BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h, branch dev

arm64: KVM: Switch vgic save/restore to alternative_insn

2015-06-12T14:12:08+00:00

So far, we configured the world-switch by having a small array of pointers to the save and restore functions, depending on the GIC used on the platform. Loading these values each time is a bit silly (they never change), and it makes sense to rely on the instruction patching instead. This leads to a nice cleanup of the code. Acked-by: Will Deacon Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm/arm64: KVM: Implement Stage-2 page aging

2015-03-12T21:34:43+00:00

Until now, KVM/arm didn't care much for page aging (who was swapping anyway?), and simply provided empty hooks to the core KVM code. With server-type systems now being available, things are quite different. This patch implements very simple support for page aging, by clearing the Access flag in the Stage-2 page tables. On access fault, the current fault handling will write the PTE or PMD again, putting the Access flag back on. It should be possible to implement a much faster handling for Access faults, but that's left for a later patch. With this in place, performance in VMs is degraded much more gracefully. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Acked-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

KVM: arm/arm64: implement kvm_arch_intc_initialized

2015-03-12T14:15:33+00:00

On arm/arm64 the VGIC is dynamically instantiated and it is useful to expose its state, especially for irqfd setup. This patch defines __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_INTC_INITIALIZED and implements kvm_arch_intc_initialized. Signed-off-by: Eric Auger Acked-by: Christoffer Dall Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00

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 ...

kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter

2015-02-06T12:08:37+00:00

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

arm/arm64: KVM: Use set/way op trapping to track the state of the caches

2015-01-29T22:24:56+00:00

Trying to emulate the behaviour of set/way cache ops is fairly pointless, as there are too many ways we can end-up missing stuff. Also, there is some system caches out there that simply ignore set/way operations. So instead of trying to implement them, let's convert it to VA ops, and use them as a way to re-enable the trapping of VM ops. That way, we can detect the point when the MMU/caches are turned off, and do a full VM flush (which is what the guest was trying to do anyway). This allows a 32bit zImage to boot on the APM thingy, and will probably help bootloaders in general. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

arm/arm64: KVM: make the maximum number of vCPUs a per-VM value

2015-01-20T17:25:28+00:00

Currently the maximum number of vCPUs supported is a global value limited by the used GIC model. GICv3 will lift this limit, but we still need to observe it for guests using GICv2. So the maximum number of vCPUs is per-VM value, depending on the GIC model the guest uses. Store and check the value in struct kvm_arch, but keep it down to 8 for now. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

arm/arm64: KVM: rework MPIDR assignment and add accessors

2015-01-20T17:25:17+00:00

The virtual MPIDR registers (containing topology information) for the guest are currently mapped linearily to the vcpu_id. Improve this mapping for arm64 by using three levels to not artificially limit the number of vCPUs. To help this, change and rename the kvm_vcpu_get_mpidr() function to mask off the non-affinity bits in the MPIDR register. Also add an accessor to later allow easier access to a vCPU with a given MPIDR. Use this new accessor in the PSCI emulation. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

KVM: arm64: ARMv8 header changes for page logging

2015-01-16T13:42:48+00:00

This patch adds arm64 helpers to write protect pmds/ptes and retrieve permissions while logging dirty pages. Also adds prototype to write protect a memory slot and adds a pmd define to check for read-only pmds. Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Mario Smarduch

arm/arm64: KVM: Turn off vcpus on PSCI shutdown/reboot

2014-12-13T13:15:27+00:00

When a vcpu calls SYSTEM_OFF or SYSTEM_RESET with PSCI v0.2, the vcpus should really be turned off for the VM adhering to the suggestions in the PSCI spec, and it's the sane thing to do. Also, clarify the behavior and expectations for exits to user space with the KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT case. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall