1. 18 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 12 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 06 12月, 2012 1 次提交
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      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations · 1b400ba0
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      When we change or remove a HPT (hashed page table) entry, we can do
      either a global TLB invalidation (tlbie) that works across the whole
      machine, or a local invalidation (tlbiel) that only affects this core.
      Currently we do local invalidations if the VM has only one vcpu or if
      the guest requests it with the H_LOCAL flag, though the guest Linux
      kernel currently doesn't ever use H_LOCAL.  Then, to cope with the
      possibility that vcpus moving around to different physical cores might
      expose stale TLB entries, there is some code in kvmppc_hv_entry to
      flush the whole TLB of entries for this VM if either this vcpu is now
      running on a different physical core from where it last ran, or if this
      physical core last ran a different vcpu.
      
      There are a number of problems on POWER7 with this as it stands:
      
      - The TLB invalidation is done per thread, whereas it only needs to be
        done per core, since the TLB is shared between the threads.
      - With the possibility of the host paging out guest pages, the use of
        H_LOCAL by an SMP guest is dangerous since the guest could possibly
        retain and use a stale TLB entry pointing to a page that had been
        removed from the guest.
      - The TLB invalidations that we do when a vcpu moves from one physical
        core to another are unnecessary in the case of an SMP guest that isn't
        using H_LOCAL.
      - The optimization of using local invalidations rather than global should
        apply to guests with one virtual core, not just one vcpu.
      
      (None of this applies on PPC970, since there we always have to
      invalidate the whole TLB when entering and leaving the guest, and we
      can't support paging out guest memory.)
      
      To fix these problems and simplify the code, we now maintain a simple
      cpumask of which cpus need to flush the TLB on entry to the guest.
      (This is indexed by cpu, though we only ever use the bits for thread
      0 of each core.)  Whenever we do a local TLB invalidation, we set the
      bits for every cpu except the bit for thread 0 of the core that we're
      currently running on.  Whenever we enter a guest, we test and clear the
      bit for our core, and flush the TLB if it was set.
      
      On initial startup of the VM, and when resetting the HPT, we set all the
      bits in the need_tlb_flush cpumask, since any core could potentially have
      stale TLB entries from the previous VM to use the same LPID, or the
      previous contents of the HPT.
      
      Then, we maintain a count of the number of online virtual cores, and use
      that when deciding whether to use a local invalidation rather than the
      number of online vcpus.  The code to make that decision is extracted out
      into a new function, global_invalidates().  For multi-core guests on
      POWER7 (i.e. when we are using mmu notifiers), we now never do local
      invalidations regardless of the H_LOCAL flag.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      1b400ba0
  4. 29 11月, 2012 3 次提交
  5. 20 11月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vtime: Warn if irqs aren't disabled on system time accounting APIs · 1b2852b1
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      System time accounting APIs such as vtime_account_system() and
      vtime_account_idle() need to be irqsafe. Current callers include
      irq entry, exit and kvm, all of which have been checked against that
      requirement. Now it's better to grow that with an automatic check
      in case we have further callers or we missed something.
      Suggested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      1b2852b1
  6. 19 11月, 2012 4 次提交
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      vtime: Consolidate a bit the ctx switch code · e3942ba0
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      On ia64 and powerpc, vtime context switch only consists
      in flushing system and user pending time, plus a few
      arch housekeeping.
      
      Consolidate that into a generic implementation. s390 is
      a special case because pending user and system time accounting
      there is hard to dissociate. So it's keeping its own implementation.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      e3942ba0
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      vtime: Explicitly account pending user time on process tick · bcebdf84
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      All vtime implementations just flush the user time on process
      tick. Consolidate that in generic code by calling a user time
      accounting helper. This avoids an indirect call in ia64 and
      prepare to also consolidate vtime context switch code.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      bcebdf84
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      vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion · fd25b4c2
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Prepending irq-unsafe vtime APIs with underscores was actually
      a bad idea as the result is a big mess in the API namespace that
      is even waiting to be further extended. Also these helpers
      are always called from irq safe callers except kvm. Just
      provide a vtime_account_system_irqsafe() for this specific
      case so that we can remove the underscore prefix on other
      vtime functions.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      fd25b4c2
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      Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. · 48fc7f7e
      Adam Buchbinder 提交于
      "Whether" is misspelled in various comments across the tree; this
      fixes them. No code changes.
      Signed-off-by: NAdam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      48fc7f7e
  7. 15 11月, 2012 29 次提交