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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T18:34:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T18:34:04+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small update for KVM:

  ARM:
   - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
   - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor

  s390:
   - cleanups for nested
   - clock handling
   - crypto
   - storage keys
   - control register bits

  x86:
   - many bugfixes
   - implement more Hyper-V super powers
   - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
     emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
   - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
  kvm: fix typo in flag name
  kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
  KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
  KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
  kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
  kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
  kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
  KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
  KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
  KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
  kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
  kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
  KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
  kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
  KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
  KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small update for KVM:

  ARM:
   - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
   - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor

  s390:
   - cleanups for nested
   - clock handling
   - crypto
   - storage keys
   - control register bits

  x86:
   - many bugfixes
   - implement more Hyper-V super powers
   - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
     emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
   - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
  kvm: fix typo in flag name
  kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
  KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
  KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
  kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
  kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
  kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
  KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
  KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
  KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
  kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
  kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
  KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
  kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
  KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
  KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T18:10:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T18:10:58+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Apart from the core arm64 and perf changes, the Spectre v4 mitigation
  touches the arm KVM code and the ACPI PPTT support touches drivers/
  (acpi and cacheinfo). I should have the maintainers' acks in place.

  Summary:

   - Spectre v4 mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) support
     for arm64 using SMC firmware call to set a hardware chicken bit

   - ACPI PPTT (Processor Properties Topology Table) parsing support and
     enable the feature for arm64

   - Report signal frame size to user via auxv (AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). The
     primary motivation is Scalable Vector Extensions which requires
     more space on the signal frame than the currently defined
     MINSIGSTKSZ

   - ARM perf patches: allow building arm-cci as module, demote
     dev_warn() to dev_dbg() in arm-ccn event_init(), miscellaneous
     cleanups

   - cmpwait() WFE optimisation to avoid some spurious wakeups

   - L1_CACHE_BYTES reverted back to 64 (for performance reasons that
     have to do with some network allocations) while keeping
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128. cache_line_size() returns the actual
     hardware Cache Writeback Granule

   - Turn LSE atomics on by default in Kconfig

   - Kernel fault reporting tidying

   - Some #include and miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (53 commits)
  arm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer
  arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection
  ACPI / PPTT: fix build when CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT is not enabled
  arm64: cpu_errata: include required headers
  arm64: KVM: Move VCPU_WORKAROUND_2_FLAG macros to the top of the file
  arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
  arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID
  arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests
  arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors
  arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume
  arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor
  arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option
  arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing
  arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
  arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Apart from the core arm64 and perf changes, the Spectre v4 mitigation
  touches the arm KVM code and the ACPI PPTT support touches drivers/
  (acpi and cacheinfo). I should have the maintainers' acks in place.

  Summary:

   - Spectre v4 mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) support
     for arm64 using SMC firmware call to set a hardware chicken bit

   - ACPI PPTT (Processor Properties Topology Table) parsing support and
     enable the feature for arm64

   - Report signal frame size to user via auxv (AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). The
     primary motivation is Scalable Vector Extensions which requires
     more space on the signal frame than the currently defined
     MINSIGSTKSZ

   - ARM perf patches: allow building arm-cci as module, demote
     dev_warn() to dev_dbg() in arm-ccn event_init(), miscellaneous
     cleanups

   - cmpwait() WFE optimisation to avoid some spurious wakeups

   - L1_CACHE_BYTES reverted back to 64 (for performance reasons that
     have to do with some network allocations) while keeping
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128. cache_line_size() returns the actual
     hardware Cache Writeback Granule

   - Turn LSE atomics on by default in Kconfig

   - Kernel fault reporting tidying

   - Some #include and miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (53 commits)
  arm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer
  arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection
  ACPI / PPTT: fix build when CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT is not enabled
  arm64: cpu_errata: include required headers
  arm64: KVM: Move VCPU_WORKAROUND_2_FLAG macros to the top of the file
  arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
  arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID
  arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests
  arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors
  arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume
  arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor
  arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option
  arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing
  arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
  arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl</title>
<updated>2018-06-01T14:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-01T10:10:13+00:00</published>
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Now that the kernel SVE support is reasonably mature, it is
excessive to default sve_max_vl to the invalid value -1 and then
sprinkle WARN_ON()s around the place to make sure it has been
initialised before use.  The cpufeatures code already runs pretty
early, and will ensure sve_max_vl gets initialised.

This patch initialises sve_max_vl to something sane that will be
supported by every SVE implementation, and removes most of the
sanity checks.

