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  1. 18 May, 2016 15 commits
  3. 13 May, 2016 3 commits
    • Christian Borntraeger's avatar
      KVM: s390: set halt polling to 80 microseconds · c4a8de35
      Christian Borntraeger authored 
      on s390 we disabled the halt polling with commit 920552b2
("KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x"), as floating
interrupts would let all CPUs have a successful poll, resulting
in much higher CPU usage (on otherwise idle systems).

With the improved selection of polls we can now retry halt polling.
Performance measurements with different choices like 25,50,80,100,200
microseconds showed that 80 microseconds seems to improve several cases
without increasing the CPU costs too much. Higher values would improve
the performance even more but increased the cpu time as well.
So let's start small and use this value of 80 microseconds on s390 until
we have a better understanding of cost/benefit of higher values.
Acked-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      c4a8de35
    • Christian Borntraeger's avatar
      KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll · 3491caf2
      Christian Borntraeger authored 
      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: default avatarChristian 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      3491caf2
    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      Merge branch 'kvm-ppc-next' of... · d7e1633a
      Paolo Bonzini authored 
      Merge branch 'kvm-ppc-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into HEAD
      d7e1633a
  5. 12 May, 2016 1 commit
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Re-enable XICS fast path for irqfd-generated interrupts · b1a4286b
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      Commit c9a5ecca ("kvm/eventfd: add arch-specific set_irq",
2015-10-16) added the possibility for architecture-specific code
to handle the generation of virtual interrupts in atomic context
where possible, without having to schedule a work function.

Since we can easily generate virtual interrupts on XICS without
having to do anything worse than take a spinlock, we define a
kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic() for XICS.  We also remove kvm_set_msi()
since it is not used any more.

The one slightly tricky thing is that with the new interface, we
don't get told whether the interrupt is an MSI (or other edge
sensitive interrupt) vs. level-sensitive.  The difference as far
as interrupt generation is concerned is that for LSIs we have to
set the asserted flag so it will continue to fire until it is
explicitly cleared.

In fact the XICS code gets told which interrupts are LSIs by userspace
when it configures the interrupt via the KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES
attribute group on the XICS device.  To store this information, we add
a new "lsi" field to struct ics_irq_state.  With that we can also do a
better job of returning accurate values when reading the attribute
group.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      b1a4286b
  7. 11 May, 2016 9 commits
  9. 10 May, 2016 6 commits
    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.7-2' of... · 6ac0f61f
      Paolo Bonzini authored 
      Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD

KVM: s390: features and fixes for 4.7 part2

- Use hardware provided information about facility bits that do not
  need any hypervisor activitiy
- Add missing documentation for KVM_CAP_S390_RI
- Some updates/fixes for handling cpu models and facilities
      6ac0f61f
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Add missing disable FPU hazard barriers · 4ac33429
      James Hogan authored 
      Add the necessary hazard barriers after disabling the FPU in
kvm_lose_fpu(), just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      4ac33429
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Fix preemption warning reading FPU capability · 556f2a52
      James Hogan authored 
      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: default avatarJames 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      556f2a52
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Fix preemptable kvm_mips_get_*_asid() calls · f049729c
      James Hogan authored 
      There are a couple of places in KVM fault handling code which implicitly
use smp_processor_id() via kvm_mips_get_kernel_asid() and
kvm_mips_get_user_asid() from preemptable context. This is unsafe as a
preemption could cause the guest kernel ASID to be changed, resulting in
a host TLB entry being written with the wrong ASID.

Fix by disabling preemption around the kvm_mips_get_*_asid() call and
the corresponding kvm_mips_host_tlb_write().
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      f049729c
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Fix timer IRQ race when writing CP0_Compare · b45bacd2
      James Hogan authored 
      Writing CP0_Compare clears the timer interrupt pending bit
(CP0_Cause.TI), but this wasn't being done atomically. If a timer
interrupt raced with the write of the guest CP0_Compare, the timer
interrupt could end up being pending even though the new CP0_Compare is
nowhere near CP0_Count.

We were already updating the hrtimer expiry with
kvm_mips_update_hrtimer(), which used both kvm_mips_freeze_hrtimer() and
kvm_mips_resume_hrtimer(). Close the race window by expanding out
kvm_mips_update_hrtimer(), and clearing CP0_Cause.TI and setting
CP0_Compare between the freeze and resume. Since the pending timer
interrupt should not be cleared when CP0_Compare is written via the KVM
user API, an ack argument is added to distinguish the source of the
write.

Fixes: e30492bb ("MIPS: KVM: Rewrite count/compare timer emulation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames 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
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.16.x-
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      b45bacd2
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Fix timer IRQ race when freezing timer · 4355c44f
      James Hogan authored 
      There's a particularly narrow and subtle race condition when the
software emulated guest timer is frozen which can allow a guest timer
interrupt to be missed.

This happens due to the hrtimer expiry being inexact, so very
occasionally the freeze time will be after the moment when the emulated
CP0_Count transitions to the same value as CP0_Compare (so an IRQ should
be generated), but before the moment when the hrtimer is due to expire
(so no IRQ is generated). The IRQ won't be generated when the timer is
resumed either, since the resume CP0_Count will already match CP0_Compare.

With VZ guests in particular this is far more likely to happen, since
the soft timer may be frozen frequently in order to restore the timer
state to the hardware guest timer. This happens after 5-10 hours of
guest soak testing, resulting in an overflow in guest kernel timekeeping
calculations, hanging the guest. A more focussed test case to
intentionally hit the race (with the help of a new hypcall to cause the
timer state to migrated between hardware & software) hits the condition
fairly reliably within around 30 seconds.

Instead of relying purely on the inexact hrtimer expiry to determine
whether an IRQ should be generated, read the guest CP0_Compare and
directly check whether the freeze time is before or after it. Only if
CP0_Count is on or after CP0_Compare do we check the hrtimer expiry to
determine whether the last IRQ has already been generated (which will
have pushed back the expiry by one timer period).

Fixes: e30492bb ("MIPS: KVM: Rewrite count/compare timer emulation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames 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
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.16.x-
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      4355c44f
  11. 09 May, 2016 6 commits
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