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James Hogan
2a06dab877 MIPS: KVM: Fail if ebase doesn't fit in CP0_EBase
Fail if the address of the allocated exception base doesn't fit into the
CP0_EBase register. This can happen on MIPS64 if CP0_EBase.WG isn't
implemented but RAM is available outside of the range of KSeg0.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-08-01 18:42:24 +02:00
James Hogan
70e92c7ee9 MIPS: KVM: Don't save/restore lo/hi for r6
MIPSr6 doesn't have lo/hi registers, so don't bother saving or
restoring them, and don't expose them to userland with the KVM ioctl
interface either.

In fact the lo/hi registers aren't callee saved in the MIPS ABIs anyway,
so there is no need to preserve the host lo/hi values at all when
transitioning to and from the guest (which happens via a function call).

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-05 16:09:14 +02:00
James Hogan
1f9ca62cbc MIPS: KVM: Relative branch to common exit handler
Use a relative branch to get from the individual exception vectors to
the common guest exit handler, rather than loading the address of the
exit handler and jumping to it.

This is made easier due to the fact we are now generating the entry code
dynamically. This will also allow the exception code to be further
reduced in future patches.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-05 16:08:55 +02:00
James Hogan
1e5217f542 MIPS: KVM: Dynamically choose scratch registers
Scratch cop0 registers are needed by KVM to be able to save/restore all
the GPRs, including k0/k1, and for storing the VCPU pointer. However no
registers are universally suitable for these purposes, so the decision
should be made at runtime.

Until now, we've used DDATA_LO to store the VCPU pointer, and ErrorEPC
as a temporary. It could be argued that this is abuse of those
registers, and DDATA_LO is known not to be usable on certain
implementations (Cavium Octeon). If KScratch registers are present, use
them instead.

We save & restore the temporary register in addition to the VCPU pointer
register when using a KScratch register for it, as it may be used for
normal host TLB handling too.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-05 16:08:54 +02:00
James Hogan
d7b8f890b6 MIPS: KVM: Add dumping of generated entry code
Dump the generated entry code with pr_debug(), similar to how it is done
in tlbex.c, so it can be more easily debugged.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-05 16:08:47 +02:00
James Hogan
90e9311a34 MIPS; KVM: Convert exception entry to uasm
Convert the whole of locore.S (assembly to enter guest and handle
exception entry) to be generated dynamically with uasm. This is done
with minimal changes to the resulting code.

The main changes are:
- Some constants are generated by uasm using LUI+ADDIU instead of
  LUI+ORI.
- Loading of lo and hi are swapped around in vcpu_run but not when
  resuming the guest after an exit. Both bits of logic are now generated
  by the same code.
- Register MOVEs in uasm use different ADDU operand ordering to GNU as,
  putting zero register into rs instead of rt.
- The JALR.HB to call the C exit handler is switched to JALR, since the
  hazard barrier would appear to be unnecessary.

This will allow further optimisation in the future to dynamically handle
the capabilities of the CPU.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-05 16:08:46 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
6edaa5307f KVM: remove kvm_guest_enter/exit wrappers
Use the functions from context_tracking.h directly.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-07-01 11:03:21 +02:00
James Hogan
0510870952 MIPS: KVM: Add KScratch registers
Allow up to 6 KVM guest KScratch registers to be enabled and accessed
via the KVM guest register API and from the guest itself (the fallback
reading and writing of commpage registers is sufficient for KScratch
registers to work as expected).

User mode can expose the registers by setting the appropriate bits of
the guest Config4.KScrExist field. KScratch registers that aren't usable
won't be writeable via the KVM Ioctl API.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-15 23:58:36 +02:00
James Hogan
e57759306c MIPS: KVM: List FPU/MSA registers
Make KVM_GET_REG_LIST list FPU & MSA registers. Specifically we list all
32 vector registers when MSA can be enabled, 32 single-precision FP
registers when FPU can be enabled, and either 16 or 32 double-precision
FP registers when FPU can be enabled depending on whether FR mode is
supported (which provides 32 doubles instead of 16 even doubles).

