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The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71afdf4a
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".
To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.
With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.
For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Add SCLP PCI configure/deconfigure and implement a PCI hotplug
controller (s390_pci_hpc). The hotplug controller creates a slot
for every PCI function in stand-by or configured state. The PCI
functions are named after the PCI function ID (fid). By writing to
the power attribute in /sys/bus/pci/slots/<fid>/power the PCI function
is moved to stand-by or configured state. If moved to the configured
state the device is automatically scanned by the s390 PCI layer.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
"Highlights include
- full big real mode emulation on pre-Westmere Intel hosts (can be
disabled with emulate_invalid_guest_state=0)
- relatively small ppc and s390 updates
- PCID/INVPCID support in guests
- EOI avoidance; 3.6 guests should perform better on 3.6 hosts on
interrupt intensive workloads)
- Lockless write faults during live migration
- EPT accessed/dirty bits support for new Intel processors"
Fix up conflicts in:
- Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt:
Stupid subchapter numbering, added next to each other.
- arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S:
PPC asm changes clashing with the KVM fixes
- arch/s390/include/asm/sigp.h, arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c:
Duplicated commits through the kvm tree and the s390 tree, with
subsequent edits in the KVM tree.
* tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (93 commits)
KVM: fix race with level interrupts
x86, hyper: fix build with !CONFIG_KVM_GUEST
Revert "apic: fix kvm build on UP without IOAPIC"
KVM guest: switch to apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write
apic: add apic_set_eoi_write for PV use
KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT
KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check
KVM: PPC: Critical interrupt emulation support
KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests
KVM: PPC64: booke: Set interrupt computation mode for 64-bit host
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add ESR flag to Data Storage Interrupt
KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for std/ld emulation.
booke: Added crit/mc exception handler for e500v2
booke/bookehv: Add host crit-watchdog exception support
KVM: MMU: document mmu-lock and fast page fault
KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk tracepoint
KVM: MMU: trace fast page fault
KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault
KVM: MMU: introduce SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE bit
KVM: MMU: fold tlb flush judgement into mmu_spte_update
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Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.
Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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For processing under KVM it is required to detect
the actual SCLP console type in order to set it as
preferred console.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Currently qemu/kvm on s390 uses a guest mapping that does not
allow the guest backing page table to be write-protected to
support older systems. On those older systems a host write
protection fault will be delivered to the guest.
Newer systems allow to write-protect the guest backing memory
and let the fault be delivered to the host, thus allowing COW.
Use a capability bit to tell qemu if that is possible.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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