This patch allows for a mode on POWER9 hosts where we control all the
threads of a core, much as we do on POWER8. The mode is controlled by
a module parameter on the kvm_hv module, called "indep_threads_mode".
The normal mode on POWER9 is the "independent threads" mode, with
indep_threads_mode=Y, where the host is in SMT4 mode (or in fact any
desired SMT mode) and each thread independently enters and exits from
KVM guests without reference to what other threads in the core are
doing.
If indep_threads_mode is set to N at the point when a VM is started,
KVM will expect every core that the guest runs on to be in single
threaded mode (that is, threads 1, 2 and 3 offline), and will set the
flag that prevents secondary threads from coming online. We can still
use all four threads; the code that implements dynamic micro-threading
on POWER8 will become active in over-commit situations and will allow
up to three other VCPUs to be run on the secondary threads of the core
whenever a VCPU is run.
The reason for wanting this mode is that this will allow us to run HPT
guests on a radix host on a POWER9 machine that does not support
"mixed mode", that is, having some threads in a core be in HPT mode
while other threads are in radix mode. It will also make it possible
to implement a "strict threads" mode in future, if desired.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Currently, the HPT code in HV KVM maintains a dirty bit per guest page
in the rmap array, whether or not dirty page tracking has been enabled
for the memory slot. In contrast, the radix code maintains a dirty
bit per guest page in memslot->dirty_bitmap, and only does so when
dirty page tracking has been enabled.
This changes the HPT code to maintain the dirty bits in the memslot
dirty_bitmap like radix does. This results in slightly less code
overall, and will mean that we do not lose the dirty bits when
transitioning between HPT and radix mode in future.
There is one minor change to behaviour as a result. With HPT, when
dirty tracking was enabled for a memslot, we would previously clear
all the dirty bits at that point (both in the HPT entries and in the
rmap arrays), meaning that a KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl immediately
following would show no pages as dirty (assuming no vcpus have run
in the meantime). With this change, the dirty bits on HPT entries
are not cleared at the point where dirty tracking is enabled, so
KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG would show as dirty any guest pages that are
resident in the HPT and dirty. This is consistent with what happens
on radix.
This also fixes a bug in the mark_pages_dirty() function for radix
(in the sense that the function no longer exists). In the case where
a large page of 64 normal pages or more is marked dirty, the
addressing of the dirty bitmap was incorrect and could write past
the end of the bitmap. Fortunately this case was never hit in
practice because a 2MB large page is only 32 x 64kB pages, and we
don't support backing the guest with 1GB huge pages at this point.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This renames the kvm->arch.hpte_setup_done field to mmu_ready because
we will want to use it for radix guests too -- both for setting things
up before vcpu execution, and for excluding vcpus from executing while
MMU-related things get changed, such as in future switching the MMU
from radix to HPT mode or vice-versa.
This also moves the call to kvmppc_setup_partition_table() that was
done in kvmppc_hv_setup_htab_rma() for HPT guests, and the setting
of mmu_ready, into the caller in kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv().
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Calls to mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() were replaced by calls to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() and are now bracketed by calls to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/end()
Remove now useless invalidate_page callback.
Changed since v1 (Linus Torvalds)
- remove now useless kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page()
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Better machine check handling for HV KVM
- Ability to support guests with threads=2, 4 or 8 on POWER9
- Fix for a race that could cause delayed recognition of signals
- Fix for a bug where POWER9 guests could sleep with interrupts
pending.
Enhance KVM to cause a guest exit with KVM_EXIT_NMI
exit reason upon a machine check exception (MCE) in
the guest address space if the KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI
capability is enabled (instead of delivering a 0x200
interrupt to guest). This enables QEMU to build error
log and deliver machine check exception to guest via
guest registered machine check handler.
This approach simplifies the delivery of machine
check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier
approach of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt
vector.
This design/approach is based on the feedback for the
QEMU patches to handle machine check exception. Details
of earlier approach of handling machine check exception
in QEMU and related discussions can be found at:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg00813.html
Note:
This patch now directly invokes machine_check_print_event_info()
from kvmppc_handle_exit_hv() to print the event to host console
at the time of guest exit before the exception is passed on to the
guest. Hence, the host-side handling which was performed earlier
via machine_check_fwnmi is removed.
The reasons for this approach is (i) it is not possible
to distinguish whether the exception occurred in the
guest or the host from the pt_regs passed on the
machine_check_exception(). Hence machine_check_exception()
calls panic, instead of passing on the exception to
the guest, if the machine check exception is not
recoverable. (ii) the approach introduced in this
patch gives opportunity to the host kernel to perform
actions in virtual mode before passing on the exception
to the guest. This approach does not require complex
tweaks to machine_check_fwnmi and friends.
Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This introduces a new KVM capability to control how KVM behaves
on machine check exception (MCE) in HV KVM guests.
If this capability has not been enabled, KVM redirects machine check
exceptions to guest's 0x200 vector, if the address in error belongs to
the guest. With this capability enabled, KVM will cause a guest exit
with the exit reason indicating an NMI.
The new capability is required to avoid problems if a new kernel/KVM
is used with an old QEMU, running a guest that doesn't issue
"ibm,nmi-register". As old QEMU does not understand the NMI exit
type, it treats it as a fatal error. However, the guest could have
handled the machine check error if the exception was delivered to
guest's 0x200 interrupt vector instead of NMI exit in case of old
QEMU.
[paulus@ozlabs.org - Reworded the commit message to be clearer,
enable only on HV KVM.]
Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
On POWER9, we no longer have the restriction that we had on POWER8
where all threads in a core have to be in the same partition, so
the CPU threads are now independent. However, we still want to be
able to run guests with a virtual SMT topology, if only to allow
migration of guests from POWER8 systems to POWER9.
A guest that has a virtual SMT mode greater than 1 will expect to
be able to use the doorbell facility; it will expect the msgsndp
and msgclrp instructions to work appropriately and to be able to read
sensible values from the TIR (thread identification register) and
DPDES (directed privileged doorbell exception status) special-purpose
registers. However, since each CPU thread is a separate sub-processor
in POWER9, these instructions and registers can only be used within
a single CPU thread.
In order for these instructions to appear to act correctly according
to the guest's virtual SMT mode, we have to trap and emulate them.
We cause them to trap by clearing the HFSCR_MSGP bit in the HFSCR
register. The emulation is triggered by the hypervisor facility
unavailable interrupt that occurs when the guest uses them.
To cause a doorbell interrupt to occur within the guest, we set the
DPDES register to 1. If the guest has interrupts enabled, the CPU
will generate a doorbell interrupt and clear the DPDES register in
hardware. The DPDES hardware register for the guest is saved in the
vcpu->arch.vcore->dpdes field. Since this gets written by the guest
exit code, other VCPUs wishing to cause a doorbell interrupt don't
write that field directly, but instead set a vcpu->arch.doorbell_request
flag. This is consumed and set to 0 by the guest entry code, which
then sets DPDES to 1.
Emulating reads of the DPDES register is somewhat involved, because
it requires reading the doorbell pending interrupt status of all of the
VCPU threads in the virtual core, and if any of those VCPUs are
running, their doorbell status is only up-to-date in the hardware
DPDES registers of the CPUs where they are running. In order to get
a reasonable approximation of the current doorbell status, we send
those CPUs an IPI, causing an exit from the guest which will update
the vcpu->arch.vcore->dpdes field. We then use that value in
constructing the emulated DPDES register value.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This allows userspace to set the desired virtual SMT (simultaneous
multithreading) mode for a VM, that is, the number of VCPUs that
get assigned to each virtual core. Previously, the virtual SMT mode
was fixed to the number of threads per subcore, and if userspace
wanted to have fewer vcpus per vcore, then it would achieve that by
using a sparse CPU numbering. This had the disadvantage that the
vcpu numbers can get quite large, particularly for SMT1 guests on
a POWER8 with 8 threads per core. With this patch, userspace can
set its desired virtual SMT mode and then use contiguous vcpu
numbering.
