user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kvm_host.h, branch v3.16.1

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-13T02:42:15Z

Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Second round of scheduler changes: - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas Pitre - misc fixes and enhancements" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio() sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu() sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...) sched: Rename capacity related flags sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power" sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity" sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats' sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to() sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee() sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period

sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()

2014-06-05T09:52:13Z

yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning true. The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Raghavendra Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140523102042.GA7267@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING

2014-05-05T14:29:11Z

When starting lots of dataplane devices the bootup takes very long on Christian's s390 with irqfd patches. With larger setups he is even able to trigger some timeouts in some components. Turns out that the KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl takes very long (strace claims up to 0.1 sec) when having multiple CPUs. This is caused by the synchronize_rcu and the HZ=100 of s390. By changing the code to use a private srcu we can speed things up. This patch reduces the boot time till mounting root from 8 to 2 seconds on my s390 guest with 100 disks. Uses of hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_add_head_rcu, hlist_del_init_rcu are fine because they do not have lockdep checks (hlist_for_each_entry_rcu uses rcu_dereference_raw rather than rcu_dereference, and write-sides do not do rcu lockdep at all). Note that we're hardly relying on the "sleepable" part of srcu. We just want SRCU's faster detection of grace periods. Testing was done by Andrew Theurer using netperf tests STREAM, MAERTS and RR. The difference between results "before" and "after" the patch has mean -0.2% and standard deviation 0.6%. Using a paired t-test on the data points says that there is a 2.5% probability that the patch is the cause of the performance difference (rather than a random fluctuation). (Restricting the t-test to RR, which is the most likely to be affected, changes the numbers to respectively -0.3% mean, 0.7% stdev, and 8% probability that the numbers actually say something about the patch. The probability increases mostly because there are fewer data points). Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger # s390 Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: s390: enable IBS for single running VCPUs

2014-04-29T13:01:54Z

This patch enables the IBS facility when a single VCPU is running. The facility is dynamically turned on/off as soon as other VCPUs enter/leave the stopped state. When this facility is operating, some instructions can be executed faster for single-cpu guests. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

Revert "KVM: Simplify kvm->tlbs_dirty handling"

2014-04-23T20:49:48Z

This reverts commit 5befdc385ddb2d5ae8995ad89004529a3acf58fc. Since we will allow flush tlb out of mmu-lock in the later patch Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

Merge tag 'kvm-s390-20140422' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into queue

2014-04-22T13:51:06Z

Lazy storage key handling ------------------------- Linux does not use the ACC and F bits of the storage key. Newer Linux versions also do not use the storage keys for dirty and reference tracking. We can optimize the guest handling for those guests for faults as well as page-in and page-out by simply not caring about the guest visible storage key. We trap guest storage key instruction to enable those keys only on demand. Migration bitmap Until now s390 never provided a proper dirty bitmap. Let's provide a proper migration bitmap for s390. We also change the user dirty tracking to a fault based mechanism. This makes the host completely independent from the storage keys. Long term this will allow us to back guest memory with large pages. per-VM device attributes ------------------------ To avoid the introduction of new ioctls, let's provide the attribute semanantic also on the VM-"device". Userspace controlled CMMA ------------------------- The CMMA assist is changed from "always on" to "on if requested" via per-VM device attributes. In addition a callback to reset all usage states is provided. Proper guest DAT handling for intercepts ---------------------------------------- While instructions handled by SIE take care of all addressing aspects, KVM/s390 currently does not care about guest address translation of intercepts. This worked out fine, because - the s390 Linux kernel has a 1:1 mapping between kernel virtual<->real for all pages up to memory size - intercepts happen only for a small amount of cases - all of these intercepts happen to be in the kernel text for current distros Of course we need to be better for other intercepts, kernel modules etc. We provide the infrastructure and rework all in-kernel intercepts to work on logical addresses (paging etc) instead of real ones. The code has been running internally for several months now, so it is time for going public. GDB support ----------- We provide breakpoints, single stepping and watchpoints. Fixes/Cleanups -------------- - Improve program check delivery - Factor out the handling of transactional memory on program checks - Use the existing define __LC_PGM_TDB - Several cleanups in the lowcore structure - Documentation NOTES ----- - All patches touching base s390 are either ACKed or written by the s390 maintainers - One base KVM patch "KVM: add kvm_is_error_gpa() helper" - One patch introduces the notion of VM device attributes Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Conflicts: include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

KVM: add kvm_is_error_gpa() helper

2014-04-22T11:24:35Z

It's quite common (in the s390 guest access code) to test if a guest physical address points to a valid guest memory area or not. So add a simple helper function in common code, since this might be of interest for other architectures as well. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

KVM: VMX: speed up wildcard MMIO EVENTFD

2014-04-17T17:01:43Z

With KVM, MMIO is much slower than PIO, due to the need to do page walk and emulation. But with EPT, it does not have to be: we know the address from the VMCS so if the address is unique, we can look up the eventfd directly, bypassing emulation. Unfortunately, this only works if userspace does not need to match on access length and data. The implementation adds a separate FAST_MMIO bus internally. This serves two purposes: - minimize overhead for old userspace that does not use eventfd with lengtth = 0 - minimize disruption in other code (since we don't know the length, devices on the MMIO bus only get a valid address in write, this way we don't need to touch all devices to teach them to handle an invalid length) At the moment, this optimization only has effect for EPT on x86. It will be possible to speed up MMIO for NPT and MMU using the same idea in the future. With this patch applied, on VMX MMIO EVENTFD is essentially as fast as PIO. I was unable to detect any measureable slowdown to non-eventfd MMIO. Making MMIO faster is important for the upcoming virtio 1.0 which includes an MMIO signalling capability. The idea was suggested by Peter Anvin. Lots of thanks to Gleb for pre-review and suggestions. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM: Bump KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES for s390

2014-03-21T12:43:13Z

The maximum number for irq routes is currently 1024, which is a bit on the small size for s390: We support up to 4 x 64k virtual devices with up to 64 queues, and we need one route for each of the queues if we want to operate it via irqfd. Let's bump this to 4k on s390 for now, as this at least covers the saner setups. We need to find a more general solution, though, as we can't just grow the routing table indefinitly. Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck

KVM: s390: irq routing for adapter interrupts.

2014-03-21T12:43:00Z

Introduce a new interrupt class for s390 adapter interrupts and enable irqfds for s390. This is depending on a new s390 specific vm capability, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP, that needs to be enabled by userspace. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck