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2020-06-13treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'Masahiro Yamada1-3/+3
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances. This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines, I also fixed the indentation. There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---' In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the following commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/' Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-04-01vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfigJason Wang1-4/+0
Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without virtualization support from using vhost. To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. While at it, also squash Kconfig.vringh into vhost Kconfig file. This avoids the trick of conditional inclusion from VOP or CAIF. Then it will be easier to introduce new vringh users and common dependency for both vringh and vhost. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-2-jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2019-05-17Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests - PMU improvements POWER: - support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller - memory and performance optimizations x86: - support for accessing memory not backed by struct page - fixes and refactoring Generic: - dirty page tracking improvements" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (155 commits) kvm: fix compilation on aarch64 Revert "KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU" kvm: x86: Fix L1TF mitigation for shadow MMU KVM: nVMX: Disable intercept for FS/GS base MSRs in vmcs02 when possible KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove useless checks in 'release' method of KVM device KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix spelling mistake "acessing" -> "accessing" KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure to load LPID for radix VCPUs kvm: nVMX: Set nested_run_pending in vmx_set_nested_state after checks complete tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_CPU_ID tests: kvm: Add tests to .gitignore KVM: Introduce KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 KVM: Fix kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect off-by-(minus-)one KVM: Fix the bitmap range to copy during clear dirty KVM: arm64: Fix ptrauth ID register masking logic KVM: x86: use direct accessors for RIP and RSP KVM: VMX: Use accessors for GPRs outside of dedicated caching logic KVM: x86: Omit caching logic for always-available GPRs kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not ...
2019-04-26KVM: s390: provide kvm_arch_no_poll functionChristian Borntraeger1-0/+1
We do track the current steal time of the host CPUs. Let us use this value to disable halt polling if the steal time goes beyond a configured value. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2019-04-19Make anon_inodes unconditionalDavid Howells1-1/+0
Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core VFS code and pidfd code. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message to mention pidfds] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
2018-12-21treewide: surround Kconfig file paths with double quotesMasahiro Yamada1-1/+1
The Kconfig lexer supports special characters such as '.' and '/' in the parameter context. In my understanding, the reason is just to support bare file paths in the source statement. I do not see a good reason to complicate Kconfig for the room of ambiguity. The majority of code already surrounds file paths with double quotes, and it makes sense since file paths are constant string literals. Make it treewide consistent now. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-14KVM: introduce kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctlPaolo Bonzini1-0/+1
After the vcpu_load/vcpu_put pushdown, the handling of asynchronous VCPU ioctl is already much clearer in that it is obvious that they bypass vcpu_load and vcpu_put. However, it is still not perfect in that the different state of the VCPU mutex is still hidden in the caller. Separate those ioctls into a new function kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl that returns -ENOIOCTLCMD for more "traditional" synchronous ioctls. Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-05-13KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during pollChristian Borntraeger1-0/+1
Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough. This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests. This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls. For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll. This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as not sucessful. As KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor, we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though. This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP while still providing a proper speedup. This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks wakeups that are considered not good for polling. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version) Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> [Rename config symbol. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-01-26KVM: s390: Enable the KVM-VFIO deviceDong Jia Shi1-0/+1
The KVM-VFIO device is used by the QEMU VFIO device. It is used to record the list of in-use VFIO groups so that KVM can manipulate them. While we don't need this on s390 currently, let's try to be like everyone else. Signed-off-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCUPranith Kumar1-0/+1
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable. The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making use of SRCU are selected. If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all. text data bss dec hex filename 2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from text data bss dec hex filename 831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before 829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after so the savings are about ~2000 bytes. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
2014-08-05KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling Kconfig optionPaul Mackerras1-0/+1
Currently, the IRQFD code is conditional on CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING. So that we can have the IRQFD code compiled in without having the IRQ routing code, this creates a new CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD, makes the IRQFD code conditional on it instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING, and makes all the platforms that currently select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING also select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-03-21KVM: s390: irq routing for adapter interrupts.Cornelia Huck1-0/+2
Introduce a new interrupt class for s390 adapter interrupts and enable irqfds for s390. This is depending on a new s390 specific vm capability, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP, that needs to be enabled by userspace. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2014-01-30KVM: async_pf: Async page fault support on s390Dominik Dingel1-0/+2
This patch enables async page faults for s390 kvm guests. It provides the userspace API to enable and disable_wait this feature. The disable_wait will enforce that the feature is off by waiting on it. Also it includes the diagnose code, called by the guest to enable async page faults. The async page faults will use an already existing guest interface for this purpose, as described in "CP Programming Services (SC24-6084)". Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2013-03-06KVM: s390: Wire up ioeventfd.Cornelia Huck1-0/+1
Enable ioeventfd support on s390 and hook up diagnose 500 virtio-ccw notifications. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-01-11arch/s390/kvm: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook1-1/+1
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> CC: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2012-10-04Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity: "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups, PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory." * tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits) KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac' KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte() KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access() KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors() ... Conflicts: arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
2012-09-26s390/kconfig: split the s390 base menuJan Glauber1-1/+1
Split the base menu into more descriptive categories like processor, memory, etc. and move virtualization related entries to the Virtualization menu. Also select KEXEC unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-07-23KVM: Add config to support ple or cpu relax optimzationRaghavendra K T1-0/+1
Suggested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: s390: add parameter for KVM_CREATE_VMCarsten Otte1-0/+9
This patch introduces a new config option for user controlled kernel virtual machines. It introduces a parameter to KVM_CREATE_VM that allows to set bits that alter the capabilities of the newly created virtual machine. The parameter is passed to kvm_arch_init_vm for all architectures. The only valid modifier bit for now is KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL. This requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges and creates a user controlled virtual machine on s390 architectures. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-23virtio: expose for non-virtualization users tooOhad Ben-Cohen1-1/+0
virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization scope too. Moreover, some architectures might use virtio for both virtualization and inter-processor communications, so directly sourcing virtio might yield unexpected results due to conflicting selections. The simple solution offered by this patch is to always source virtio's Kconfig in drivers/Kconfig, and remove it from the appropriate arch Kconfigs. Additionally, a virtio menu entry has been added so virtio drivers don't show up in the general drivers menu. This way anyone can use virtio, though it's arguably less accessible (and neat!) for virtualization users now. Note: some architectures (mips and sh) seem to have a VIRTUALIZATION menu merely for sourcing virtio's Kconfig, so that menu is removed too. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-05[S390] cleanup s390 KconfigMartin Schwidefsky1-3/+4
Make use of def_bool and def_tristate where possible and add sensible defaults to the config symbols where applicable. This shortens the defconfig file by another ~40 lines. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-27[S390] spp: remove KVM_AWARE_CMF config optionHeiko Carstens1-11/+0
This config option enables or disables three single instructions which aren't expensive. This is too fine grained. Besided that everybody who uses kvm would enable it anyway in order to debug performance problems. Just remove it. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-17[S390] virtualization aware cpu measurementCarsten Otte1-0/+11
Use the SPP instruction to set a tag on entry to / exit of the virtual machine context. This allows the cpu measurement facility to distinguish the samples from the host and the different guests. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
2010-01-15vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio serverMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+1
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce the number of system calls involved in virtio networking. Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification. There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope - uses eventfd for signalling - structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for migration, bug work-arounds in userspace) - write logging is supported (good for migration) - support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm) common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself. What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls. Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm. How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac etc. Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes. Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to 4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU utilization. Features that I plan to look at in the future: - mergeable buffers - zero copy - scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU): what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage. (Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>) Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-07[S390] Improve address space mode selection.Martin Schwidefsky1-1/+0
Introduce user_mode to replace the two variables switch_amode and s390_noexec. There are three valid combinations of the old values: 1) switch_amode == 0 && s390_noexec == 0 2) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 0 3) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 1 They get replaced by 1) user_mode == HOME_SPACE_MODE 2) user_mode == PRIMARY_SPACE_MODE 3) user_mode == SECONDARY_SPACE_MODE The new kernel parameter user_mode=[primary,secondary,home] lets you choose the address space mode the user space processes should use. In addition the CONFIG_S390_SWITCH_AMODE config option is removed. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-09-10KVM: remove old KVMTRACE support codeMarcelo Tosatti1-3/+0
Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10KVM: Move common KVM Kconfig items to new file virt/kvm/KconfigAvi Kivity1-5/+1
Reduce Kconfig code duplication. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24KVM: Add CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIPAvi Kivity1-0/+3
Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't. Add a Kconfig item to make selecting between the two models easier. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-05-07[S390] s390-kvm: leave sie context on work. Removes preemption requirementChristian Borntraeger1-1/+0
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered immediately. This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the SIE instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting for these types of intercept as well. The advantages: - works with and without preemption - signals are delivered immediately - much better host latencies without preemption Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: Stub out kvmtraceAvi Kivity1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: add kvm to kconfig on s390Christian Borntraeger1-0/+43
This patch adds the virtualization submenu and the kvm option to the kernel config. It also defines HAVE_KVM for 64bit kernels. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>