user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kvm_host.h, branch v4.7

KVM: Create debugfs dir and stat files for each VM

2016-05-25T14:12:05Z

This patch adds a kvm debugfs subdirectory for each VM, which is named after its pid and file descriptor. The directories contain the same kind of files that are already in the kvm debugfs directory, but the data exported through them is now VM specific. This makes the debugfs kvm data a convenient alternative to the tracepoints which already have per VM data. The debugfs data is easy to read and low overhead. CC: Dan Carpenter [includes fixes by Dan Carpenter] Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: split kvm_vcpu_wake_up from kvm_vcpu_kick

2016-05-18T16:04:27Z

AVIC has a use for kvm_vcpu_wake_up. Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll

2016-05-13T15:29:23Z

Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough. This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests. This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls. For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll. This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as not sucessful. As KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor, we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though. This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP while still providing a proper speedup. This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks wakeups that are considered not good for polling. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Acked-by: Radim Krčmář (for an earlier version) Cc: David Matlack Cc: Wanpeng Li [Rename config symbol. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: Conditionally register IRQ bypass consumer

2016-05-11T20:37:55Z

If we don't support a mechanism for bypassing IRQs, don't register as a consumer. This eliminates meaningless dev_info()s when the connect fails between producer and consumer, such as on AMD systems where kvm_x86_ops->update_pi_irte is not implemented Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: introduce KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID

2016-05-11T20:37:54Z

The KVM_MAX_VCPUS define provides the maximum number of vCPUs per guest, and also the upper limit for vCPU ids. This is okay for all archs except PowerPC which can have higher ids, depending on the cpu/core/thread topology. In the worst case (single threaded guest, host with 8 threads per core), it limits the maximum number of vCPUS to KVM_MAX_VCPUS / 8. This patch separates the vCPU numbering from the total number of vCPUs, with the introduction of KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID, as the maximal valid value for vCPU ids plus one. The corresponding KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID allows userspace to validate vCPU ids before passing them to KVM_CREATE_VCPU. This patch only implements KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID with a specific value for PowerPC. Other archs continue to return KVM_MAX_VCPUS instead. Suggested-by: Radim Krcmar Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: remove NULL return path for vcpu ids >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS

2016-05-11T20:37:53Z

Commit c896939f7cff ("KVM: use heuristic for fast VCPU lookup by id") added a return path that prevents vcpu ids to exceed KVM_MAX_VCPUS. This is a problem for powerpc where vcpu ids can grow up to 8*KVM_MAX_VCPUS. This patch simply reverses the logic so that we only try fast path if the vcpu id can be tried as an index in kvm->vcpus[]. The slow path is not affected by the change. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: add missing memory barrier in kvm_{make,check}_request

2016-04-20T13:29:17Z

kvm_make_request and kvm_check_request imply a producer-consumer relationship; add implicit memory barriers to them. There was indeed already a place that was adding an explicit smp_mb() to order between kvm_check_request and the processing of the request. That memory barrier can be removed (as an added benefit, kvm_check_request can use smp_mb__after_atomic which is free on x86). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq

2016-02-25T10:27:16Z

The problem: On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path: 1) hard interrupt 2) ksoftirqd is scheduled 3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread 4) vcpu thread is scheduled This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the LAPIC path for a KVM guest. The solution: Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context, thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled. Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which is not allowed from hard interrupt context. cyclictest command line: This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us. Daniel writes: Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04: ./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host with idle=poll. The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of them are smaller. Paolo write: "Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case. The mean shows an improvement indeed." Before: min max mean std count 1000.000000 1000.000000 1000.000000 1000.000000 mean 5162.596000 2019270.084000 5824.491541 20681.645558 std 75.431231 622607.723969 89.575700 6492.272062 min 4466.000000 23928.000000 5537.926500 585.864966 25% 5163.000000 1613252.750000 5790.132275 16683.745433 50% 5175.000000 2281919.000000 5834.654000 23151.990026 75% 5190.000000 2382865.750000 5861.412950 24148.206168 max 5228.000000 4175158.000000 6254.827300 46481.048691 After min max mean std count 1000.000000 1000.00000 1000.000000 1000.000000 mean 5143.511000 2076886.10300 5813.312474 21207.357565 std 77.668322 610413.09583 86.541500 6331.915127 min 4427.000000 25103.00000 5529.756600 559.187707 25% 5148.000000 1691272.75000 5784.889825 17473.518244 50% 5160.000000 2308328.50000 5832.025000 23464.837068 75% 5172.000000 2393037.75000 5853.177675 24223.969976 max 5222.000000 3922458.00000 6186.720500 42520.379830 [Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.] Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kvm: rename pfn_t to kvm_pfn_t

2016-01-16T01:56:32Z

To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory, PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into userspace). This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings to be the target of direct-i/o. It allows userspace to coordinate DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory. The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into 4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned and dynamically mapped by a device driver. The pmem driver, after mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type. The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new _PAGE_DEVMAP flag. Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active. Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references against the device driver established page mapping. Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires memory capacity to store the memmap array. Given the memmap array for a large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory. The new "struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page allocator. This patch (of 18): The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1]. Move the existing pfn_t in KVM to kvm_pfn_t [2]. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.html [2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002218.html Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Christoffer Dall Cc: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/

2016-01-08T18:04:36Z

Since the numbers now overlap, it makes sense to enumerate them in asm/kvm_host.h rather than linux/kvm_host.h. Functions that refer to architecture-specific requests are also moved to arch/. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini