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Commit 1cde2930e154 ("sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers")
had two problems. First, the preempt-notifier API needs to sleep with the
addition of the static_key, we do however need to hold off preemption
while modifying the preempt notifier list, otherwise a preemption could
observe an inconsistent list state. KVM correctly registers and
unregisters preempt notifiers with preemption disabled, so the sleep
caused dmesg splats.
Second, KVM registers and unregisters preemption notifiers very often
(in vcpu_load/vcpu_put). With a single uniprocessor guest the static key
would move between 0 and 1 continuously, hitting the slow path on every
userspace exit.
To fix this, wrap the static_key inc/dec in a new API, and call it from
KVM.
Fixes: 1cde2930e154 ("sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers")
Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Only two ioctls have to be modified; the address space id is
placed in the higher 16 bits of their slot id argument.
As of this patch, no architecture defines more than one
address space; x86 will be the first.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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We need to hide SMRAM from guests not running in SMM. Therefore, all
uses of kvm_read_guest* and kvm_write_guest* must be changed to use
different address spaces, depending on whether the VCPU is in system
management mode. We need to introduce a new family of functions for
this purpose.
For now, the VCPU-based functions have the same behavior as the
existing per-VM ones, they just accept a different type for the
first argument. Later however they will be changed to use one of many
"struct kvm_memslots" stored in struct kvm, through an architecture hook.
VM-based functions will unconditionally use the first memslots pointer.
Whenever possible, this patch introduces slot-based functions with an
__ prefix, with two wrappers for generic and vcpu-based actions.
The exceptions are kvm_read_guest and kvm_write_guest, which are copied
into the new functions kvm_vcpu_read_guest and kvm_vcpu_write_guest.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Most of the function that wrap it can be rewritten without it, except
for gfn_to_pfn_prot. Just inline it into gfn_to_pfn_prot, and rewrite
the other function on top of gfn_to_pfn_memslot*.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The memory slot is already available from gfn_to_memslot_dirty_bitmap.
Isn't it a shame to look it up again? Plus, it makes gfn_to_page_many_atomic
agnostic of multiple VCPU address spaces.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This lets the function access the new memory slot without going through
kvm_memslots and id_to_memslot. It will simplify the code when more
than one address space will be supported.
Unfortunately, the "const"ness of the new argument must be casted
away in two places. Fixing KVM to accept const struct kvm_memory_slot
pointers would require modifications in pretty much all architectures,
and is left for later.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Prepare for the case of multiple address spaces.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Architecture-specific helpers are not supposed to muck with
struct kvm_userspace_memory_region contents. Add const to
enforce this.
In order to eliminate the only write in __kvm_set_memory_region,
the cleaning of deleted slots is pulled up from update_memslots
to __kvm_set_memory_region.
Reviewed-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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kvm_memslots provides lockdep checking. Use it consistently instead of
explicit dereferencing of kvm->memslots.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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kvm_alloc_memslots is extracted out of previously scattered code
that was in kvm_init_memslots_id and kvm_create_vm.
kvm_free_memslot and kvm_free_memslots are new names of
kvm_free_physmem and kvm_free_physmem_slot, but they also take
an explicit pointer to struct kvm_memslots.
This will simplify the transition to multiple address spaces,
each represented by one pointer to struct kvm_memslots.
Reviewed-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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gfn_to_pfn_async is used in just one place, and because of x86-specific
treatment that place will need to look at the memory slot. Hence inline
it into try_async_pf and export __gfn_to_pfn_memslot.
The patch also switches the subsequent call to gfn_to_pfn_prot to use
__gfn_to_pfn_memslot. This is a small optimization. Finally, remove
the now-unused async argument of __gfn_to_pfn.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On cpu hotplug only KVM emits an unconditional message that its notifier
has been called. It certainly can be assumed that calling cpu hotplug
notifiers work, therefore there is no added value if KVM prints a message.
If an error happens on cpu online KVM will still emit a warning.
