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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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<title>powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types</title>
<updated>2014-12-18T08:11:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T16:52:51+00:00</published>
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:40+00:00</published>
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:50:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:39+00:00</published>
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:38+00:00</published>
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This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors.  The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory.  Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm-&gt;arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.

Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors.  The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory.  Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm-&gt;arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.

Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:20:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-04T05:43:28+00:00</published>
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Currently the calculations of stolen time for PPC Book3S HV guests
uses fields in both the vcpu struct and the kvmppc_vcore struct.  The
fields in the kvmppc_vcore struct are protected by the
vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock of the vcpu that has taken responsibility for
running the virtual core.  This works correctly but confuses lockdep,
because it sees that the code takes the tbacct_lock for a vcpu in
kvmppc_remove_runnable() and then takes another vcpu's tbacct_lock in
vcore_stolen_time(), and it thinks there is a possibility of deadlock,
causing it to print reports like this:

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
qemu-system-ppc/6188 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb1fe8&gt;] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb25a0&gt;] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock);
  lock(&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

3 locks held by qemu-system-ppc/6188:
 #0:  (&amp;vcpu-&gt;mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;d00000000eb93f98&gt;] .vcpu_load+0x28/0xe0 [kvm]
 #1:  (&amp;(&amp;vcore-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){+.+...}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb41b0&gt;] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x530/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
 #2:  (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb25a0&gt;] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 40 PID: 6188 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89
Call Trace:
[c000000b2754f3f0] [c000000000b31b6c] .dump_stack+0x88/0xb4 (unreliable)
[c000000b2754f470] [c0000000000faeb8] .__lock_acquire+0x1878/0x2190
[c000000b2754f600] [c0000000000fbf0c] .lock_acquire+0xcc/0x1a0
[c000000b2754f6d0] [c000000000b2954c] ._raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0x70
[c000000b2754f760] [d00000000ecb1fe8] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f7f0] [d00000000ecb25b4] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x44/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f880] [d00000000ecb43ec] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x76c/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f9f0] [d00000000eb9f46c] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fa60] [d00000000eb9c9a4] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x160 [kvm]
[c000000b2754faf0] [d00000000eb94538] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x498/0x760 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fcb0] [c000000000267eb4] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x444/0x770
[c000000b2754fd90] [c0000000002682a4] .SyS_ioctl+0xc4/0xe0
[c000000b2754fe30] [c0000000000092e4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

In order to make the locking easier to analyse, we change the code to
use a spinlock in the kvmppc_vcore struct to protect the stolen_tb and
preempt_tb fields.  This lock needs to be an irq-safe lock since it is
used in the kvmppc_core_vcpu_load_hv() and kvmppc_core_vcpu_put_hv()
functions, which are called with the scheduler rq lock held, which is
an irq-safe lock.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Currently the calculations of stolen time for PPC Book3S HV guests
uses fields in both the vcpu struct and the kvmppc_vcore struct.  The
fields in the kvmppc_vcore struct are protected by the
vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock of the vcpu that has taken responsibility for
running the virtual core.  This works correctly but confuses lockdep,
because it sees that the code takes the tbacct_lock for a vcpu in
kvmppc_remove_runnable() and then takes another vcpu's tbacct_lock in
vcore_stolen_time(), and it thinks there is a possibility of deadlock,
causing it to print reports like this:

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
qemu-system-ppc/6188 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb1fe8&gt;] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb25a0&gt;] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock);
  lock(&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

3 locks held by qemu-system-ppc/6188:
 #0:  (&amp;vcpu-&gt;mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;d00000000eb93f98&gt;] .vcpu_load+0x28/0xe0 [kvm]
 #1:  (&amp;(&amp;vcore-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){+.+...}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb41b0&gt;] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x530/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
 #2:  (&amp;(&amp;vcpu-&gt;arch.tbacct_lock)-&gt;rlock){......}, at: [&lt;d00000000ecb25a0&gt;] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x30/0xd0 [kvm_hv]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 40 PID: 6188 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.18.0-rc7-kvm-00016-g8db4bc6 #89
Call Trace:
[c000000b2754f3f0] [c000000000b31b6c] .dump_stack+0x88/0xb4 (unreliable)
[c000000b2754f470] [c0000000000faeb8] .__lock_acquire+0x1878/0x2190
[c000000b2754f600] [c0000000000fbf0c] .lock_acquire+0xcc/0x1a0
[c000000b2754f6d0] [c000000000b2954c] ._raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0x70
[c000000b2754f760] [d00000000ecb1fe8] .vcore_stolen_time+0x48/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f7f0] [d00000000ecb25b4] .kvmppc_remove_runnable.part.3+0x44/0xd0 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f880] [d00000000ecb43ec] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x76c/0x1530 [kvm_hv]
[c000000b2754f9f0] [d00000000eb9f46c] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fa60] [d00000000eb9c9a4] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x160 [kvm]
[c000000b2754faf0] [d00000000eb94538] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x498/0x760 [kvm]
[c000000b2754fcb0] [c000000000267eb4] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x444/0x770
[c000000b2754fd90] [c0000000002682a4] .SyS_ioctl+0xc4/0xe0
[c000000b2754fe30] [c0000000000092e4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

In order to make the locking easier to analyse, we change the code to
use a spinlock in the kvmppc_vcore struct to protect the stolen_tb and
preempt_tb fields.  This lock needs to be an irq-safe lock since it is
used in the kvmppc_core_vcpu_load_hv() and kvmppc_core_vcpu_put_hv()
functions, which are called with the scheduler rq lock held, which is
an irq-safe lock.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T12:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-03T04:51:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d506735b1a3c78e2efb9dc4019c76e9d3938a160'/>
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The B (segment size) field in the RB operand for the tlbie
instruction is two bits, which we get from the top two bits of
the first doubleword of the HPT entry to be invalidated.  These
bits go in bits 8 and 9 of the RB operand (bits 54 and 55 in IBM
bit numbering).

The compute_tlbie_rb() function gets these bits as v &gt;&gt; (62 - 8),
which is not correct as it will bring in the top 10 bits, not
just the top two.  These extra bits could corrupt the AP, AVAL
and L fields in the RB value.  To fix this we shift right 62 bits
and then shift left 8 bits, so we only get the two bits of the
B field.

The first doubleword of the HPT entry is under the control of the
guest kernel.  In fact, Linux guests will always put zeroes in bits
54 -- 61 (IBM bits 2 -- 9), but we should not rely on guests doing
this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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The B (segment size) field in the RB operand for the tlbie
instruction is two bits, which we get from the top two bits of
the first doubleword of the HPT entry to be invalidated.  These
bits go in bits 8 and 9 of the RB operand (bits 54 and 55 in IBM
bit numbering).

The compute_tlbie_rb() function gets these bits as v &gt;&gt; (62 - 8),
which is not correct as it will bring in the top 10 bits, not
just the top two.  These extra bits could corrupt the AP, AVAL
and L fields in the RB value.  To fix this we shift right 62 bits
and then shift left 8 bits, so we only get the two bits of the
B field.

The first doubleword of the HPT entry is under the control of the
guest kernel.  In fact, Linux guests will always put zeroes in bits
54 -- 61 (IBM bits 2 -- 9), but we should not rely on guests doing
this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus</title>
<updated>2014-12-14T23:46:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shreyas B. Prabhu</name>
<email>shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-09T18:56:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=77b54e9f213f76a23736940cf94bcd765fc00f40'/>
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Winkle is a deep idle state supported in power8 chips. A core enters
winkle when all the threads of the core enter winkle. In this state
power supply to the entire chiplet i.e core, private L2 and private L3
is turned off. As a result it gives higher powersavings compared to
sleep.

But entering winkle results in a total hypervisor state loss. Hence the
hypervisor context has to be preserved before entering winkle and
restored upon wake up.

Power-on Reset Engine (PORE) is a dedicated engine which is responsible
for powering on the chiplet during wake up. It can be programmed to
restore the register contests of a few specific registers. This patch
uses PORE to restore register state wherever possible and uses stack to
save and restore rest of the necessary registers.

With hypervisor state restore things fall under three categories-
per-core state, per-subcore state and per-thread state. To manage this,
extend the infrastructure introduced for sleep. Mainly we add a paca
variable subcore_sibling_mask. Using this and the core_idle_state we can
distingush first thread in core and subcore.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Winkle is a deep idle state supported in power8 chips. A core enters
winkle when all the threads of the core enter winkle. In this state
power supply to the entire chiplet i.e core, private L2 and private L3
is turned off. As a result it gives higher powersavings compared to
sleep.

But entering winkle results in a total hypervisor state loss. Hence the
hypervisor context has to be preserved before entering winkle and
restored upon wake up.

Power-on Reset Engine (PORE) is a dedicated engine which is responsible
for powering on the chiplet during wake up. It can be programmed to
restore the register contests of a few specific registers. This patch
uses PORE to restore register state wherever possible and uses stack to
save and restore rest of the necessary registers.

With hypervisor state restore things fall under three categories-
per-core state, per-subcore state and per-thread state. To manage this,
extend the infrastructure introduced for sleep. Mainly we add a paca
variable subcore_sibling_mask. Using this and the core_idle_state we can
distingush first thread in core and subcore.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management</title>
<updated>2014-12-14T23:46:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shreyas B. Prabhu</name>
<email>shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-09T18:56:52+00:00</published>
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Deep idle states like sleep and winkle are per core idle states. A core
enters these states only when all the threads enter either the
particular idle state or a deeper one. There are tasks like fastsleep
hardware bug workaround and hypervisor core state save which have to be
done only by the last thread of the core entering deep idle state and
similarly tasks like timebase resync, hypervisor core register restore
that have to be done only by the first thread waking up from these
state.

The current idle state management does not have a way to distinguish the
first/last thread of the core waking/entering idle states. Tasks like
timebase resync are done for all the threads. This is not only is
suboptimal, but can cause functionality issues when subcores and kvm is
involved.

This patch adds the necessary infrastructure to track idle states of
threads in a per-core structure. It uses this info to perform tasks like
fastsleep workaround and timebase resync only once per core.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Originally-by: Preeti U. Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Deep idle states like sleep and winkle are per core idle states. A core
enters these states only when all the threads enter either the
particular idle state or a deeper one. There are tasks like fastsleep
hardware bug workaround and hypervisor core state save which have to be
done only by the last thread of the core entering deep idle state and
similarly tasks like timebase resync, hypervisor core register restore
that have to be done only by the first thread waking up from these
state.

The current idle state management does not have a way to distinguish the
first/last thread of the core waking/entering idle states. Tasks like
timebase resync are done for all the threads. This is not only is
suboptimal, but can cause functionality issues when subcores and kvm is
involved.

This patch adds the necessary infrastructure to track idle states of
threads in a per-core structure. It uses this info to perform tasks like
fastsleep workaround and timebase resync only once per core.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu &lt;shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Originally-by: Preeti U. Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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