- 17 Oct, 2013 40 commits
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
We will use that in the later patch to find the kvm ops handler Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [agraf: squash in compile fix] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This patch moves PR related tracepoints to a separate header. This enables in converting PR to a kernel module which will be done in later patches Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This help us to identify whether we are running with hypervisor mode KVM enabled. The change is needed so that we can have both HV and PR kvm enabled in the same kernel. If both HV and PR KVM are included, interrupts come in to the HV version of the kvmppc_interrupt code, which then jumps to the PR handler, renamed to kvmppc_interrupt_pr, if the guest is a PR guest. Allowing both PR and HV in the same kernel required some changes to kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(), since the values returned now can't be selected with #ifdefs as much as previously. We look at is_hv_enabled to return the right value when checking for capabilities.For capabilities that are only provided by HV KVM, we return the HV value only if is_hv_enabled is true. For capabilities provided by PR KVM but not HV, we return the PR value only if is_hv_enabled is false. NOTE: in later patch we replace is_hv_enabled with a static inline function comparing kvm_ppc_ops Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
With this patch if HV is included, interrupts come in to the HV version of the kvmppc_interrupt code, which then jumps to the PR handler, renamed to kvmppc_interrupt_pr, if the guest is a PR guest. This helps in enabling both HV and PR, which we do in later patch Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This patch add a new callback kvmppc_ops. This will help us in enabling both HV and PR KVM together in the same kernel. The actual change to enable them together is done in the later patch in the series. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [agraf: squash in booke changes] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This help ups to select the relevant code in the kernel code when we later move HV and PR bits as seperate modules. The patch also makes the config options for PR KVM selectable Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
With later patches supporting PR kvm as a kernel module, the changes that has to be built into the main kernel binary to enable PR KVM module is now selected via KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Since the code in book3s_64_vio_hv.c is called from real mode with HV KVM, and therefore has to be built into the main kernel binary, this makes it always built-in rather than part of the KVM module. It gets called from the KVM module by PR KVM, so this adds an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This label is not used now. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
This patch adds the debug stub support on booke/bookehv. Now QEMU debug stub can use hw breakpoint, watchpoint and software breakpoint to debug guest. This is how we save/restore debug register context when switching between guest, userspace and kernel user-process: When QEMU is running -> thread->debug_reg == QEMU debug register context. -> Kernel will handle switching the debug register on context switch. -> no vcpu_load() called QEMU makes ioctls (except RUN) -> This will call vcpu_load() -> should not change context. -> Some ioctls can change vcpu debug register, context saved in vcpu->debug_regs QEMU Makes RUN ioctl -> Save thread->debug_reg on STACK -> Store thread->debug_reg == vcpu->debug_reg -> load thread->debug_reg -> RUN VCPU ( So thread points to vcpu context ) Context switch happens When VCPU running -> makes vcpu_load() should not load any context -> kernel loads the vcpu context as thread->debug_regs points to vcpu context. On heavyweight_exit -> Load the context saved on stack in thread->debug_reg Currently we do not support debug resource emulation to guest, On debug exception, always exit to user space irrespective of user space is expecting the debug exception or not. If this is unexpected exception (breakpoint/watchpoint event not set by userspace) then let us leave the action on user space. This is similar to what it was before, only thing is that now we have proper exit state available to user space. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
For KVM also use the "struct debug_reg" defined in asm/processor.h Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
"ehpriv 1" instruction is used for setting software breakpoints by user space. This patch adds support to exit to user space with "run->debug" have relevant information. As this is the first point we are using run->debug, also defined the run->debug structure. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
