1. 24 3月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 31 12月, 2008 4 次提交
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      KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB · 7924bd41
      Hollis Blanchard 提交于
      Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
      guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
      memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
      required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.
      
      Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
      into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
      part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
      the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
      at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
      guest entries.
      
      These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
      implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
      need to walk arrays in software).
      
      In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
      leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
      subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.
      Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      7924bd41
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      KVM: ppc: refactor instruction emulation into generic and core-specific pieces · 75f74f0d
      Hollis Blanchard 提交于
      Cores provide 3 emulation hooks, implemented for example in the new
      4xx_emulate.c:
      kvmppc_core_emulate_op
      kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr
      kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr
      
      Strictly speaking the last two aren't necessary, but provide for more
      informative error reporting ("unknown SPR").
      
      Long term I'd like to have instruction decoding autogenerated from tables of
      opcodes, and that way we could aggregate universal, Book E, and core-specific
      instructions more easily and without redundant switch statements.
      Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      75f74f0d
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      KVM: ppc: Refactor powerpc.c to relocate 440-specific code · 9dd921cf
      Hollis Blanchard 提交于
      This introduces a set of core-provided hooks. For 440, some of these are
      implemented by booke.c, with the rest in (the new) 44x.c.
      
      Note that these hooks are link-time, not run-time. Since it is not possible to
      build a single kernel for both e500 and 440 (for example), using function
      pointers would only add overhead.
      Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      9dd921cf
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      KVM: ppc: Rename "struct tlbe" to "struct kvmppc_44x_tlbe" · 0f55dc48
      Hollis Blanchard 提交于
      This will ease ports to other cores.
      
      Also remove unused "struct kvm_tlb" while we're at it.
      Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      0f55dc48
  3. 27 4月, 2008 1 次提交