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Al Viro
3bfacef412 get rid of special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha
... just make it a binfmt handler like #! one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-03 11:45:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
56635f7e61 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next:
  kbuild: ignore a few files in headers_check
  kbuild: add checks for include of linux/types in userspace headers
  kbuild: drop debugging leftover in tags.sh
  kbuild: document environment variables
  kbuild: make *config usage docs
  kbuild: disable sparse warning "returning void-valued expression"
  kbuild: in headers_install autoconvert asm/inline/volatile to __xxx__
  kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspace
  headers_check.pl: disallow extern's
  kconfig: improve error messages for bad source statements
  kconfig: struct property commented
  kconfig: add comments to symbol flags
  kconfig: explain symbol value defaults
  m68k: fix recursive dependency in Kconfig
2009-01-02 15:56:54 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
47dabdc7fc Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/fpu' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-01-02 22:41:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
923a789b49 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
2009-01-02 22:41:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b840d79631 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
  x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
  x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
  x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
  sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
  sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
  sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
  sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
  sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
  sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
  sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
  sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
  x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
  x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
  x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
  x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
  x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
  x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2009-01-02 11:44:09 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
cfb2a494bb m68k: fix recursive dependency in Kconfig
We had a recursive dependency between MMU_MOTOROLA and MMU_SUN3
Fix it by dropping the unused dependencies on MMU_MOTOROLA.

MMU_MOTOROLA is set to y only using select so any dependencies
are anyway ignored.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
597b0d2162 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (140 commits)
  KVM: MMU: handle large host sptes on invlpg/resync
  KVM: Add locking to virtual i8259 interrupt controller
  KVM: MMU: Don't treat a global pte as such if cr4.pge is cleared
  MAINTAINERS: Maintainership changes for kvm/ia64
  KVM: ia64: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs()
  KVM: x86: Rework user space NMI injection as KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
  KVM: VMX: Fix pending NMI-vs.-IRQ race for user space irqchip
  KVM: fix handling of ACK from shared guest IRQ
  KVM: MMU: check for present pdptr shadow page in walk_shadow
  KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
  KVM: Advertise the bug in memory region destruction as fixed
  KVM: use cpumask_var_t for cpus_hardware_enabled
  KVM: use modern cpumask primitives, no cpumask_t on stack
  KVM: Extract core of kvm_flush_remote_tlbs/kvm_reload_remote_mmus
  KVM: set owner of cpu and vm file operations
  anon_inodes: use fops->owner for module refcount
  x86: KVM guest: kvm_get_tsc_khz: return khz, not lpj
  KVM: MMU: prepopulate the shadow on invlpg
  KVM: MMU: skip global pgtables on sync due to cr3 switch
  KVM: MMU: collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync
  ...
2009-01-02 11:41:11 -08:00
Ingo Brueckl
e8e3232627 Fix compiler warning in arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-02 10:27:32 -08:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
103ceffb95 x86: mpparse.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup, fix style problems, more readable

Fixes style problems:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/smp.h> instead of <asm/smp.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/acpi.h> instead of <asm/acpi.h>
 WARNING: suspect code indent for conditional statements (8, 17)
 WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('

total: 0 errors, 5 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 19:24:28 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
dceb4521c8 x86: nmi.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup, fix style problems

Fixes style problems:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/smp.h> instead of <asm/smp.h>
 WARNING: Use #include <linux/nmi.h> instead of <asm/nmi.h>

total: 0 errors, 2 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 19:03:38 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
423a54058f x86: ldt.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup

Fixes style problems:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
 ERROR: space required before the open parenthesis '('

total: 1 errors, 1 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 17:46:24 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
f634fa9411 x86: cpuid.c fix style problems
Impact: cleanup

Fixes style problems:

 WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
 ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
 ERROR: trailing whitespace
 WARNING: usage of NR_CPUS is often wrong - consider using cpu_possible(), num_possible_cpus(), for_each_possible_cpu(), etc

total: 2 errors, 2 warnings

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 17:46:23 +01:00
Cliff Wickman
46814dded1 x86, UV: remove erroneous BAU initialization
Impact: fix crash on x86/UV

UV is the SGI "UltraViolet" machine, which is x86_64 based.
BAU is the "Broadcast Assist Unit", used for TLB shootdown in UV.

This patch removes the allocation and initialization of an unused table.

This table is left over from a development test mode.  It is unused in
the present code.

And it was incorrectly initialized: 8 entries allocated but 17 initialized,
causing slab corruption.

This patch should go into 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 as well as the current tree.

Diffed against 2.6.28 (linux-next, 12/30/08)

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 17:26:25 +01:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
26799a6311 x86: fix incorrect __read_mostly on _boot_cpu_pda
The pda rework (commit 3461b0af02)
to remove static boot cpu pdas introduced a performance bug.