KVM need this function when switching from vcpu to user-space thread. My subsequent patch will use this function. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
This way we can use same data type struct with KVM and also help in using other debug related function. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
Mark the guest page as accessed so that there is likely less chances of this page getting swap-out. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
"G" bit in MAS2 indicates whether the page is Guarded. There is no reason to stop guest setting "G", so allow him. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
"E" bit in MAS2 bit indicates whether the page is accessed in Little-Endian or Big-Endian byte order. There is no reason to stop guest setting "E", so allow him." Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Bharat Bhushan authored
For booke3e _PAGE_ENDIAN is not defined. Infact what is defined is "_PAGE_LENDIAN" which is wrong and that should be _PAGE_ENDIAN. There are no compilation errors as arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h defines _PAGE_ENDIAN to 0 as it is not defined anywhere. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
When an interrupt or exception happens in the guest that comes to the host, the CPU goes to hypervisor real mode (MMU off) to handle the exception but doesn't change the MMU context. After saving a few registers, we then clear the "in guest" flag. If, for any reason, we get an exception in the real-mode code, that then gets handled by the normal kernel exception handlers, which turn the MMU on. This is disastrous if the MMU is still set to the guest context, since we end up executing instructions from random places in the guest kernel with hypervisor privilege. In order to catch this situation, we define a new value for the "in guest" flag, KVM_GUEST_MODE_HOST_HV, to indicate that we are in hypervisor real mode with guest MMU context. If the "in guest" flag is set to this value, we branch off to an emergency handler. For the moment, this just does a branch to self to stop the CPU from doing anything further. While we're here, we define another new flag value to indicate that we are in a HV guest, as distinct from a PR guest. This will be useful when we have a kernel that can support both PR and HV guests concurrently. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
add kvmppc_free_vcores() to free the kvmppc_vcore structures that we allocate for a guest, which are currently being leaked. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Currently, whenever any of the MMU notifier callbacks get called, we invalidate all the shadow PTEs. This is inefficient because it means that we typically then get a lot of DSIs and ISIs in the guest to fault the shadow PTEs back in. We do this even if the address range being notified doesn't correspond to guest memory. This commit adds code to scan the memslot array to find out what range(s) of guest physical addresses corresponds to the host virtual address range being affected. For each such range we flush only the shadow PTEs for the range, on all cpus. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
The mark_page_dirty() function, despite what its name might suggest, doesn't actually mark the page as dirty as far as the MM subsystem is concerned. It merely sets a bit in KVM's map of dirty pages, if userspace has requested dirty tracking for the relevant memslot. To tell the MM subsystem that the page is dirty, we have to call kvm_set_pfn_dirty() (or an equivalent such as SetPageDirty()). This adds a call to kvm_set_pfn_dirty(), and while we are here, also adds a call to kvm_set_pfn_accessed() to tell the MM subsystem that the page has been accessed. Since we are now using the pfn in several places, this adds a 'pfn' variable to store it and changes the places that used hpaddr >> PAGE_SHIFT to use pfn instead, which is the same thing. This also changes a use of HPTE_R_PP to PP_RXRX. Both are 3, but PP_RXRX is more informative as being the read-only page permission bit setting. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
When the MM code is invalidating a range of pages, it calls the KVM kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() notifier function, which calls kvm_unmap_hva_range(), which arranges to flush all the existing host HPTEs for guest pages. However, the Linux PTEs for the range being flushed are still valid at that point. We are not supposed to establish any new references to pages in the range until the ...range_end() notifier gets called. The PPC-specific KVM code doesn't get any explicit notification of that; instead, we are supposed to use mmu_notifier_retry() to test whether we are or have been inside a range flush notifier pair while we have been getting a page and instantiating a host HPTE for the page. This therefore adds a call to mmu_notifier_retry inside kvmppc_mmu_map_page(). This call is inside a region locked with