On POWER8, where the threading mode is "strict", the virtual SMT mode
must be less than or equal to the number of threads per subcore. On
POWER9, which implements a "loose" threading mode, the virtual SMT
mode can be any power of 2 between 1 and 8, even though there is
effectively one thread per subcore, since the threads are independent
and can all be in different partitions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This adds code to allow us to use a different value for the HFSCR
(Hypervisor Facilities Status and Control Register) when running the
guest from that which applies in the host. The reason for doing this
is to allow us to trap the msgsndp instruction and related operations
in future so that they can be virtualized. We also save the value of
HFSCR when a hypervisor facility unavailable interrupt occurs, because
the high byte of HFSCR indicates which facility the guest attempted to
access.
We save and restore the host value on guest entry/exit because some
bits of it affect host userspace execution.
We only do all this on POWER9, not on POWER8, because we are not
intending to virtualize any of the facilities controlled by HFSCR on
POWER8. In particular, the HFSCR bit that controls execution of
msgsndp and related operations does not exist on POWER8. The HFSCR
doesn't exist at all on POWER7.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This allows userspace (e.g. QEMU) to enable large decrementer mode for
the guest when running on a POWER9 host, by setting the LPCR_LD bit in
the guest LPCR value. With this, the guest exit code saves 64 bits of
the guest DEC value on exit. Other places that use the guest DEC
value check the LPCR_LD bit in the guest LPCR value, and if it is set,
omit the 32-bit sign extension that would otherwise be done.
This doesn't change the DEC emulation used by PR KVM because PR KVM
is not supported on POWER9 yet.
This is partly based on an earlier patch by Oliver O'Halloran.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Marc Zyngier suggested that we define the arch specific VCPU request
base, rather than requiring each arch to remember to start from 8.
That suggestion, along with Radim Krcmar's recent VCPU request flag
addition, snowballed into defining something of an arch VCPU request
defining API.
No functional change.
(Looks like x86 is running out of arch VCPU request bits. Maybe
someday we'll need to extend to 64.)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
This merges in the powerpc topic/xive branch to bring in the code for
the in-kernel XICS interrupt controller emulation to use the new XIVE
(eXternal Interrupt Virtualization Engine) hardware in the POWER9 chip
directly, rather than via a XICS emulation in firmware.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This patch makes KVM capable of using the XIVE interrupt controller
to provide the standard PAPR "XICS" style hypercalls. It is necessary
for proper operations when the host uses XIVE natively.
This has been lightly tested on an actual system, including PCI
pass-through with a TG3 device.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[mpe: Cleanup pr_xxx(), unsplit pr_xxx() strings, etc., fix build
failures by adding KVM_XIVE which depends on KVM_XICS and XIVE, and
adding empty stubs for the kvm_xive_xxx() routines, fixup subject,
integrate fixes from Paul for building PR=y HV=n]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This allows the host kernel to handle H_PUT_TCE, H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT
and H_STUFF_TCE requests targeted an IOMMU TCE table used for VFIO
without passing them to user space which saves time on switching
to user space and back.
This adds H_PUT_TCE/H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT/H_STUFF_TCE handlers to KVM.
KVM tries to handle a TCE request in the real mode, if failed
it passes the request to the virtual mode to complete the operation.
If it a virtual mode handler fails, the request is passed to
the user space; this is not expected to happen though.
To avoid dealing with page use counters (which is tricky in real mode),
this only accelerates SPAPR TCE IOMMU v2 clients which are required
to pre-register the userspace memory. The very first TCE request will
be handled in the VFIO SPAPR TCE driver anyway as the userspace view
of the TCE table (iommu_table::it_userspace) is not allocated till
the very first mapping happens and we cannot call vmalloc in real mode.
If we fail to update a hardware IOMMU table unexpected reason, we just
clear it and move on as there is nothing really we can do about it -
for example, if we hot plug a VFIO device to a guest, existing TCE tables
will be mirrored automatically to the hardware and there is no interface
to report to the guest about possible failures.
This adds new attribute - KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_SET_SPAPR_TCE - to
the VFIO KVM device. It takes a VFIO group fd and SPAPR TCE table fd
and associates a physical IOMMU table with the SPAPR TCE table (which
is a guest view of the hardware IOMMU table). The iommu_table object
is cached and referenced so we do not have to look up for it in real mode.
This does not implement the UNSET counterpart as there is no use for it -
once the acceleration is enabled, the existing userspace won't
disable it unless a VFIO container is destroyed; this adds necessary
cleanup to the KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL handler.
This advertises the new KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO capability to the user
space.
This adds real mode version of WARN_ON_ONCE() as the generic version
causes problems with rcu_sched. Since we testing what vmalloc_to_phys()
returns in the code, this also adds a check for already existing
vmalloc_to_phys() call in kvmppc_rm_h_put_tce_indirect().
This finally makes use of vfio_external_user_iommu_id() which was
introduced quite some time ago and was considered for removal.
Tests show that this patch increases transmission speed from 220MB/s
to 750..1020MB/s on 10Gb network (Chelsea CXGB3 10Gb ethernet card).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
PR KVM page fault handler performs eaddr to pte translation for a guest,
however kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() does not preserve WIMG bits
(storage control) in the kvmppc_pte struct. If PR KVM is running as
a second level guest under HV KVM, and PR KVM tries inserting HPT entry,
this fails in HV KVM if it already has this mapping.
This preserves WIMG bits between kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() and
kvmppc_mmu_map_page().
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This patch provides the MMIO load/store emulation for instructions
of 'double & vector unsigned char & vector signed char & vector
unsigned short & vector signed short & vector unsigned int & vector
signed int & vector double '.
The instructions that this adds emulation for are:
- ldx, ldux, lwax,
- lfs, lfsx, lfsu, lfsux, lfd, lfdx, lfdu, lfdux,
- stfs, stfsx, stfsu, stfsux, stfd, stfdx, stfdu, stfdux, stfiwx,
- lxsdx, lxsspx, lxsiwax, lxsiwzx, lxvd2x, lxvw4x, lxvdsx,
- stxsdx, stxsspx, stxsiwx, stxvd2x, stxvw4x
[paulus@ozlabs.org - some cleanups, fixes and rework, make it
compile for Book E, fix build when PR KVM is built in]
Signed-off-by: Bin Lu <lblulb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Its value has never changed; we might as well make it part of the ABI instead
of using the return value of KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO).
Because PPC does not always make MMIO available, the code has to be made
dependent on CONFIG_KVM_MMIO rather than KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
This adds a not yet working outline of the HPT resizing PAPR
extension. Specifically it adds the necessary ioctl() functions,
their basic steps, the work function which will handle preparation for
the resize, and synchronization between these, the guest page fault
path and guest HPT update path.
The actual guts of the implementation isn't here yet, so for now the
calls will always fail.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Currently the kvm_hpt_info structure stores the hashed page table's order,
and also the number of HPTEs it contains and a mask for its size. The
last two can be easily derived from the order, so remove them and just
calculate them as necessary with a couple of helper inlines.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Currently, the powerpc kvm_arch structure contains a number of variables
tracking the state of the guest's hashed page table (HPT) in KVM HV. This
patch gathers them all together into a single kvm_hpt_info substructure.
This makes life more convenient for the upcoming HPT resizing
implementation.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
With radix, the guest can do TLB invalidations itself using the tlbie
(global) and tlbiel (local) TLB invalidation instructions. Linux guests
use local TLB invalidations for translations that have only ever been
accessed on one vcpu. However, that doesn't mean that the translations
have only been accessed on one physical cpu (pcpu) since vcpus can move
around from one pcpu to another. Thus a tlbiel might leave behind stale
TLB entries on a pcpu where the vcpu previously ran, and if that task
then moves back to that previous pcpu, it could see those stale TLB
entries and thus access memory incorrectly. The usual symptom of this
is random segfaults in userspace programs in the guest.
To cope with this, we detect when a vcpu is about to start executing on
a thread in a core that is a different core from the last time it
executed. If that is the case, then we mark the core as needing a
TLB flush and then send an interrupt to any thread in the core that is
currently running a vcpu from the same guest. This will get those vcpus
out of the guest, and the first one to re-enter the guest will do the
TLB flush. The reason for interrupting the vcpus executing on the old
core is to cope with the following scenario:
CPU 0 CPU 1 CPU 4
(core 0) (core 0) (core 1)
VCPU 0 runs task X VCPU 1 runs
core 0 TLB gets
entries from task X
VCPU 0 moves to CPU 4
VCPU 0 runs task X
Unmap pages of task X
tlbiel
(still VCPU 1) task X moves to VCPU 1
task X runs
task X sees stale TLB
entries
That is, as soon as the VCPU starts executing on the new core, it
could unmap and tlbiel some page table entries, and then the task
could migrate to one of the VCPUs running on the old core and
potentially see stale TLB entries.