_boot_cpu_pda is the actual pda used by the boot cpu and is definitely
not "__read_mostly" and ended up polluting the read mostly section with
writes.  This bug caused regression of about 8-10% on certain syscall
intensive workloads.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 17:16:29 +01:00
Ingo Brueckl
a9067d5376 x86: convert permanent_kmaps_init() from macro to inline
Impact: cleanup

This compiler warning:

  arch/x86/mm/init_32.c:515: warning: unused variable 'pgd_base'

triggers because permanent_kmaps_init() is a CPP macro in the
!CONFIG_HIGHMEM case, that does not tell the compiler that the
'pgd_base' parameter is used.

Convert permanent_kmaps_init() (and set_highmem_pages_init()) to
C inline functions - which gives the parameter a proper type and
which gets rid of the compiler warning as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 15:41:03 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
c64d8996bd x86: early_printk - use sizeof instead of hardcoded number
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 10:27:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b58602a4ba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (34 commits)
  nfsd race fixes: jfs
  nfsd race fixes: reiserfs
  nfsd race fixes: ext4
  nfsd race fixes: ext3
  nfsd race fixes: ext2
  nfsd/create race fixes, infrastructure
  filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification
  fs/block_dev.c: __read_mostly improvement and sb_is_blkdev_sb utilization
  kill ->dir_notify()
  filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c
  fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
  make INIT_FS use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED initialization
  take init_fs to saner place
  kill vfs_permission
  pass a struct path * to may_open
  kill walk_init_root
  remove incorrect comment in inode_permission
  expand some comments (d_path / seq_path)
  correct wrong function name of d_put in kernel document and source comment
  fix switch_names() breakage in short-to-short case
  ...
2008-12-31 15:57:56 -08:00
Al Viro
18d8fda7c3 take init_fs to saner place
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Nick Piggin
c2452f3278 shrink struct dentry
struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.

With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.

I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...

I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.

At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.

I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.

Performance is a feature...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
db200df0b3 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sparseirq: move __weak symbols into separate compilation unit
  sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
  sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQ
  sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selected
  sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
  sparseirq: fix desc->lock init
  sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptors
  sparseirq: remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init()
  irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usage
  proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c
  irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.h
  hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
2008-12-31 09:00:59 -08:00
Marcelo Tosatti
8791723920 KVM: MMU: handle large host sptes on invlpg/resync
The invlpg and sync walkers lack knowledge of large host sptes,
descending to non-existant pagetable level.

Stop at directory level in such case.

Fixes SMP Windows XP with hugepages.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:49 +02:00
Avi Kivity
3f353858c9 KVM: Add locking to virtual i8259 interrupt controller
While most accesses to the i8259 are with the kvm mutex taken, the call
to kvm_pic_read_irq() is not.  We can't easily take the kvm mutex there
since the function is called with interrupts disabled.

Fix by adding a spinlock to the virtual interrupt controller.  Since we
can't send an IPI under the spinlock (we also take the same spinlock in
an irq disabled context), we defer the IPI until the spinlock is released.
Similarly, we defer irq ack notifications until after spinlock release to
avoid lock recursion.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:48 +02:00
Avi Kivity
25e2343246 KVM: MMU: Don't treat a global pte as such if cr4.pge is cleared
The pte.g bit is meaningless if global pages are disabled; deferring
mmu page synchronization on these ptes will lead to the guest using stale
shadow ptes.

Fixes Vista x86 smp bootloader failure.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:48 +02:00
Jes Sorensen
042b26edf0 KVM: ia64: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs()
Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs() to do something meaningful on
ia64. Old versions could never have worked since they required
pointers to be set in the ioctl payload which were never being set by
the ioctl handler for get_regs.

In addition reserve extra space for future extensions.

The change of layout of struct kvm_regs doesn't require adding a new
CAP since get/set regs never worked on ia64 until now.

This version doesn't support copying the KVM kernel stack in/out of
the kernel. This should be implemented in a seperate ioctl call if
ever needed.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Acked-by : Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
4531220b71 KVM: x86: Rework user space NMI injection as KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
There is no point in doing the ready_for_nmi_injection/
request_nmi_window dance with user space. First, we don't do this for
in-kernel irqchip anyway, while the code path is the same as for user
space irqchip mode. And second, there is nothing to loose if a pending
NMI is overwritten by another one (in contrast to IRQs where we have to
save the number). Actually, there is even the risk of raising spurious
NMIs this way because the reason for the held-back NMI might already be
handled while processing the first one.

