We needed the lock to avoid racing with creation of the irqchip on x86. As
kvm_set_irq_routing() calls srcu_synchronize_expedited(), this lock
might be held for a longer time.

Let's introduce an arch specific callback to check if we can actually
add irq routes. For x86, all we have to do is check if we have an
irqchip in the kernel. We don't need kvm->lock at that point as the
irqchip is marked as inititalized only when actually fully created.
Reported-by: NSteve Rutherford <srutherford@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Fixes: 1df6dded ("KVM: x86: race between KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING and KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP")
Signed-off-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

kvm_make_all_requests() provides a synchronization that waits until all
kicked VCPUs have acknowledged the kick.  This is important for
KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD as it prevents freeing while lockless paging is
underway.

This patch adds the synchronization property into all requests that are
currently being used with kvm_make_all_requests() in order to preserve
the current behavior and only introduce a new framework.  Removing it
from requests where it is not necessary is left for future patches.
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

No need to kick a VCPU that we have just woken up.
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

kvm_vcpu_kick() must issue a general memory barrier prior to reading
vcpu->mode in order to ensure correctness of the mutual-exclusion
memory barrier pattern used with vcpu->requests.  While the cmpxchg
called from kvm_vcpu_kick():

 kvm_vcpu_kick
   kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick
     kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode
       cmpxchg

implies general memory barriers before and after the operation, that
implication is only valid when cmpxchg succeeds.  We need an explicit
barrier for when it fails, otherwise a VCPU thread on its entry path
that reads zero for vcpu->requests does not exclude the possibility
the requesting thread sees !IN_GUEST_MODE when it reads vcpu->mode.

kvm_make_all_cpus_request already had a barrier, so we remove it, as
now it would be redundant.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Some operations must ensure that the guest is not running with stale
data, but if the guest is halted, then the update can wait until another
event happens.  kvm_make_all_requests() currently doesn't wake up, so we
can mark all requests used with it.

First 8 bits were arbitrarily reserved for request numbers.

Most uses of requests have the request type as a constant, so a compiler
will optimize the '&'.

An alternative would be to have an inline function that would return
whether the request needs a wake-up or not, but I like this one better
even though it might produce worse assembly.
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Users were expected to use kvm_check_request() for testing and clearing,
but request have expanded their use since then and some users want to
only test or do a faster clear.

Make sure that requests are not directly accessed with bit operations.
Reviewed-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Let's rename it into a proper arch specific callback.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

Its value has never changed; we might as well make it part of the ABI instead
of using the return value of KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO).

Because PPC does not always make MMIO available, the code has to be made
dependent on CONFIG_KVM_MMIO rather than KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

Legacy device assignment has been deprecated since 4.2 (released
1.5 years ago).  VFIO is better and everyone should have switched to it.
If they haven't, this should convince them. :)
Reviewed-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

No caller currently checks the return value of
kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(). This is evil, as all callers silently go on
freeing their device. A stale reference will remain in the io_bus,
getting at least used again, when the iobus gets teared down on
kvm_destroy_vm() - leading to use after free errors.

There is nothing the callers could do, except retrying over and over
again.

So let's simply remove the bus altogether, print an error and make
sure no one can access this broken bus again (returning -ENOMEM on any
attempt to access it).

Fixes: e93f8a0f ("KVM: convert io_bus to SRCU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
Reported-by: NDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.
Signed-off-by: NElena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NHans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

The FPU is always active now when running KVM.
Reviewed-by: NDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NBandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Provide versions of struct gfn_to_hva_cache functions that
take vcpu as a parameter instead of struct kvm.  The existing functions
are not needed anymore, so delete them.  This allows dirty pages to
be logged in the vcpu dirty ring, instead of the global dirty ring,
for ring-based dirty memory tracking.
Signed-off-by: NLei Cao <lei.cao@stratus.com>
Message-Id: <CY1PR08MB19929BD2AC47A291FD680E83F04F0@CY1PR08MB1992.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT is not used anymore, as we've killed its
only use in the arm/arm64 MMU code. Let's remove the last artifacts.
Reviewed-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

The kvm module has the parameters halt_poll_ns, halt_poll_ns_grow, and
halt_poll_ns_shrink. Halt polling was recently added to the powerpc kvm-hv
module and these parameters were essentially duplicated for that. There is
no benefit to this duplication and it can lead to confusion when trying to
tune halt polling.