Since the TLB is shared between all the threads in a core, we only
use the bit of kvm->arch.need_tlb_flush corresponding to the first
thread in the core. To ensure that we don't have a window where we
can miss a flush, this moves the clearing of the bit from before the
actual flush to after it. This way, two threads might both do the
flush, but we prevent the situation where one thread can enter the
guest before the flush is finished.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This adds code to branch around the parts that radix guests don't
need - clearing and loading the SLB with the guest SLB contents,
saving the guest SLB contents on exit, and restoring the host SLB
contents.
Since the host is now using radix, we need to save and restore the
host value for the PID register.
On hypervisor data/instruction storage interrupts, we don't do the
guest HPT lookup on radix, but just save the guest physical address
for the fault (from the ASDR register) in the vcpu struct.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This adds a field in struct kvm_arch and an inline helper to
indicate whether a guest is a radix guest or not, plus a new file
to contain the radix MMU code, which currently contains just a
translate function which knows how to traverse the guest page
tables to translate an address.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This adds the implementation of the KVM_PPC_CONFIGURE_V3_MMU ioctl
for HPT guests on POWER9. With this, we can return 1 for the
KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_HASH_V3 capability.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT is an arch specific constant which sets the
default value of the halt_poll_ns kvm module parameter which determines
the global maximum halt polling interval.
The current value for powerpc is 500000 (500us) which means that any
repetitive workload with a period of less than that can drive the cpu
usage to 100% where it may have been mostly idle without halt polling.
This presents the possibility of a large increase in power usage with
a comparatively small performance benefit.
Reduce the default to 10000 (10us) and a user can tune this themselves
to set their affinity for halt polling based on the trade off between power
and performance which they are willing to make.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
POWER9 adds new capabilities to the tlbie (TLB invalidate entry)
and tlbiel (local tlbie) instructions. Both instructions get a
set of new parameters (RIC, PRS and R) which appear as bits in the
instruction word. The tlbiel instruction now has a second register
operand, which contains a PID and/or LPID value if needed, and
should otherwise contain 0.
This adapts KVM-HV's usage of tlbie and tlbiel to work on POWER9
as well as older processors. Since we only handle HPT guests so
far, we need RIC=0 PRS=0 R=0, which ends up with the same instruction
word as on previous processors, so we don't need to conditionally
execute different instructions depending on the processor.
The local flush on first entry to a guest in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
is a loop which depends on the number of TLB sets. Rather than
using feature sections to set the number of iterations based on
which CPU we're on, we now work out this number at VM creation time
and store it in the kvm_arch struct. That will make it possible to
get the number from the device tree in future, which will help with
compatibility with future processors.
Since mmu_partition_table_set_entry() does a global flush of the
whole LPID, we don't need to do the TLB flush on first entry to the
guest on each processor. Therefore we don't set all bits in the
tlb_need_flush bitmap on VM startup on POWER9.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This adds code to handle two new guest-accessible special-purpose
registers on POWER9: TIDR (thread ID register) and PSSCR (processor
stop status and control register). They are context-switched
between host and guest, and the guest values can be read and set
via the one_reg interface.
The PSSCR contains some fields which are guest-accessible and some
which are only accessible in hypervisor mode. We only allow the
guest-accessible fields to be read or set by userspace.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
When switching from/to a guest that has a transaction in progress,
we need to save/restore the checkpointed register state. Although
XER is part of the CPU state that gets checkpointed, the code that
does this saving and restoring doesn't save/restore XER.
This fixes it by saving and restoring the XER. To allow userspace
to read/write the checkpointed XER value, we also add a new ONE_REG
specifier.
The visible effect of this bug is that the guest may see its XER
value being corrupted when it uses transactions.
Fixes: e4e3812150 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support")
Fixes: 0a8eccefcb ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This keeps a per vcpu cache for recently page faulted MMIO entries.
On a page fault, if the entry exists in the cache, we can avoid some
time-consuming paths, for example, looking up HPT, locking HPTE twice
and searching mmio gfn from memslots, then directly call
kvmppc_hv_emulate_mmio().
In current implenment, we limit the size of cache to four. We think
it's enough to cover the high-frequency MMIO HPTEs in most case.
For example, considering the case of using virtio device, for virtio
legacy devices, one HPTE could handle notifications from up to
1024 (64K page / 64 byte Port IO register) devices, so one cache entry
is enough; for virtio modern devices, we always need one HPTE to handle
notification for each device because modern device would use a 8M MMIO
register to notify host instead of Port IO register, typically the
system's configuration should not exceed four virtio devices per
vcpu, four cache entry is also enough in this case. Of course, if needed,
we could also modify the macro to a module parameter in the future.
Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
POWER8 has one virtual timebase (VTB) register per subcore, not one
per CPU thread. The HV KVM code currently treats VTB as a per-thread
register, which can lead to spurious soft lockup messages from guests
which use the VTB as the time source for the soft lockup detector.
(CPUs before POWER8 did not have the VTB register.)
For HV KVM, this fixes the problem by making only the primary thread
in each virtual core save and restore the VTB value. With this,
the VTB state becomes part of the kvmppc_vcore structure. This
also means that "piggybacking" of multiple virtual cores onto one
subcore is not possible on POWER8, because then the virtual cores
would share a single VTB register.
PR KVM emulates a VTB register, which is per-vcpu because PR KVM
has no notion of CPU threads or SMT. For PR KVM we move the VTB
state into the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Add VCPU stat counters to track affinity for passthrough
interrupts.
pthru_all: Counts all passthrough interrupts whose IRQ mappings are
in the kvmppc_passthru_irq_map structure.
pthru_host: Counts all cached passthrough interrupts that were injected
from the host through kvm_set_irq (i.e. not handled in
real mode).
pthru_bad_aff: Counts how many cached passthrough interrupts have
bad affinity (receiving CPU is not running VCPU that is
the target of the virtual interrupt in the guest).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This patch introduces an IRQ mapping structure, the
kvmppc_passthru_irqmap structure that is to be used
to map the real hardware IRQ in the host with the virtual
hardware IRQ (gsi) that is injected into a guest by KVM for
passthrough adapters.
Currently, we assume a separate IRQ mapping structure for
each guest. Each kvmppc_passthru_irqmap has a mapping arrays,
containing all defined real<->virtual IRQs.
[paulus@ozlabs.org - removed irq_chip field from struct
kvmppc_passthru_irqmap; changed parameter for
kvmppc_get_passthru_irqmap from struct kvm_vcpu * to struct
kvm *, removed small cached array.]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
vcpu stats are used to collect information about a vcpu which can be viewed
in the debugfs. For example halt_attempted_poll and halt_successful_poll
are used to keep track of the number of times the vcpu attempts to and
successfully polls. These stats are currently not used on powerpc.
Implement incrementation of the halt_attempted_poll and
halt_successful_poll vcpu stats for powerpc. Since these stats are summed
over all the vcpus for all running guests it doesn't matter which vcpu
they are attributed to, thus we choose the current runner vcpu of the
vcore.
Also add new vcpu stats: halt_poll_success_ns, halt_poll_fail_ns and
halt_wait_ns to be used to accumulate the total time spend polling
successfully, polling unsuccessfully and waiting respectively, and
halt_successful_wait to accumulate the number of times the vcpu waits.
Given that halt_poll_success_ns, halt_poll_fail_ns and halt_wait_ns are
expressed in nanoseconds it is necessary to represent these as 64-bit
quantities, otherwise they would overflow after only about 4 seconds.
Given that the total time spend either polling or waiting will be known and
the number of times that each was done, it will be possible to determine
the average poll and wait times. This will give the ability to tune the kvm
module parameters based on the calculated average wait and poll times.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
vms and vcpus have statistics associated with them which can be viewed
within the debugfs. Currently it is assumed within the vcpu_stat_get() and
vm_stat_get() functions that all of these statistics are represented as
u32s, however the next patch adds some u64 vcpu statistics.
