user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v5.4.13

cpuidle: add haltpoll governor

2019-07-30T15:27:37Z

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 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt

2019-07-24T08:52:11Z

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: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter

2019-07-20T07:00:48Z

Updates KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER so it can also whitelist or blacklist fixed counters. Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland [No need to check padding fields for zero. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2019-07-12T22:35:14Z

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 ...

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2019-07-11T13:14:16Z

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

Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks

2019-07-11T13:12:34Z

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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst

2019-07-11T13:11:26Z

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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst

2019-07-11T13:11:10Z

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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter

2019-07-11T13:08:28Z

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 [Lots of changes. All remaining bugs are probably mine. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-07-09T19:34:26Z

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 ...