Therefore this patch creates a simplified user space NMI injection
interface, exporting it under KVM_CAP_USER_NMI and dropping the old
KVM_CAP_NMI capability. And this time we also take care to provide the
interface only on archs supporting NMIs via KVM (right now only x86).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
264ff01d55 KVM: VMX: Fix pending NMI-vs.-IRQ race for user space irqchip
As with the kernel irqchip, don't allow an NMI to stomp over an already
injected IRQ; instead wait for the IRQ injection to be completed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
eb64f1e8cd KVM: MMU: check for present pdptr shadow page in walk_shadow
walk_shadow assumes the caller verified validity of the pdptr pointer in
question, which is not the case for the invlpg handler.

Fixes oops during Solaris 10 install.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Avi Kivity
ca9edaee1a KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
e93353c93a x86: KVM guest: kvm_get_tsc_khz: return khz, not lpj
kvm_get_tsc_khz() currently returns the previously-calculated preset_lpj
value, but it is in loops-per-jiffy, not kHz. The current code works
correctly only when HZ=1000.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
ad218f85e3 KVM: MMU: prepopulate the shadow on invlpg
If the guest executes invlpg, peek into the pagetable and attempt to
prepopulate the shadow entry.

Also stop dirty fault updates from interfering with the fork detector.

2% improvement on RHEL3/AIM7.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
6cffe8ca4a KVM: MMU: skip global pgtables on sync due to cr3 switch
Skip syncing global pages on cr3 switch (but not on cr4/cr0). This is
important for Linux 32-bit guests with PAE, where the kmap page is
marked as global.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
b1a368218a KVM: MMU: collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync
Collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync.

kernbench is 2.7% faster on 4-way guest. Improvements have been seen
with other loads such as AIM7.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
60c8aec6e2 KVM: MMU: use page array in unsync walk
Instead of invoking the handler directly collect pages into
an array so the caller can work with it.

Simplifies TLB flush collapsing.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Amit Shah
fbce554e94 KVM: x86 emulator: Fix handling of VMMCALL instruction
The VMMCALL instruction doesn't get recognised and isn't processed
by the emulator.

This is seen on an Intel host that tries to execute the VMMCALL
instruction after a guest live migrates from an AMD host.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
9bf8ea42fe KVM: x86 emulator: add the emulation of shld and shrd instructions
Add emulation of shld and shrd instructions

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
d175226a5f KVM: x86 emulator: add the assembler code for three operands
Add the assembler code for instruction with three operands and one
operand is stored in ECX register

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
bfcadf83ec KVM: x86 emulator: add a new "implied 1" Src decode type
Add SrcOne operand type when we need to decode an implied '1' like with
regular shift instruction

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
0dc8d10f7d KVM: x86 emulator: add Src2 decode set
Instruction like shld has three operands, so we need to add a Src2
decode set. We start with Src2None, Src2CL, and Src2ImmByte, Src2One to
support shld/shrd and we will expand it later.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
45ed60b371 KVM: x86 emulator: Extend the opcode descriptor
Extend the opcode descriptor to 32 bits. This is needed by the
introduction of a new Src2 operand type.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7b7015914b KVM: ppc: mostly cosmetic updates to the exit timing accounting code
The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
73e75b416f KVM: ppc: Implement in-kernel exit timing statistics
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.

Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.

Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c5fbdffbda KVM: ppc: save and restore guest mappings on context switch
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7924bd4109 KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.

Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.

These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).

In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c0ca609c5f powerpc/44x: declare tlb_44x_index for use in C code
KVM currently ignores the host's round robin TLB eviction selection, instead
maintaining its own TLB state and its own round robin index. However, by
participating in the normal 44x TLB selection, we can drop the alternate TLB
processing in KVM. This results in a significant performance improvement,
since that processing currently must be done on *every* guest exit.

Accordingly, KVM needs to be able to access and increment tlb_44x_index.
(KVM on 440 cannot be a module, so there is no need to export this symbol.)

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
891686188f KVM: ppc: support large host pages
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.

This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Hannes Eder
efff9e538f KVM: VMX: fix sparse warning
Impact: make global function static

  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:134:3: warning: symbol 'vmx_capability' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:06 +02:00
Avi Kivity
f3fd92fbdb KVM: Remove extraneous semicolon after do/while
Notices by Guillaume Thouvenin.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
2b48cc75b2 KVM: x86 emulator: fix popf emulation
Set operand type and size to get correct writeback behavior.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
cf5de4f886 KVM: x86 emulator: fix ret emulation
'ret' did not set the operand type or size for the destination, so
writeback ignored it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
8a09b6877f KVM: x86 emulator: switch 'pop reg' instruction to emulate_pop()
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:04 +02:00