Change all vcpu statistics to u64 and modify vcpu_stat_get() accordingly.
Since vcpu statistics are per vcpu, they will only be updated by a single
vcpu at a time so this shouldn't present a problem on 32-bit machines
which can't atomically increment 64-bit numbers. However vm statistics
could potentially be updated by multiple vcpus from that vm at a time.
To avoid the overhead of atomics make all vm statistics ulong such that
they are 64-bit on 64-bit systems where they can be atomically incremented
and are 32-bit on 32-bit systems which may not be able to atomically
increment 64-bit numbers. Modify vm_stat_get() to expect ulongs.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This patch introduces new halt polling functionality into the kvm_hv kernel
module. When a vcore is idle it will poll for some period of time before
scheduling itself out.
When all of the runnable vcpus on a vcore have ceded (and thus the vcore is
idle) we schedule ourselves out to allow something else to run. In the
event that we need to wake up very quickly (for example an interrupt
arrives), we are required to wait until we get scheduled again.
Implement halt polling so that when a vcore is idle, and before scheduling
ourselves, we poll for vcpus in the runnable_threads list which have
pending exceptions or which leave the ceded state. If we poll successfully
then we can get back into the guest very quickly without ever scheduling
ourselves, otherwise we schedule ourselves out as before.
There exists generic halt_polling code in virt/kvm_main.c, however on
powerpc the polling conditions are different to the generic case. It would
be nice if we could just implement an arch specific kvm_check_block()
function, but there is still other arch specific things which need to be
done for kvm_hv (for example manipulating vcore states) which means that a
separate implementation is the best option.
Testing of this patch with a TCP round robin test between two guests with
virtio network interfaces has found a decrease in round trip time of ~15us
on average. A performance gain is only seen when going out of and
back into the guest often and quickly, otherwise there is no net benefit
from the polling. The polling interval is adjusted such that when we are
often scheduled out for long periods of time it is reduced, and when we
often poll successfully it is increased. The rate at which the polling
interval increases or decreases, and the maximum polling interval, can
be set through module parameters.
Based on the implementation in the generic kvm module by Wanpeng Li and
Paolo Bonzini, and on direction from Paul Mackerras.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
The struct kvmppc_vcore is a structure used to store various information
about a virtual core for a kvm guest. The runnable_threads element of the
struct provides a list of all of the currently runnable vcpus on the core
(those in the KVMPPC_VCPU_RUNNABLE state). The previous implementation of
this list was a linked_list. The next patch requires that the list be able
to be iterated over without holding the vcore lock.
Reimplement the runnable_threads list in the kvmppc_vcore struct as an
array. Implement function to iterate over valid entries in the array and
update access sites accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
The next commit will introduce a member to the kvmppc_vcore struct which
references MAX_SMT_THREADS which is defined in kvm_book3s_asm.h, however
this file isn't included in kvm_host.h directly. Thus compiling for
certain platforms such as pmac32_defconfig and ppc64e_defconfig with KVM
fails due to MAX_SMT_THREADS not being defined.
Move the struct kvmppc_vcore definition to kvm_book3s.h which explicitly
includes kvm_book3s_asm.h.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
It doesn't make sense to create irqfds for a VM that doesn't have
in-kernel interrupt controller emulation. There is an existing
interface for architecture code to tell the irqfd code whether or
not any interrupt controller has been initialized, called
kvm_arch_intc_initialized(), so let's implement that for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on
s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs
would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for
transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough.
This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests.
This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they
should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls.
For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but
known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating
interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered
by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the
woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll.
This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or
expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as
not sucessful. As KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor,
we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though.
This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte
transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP
while still providing a proper speedup.
This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks
wakeups that are considered not good for polling.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version)
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
[Rename config symbol. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The KVM_MAX_VCPUS define provides the maximum number of vCPUs per guest, and
also the upper limit for vCPU ids. This is okay for all archs except PowerPC
which can have higher ids, depending on the cpu/core/thread topology. In the
worst case (single threaded guest, host with 8 threads per core), it limits
the maximum number of vCPUS to KVM_MAX_VCPUS / 8.
This patch separates the vCPU numbering from the total number of vCPUs, with
the introduction of KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID, as the maximal valid value for vCPU ids
plus one.
The corresponding KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID allows userspace to validate vCPU ids
before passing them to KVM_CREATE_VCPU.
This patch only implements KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID with a specific value for PowerPC.
Other archs continue to return KVM_MAX_VCPUS instead.
Suggested-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
but lots of architecture-specific changes.
* ARM:
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.
* PPC:
- enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
- optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
- in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
- support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
* s390:
- provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
- separated instruction vs. data accesses
- dirty log improvements for huge guests
- bugfixes and documentation improvements.
* x86:
- Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
- alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using vector
hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
- fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
- improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
- generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest memory---currently
its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow paging (pre-EPT) case, but
in the future it will be used for virtual GPUs as well
- much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic
changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.
ARM:
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.
PPC:
- enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
- optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
- in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
- support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
s390:
- provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
- separated instruction vs. data accesses
- dirty log improvements for huge guests
- bugfixes and documentation improvements.
x86:
- Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
- alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
- fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
- improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
- generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
virtual GPUs as well
- much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
...
This enables userspace view of TCE tables to start from non-zero offset
on a bus. This will be used for huge DMA windows.
This only changes the internal structure, the user interface needs to
change in order to use an offset.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
At the moment the kvmppc_spapr_tce_table struct can only describe
4GB windows and handle fixed size (4K) pages. Dynamic DMA windows
support more so these limits need to be extended.
This replaces window_size (in bytes, 4GB max) with page_shift (32bit)
and size (64bit, in pages).
This should cause no behavioural change as this is changing
the internal structures only - the user interface still only
allows one to create a 32-bit table with 4KiB pages at this stage.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The problem:
On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path:
1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled
This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.
The solution:
Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.
Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.
cyclictest command line:
This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.
Daniel writes:
Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency
benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on
tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04:
./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host
with idle=poll.
The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of
them are smaller. Paolo write:
"Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or
lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case.
The mean shows an improvement indeed."
Before:
min max mean std
count 1000.000000 1000.000000 1000.000000 1000.000000
mean 5162.596000 2019270.084000 5824.491541 20681.645558
std 75.431231 622607.723969 89.575700 6492.272062
min 4466.000000 23928.000000 5537.926500 585.864966
25% 5163.000000 1613252.750000 5790.132275 16683.745433
50% 5175.000000 2281919.000000 5834.654000 23151.990026
75% 5190.000000 2382865.750000 5861.412950 24148.206168
max 5228.000000 4175158.000000 6254.827300 46481.048691
After
min max mean std
count 1000.000000 1000.00000 1000.000000 1000.000000
mean 5143.511000 2076886.10300 5813.312474 21207.357565
std 77.668322 610413.09583 86.541500 6331.915127
min 4427.000000 25103.00000 5529.756600 559.187707
25% 5148.000000 1691272.75000 5784.889825 17473.518244
50% 5160.000000 2308328.50000 5832.025000 23464.837068
75% 5172.000000 2393037.75000 5853.177675 24223.969976
max 5222.000000 3922458.00000 6186.720500 42520.379830
[Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt
tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the
benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
At the moment only spapr_tce_tables updates are protected against races
but not lookups. This fixes missing protection by using RCU for the list.
As lookups also happen in real mode, this uses
list_for_each_entry_lockless() (which is expected not to access any
vmalloc'd memory).
This converts release_spapr_tce_table() to a RCU scheduled handler.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Since the numbers now overlap, it makes sense to enumerate
them in asm/kvm_host.h rather than linux/kvm_host.h. Functions
that refer to architecture-specific requests are also moved
to arch/.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Only using 32 memslots for KVM on powerpc is way too low, you can
nowadays hit this limit quite fast by adding a couple of PCI devices
and/or pluggable memory DIMMs to the guest.
x86 already increased the KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS to 509, to satisfy 256
pluggable DIMM slots, 3 private slots and 253 slots for other things
like PCI devices (i.e. resulting in 256 + 3 + 253 = 512 slots in
total). We should do something similar for powerpc, and since we do
not use private slots here, we can set the value to 512 directly.
