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Commit 77bbbc0c authored by Suraj Jitindar Singh's avatar Suraj Jitindar Singh Committed by Michael Ellerman
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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix TLB management on SMT8 POWER9 and POWER10 processors



The POWER9 vCPU TLB management code assumes all threads in a core share
a TLB, and that TLBIEL execued by one thread will invalidate TLBs for
all threads. This is not the case for SMT8 capable POWER9 and POWER10
(big core) processors, where the TLB is split between groups of threads.
This results in TLB multi-hits, random data corruption, etc.

Fix this by introducing cpu_first_tlb_thread_sibling etc., to determine
which siblings share TLBs, and use that in the guest TLB flushing code.

[npiggin@gmail.com: add changelog and comment]

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602040441.3984352-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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