Note, these registers may still be inaccessible depending on the current
FP mode of the guest.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-15 23:58:25 +02:00
James Hogan
f5c43bd421 MIPS: KVM: Make KVM_GET_REG_LIST dynamic
Make the implementation of KVM_GET_REG_LIST more dynamic so that only
the subset of registers actually available can be exposed to user mode.
This is important for VZ where some of the guest register state may not
be possible to prevent the guest from accessing, therefore the user
process may need to be aware of the state even if it doesn't understand
what the state is for.

This also allows different MIPS KVM implementations to provide different
registers to one another, by way of new num_regs(vcpu) and
copy_reg_indices(vcpu, indices) callback functions, currently just
stubbed for trap & emulate.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-15 23:58:24 +02:00
James Hogan
cc68d22f97 MIPS: KVM: Pass all unknown registers to callbacks
Pass all unrecognised register IDs through to the set_one_reg() and
get_one_reg() callbacks, not just select ones. This allows
implementation specific registers to be more easily added without having
to modify arch/mips/kvm/mips.c.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-15 23:58:23 +02:00
James Hogan
93258604ab MIPS: KVM: Add guest mode switch trace events
Add a few trace events for entering and coming out of guest mode, as well
as re-entering it from a guest exit exception.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:16:24 +02:00
James Hogan
1e09e86ac1 MIPS: KVM: Clean up kvm_exit trace event
Clean up the MIPS kvm_exit trace event so that the exit reasons are
specified in a trace friendly way (via __print_symbolic), and so that
the exit reasons that derive straight from Cause.ExcCode values map
directly, allowing a single trace_kvm_exit() call to replace a bunch of
individual ones.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:16:23 +02:00
James Hogan
04ebebf45a MIPS: KVM: Add kvm_aux trace event
Add a MIPS specific trace event for auxiliary context operations
(notably FPU and MSA). Unfortunately the generic kvm_fpu trace event
isn't flexible enough to handle the range of interesting things that can
happen with FPU and MSA context.

The type of state being operated on is traced:
- FPU: Just the FPU registers.
- MSA: Just the upper half of the MSA vector registers (low half already
       loaded with FPU state).
- FPU & MSA: Full MSA vector state (includes FPU state).

As is the type of operation:
- Restore: State was enabled and restored.
- Save: State was saved and disabled.
- Enable: State was enabled (already loaded).
- Disable: State was disabled (kept loaded).
- Discard: State was discarded and disabled.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
[Fix remaining occurrence of "fpu_msa", change to "aux". - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:16:20 +02:00
James Hogan
f943176a72 MIPS: KVM: Generalise fpu_inuse for other state
Rename fpu_inuse and the related definitions to aux_inuse so it can be
used for lazy context management of other auxiliary processor state too,
such as VZ guest timer, watchpoints and performance counters.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:02:48 +02:00
James Hogan
878edf014e MIPS: KVM: Restore host EBase from ebase variable
The host kernel's exception vector base address is currently saved in
the VCPU structure at creation time, and restored on a guest exit.
However it doesn't change and can already be easily accessed from the
'ebase' variable (arch/mips/kernel/traps.c), so drop the host_ebase
member of kvm_vcpu_arch, export the 'ebase' variable to modules and load
from there instead.

This does result in a single extra instruction (lui) on the guest exit
path, but simplifies the code a bit and removes the redundant storage of
the host exception base address.

Credit for the idea goes to Cavium's VZ KVM implementation.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:02:44 +02:00
James Hogan
9befad23ed MIPS: KVM: Don't indirect KVM functions
Several KVM module functions are indirected so that they can be accessed
from tlb.c which is statically built into the kernel. This is no longer
necessary as the relevant bits of code have moved into mmu.c which is
part of the KVM module, so drop the indirections.