So let's remove this superfluous message.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Caching memslot value and using mark_page_dirty_in_slot() avoids another
O(log N) search when dirtying the page.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1428695247-27603-1-git-send-email-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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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>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"First batch of KVM changes for 4.1
The most interesting bit here is irqfd/ioeventfd support for ARM and
ARM64.
Summary:
ARM/ARM64:
fixes for live migration, irqfd and ioeventfd support (enabling
vhost, too), page aging
s390:
interrupt handling rework, allowing to inject all local interrupts
via new ioctl and to get/set the full local irq state for migration
and introspection. New ioctls to access memory by virtual address,
and to get/set the guest storage keys. SIMD support.
MIPS:
FPU and MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) support. Includes some
patches from Ralf Baechle's MIPS tree.
x86:
bugfixes (notably for pvclock, the others are small) and cleanups.
Another small latency improvement for the TSC deadline timer"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
KVM: use slowpath for cross page cached accesses
kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes
KVM: x86: Clear CR2 on VCPU reset
KVM: x86: DR0-DR3 are not clear on reset
KVM: x86: BSP in MSR_IA32_APICBASE is writable
KVM: x86: simplify kvm_apic_map
KVM: x86: avoid logical_map when it is invalid
KVM: x86: fix mixed APIC mode broadcast
KVM: x86: use MDA for interrupt matching
kvm/ppc/mpic: drop unused IRQ_testbit
KVM: nVMX: remove unnecessary double caching of MAXPHYADDR
KVM: nVMX: checks for address bits beyond MAXPHYADDR on VM-entry
KVM: x86: cache maxphyaddr CPUID leaf in struct kvm_vcpu
KVM: vmx: pass error code with internal error #2
x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
KVM: remove kvm_read_hva and kvm_read_hva_atomic
KVM: x86: optimize delivery of TSC deadline timer interrupt
KVM: x86: extract blocking logic from __vcpu_run
kvm: x86: fix x86 eflags fixed bit
KVM: s390: migrate vcpu interrupt state
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kvm_write_guest_cached() does not mark all written pages as dirty and
code comments in kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init() talk about NULL memslot
with cross page accesses. Fix all the easy way.
The check is '<= 1' to have the same result for 'len = 0' cache anywhere
in the page. (nr_pages_needed is 0 on page boundary.)
Fixes: 8f964525a121 ("KVM: Allow cross page reads and writes from cached translations.")
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20150408121648.GA3519@potion.brq.redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The corresponding write functions just use __copy_to_user. Do the
same on the read side.
This reverts what's left of commit 86ab8cffb498 (KVM: introduce
gfn_to_hva_read/kvm_read_hva/kvm_read_hva_atomic, 2012-08-21)
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1427976500-28533-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD
Features and fixes for 4.1 (kvm/next)
1. Assorted changes
1.1 allow more feature bits for the guest
1.2 Store breaking event address on program interrupts
2. Interrupt handling rework
2.1 Fix copy_to_user while holding a spinlock (cc stable)
2.2 Rework floating interrupts to follow the priorities
2.3 Allow to inject all local interrupts via new ioctl
2.4 allow to get/set the full local irq state, e.g. for migration
and introspection
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into 'kvm-next'
KVM/ARM changes for v4.1:
- fixes for live migration
- irqfd support
- kvm-io-bus & vgic rework to enable ioeventfd
- page ageing for stage-2 translation
- various cleanups
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We have introduced struct kvm_s390_irq a while ago which allows to
inject all kinds of interrupts as defined in the Principles of
Operation.
Add ioctl to inject interrupts with the extended struct kvm_s390_irq
Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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iodev.h contains definitions for the kvm_io_bus framework. This is
needed both by the generic KVM code in virt/kvm as well as by
architecture specific code under arch/. Putting the header file in
virt/kvm and using local includes in the architecture part seems at
least dodgy to me, so let's move the file into include/kvm, so that a
more natural "#include <kvm/iodev.h>" can be used by all of the code.
