linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
David Hildenbrand 9c23a1318e KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
For now, only the owning VCPU thread (that has loaded the VCPU) can get a
consistent cpu timer value when calculating the delta. However, other
threads might also be interested in a more recent, consistent value. Of
special interest will be the timer callback of a VCPU that executes without
having the VCPU loaded and could run in parallel with the VCPU thread.

The cpu timer has a nice property: it is only updated by the owning VCPU
thread. And speaking about accounting, a consistent value can only be
calculated by looking at cputm_start and the cpu timer itself in
one shot, otherwise the result might be wrong.

As we only have one writing thread at a time (owning VCPU thread), we can
use a seqcount instead of a seqlock and retry if the VCPU refreshed its
cpu timer. This avoids any heavy locking and only introduces a counter
update/check plus a handful of smp_wmb().

The owning VCPU thread should never have to retry on reads, and also for
other threads this might be a very rare scenario.

Please note that we have to use the raw_* variants for locking the seqcount
as lockdep will produce false warnings otherwise. The rq->lock held during
vcpu_load/put is also acquired from hardirq context. Lockdep cannot know
that we avoid potential deadlocks by disabling preemption and thereby
disable concurrent write locking attempts (via vcpu_put/load).

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2016-03-08 13:57:53 +01:00
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alpha dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
arc dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
arm ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable DW_WATCHDOG 2016-02-04 13:25:33 -08:00
arm64 KVM/ARM fixes for v4.5-rc2 2016-02-08 16:20:51 +01:00
avr32 dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
blackfin dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
c6x dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
cris Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -08:00
frv dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
h8300 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -08:00
hexagon dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] Enable copy_file_range syscall for ia64 2016-01-22 14:20:01 -08:00
m32r m32r: fix build failure due to SMP and MMU 2016-02-05 18:10:40 -08:00
m68k dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
metag dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
microblaze dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
mips regmap: mmio: Revert to v4.4 endianness handling 2016-02-08 10:20:06 -08:00
mn10300 dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
nios2 dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
openrisc dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
parisc dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.5 2016-01-29 16:10:16 -08:00
s390 KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount 2016-03-08 13:57:53 +01:00
score
sh sh: fix smp_store_mb for !SMP 2016-01-26 10:18:29 +02:00
sparc dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
tile dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
um um: asm/page.h: remove the pte_high member from struct pte_t 2016-02-05 18:10:40 -08:00
unicore32 dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
x86 KVM: x86: consolidate different ways to test for in-kernel LAPIC 2016-02-09 16:57:45 +01:00
xtensa dma-mapping: remove <asm-generic/dma-coherent.h> 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00