1. 05 3月, 2014 2 次提交
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  4. 05 9月, 2012 1 次提交
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      powerpc/powernv: Always go into nap mode when CPU is offline · 375f561a
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      The CPU hotplug code for the powernv platform currently only puts
      offline CPUs into nap mode if the powersave_nap variable is set.
      However, HV-style KVM on this platform requires secondary CPU threads
      to be offline and in nap mode.  Since we know nap mode works just
      fine on all POWER7 machines, and the only machines that support the
      powernv platform are POWER7 machines, this changes the code to
      always put offline CPUs into nap mode, regardless of powersave_nap.
      Powersave_nap still controls whether or not CPUs go into nap mode
      when idle, as before.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      375f561a
  5. 08 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make secondary threads more robust against stray IPIs · f0888f70
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Currently on POWER7, if we are running the guest on a core and we don't
      need all the hardware threads, we do nothing to ensure that the unused
      threads aren't executing in the kernel (other than checking that they
      are offline).  We just assume they're napping and we don't do anything
      to stop them trying to enter the kernel while the guest is running.
      This means that a stray IPI can wake up the hardware thread and it will
      then try to enter the kernel, but since the core is in guest context,
      it will execute code from the guest in hypervisor mode once it turns the
      MMU on, which tends to lead to crashes or hangs in the host.
      
      This fixes the problem by adding two new one-byte flags in the
      kvmppc_host_state structure in the PACA which are used to interlock
      between the primary thread and the unused secondary threads when entering
      the guest.  With these flags, the primary thread can ensure that the
      unused secondaries are not already in kernel mode (i.e. handling a stray
      IPI) and then indicate that they should not try to enter the kernel
      if they do get woken for any reason.  Instead they will go into KVM code,
      find that there is no vcpu to run, acknowledge and clear the IPI and go
      back to nap mode.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      f0888f70
  6. 09 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handling · 7230c564
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
      issues that this tries to address.
      
      We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
      interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
      and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
      interrupts.
      
      The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
      "edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
      EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.
      
      Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
      of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
      when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.
      
      This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
      we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.
      
      The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
      "irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
      occurred while soft-disabled.
      
      When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
      from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
      field.
      
      We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
      re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
      the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
      arch_local_irq_enable case).
      
      This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
      fake interrupts, among others.
      
      In addition, this adds a few refinements:
      
       - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
      while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
      (on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
      enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
      performance monitor interrupts.
      
       - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
      shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
      they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
      perf sample quality.
      
       - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
      act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
      appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
      nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
      perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)
      
       - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
      timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.
      
      Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ---
      
      v2:
      
      - Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
      - Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
      - Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
      - Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
        to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable
      
      v3:
      
       - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
       - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E
      
      v4:
      
       - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E
      
      v5:
      
       - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
      rework of some aspects of the patch.
      
      v6:
       - 32-bit compile fix
       - more compile fixes with various .config combos
       - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
       - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq
      
      v7:
       - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
      7230c564
  7. 08 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Provide a way for KVM to indicate that NV GPR values are lost · 2fde6d20
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This fixes a problem where a CPU thread coming out of nap mode can
      think it has valid values in the nonvolatile GPRs (r14 - r31) as saved
      away in power7_idle, but in fact the values have been trashed because
      the thread was used for KVM in the mean time.  The result is that the
      thread crashes because code that called power7_idle (e.g.,
      pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self()) goes to use values in registers that have
      been trashed.
      
      The bit field in SRR1 that tells whether state was lost only reflects
      the most recent nap, which may not have been the nap instruction in
      power7_idle.  So we need an extra PACA field to indicate that state
      has been lost even if SRR1 indicates that the most recent nap didn't
      lose state.  We clear this field when saving the state in power7_idle,
      we set it to a non-zero value when we use the thread for KVM, and we
      test it in power7_wakeup_noloss.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      2fde6d20
  8. 12 7月, 2011 1 次提交
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      KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes · 371fefd6
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
      hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
      per core on POWER7.  The host still has to run single-threaded.
      
      This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
      capability.  The return value of the ioctl querying this capability
      is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4.
      
      To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads
      active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined.
      This will put the secondary threads into nap mode.  KVM will then
      wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while
      they are still offline).  To wake the secondary threads, we send
      them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in
      arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c.  In other words, at this stage
      we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and
      we are using icp-native.c to drive it.  Since the woken thread will
      need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base
      physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys()
      for use in the low-level KVM book3s code.
      
      When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core.
      The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the
      number of threads per core in the host.  This number is exported
      to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability.  If qemu wishes
      to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu
      numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core.
      
      We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute
      the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host.  We currently
      implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads
      are runnable or blocked.  This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere
      in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU
      by the other vcpus.
      
      When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the
      vcpu threads.  The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep
      until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu,
      or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu
      thread goes from busy in host state to blocked).
      
      It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g.
      because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already
      running.  In that case it can start to run immediately as long as
      the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest.
      We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start
      to execute the guest.  It synchronizes with the other threads via
      the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go
      into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it
      is ready to actually enter the guest.
      
      Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread
      number and the vcpu number.  Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus
      as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered
      hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all
      the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are
      runnable.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      371fefd6
  9. 20 4月, 2011 1 次提交