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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in reading change bit when removing HPTE</title>
<updated>2015-09-21T17:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T11:18:05+00:00</published>
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commit 1e5bf454f58731e360e504253e85bae7aaa2d298 upstream.

The reference (R) and change (C) bits in a HPT entry can be set by
hardware at any time up until the HPTE is invalidated and the TLB
invalidation sequence has completed.  This means that when removing
a HPTE, we need to read the HPTE after the invalidation sequence has
completed in order to obtain reliable values of R and C.  The code
in kvmppc_do_h_remove() used to do this.  However, commit 6f22bd3265fb
("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware") removed the
read after invalidation as a side effect of other changes.  This
restores the read of the HPTE after invalidation.

The user-visible effect of this bug would be that when migrating a
guest, there is a small probability that a page modified by the guest
and then unmapped by the guest might not get re-transmitted and thus
the destination might end up with a stale copy of the page.

Fixes: 6f22bd3265fb
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1e5bf454f58731e360e504253e85bae7aaa2d298 upstream.

The reference (R) and change (C) bits in a HPT entry can be set by
hardware at any time up until the HPTE is invalidated and the TLB
invalidation sequence has completed.  This means that when removing
a HPTE, we need to read the HPTE after the invalidation sequence has
completed in order to obtain reliable values of R and C.  The code
in kvmppc_do_h_remove() used to do this.  However, commit 6f22bd3265fb
("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware") removed the
read after invalidation as a side effect of other changes.  This
restores the read of the HPTE after invalidation.

The user-visible effect of this bug would be that when migrating a
guest, there is a small probability that a page modified by the guest
and then unmapped by the guest might not get re-transmitted and thus
the destination might end up with a stale copy of the page.

Fixes: 6f22bd3265fb
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Exit on H_DOORBELL if HOST_IPI is set</title>
<updated>2015-09-21T17:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R. Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-07T12:11:20+00:00</published>
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commit 06554d9f6cc8f0b5ec903db19726a15dfc7b09d6 upstream.

The code that handles the case when we receive a H_DOORBELL interrupt
has a comment which says "Hypervisor doorbell - exit only if host IPI
flag set".  However, the current code does not actually check if the
host IPI flag is set.  This is due to a comparison instruction that
got missed.

As a result, the current code performs the exit to host only
if some sibling thread or a sibling sub-core is exiting to the
host.  This implies that, an IPI sent to a sibling core in
(subcores-per-core != 1) mode will be missed by the host unless the
sibling core is on the exit path to the host.

This patch adds the missing comparison operation which will ensure
that when HOST_IPI flag is set, we unconditionally exit to the host.

Fixes: 66feed61cdf6
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 06554d9f6cc8f0b5ec903db19726a15dfc7b09d6 upstream.

The code that handles the case when we receive a H_DOORBELL interrupt
has a comment which says "Hypervisor doorbell - exit only if host IPI
flag set".  However, the current code does not actually check if the
host IPI flag is set.  This is due to a comparison instruction that
got missed.

As a result, the current code performs the exit to host only
if some sibling thread or a sibling sub-core is exiting to the
host.  This implies that, an IPI sent to a sibling core in
(subcores-per-core != 1) mode will be missed by the host unless the
sibling core is on the exit path to the host.

This patch adds the missing comparison operation which will ensure
that when HOST_IPI flag is set, we unconditionally exit to the host.

Fixes: 66feed61cdf6
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix list traversal in error case</title>
<updated>2015-05-10T15:26:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-29T04:49:07+00:00</published>
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This fixes a regression introduced in commit 25fedfca94cf, "KVM: PPC:
Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu", which
leads to a user-triggerable oops.

