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
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>
The kvmppc_get_last_inst function recently received a facelift that allowed
us to pass an enum of the type of instruction we want to read into it rather
than an unreadable boolean.
Unfortunately, not all callers ended up passing the enum. This wasn't really
an issue as "true" and "false" happen to match the two enum values we have,
but it's still hard to read.
Update all callers of kvmppc_get_last_inst() to follow the new calling
convention.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch extends the use of illegal instruction as software
breakpoint instruction across the ppc platform. Patch extends
booke program interrupt code to support software breakpoint.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[agraf: Fix bookehv]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch adds kernel side support for software breakpoint.
Design is that, by using an illegal instruction, we trap to hypervisor
via Emulation Assistance interrupt, where we check for the illegal instruction
and accordingly we return to Host or Guest. Patch also adds support for
software breakpoint in PR KVM.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Now that AltiVec and hardware thread support is in place enable e6500 core.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
ePAPR represents hardware threads as cpu node properties in device tree.
So with existing QEMU, hardware threads are simply exposed as vcpus with
one hardware thread.
The e6500 core shares TLBs between hardware threads. Without tlb write
conditional instruction, the Linux kernel uses per core mechanisms to
protect against duplicate TLB entries.
The guest is unable to detect real siblings threads, so it can't use the
TLB protection mechanism. An alternative solution is to use the hypervisor
to allocate different lpids to guest's vcpus that runs simultaneous on real
siblings threads. On systems with two threads per core this patch halves
the size of the lpid pool that the allocator sees and use two lpids per VM.
Use even numbers to speedup vcpu lpid computation with consecutive lpids
per VM: vm1 will use lpids 2 and 3, vm2 lpids 4 and 5, and so on.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
[agraf: fix spelling]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Since the guest can read the machine's PVR (Processor Version Register)
directly and see the real value, we should disallow userspace from
setting any value for the guest's PVR other than the real host value.
Therefore this makes kvm_arch_vcpu_set_sregs_hv() check the supplied
PVR value and return an error if it is different from the host value,
which has been put into vcpu->arch.pvr at vcpu creation time.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Occasional failures have been seen with split-core mode and migration
where the message "KVM: couldn't grab cpu" appears. This increases
the length of time that we wait from 1ms to 10ms, which seems to
work around the issue.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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>
This patch emulates debug registers and debug exception
to support guest using debug resource. This enables running
gdb/kgdb etc in guest.
On BOOKE architecture we cannot share debug resources between QEMU and
guest because:
When QEMU is using debug resources then debug exception must
be always enabled. To achieve this we set MSR_DE and also set
MSRP_DEP so guest cannot change MSR_DE.
When emulating debug resource for guest we want guest
to control MSR_DE (enable/disable debug interrupt on need).
So above mentioned two configuration cannot be supported
at the same time. So the result is that we cannot share
debug resources between QEMU and Guest on BOOKE architecture.
In the current design QEMU gets priority over guest, this means that if
QEMU is using debug resources then guest cannot use them and if guest is
using debug resource then QEMU can overwrite them.
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Move ONE_REG AltiVec support to powerpc generic layer.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Make ONE_REG generic for server and embedded architectures by moving
kvm_vcpu_ioctl_get_one_reg() and kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_one_reg() functions
to powerpc layer.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Add AltiVec support in KVM for Book3e. FPU support gracefully reuse host
infrastructure so follow the same approach for AltiVec.
Book3e specification defines shared interrupt numbers for SPE and AltiVec
units. Still SPE is present in e200/e500v2 cores while AltiVec is present in
e6500 core. So we can currently decide at compile-time which of the SPE or
AltiVec units to support exclusively by using CONFIG_SPE_POSSIBLE and
CONFIG_PPC_E500MC defines. As Alexander Graf suggested, keep SPE and AltiVec
exception handlers distinct to improve code readability.
