Tie the polling mechanism into the ibm,suspend-me rtas call to
stop/restart polling before/after a suspend, hibernate, migrate,
or checkpoint restart operation. This ensures that the system has a
chance to disable the polling if the partition is migrated to a system
that does not support VPHN (and vice versa).
Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch sets a timer during boot that will periodically poll the
associativity change counters in the VPA. When a change in
associativity is detected, it retrieves the new associativity domain
information via the H_HOME_NODE_ASSOCIATIVITY hcall and updates the
NUMA node maps and sysfs entries accordingly. Note that since the
ibm,associativity device tree property does not exist on configurations
with both NUMA and SPLPAR enabled, no device tree updates are necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove stale declaration of setup_pci_ptrs, aparently from ppc before 2.4.0
Remove #ifdef around struct existance delcaration
Fix spelling of "linear"
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The popcnt instructions went into binutils relatively recently. As with a
number of other instructions, create macros and hardcode them.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The nvram log partition stuff currently in nvram_64.c is really
pseries specific. It isn't actually used on anything else (despite
the fact that we ran the code to setup the partition on anything
except powermac) and the log format is specific to pseries RTAS
implementation. So move it where it belongs
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This moves a bunch of definitions out of asm/nvram.h to the files
that use them or just outright remove completely unused stuff.
We leave the partition signatures definitions, they will be useful
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This simple patch adds the firmware feature for VPHN to the firmware
features bitmask.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add a function to get the maximum address that can be hotplug added.
This is needed to calculate the size of the tce table needed to cover
all memory in 1:1 mode.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Also add a comment to dev_archdata, indicating that changes there need
to be verified against the driver code.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Create sysfs interface to export data from H_BEST_ENERGY hcall
that can be used by administrative tools on supported pseries
platforms for energy management optimizations.
sys/device/system/cpu/pseries_(de)activate_hint_list and
sys/device/system/cpu/cpuN/pseries_(de)activate_hint will provide
hints for activation and deactivation of cpus respectively.
These hints are abstract number given by the hypervisor based
on the extended knowledge the hypervisor has regarding the
system topology and resource mappings.
The activate and the deactivate sysfs entry is for the two
distinct operations that we could do for energy savings. When
we have more capacity than required, we could deactivate few
core to save energy. The choice of the core to deactivate
will be based on /sys/devices/system/cpu/deactivate_hint_list.
The comma separated list of cpus (cores) will be the preferred
choice. If we have to activate some of the deactivated cores,
then /sys/devices/system/cpu/activate_hint_list will be used.
The per-cpu file
/sys/device/system/cpu/cpuN/pseries_(de)activate_hint further
provide more fine grain information by exporting the value of
the hint itself.
Added new driver module
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c
under new config option CONFIG_PSERIES_ENERGY
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
These APIs take logical cpu number as input
Change cpu_first_thread_in_core() to cpu_first_thread_sibling()
Change cpu_last_thread_in_core() to cpu_last_thread_sibling()
These APIs convert core number (index) to logical cpu/thread numbers
Add cpu_first_thread_of_core(int core)
Changed cpu_thread_to_core() to cpu_core_index_of_thread(int cpu)
The goal is to make 'threads_per_core' accessible to the
pseries_energy module. Instead of making an API to read
threads_per_core, this is a higher level wrapper function to
convert from logical cpu number to core number.
The current APIs cpu_first_thread_in_core() and
cpu_last_thread_in_core() returns logical CPU number while
cpu_thread_to_core() returns core number or index which is
not a logical CPU number. The new APIs are now clearly named to
distinguish 'core number' versus first and last 'logical cpu
number' in that core.
The new APIs cpu_{first,last}_thread_sibling() work on
logical cpu numbers. While cpu_first_thread_of_core() and
cpu_core_index_of_thread() work on core index.
Example usage: (4 threads per core system)
cpu_first_thread_sibling(5) = 4
cpu_last_thread_sibling(5) = 7
cpu_core_index_of_thread(5) = 1
cpu_first_thread_of_core(1) = 4
cpu_core_index_of_thread() is used in cpu_to_drc_index() in the
module and cpu_first_thread_of_core() is used in
drc_index_to_cpu() in the module.
Make API changes to few callers. Export symbols for use in modules.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The __KERNEL__ ifdef isn't necessary at this point, because it is
checked in an outer ifdef level already and has no effect here.
Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <qy03fugy@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER5 added popcntb, and POWER7 added popcntw and popcntd. As a first step
this patch does all the work out of line, but it would be nice to implement
them as inlines with an out of line fallback.
The performance issue with hweight was noticed when disabling SMT on a large
(192 thread) POWER7 box. The patch improves that testcase by about 8%.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (82 commits)
mtd: fix build error in m25p80.c
mtd: Remove redundant mutex from mtd_blkdevs.c
MTD: Fix wrong check register_blkdev return value
Revert "mtd: cleanup Kconfig dependencies"
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: make sector erase command variable
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add CFI detection for SST 38VF640x chips
mtd: cfi_util: add support for switching SST 39VF640xB chips into QRY mode
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001: use defined value of P_ID_INTEL_PERFORMANCE instead of hardcoded one
block2mtd: dubious assignment
P4080/mtd: Fix the freescale lbc issue with 36bit mode
P4080/eLBC: Make Freescale elbc interrupt common to elbc devices
mtd: phram: use KBUILD_MODNAME
mtd: OneNAND: S5PC110: Fix double call suspend & resume function
mtd: nand: fix MTD_MODE_RAW writes
jffs2: use kmemdup
mtd: sm_ftl: cosmetic, use bool when possible
mtd: r852: remove useless pci powerup/down from suspend/resume routines
mtd: blktrans: fix a race vs kthread_stop
mtd: blktrans: kill BKL
mtd: allow to unload the mtdtrans module if its block devices aren't open
...
Fix up trivial whitespace-introduced conflict in drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
Merge Grant's device-tree bits so that we can apply the subsequent fixes.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
commit 534af1082329392bc29f6badf815e69ae2ae0f4c(kgdb,kdb: individual
register set and and get API) introduce dbg_get_reg/dbg_set_reg API
for individual register get and set.
This patch implement those APIs for ppc.
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (48 commits)
DMAENGINE: move COH901318 to arch_initcall
dma: imx-dma: fix signedness bug
dma/timberdale: simplify conditional
ste_dma40: remove channel_type
ste_dma40: remove enum for endianess
ste_dma40: remove TIM_FOR_LINK option
ste_dma40: move mode_opt to separate config
ste_dma40: move channel mode to a separate field
ste_dma40: move priority to separate field
ste_dma40: add variable to indicate valid dma_cfg
async_tx: make async_tx channel switching opt-in
move async raid6 test to lib/Kconfig.debug
dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX1/21/27 DMA driver
intel_mid_dma: change the slave interface
intel_mid_dma: fix the WARN_ONs
intel_mid_dma: Add sg list support to DMA driver
intel_mid_dma: Allow DMAC2 to share interrupt
intel_mid_dma: Allow IRQ sharing
intel_mid_dma: Add runtime PM support
DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for ste_dma40
...
The taskstats interface uses microsecond granularity for the user and
system time values. The conversion from cputime to the taskstats values
uses the cputime_to_msecs primitive which effectively limits the
granularity to milliseconds. Add the cputime_to_usecs primitive for
architectures that have better, more precise CPU time values. Remove
cputime_to_msecs primitive because there are no more users left.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Luck Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Keep the current interface but ignore the KM_type and use a stack based
approach.
The advantage is that we get rid of crappy code like:
#define __KM_PTE \
(in_nmi() ? KM_NMI_PTE : \
in_irq() ? KM_IRQ_PTE : \
KM_PTE0)
and in general can stop worrying about what context we're in and what kmap
slots might be appropriate for that.
The downside is that FRV kmap_atomic() gets more expensive.
For now we use a CPP trick suggested by Andrew:
#define kmap_atomic(page, args...) __kmap_atomic(page)
to avoid having to touch all kmap_atomic() users in a single patch.
[ not compiled on:
- mn10300: the arch doesn't actually build with highmem to begin with ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c]
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (365 commits)
ALSA: hda - Disable sticky PCM stream assignment for AD codecs
ALSA: usb - Creative USB X-Fi volume knob support
ALSA: ca0106: Use card specific dac id for mute controls.