Note: is_error_pfn() is defined inline in kvm_host.h, so didn't actually
require the KVM module to be loaded for it to work anyway.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:02:42 +02:00
James Hogan
8cffd19748 MIPS: KVM: Convert code to kernel sized types
Convert the MIPS KVM C code to use standard kernel sized types (e.g.
u32) instead of inttypes.h style ones (e.g. uint32_t) or other types as
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:02:41 +02:00
James Hogan
797179bc4f MIPS: KVM: Fix modular KVM under QEMU
Copy __kvm_mips_vcpu_run() into unmapped memory, so that we can never
get a TLB refill exception in it when KVM is built as a module.

This was observed to happen with the host MIPS kernel running under
QEMU, due to a not entirely transparent optimisation in the QEMU TLB
handling where TLB entries replaced with TLBWR are copied to a separate
part of the TLB array. Code in those pages continue to be executable,
but those mappings persist only until the next ASID switch, even if they
are marked global.

An ASID switch happens in __kvm_mips_vcpu_run() at exception level after
switching to the guest exception base. Subsequent TLB mapped kernel
instructions just prior to switching to the guest trigger a TLB refill
exception, which enters the guest exception handlers without updating
EPC. This appears as a guest triggered TLB refill on a host kernel
mapped (host KSeg2) address, which is not handled correctly as user
(guest) mode accesses to kernel (host) segments always generate address
error exceptions.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.x-
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 10:59:44 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
3491caf275 KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll
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 <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version)
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
[Rename config symbol. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-05-13 17:29:23 +02:00
James Hogan
4ac334295e MIPS: KVM: Add missing disable FPU hazard barriers
Add the necessary hazard barriers after disabling the FPU in
kvm_lose_fpu(), just to be safe.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-05-10 15:56:52 +02:00
James Hogan
556f2a5231 MIPS: KVM: Fix preemption warning reading FPU capability
Reading the KVM_CAP_MIPS_FPU capability returns cpu_has_fpu, however
this uses smp_processor_id() to read the current CPU capabilities (since
some old MIPS systems could have FPUs present on only a subset of CPUs).

We don't support any such systems, so work around the warning by using
raw_cpu_has_fpu instead.

We should probably instead claim not to support FPU at all if any one
CPU is lacking an FPU, but this should do for now.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-05-10 15:56:51 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d4e796152a Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - Make schedstats a runtime tunable (disabled by default) and
     optimize it via static keys.

     As most distributions enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y due to its
     instrumentation value, this is a nice performance enhancement.
     (Mel Gorman)

   - Implement 'simple waitqueues' (swait): these are just pure
     waitqueues without any of the more complex features of full-blown
     waitqueues (callbacks, wake flags, wake keys, etc.).  Simple
     waitqueues have less memory overhead and are faster.

     Use simple waitqueues in the RCU code (in 4 different places) and
     for handling KVM vCPU wakeups.

     (Peter Zijlstra, Daniel Wagner, Thomas Gleixner, Paul Gortmaker,
     Marcelo Tosatti)

   - sched/numa enhancements (Rik van Riel)

   - NOHZ performance enhancements (Rik van Riel)

   - Various sched/deadline enhancements (Steven Rostedt)

   - Various fixes (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... and a number of other fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
  sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies
  sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entity
  Revert "kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error"
  sched/deadline: Remove superfluous call to switched_to_dl()
  sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()
  sched, time: Switch VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity
  time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
  acct, time: Change indentation in __acct_update_integrals()
  sched, time: Remove non-power-of-two divides from __acct_update_integrals()
  sched/rt: Kick RT bandwidth timer immediately on start up
  sched/debug: Add deadline scheduler bandwidth ratio to /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Move sched_domain_sysctl to debug.c
  sched/debug: Move the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features file setup into debug.c
  sched/rt: Fix PI handling vs. sched_setscheduler()
  sched/core: Remove duplicated sched_group_set_shares() prototype
  sched/fair: Consolidate nohz CPU load update code
  sched/fair: Avoid using decay_load_missed() with a negative value
  sched/deadline: Always calculate end of period on sched_yield()
  sched/cgroup: Fix cgroup entity load tracking tear-down
  rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in rcutree
  ...
2016-03-14 19:14:06 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
0178fd7dcc mips/kvm: fix ioctl error handling
Returning directly whatever copy_to_user(...) or copy_from_user(...)
returns may not do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
copy_to_user/copy_from_user return the number of bytes not copied in
this case, but ioctls need to return -EFAULT instead.