kvm->mmu_lock, which is the same lock that is called by the KVM MMU notifier functions, thus ensuring that no new notification can proceed while we are in the locked region. Inside this region we also create the host HPTE and link the corresponding hpte_cache structure into the lists used to find it later. We cannot allocate the hpte_cache structure inside this locked region because that can lead to deadlock, so we allocate it outside the region and free it if we end up not using it. This also moves the updates of vcpu3s->hpte_cache_count inside the regions locked with vcpu3s->mmu_lock, and does the increment in kvmppc_mmu_hpte_cache_map() when the pte is added to the cache rather than when it is allocated, in order that the hpte_cache_count is accurate. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Currently we request write access to all pages that get mapped into the guest, even if the guest is only loading from the page. This reduces the effectiveness of KSM because it means that we unshare every page we access. Also, we always set the changed (C) bit in the guest HPTE if it allows writing, even for a guest load. This fixes both these problems. We pass an 'iswrite' flag to the mmu.xlate() functions and to kvmppc_mmu_map_page() to indicate whether the access is a load or a store. The mmu.xlate() functions now only set C for stores. kvmppc_gfn_to_pfn() now calls gfn_to_pfn_prot() instead of gfn_to_pfn() so that it can indicate whether we need write access to the page, and get back a 'writable' flag to indicate whether the page is writable or not. If that 'writable' flag is clear, we then make the host HPTE read-only even if the guest HPTE allowed writing. This means that we can get a protection fault when the guest writes to a page that it has mapped read-write but which is read-only on the host side (perhaps due to KSM having merged the page). Thus we now call kvmppc_handle_pagefault() for protection faults as well as HPTE not found faults. In kvmppc_handle_pagefault(), if the access was allowed by the guest HPTE and we thus need to install a new host HPTE, we then need to remove the old host HPTE if there is one. This is done with a new function, kvmppc_mmu_unmap_page(), which uses kvmppc_mmu_pte_vflush() to find and remove the old host HPTE. Since the memslot-related functions require the KVM SRCU read lock to be held, this adds srcu_read_lock/unlock pairs around the calls to kvmppc_handle_pagefault(). Finally, this changes kvmppc_mmu_book3s_32_xlate_pte() to not ignore guest HPTEs that don't permit access, and to return -EPERM for accesses that are not permitted by the page protections. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Both PR and HV KVM have separate, identical copies of the kvmppc_skip_interrupt and kvmppc_skip_Hinterrupt handlers that are used for the situation where an interrupt happens when loading the instruction that caused an exit from the guest. To eliminate this duplication and make it easier to compile in both PR and HV KVM, this moves this code to arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S along with other kernel interrupt handler code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This makes PR KVM allocate its kvm_vcpu structs from the kvm_vcpu_cache rather than having them embedded in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, which is allocated with vzalloc. The reason is to reduce the differences between PR and HV KVM in order to make is easier to have them coexist in one kernel binary. With this, the kvm_vcpu struct has a pointer to the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct. The pointer to the kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu struct has moved from the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct to the kvm_vcpu struct, and is only present for 32-bit, since it is only used for 32-bit. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [agraf: squash in compile fix from Aneesh] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This adds a per-VM mutex to provide mutual exclusion between vcpus for accesses to and updates of the guest hashed page table (HPT). This also makes the code use single-byte writes to the HPT entry when updating of the reference (R) and change (C) bits. The reason for doing this, rather than writing back the whole HPTE, is that on non-PAPR virtual machines, the guest OS might be writing to the HPTE concurrently, and writing back the whole HPTE might conflict with that. Also, real hardware does single-byte writes to update R and C. The new mutex is taken in kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() when reading the HPT and updating R and/or C, and in the PAPR HPT update hcalls (H_ENTER, H_REMOVE, etc.). Having the mutex means that we don't need to use a hypervisor lock bit in the HPT update hcalls, and we don't need to be careful about the order in which the bytes of the HPTE are updated by those hcalls. The other change here is to make emulated TLB invalidations (tlbie) effective across all vcpus. To do this we call kvmppc_mmu_pte_vflush for all vcpus in kvmppc_ppc_book3s_64_tlbie(). For 32-bit, this makes the setting of the accessed and dirty bits use single-byte writes, and makes tlbie invalidate shadow HPTEs for all vcpus. With this, PR KVM can successfully run SMP guests. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