While we're at it, also remove the KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM definition
from the powerpc-specific header since this gets defined in the
generic kvm_host.h header anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
handling.
PPC: Mostly bug fixes.
ARM: No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:
- a number of fixes for the arch-timer
- introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers
- a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for
IRQ forwarding)
- some tracepoint improvements
- a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers
- some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state
x86: quite a few changes:
- support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
interrupts directly into vCPUs). This introduces a new component (in
virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together. The same infrastructure
will be used for ARM interrupt forwarding as well.
- more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic interrupt
controller will have to wait for 4.5. These will let KVM expose Hyper-V
devices.
- nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for vCPUs)
which makes it quite a bit faster
- for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for clflushopt,
clwb, pcommit
- support for "split irqchip", i.e. LAPIC in kernel + IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in
userspace, which reduces the attack surface of the hypervisor
- obligatory smattering of SMM fixes
- on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten to not
require help from the hypervisor.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.
s390:
A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.
PPC:
Mostly bug fixes.
ARM:
No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:
- a number of fixes for the arch-timer
- introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers
- a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
for IRQ forwarding)
- some tracepoint improvements
- a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers
- some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state
x86:
Quite a few changes:
- support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
interrupts directly into vCPUs). This introduces a new
component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
forwarding as well.
- more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5. These will let
KVM expose Hyper-V devices.
- nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster
- for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
clflushopt, clwb, pcommit
- support for "split irqchip", i.e. LAPIC in kernel +
IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
the hypervisor
- obligatory smattering of SMM fixes
- on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
to not require help from the hypervisor"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
KVM: x86: removing unused variable
KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
...
Some times it is useful for architecture implementations of KVM to know
when the VCPU thread is about to block or when it comes back from
blocking (arm/arm64 needs to know this to properly implement timers, for
example).
Therefore provide a generic architecture callback function in line with
what we do elsewhere for KVM generic-arch interactions.
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
This reverts commit 9678cdaae9 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition
Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had
multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional
memory corruption.
In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the
source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what
was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to
by r0.
The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could
be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly
defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the
buffer.
The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the
write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the
case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical
core from the one where the write-out was initiated.
These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the
function (since the measured performance improvement from using the
feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is
the best option.
Fixes: 9678cdaae9 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
We observed some performance degradation on s390x with dynamic
halt polling. Until we can provide a proper fix, let's enable
halt_poll_ns as default only for supported architectures.
Architectures are now free to set their own halt_poll_ns
default value.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason,
trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning.
For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly
like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes
10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every
479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then
is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without
polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of
attempted polling compared to the successful polls.
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com<
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The size of the Problem State Priority Boost Register is only
32 bits, but the kvm_vcpu_arch->pspb variable is declared as
"ulong", ie. 64-bit. However, the assembler code accesses this
variable with 32-bit accesses, and the KVM_REG_PPC_PSPB macro
is defined with SIZE_U32, too, so that the current code is
broken on big endian hosts: kvmppc_get_one_reg_hv() will only
return zero for this register since it is using the wrong half
of the pspb variable. Let's fix this problem by adjusting the
size of the pspb field in the kvm_vcpu_arch structure.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This fixes a bug in the tracking of pages that get modified by the
guest. If the guest creates a large-page HPTE, writes to memory
somewhere within the large page, and then removes the HPTE, we only
record the modified state for the first normal page within the large
page, when in fact the guest might have modified some other normal
page within the large page.
To fix this we use some unused bits in the rmap entry to record the
order (log base 2) of the size of the page that was modified, when
removing an HPTE. Then in kvm_test_clear_dirty_npages() we use that
order to return the correct number of modified pages.
The same thing could in principle happen when removing a HPTE at the
host's request, i.e. when paging out a page, except that we never
page out large pages, and the guest can only create large-page HPTEs
if the guest RAM is backed by large pages. However, we also fix
this case for the sake of future-proofing.
The reference bit is also subject to the same loss of information. We
don't make the same fix here for the reference bit because there isn't
an interface for userspace to find out which pages the guest has
referenced, whereas there is one for userspace to find out which pages
the guest has modified. Because of this loss of information, the
kvm_age_hva_hv() and kvm_test_age_hva_hv() functions might incorrectly
say that a page has not been referenced when it has, but that doesn't
matter greatly because we never page or swap out large pages.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical
core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER8
chip. Previously, only vcores from the same VM could be run together,
and (on POWER8) only if they had just one thread per core. With the
ability to split the core on guest entry and unsplit it on guest exit,
we can run up to 8 vcpu threads from up to 4 different VMs, and we can
run multiple vcores with 2 or 4 vcpus per vcore.
Dynamic micro-threading is only available if the static configuration
of the cores is whole-core mode (unsplit), and only on POWER8.
To manage this, we introduce a new kvm_split_mode struct which is
shared across all of the subcores in the core, with a pointer in the
paca on each thread. In addition we extend the core_info struct to
have information on each subcore. When deciding whether to add a
vcore to the set already on the core, we now have two possibilities:
(a) piggyback the vcore onto an existing subcore, or (b) start a new
subcore.
Currently, when any vcpu needs to exit the guest and switch to host
virtual mode, we interrupt all the threads in all subcores and switch
the core back to whole-core mode. It may be possible in future to
allow some of the subcores to keep executing in the guest while
subcore 0 switches to the host, but that is not implemented in this
patch.
This adds a module parameter called dynamic_mt_modes which controls
which micro-threading (split-core) modes the code will consider, as a
bitmap. In other words, if it is 0, no micro-threading mode is
considered; if it is 2, only 2-way micro-threading is considered; if
it is 4, only 4-way, and if it is 6, both 2-way and 4-way
micro-threading mode will be considered. The default is 6.
With this, we now have secondary threads which are the primary thread
for their subcore and therefore need to do the MMU switch. These
threads will need to be started even if they have no vcpu to run, so
we use the vcore pointer in the PACA rather than the vcpu pointer to
trigger them.
It is now possible for thread 0 to find that an exit has been
requested before it gets to switch the subcore state to the guest. In
that case we haven't added the guest's timebase offset to the
timebase, so we need to be careful not to subtract the offset in the
guest exit path. In fact we just skip the whole path that switches
back to host context, since we haven't switched to the guest context.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
When running a virtual core of a guest that is configured with fewer
threads per core than the physical cores have, the extra physical
threads are currently unused. This makes it possible to use them to
run one or more other virtual cores from the same guest when certain
conditions are met. This applies on POWER7, and on POWER8 to guests
with one thread per virtual core. (It doesn't apply to POWER8 guests
with multiple threads per vcore because they require a 1-1 virtual to
physical thread mapping in order to be able to use msgsndp and the
TIR.)
The idea is that we maintain a list of preempted vcores for each
physical cpu (i.e. each core, since the host runs single-threaded).
Then, when a vcore is about to run, it checks to see if there are
any vcores on the list for its physical cpu that could be
piggybacked onto this vcore's execution. If so, those additional
vcores are put into state VCORE_PIGGYBACK and their runnable VCPU
threads are started as well as the original vcore, which is called
the master vcore.
After the vcores have exited the guest, the extra ones are put back
onto the preempted list if any of their VCPUs are still runnable and
not idle.
This means that vcpu->arch.ptid is no longer necessarily the same as
the physical thread that the vcpu runs on. In order to make it easier
for code that wants to send an IPI to know which CPU to target, we
now store that in a new field in struct vcpu_arch, called thread_cpu.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and some
cleanups). But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for ARM,
x86 and s390.
The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending review,
but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull second batch of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
"This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and
some cleanups). But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for
ARM, x86 and s390.
The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending
review, but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
KVM: arm: irqfd: fix value returned by kvm_irq_map_gsi
KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use decrementer to wake napping threads
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't wake thread with no vcpu on guest IPI
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Get rid of vcore nap_count and n_woken
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Minor cleanups
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify handling of VCPUs that need a VPA update
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Accumulate timing information for real-mode code
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Create debugfs file for each guest's HPT
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add ICP real mode counters
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move virtual mode ICP functions to real-mode
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add guest->host real mode completion counters
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add helpers for lock/unlock hpte
...