Fix up kvm on mips to do
	return copy_to_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;
and
	return copy_from_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;

everywhere.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-03-02 10:34:52 +01:00
Marcelo Tosatti
8577370fb0 KVM: Use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq
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 <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-02-25 11:27:16 +01:00
James Hogan
f7fdcb6010 MIPS: KVM: Add missing newline to kvm_err()
Add missing newline to end of kvm_err string when guest PMAP couldn't be
allocated.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11896/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-01-24 03:38:48 +01:00
James Hogan
16d100db24 MIPS: Move Cause.ExcCode trap codes to mipsregs.h
Move the Cause.ExcCode trap code definitions from kvm_host.h to
mipsregs.h, since they describe architectural bits rather than KVM
specific constants, and change the prefix from T_ to EXCCODE_.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11891/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-01-24 03:15:51 +01:00
James Hogan
2db9d23386 MIPS: KVM: Make kvm_mips_{init,exit}() static
The module init and exit functions have no need to be global, so make
them static.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11889/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-01-24 03:15:01 +01:00
James Hogan
585bb8f9a5 MIPS: KVM: Uninit VCPU in vcpu_create error path
If either of the memory allocations in kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fail, the
vcpu which has been allocated and kvm_vcpu_init'd doesn't get uninit'd
in the error handling path. Add a call to kvm_vcpu_uninit() to fix this.

Fixes: 669e846e6c ("KVM/MIPS32: MIPS arch specific APIs for KVM")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.x-
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-11-18 12:25:36 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
62bea5bff4 KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats
This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason,
trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning.

For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly
like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes
10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every
479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then
is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without
polling.  This would show as an abnormally high number of
attempted polling compared to the successful polls.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com<
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-16 12:17:00 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
f36f3f2846 KVM: add "new" argument to kvm_arch_commit_memory_region
This lets the function access the new memory slot without going through
kvm_memslots and id_to_memslot.  It will simplify the code when more
than one address space will be supported.

Unfortunately, the "const"ness of the new argument must be casted
away in two places.  Fixing KVM to accept const struct kvm_memory_slot
pointers would require modifications in pretty much all architectures,
and is left for later.

Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-05-28 10:42:58 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
09170a4942 KVM: const-ify uses of struct kvm_userspace_memory_region
Architecture-specific helpers are not supposed to muck with
struct kvm_userspace_memory_region contents.  Add const to
enforce this.

In order to eliminate the only write in __kvm_set_memory_region,
the cleaning of deleted slots is pulled up from update_memslots
to __kvm_set_memory_region.

Reviewed-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-05-26 12:40:13 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
9f6b802978 KVM: use kvm_memslots whenever possible
kvm_memslots provides lockdep checking.  Use it consistently instead of
explicit dereferencing of kvm->memslots.

Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-05-26 12:40:08 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
69a1220060 KVM: mips: use id_to_memslot correctly
The argument to KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG is a memslot id; it may not match the
position in the memslots array, which is sorted by gfn.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-05-19 20:52:44 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
ccf73aaf5a KVM: arm/mips/x86/power use __kvm_guest_{enter|exit}
Use __kvm_guest_{enter|exit} instead of kvm_guest_{enter|exit}
where interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-05-07 11:28:22 +02:00
James Hogan
d952bd070f MIPS: KVM: Wire up MSA capability
Now that the code is in place for KVM to support MIPS SIMD Architecutre
(MSA) in MIPS guests, wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA capability.

