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[v3,1/3] KVM: arm64: Print warning when cpu erratum can cause guests to deadlock

Message ID 20200717205233.903344-2-robh@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Cortex-A77 erratum 1508412 workaround | expand

Commit Message

Rob Herring July 17, 2020, 8:52 p.m. UTC 
If guests don't have certain CPU erratum workarounds implemented, then
there is a possibility a guest can deadlock the system. IOW, only trusted
guests should be used on systems with the erratum.

This is the case for Cortex-A57 erratum 832075.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
---
v3:
 - s/work-arounds/workarounds/

 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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2.25.1
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 90cb90561446..9b070b5e212b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1653,6 +1653,10 @@  int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}

+	if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_DEVICE_LOAD_ACQUIRE))
+		kvm_info("Guests without required CPU erratum workarounds can deadlock system!\n" \
+			 "Only trusted guests should be used on this system.\n");
+
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		smp_call_function_single(cpu, check_kvm_target_cpu, &ret, 1);
 		if (ret < 0) {