Improve performance of time system calls when using Linux pvclock,
by reading time info from fixmap visible copy of pvclock data.
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Hook into generic pvclock vsyscall code, with the aim to
allow userspace to have visibility into pvclock data.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Introduce generic, non hypervisor specific, pvclock initialization
routines.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
So code can be reused.
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
We can copy the information directly from "struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info",
remove pvclock_shadow_time.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
pvclock_get_time_values, which contains the memory barriers
will be removed by next patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
We want to expose the pvclock shared memory areas, which
the hypervisor periodically updates, to userspace.
For a linear mapping from userspace, it is necessary that
entire page sized regions are used for array of pvclock
structures.
There is no such guarantee with per cpu areas, therefore move
to memblock_alloc based allocation.
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Otherwise its possible for an unrelated KVM_REQ_UPDATE_CLOCK (such as due to CPU
migration) to clear the bit.
Noticed by Paolo Bonzini.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Return value of this function will be that of ioctl().
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/kvm.h>
int main () {
int fd;
fd = open ("/dev/kvm", 0);
fd = ioctl (fd, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
ioctl (fd, KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR, 0xfffff000);
perror ("");
return 0;
}
Output is "Operation not permitted". That's not what
we want.
Return -EINVAL in this case.
Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
We should avoid kfree()ing error pointer in kvm_vcpu_ioctl() and
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
I have no access to my AMD email address anymore. Update
entry in MAINTAINERS to the new address.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The new uapi framework splits kernel internal and user space exported
bits of header files more cleanly. Adjust the ePAPR header accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This fixes an error in the inline asm in try_lock_hpte() where we
were erroneously using a register number as an immediate operand.
The bug only affects an error path, and in fact the code will still
work as long as the compiler chooses some register other than r0
for the "bits" variable. Nevertheless it should still be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Commit 55b665b026 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Provide a way for userspace
to get/set per-vCPU areas") includes a check on the length of the
dispatch trace log (DTL) to make sure the buffer is at least one entry
long. This is appropriate when registering a buffer, but the
interface also allows for any existing buffer to be unregistered by
specifying a zero address. In this case the length check is not
appropriate. This makes the check conditional on the address being
non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Currently the code that accounts stolen time tends to overestimate the
stolen time, and will sometimes report more stolen time in a DTL
(dispatch trace log) entry than has elapsed since the last DTL entry.
This can cause guests to underflow the user or system time measured
for some tasks, leading to ridiculous CPU percentages and total runtimes
being reported by top and other utilities.
In addition, the current code was designed for the previous policy where
a vcore would only run when all the vcpus in it were runnable, and so
only counted stolen time on a per-vcore basis. Now that a vcore can
run while some of the vcpus in it are doing other things in the kernel
(e.g. handling a page fault), we need to count the time when a vcpu task
is preempted while it is not running as part of a vcore as stolen also.
To do this, we bring back the BUSY_IN_HOST vcpu state and extend the
vcpu_load/put functions to count preemption time while the vcpu is
in that state. Handling the transitions between the RUNNING and
BUSY_IN_HOST states requires checking and updating two variables
(accumulated time stolen and time last preempted), so we add a new
spinlock, vcpu->arch.tbacct_lock. This protects both the per-vcpu
stolen/preempt-time variables, and the per-vcore variables while this
vcpu is running the vcore.
Finally, we now don't count time spent in userspace as stolen time.
The task could be executing in userspace on behalf of the vcpu, or
it could be preempted, or the vcpu could be genuinely stopped. Since
we have no way of dividing up the time between these cases, we don't
count any of it as stolen.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Currently the Book3S HV code implements a policy on multi-threaded
processors (i.e. POWER7) that requires all of the active vcpus in a
virtual core to be ready to run before we run the virtual core.
However, that causes problems on reset, because reset stops all vcpus
except vcpu 0, and can also reduce throughput since all four threads
in a virtual core have to wait whenever any one of them hits a
hypervisor page fault.
This relaxes the policy, allowing the virtual core to run as soon as
any vcpu in it is runnable. With this, the KVMPPC_VCPU_STOPPED state
and the KVMPPC_VCPU_BUSY_IN_HOST state have been combined into a single
KVMPPC_VCPU_NOTREADY state, since we no longer need to distinguish
between them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
If a thread in a virtual core becomes runnable while other threads
in the same virtual core are already running in the guest, it is
possible for the latecomer to join the others on the core without
first pulling them all out of the guest. Currently this only happens
rarely, when a vcpu is first started. This fixes some bugs and
omissions in the code in this case.
First, we need to check for VPA updates for the latecomer and make
a DTL entry for it. Secondly, if it comes along while the master
vcpu is doing a VPA update, we don't need to do anything since the
master will pick it up in kvmppc_run_core. To handle this correctly
we introduce a new vcore state, VCORE_STARTING. Thirdly, there is
a race because we currently clear the hardware thread's hwthread_req
before waiting to see it get to nap. A latecomer thread could have
its hwthread_req cleared before it gets to test it, and therefore
never increment the nap_count, leading to messages about wait_for_nap
timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
There were a few places where we were traversing the list of runnable
threads in a virtual core, i.e. vc->runnable_threads, without holding
the vcore spinlock. This extends the places where we hold the vcore
spinlock to cover everywhere that we traverse that list.
Since we possibly need to sleep inside kvmppc_book3s_hv_page_fault,
this moves the call of it from kvmppc_handle_exit out to
kvmppc_vcpu_run, where we don't hold the vcore lock.
In kvmppc_vcore_blocked, we don't actually need to check whether
all vcpus are ceded and don't have any pending exceptions, since the
caller has already done that. The caller (kvmppc_run_vcpu) wasn't
actually checking for pending exceptions, so we add that.
The change of if to while in kvmppc_run_vcpu is to make sure that we
never call kvmppc_remove_runnable() when the vcore state is RUNNING or
EXITING.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subsequent patches implementing in-kernel XICS emulation will make it
possible for IPIs to arrive at secondary threads at arbitrary times.
This fixes some races in how we start the secondary threads, which
if not fixed could lead to occasional crashes of the host kernel.
This makes sure that (a) we have grabbed all the secondary threads,
and verified that they are no longer in the kernel, before we start
any thread, (b) that the secondary thread loads its vcpu pointer
after clearing the IPI that woke it up (so we don't miss a wakeup),
and (c) that the secondary thread clears its vcpu pointer before
incrementing the nap count. It also removes unnecessary setting
of the vcpu and vcore pointers in the paca in kvmppc_core_vcpu_load.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Marcelo Tosatti
Guo Chao
Joerg Roedel
Alexander Graf
Paul Mackerras