The checks in find_supported_vector_length() are retained for now.
If anything goes horribly wrong, we are likely to trip a check here
sooner or later.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Now that the kernel SVE support is reasonably mature, it is
excessive to default sve_max_vl to the invalid value -1 and then
sprinkle WARN_ON()s around the place to make sure it has been
initialised before use.  The cpufeatures code already runs pretty
early, and will ensure sve_max_vl gets initialised.

This patch initialises sve_max_vl to something sane that will be
supported by every SVE implementation, and removes most of the
sanity checks.

The checks in find_supported_vector_length() are retained for now.
If anything goes horribly wrong, we are likely to trip a check here
sooner or later.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Remove eager host SVE state saving</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-20T16:39:16+00:00</published>
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Now that the host SVE context can be saved on demand from Hyp,
there is no longer any need to save this state in advance before
entering the guest.

This patch removes the relevant call to
kvm_fpsimd_flush_cpu_state().

Since the problem that function was intended to solve now no longer
exists, the function and its dependencies are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Now that the host SVE context can be saved on demand from Hyp,
there is no longer any need to save this state in advance before
entering the guest.

This patch removes the relevant call to
kvm_fpsimd_flush_cpu_state().

Since the problem that function was intended to solve now no longer
exists, the function and its dependencies are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Move sve_pffr() to fpsimd.h and make inline</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T16:32:35+00:00</published>
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In order to make sve_save_state()/sve_load_state() more easily
reusable and to get rid of a potential branch on context switch
critical paths, this patch makes sve_pffr() inline and moves it to
fpsimd.h.

&lt;asm/processor.h&gt; must be included in fpsimd.h in order to make
this work, and this creates an #include cycle that is tricky to
avoid without modifying core code, due to the way the PR_SVE_*()
prctl helpers are included in the core prctl implementation.

Instead of breaking the cycle, this patch defers inclusion of
&lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; in &lt;asm/processor.h&gt; until the point where it is
actually needed: i.e., immediately before the prctl definitions.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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In order to make sve_save_state()/sve_load_state() more easily
reusable and to get rid of a potential branch on context switch
critical paths, this patch makes sve_pffr() inline and moves it to
fpsimd.h.

&lt;asm/processor.h&gt; must be included in fpsimd.h in order to make
this work, and this creates an #include cycle that is tricky to
avoid without modifying core code, due to the way the PR_SVE_*()
prctl helpers are included in the core prctl implementation.

Instead of breaking the cycle, this patch defers inclusion of
&lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; in &lt;asm/processor.h&gt; until the point where it is
actually needed: i.e., immediately before the prctl definitions.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Switch sve_pffr() argument from task to thread</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T16:04:39+00:00</published>
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sve_pffr(), which is used to derive the base address used for
low-level SVE save/restore routines, currently takes the relevant
task_struct as an argument.

The only accessed fields are actually part of thread_struct, so
this patch changes the argument type accordingly.  This is done in
preparation for moving this function to a header, where we do not
want to have to include &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; due to the consequent
circular #include problems.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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sve_pffr(), which is used to derive the base address used for
low-level SVE save/restore routines, currently takes the relevant
task_struct as an argument.

The only accessed fields are actually part of thread_struct, so
this patch changes the argument type accordingly.  This is done in
preparation for moving this function to a header, where we do not
want to have to include &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; due to the consequent
circular #include problems.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Move read_zcr_features() out of cpufeature.h</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T15:47:20+00:00</published>
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Having read_zcr_features() inline in cpufeature.h results in that
header requiring #includes which make it hard to include
&lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; elsewhere without triggering header inclusion
cycles.

This is not a hot-path function and arguably should not be in
cpufeature.h in the first place, so this patch moves it to
fpsimd.c, compiled conditionally if CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=y.

This allows some SVE-related #includes to be dropped from
cpufeature.h, which will ease future maintenance.

A couple of missing #includes of &lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; are exposed by this
change under arch/arm64/.  This patch adds the missing #includes as
necessary.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Having read_zcr_features() inline in cpufeature.h results in that
header requiring #includes which make it hard to include
&lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; elsewhere without triggering header inclusion
cycles.

This is not a hot-path function and arguably should not be in
cpufeature.h in the first place, so this patch moves it to
fpsimd.c, compiled conditionally if CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=y.

This allows some SVE-related #includes to be dropped from
cpufeature.h, which will ease future maintenance.

A couple of missing #includes of &lt;asm/fpsimd.h&gt; are exposed by this
change under arch/arm64/.  This patch adds the missing #includes as
necessary.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Optimise FPSIMD handling to reduce guest/host thrashing</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:28:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-06T13:55:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e6b673b741ea0d7cd275ad40748bfc225accc423'/>
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This patch refactors KVM to align the host and guest FPSIMD
save/restore logic with each other for arm64.  This reduces the
number of redundant save/restore operations that must occur, and
reduces the common-case IRQ blackout time during guest exit storms
by saving the host state lazily and optimising away the need to
restore the host state before returning to the run loop.

Four hooks are defined in order to enable this:

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_run_map_fp():
   Called on PID change to map necessary bits of current to Hyp.

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp():
   Set up FP/SIMD for entering the KVM run loop (parse as
   "vcpu_load fp").

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_ctxsync_fp():
   Get FP/SIMD into a safe state for re-enabling interrupts after a
   guest exit back to the run loop.

   For arm64 specifically, this involves updating the host kernel's
   FPSIMD context tracking metadata so that kernel-mode NEON use
   will cause the vcpu's FPSIMD state to be saved back correctly
   into the vcpu struct.  This must be done before re-enabling
   interrupts because kernel-mode NEON may be used by softirqs.

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp():
   Save guest FP/SIMD state back to memory and dissociate from the
   CPU ("vcpu_put fp").

Also, the arm64 FPSIMD context switch code is updated to enable it
to save back FPSIMD state for a vcpu, not just current.  A few
helpers drive this:

 * fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu(struct user_fpsimd_state *fp):
   mark this CPU as having context fp (which may belong to a vcpu)
   currently loaded in its registers.  This is the non-task
   equivalent of the static function fpsimd_bind_to_cpu() in
   fpsimd.c.

 * task_fpsimd_save():
   exported to allow KVM to save the guest's FPSIMD state back to
   memory on exit from the run loop.

 * fpsimd_flush_state():
   invalidate any context's FPSIMD state that is currently loaded.
   Used to disassociate the vcpu from the CPU regs on run loop exit.

These changes allow the run loop to enable interrupts (and thus
softirqs that may use kernel-mode NEON) without having to save the
guest's FPSIMD state eagerly.

Some new vcpu_arch fields are added to make all this work.  Because
host FPSIMD state can now be saved back directly into current's
thread_struct as appropriate, host_cpu_context is no longer used
for preserving the FPSIMD state.  However, it is still needed for
preserving other things such as the host's system registers.  To
avoid ABI churn, the redundant storage space in host_cpu_context is
not removed for now.

arch/arm is not addressed by this patch and continues to use its
current save/restore logic.  It could provide implementations of
the helpers later if desired.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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This patch refactors KVM to align the host and guest FPSIMD
save/restore logic with each other for arm64.  This reduces the
number of redundant save/restore operations that must occur, and
reduces the common-case IRQ blackout time during guest exit storms
by saving the host state lazily and optimising away the need to
restore the host state before returning to the run loop.

Four hooks are defined in order to enable this:

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_run_map_fp():
   Called on PID change to map necessary bits of current to Hyp.

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp():
   Set up FP/SIMD for entering the KVM run loop (parse as
   "vcpu_load fp").

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_ctxsync_fp():
   Get FP/SIMD into a safe state for re-enabling interrupts after a
   guest exit back to the run loop.

   For arm64 specifically, this involves updating the host kernel's
   FPSIMD context tracking metadata so that kernel-mode NEON use
   will cause the vcpu's FPSIMD state to be saved back correctly
   into the vcpu struct.  This must be done before re-enabling
   interrupts because kernel-mode NEON may be used by softirqs.

 * kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp():
   Save guest FP/SIMD state back to memory and dissociate from the
   CPU ("vcpu_put fp").

Also, the arm64 FPSIMD context switch code is updated to enable it
to save back FPSIMD state for a vcpu, not just current.  A few
helpers drive this:

 * fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu(struct user_fpsimd_state *fp):
   mark this CPU as having context fp (which may belong to a vcpu)
   currently loaded in its registers.  This is the non-task
   equivalent of the static function fpsimd_bind_to_cpu() in
   fpsimd.c.

 * task_fpsimd_save():
   exported to allow KVM to save the guest's FPSIMD state back to
   memory on exit from the run loop.

 * fpsimd_flush_state():
   invalidate any context's FPSIMD state that is currently loaded.
   Used to disassociate the vcpu from the CPU regs on run loop exit.

These changes allow the run loop to enable interrupts (and thus
softirqs that may use kernel-mode NEON) without having to save the
guest's FPSIMD state eagerly.

Some new vcpu_arch fields are added to make all this work.  Because
host FPSIMD state can now be saved back directly into current's
thread_struct as appropriate, host_cpu_context is no longer used
for preserving the FPSIMD state.  However, it is still needed for
preserving other things such as the host's system registers.  To
avoid ABI churn, the redundant storage space in host_cpu_context is
not removed for now.

arch/arm is not addressed by this patch and continues to use its
current save/restore logic.  It could provide implementations of
the helpers later if desired.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Refactor user SVE trap maintenance for external use</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T13:27:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0cff8e776f8f58f494ed16b28baf209c1b73b079'/>
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In preparation for optimising the way KVM manages switching the
guest and host FPSIMD state, it is necessary to provide a means for
code outside arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c to restore the user trap
configuration for SVE correctly for the current task.

