linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c, branch linux-3.6.y

KVM guest: switch to apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write

2012-07-16T09:51:44+00:00

Use apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write to avoid meedling in core apic
driver data structures directly.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check

2012-07-11T16:33:32+00:00

While debugging I noticed that unlike all the other hypervisor code in the
kernel, kvm does not have an entry for x86_hyper which is used in
detect_hypervisor_platform() which results in a nice printk in the
syslog.  This is only really a stub function but it
does make kvm more consistent with the other hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Alex Williamson 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Marcelo Tostatti 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM guest: guest side for eoi avoidance

2012-06-25T09:38:06+00:00

The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
Guest tests it using a single est and clear operation - this is
necessary so that host can detect interrupt nesting - and if set, it can
skip the EOI MSR.

I run a simple microbenchmark to show exit reduction
(note: for testing, need to apply follow-up patch
'kvm: host side for eoi optimization' + a qemu patch
 I posted separately, on host):

Before:

Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':

            47,357 kvm:kvm_entry                                                [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall                                            [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall                                         [99.98%]
             5,001 kvm:kvm_pio                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid                                                [99.98%]
            22,124 kvm:kvm_apic                                                 [99.98%]
            49,849 kvm:kvm_exit                                                 [99.98%]
            21,115 kvm:kvm_inj_virq                                             [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception                                        [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault                                           [99.98%]
            22,937 kvm:kvm_msr                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cr                                                   [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq                                          [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi                                             [99.98%]
            22,207 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq                                      [99.98%]
            22,421 kvm:kvm_eoi                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi                                               [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit                                        [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga                                              [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_skinit                                               [99.99%]
                57 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio                                          [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit                                       [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq                                              [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq                                       [99.99%]
            23,609 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq                                          [99.99%]
                 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq                                              [99.99%]
               131 kvm:kvm_mmio                                                 [99.99%]
               226 kvm:kvm_fpu                                                  [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_age_page                                             [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready                                       [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed

       1.002100578 seconds time elapsed

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':

            28,354 kvm:kvm_entry                                                [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall                                            [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall                                         [99.98%]
             1,347 kvm:kvm_pio                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid                                                [99.98%]
             1,931 kvm:kvm_apic                                                 [99.98%]
            29,595 kvm:kvm_exit                                                 [99.98%]
            24,884 kvm:kvm_inj_virq                                             [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception                                        [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault                                           [99.98%]
             1,986 kvm:kvm_msr                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cr                                                   [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq                                          [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi                                             [99.99%]
            25,953 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq                                      [99.99%]
            26,132 kvm:kvm_eoi                                                  [99.99%]
            26,593 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi                                               [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit                                        [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga                                              [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_skinit                                               [99.99%]
               284 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn                                         [99.99%]
                68 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio                                          [99.99%]
                68 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit                                       [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq                                              [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq                                       [99.99%]
            28,288 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq                                          [99.99%]
                 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq                                              [99.99%]
               131 kvm:kvm_mmio                                                 [100.00%]
               588 kvm:kvm_fpu                                                  [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_age_page                                             [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready                                       [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed

       1.002039622 seconds time elapsed

We see that # of exits is almost halved.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM: Do not take reference to mm during async #PF

2012-05-06T12:00:02+00:00

It turned to be totally unneeded. The reason the code was introduced is
so that KVM can prefault swapped in page, but prefault can fail even
if mm is pinned since page table can change anyway. KVM handles this
situation correctly though and does not inject spurious page faults.

Fixes:
 "INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected" warning while
 running LTP inside a KVM guest using the recent -next kernel.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM: Resolve RCU vs. async page fault problem

2012-04-05T16:26:14+00:00

"Page ready" async PF can kick vcpu out of idle state much like IRQ.
We need to tell RCU about this.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()

2012-02-24T09:05:59+00:00

So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.

Typical usage scenarios:

        #include 

        struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;

        if (static_key_false(&key))
                do unlikely code
        else
                do likely code

Or:

        if (static_key_true(&key))
                do likely code
        else
                do unlikely code

The static key is modified via:

        static_key_slow_inc(&key);
        ...
        static_key_slow_dec(&key);

The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.

I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.

On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jason Baron 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

KVM guest: remove KVM guest pv mmu support

2011-12-27T09:17:08+00:00

This has not been used for some years now.  It's time to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM guest: KVM Steal time registration

2011-07-24T08:49:36+00:00

This patch implements the kvm bits of the steal time infrastructure.
The most important part of it, is the steal time clock. It is an
continuous clock that shows the accumulated amount of steal time
since vcpu creation. It is supposed to survive cpu offlining/onlining.

[marcelo: fix build with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n]

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Tested-by: Eric B Munson 
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
CC: Peter Zijlstra 
CC: Avi Kivity 
CC: Anthony Liguori 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM guest: Fix section mismatch derived from kvm_guest_cpu_online()

2011-03-17T16:08:25+00:00

WARNING: arch/x86/built-in.o(.text+0x1bb74): Section mismatch in reference from the function kvm_guest_cpu_online() to the function .cpuinit.text:kvm_guest_cpu_init()
The function kvm_guest_cpu_online() references
the function __cpuinit kvm_guest_cpu_init().
This is often because kvm_guest_cpu_online lacks a __cpuinit
annotation or the annotation of kvm_guest_cpu_init is wrong.

This patch fixes the warning.

Tested with linux-next (next-20101231)

Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM guest: Fix kvm clock initialization when it's configured out

2011-01-12T09:30:56+00:00

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity