- 25 Sep, 2011 26 commits
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Kevin Tian authored
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI support. a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement (7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation. Signed-off-by:
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> <Based on earlier work from>: Signed-off-by:
Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Nadav Har'El authored
When the TSC MSR is read by an L2 guest (when L1 allowed this MSR to be read without exit), we need to return L2's notion of the TSC, not L1's. The current code incorrectly returned L1 TSC, because svm_get_msr() was also used in x86.c where this was assumed, but now that these places call the new svm_read_l1_tsc(), the MSR read can be fixed. Signed-off-by:
Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com> Tested-by:
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by:
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Nadav Har'El authored
This patch fixes two corner cases in nested (L2) handling of TSC-related issues: 1. Somewhat suprisingly, according to the Intel spec, if L1 allows WRMSR to the TSC MSR without an exit, then this should set L1's TSC value itself - not offset by vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET (like was wrongly done in the previous code). 2. Allow L1 to disable the TSC_OFFSETING control, and then correctly ignore the vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET. Signed-off-by:
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Nadav Har'El authored
KVM assumed in several places that reading the TSC MSR returns the value for L1. This is incorrect, because when L2 is running, the correct TSC read exit emulation is to return L2's value. We therefore add a new x86_ops function, read_l1_tsc, to use in places that specifically need to read the L1 TSC, NOT the TSC of the current level of guest. Note that one change, of one line in kvm_arch_vcpu_load, is made redundant by a different patch sent by Zachary Amsden (and not yet applied): kvm_arch_vcpu_load() should not read the guest TSC, and if it didn't, of course we didn't have to change the call of kvm_get_msr() to read_l1_tsc(). [avi: moved callback to kvm_x86_ops tsc block] Signed-off-by:
Zachary Amsdem <zamsden@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
Add documentation of the new 'nested' parameter to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt'. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yang, Wei Y authored
This patch fix kvm-unit-tests hanging and incorrect PT_ACCESSED_MASK bit set in the case of SMEP fault. The code updated 'eperm' after the variable was checked. Signed-off-by:
Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Avi Kivity authored
Architecturally, PDPTEs are cached in the PDPTRs when CR3 is reloaded. On SVM, it is not possible to implement this, but on VMX this is possible and was indeed implemented until nested SVM changed this to unconditionally read PDPTEs dynamically. This has noticable impact when running PAE guests. Fix by changing the MMU to read PDPTRs from the cache, falling back to reading from memory for the nested MMU. Signed-off-by:
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Julia Lawall authored
Use BUG_ON(x) rather than if(x) BUG(); The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier x; @@ -if (x) BUG(); +BUG_ON(x); @@ identifier x; @@ -if (!x) BUG(); +BUG_ON(!x); // </smpl> Signed-off-by:
Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
Windows Server 2008 SP2 checked build with smp > 1 BSOD's during boot due to lack of microcode update: *** Assertion failed: The system BIOS on this machine does not properly support the processor. The system BIOS did not load any microcode update. A BIOS containing the latest microcode update is needed for system reliability. (CurrentUpdateRevision != 0) *** Source File: d:\longhorn\base\hals\update\intelupd\update.c, line 440 Report a non-zero microcode update signature to make it happy. Signed-off-by:
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Takuya Yoshikawa authored
Return EMULATION_OK/FAILED consistently. Also treat instruction fetch errors, not restricted to X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE, as EMULATION_FAILED; although this cannot happen in practice, the current logic will continue the emulation even if the decoder fails to fetch the instruction. Signed-off-by:
Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Takuya Yoshikawa authored
Fetching the instruction which was to be executed by the guest cannot fail normally. So compiler should always predict that it will succeed. Signed-off-by:
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Takuya Yoshikawa authored
_type is enough to know the size. Signed-off-by:
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Takuya Yoshikawa authored
Instead of passing ctxt->_eip from insn_fetch() call sites, get it from ctxt in do_insn_fetch_byte(). This is done by replacing the argument _eip of insn_fetch() with _ctxt, which should be better than letting the macro use ctxt silently in its body. Though this changes the place where ctxt->_eip is incremented from insn_fetch() to do_insn_fetch_byte(), this does not have any real effect. Signed-off-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO) is to call the read or write callback for each device registered on the bus until we find a device which handles it. Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO operation. Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear search. Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with 200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits). Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the patch the guest does 274k exits per second. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stefan Hajnoczi authored