Guests have the privilege to enable AltiVec, so we always need to support
AltiVec in KVM and implicitly in host to reflect interrupts and to save/restore
the unit context. KVM will be loaded on cores with AltiVec unit only if
CONFIG_ALTIVEC is defined. Use this define to guard KVM AltiVec logic.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Increase FPU laziness by loading the guest state into the unit before entering
the guest instead of doing it on each vcpu schedule. Without this improvement
an interrupt may claim floating point corrupting guest state.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Add 'r' to register name r2 in kvmppc_hv_enter.
Also update comment at the top of kvmppc_hv_enter to indicate that R2/TOC is
non-volatile.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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>
Dbsr is not visible to userspace and we do not think any need to
expose this to userspace because:
Userspace cannot inject debug interrupt to guest (as this
does not know guest ability to handle debug interrupt), so
userspace will always clear DBSR.
Now if userspace has to always clear DBSR in KVM_EXIT_DEBUG
handling then clearing dbsr in kernel looks simple as this
avoid doing SET_SREGS/set_one_reg() to clear DBSR
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch changes the default behavior of MSRP_DEP, that is
guest is not allowed to change the MSR_DE, to guest can change
MSR_DE. When userspace is debugging guest then it override the
default behavior and set MSRP_DEP. This stops guest to change
MSR_DE when userspace is debugging guest.
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>
Debug interrupt can be either "critical level" or "debug level".
There are separate set of save/restore registers used for different level.
Example: DSRR0/DSRR1 are used for "debug level" and CSRR0/CSRR1
are used for critical level debug interrupt.
Using CPU_FTR_DEBUG_LVL_EXC to decide which interrupt level to be used.
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>
Introduce preempt notifiers for architecture specific code.
Advantage over creating a new notifier in every arch is slightly simpler
code and guaranteed call order with respect to kvm_sched_in.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
fc95ca7284 claims that there is no
functional change but this is not true as it calls get_order() (which
takes bytes) where it should have called order_base_2() and the kernel
stops on VM_BUG_ON().
This replaces get_order() with order_base_2() (round-up version of ilog2).
Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
they had small conflicts (respectively within KVM documentation,
and with 3.16-rc changes). Since they were all within the subsystem,
I took care of them.
Stephen Rothwell reported some snags in PPC builds, but they are all
fixed now; the latest linux-next report was clean.
New features for ARM include:
- KVM VGIC v2 emulation on GICv3 hardware
- Big-Endian support for arm/arm64 (guest and host)
- Debug Architecture support for arm64 (arm32 is on Christoffer's todo list)
And for PPC:
- Book3S: Good number of LE host fixes, enable HV on LE
- Book3S HV: Add in-guest debug support
This release drops support for KVM on the PPC440. As a result, the
PPC merge removes more lines than it adds. :)
I also included an x86 change, since Davidlohr tied it to an independent
bug report and the reporter quickly provided a Tested-by; there was no
reason to wait for -rc2.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull second round of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
"Here are the PPC and ARM changes for KVM, which I separated because
they had small conflicts (respectively within KVM documentation, and
with 3.16-rc changes). Since they were all within the subsystem, I
took care of them.
Stephen Rothwell reported some snags in PPC builds, but they are all
fixed now; the latest linux-next report was clean.
New features for ARM include:
- KVM VGIC v2 emulation on GICv3 hardware
- Big-Endian support for arm/arm64 (guest and host)
- Debug Architecture support for arm64 (arm32 is on Christoffer's todo list)
And for PPC:
- Book3S: Good number of LE host fixes, enable HV on LE
- Book3S HV: Add in-guest debug support
This release drops support for KVM on the PPC440. As a result, the
PPC merge removes more lines than it adds. :)
I also included an x86 change, since Davidlohr tied it to an
independent bug report and the reporter quickly provided a Tested-by;
there was no reason to wait for -rc2"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (122 commits)
KVM: Move more code under CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
KVM: nVMX: fix "acknowledge interrupt on exit" when APICv is in use
KVM: nVMX: Fix nested vmexit ack intr before load vmcs01
KVM: PPC: Enable IRQFD support for the XICS interrupt controller
KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling Kconfig option
KVM: Move irq notifier implementation into eventfd.c
KVM: Move all accesses to kvm::irq_routing into irqchip.c
KVM: irqchip: Provide and use accessors for irq routing table
KVM: Don't keep reference to irq routing table in irqfd struct
KVM: PPC: drop duplicate tracepoint
arm64: KVM: fix 64bit CP15 VM access for 32bit guests
KVM: arm64: GICv3: mandate page-aligned GICV region
arm64: KVM: GICv3: move system register access to msr_s/mrs_s
KVM: PPC: PR: Handle FSCR feature deselects
KVM: PPC: HV: Remove generic instruction emulation
KVM: PPC: BOOKEHV: rename e500hv_spr to bookehv_spr
KVM: PPC: Remove DCR handling
KVM: PPC: Expose helper functions for data/inst faults
KVM: PPC: Separate loadstore emulation from priv emulation
KVM: PPC: Handle magic page in kvmppc_ld/st
...