Currently, the entry_exit_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct
contains two 8-bit counts, one of the threads that have started entering
the guest, and one of the threads that have started exiting the guest.
This changes it to an entry_exit_map field which contains two bitmaps
of 8 bits each. The advantage of doing this is that it gives us a
bitmap of which threads need to be signalled when exiting the guest.
That means that we no longer need to use the trick of setting the
HDEC to 0 to pull the other threads out of the guest, which led in
some cases to a spurious HDEC interrupt on the next guest entry.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We can tell when a secondary thread has finished running a guest by
the fact that it clears its kvm_hstate.kvm_vcpu pointer, so there
is no real need for the nap_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct.
This changes kvmppc_wait_for_nap to poll the kvm_hstate.kvm_vcpu
pointers of the secondary threads rather than polling vc->nap_count.
Besides reducing the size of the kvmppc_vcore struct by 8 bytes,
this also means that we can tell which secondary threads have got
stuck and thus print a more informative error message.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Rather than calling cond_resched() in kvmppc_run_core() before doing
the post-processing for the vcpus that we have just run (that is,
calling kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), kvmppc_set_timer(), etc.), we now do
that post-processing before calling cond_resched(), and that post-
processing is moved out into its own function, post_guest_process().
The reschedule point is now in kvmppc_run_vcpu() and we define a new
vcore state, VCORE_PREEMPT, to indicate that that the vcore's runner
task is runnable but not running. (Doing the reschedule with the
vcore in VCORE_INACTIVE state would be bad because there are potentially
other vcpus waiting for the runner in kvmppc_wait_for_exec() which
then wouldn't get woken up.)
Also, we make use of the handy cond_resched_lock() function, which
unlocks and relocks vc->lock for us around the reschedule.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
* Remove unused kvmppc_vcore::n_busy field.
* Remove setting of RMOR, since it was only used on PPC970 and the
PPC970 KVM support has been removed.
* Don't use r1 or r2 in setting the runlatch since they are
conventionally reserved for other things; use r0 instead.
* Streamline the code a little and remove the ext_interrupt_to_host
label.
* Add some comments about register usage.
* hcall_try_real_mode doesn't need to be global, and can't be
called from C code anyway.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Previously, if kvmppc_run_core() was running a VCPU that needed a VPA
update (i.e. one of its 3 virtual processor areas needed to be pinned
in memory so the host real mode code can update it on guest entry and
exit), we would drop the vcore lock and do the update there and then.
Future changes will make it inconvenient to drop the lock, so instead
we now remove it from the list of runnable VCPUs and wake up its
VCPU task. This will have the effect that the VCPU task will exit
kvmppc_run_vcpu(), go around the do loop in kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv(), and
re-enter kvmppc_run_vcpu(), whereupon it will do the necessary call
to kvmppc_update_vpas() and then rejoin the vcore.
The one complication is that the runner VCPU (whose VCPU task is the
current task) might be one of the ones that gets removed from the
runnable list. In that case we just return from kvmppc_run_core()
and let the code in kvmppc_run_vcpu() wake up another VCPU task to be
the runner if necessary.
This all means that the VCORE_STARTING state is no longer used, so we
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This reads the timebase at various points in the real-mode guest
entry/exit code and uses that to accumulate total, minimum and
maximum time spent in those parts of the code. Currently these
times are accumulated per vcpu in 5 parts of the code:
* rm_entry - time taken from the start of kvmppc_hv_entry() until
just before entering the guest.
* rm_intr - time from when we take a hypervisor interrupt in the
guest until we either re-enter the guest or decide to exit to the
host. This includes time spent handling hcalls in real mode.
* rm_exit - time from when we decide to exit the guest until the
return from kvmppc_hv_entry().
* guest - time spend in the guest
* cede - time spent napping in real mode due to an H_CEDE hcall
while other threads in the same vcore are active.
These times are exposed in debugfs in a directory per vcpu that
contains a file called "timings". This file contains one line for
each of the 5 timings above, with the name followed by a colon and
4 numbers, which are the count (number of times the code has been
executed), the total time, the minimum time, and the maximum time,
all in nanoseconds.
The overhead of the extra code amounts to about 30ns for an hcall that
is handled in real mode (e.g. H_SET_DABR), which is about 25%. Since
production environments may not wish to incur this overhead, the new
code is conditional on a new config symbol,
CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_EXIT_TIMING.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This creates a debugfs directory for each HV guest (assuming debugfs
is enabled in the kernel config), and within that directory, a file
by which the contents of the guest's HPT (hashed page table) can be
read. The directory is named vmnnnn, where nnnn is the PID of the
process that created the guest. The file is named "htab". This is
intended to help in debugging problems in the host's management
of guest memory.
The contents of the file consist of a series of lines like this:
3f48 4000d032bf003505 0000000bd7ff1196 00000003b5c71196
The first field is the index of the entry in the HPT, the second and
third are the HPT entry, so the third entry contains the real page
number that is mapped by the entry if the entry's valid bit is set.
The fourth field is the guest's view of the second doubleword of the
entry, so it contains the guest physical address. (The format of the
second through fourth fields are described in the Power ISA and also
in arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h.)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We don't support real-mode areas now that 970 support is removed.
Remove the remaining details of rma from the code. Also rename
rma_setup_done to hpte_setup_done to better reflect the changes.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Sometimes the KVM code on powerpc needs to emulate load or store
instructions from the guest, which can include both normal and byte
reversed forms.
We currently (AFAICT) handle this correctly, but some variable names are
very misleading. In particular we use "is_bigendian" in several places to
actually mean "is the IO the same endian as the host", but we now support
little-endian powerpc hosts. This also ties into the misleadingly named
ld_le*() and st_le*() functions, which in fact always byteswap, even on
an LE host.
This patch cleans this up by renaming to more accurate "host_swabbed", and
uses the generic swab*() functions instead of the powerpc specific and
misleadingly named ld_le*() and st_le*() functions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch introduces a new module parameter for the KVM module; when it
is present, KVM attempts a bit of polling on every HLT before scheduling
itself out via kvm_vcpu_block.
This parameter helps a lot for latency-bound workloads---in particular
I tested it with O_DSYNC writes with a battery-backed disk in the host.
In this case, writes are fast (because the data doesn't have to go all
the way to the platters) but they cannot be merged by either the host or
the guest. KVM's performance here is usually around 30% of bare metal,
or 50% if you use cache=directsync or cache=writethrough (these
parameters avoid that the guest sends pointless flush requests, and
at the same time they are not slow because of the battery-backed cache).
The bad performance happens because on every halt the host CPU decides
to halt itself too. When the interrupt comes, the vCPU thread is then
migrated to a new physical CPU, and in general the latency is horrible
because the vCPU thread has to be scheduled back in.
With this patch performance reaches 60-65% of bare metal and, more
important, 99% of what you get if you use idle=poll in the guest. This
means that the tunable gets rid of this particular bottleneck, and more
work can be done to improve performance in the kernel or QEMU.
Of course there is some price to pay; every time an otherwise idle vCPUs
is interrupted by an interrupt, it will poll unnecessarily and thus
impose a little load on the host. The above results were obtained with
a mostly random value of the parameter (500000), and the load was around
1.5-2.5% CPU usage on one of the host's core for each idle guest vCPU.
The patch also adds a new stat, /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/halt_successful_poll,
that can be used to tune the parameter. It counts how many HLT
instructions received an interrupt during the polling period; each
successful poll avoids that Linux schedules the VCPU thread out and back
in, and may also avoid a likely trip to C1 and back for the physical CPU.
While the VM is idle, a Linux 4 VCPU VM halts around 10 times per second.
Of these halts, almost all are failed polls. During the benchmark,
instead, basically all halts end within the polling period, except a more
or less constant stream of 50 per second coming from vCPUs that are not
running the benchmark. The wasted time is thus very low. Things may
be slightly different for Windows VMs, which have a ~10 ms timer tick.
The effect is also visible on Marcelo's recently-introduced latency
test for the TSC deadline timer. Though of course a non-RT kernel has
awful latency bounds, the latency of the timer is around 8000-10000 clock
cycles compared to 20000-120000 without setting halt_poll_ns. For the TSC
deadline timer, thus, the effect is both a smaller average latency and
a smaller variance.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest. This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.