The implementation of H_ENTER in PR KVM has some errors: * With H_EXACT not set, if the HPTEG is full, we return H_PTEG_FULL as the return value of kvmppc_h_pr_enter, but the caller is expecting one of the EMULATE_* values. The H_PTEG_FULL needs to go in the guest's R3 instead. * With H_EXACT set, if the selected HPTE is already valid, the H_ENTER call should return a H_PTEG_FULL error. This fixes these errors and also makes it write only the selected HPTE, not the whole group, since only the selected HPTE has been modified. This also micro-optimizes the calculations involving pte_index and i. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
64-bit POWER processors have a three-bit field for page protection in the hashed page table entry (HPTE). Currently we only interpret the two bits that were present in older versions of the architecture. The only defined combination that has the new bit set is 110, meaning read-only for supervisor and no access for user mode. This adds code to kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() to interpret the extra bit appropriately. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Currently, PR KVM uses 4k pages for the host-side mappings of guest memory, regardless of the host page size. When the host page size is 64kB, we might as well use 64k host page mappings for guest mappings of 64kB and larger pages and for guest real-mode mappings. However, the magic page has to remain a 4k page. To implement this, we first add another flag bit to the guest VSID values we use, to indicate that this segment is one where host pages should be mapped using 64k pages. For segments with this bit set we set the bits in the shadow SLB entry to indicate a 64k base page size. When faulting in host HPTEs for this segment, we make them 64k HPTEs instead of 4k. We record the pagesize in struct hpte_cache for use when invalidating the HPTE. For now we restrict the segment containing the magic page (if any) to 4k pages. It should be possible to lift this restriction in future by ensuring that the magic 4k page is appropriately positioned within a host 64k page. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This adds the code to interpret 64k HPTEs in the guest hashed page table (HPT), 64k SLB entries, and to tell the guest about 64k pages in kvm_vm_ioctl_get_smmu_info(). Guest 64k pages are still shadowed by 4k pages. This also adds another hash table to the four we have already in book3s_mmu_hpte.c to allow us to find all the PTEs that we have instantiated that match a given 64k guest page. The tlbie instruction changed starting with POWER6 to use a bit in the RB operand to indicate large page invalidations, and to use other RB bits to indicate the base and actual page sizes and the segment size. 64k pages came in slightly earlier, with POWER5++. We use one bit in vcpu->arch.hflags to indicate that the emulated cpu supports 64k pages, and another to indicate that it has the new tlbie definition. The KVM_PPC_GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl presents a bit of a problem, because the MMU capabilities depend on which CPU model we're emulating, but it is a VM ioctl not a VCPU ioctl and therefore doesn't get passed a VCPU fd. In addition, commonly-used userspace (QEMU) calls it before setting the PVR for any VCPU. Therefore, as a best effort we look at the first vcpu in the VM and return 64k pages or not depending on its capabilities. We also make the PVR default to the host PVR on recent CPUs that support 1TB segments (and therefore multiple page sizes as well) so that KVM_PPC_GET_SMMU_INFO will include 64k page and 1TB segment support on those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Currently PR-style KVM keeps the volatile guest register values (R0 - R13, CR, LR, CTR, XER, PC) in a shadow_vcpu struct rather than the main kvm_vcpu struct. For 64-bit, the shadow_vcpu exists in two places, a kmalloc'd struct and in the PACA, and it gets copied back and forth in kvmppc_core_vcpu_load/put(), because the real-mode code can't rely on being able to access the kmalloc'd struct. This changes the code to copy the volatile values into the shadow_vcpu as one of the last things done before entering the guest. Similarly the values are copied back out of the shadow_vcpu to the kvm_vcpu immediately after exiting the guest. We arrange for interrupts to be still disabled at this point so that we can't get preempted on 64-bit and end up copying values from the wrong PACA. This means that the accessor functions in kvm_book3s.h for these registers are greatly simplified, and are same between PR and HV KVM. In places where accesses to shadow_vcpu fields are now replaced by accesses to the kvm_vcpu, we can also remove the svcpu_get/put pairs. Finally, on 64-bit, we don't need the kmalloc'd struct at all any more. With this, the time to read the PVR one million times in a loop went from 567.7ms to 575.5ms (averages of 6 values), an increase of about 1.4% for this worse-case test for guest entries and exits. The standard deviation of the measurements is about 11ms, so the difference is only marginally significant statistically. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Commit 9d1ffdd8 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Don't corrupt guest state when kernel uses VMX") added a call to kvmppc_load_up_altivec() that isn't guarded by CONFIG_ALTIVEC, causing a link failure when building a kernel without CONFIG_ALTIVEC set. This adds an #ifdef to fix this. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
If we come out of a guest with an interrupt that we don't know about, instead of crashing the host with a BUG(), we now return to userspace with the exit reason set to KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN and the trap vector in the hw.hardware_exit_reason field of the kvm_run structure, as is done on x86. Note that run->exit_reason is already set to KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN at the beginning of kvmppc_handle_exit(). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This enables us to use the Processor Compatibility Register (PCR) on POWER7 to put the processor into architecture 2.05 compatibility mode when running a guest. In this mode the new instructions and registers that were introduced on POWER7 are disabled in user mode. This includes all the VSX facilities plus several other instructions such as ldbrx, stdbrx, popcntw, popcntd, etc. To select this mode, we have a new register accessible through the set/get_one_reg interface, called KVM_REG_PPC_ARCH_COMPAT. Setting this to zero gives the full set of capabilities of the processor. Setting it to one of the "logical" PVR values defined in PAPR puts the vcpu into the compatibility mode for the corresponding architecture level. The supported values are: 0x0f000002 Architecture 2.05 (POWER6) 0x0f000003 Architecture 2.06 (POWER7) 0x0f100003 Architecture 2.06+ (POWER7+) Since the PCR is per-core, the architecture compatibility level and the corresponding PCR value are stored in the struct kvmppc_vcore, and are therefore shared between all vcpus in a virtual core. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [agraf: squash in fix to add missing break statements and documentation] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
POWER7 and later IBM server processors have a register called the Program Priority Register (PPR), which controls the priority of each hardware CPU SMT thread, and affects how fast it runs compared to other SMT threads. This priority can be controlled by writing to the PPR or by use of a set of instructions of the form or rN,rN,rN which are otherwise no-ops but have been defined to set the priority to particular levels. This adds code to context switch the PPR when entering and exiting guests and to make the PPR value accessible through the SET/GET_ONE_REG interface. When entering the guest, we set the PPR as late as possible, because if we are setting a low thread priority it will make the code run slowly from that point on. Similarly, the first-level interrupt handlers save the PPR value in the PACA very early on, and set the thread priority to the medium level, so that the interrupt handling code runs at a reasonable speed. Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This adds the ability to have a separate LPCR (Logical Partitioning Control Register) value relating to a guest for each virtual core, rather than only having a single value for the whole VM. This corresponds to what real POWER hardware does, where there is a LPCR per CPU thread but most of the fields are required to have the same value on all active threads in a core. The per-virtual-core LPCR can be read and written using the GET/SET_ONE_REG interface. Userspace can can only modify the following fields of the LPCR value: DPFD Default prefetch depth ILE Interrupt little-endian TC Translation control (secondary HPT hash group search disable) We still maintain a per-VM default LPCR value in kvm->arch.lpcr, which contains bits relating to memory management, i.e. the Virtualized Partition Memory (VPM) bits and the bits relating to guest real mode. When this default value is updated, the update needs to be propagated to the per-vcore values, so we add a kvmppc_update_lpcr() helper to do that. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [agraf: fix whitespace] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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