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"This is the powerpc new goodies for 3.17. The short story:
The biggest bit is Michael removing all of pre-POWER4 processor
support from the 64-bit kernel. POWER3 and rs64. This gets rid of a
ton of old cruft that has been bitrotting in a long while. It was
broken for quite a few versions already and nobody noticed. Nobody
uses those machines anymore. While at it, he cleaned up a bunch of
old dusty cabinets, getting rid of a skeletton or two.
Then, we have some base VFIO support for KVM, which allows assigning
of PCI devices to KVM guests, support for large 64-bit BARs on
"powernv" platforms, support for HMI (Hardware Management Interrupts)
on those same platforms, some sparse-vmemmap improvements (for memory
hotplug),
There is the usual batch of Freescale embedded updates (summary in the
merge commit) and fixes here or there, I think that's it for the
highlights"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (102 commits)
powerpc/eeh: Export eeh_iommu_group_to_pe()
powerpc/eeh: Add missing #ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_API
powerpc: Reduce scariness of interrupt frames in stack traces
powerpc: start loop at section start of start in vmemmap_populated()
powerpc: implement vmemmap_free()
powerpc: implement vmemmap_remove_mapping() for BOOK3S
powerpc: implement vmemmap_list_free()
powerpc: Fail remap_4k_pfn() if PFN doesn't fit inside PTE
powerpc/book3s: Fix endianess issue for HMI handling on napping cpus.
powerpc/book3s: handle HMIs for cpus in nap mode.
powerpc/powernv: Invoke opal call to handle hmi.
powerpc/book3s: Add basic infrastructure to handle HMI in Linux.
powerpc/iommu: Fix comments with it_page_shift
powerpc/powernv: Handle compound PE in config accessors
powerpc/powernv: Handle compound PE for EEH
powerpc/powernv: Handle compound PE
powerpc/powernv: Split ioda_eeh_get_state()
powerpc/powernv: Allow to freeze PE
powerpc/powernv: Enable M64 aperatus for PHB3
powerpc/eeh: Aux PE data for error log
...
Conventionally, we put output param to the end of param list and put the
'base' ahead of 'size', but cma_declare_contiguous() doesn't look like
that, so change it.
Additionally, move down cma_areas reference code to the position where
it is really needed.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now, we have general CMA reserved area management framework, so use it
for future maintainabilty. There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes it possible to use IRQFDs on platforms that use the XICS
interrupt controller. To do this we implement kvm_irq_map_gsi() and
kvm_irq_map_chip_pin() in book3s_xics.c, so as to provide a 1-1 mapping
between global interrupt numbers and XICS interrupt source numbers.
For now, all interrupts are mapped as "IRQCHIP" interrupts, and no
MSI support is provided.
This means that kvm_set_irq can now get called with level == 0 or 1
as well as the powerpc-specific values KVM_INTERRUPT_SET,
KVM_INTERRUPT_UNSET and KVM_INTERRUPT_SET_LEVEL. We change
ics_deliver_irq() to accept all those values, and remove its
report_status argument, as it is always false, given that we don't
support KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS.
This also adds support for interrupt ack notifiers to the XICS code
so that the IRQFD resampler functionality can be supported.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently, the IRQFD code is conditional on CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING.