For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of MSA from the guest.

The capability is not supported if the hardware supports MSA vector
partitioning, since the extra support cannot be tested yet and it
extends the state that the userland program would have to save.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:22 +00:00
James Hogan
ab86bd6004 MIPS: KVM: Expose MSA registers
Add KVM register numbers for the MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) registers,
and implement access to them with the KVM_GET_ONE_REG / KVM_SET_ONE_REG
ioctls when the MSA capability is enabled (exposed in a later patch) and
present in the guest according to its Config3.MSAP bit.

The MSA vector registers use the same register numbers as the FPU
registers except with a different size (128bits). Since MSA depends on
Status.FR=1, these registers are inaccessible when Status.FR=0. These
registers are returned as a single native endian 128bit value, rather
than least significant half first with each 64-bit half native endian as
the kernel uses internally.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:21 +00:00
James Hogan
c2537ed9fb MIPS: KVM: Add MSA exception handling
Add guest exception handling for MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) floating
point exceptions and MSA disabled exceptions.

MSA floating point exceptions from the guest need passing to the guest
kernel, so for these a guest MSAFPE is emulated.

MSA disabled exceptions are normally handled by passing a reserved
instruction exception to the guest (because no guest MSA was supported),
but the hypervisor can now handle them if the guest has MSA by passing
an MSA disabled exception to the guest, or if the guest has MSA enabled
by transparently restoring the guest MSA context and enabling MSA and
the FPU.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:20 +00:00
James Hogan
539cb89fbd MIPS: KVM: Add base guest MSA support
Add base code for supporting the MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) in MIPS
KVM guests. MSA cannot yet be enabled in the guest, we're just laying
the groundwork.

As with the FPU, whether the guest's MSA context is loaded is stored in
another bit in the fpu_inuse vcpu member. This allows MSA to be disabled
when the guest disables it, but keeping the MSA context loaded so it
doesn't have to be reloaded if the guest re-enables it.

New assembly code is added for saving and restoring the MSA context,
restoring only the upper half of the MSA context (for if the FPU context
is already loaded) and for saving/clearing and restoring MSACSR (which
can itself cause an MSA FP exception depending on the value). The MSACSR
is restored before returning to the guest if MSA is already enabled, and
the existing FP exception die notifier is extended to catch the possible
MSA FP exception and step over the ctcmsa instruction.

The helper function kvm_own_msa() is added to enable MSA and restore
the MSA context if it isn't already loaded, which will be used in a
later patch when the guest attempts to use MSA for the first time and
triggers an MSA disabled exception.

The existing FPU helpers are extended to handle MSA. kvm_lose_fpu()
saves the full MSA context if it is loaded (which includes the FPU
context) and both kvm_lose_fpu() and kvm_drop_fpu() disable MSA.

kvm_own_fpu() also needs to lose any MSA context if FR=0, since there
would be a risk of getting reserved instruction exceptions if CU1 is
enabled and we later try and save the MSA context. We shouldn't usually
hit this case since it will be handled when emulating CU1 changes,
however there's nothing to stop the guest modifying the Status register
directly via the comm page, which will cause this case to get hit.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:19 +00:00
James Hogan
5fafd8748b MIPS: KVM: Wire up FPU capability
Now that the code is in place for KVM to support FPU in MIPS KVM guests,
wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_FPU capability.

For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of the FPU from the guest.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:18 +00:00
James Hogan
379245cdf1 MIPS: KVM: Expose FPU registers
Add KVM register numbers for the MIPS FPU registers, and implement
access to them with the KVM_GET_ONE_REG / KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls when
the FPU capability is enabled (exposed in a later patch) and present in
the guest according to its Config1.FP bit.