In the case where we try to run a vcore on a physical core that is
not in single-threaded mode, or the vcore has too many threads for
the physical core, we iterate the list of runnable vcpus to make
each one return an EBUSY error to userspace.  Since this involves
taking each vcpu off the runnable_threads list for the vcore, we
need to use list_for_each_entry_safe rather than list_for_each_entry
to traverse the list.  Otherwise the kernel will crash with an oops
message like this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x000fff88
Faulting instruction address: 0xd00000001e635dc8
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2]
SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
...
CPU: 48 PID: 91256 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Tainted: G      D        3.18.0 #1
task: c00000274e507500 ti: c0000027d1924000 task.ti: c0000027d1924000
NIP: d00000001e635dc8 LR: d00000001e635df8 CTR: c00000000011ba50
REGS: c0000027d19275b0 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G      D         (3.18.0)
MSR: 9000000000009033 &lt;SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 22002824  XER: 00000000
CFAR: c000000000008468 DAR: 00000000000fff88 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: d00000001e635df8 c0000027d1927830 d00000001e64c850 0000000000000001
GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000200200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 d00000001e63e588
GPR12: 0000000000002200 c000000007dbc800 c000000fc7800000 000000000000000a
GPR16: fffffffffffffffc c000000fd5439690 c000000fc7801c98 0000000000000001
GPR20: 0000000000000003 c0000027d1927aa8 c000000fd543b348 c000000fd543b350
GPR24: 0000000000000000 c000000fa57f0000 0000000000000030 0000000000000000
GPR28: fffffffffffffff0 c000000fd543b328 00000000000fe468 c000000fd543b300
NIP [d00000001e635dc8] kvmppc_run_core+0x198/0x17c0 [kvm_hv]
LR [d00000001e635df8] kvmppc_run_core+0x1c8/0x17c0 [kvm_hv]
Call Trace:
[c0000027d1927830] [d00000001e635df8] kvmppc_run_core+0x1c8/0x17c0 [kvm_hv] (unreliable)
[c0000027d1927a30] [d00000001e638350] kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x5b0/0xdd0 [kvm_hv]
[c0000027d1927b70] [d00000001e510504] kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x44/0x60 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927ba0] [d00000001e50d4a4] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x64/0x170 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927be0] [d00000001e504be8] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5e8/0x7a0 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927d40] [c0000000002d6720] do_vfs_ioctl+0x490/0x780
[c0000027d1927de0] [c0000000002d6ae4] SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0
[c0000027d1927e30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
Instruction dump:
60000000 60420000 387e1b30 38800003 38a00001 38c00000 480087d9 e8410018
ebde1c98 7fbdf040 3bdee368 419e0048 &lt;813e1b20&gt; 939e1b18 2f890001 409effcc
---[ end trace 8cdf50251cca6680 ]---

Fixes: 25fedfca94cfbf2461314c6c34ef58e74a31b025
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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This fixes a regression introduced in commit 25fedfca94cf, "KVM: PPC:
Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu", which
leads to a user-triggerable oops.

In the case where we try to run a vcore on a physical core that is
not in single-threaded mode, or the vcore has too many threads for
the physical core, we iterate the list of runnable vcpus to make
each one return an EBUSY error to userspace.  Since this involves
taking each vcpu off the runnable_threads list for the vcore, we
need to use list_for_each_entry_safe rather than list_for_each_entry
to traverse the list.  Otherwise the kernel will crash with an oops
message like this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x000fff88
Faulting instruction address: 0xd00000001e635dc8
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2]
SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
...
CPU: 48 PID: 91256 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Tainted: G      D        3.18.0 #1
task: c00000274e507500 ti: c0000027d1924000 task.ti: c0000027d1924000
NIP: d00000001e635dc8 LR: d00000001e635df8 CTR: c00000000011ba50
REGS: c0000027d19275b0 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G      D         (3.18.0)
MSR: 9000000000009033 &lt;SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 22002824  XER: 00000000
CFAR: c000000000008468 DAR: 00000000000fff88 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: d00000001e635df8 c0000027d1927830 d00000001e64c850 0000000000000001
GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000200200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 d00000001e63e588
GPR12: 0000000000002200 c000000007dbc800 c000000fc7800000 000000000000000a
GPR16: fffffffffffffffc c000000fd5439690 c000000fc7801c98 0000000000000001
GPR20: 0000000000000003 c0000027d1927aa8 c000000fd543b348 c000000fd543b350
GPR24: 0000000000000000 c000000fa57f0000 0000000000000030 0000000000000000
GPR28: fffffffffffffff0 c000000fd543b328 00000000000fe468 c000000fd543b300
NIP [d00000001e635dc8] kvmppc_run_core+0x198/0x17c0 [kvm_hv]
LR [d00000001e635df8] kvmppc_run_core+0x1c8/0x17c0 [kvm_hv]
Call Trace:
[c0000027d1927830] [d00000001e635df8] kvmppc_run_core+0x1c8/0x17c0 [kvm_hv] (unreliable)
[c0000027d1927a30] [d00000001e638350] kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0x5b0/0xdd0 [kvm_hv]
[c0000027d1927b70] [d00000001e510504] kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x44/0x60 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927ba0] [d00000001e50d4a4] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x64/0x170 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927be0] [d00000001e504be8] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5e8/0x7a0 [kvm]
[c0000027d1927d40] [c0000000002d6720] do_vfs_ioctl+0x490/0x780
[c0000027d1927de0] [c0000000002d6ae4] SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0
[c0000027d1927e30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
Instruction dump:
60000000 60420000 387e1b30 38800003 38a00001 38c00000 480087d9 e8410018
ebde1c98 7fbdf040 3bdee368 419e0048 &lt;813e1b20&gt; 939e1b18 2f890001 409effcc
---[ end trace 8cdf50251cca6680 ]---