The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU. The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.
To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything. If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.
Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer. The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer. If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS. In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.
This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler. If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore. In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.
We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock. This check is required by PAPR.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S. If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register). If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.
Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu->arch.last_inst. The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness. The rest of the code that uses vcpu->arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.
To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value. Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu->arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors. The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory. Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm->arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.
Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Currently the calculations of stolen time for PPC Book3S HV guests
uses fields in both the vcpu struct and the kvmppc_vcore struct. The
fields in the kvmppc_vcore struct are protected by the
vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock of the vcpu that has taken responsibility for
running the virtual core. This works correctly but confuses lockdep,
because it sees that the code takes the tbacct_lock for a vcpu in
kvmppc_remove_runnable() and then takes another vcpu's tbacct_lock in
vcore_stolen_time(), and it thinks there is a possibility of deadlock,
causing it to print reports like this:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
qemu-system-ppc/6188 is trying to acquire lock:
(&(&vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<d00000000ecb1fe8>] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
but task is already holding lock:
(&(&vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<d00000000ecb25a0>] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&(&vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock)->rlock);
lock(&(&vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock)->rlock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
3 locks held by qemu-system-ppc/6188:
#0: (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<d00000000eb93f98>] .vcpu_load+0x28/0xe0 [kvm]
#1: (&(&vcore->lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [<d00000000ecb41b0>] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x530/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
#2: (&(&vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<d00000000ecb25a0>] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
stack backtrace:
CPU: 40 PID: 6188 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89
Call Trace:
[c000000b2754f3f0] [c000000000b31b6c] .dump_stack+0x88/0xb4 (unreliable)
[c000000b2754f470] [c0000000000faeb8] .__lock_acquire+0x1878/0x2190
[c000000b2754f600] [c0000000000fbf0c] .lock_acquire+0xcc/0x1a0
[c000000b2754f6d0] [c000000000b2954c] ._raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0x70
[c000000b2754f760] [d00000000ecb1fe8] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f7f0] [d00000000ecb25b4] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x44/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f880] [d00000000ecb43ec] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x76c/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f9f0] [d00000000eb9f46c] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fa60] [d00000000eb9c9a4] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x160 [kvm]
[c000000b2754faf0] [d00000000eb94538] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x498/0x760 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fcb0] [c000000000267eb4] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x444/0x770
[c000000b2754fd90] [c0000000002682a4] .SyS_ioctl+0xc4/0xe0
[c000000b2754fe30] [c0000000000092e4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
In order to make the locking easier to analyse, we change the code to
use a spinlock in the kvmppc_vcore struct to protect the stolen_tb and
preempt_tb fields. This lock needs to be an irq-safe lock since it is
used in the kvmppc_core_vcpu_load_hv() and kvmppc_core_vcpu_put_hv()
functions, which are called with the scheduler rq lock held, which is
an irq-safe lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
New awesome things in this release:
- E500: e6500 core support
- E500: guest and remote debug support
- Book3S: remote sw breakpoint support
- Book3S: HV: Minor bugfixes
Alexander Graf (1):
KVM: PPC: Pass enum to kvmppc_get_last_inst
Bharat Bhushan (8):
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: allow debug interrupt at "debug level"
KVM: PPC: BOOKE : Emulate rfdi instruction
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Allow guest to change MSR_DE
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Clear guest dbsr in userspace exit KVM_EXIT_DEBUG
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Guest and hardware visible debug registers are same
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Add one reg interface for DBSR
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Add one_reg documentation of SPRG9 and DBSR
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception
Madhavan Srinivasan (2):
powerpc/kvm: support to handle sw breakpoint
powerpc/kvm: common sw breakpoint instr across ppc
Michael Neuling (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add register name when loading toc
Mihai Caraman (10):
powerpc/booke: Restrict SPE exception handlers to e200/e500 cores
powerpc/booke: Revert SPE/AltiVec common defines for interrupt numbers
KVM: PPC: Book3E: Increase FPU laziness
KVM: PPC: Book3e: Add AltiVec support
KVM: PPC: Make ONE_REG powerpc generic
KVM: PPC: Move ONE_REG AltiVec support to powerpc
KVM: PPC: Remove the tasklet used by the hrtimer
KVM: PPC: Remove shared defines for SPE and AltiVec interrupts
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Add support for single threaded vcpus on e6500 core
KVM: PPC: Book3E: Enable e6500 core
Paul Mackerras (2):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Increase timeout for grabbing secondary threads
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Only accept host PVR value for guest PVR
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Merge tag 'signed-kvm-ppc-next' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into kvm-next
Patch queue for ppc - 2014-09-24
New awesome things in this release:
- E500: e6500 core support
- E500: guest and remote debug support
- Book3S: remote sw breakpoint support
- Book3S: HV: Minor bugfixes
Alexander Graf (1):
KVM: PPC: Pass enum to kvmppc_get_last_inst
Bharat Bhushan (8):
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: allow debug interrupt at "debug level"
KVM: PPC: BOOKE : Emulate rfdi instruction
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Allow guest to change MSR_DE
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Clear guest dbsr in userspace exit KVM_EXIT_DEBUG
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Guest and hardware visible debug registers are same
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Add one reg interface for DBSR
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Add one_reg documentation of SPRG9 and DBSR
KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception
Madhavan Srinivasan (2):
powerpc/kvm: support to handle sw breakpoint
powerpc/kvm: common sw breakpoint instr across ppc
Michael Neuling (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add register name when loading toc
Mihai Caraman (10):
powerpc/booke: Restrict SPE exception handlers to e200/e500 cores
powerpc/booke: Revert SPE/AltiVec common defines for interrupt numbers
KVM: PPC: Book3E: Increase FPU laziness
KVM: PPC: Book3e: Add AltiVec support
KVM: PPC: Make ONE_REG powerpc generic
KVM: PPC: Move ONE_REG AltiVec support to powerpc
KVM: PPC: Remove the tasklet used by the hrtimer
KVM: PPC: Remove shared defines for SPE and AltiVec interrupts
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Add support for single threaded vcpus on e6500 core
KVM: PPC: Book3E: Enable e6500 core
Paul Mackerras (2):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Increase timeout for grabbing secondary threads
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Only accept host PVR value for guest PVR
This will be used to let the guest run while the APIC access page is
not pinned. Because subsequent patches will fill in the function
for x86, place the (still empty) x86 implementation in the x86.c file
instead of adding an inline function in kvm_host.h.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
1. We were calling clear_flush_young_notify in unmap_one, but we are
within an mmu notifier invalidate range scope. The spte exists no more
(due to range_start) and the accessed bit info has already been
propagated (due to kvm_pfn_set_accessed). Simply call
clear_flush_young.
2. We clear_flush_young on a primary MMU PMD, but this may be mapped
as a collection of PTEs by the secondary MMU (e.g. during log-dirty).
This required expanding the interface of the clear_flush_young mmu
notifier, so a lot of code has been trivially touched.
3. In the absence of shadow_accessed_mask (e.g. EPT A bit), we emulate
the access bit by blowing the spte. This requires proper synchronizing
with MMU notifier consumers, like every other removal of spte's does.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Powerpc timer implementation is a copycat version of s390. Now that they removed
the tasklet with commit ea74c0ea1b follow this
optimization.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Guest visible debug register and hardware visible debug registers are
same, so ther is no need to have arch->shadow_dbg_reg, instead use
arch->dbg_reg.
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch adds "rfdi" instruction emulation which is required for
guest debug hander on BOOKE-HV
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
In the beggining was on_each_cpu(), which required an unused argument to
kvm_arch_ops.hardware_{en,dis}able, but this was soon forgotten.
Remove unnecessary arguments that stem from this.
Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Using static inline is going to save few bytes and cycles.
For example on powerpc, the difference is 700 B after stripping.
(5 kB before)
This patch also deals with two overlooked empty functions:
kvm_arch_flush_shadow was not removed from arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
2df72e9bc KVM: split kvm_arch_flush_shadow
and kvm_arch_sched_in never made it into arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c.
e790d9ef6 KVM: add kvm_arch_sched_in
Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Opaque KVM structs are useful for prototypes in asm/kvm_host.h, to avoid
"'struct foo' declared inside parameter list" warnings (and consequent
breakage due to conflicting types).