The registers are accessible in the current mode of the guest, with each
sized access showing what the guest would see with an equivalent access,
and like the architecture they may become UNPREDICTABLE if the FR mode
is changed. When FR=0, odd doubles are inaccessible as they do not exist
in that mode.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:17 +00:00
James Hogan
1c0cd66adb MIPS: KVM: Add FP exception handling
Add guest exception handling for floating point exceptions and
coprocessor 1 unusable exceptions.

Floating point exceptions from the guest need passing to the guest
kernel, so for these a guest FPE is emulated.

Also, coprocessor 1 unusable exceptions are normally passed straight
through to the guest (because no guest FPU was supported), but the
hypervisor can now handle them if the guest has its FPU enabled by
restoring the guest FPU context and enabling the FPU.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:16 +00:00
James Hogan
98e91b8457 MIPS: KVM: Add base guest FPU support
Add base code for supporting FPU in MIPS KVM guests. The FPU cannot yet
be enabled in the guest, we're just laying the groundwork.

Whether the guest's FPU context is loaded is stored in a bit in the
fpu_inuse vcpu member. This allows the FPU to be disabled when the guest
disables it, but keeping the FPU context loaded so it doesn't have to be
reloaded if the guest re-enables it.

An fpu_enabled vcpu member stores whether userland has enabled the FPU
capability (which will be wired up in a later patch).

New assembly code is added for saving and restoring the FPU context, and
for saving/clearing and restoring FCSR (which can itself cause an FP
exception depending on the value). The FCSR is restored before returning
to the guest if the FPU is already enabled, and a die notifier is
registered to catch the possible FP exception and step over the ctc1
instruction.

The helper function kvm_lose_fpu() is added to save FPU context and
disable the FPU, which is used when saving hardware state before a
context switch or KVM exit (the vcpu_get_regs() callback).

The helper function kvm_own_fpu() is added to enable the FPU and restore
the FPU context if it isn't already loaded, which will be used in a
later patch when the guest attempts to use the FPU for the first time
and triggers a co-processor unusable exception.

The helper function kvm_drop_fpu() is added to discard the FPU context
and disable the FPU, which will be used in a later patch when the FPU
state will become architecturally UNPREDICTABLE (change of FR mode) to
force a reload of [stale] context in the new FR mode.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:14 +00:00
James Hogan
c771607af9 MIPS: KVM: Add Config4/5 and writing of Config registers
Add Config4 and Config5 co-processor 0 registers, and add capability to
write the Config1, Config3, Config4, and Config5 registers using the KVM
API.

Only supported bits can be written, to minimise the chances of the guest
being given a configuration from e.g. QEMU that is inconsistent with
that being emulated, and as such the handling is in trap_emul.c as it
may need to be different for VZ. Currently the only modification
permitted is to make Config4 and Config5 exist via the M bits, but other
bits will be added for FPU and MSA support in future patches.

Care should be taken by userland not to change bits without fully
handling the possible extra state that may then exist and which the
guest may begin to use and depend on.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:12 +00:00
James Hogan
58a115bcec MIPS: KVM: Drop pr_info messages on init/exit
The information messages when the KVM module is loaded and unloaded are
a bit pointless and out of line with other architectures, so lets drop
them.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:09 +00:00
James Hogan
e93d4c159c MIPS: KVM: Sort kvm_mips_get_reg() registers
Sort the registers in the kvm_mips_get_reg() switch by register number,
which puts ERROREPC after the CONFIG registers.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:08 +00:00
James Hogan
1068eaaf2f MIPS: KVM: Implement PRid CP0 register access
Implement access to the guest Processor Identification CP0 register
using the KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls. This allows the
owning process to modify and read back the value that is exposed to the
guest in this register.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2015-03-27 21:25:08 +00:00
James Hogan
0a5604272d MIPS: KVM: Handle TRAP exceptions from guest kernel
Trap instructions are used by Linux to implement BUG_ON(), however KVM
doesn't pass trap exceptions on to the guest if they occur in guest
kernel mode, instead triggering an internal error "Exception Code: 13,
not yet handled". The guest kernel then doesn't get a chance to print
the usual BUG message and stack trace.

