The cpuidle_haltpoll governor, in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle
driver, allows guest vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before
halting.
This provides the following benefits to host side polling:
1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows
a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated
cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup.
2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided.
The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed
even with other runnable tasks in the host.
Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application
where a small packet is ping-ponged:
host --> 31.33
halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin --> 33.40 (93.8%)
halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000 --> 32.73 (95.7%)
For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter
of the previous version of the patch, results should be the
same):
hpns == halt_poll_ns
idle_spin=0/ idle_spin=800/ idle_spin=0/
hpns=200000 hpns=0 hpns=800000
DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76 1.71 (-3%) 1.78 (+1%)
InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14 2.07 (-3%) 2.18 (+1.8%)
DeleteC00T01 (1 thread) 1.34 1.28 (-4.5%) 1.29 (-3.7%)
UpdateC00T03 (1 thread) 4.72 4.18 (-12%) 4.53 (-5%)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the
grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as
a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt,
as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation
to match that.
Fixes: ed16648eb5 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Updates KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER so it can also whitelist or blacklist
fixed counters.
Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland <ehankland@google.com>
[No need to check padding fields for zero. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- support for chained PMU counters in guests
- improved SError handling
- handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
- selftests ckleanups
x86:
- PMU event {white,black}listing
- ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling
- fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization),
- new hypercall to yield to IPI target
- support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest
- lots of cleanups and optimizations
Generic:
- Some txt->rST conversions for the documentation"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits)
Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks
Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst
Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst
KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context
KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter
kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap
KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register
KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane
kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers
KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s
KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register
KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state
arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests
KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters
KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc->bitmask
KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value
KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function
KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions
KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC
...
KVM/arm updates for 5.3
- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve SError handling
- Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
Added toctree hooks for indexing. Hooks added only for newly added
files.
The hook for the top of the tree will be added in a later patch series
when a few more substantial changes have been added.
Signed-off-by: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@eng.ucsd.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Convert cpuid.txt to .rst format to be parsable by sphinx.
Change format and spacing to make function definitions and return values
much more clear. Also added a table that is parsable by sphinx and makes
the information much more clean. Updated Author email to their new
active email address. Added license identifier with the consent of the
author.
Signed-off-by: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@eng.ucsd.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Convert paravirt_opts.txt to .rst format to be able to be parsed by
sphinx.
Made some minor spacing and formatting corrections to make defintions
much more clear and easy to read. Added default kernel license to the
document.
Signed-off-by: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@eng.ucsd.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Some events can provide a guest with information about other guests or the
host (e.g. L3 cache stats); providing the capability to restrict access
to a "safe" set of events would limit the potential for the PMU to be used
in any side channel attacks. This change introduces a new VM ioctl that
sets an event filter. If the guest attempts to program a counter for
any blacklisted or non-whitelisted event, the kernel counter won't be
created, so any RDPMC/RDMSR will show 0 instances of that event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland <ehankland@google.com>
[Lots of changes. All remaining bugs are probably mine. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
Add documentation for the newly defined firmware registers to save and
restore any vulnerability mitigation status.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of
the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first
preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target
vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Improve the KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE structs by detailing the format
of VMX nested state data in a struct.
In order to avoid changing the ioctl values of
KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE, there is a need to preserve
sizeof(struct kvm_nested_state). This is done by defining the data
struct as "data.vmx[0]". It was the most elegant way I found to
preserve struct size while still keeping struct readable and easy to
maintain. It does have a misfortunate side-effect that now it has to be
accessed as "data.vmx[0]" rather than just "data.vmx".
Because we are already modifying these structs, I also modified the
following:
* Define the "format" field values as macros.
* Rename vmcs_pa to vmcs12_pa for better readability.
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
[Remove SVM stubs, add KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS12_SIZE. - Paolo]
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The documentation mentions a non-existing capability KVM_CAP_USER_MEM.s
The right name is KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Restle <derestle@htwg-konstanz.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add an MSRs which allows the guest to disable
host polling (specifically the cpuidle-haltpoll,
when performing polling in the guest, disables
host side polling).
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The documentation is in a format that is very close to ReST format.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines in order to identify paragraphs;
- fixing tables markups;
- adding some lists markups;
- marking literal blocks;
- adjust some title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Get rid of those warnings:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst:244: WARNING: Citation [white-paper] is not referenced.
Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst:246: WARNING: Citation [amd-apm] is not referenced.
Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst:247: WARNING: Citation [kvm-forum] is not referenced.
For references that aren't mentioned at the text by adding an
explicit reference to them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All but one reference is capitalized. Fix the remaining one.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It doesn't seem as if there is any particular need for kvm_lock to be a
spinlock, so convert the lock to a mutex so that sleepable functions (in
particular cond_resched()) can be called while holding it.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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
...
KVM/arm updates for 5.2
- guest SVE support
- guest Pointer Authentication support
- Better discrimination of perf counters between host and guests
Conflicts:
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
Marcelo Tosatti
Christoph Hellwig
Eric Hankland
Linus Torvalds
Paolo Bonzini
Luke Nowakowski-Krijger
Andre Przywara
Wanpeng Li
Liran Alon
Dennis Restle
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Geert Uytterhoeven
Junaid Shahid