Thus move the definition of these variables to kvm_host.h and export them.
This will allow the kvm-hv module to use the same module parameters by
accessing these variables, which will be implemented in the next patch,
meaning that they will no longer be duplicated.
Signed-off-by: NSuraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

Change unimplemented msrs messages to use pr_debug.
If CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set, then these messages can be
enabled at run time or else -DDEBUG can be used at compile
time to enable them. These messages will still be printed if
ignore_msrs=1.
Signed-off-by: NBandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

It allows us to update some status or field of a structure partially.

We can also save a kvm_read_guest_cached() call if we just update one
fild of the struct regardless of its current value.
Signed-off-by: NPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-8-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

With the removal of the lazy FPU code, this field is no longer used.
Get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475627678-20788-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

This commit adds the ability for archs to export
per-vcpu information via a new per-vcpu dir in
the VM's debugfs directory.

If kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs() returns true, then KVM
will create a vcpu dir for each vCPU in the VM's
debugfs directory. Then kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs()
is responsible for populating each vcpu directory
with arch specific entries.

The per-vcpu path in debugfs will look like:

/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu0
/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu1

This is all arch specific for now because the only
user of this interface (x86) wants to export x86-specific
per-vcpu information to user-space.
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Two stubs are added:

 o kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs(): must return true if the arch
   supports creating debugfs entries in the vcpu debugfs dir
   (which will be implemented by the next commit)

 o kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs(): code that creates debugfs
   entries in the vcpu debugfs dir

For x86, this commit introduces a new file to avoid growing
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c even more.
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM devices were manipulating list data structures without any form of
synchronization, and some implementations of the create operations also
suffered from a lack of synchronization.

Now when we've split the xics create operation into create and init, we
can hold the kvm->lock mutex while calling the create operation and when
manipulating the devices list.

The error path in the generic code gets slightly ugly because we have to
take the mutex again and delete the device from the list, but holding
the mutex during anon_inode_getfd or releasing/locking the mutex in the
common non-error path seemed wrong.
Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

As we are about to hold the kvm->lock during the create operation on KVM
devices, we should move the call to xics_debugfs_init into its own
function, since holding a mutex over extended amounts of time might not
be a good idea.

Introduce an init operation on the kvm_device_ops struct which cannot
fail and call this, if configured, after the device has been created.
Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

Up to now, only irqchip routing entries could be set. This patch
adds the capability to insert MSI routing entries.

For ARM64, let's also increase KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES to 4096: this
include SPI irqchip routes plus MSI routes. In the future this
might be extended.
Signed-off-by: NEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

kvm_setup_default_irq_routing and kvm_setup_empty_irq_routing are
not used by generic code. So let's move the declarations in x86 irq.h
header instead of kvm_host.h.
Signed-off-by: NEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Enhance kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry to transport the device id
field, devid. A new flags field makes possible to indicate the
devid is valid. Those additions are used for ARM GICv3 ITS MSI
injection. The original struct msi_msg msi field is replaced by
a new custom structure that embeds the new fields.
Signed-off-by: NEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

The kvm_io_bus framework is a nice place of holding information about
various MMIO regions for kernel emulated devices.
Add a call to retrieve the kvm_io_device structure which is associated
with a certain MMIO address. This avoids to duplicate kvm_io_bus'
knowledge of MMIO regions without having to fake MMIO calls if a user
needs the device a certain MMIO address belongs to.
This will be used by the ITS emulation to get the associated ITS device
when someone triggers an MSI via an ioctl from userspace.
Signed-off-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Arch-specific code will use it.
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Use the functions from context_tracking.h directly.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Make kvm_guest_{enter,exit} and __kvm_guest_{enter,exit} trivial wrappers
around the code in context_tracking.h.  Name the context_tracking.h functions
consistently with what those for kernel<->user switch.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

The new created_vcpus field makes it possible to avoid the race between
irqchip and VCPU creation in a much nicer way; just check under kvm->lock
whether a VCPU has already been created.

We can then remove KVM_APIC_ARCHITECTURE too, because at this point the
symbol is only governing the default definition of kvm_vcpu_compatible.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

The race between creating the irqchip and the first VCPU is
currently fixed by checking the presence of an irqchip before
updating kvm->online_vcpus, and undoing the whole VCPU creation
if someone created the irqchip in the meanwhile.

Instead, introduce a new field in struct kvm that will count VCPUs
under a mutex, without the atomic access and memory ordering that we
need elsewhere to protect the vcpus array.  This also plugs the race
and is more easily applicable in all similar circumstances.
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

This patch adds a kvm debugfs subdirectory for each VM, which is named
after its pid and file descriptor. The directories contain the same
kind of files that are already in the kvm debugfs directory, but the
data exported through them is now VM specific.

This makes the debugfs kvm data a convenient alternative to the
tracepoints which already have per VM data. The debugfs data is easy
to read and low overhead.

CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [includes fixes by Dan Carpenter]
Signed-off-by: NJanosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

AVIC has a use for kvm_vcpu_wake_up.
Signed-off-by: NRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NSuravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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: NChristian 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: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

If we don't support a mechanism for bypassing IRQs, don't register as
a consumer.  This eliminates meaningless dev_info()s when the connect
fails between producer and consumer, such as on AMD systems where
kvm_x86_ops->update_pi_irte is not implemented
Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

The KVM_MAX_VCPUS define provides the maximum number of vCPUs per guest, and
also the upper limit for vCPU ids. This is okay for all archs except PowerPC
which can have higher ids, depending on the cpu/core/thread topology. In the
worst case (single threaded guest, host with 8 threads per core), it limits
the maximum number of vCPUS to KVM_MAX_VCPUS / 8.

This patch separates the vCPU numbering from the total number of vCPUs, with
the introduction of KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID, as the maximal valid value for vCPU ids
plus one.

The corresponding KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID allows userspace to validate vCPU ids
before passing them to KVM_CREATE_VCPU.

This patch only implements KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID with a specific value for PowerPC.
Other archs continue to return KVM_MAX_VCPUS instead.
Suggested-by: NRadim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Commit c896939f ("KVM: use heuristic for fast VCPU lookup by id") added
a return path that prevents vcpu ids to exceed KVM_MAX_VCPUS. This is a
problem for powerpc where vcpu ids can grow up to 8*KVM_MAX_VCPUS.

This patch simply reverses the logic so that we only try fast path if the
vcpu id can be tried as an index in kvm->vcpus[]. The slow path is not
affected by the change.
Reviewed-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

kvm_make_request and kvm_check_request imply a producer-consumer
relationship; add implicit memory barriers to them.  There was indeed
already a place that was adding an explicit smp_mb() to order between
kvm_check_request and the processing of the request.  That memory
barrier can be removed (as an added benefit, kvm_check_request can use
smp_mb__after_atomic which is free on x86).
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

The problem:

On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path:

1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled

This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.

The solution:

Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.

Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.

cyclictest command line:

This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.

Daniel writes:
Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency
benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on
tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04e:

  ./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host

with idle=poll.

The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of
them are smaller. Paolo write:

"Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or
lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case.

The mean shows an improvement indeed."

Before:

               min             max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.000000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5162.596000  2019270.084000  5824.491541  20681.645558
std      75.431231   622607.723969    89.575700   6492.272062
min    4466.000000    23928.000000  5537.926500    585.864966
25%    5163.000000  1613252.750000  5790.132275  16683.745433
50%    5175.000000  2281919.000000  5834.654000  23151.990026
75%    5190.000000  2382865.750000  5861.412950  24148.206168
max    5228.000000  4175158.000000  6254.827300  46481.048691

After
               min            max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.00000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5143.511000  2076886.10300  5813.312474  21207.357565
std      77.668322   610413.09583    86.541500   6331.915127
min    4427.000000    25103.00000  5529.756600    559.187707
25%    5148.000000  1691272.75000  5784.889825  17473.518244
50%    5160.000000  2308328.50000  5832.025000  23464.837068
75%    5172.000000  2393037.75000  5853.177675  24223.969976
max    5222.000000  3922458.00000  6186.720500  42520.379830

[Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt
 tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the
 benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.]
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory,
PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into
userspace).  This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings
to be the target of direct-i/o.  It allows userspace to coordinate
DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory.

The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into
4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned
and dynamically mapped by a device driver.  The pmem driver, after
mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via
devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus
page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type.

The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the
resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new
_PAGE_DEVMAP flag.  Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys
off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active.
Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references
against the device driver established page mapping.

Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires
memory capacity to store the memmap array.  Given the memmap array for a
large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a
mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory.  The new
"struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables
arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page
allocator.

This patch (of 18):

The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1].  Move the existing
pfn_t in KVM to kvm_pfn_t [2].

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.html
[2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002218.htmlSigned-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>