The vmexit tracepoints format the exit_reason to make it human-readable. Since the exit_reason depends on the instruction set (vmx or svm), formatting is handled with ftrace_print_symbols_seq() by referring to the appropriate exit reason table. However, the ftrace_print_symbols_seq() function is not meant to be used directly in tracepoints since it does not export the formatting table which userspace tools like trace-cmd and perf use to format traces. In practice perf dies when formatting vmexit-related events and trace-cmd falls back to printing the numeric value (with extra formatting code in the kvm plugin to paper over this limitation). Other userspace consumers of vmexit-related tracepoints would be in similar trouble. To avoid significant changes to the kvm_exit tracepoint, this patch moves the vmx and svm exit reason tables into arch/x86/kvm/trace.h and selects the right table with __print_symbolic() depending on the instruction set. Note that __print_symbolic() is designed for exporting the formatting table to userspace and allows trace-cmd and perf to work. Signed-off-by:
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stefan Hajnoczi authored
The kvm_exit tracepoint recently added the isa argument to aid decoding exit_reason. The semantics of exit_reason depend on the instruction set (vmx or svm) and the isa argument allows traces to be analyzed on other machines. Add the isa argument to kvm_nested_vmexit and kvm_nested_vmexit_inject so these tracepoints can also be self-describing. Signed-off-by:
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Mike Waychison authored
Commit 0945d4b228 tried to fix the get_msr path for the HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr, but was poorly tested. We should be returning 0 if the read succeeded, and passing the value back to the caller via the pdata out argument, not returning the value directly. Signed-off-by:
Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Waychison authored
"get" support for the HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr was missing, even though it is explicitly enumerated as something the vmm should save in msrs_to_save and reported to userland via the KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST ioctl. Add "get" support for HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE. We simply return the guest visible value of this register, which seems to be correct as a set on the register is validated for us already. Signed-off-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
This patch changes coalesced mmio to create one mmio device per zone instead of handling all zones in one device. Doing so enables us to take advantage of existing locking and prevents a race condition between coalesced mmio registration/unregistration and lookups. Suggested-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
The patch raises the hard limit of VCPU count to 254. This will allow developers to easily work on scalability and will allow users to test high VCPU setups easily without patching the kernel. To prevent possible issues with current setups, KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS now returns the recommended VCPU limit (which is still 64) - this should be a safe value for everybody, while a new KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS returns the hard limit which is now 254. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Suggested-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
Move the check whether there are available entries to within the spinlock. This allows working with larger amount of VCPUs and reduces premature exits when using a large number of VCPUs. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Xiao Guangrong authored
Using the read/write operation to remove the same code Signed-off-by:
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xiao Guangrong authored
The operations of read emulation and write emulation are very similar, so we can abstract the operation of them, in larter patch, it is used to cleanup the same code Signed-off-by:
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Xiao Guangrong authored
If the range spans a page boundary, the mmio access can be broke, fix it as write emulation. And we already get the guest physical address, so use it to read guest data directly to avoid walking guest page table again Signed-off-by:
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Avi Kivity authored
Src2CL decode (used for double width shifts) erronously decodes only bit 3 of %rcx, instead of bits 7:0. Fix by decoding %cl in its entirety. Signed-off-by:
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Zhao Jin authored
__update_clear_spte_slow should return original spte while the current code returns low half of original spte combined with high half of new spte. Signed-off-by:
Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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- 23 Sep, 2011 14 commits
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git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: spi: Fix WARN when removing spi-fsl-spi module spi/imx: Fix spi-imx when the hardware SPI chipselects are used
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Jeff Harris authored
If CPM mode is not used, the fsl_dummy_rx variable is never allocated. When the cleanup attempts to free it, the reference count is zero and a WARN is generated. The same CPM mode check used in the initialize is applied to the free as well. Tested on 2.6.33 with the previous spi_mpc8xxx driver. The renamed spi-fsl-spi driver looks to have the same problem. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Harris <jeff_harris@kentrox.com> Signed-off-by:
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Randy Dunlap authored
sector_t can be different types, so cast it to its largest possible type. drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c:1509:5: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'sector_t' Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
SCSI_ISCI needs to select SCSI_SAS_HOST_SMP to ensure that all needed symbols are available to it. Fixes this build error: ERROR: "try_test_sas_gpio_gp_bit" [drivers/scsi/isci/isci.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by:
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git://github.com/acmel/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'perf-tools-for-linus' of git://github.com/acmel/linux: perf python: Add missing perf_event__parse_sample 'swapped' parm
