On POWER9, if the hypervisor supports XIVE exploitation mode, the
guest OS will unconditionally requests for the XIVE interrupt mode
even if XIVE was deactivated with the kernel command line xive=off.
Later on, when the spapr XIVE init code handles xive=off, it disables
XIVE and tries to fall back on the legacy mode XICS.
This discrepency causes a kernel panic because the hypervisor is
configured to provide the XIVE interrupt mode to the guest :
kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/xics-common.c:135!
...
NIP xics_smp_probe+0x38/0x98
LR xics_smp_probe+0x2c/0x98
Call Trace:
xics_smp_probe+0x2c/0x98 (unreliable)
pSeries_smp_probe+0x40/0xa0
smp_prepare_cpus+0x62c/0x6ec
kernel_init_freeable+0x148/0x448
kernel_init+0x2c/0x148
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x68
Look for xive=off during prom_init and don't ask for XIVE in this
case. One exception though: if the host only supports XIVE, we still
want to boot so we ignore xive=off.
Similarly, have the spapr XIVE init code to looking at the interrupt
mode negotiated during CAS, and ignore xive=off if the hypervisor only
supports XIVE.
Fixes: eac1e731b5 ("powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20
Reported-by: Pavithra R. Prakash <pavrampu@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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