Rather than requiring external code to duplicate the maintenance
explicitly, this patch moves the trap maintenenace to
fpsimd_bind_to_cpu(), since it is logically part of the work of
associating the current task with the cpu.

Because fpsimd_bind_to_cpu() is rather a cryptic name to publish
alongside fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu(), the former function is
renamed to fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() to make its purpose more
explicit.

This patch makes appropriate changes to ensure that
fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() is always called alongside
task_fpsimd_load(), so that the trap maintenance continues to be
done in every situation where it was done prior to this patch.

As a side-effect, the metadata updates done by
fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() now change from conditional to
unconditional in the "already bound" case of sigreturn.  This is
harmless, and a couple of extra stores on this slow path will not
impact performance.  I consider this a reasonable price to pay for
a slightly cleaner interface.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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In preparation for optimising the way KVM manages switching the
guest and host FPSIMD state, it is necessary to provide a means for
code outside arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c to restore the user trap
configuration for SVE correctly for the current task.

Rather than requiring external code to duplicate the maintenance
explicitly, this patch moves the trap maintenenace to
fpsimd_bind_to_cpu(), since it is logically part of the work of
associating the current task with the cpu.

Because fpsimd_bind_to_cpu() is rather a cryptic name to publish
alongside fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu(), the former function is
renamed to fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() to make its purpose more
explicit.

This patch makes appropriate changes to ensure that
fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() is always called alongside
task_fpsimd_load(), so that the trap maintenance continues to be
done in every situation where it was done prior to this patch.

As a side-effect, the metadata updates done by
fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() now change from conditional to
unconditional in the "already bound" case of sigreturn.  This is
harmless, and a couple of extra stores on this slow path will not
impact performance.  I consider this a reasonable price to pay for
a slightly cleaner interface.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fpsimd: Eliminate task-&gt;mm checks</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T11:27:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-21T18:08:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df3fb96820455ef70a51630d1be336d4f2602111'/>
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Currently the FPSIMD handling code uses the condition task-&gt;mm ==
NULL as a hint that task has no FPSIMD register context.

The -&gt;mm check is only there to filter out tasks that cannot
possibly have FPSIMD context loaded, for optimisation purposes.
Also, TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE must always be checked anyway before
saving FPSIMD context back to memory.  For these reasons, the -&gt;mm
checks are not useful, providing that TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is
maintained in a consistent way for all threads.

The context switch logic is already deliberately optimised to defer
reloads of the regs until ret_to_user (or sigreturn as a special
case), and save them only if they have been previously loaded.
These paths are the only places where the wrong_task and wrong_cpu
conditions can be made false, by calling fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu().
Kernel threads by definition never reach these paths.  As a result,
the wrong_task and wrong_cpu tests in fpsimd_thread_switch() will
always yield true for kernel threads.

This patch removes the redundant checks and special-case code,
ensuring that TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is set whenever a kernel thread
is scheduled in, and ensures that this flag is set for the init
task.  The fpsimd_flush_task_state() call already present in
copy_thread() ensures the same for any new task.

With TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE always set for kernel threads, this patch
ensures that no extra context save work is added for kernel
threads, and eliminates the redundant context saving that may
currently occur for kernel threads that have acquired an mm via
use_mm().

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Currently the FPSIMD handling code uses the condition task-&gt;mm ==
NULL as a hint that task has no FPSIMD register context.

The -&gt;mm check is only there to filter out tasks that cannot
possibly have FPSIMD context loaded, for optimisation purposes.
Also, TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE must always be checked anyway before
saving FPSIMD context back to memory.  For these reasons, the -&gt;mm
checks are not useful, providing that TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is
maintained in a consistent way for all threads.

The context switch logic is already deliberately optimised to defer
reloads of the regs until ret_to_user (or sigreturn as a special
case), and save them only if they have been previously loaded.
These paths are the only places where the wrong_task and wrong_cpu
conditions can be made false, by calling fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu().
Kernel threads by definition never reach these paths.  As a result,
the wrong_task and wrong_cpu tests in fpsimd_thread_switch() will
always yield true for kernel threads.

This patch removes the redundant checks and special-case code,
ensuring that TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is set whenever a kernel thread
is scheduled in, and ensures that this flag is set for the init
task.  The fpsimd_flush_task_state() call already present in
copy_thread() ensures the same for any new task.

With TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE always set for kernel threads, this patch
ensures that no extra context save work is added for kernel
threads, and eliminates the redundant context saving that may
currently occur for kernel threads that have acquired an mm via
use_mm().

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
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