git KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix bug leading to deadlock in guest HPT updates When handling the H_BULK_REMOVE hypercall, we were forgetting to invalidate and unlock the hashed page table entry (HPTE) in the case where the page had been paged out. This fixes it by clearing the first doubleword of the HPTE in that case. This fixes a regression introduced in commit a92bce95f0 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Keep HPTE locked when invalidating"). The effect of the regression is that the host kernel will sometimes hang when under memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c index def880aea63a..cec4daddbf31 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c @@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ long kvmppc_h_bulk_remove(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) /* insert R and C bits from PTE */ rcbits = rev->guest_rpte & (HPTE_R_R|HPTE_R_C); args[j] |= rcbits << (56 - 5); + hp[0] = 0; continue; }