Commits · 5304b8d37c2a5ebca48330f5e7868d240eafbed1 · Kirill Smelkov / linux

05 Jun, 2013 3 commits

KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages · 5304b8d3

Xiao Guangrong authored May 31, 2013

The current kvm_mmu_zap_all is really slow - it is holding mmu-lock to
walk and zap all shadow pages one by one, also it need to zap all guest
page's rmap and all shadow page's parent spte list. Particularly, things
become worse if guest uses more memory or vcpus. It is not good for
scalability

In this patch, we introduce a faster way to invalidate all shadow pages.
KVM maintains a global mmu invalid generation-number which is stored in
kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen and every shadow page stores the current global
generation-number into sp->mmu_valid_gen when it is created

When KVM need zap all shadow pages sptes, it just simply increase the
global generation-number then reload root shadow pages on all vcpus.
Vcpu will create a new shadow page table according to current kvm's
generation-number. It ensures the old pages are not used any more.
Then the obsolete pages (sp->mmu_valid_gen != kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen)
are zapped by using lock-break technique
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

5304b8d3

KVM: MMU: drop unnecessary kvm_reload_remote_mmus · a2ae1622

Xiao Guangrong authored May 31, 2013

It is the responsibility of kvm_mmu_zap_all that keeps the
consistent of mmu and tlbs. And it is also unnecessary after
zap all mmio sptes since no mmio spte exists on root shadow
page and it can not be cached into tlb
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

a2ae1622

KVM: x86: drop calling kvm_mmu_zap_all in emulator_fix_hypercall · 758ccc89

Xiao Guangrong authored May 31, 2013

Quote Gleb's mail:

| Back then kvm->lock protected memslot access so code like:
|
| mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
| kvm_mmu_zap_all(vcpu->kvm);
| mutex_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
|
| which is what 7aa81cc0 does was enough to guaranty that no vcpu will
| run while code is patched. This is no longer the case and
| mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock); is gone from that code path long time ago,
| so now kvm_mmu_zap_all() there is useless and the code is incorrect.

So we drop it and it will be fixed later
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

758ccc89

04 Jun, 2013 1 commit

kvm: exclude ioeventfd from counting kvm_io_range limit · 6ea34c9b

Amos Kong authored May 25, 2013

We can easily reach the 1000 limit by start VM with a couple
hundred I/O devices (multifunction=on). The hardcode limit
already been adjusted 3 times (6 ~ 200 ~ 300 ~ 1000).

In userspace, we already have maximum file descriptor to
limit ioeventfd count. But kvm_io_bus devices also are used
for pit, pic, ioapic, coalesced_mmio. They couldn't be limited
by maximum file descriptor.

Currently only ioeventfds take too much kvm_io_bus devices,
so just exclude it from counting kvm_io_range limit.

Also fixed one indent issue in kvm_host.h
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

6ea34c9b

03 Jun, 2013 1 commit

KVM: s390: Add "devname:kvm" alias. · 566af940

Cornelia Huck authored May 27, 2013

Providing a "devname:kvm" module alias enables automatic loading of
the kvm module when /dev/kvm is opened.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

566af940

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