Implement handling of the trap exception so that it gets passed to the
guest and the user is left with a more useful log message.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
2015-03-27 21:25:07 +00:00
James Hogan
98119ad533 MIPS: KVM: Handle MSA Disabled exceptions from guest
Guest user mode can generate a guest MSA Disabled exception on an MSA
capable core by simply trying to execute an MSA instruction. Since this
exception is unknown to KVM it will be passed on to the guest kernel.
However guest Linux kernels prior to v3.15 do not set up an exception
handler for the MSA Disabled exception as they don't support any MSA
capable cores. This results in a guest OS panic.

Since an older processor ID may be being emulated, and MSA support is
not advertised to the guest, the correct behaviour is to generate a
Reserved Instruction exception in the guest kernel so it can send the
guest process an illegal instruction signal (SIGILL), as would happen
with a non-MSA-capable core.

Fix this as minimally as reasonably possible by preventing
kvm_mips_check_privilege() from relaying MSA Disabled exceptions from
guest user mode to the guest kernel, and handling the MSA Disabled
exception by emulating a Reserved Instruction exception in the guest,
via a new handle_msa_disabled() KVM callback.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.15+
2015-03-27 21:25:05 +00:00
Paolo Bonzini
f781951299 kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
This patch introduces a new module parameter for the KVM module; when it
is present, KVM attempts a bit of polling on every HLT before scheduling
itself out via kvm_vcpu_block.

This parameter helps a lot for latency-bound workloads---in particular
I tested it with O_DSYNC writes with a battery-backed disk in the host.
In this case, writes are fast (because the data doesn't have to go all
the way to the platters) but they cannot be merged by either the host or
the guest.  KVM's performance here is usually around 30% of bare metal,
or 50% if you use cache=directsync or cache=writethrough (these
parameters avoid that the guest sends pointless flush requests, and
at the same time they are not slow because of the battery-backed cache).
The bad performance happens because on every halt the host CPU decides
to halt itself too.  When the interrupt comes, the vCPU thread is then
migrated to a new physical CPU, and in general the latency is horrible
because the vCPU thread has to be scheduled back in.

With this patch performance reaches 60-65% of bare metal and, more
important, 99% of what you get if you use idle=poll in the guest.  This
means that the tunable gets rid of this particular bottleneck, and more
work can be done to improve performance in the kernel or QEMU.

Of course there is some price to pay; every time an otherwise idle vCPUs
is interrupted by an interrupt, it will poll unnecessarily and thus
impose a little load on the host.  The above results were obtained with
a mostly random value of the parameter (500000), and the load was around
1.5-2.5% CPU usage on one of the host's core for each idle guest vCPU.

The patch also adds a new stat, /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/halt_successful_poll,
that can be used to tune the parameter.  It counts how many HLT
instructions received an interrupt during the polling period; each
successful poll avoids that Linux schedules the VCPU thread out and back
in, and may also avoid a likely trip to C1 and back for the physical CPU.

While the VM is idle, a Linux 4 VCPU VM halts around 10 times per second.
Of these halts, almost all are failed polls.  During the benchmark,
instead, basically all halts end within the polling period, except a more
or less constant stream of 50 per second coming from vCPUs that are not
running the benchmark.  The wasted time is thus very low.  Things may
be slightly different for Windows VMs, which have a ~10 ms timer tick.

The effect is also visible on Marcelo's recently-introduced latency
test for the TSC deadline timer.  Though of course a non-RT kernel has
awful latency bounds, the latency of the timer is around 8000-10000 clock
cycles compared to 20000-120000 without setting halt_poll_ns.  For the TSC
deadline timer, thus, the effect is both a smaller average latency and
a smaller variance.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-02-06 13:08:37 +01:00