Fixes: 25fedfca94cfbf2461314c6c34ef58e74a31b025
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: Fix SMP=n build error in book3s_xics.c</title>
<updated>2015-04-28T22:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T00:34:35+00:00</published>
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Commit 34cb7954c0aa "Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock" added an
include of asm/spinlock.h, which does not work in the SMP=n case.

It should instead include linux/spinlock.h

Fixes: 34cb7954c0aa ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock")
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Commit 34cb7954c0aa "Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock" added an
include of asm/spinlock.h, which does not work in the SMP=n case.

It should instead include linux/spinlock.h

Fixes: 34cb7954c0aa ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock")
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2015-04-26T20:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T20:23:15+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - fix for mm_dec_nr_pmds() from Scott.

 - fixes for oopses seen with KVM + THP from Aneesh.

 - build fixes from Aneesh &amp; Shreyas.

* tag 'powerpc-4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/mm: Fix build error with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM disabled
  powerpc/kvm: Fix ppc64_defconfig + PPC_POWERNV=n build error
  powerpc/mm/thp: Return pte address if we find trans_splitting.
  powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse
  KVM: PPC: Remove page table walk helpers
  KVM: PPC: Use READ_ONCE when dereferencing pte_t pointer
  powerpc/hugetlb: Call mm_dec_nr_pmds() in hugetlb_free_pmd_range()
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - fix for mm_dec_nr_pmds() from Scott.

 - fixes for oopses seen with KVM + THP from Aneesh.

 - build fixes from Aneesh &amp; Shreyas.

* tag 'powerpc-4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/mm: Fix build error with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM disabled
  powerpc/kvm: Fix ppc64_defconfig + PPC_POWERNV=n build error
  powerpc/mm/thp: Return pte address if we find trans_splitting.
  powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse
  KVM: PPC: Remove page table walk helpers
  KVM: PPC: Use READ_ONCE when dereferencing pte_t pointer
  powerpc/hugetlb: Call mm_dec_nr_pmds() in hugetlb_free_pmd_range()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-04-26T20:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T20:06:22+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
  Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and
  some cleanups).  But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for
  ARM, x86 and s390.

  The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending
  review, but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
  KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
  KVM: arm: irqfd: fix value returned by kvm_irq_map_gsi
  KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use decrementer to wake napping threads
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't wake thread with no vcpu on guest IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Get rid of vcore nap_count and n_woken
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Minor cleanups
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify handling of VCPUs that need a VPA update
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Accumulate timing information for real-mode code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Create debugfs file for each guest's HPT
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add ICP real mode counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move virtual mode ICP functions to real-mode
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add guest-&gt;host real mode completion counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add helpers for lock/unlock hpte
  ...
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Pull second batch of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
  Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and
  some cleanups).  But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for
  ARM, x86 and s390.

