linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_power7.S
Paul Mackerras 371fefd6f2 KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes
This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
per core on POWER7.  The host still has to run single-threaded.

This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
capability.  The return value of the ioctl querying this capability
is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4.

To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads
active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined.
This will put the secondary threads into nap mode.  KVM will then
wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while
they are still offline).  To wake the secondary threads, we send
them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in
arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c.  In other words, at this stage
we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and
we are using icp-native.c to drive it.  Since the woken thread will
need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base
physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys()
for use in the low-level KVM book3s code.

When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core.
The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the
number of threads per core in the host.  This number is exported
to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability.  If qemu wishes
to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu
numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core.

We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute
the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host.  We currently
implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads
are runnable or blocked.  This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere
in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU
by the other vcpus.

When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the
vcpu threads.  The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep
until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu,
or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu
thread goes from busy in host state to blocked).

It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g.
because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already
running.  In that case it can start to run immediately as long as
the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest.
We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start
to execute the guest.  It synchronizes with the other threads via
the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go
into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it
is ready to actually enter the guest.

Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread
number and the vcpu number.  Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus
as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered
hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all
the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are
runnable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:57 +03:00

96 lines
2.0 KiB
ArmAsm

/*
* This file contains the power_save function for 970-family CPUs.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/threads.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/ppc_asm.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/ppc-opcode.h>
#undef DEBUG
.text
_GLOBAL(power7_idle)
/* Now check if user or arch enabled NAP mode */
LOAD_REG_ADDRBASE(r3,powersave_nap)
lwz r4,ADDROFF(powersave_nap)(r3)
cmpwi 0,r4,0
beqlr
/* NAP is a state loss, we create a regs frame on the
* stack, fill it up with the state we care about and
* stick a pointer to it in PACAR1. We really only
* need to save PC, some CR bits and the NV GPRs,
* but for now an interrupt frame will do.
*/
mflr r0
std r0,16(r1)
stdu r1,-INT_FRAME_SIZE(r1)
std r0,_LINK(r1)
std r0,_NIP(r1)
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
/* Make sure FPU, VSX etc... are flushed as we may lose
* state when going to nap mode
*/
bl .discard_lazy_cpu_state
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
/* Hard disable interrupts */
mfmsr r9
rldicl r9,r9,48,1
rotldi r9,r9,16
mtmsrd r9,1 /* hard-disable interrupts */
li r0,0
stb r0,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13) /* we'll hard-enable shortly */
stb r0,PACAHARDIRQEN(r13)
/* Continue saving state */
SAVE_GPR(2, r1)
SAVE_NVGPRS(r1)
mfcr r3
std r3,_CCR(r1)
std r9,_MSR(r1)
std r1,PACAR1(r13)
/* Magic NAP mode enter sequence */
std r0,0(r1)
ptesync
ld r0,0(r1)
1: cmp cr0,r0,r0
bne 1b
PPC_NAP
b .
_GLOBAL(power7_wakeup_loss)
ld r1,PACAR1(r13)
REST_NVGPRS(r1)
REST_GPR(2, r1)
ld r3,_CCR(r1)
ld r4,_MSR(r1)
ld r5,_NIP(r1)
addi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE
mtcr r3
mtspr SPRN_SRR1,r4
mtspr SPRN_SRR0,r5
rfid
_GLOBAL(power7_wakeup_noloss)
ld r1,PACAR1(r13)
ld r4,_MSR(r1)
ld r5,_NIP(r1)
addi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE
mtspr SPRN_SRR1,r4
mtspr SPRN_SRR0,r5
rfid