In order to avoid compilation failure when KVM is not compiled in,
guard the mmu_notifier specific sections with both CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
and KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER, like it is being done in the rest of
the KVM code.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
On UP i386, when APIC is disabled
# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_IOAPIC is not set
code looking at apicdrivers never has any effect but it
still gets compiled in. In particular, this causes
build failures with kvm, but it generally bloats the kernel
unnecessarily.
Fix by defining both __apicdrivers and __apicdrivers_end
to be NULL when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is unset: I verified
that as the result any loop scanning __apicdrivers gets optimized out by
the compiler.
Warning: a .config with apic disabled doesn't seem to boot
for me (even without this patch). Still verifying why,
meanwhile this patch is compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Implementation of PV EOI using shared memory.
This reduces the number of exits an interrupt
causes as much as by half.
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
We set it before injecting an interrupt and clear
before injecting a nested one. Guest tests it using
a test and clear operation - this is necessary
so that host can detect interrupt nesting -
and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR.
There's a new MSR to set the address of said register
in guest memory. Otherwise not much changed:
- Guest EOI is not required
- Register is tested & ISR is automatically cleared on exit
For testing results see description of previous patch
'kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance'.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Each time we need to cancel injection we invoke same code
(cancel_injection callback). Move it towards the end of function using
the familiar goto on error pattern.
Will make it easier to do more cleanups for PV EOI.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit eb0dc6d0368072236dcd086d7fdc17fd3c4574d4 introduced apic
attention bitmask but kvm still syncs lapic unconditionally.
As that commit suggested and in anticipation of adding more attention
bits, only sync lapic if(apic_attention).
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Document the new EOI MSR. Couldn't decide whether this change belongs
conceptually on guest or host side, so a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
__test_and_clear_bit is actually atomic with respect
to the local CPU. Add a note saying that KVM on x86
relies on this behaviour so people don't accidentaly break it.
Also warn not to rely on this in portable code.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We perform ISR lookups twice: during interrupt
injection and on EOI. Typical workloads only have
a single bit set there. So we can avoid ISR scans by
1. counting bits as we set/clear them in ISR
2. on set, caching the injected vector number
3. on clear, invalidating the cache
The real purpose of this is enabling PV EOI
which needs to quickly validate the vector.
But non PV guests also benefit: with this patch,
and without interrupt nesting, apic_find_highest_isr
will always return immediately without scanning ISR.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The following commit did not care about the error handling path:
commit c1a7b32a14
KVM: Avoid wasting pages for small lpage_info arrays
If memory allocation fails, vfree() will be called with the address
returned by kzalloc(). This patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This is a preparatory patch for the KVM/ARM implementation. KVM/ARM will use
the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which is currently conditional on
__KVM_HAVE_IOAPIC, but ARM obviously doesn't have any IOAPIC support and we
need a separate define.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The KVM code sometimes uses CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP to protect
code that is related to IRQ routing, which not all in-kernel
irqchips may support.
Use KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING instead.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The list of exit reasons for the kvm_userspace_exit event was
missing recent additions; bring it into sync again.
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
For processing under KVM it is required to detect
the actual SCLP console type in order to set it as
preferred console.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The initial cpu reset sets the cpu in the stopped state.
Several places check for the cpu state (e.g. sigp set prefix) and
not setting the STOPPED state triggered errors with newer guest
kernels after reboot.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
EPT Dirty bit use bit 9 as Intel SDM definition, to avoid conflict, change
PT_FIRST_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT to 10.
Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Size is not needed to return one from pre-allocated objects.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Alex says:
"Changes this time include:
- Generalize KVM_GUEST support to overall ePAPR code
- Fix reset for Book3S HV
- Fix machine check deferral when CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
- Add support for BookE register DECAR"
* 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6:
KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_ME with paravirt.
KVM: PPC: booke: Added DECAR support
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make the guest hash table size configurable
KVM: PPC: Factor out guest epapr initialization
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
I see this in 3.5-rc1:
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c: In function ‘kvm_test_age_rmapp’:
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1271: warning: ‘iter.desc’ may be used uninitialized in this function
The line in question was introduced by commit
1e3f42f03c
static int kvm_test_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp,
unsigned long data)
{
- u64 *spte;
+ u64 *sptep;
+ struct rmap_iterator iter; <- line 1271
int young = 0;
/*
The reason I think is that the compiler assumes that
the rmap value could be 0, so
static u64 *rmap_get_first(unsigned long rmap, struct rmap_iterator
*iter)
{
if (!rmap)
return NULL;
if (!(rmap & 1)) {
iter->desc = NULL;
return (u64 *)rmap;
}
iter->desc = (struct pte_list_desc *)(rmap & ~1ul);
iter->pos = 0;
return iter->desc->sptes[iter->pos];
}
will not initialize iter.desc, but the compiler isn't
smart enough to see that
for (sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter); sptep;
sptep = rmap_get_next(&iter)) {
will immediately exit in this case.
I checked by adding
if (!*rmapp)
goto out;
on top which is clearly equivalent but disables the warning.
This patch uses uninitialized_var to disable the warning without
increasing code size.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduces a couple of print functions, which are essentially wrappers
around standard printk functions, with a KVM: prefix.
Functions introduced or modified are:
- kvm_err(fmt, ...)
- kvm_info(fmt, ...)
- kvm_debug(fmt, ...)
- kvm_pr_unimpl(fmt, ...)