  The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending
  review, but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
  KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
  KVM: arm: irqfd: fix value returned by kvm_irq_map_gsi
  KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use decrementer to wake napping threads
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't wake thread with no vcpu on guest IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Get rid of vcore nap_count and n_woken
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Minor cleanups
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify handling of VCPUs that need a VPA update
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Accumulate timing information for real-mode code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Create debugfs file for each guest's HPT
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add ICP real mode counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move virtual mode ICP functions to real-mode
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add guest-&gt;host real mode completion counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add helpers for lock/unlock hpte
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T13:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-28T03:21:12+00:00</published>
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This uses msgsnd where possible for signalling other threads within
the same core on POWER8 systems, rather than IPIs through the XICS
interrupt controller.  This includes waking secondary threads to run
the guest, the interrupts generated by the virtual XICS, and the
interrupts to bring the other threads out of the guest when exiting.

Aggregated statistics from debugfs across vcpus for a guest with 32
vcpus, 8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, show this before the
change:

 rm_entry:     3387.6ns (228 - 86600, 1008969 samples)
  rm_exit:     4561.5ns (12 - 3477452, 1009402 samples)
  rm_intr:     1660.0ns (12 - 553050, 3600051 samples)

and this after the change:

 rm_entry:     3060.1ns (212 - 65138, 953873 samples)
  rm_exit:     4244.1ns (12 - 9693408, 954331 samples)
  rm_intr:     1342.3ns (12 - 1104718, 3405326 samples)

for a test of booting Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.

The time taken for a H_PROD hcall (which is handled in the host
kernel) went down from about 35 microseconds to about 16 microseconds
with this change.

The noinline added to kvmppc_run_core turned out to be necessary for
good performance, at least with gcc 4.9.2 as packaged with Fedora 21
and a little-endian POWER8 host.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This uses msgsnd where possible for signalling other threads within
the same core on POWER8 systems, rather than IPIs through the XICS
interrupt controller.  This includes waking secondary threads to run
the guest, the interrupts generated by the virtual XICS, and the
interrupts to bring the other threads out of the guest when exiting.

Aggregated statistics from debugfs across vcpus for a guest with 32
vcpus, 8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, show this before the
change:

 rm_entry:     3387.6ns (228 - 86600, 1008969 samples)
  rm_exit:     4561.5ns (12 - 3477452, 1009402 samples)
  rm_intr:     1660.0ns (12 - 553050, 3600051 samples)

and this after the change:

 rm_entry:     3060.1ns (212 - 65138, 953873 samples)
  rm_exit:     4244.1ns (12 - 9693408, 954331 samples)
  rm_intr:     1342.3ns (12 - 1104718, 3405326 samples)

for a test of booting Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.

The time taken for a H_PROD hcall (which is handled in the host
kernel) went down from about 35 microseconds to about 16 microseconds
with this change.

The noinline added to kvmppc_run_core turned out to be necessary for
good performance, at least with gcc 4.9.2 as packaged with Fedora 21
and a little-endian POWER8 host.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T13:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-28T03:21:11+00:00</published>
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This replaces the assembler code for kvmhv_commence_exit() with C code
in book3s_hv_builtin.c.  It also moves the IPI sending code that was
in book3s_hv_rm_xics.c into a new kvmhv_rm_send_ipi() function so it
can be used by kvmhv_commence_exit() as well as icp_rm_set_vcpu_irq().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This replaces the assembler code for kvmhv_commence_exit() with C code
in book3s_hv_builtin.c.  It also moves the IPI sending code that was
in book3s_hv_rm_xics.c into a new kvmhv_rm_send_ipi() function so it
can be used by kvmhv_commence_exit() as well as icp_rm_set_vcpu_irq().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T13:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-28T03:21:10+00:00</published>
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On entry to the guest, secondary threads now wait for the primary to
switch the MMU after loading up most of their state, rather than before.
This means that the secondary threads get into the guest sooner, in the
common case where the secondary threads get to kvmppc_hv_entry before
the primary thread.