This also solves a problem later when using struct kvm_io_device
in arm_vgic.h.
Fixing up the FSF address in the GPL header and a wrong include path
on the way.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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This is needed in e.g. ARM vGIC emulation, where the MMIO handling
depends on the VCPU that does the access.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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KVM guest can fail to startup with following trace on host:
qemu-system-x86: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40d0
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x47/0x67
warn_alloc_failed+0xee/0x150
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x14a/0x150
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x776/0xb80
alloc_kmem_pages+0x3a/0x110
kmalloc_order+0x13/0x50
kmemdup+0x1b/0x40
__kvm_set_memory_region+0x24a/0x9f0 [kvm]
kvm_set_ioapic+0x130/0x130 [kvm]
kvm_set_memory_region+0x21/0x40 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x43f/0x750 [kvm]
Failure happens when attempting to allocate pages for
'struct kvm_memslots', however it doesn't have to be
present in physically contiguous (kmalloc-ed) address
space, change allocation to kvm_kvzalloc() so that
it will be vmalloc-ed when its size is more then a page.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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When all bits in mask are not set,
kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked() has nothing to do. But since
it needs to be called from the generic code, it cannot be inlined, and
a few function calls, two when PML is enabled, are wasted.
Since it is common to see many pages remain clean, e.g. framebuffers can
stay calm for a long time, it is worth eliminating this overhead.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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POWER supports irqfds but forgot to advertise them. Some userspace does
not check for the capability, but others check it---thus they work on
x86 and s390 but not POWER.
To avoid that other architectures in the future make the same mistake, let
common code handle KVM_CAP_IRQFD the same way as KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE.
Reported-and-tested-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 297e21053a52f060944e9f0de4c64fad9bcd72fc
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ... then
dev_info(dev, ... then pr_info(... to printk(KERN_INFO ...
+ printk(KERN_INFO "kvm: exiting hardware virtualization\n");
WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_err([subsystem]dev, ... then
dev_err(dev, ... then pr_err(... to printk(KERN_ERR ...
+ printk(KERN_ERR "kvm: misc device register failed\n");
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
+ const struct kvm_io_range *r2)$
WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
+ const struct kvm_io_range *r2)$
This patch fixes this ERROR & WARNING to reduce noise when checking new
patches in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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WARNING: please, no space before tabs
+ * ^I^Ikvm->lock --> kvm->slots_lock --> kvm->irq_lock$
WARNING: please, no space before tabs
+^I^I * ^I- gfn_to_hva (kvm_read_guest, gfn_to_pfn)$
WARNING: please, no space before tabs
+^I^I * ^I- kvm_is_visible_gfn (mmu_check_roots)$
This patch fixes these warnings to reduce noise when checking new
patches in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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There are many Warnings like this:
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
+ struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_zone zone;
+ r = -EFAULT;
This patch fixes these warnings to reduce noise when checking new
patches in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfn_to_page);
This patch fixes these warnings to reduce noise when checking new
patches in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
+static int kvm_usage_count = 0;
The kvm_usage_count will be placed to .bss segment when linking, so
not need to set it to 0 here obviously.
This patch fixes this ERROR to reduce noise when checking new patches
in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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WARNING: labels should not be indented
+ out_free_irq_routing:
This patch fixes this WARNING to reduce noise when checking new patches
in kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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There are many WARNINGs like this:
WARNING: sizeof tr should be sizeof(tr)
+ if (copy_from_user(&tr, argp, sizeof tr))
In kvm_main.c many places are using 'sizeof(X)', and the other places
are using 'sizeof X', while the kernel recommands to use 'sizeof(X)',
so this patch will replace all 'sizeof X' to 'sizeof(X)' to make them
consistent and at the same time to reduce the WARNINGs noise when we
are checking new patches.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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kvm_kvfree() provides exactly the same functionality as the
new common kvfree() function - so let's simply replace the
kvm function with the common function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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halt_poll_ns is used only locally. Make it static.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Better alignment of loop using tabs rather than spaces, this
makes checkpatch.pl happier.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey <kmulvey@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
"Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.
