- 12 7月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors, specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode. Using hypervisor mode means that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode. That means that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged registers itself without trapping to the host. This gives excellent performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor architecture other than the one that the hardware implements. This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses. That means that existing Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run under KVM without modification. In order to communicate the PAPR hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code to include/linux/kvm.h. Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support (i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only do one or the other. This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present. Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious restriction. With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight to the guest. We will never get data or instruction storage or segment interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from the guest. Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry to those exception handlers. We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage, hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist interrupts, so we have to handle those. In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just a limited amount. Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space. We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it. We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers, so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct. The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have to be in the same partition. MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition (partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and exit from the guest. At present we require the host and guest to run in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction. This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA). We require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in order to simplify the low-level memory management. This also means that we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now, since huge pages can't be paged or swapped. This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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- 20 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Pass the register type to the prolog, also provides alternate "HV" version of hardware interrupt (0x500) and adjust LPES accordingly We tag those interrupts by setting bit 0x2 in the trap number Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
The current interrupt logic is just completely broken. We get a notification from user space, telling us that an interrupt is there. But then user space expects us that we just acknowledge an interrupt once we deliver it to the guest. This is not how real hardware works though. On real hardware, the interrupt controller pulls the external interrupt line until it gets notified that the interrupt was received. So in reality we have two events: pulling and letting go of the interrupt line. To maintain backwards compatibility, I added a new request for the pulling part. The letting go part was implemented earlier already. With this in place, we can now finally start guests that do not randomly stall and stop to work at random times. This patch implements above logic for Book3S. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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- 17 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
When we're on a paired single capable host, we can just always enable paired singles and expose them to the guest directly. This approach breaks when multiple VMs run and access PS concurrently, but this should suffice until we get a proper framework for it in Linux. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 25 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
The Gekko implements an extension called paired singles. When the guest wants to use that extension, we need to make sure we're not running the host FPU, because all FPU instructions need to get emulated to accomodate for additional operations that occur. This patch adds an hflag to track if we're in paired single mode or not. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 01 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
To fetch the last instruction we were interrupted on, we enable DR in early exit code, where we are still in a very transitional phase between guest and host state. Most of the time this seemed to work, but another CPU can easily flush our TLB and HTAB which makes us go in the Linux page fault handler which totally breaks because we still use the guest's SLB entries. To work around that, let's introduce a second KVM guest mode that defines that whenever we get a trap, we don't call the Linux handler or go into the KVM exit code, but just jump over the faulting instruction. That way a potentially bad lwz doesn't trigger any faults and we can later on interpret the invalid instruction we fetched as "fetch didn't work". Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 08 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
Currently userspace has no chance to find out which virtual address space we're in and resolve addresses. While that is a big problem for migration, it's also unpleasent when debugging, as gdb and the monitor don't work on virtual addresses. This patch exports enough of the MMU segment state to userspace to make debugging work and thus also includes the groundwork for migration. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 05 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Graf 提交于
We need quite a bunch of new constants for KVM on Book3s, so let's define them now. These constants will be used in later patches. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Hollis Blanchard 提交于
e500 has additional interrupt vectors (and corresponding IVORs) for SPE and performance monitoring interrupts. Signed-off-by: NLiu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 27 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Hollis Blanchard 提交于
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace support other SoC/board combinations should work.) See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details. [stephen: build fix] Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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