On exit, the first thread out increments the exit count and interrupts
the other threads (to get them out of the guest) before saving most
of its state, rather than after.  That means that the other threads
exit sooner and means that the first thread doesn't spend so much
time waiting for the other threads at the point where the MMU gets
switched back to the host.

This pulls out the code that increments the exit count and interrupts
other threads into a separate function, kvmhv_commence_exit().
This also makes sure that r12 and vcpu-&gt;arch.trap are set correctly
in some corner cases.

Statistics from /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/vm*/vcpu*/timings show the
improvement.  Aggregating across vcpus for a guest with 32 vcpus,
8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, gives this before the change:

 rm_entry:     avg 4537.3ns (222 - 48444, 1068878 samples)
  rm_exit:     avg 4787.6ns (152 - 165490, 1010717 samples)
  rm_intr:     avg 1673.6ns (12 - 341304, 3818691 samples)

and this after the change:

 rm_entry:     avg 3427.7ns (232 - 68150, 1118921 samples)
  rm_exit:     avg 4716.0ns (12 - 150720, 1119477 samples)
  rm_intr:     avg 1614.8ns (12 - 522436, 3850432 samples)

showing a substantial reduction in the time spent per guest entry in
the real-mode guest entry code, and smaller reductions in the real
mode guest exit and interrupt handling times.  (The test was to start
the guest and boot Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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On entry to the guest, secondary threads now wait for the primary to
switch the MMU after loading up most of their state, rather than before.
This means that the secondary threads get into the guest sooner, in the
common case where the secondary threads get to kvmppc_hv_entry before
the primary thread.

On exit, the first thread out increments the exit count and interrupts
the other threads (to get them out of the guest) before saving most
of its state, rather than after.  That means that the other threads
exit sooner and means that the first thread doesn't spend so much
time waiting for the other threads at the point where the MMU gets
switched back to the host.

This pulls out the code that increments the exit count and interrupts
other threads into a separate function, kvmhv_commence_exit().
This also makes sure that r12 and vcpu-&gt;arch.trap are set correctly
in some corner cases.

Statistics from /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/vm*/vcpu*/timings show the
improvement.  Aggregating across vcpus for a guest with 32 vcpus,
8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, gives this before the change:

 rm_entry:     avg 4537.3ns (222 - 48444, 1068878 samples)
  rm_exit:     avg 4787.6ns (152 - 165490, 1010717 samples)
  rm_intr:     avg 1673.6ns (12 - 341304, 3818691 samples)

and this after the change:

 rm_entry:     avg 3427.7ns (232 - 68150, 1118921 samples)
  rm_exit:     avg 4716.0ns (12 - 150720, 1119477 samples)
  rm_intr:     avg 1614.8ns (12 - 522436, 3850432 samples)

showing a substantial reduction in the time spent per guest entry in
the real-mode guest entry code, and smaller reductions in the real
mode guest exit and interrupt handling times.  (The test was to start
the guest and boot Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T13:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-28T03:21:09+00:00</published>
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Currently, the entry_exit_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct
contains two 8-bit counts, one of the threads that have started entering
the guest, and one of the threads that have started exiting the guest.
This changes it to an entry_exit_map field which contains two bitmaps
of 8 bits each.  The advantage of doing this is that it gives us a
bitmap of which threads need to be signalled when exiting the guest.
That means that we no longer need to use the trick of setting the
HDEC to 0 to pull the other threads out of the guest, which led in
some cases to a spurious HDEC interrupt on the next guest entry.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Currently, the entry_exit_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct
contains two 8-bit counts, one of the threads that have started entering
the guest, and one of the threads that have started exiting the guest.
This changes it to an entry_exit_map field which contains two bitmaps
of 8 bits each.  The advantage of doing this is that it gives us a
bitmap of which threads need to be signalled when exiting the guest.
That means that we no longer need to use the trick of setting the
HDEC to 0 to pull the other threads out of the guest, which led in
some cases to a spurious HDEC interrupt on the next guest entry.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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