At the time this was submitted by Leonardo, I confirmed -- or thought
I had confirmed -- with PowerVM partition firmware development that
the following RTAS functions:
- ibm,get-xive
- ibm,int-off
- ibm,int-on
- ibm,set-xive
were safe to call on multiple CPUs simultaneously, not only with
respect to themselves as indicated by PAPR, but with arbitrary other
RTAS calls:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/875zcy2v8o.fsf@linux.ibm.com/
Recent discussion with firmware development makes it clear that this
is not true, and that the code in commit b664db8e3f ("powerpc/rtas:
Implement reentrant rtas call") is unsafe, likely explaining several
strange bugs we've seen in internal testing involving DLPAR and
LPM. These scenarios use ibm,configure-connector, whose internal state
can be corrupted by the concurrent use of the "reentrant" functions,
leading to symptoms like endless busy statuses from RTAS.
Fixes: b664db8e3f ("powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220907220111.223267-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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