So that we can have the IRQFD code compiled in without having the
IRQ routing code, this creates a new CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD, makes
the IRQFD code conditional on it instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING,
and makes all the platforms that currently select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
also select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This provides accessor functions for the KVM interrupt mappings, in
order to reduce the amount of code that accesses the fields of the
kvm_irq_routing_table struct, and restrict that code to one file,
virt/kvm/irqchip.c. The new functions are kvm_irq_map_gsi(), which
maps from a global interrupt number to a set of IRQ routing entries,
and kvm_irq_map_chip_pin, which maps from IRQ chip and pin numbers to
a global interrupt number.
This also moves the update of kvm_irq_routing_table::chip[][]
into irqchip.c, out of the various kvm_set_routing_entry
implementations. That means that none of the kvm_set_routing_entry
implementations need the kvm_irq_routing_table argument anymore,
so this removes it.
This does not change any locking or data lifetime rules.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 29577fc00b ("KVM: PPC: HV: Remove generic instruction emulation")
caused a build failure with allyesconfig:
arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-pr.o:(__tracepoints+0xa8): multiple definition of `__tracepoint_kvm_ppc_instr'
arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm.o:(__tracepoints+0x1c0): first defined here
due to a duplicate definition of the tracepoint in trace.h and
trace_pr.h. Because the tracepoint is still used by Book3S HV
code, and because the PR code does include trace.h, just remove
the duplicate definition from trace_pr.h, and export it from
kvm.o.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Highlights in this release include:
- BookE: Rework instruction fetch, not racy anymore now
- BookE HV: Fix ONE_REG accessors for some in-hardware registers
- Book3S: Good number of LE host fixes, enable HV on LE
- Book3S: Some misc bug fixes
- Book3S HV: Add in-guest debug support
- Book3S HV: Preload cache lines on context switch
- Remove 440 support
Alexander Graf (31):
KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Disable AIL mode with OPAL
KVM: PPC: Book3s HV: Fix tlbie compile error
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Handle hyp doorbell exits
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix ABIv2 on LE
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix sparse endian checks
PPC: Add asm helpers for BE 32bit load/store
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access guest VPA in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access host lppaca and shadow slb in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access XICS in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix ABIv2 on LE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable for little endian hosts
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move vcore definition to end of kvm_arch struct
KVM: PPC: Deflect page write faults properly in kvmppc_st
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Stop PTE lookup on write errors
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add hack for split real mode
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Make magic page properly 4k mappable
KVM: PPC: Remove 440 support
KVM: Rename and add argument to check_extension
KVM: Allow KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION on the vm fd
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide different CAPs based on HV or PR mode
KVM: PPC: Implement kvmppc_xlate for all targets
KVM: PPC: Move kvmppc_ld/st to common code
KVM: PPC: Remove kvmppc_bad_hva()
KVM: PPC: Use kvm_read_guest in kvmppc_ld
KVM: PPC: Handle magic page in kvmppc_ld/st
KVM: PPC: Separate loadstore emulation from priv emulation
KVM: PPC: Expose helper functions for data/inst faults
KVM: PPC: Remove DCR handling
KVM: PPC: HV: Remove generic instruction emulation
KVM: PPC: PR: Handle FSCR feature deselects
Alexey Kardashevskiy (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix LPCR one_reg interface
Aneesh Kumar K.V (4):
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate virtual timebase register
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate instruction counter
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Update compute_tlbie_rb to handle 16MB base page
Anton Blanchard (2):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix ABIv2 indirect branch issue
KVM: PPC: Assembly functions exported to modules need _GLOBAL_TOC()
Bharat Bhushan (10):
kvm: ppc: bookehv: Added wrapper macros for shadow registers
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers of SRR0 and SRR1
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers of SPRN_DEAR
kvm: ppc: booke: Add shared struct helpers of SPRN_ESR
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers for SPRN_SPRG0-7
kvm: ppc: Add SPRN_EPR get helper function
kvm: ppc: bookehv: Save restore SPRN_SPRG9 on guest entry exit