Common:
Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
architectures). This can improve latency up to 50% on some
scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests). This
also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
auto-tune this in the future.
ARM/ARM64:
The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
tracking
s390:
Several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature
exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
MIPS:
Bugfixes.
x86:
Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
usual round of emulation fixes.
There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.
Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
have already included his tree.
Powerpc:
Nothing yet.
The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
offline for some part of next week"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
KVM: s390: add cpu model support
KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
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Use the more generic get_user_pages_unlocked which has the additional
benefit of passing FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY at the very first page fault
(which allows the first page fault in an unmapped area to be always able
to block indefinitely by being allowed to release the mmap_sem).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We never had a 31bit QEMU/kuli running. We would need to review several
ioctls to check if this creates holes, bugs or whatever to make it work.
Lets just disable compat support for KVM on s390.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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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>
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dirty
We don't have to write protect guest memory for dirty logging if architecture
supports hardware dirty logging, such as PML on VMX, so rename it to be more
generic.
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Indeed, any invalid memslots should be new->npages = 0,
new->base_gfn = 0 and new->flags = 0 at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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kvm_get_dirty_log() provides generic handling of dirty bitmap, currently reused
by several architectures. Building on that we intrdoduce
kvm_get_dirty_log_protect() adding write protection to mark these pages dirty
for future write access, before next KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl call from user
space.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>
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Allow architectures to override the generic kvm_flush_remote_tlbs()
function via HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL. ARMv7 will need this to
provide its own TLB flush interface.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>
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Several hypervisors need MSR auto load/restore feature.
We read MSRs from VM-entry MSR load area which specified by L1,
and load them via kvm_set_msr in the nested entry.
When nested exit occurs, we get MSRs via kvm_get_msr, writing
them to L1`s MSR store area. After this, we read MSRs from VM-exit
MSR load area, and load them via kvm_set_msr.
Signed-off-by: Wincy Van <fanwenyi0529@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Modifying a non-existent slot is not allowed. Also check that the
first loop doesn't move a deleted slot beyond the used part of
the mslots array.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Before commit 0e60b0799fed (kvm: change memslot sorting rule from size
to GFN, 2014-12-01), the memslots' sorting key was npages, meaning
that a valid memslot couldn't have its sorting key equal to zero.
On the other hand, a valid memslot can have base_gfn == 0, and invalid
memslots are identified by base_gfn == npages == 0.
Because of this, commit 0e60b0799fed broke the invariant that invalid
memslots are at the end of the mslots array. When a memslot with
base_gfn == 0 was created, any invalid memslot before it were left
in place.
This can be fixed by changing the insertion to use a ">=" comparison
instead of "<=", but some care is needed to avoid breaking the case
of deleting a memslot; see the comment in update_memslots.
Thanks to Tiejun Chen for posting an initial patch for this bug.
Reported-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Tested-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
Second round of changes for KVM for arm/arm64 for v3.19; fixes reboot
problems, clarifies VCPU init, and fixes a regression concerning the
VGIC init flow.
Conflicts:
arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c [deleted in HEAD and modified in kvmarm]
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We currently track the pid of the task that runs the VCPU in vcpu_load.
If a yield to that VCPU is triggered while the PID of the wrong thread
is active, the wrong thread might receive a yield, but this will most
likely not help the executing thread at all. Instead, if we only track
the pid on the KVM_RUN ioctl, there are two possibilities:
1) the thread that did a non-KVM_RUN ioctl is holding a mutex that
the VCPU thread is waiting for. In this case, the VCPU thread is not
runnable, but we also do not do a wrong yield.
2) the thread that did a non-KVM_RUN ioctl is sleeping, or doing
something that does not block the VCPU thread. In this case, the
VCPU thread can receive the directed yield correctly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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