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git://github.com/acmel/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'perf-tools-for-linus' of git://github.com/acmel/linux: perf tools: Add support for disabling -Werror via WERROR=0 perf top: Fix userspace sample addr map offset perf symbols: Fix issue with binaries using 16-bytes buildids (v2) perf tool: Fix endianness handling of u32 data in samples perf sort: Fix symbol sort output by separating unresolved samples by type perf symbols: Synthesize anonymous mmap events perf record: Create events initially disabled and enable after init perf symbols: Add some heuristics for choosing the best duplicate symbol perf symbols: Preserve symbol scope when parsing /proc/kallsyms perf symbols: /proc/kallsyms does not sort module symbols perf symbols: Fix ppc64 SEGV in dso__load_sym with debuginfo files perf probe: Fix regression of variable finder
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: drm/radeon/kms: fix DDIA enable on some rs690 systems Revert "drm/radeon/kms: fix typo in r100_blit_copy"
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git://github.com/tiwai/soundLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://github.com/tiwai/sound: ALSA: usb-audio - clear chip->probing on error exit ALSA: fm801: Gracefully handle failure of tuner auto-detect ALSA: fm801: Fix double free in case of error in tuner detection ASoC: Ensure we generate a driver name ASoC: Remove bitrotted wm8962_resume() ASoC: bf5xx-ad73311: Fix prototype for bf5xx_probe
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Problem introduced in 936be503, that missed one perf_event__parse_sample user, the python binding. Reported-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Darren Hart authored
GCC often introduces new warnings with lots of false positives - breaking -Werror builds. WERROR=0 allows one to build perf without much fuss - while still encouraging people to send patches to avoid the fuss of having to type WERROR=0. Bisecting back to commits that produce a (mostly harmless) warning on some compilers is more difficult. With WERROR=0 one could bisect without worrying about harmless warnings. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eac06c7cc4920e5d4830417d466161fb26c7359c.1315514559.git.dvhart@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by:
Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
The 'perf top' tool came from the kernel where we had each DSO (vmlinux, modules) loaded just once at a time. But userspace may have DSOs loaded in multiple addresses (shared libraries), requiring that we use the just resolved map instead of the first one found. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ag53wz0yllpgers0n2w7hchp@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
Buildid can vary in size. According to the man page of ld, buildid can be 160 bits (sha1) or 128 bits (md5, uuid). Perf assumes buildid size of 20 bytes (160 bits) regardless. When dealing with md5 buildids, it would thus read more than needed and that would cause mismatches and samples without symbols. This patch fixes this by taking into account the actual buildid size as encoded int he section header. The leftover bytes are also cleared. This second version fixes a minor issue with the memset() base position. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4cc1af3c.8ee7d80a.5a28.ffff868e@mx.google.comSigned-off-by:
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Ahern authored
Currently, analyzing PPC data files on x86 the cpu field is always 0 and the tid and pid are backwards. For example, analyzing a PPC file on PPC the pid/tid fields show: rsyslogd 1210/1212 and analyzing the same PPC file using an x86 perf binary shows: rsyslogd 1212/1210 The problem is that the swap_op method for samples is perf_event__all64_swap which assumes all elements in the sample_data struct are u64s. cpu, tid and pid are u32s and need to be handled individually. Given that the swap is done before the sample is parsed, the simplest solution is to undo the 64-bit swap of those elements when the sample is parsed and do the proper swap. The RAW data field is generic and perf cannot have programmatic knowledge of how to treat that data. Instead a warning is given to the user. Thanks to Anton Blanchard for providing a data file for a mult-CPU PPC system so I could verify the fix for the CPU fields. v3 -> v4: - fixed use of WARN_ONCE v2 -> v3: - used WARN_ONCE for message regarding raw data - removed struct wrapper around union - fixed whitespace issues v1 -> v2: - added a union for undoing the byte-swap on u64 and redoing swap on u32's to address compiler errors (see git commit 65014ab3) Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315321946-16993-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by:David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
I took a profile that suggested 60% of total CPU time was in the hypervisor: ... 60.20% [H] 0x33d43c 4.43% [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave 1.07% [k] ._spin_lock Using perf stat to get the user/kernel/hypervisor breakdown contradicted this. The problem is we merge all unresolved samples into the one unknown bucket. If add a comparison by sample type to sort__sym_cmp we get the real picture: ... 57.11% [.] 0x80fbf63c 4.43% [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave 1.07% [k] ._spin_lock 0.65% [H] 0x33d43c So it was almost all userspace, not hypervisor as the initial profile suggested. I found another issue while adding this. Symbol sorting sometimes shows multiple entries for the unknown bucket: ... 16.65% [.] 0x6cd3a8 7.25% [.] 0x422460 5.37% [.] yylex 4.79% [.] malloc 4.78% [.] _int_malloc 4.03% [.] _int_free 3.95% [.] hash_source_code_string 2.82% [.] 0x532908 2.64% [.] 0x36b538 0.94% [H] 0x8000000000e132a4 0.82% [H] 0x800000000000e8b0 This happens because we aren't consistent with our sorting. On one hand we check to see if both symbols match and for two unresolved samples sym is NULL so we match: if (left->ms.sym == right->ms.sym) return 0; On the other hand we use sample IP for unresolved samples when comparing against a symbol: ip_l = left->ms.sym ? left->ms.sym->start : left->ip; ip_r = right->ms.sym ? right->ms.sym->start : right->ip; This means unresolved samples end up spread across the rbtree and we can't merge them all. If we use cmp_null all unresolved samples will end up in the one bucket and the output makes more sense: ... 39.12% [.] 0x36b538 5.37% [.] yylex 4.79% [.] malloc 4.78% [.] _int_malloc 4.03% [.] _int_free 3.95% [.] hash_source_code_string 2.26% [H] 0x800000000000e8b0 Acked-by:Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110831115145.4f598ab2@krytenSigned-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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