- pr_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...) -> vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...)
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since Carsten is now working on a different project, Cornelia will
work as the 2nd s390/kvm maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
CC: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
CC: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
For example migration between Westmere and Nehelem hosts, caught in big real mode.
The code that fixes the segments for real mode guest was moved from enter_rmode
to vmx_set_segments. enter_rmode calls vmx_set_segments for each segment.
Signed-off-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@rehdat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
mmu_shrink() needlessly iterates over all VMs even though it will not
attempt to free mmu pages from more than one on them. Fix that and also
check used mmu pages count outside of VM lock to skip inactive VMs faster.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Practically all patches to ia64 KVM are build fixes; numerous warnings remain;
the last patch from the maintainer was committed more than three years ago. It
is clear that no one is using this thing.
Mark as BROKEN to ensure people don't get hit by pointless build problems.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add kernel parameter to control A/D bits support, it's on by default.
Signed-off-by: Haitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
lpage_info is created for each large level even when the memory slot is
not for RAM. This means that when we add one slot for a PCI device, we
end up allocating at least KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES - 1 pages by vmalloc().
To make things worse, there is an increasing number of devices which
would result in more pages being wasted this way.
This patch mitigates this problem by using kvm_kvzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Will be used for lpage_info allocation later.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull signal and vfs compile breakage fixes from Al Viro.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
fixups for signal breakage
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French.
* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
CIFS: Move get_next_mid to ops struct
CIFS: Make accessing is_valid_oplock/dump_detail ops struct field safe
CIFS: Improve identation in cifs_unlock_range
CIFS: Fix possible wrong memory allocation
Compiling 3.5-rc1 for nommu targets gives:
CC mm/nommu.o
mm/nommu.c: In function ‘sys_mmap_pgoff’:
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: error: ‘ret’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
It is trivially fixed by replacing 'ret' with the local variable that is
already defined for the return value 'retval'.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because
swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk.
This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the
existing backends.
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Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm
Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages.
In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained
because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead
of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with
some changes to the existing backends."
Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code
changing a line next to the new frontswap entry.
This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got
delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had
actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and
Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE
users.
Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it
too. So in it goes.
By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2)
via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm:
frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load
MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API
mm: frontswap: config and doc files
mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality
mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers
mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
Pull irq and smpboot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Just cleanup patches with no functional change and a fix for suspend
issues."
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Introduce irq_do_set_affinity() to reduce duplicated code
genirq: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init()
smpboot, idle: Optimize calls to smp_processor_id() in idle_threads_init()
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
is default off, well tested and non dangerous."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
tick: Add tick skew boot option
Cyrill Gorcunov reports that I broke the fdinfo files with commit
30a08bf2d3 ("proc: move fd symlink i_mode calculations into
tid_fd_revalidate()"), and he's quite right.
The tid_fd_revalidate() function is not just used for the <tid>/fd
symlinks, it's also used for the <tid>/fdinfo/<fd> files, and the
permission model for those are different.
So do the dynamic symlink permission handling just for symlinks, making
the fdinfo files once more appear as the proper regular files they are.
Of course, Al Viro argued (probably correctly) that we shouldn't do the
symlink permission games at all, and make the symlinks always just be
the normal 'lrwxrwxrwx'. That would have avoided this issue too, but
since somebody noticed that the permissions had changed (which was the
reason for that original commit 30a08bf2d3 in the first place), people
do apparently use this feature.
[ Basically, you can use the symlink permission data as a cheap "fdinfo"
replacement, since you see whether the file is open for reading and/or
writing by just looking at st_mode of the symlink. So the feature
does make sense, even if the pain it has caused means we probably
shouldn't have done it to begin with. ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Should be 'exynos5_xxx' instead of 'exonys5_xxx'.
It happened at the commit 30b842889e ("Merge tag 'soc2' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc")
during v3.5 merge window.
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
[ My bad - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull some left-over PM patches from Rafael J. Wysocki.
* 'pm-acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / PM: Make acpi_pm_device_sleep_state() follow the specification
ACPI / PM: Make __acpi_bus_get_power() cover D3cold correctly
ACPI / PM: Fix error messages in drivers/acpi/bus.c
rtc-cmos / PM: report wakeup event on ACPI RTC alarm
ACPI / PM: Generate wakeup events on fixed power button
This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6fe.
That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption
issues that Dave Jones reported. The locking (or rather, absense
there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has
been found to be outside the pageblock range.
So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6. If we even need to:
as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload
was very theoretical".
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
New tmpfs use of !PageUptodate pages for fallocate() is triggering the
WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1990 when __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is called from migrate_page_copy() for compaction.
It is anomalous that migration should use __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
on an address_space that does not participate in dirty and writeback
accounting; and this has also been observed to insert surprising dirty
tags into a tmpfs radix_tree, despite tmpfs not using tags at all.
We should probably give migrate_page_copy() a better way to preserve the
tag and migrate accounting info, when mapping_cap_account_dirty(). But
that needs some more work: so in the interim, avoid the warning by using
a simple SetPageDirty on PageSwapBacked pages.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking",
but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way
down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the
common stat operations.
The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending
on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this
doesn't change the size. Some of our inode layout has historically been
to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at
least as important for layout, if not more.
Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits"
access stood out like a sore thumb.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
dm thin: use slab mempools
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device. Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.
With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too. The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.
Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.
Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure. Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands). For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too. It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