KVM: PPC: Booke-hv: Add one reg interface for SPRG9
KVM: PPC: Remove comment saying SPRG1 is used for vcpu pointer
KVM: PPC: BOOKEHV: rename e500hv_spr to bookehv_spr
Michael Neuling (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add H_SET_MODE hcall handling
Mihai Caraman (8):
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Enhance tlb invalidation condition on vcpu schedule
KVM: PPC: e500: Fix default tlb for victim hint
KVM: PPC: e500: Emulate power management control SPR
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Revert "add load inst fixup"
KVM: PPC: Book3e: Add TLBSEL/TSIZE defines for MAS0/1
KVM: PPC: Book3s: Remove kvmppc_read_inst() function
KVM: PPC: Allow kvmppc_get_last_inst() to fail
KVM: PPC: Bookehv: Get vcpu's last instruction for emulation
Paul Mackerras (4):
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Controls for in-kernel sPAPR hypercall handling
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Allow only implemented hcalls to be enabled or disabled
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Take SRCU read lock around RTAS kvm_read_guest() call
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Make kvmppc_ld return a more accurate error indication
Stewart Smith (2):
Split out struct kvmppc_vcore creation to separate function
Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8
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Merge tag 'signed-kvm-ppc-next' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into kvm
Patch queue for ppc - 2014-08-01
Highlights in this release include:
- BookE: Rework instruction fetch, not racy anymore now
- BookE HV: Fix ONE_REG accessors for some in-hardware registers
- Book3S: Good number of LE host fixes, enable HV on LE
- Book3S: Some misc bug fixes
- Book3S HV: Add in-guest debug support
- Book3S HV: Preload cache lines on context switch
- Remove 440 support
Alexander Graf (31):
KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Disable AIL mode with OPAL
KVM: PPC: Book3s HV: Fix tlbie compile error
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Handle hyp doorbell exits
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix ABIv2 on LE
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix sparse endian checks
PPC: Add asm helpers for BE 32bit load/store
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access guest VPA in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access host lppaca and shadow slb in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Access XICS in BE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix ABIv2 on LE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable for little endian hosts
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move vcore definition to end of kvm_arch struct
KVM: PPC: Deflect page write faults properly in kvmppc_st
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Stop PTE lookup on write errors
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add hack for split real mode
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Make magic page properly 4k mappable
KVM: PPC: Remove 440 support
KVM: Rename and add argument to check_extension
KVM: Allow KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION on the vm fd
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide different CAPs based on HV or PR mode
KVM: PPC: Implement kvmppc_xlate for all targets
KVM: PPC: Move kvmppc_ld/st to common code
KVM: PPC: Remove kvmppc_bad_hva()
KVM: PPC: Use kvm_read_guest in kvmppc_ld
KVM: PPC: Handle magic page in kvmppc_ld/st
KVM: PPC: Separate loadstore emulation from priv emulation
KVM: PPC: Expose helper functions for data/inst faults
KVM: PPC: Remove DCR handling
KVM: PPC: HV: Remove generic instruction emulation
KVM: PPC: PR: Handle FSCR feature deselects
Alexey Kardashevskiy (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix LPCR one_reg interface
Aneesh Kumar K.V (4):
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate virtual timebase register
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate instruction counter
KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Update compute_tlbie_rb to handle 16MB base page
Anton Blanchard (2):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix ABIv2 indirect branch issue
KVM: PPC: Assembly functions exported to modules need _GLOBAL_TOC()
Bharat Bhushan (10):
kvm: ppc: bookehv: Added wrapper macros for shadow registers
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers of SRR0 and SRR1
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers of SPRN_DEAR
kvm: ppc: booke: Add shared struct helpers of SPRN_ESR
kvm: ppc: booke: Use the shared struct helpers for SPRN_SPRG0-7
kvm: ppc: Add SPRN_EPR get helper function
kvm: ppc: bookehv: Save restore SPRN_SPRG9 on guest entry exit
KVM: PPC: Booke-hv: Add one reg interface for SPRG9
KVM: PPC: Remove comment saying SPRG1 is used for vcpu pointer
KVM: PPC: BOOKEHV: rename e500hv_spr to bookehv_spr
Michael Neuling (1):
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add H_SET_MODE hcall handling
Mihai Caraman (8):
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Enhance tlb invalidation condition on vcpu schedule