ALSA: ca0106: Allow different sound cards to use different SPI channel mappings.
ALSA: ca0106: Create a nice spot for mapping channels to dacs.
ALSA: ca0106: Move enabling of front dac out of hardcoded setup sequence.
ALSA: ca0106: Pull out dac powering routine into separate function.
ALSA: ca0106 - add Sound Blaster 5.1vx info.
ASoC: tlv320dac33: Use usleep_range for delays
ALSA: usb-audio: add Novation Launchpad support
ALSA: hda - Add workarounds for CT-IBG controllers
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong TLV mute bit for STAC/IDT codecs
ASoC: tpa6130a2: Error handling for broken chip
ASoC: max98088: Staticise m98088_eq_band
ASoC: soc-core: Fix codec->name memory leak
ALSA: hda - Apply ideapad quirk to Acer laptops with Cxt5066
ALSA: hda - Add some workarounds for Creative IBG
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong SPDIF NID assignment for CA0110
ALSA: hda - Fix codec rename rules for ALC662-compatible codecs
ALSA: hda - Add alc_init_jacks() call to other codecs
...
When system uses 36bit physical address, res.start is 36bit
physical address. But the function of in_be32 returns 32bit
physical address. Then both of them compared each other is
wrong. So by converting the address of res.start into
the right format fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Lan Chunhe-B25806 <b25806@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Move Freescale elbc interrupt from nand driver to elbc driver.
Then all elbc devices can use the interrupt instead of ONLY nand.
For former nand driver, it had the two functions:
1. detecting nand flash partitions;
2. registering elbc interrupt.
Now, second function is removed to fsl_lbc.c.
Signed-off-by: Lan Chunhe-B25806 <b25806@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits)
KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages
KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub
KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly
KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED
KVM: fix typo in copyright notice
KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns()
KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address
KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function
KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync
KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code
KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded
KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking
KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping
KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table
KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path
KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn()
KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale
KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch
KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready
KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode
...
We have to protect the include for linux/of.h by __KERNEL__ so it doesn't
accidently get referenced outside.
This patch fixes this and makes the tree compile again.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The current interrupt logic is just completely broken. We get a notification
from user space, telling us that an interrupt is there. But then user space
expects us that we just acknowledge an interrupt once we deliver it to the
guest.
This is not how real hardware works though. On real hardware, the interrupt
controller pulls the external interrupt line until it gets notified that the
interrupt was received.
So in reality we have two events: pulling and letting go of the interrupt line.
To maintain backwards compatibility, I added a new request for the pulling
part. The letting go part was implemented earlier already.
With this in place, we can now finally start guests that do not randomly stall
and stop to work at random times.
This patch implements above logic for Book3S.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Up until now we were doing segment mappings wrong on Book3s_32. For Book3s_64
we were using a trick where we know that a single mmu_context gives us 16 bits
of context ids.
The mm system on Book3s_32 instead uses a clever algorithm to distribute VSIDs
across the available range, so a context id really only gives us 16 available
VSIDs.
To keep at least a few guest processes in the SID shadow, let's map a number of
contexts that we can use as VSID pool. This makes the code be actually correct
and shouldn't hurt performance too much.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Now that the actual mtsr doesn't do anything anymore, we can move the sr
contents over to the shared page, so a guest can directly read and write
its sr contents from guest context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Right now we're examining the contents of Book3s_32's segment registers when
the register is written and put the interpreted contents into a struct.
There are two reasons this is bad. For starters, the struct has worse real-time
performance, as it occupies more ram. But the more important part is that with
segment registers being interpreted from their raw values, we can put them in
the shared page, allowing guests to mess with them directly.
This patch makes the internal representation of SRs be u32s.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
We will soon add SR PV support to the shared page, so we need some
infrastructure that allows the guest to query for features KVM exports.
This patch adds a second return value to the magic mapping that
indicated to the guest which features are available.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
On Book3S KVM we directly expose some asm pointers to C code as
variables. These need to be relocated and thus break on relocatable
kernels.