Move them from individual files to a generic place in linux/kvm_types.h.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
DCR handling was only needed for 440 KVM. Since we removed it, we can also
remove handling of DCR accesses.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We have enough common infrastructure now to resolve GVA->GPA mappings at
runtime. With this we can move our book3s specific helpers to load / store
in guest virtual address space to common code as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The POWER8 processor has a Micro Partition Prefetch Engine, which is
a fancy way of saying "has way to store and load contents of L2 or
L2+MRU way of L3 cache". We initiate the storing of the log (list of
addresses) using the logmpp instruction and start restore by writing
to a SPR.
The logmpp instruction takes parameters in a single 64bit register:
- starting address of the table to store log of L2/L2+L3 cache contents
- 32kb for L2
- 128kb for L2+L3
- Aligned relative to maximum size of the table (32kb or 128kb)
- Log control (no-op, L2 only, L2 and L3, abort logout)
We should abort any ongoing logging before initiating one.
To initiate restore, we write to the MPPR SPR. The format of what to write
to the SPR is similar to the logmpp instruction parameter:
- starting address of the table to read from (same alignment requirements)
- table size (no data, until end of table)
- prefetch rate (from fastest possible to slower. about every 8, 16, 24 or
32 cycles)
The idea behind loading and storing the contents of L2/L3 cache is to
reduce memory latency in a system that is frequently swapping vcores on
a physical CPU.
The best case scenario for doing this is when some vcores are doing very
cache heavy workloads. The worst case is when they have about 0 cache hits,
so we just generate needless memory operations.
This implementation just does L2 store/load. In my benchmarks this proves
to be useful.
Benchmark 1:
- 16 core POWER8
- 3x Ubuntu 14.04LTS guests (LE) with 8 VCPUs each
- No split core/SMT
- two guests running sysbench memory test.
sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=8 run
- one guest running apache bench (of default HTML page)
ab -n 490000 -c 400 http://localhost/
This benchmark aims to measure performance of real world application (apache)
where other guests are cache hot with their own workloads. The sysbench memory
benchmark does pointer sized writes to a (small) memory buffer in a loop.
In this benchmark with this patch I can see an improvement both in requests
per second (~5%) and in mean and median response times (again, about 5%).
The spread of minimum and maximum response times were largely unchanged.
benchmark 2:
- Same VM config as benchmark 1
- all three guests running sysbench memory benchmark
This benchmark aims to see if there is a positive or negative affect to this
cache heavy benchmark. Although due to the nature of the benchmark (stores) we
may not see a difference in performance, but rather hopefully an improvement
in consistency of performance (when vcore switched in, don't have to wait
many times for cachelines to be pulled in)
The results of this benchmark are improvements in consistency of performance
rather than performance itself. With this patch, the few outliers in duration
go away and we get more consistent performance in each guest.
benchmark 3:
- same 3 guests and CPU configuration as benchmark 1 and 2.
- two idle guests
- 1 guest running STREAM benchmark
This scenario also saw performance improvement with this patch. On Copy and
Scale workloads from STREAM, I got 5-6% improvement with this patch. For
Add and triad, it was around 10% (or more).
benchmark 4:
- same 3 guests as previous benchmarks
- two guests running sysbench --memory, distinctly different cache heavy
workload
- one guest running STREAM benchmark.
Similar improvements to benchmark 3.
benchmark 5:
- 1 guest, 8 VCPUs, Ubuntu 14.04
- Host configured with split core (SMT8, subcores-per-core=4)
- STREAM benchmark
In this benchmark, we see a 10-20% performance improvement across the board
of STREAM benchmark results with this patch.
Based on preliminary investigation and microbenchmarks
by Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The 440 target hasn't been properly functioning for a few releases and
before I was the only one who fixes a very serious bug that indicates to
me that nobody used it before either.
Furthermore KVM on 440 is slow to the extent of unusable.
We don't have to carry along completely unused code. Remove 440 and give
us one less thing to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
SPRN_SPRG is used by debug interrupt handler, so this is required for
debug support.
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
When building KVM with a lot of vcores (NR_CPUS is big), we can potentially
get out of the ld immediate range for dereferences inside that struct.
Move the array to the end of our kvm_arch struct. This fixes compilation
issues with NR_CPUS=2048 for me.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
For FSL e6500 core the kernel uses power management SPR register (PWRMGTCR0)
to enable idle power down for cores and devices by setting up the idle count
period at boot time. With the host already controlling the power management
configuration the guest could simply benefit from it, so emulate guest request
as a general store.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This provides a way for userspace controls which sPAPR hcalls get
handled in the kernel. Each hcall can be individually enabled or
disabled for in-kernel handling, except for H_RTAS. The exception
for H_RTAS is because userspace can already control whether
individual RTAS functions are handled in-kernel or not via the
KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN ioctl, and because the numeric value for
H_RTAS is out of the normal sequence of hcall numbers.
Hcalls are enabled or disabled using the KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl for the
KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability on the file descriptor for the VM.
The args field of the struct kvm_enable_cap specifies the hcall number
in args[0] and the enable/disable flag in args[1]; 0 means disable
in-kernel handling (so that the hcall will always cause an exit to
userspace) and 1 means enable. Enabling or disabling in-kernel
handling of an hcall is effective across the whole VM.
The ability for KVM_ENABLE_CAP to be used on a VM file descriptor
on PowerPC is new, added by this commit. The KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP_VM
capability advertises that this ability exists.
When a VM is created, an initial set of hcalls are enabled for
in-kernel handling. The set that is enabled is the set that have
an in-kernel implementation at this point. Any new hcall
implementations from this point onwards should not be added to the
default set without a good reason.
No distinction is made between real-mode and virtual-mode hcall
implementations; the one setting controls them both.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Writing to IC is not allowed in the privileged mode.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
virtual time base register is a per VM, per cpu register that needs
to be saved and restored on vm exit and entry. Writing to VTB is not
allowed in the privileged mode.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[agraf: fix compile error]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We use time base for PURR and SPURR emulation with PR KVM since we
are emulating a single threaded core. When using time base
we need to make sure that we don't accumulate time spent in the host
in PURR and SPURR value.
Also we don't need to emulate mtspr because both the registers are
hypervisor resource.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Old guests try to use the magic page, but map their trampoline code inside
of an NX region.
Since we can't fix those old kernels, try to detect whether the guest is sane
or not. If not, just disable NX functionality in KVM so that old guests at
least work at all. For newer guests, add a bit that we can set to keep NX
functionality available.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
POWER8 implements a new register called TAR. This register has to be
enabled in FSCR and then from KVM's point of view is mere storage.
This patch enables the guest to use TAR.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
POWER8 introduced a new interrupt type called "Facility unavailable interrupt"
which contains its status message in a new register called FSCR.
Handle these exits and try to emulate instructions for unhandled facilities.
Follow-on patches enable KVM to expose specific facilities into the guest.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The shared (magic) page is a data structure that contains often used
supervisor privileged SPRs accessible via memory to the user to reduce
the number of exits we have to take to read/write them.
When we actually share this structure with the guest we have to maintain
it in guest endianness, because some of the patch tricks only work with
native endian load/store operations.
Since we only share the structure with either host or guest in little
endian on book3s_64 pr mode, we don't have to worry about booke or book3s hv.
For booke, the shared struct stays big endian. For book3s_64 hv we maintain
the struct in host native endian, since it never gets shared with the guest.
For book3s_64 pr we introduce a variable that tells us which endianness the
shared struct is in and route every access to it through helper inline
functions that evaluate this variable.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch make sure we inherit the LE bit correctly in different case
so that we can run Little Endian distro in PR mode
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Add new state for transactional memory (TM) to kvm_vcpu_arch. Also add
asm-offset bits that are going to be required.
This also moves the existing TFHAR, TFIAR and TEXASR SPRs into a
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM section. This requires some code changes to
ensure we still compile with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=N. Much of the added
the added #ifdefs are removed in a later patch when the bulk of the TM code is
added.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
[agraf: fix merge conflict]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