KVM: PPC: e500: Fix default tlb for victim hint
KVM: PPC: e500: Emulate power management control SPR
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Revert "add load inst fixup"
KVM: PPC: Book3e: Add TLBSEL/TSIZE defines for MAS0/1
KVM: PPC: Book3s: Remove kvmppc_read_inst() function
KVM: PPC: Allow kvmppc_get_last_inst() to fail
KVM: PPC: Bookehv: Get vcpu's last instruction for emulation
Paul Mackerras (4):
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Controls for in-kernel sPAPR hypercall handling
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Allow only implemented hcalls to be enabled or disabled
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Take SRCU read lock around RTAS kvm_read_guest() call
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Make kvmppc_ld return a more accurate error indication
Stewart Smith (2):
Split out struct kvmppc_vcore creation to separate function
Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8
Conflicts:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
Handle Hypervisor Maintenance Interrupt (HMI) in Linux. This patch implements
basic infrastructure to handle HMI in Linux host. The design is to invoke
opal handle hmi in real mode for recovery and set irq_pending when we hit HMI.
During check_irq_replay pull opal hmi event and print hmi info on console.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We handle FSCR feature bits (well, TAR only really today) lazily when the guest
starts using them. So when a guest activates the bit and later uses that feature
we enable it for real in hardware.
However, when the guest stops using that bit we don't stop setting it in
hardware. That means we can potentially lose a trap that the guest expects to
happen because it thinks a feature is not active.
This patch adds support to drop TAR when then guest turns it off in FSCR. While
at it it also restricts FSCR access to 64bit systems - 32bit ones don't have it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Now that we have properly split load/store instruction emulation and generic
instruction emulation, we can move the generic one from kvm.ko to kvm-pr.ko
on book3s_64.
This reduces the attack surface and amount of code loaded on HV KVM kernels.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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're going to implement guest code interpretation in KVM for some rare
corner cases. This code needs to be able to inject data and instruction
faults into the guest when it encounters them.
Expose generic APIs to do this in a reasonably subarch agnostic fashion.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Today the instruction emulator can get called via 2 separate code paths. It
can either be called by MMIO emulation detection code or by privileged
instruction traps.
This is bad, as both code paths prepare the environment differently. For MMIO
emulation we already know the virtual address we faulted on, so instructions
there don't have to actually fetch that information.
Split out the two separate use cases into separate files.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We use kvmppc_ld and kvmppc_st to emulate load/store instructions that may as
well access the magic page. Special case it out so that we can properly access
it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We have a nice and handy helper to read from guest physical address space,
so we should make use of it in kvmppc_ld as we already do for its counterpart
in kvmppc_st.
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>
We have a nice API to find the translated GPAs of a GVA including protection
flags. So far we only use it on Book3S, but there's no reason the same shouldn't
be used on BookE as well.
Implement a kvmppc_xlate() version for BookE and clean it up to make it more
readable in general.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
When calculating the lower bits of AVA field, use the shift
count based on the base page size. Also add the missing segment
size and remove stale comment.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
With Book3S KVM we can create both PR and HV VMs in parallel on the same
machine. That gives us new challenges on the CAPs we return - both have
different capabilities.
When we get asked about CAPs on the kvm fd, there's nothing we can do. We
can try to be smart and assume we're running HV if HV is available, PR
otherwise. However with the newly added VM CHECK_EXTENSION we can now ask
for capabilities directly on a VM which knows whether it's PR or HV.
With this patch I can successfully expose KVM PVINFO data to user space
in the PR case, fixing magic page mapping for PAPR guests.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In preparation to make the check_extension function available to VM scope
we add a struct kvm * argument to the function header and rename the function
accordingly. It will still be called from the /dev/kvm fd, but with a NULL
argument for struct kvm *.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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>