To make sure we can at least build, let's mark them as long instead
of u32 where 64bit relocations don't work.
This fixes the following build error:
WARNING: 2 bad relocations^M
> c000000000008590 R_PPC64_ADDR32 .text+0x4000000000008460^M
> c000000000008594 R_PPC64_ADDR32 .text+0x4000000000008598^M
Please keep in mind that actually using KVM on a relocated kernel
might still break. This only fixes the compile problem.
Reported-by: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
On Book3s_32 the tlbie instruction flushed effective addresses by the mask
0x0ffff000. This is pretty hard to reflect with a hash that hashes ~0xfff, so
to speed up that target we should also keep a special hash around for it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
So far we've been running all code without locking of any sort. This wasn't
really an issue because I didn't see any parallel access to the shadow MMU
code coming.
But then I started to implement dirty bitmapping to MOL which has the video
code in its own thread, so suddenly we had the dirty bitmap code run in
parallel to the shadow mmu code. And with that came trouble.
So I went ahead and made the MMU modifying functions as parallelizable as
I could think of. I hope I didn't screw up too much RCU logic :-). If you
know your way around RCU and locking and what needs to be done when, please
take a look at this patch.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now that we have the shared page in place and the MMU code knows about
the magic page, we can expose that capability to the guest!
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We need to override EA as well as PA lookups for the magic page. When the guest
tells us to project it, the magic page overrides any guest mappings.
In order to reflect that, we need to hook into all the MMU layers of KVM to
force map the magic page if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will be introducing a method to project the shared page in guest context.
As soon as we're talking about this coupling, the shared page is colled magic
page.
This patch introduces simple defines, so the follow-up patches are easier to
read.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
On PowerPC it's very normal to not support all of the physical RAM in real mode.
To check if we're matching on the shared page or not, we need to know the limits
so we can restrain ourselves to that range.
So let's make it a define instead of open-coding it. And while at it, let's also
increase it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
v2 -> v3:
- RMO -> PAM (non-magic page)
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When the guest turns on interrupts again, it needs to know if we have an
interrupt pending for it. Because if so, it should rather get out of guest
context and get the interrupt.
So we introduce a new field in the shared page that we use to tell the guest
that there's a pending interrupt lying around.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
While running in hooked code we need to store register contents out because
we must not clobber any registers.
So let's add some fields to the shared page we can just happily write to.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When running in hooked code we need a way to disable interrupts without
clobbering any interrupts or exiting out to the hypervisor.
To achieve this, we have an additional critical field in the shared page. If
that field is equal to the r1 register of the guest, it tells the hypervisor
that we're in such a critical section and thus may not receive any interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To communicate with KVM directly we need to plumb some sort of interface
between the guest and KVM. Usually those interfaces use hypercalls.
This hypercall implementation is described in the last patch of the series
in a special documentation file. Please read that for further information.
This patch implements stubs to handle KVM PPC hypercalls on the host and
guest side alike.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When in kernel mode there are 4 additional registers available that are
simple data storage. Instead of exiting to the hypervisor to read and
write those, we can just share them with the guest using the page.
This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The SRR0 and SRR1 registers contain cached values of the PC and MSR
respectively. They get written to by the hypervisor when an interrupt
occurs or directly by the kernel. They are also used to tell the rfi(d)
instruction where to jump to.
Because it only gets touched on defined events that, it's very simple to
share with the guest. Hypervisor and guest both have full r/w access.
This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The DAR register contains the address a data page fault occured at. This
register behaves pretty much like a simple data storage register that gets
written to on data faults. There is no hypervisor interaction required on
read or write.
This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The DSISR register contains information about a data page fault. It is fully
read/write from inside the guest context and we don't need to worry about
interacting based on writes of this register.
This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
One of the most obvious registers to share with the guest directly is the
MSR. The MSR contains the "interrupts enabled" flag which the guest has to
toggle in critical sections.
So in order to bring the overhead of interrupt en- and disabling down, let's
put msr into the shared page. Keep in mind that even though you can fully read
its contents, writing to it doesn't always update all state. There are a few
safe fields that don't require hypervisor interaction. See the documentation
for a list of MSR bits that are safe to be set from inside the guest.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
