linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kvm_host.h, branch v4.6-rc2

KVM: Use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq

2016-02-25T10:27:16+00:00

The problem:

On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path:

1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled

This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.

The solution:

Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.

Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.

cyclictest command line:

This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.

Daniel writes:
Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency
benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on
tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04:

  ./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host

with idle=poll.

The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of
them are smaller. Paolo write:

"Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or
lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case.

The mean shows an improvement indeed."

Before:

               min             max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.000000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5162.596000  2019270.084000  5824.491541  20681.645558
std      75.431231   622607.723969    89.575700   6492.272062
min    4466.000000    23928.000000  5537.926500    585.864966
25%    5163.000000  1613252.750000  5790.132275  16683.745433
50%    5175.000000  2281919.000000  5834.654000  23151.990026
75%    5190.000000  2382865.750000  5861.412950  24148.206168
max    5228.000000  4175158.000000  6254.827300  46481.048691

After
               min            max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.00000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5143.511000  2076886.10300  5813.312474  21207.357565
std      77.668322   610413.09583    86.541500   6331.915127
min    4427.000000    25103.00000  5529.756600    559.187707
25%    5148.000000  1691272.75000  5784.889825  17473.518244
50%    5160.000000  2308328.50000  5832.025000  23464.837068
75%    5172.000000  2393037.75000  5853.177675  24223.969976
max    5222.000000  3922458.00000  6186.720500  42520.379830

[Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt
 tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the
 benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kvm: rename pfn_t to kvm_pfn_t

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory,
PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into
userspace).  This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings
to be the target of direct-i/o.  It allows userspace to coordinate
DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory.

The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into
4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned
and dynamically mapped by a device driver.  The pmem driver, after
mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via
devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus
page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type.

The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the
resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new
_PAGE_DEVMAP flag.  Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys
off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active.
Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references
against the device driver established page mapping.

Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires
memory capacity to store the memmap array.  Given the memmap array for a
large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a
mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory.  The new
"struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables
arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page
allocator.

This patch (of 18):

The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1].  Move the existing
pfn_t in KVM to kvm_pfn_t [2].

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.html
[2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002218.html

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/

2016-01-08T18:04:36+00:00

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

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: renumber vcpu->request bits

2016-01-08T18:03:06+00:00

Leave room for 4 more arch-independent requests.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: document which architecture uses each request bit

2016-01-08T18:03:06+00:00

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Remove unused KVM_REQ_KICK to save a bit in vcpu->requests

2016-01-08T18:03:05+00:00

Suggested-by: Takuya Yoshikawa 
[Takuya moved all subsequent constants to fill the void, but that
 is useless in view of the following patches.  So this change looks
 nothing like the original. - Paolo]
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: Dump guest rIP when the guest tried something unsupported

2015-12-16T17:49:48+00:00

It looks like this in action:

  kvm [5197]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0xffffffff810187ba unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001102

and helps to pinpoint quickly where in the guest we did the unsupported
thing.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC timers

2015-12-16T17:49:45+00:00

Per Hyper-V specification (and as required by Hyper-V-aware guests),
SynIC provides 4 per-vCPU timers.  Each timer is programmed via a pair
of MSRs, and signals expiration by delivering a special format message
to the configured SynIC message slot and triggering the corresponding
synthetic interrupt.

Note: as implemented by this patch, all periodic timers are "lazy"
(i.e. if the vCPU wasn't scheduled for more than the timer period the
timer events are lost), regardless of the corresponding configuration
MSR.  If deemed necessary, the "catch up" mode (the timer period is
shortened until the timer catches up) will be implemented later.

Changes v2:
* Use remainder to calculate periodic timer expiration time

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin 
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan 
CC: Gleb Natapov 
CC: Paolo Bonzini 
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
CC: Haiyang Zhang 
CC: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
CC: Roman Kagan 
CC: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC message slot pending clearing at SINT ack

2015-12-16T17:49:44+00:00

The SynIC message protocol mandates that the message slot is claimed
by atomically setting message type to something other than HVMSG_NONE.
If another message is to be delivered while the slot is still busy,
message pending flag is asserted to indicate to the guest that the
hypervisor wants to be notified when the slot is released.

To make sure the protocol works regardless of where the message
sources are (kernel or userspace), clear the pending flag on SINT ACK
notification, and let the message sources compete for the slot again.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin 
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan 
CC: Gleb Natapov 
CC: Paolo Bonzini 
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
CC: Haiyang Zhang 
CC: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
CC: Roman Kagan 
CC: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Remove unnecessary debugfs dentry references

2015-11-30T11:47:05+00:00

KVM creates debugfs files to export VM statistics to userland. To be
able to remove them on kvm exit it tracks the files' dentries.

Since their parent directory is also tracked and since each parent
direntry knows its children we can easily remove them by using
debugfs_remove_recursive(kvm_debugfs_dir). Therefore we don't
need the extra tracking in the kvm_stats_debugfs_item anymore.

Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank 
Reviewed-By: Sascha Silbe 
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger