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Lai Jiangshan
eda2beda83 KVM: Add missing srcu_read_lock() for kvm_mmu_notifier_release()
I got this dmesg due to srcu_read_lock() is missing in
kvm_mmu_notifier_release().

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:72 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
2 locks held by qemu-system-x86/3100:
 #0:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff810d73dc>] __mmu_notifier_release+0x38/0xdf
 #1:  (&(&kvm->mmu_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa0130a6a>] kvm_mmu_zap_all+0x21/0x5e [kvm]

stack backtrace:
Pid: 3100, comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 2.6.34-rc3-22949-gbc8a97a-dirty #2
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8106afd9>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3
 [<ffffffffa0123a89>] unalias_gfn+0x56/0xab [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0119600>] gfn_to_memslot+0x16/0x25 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa012ffca>] gfn_to_rmap+0x17/0x6e [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa01300c1>] rmap_remove+0xa0/0x19d [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0130649>] kvm_mmu_zap_page+0x109/0x34d [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0130a7e>] kvm_mmu_zap_all+0x35/0x5e [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0122870>] kvm_arch_flush_shadow+0x16/0x22 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa01189e0>] kvm_mmu_notifier_release+0x15/0x17 [kvm]
 [<ffffffff810d742c>] __mmu_notifier_release+0x88/0xdf
 [<ffffffff810d73dc>] ? __mmu_notifier_release+0x38/0xdf
 [<ffffffff81040848>] ? exit_mm+0xe0/0x115
 [<ffffffff810c2cb0>] exit_mmap+0x2c/0x17e
 [<ffffffff8103c472>] mmput+0x2d/0xd4
 [<ffffffff81040870>] exit_mm+0x108/0x115
[...]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-21 11:17:43 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa
87bf6e7de1 KVM: fix the handling of dirty bitmaps to avoid overflows
Int is not long enough to store the size of a dirty bitmap.

This patch fixes this problem with the introduction of a wrapper
function to calculate the sizes of dirty bitmaps.

Note: in mark_page_dirty(), we have to consider the fact that
  __set_bit() takes the offset as int, not long.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-04-20 13:06:55 +03:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Avi Kivity
70e335e168 KVM: Convert kvm->requests_lock to raw_spinlock_t
The code relies on kvm->requests_lock inhibiting preemption.

Noted by Jan Kiszka.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:13 -03:00
Joerg Roedel
8f0b1ab6fb KVM: Introduce kvm_host_page_size
This patch introduces a generic function to find out the
host page size for a given gfn. This function is needed by
the kvm iommu code. This patch also simplifies the x86
host_mapping_level function.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:08 -03:00
Sheng Yang
f0f4b93090 KVM: Fix kvm_coalesced_mmio_ring duplicate allocation
The commit 0953ca73 "KVM: Simplify coalesced mmio initialization"
allocate kvm_coalesced_mmio_ring in the kvm_coalesced_mmio_init(), but
didn't discard the original allocation...

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:03 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
6474920477 KVM: fix cleanup_srcu_struct on vm destruction
cleanup_srcu_struct on VM destruction remains broken:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
IP: [<ffffffff802533d2>] srcu_read_lock+0x16/0x21
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802533d2>]  [<ffffffff802533d2>] srcu_read_lock+0x16/0x21
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa05354c4>] kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit+0x1b/0x48 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa05339c6>] kvm_vcpu_uninit+0x9/0x15 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0569f7d>] vmx_free_vcpu+0x7f/0x8f [kvm_intel]
 [<ffffffffa05357b5>] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x111 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa053315b>] kvm_put_kvm+0xd4/0xfe [kvm]

Move it to kvm_arch_destroy_vm.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:01 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
79fac95ecf KVM: convert slots_lock to a mutex
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:45 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
e93f8a0f82 KVM: convert io_bus to SRCU
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:45 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
a983fb2387 KVM: x86: switch kvm_set_memory_alias to SRCU update
Using a similar two-step procedure as for memslots.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:45 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
bc6678a33d KVM: introduce kvm->srcu and convert kvm_set_memory_region to SRCU update
Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops
instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction),
then instantiate the new empty slot.

Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:44 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
3ad26d8139 KVM: use gfn_to_pfn_memslot in kvm_iommu_map_pages
So its possible to iommu map a memslot before making it visible to
kvm.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:44 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
506f0d6f9c KVM: introduce gfn_to_pfn_memslot
Which takes a memslot pointer instead of using kvm->memslots.

To be used by SRCU convertion later.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:44 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
f7784b8ec9 KVM: split kvm_arch_set_memory_region into prepare and commit
Required for SRCU convertion later.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:44 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
46a26bf557 KVM: modify memslots layout in struct kvm
Have a pointer to an allocated region inside struct kvm.

[alex: fix ppc book 3s]

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:43 -03:00
Avi Kivity
980da6ce57 KVM: Simplify coalesced mmio initialization
- add destructor function
- move related allocation into constructor
- add stubs for !CONFIG_KVM_MMIO

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:41 -03:00
Avi Kivity
4c07b0a4b6 KVM: Remove ifdefs from mmu notifier initialization
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:41 -03:00
Avi Kivity
283d0c65e4 KVM: Disentangle mmu notifiers and coalesced_mmio registration
They aren't related.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:41 -03:00
Heiko Carstens
b4329db0d7 KVM: get rid of kvm_create_vm() unused label warning on s390
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'kvm_create_vm':
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:409: warning: label 'out_err' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:34 -02:00
Sheng Yang
fae3a3536a KVM: Fix possible circular locking in kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device()
One possible order is:

KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl(took kvm->lock) -> kvm_iobus_register_dev() ->
down_write(kvm->slots_lock).

The other one is in kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device(), which take kvm->slots_lock
first, then kvm->lock.

Update the comment of lock order as well.

Observe it due to kernel locking debug warnings.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:31 -02:00
Roland Dreier
628ff7c1d8 anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only
It seems a couple places such as arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c and
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c could use anon_inode_getfile()
instead of a private pseudo-fs + alloc_file(), if only there were a way
to get a read-only file.  So provide this by having anon_inode_getfile()
create a read-only file if we pass O_RDONLY in flags.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
bcd6acd51f Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Conflicts:
	include/linux/kvm.h
2009-12-09 17:14:38 +11:00
Avi Kivity
a9c7399d6c KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
Usually userspace will freeze the guest so we can inspect it, but some
internal state is not available.  Add extra data to internal error
reporting so we can expose it to the debugger.  Extra data is specific
to the suberror.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:24 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
6ff5894cdf KVM: Enable 32bit dirty log pointers on 64bit host
With big endian userspace, we can't quite figure out if a pointer
is 32 bit (shifted >> 32) or 64 bit when we read a 64 bit pointer.

This is what happens with dirty logging. To get the pointer interpreted
correctly, we thus need Arnd's patch to implement a compat layer for
the ioctl:

A better way to do this is to add a separate compat_ioctl() method that
converts this for you.

Based on initial patch from Arnd Bergmann.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:20 +02:00
Zhai, Edwin
d255f4f2ba KVM: introduce kvm_vcpu_on_spin
Introduce kvm_vcpu_on_spin, to be used by VMX/SVM to yield processing
once the cpu detects pause-based looping.

Signed-off-by: "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Alexander Graf
10474ae894 KVM: Activate Virtualization On Demand
X86 CPUs need to have some magic happening to enable the virtualization
extensions on them. This magic can result in unpleasant results for
users, like blocking other VMMs from working (vmx) or using invalid TLB
entries (svm).

Currently KVM activates virtualization when the respective kernel module
is loaded. This blocks us from autoloading KVM modules without breaking
other VMMs.

To circumvent this problem at least a bit, this patch introduces on
demand activation of virtualization. This means, that instead
virtualization is enabled on creation of the first virtual machine
and disabled on destruction of the last one.

So using this, KVM can be easily autoloaded, while keeping other
hypervisors usable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:10 +02:00
Avi Kivity
bfd99ff5d4 KVM: Move assigned device code to own file
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:09 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
680b3648ba KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path
The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and
this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access
to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take
kvm->irq_lock.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:08 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
136bdfeee7 KVM: Move irq ack notifier list to arch independent code
Mask irq notifier list is already there.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:07 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
46e624b95c KVM: Change irq routing table to use gsi indexed array
Use gsi indexed array instead of scanning all entries on each interrupt
injection.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:07 +02:00
Avi Kivity
45ec431c52 KVM: Don't wrap schedule() with vcpu_put()/vcpu_load()
Preemption notifiers will do that for us automatically.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:05 +02:00
Alexander Graf
c8240bd6f0 Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap
We currently use host endian long types to store information
in the dirty bitmap.

This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the
u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this
breaks completely though, forcing us to be inventive here.

So Ben suggested to always use Little Endian, which looks reasonable.

We only have dirty bitmap implemented in Little Endian targets so far
and since PowerPC would be the first Big Endian platform, we can just
as well switch to Little Endian always with little effort without
breaking existing targets.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:50:27 +11:00
Darrick J. Wong
0ea4ed8e94 KVM: Prevent kvm_init from corrupting debugfs structures
I'm seeing an oops condition when kvm-intel and kvm-amd are modprobe'd
during boot (say on an Intel system) and then rmmod'd:

   # modprobe kvm-intel
     kvm_init()
     kvm_init_debug()
     kvm_arch_init()  <-- stores debugfs dentries internally
     (success, etc)

   # modprobe kvm-amd
     kvm_init()
     kvm_init_debug() <-- second initialization clobbers kvm's
                          internal pointers to dentries
     kvm_arch_init()
     kvm_exit_debug() <-- and frees them

   # rmmod kvm-intel
     kvm_exit()
     kvm_exit_debug() <-- double free of debugfs files!

     *BOOM*

If execution gets to the end of kvm_init(), then the calling module has been
established as the kvm provider.  Move the debugfs initialization to the end of
the function, and remove the now-unnecessary call to kvm_exit_debug() from the
error path.  That way we avoid trampling on the debugfs entries and freeing
them twice.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-10-16 12:30:26 -03:00
Izik Eidus
3da0dd433d KVM: add support for change_pte mmu notifiers
this is needed for kvm if it want ksm to directly map pages into its
shadow page tables.

[marcelo: cast pfn assignment to u64]

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-10-04 17:04:53 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
828c09509b const: constify remaining file_operations
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix KVM]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f0f37e2f77 const: mark struct vm_struct_operations
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
Li Zefan
79f5599772 cpumask: use zalloc_cpumask_var() where possible
Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:24 +09:30
Heiko Carstens
28bcb11218 KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
CC      arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.o
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function '__kvm_set_memory_region':
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:485: warning: unused variable 'j'
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:484: warning: unused variable 'lpages'
arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:483: warning: unused variable 'ugfn'

Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:11 +03:00
Avi Kivity
6621fbc2c6 KVM: Move #endif KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING to correct place
The symbol only controls irq routing, not MSI-X.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:42 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong
aed665f7bb KVM: fix kvm_init() error handling
Remove debugfs file if kvm_arch_init() return error

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:17 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
e601e3be7a KVM: Drop obsolete cpu_get/put in make_all_cpus_request
spin_lock disables preemption, so we can simply read the current cpu.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:16 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
a1b37100d9 KVM: Reduce runnability interface with arch support code
Remove kvm_cpu_has_interrupt() and kvm_arch_interrupt_allowed() from
interface between general code and arch code. kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable()
checks for interrupts instead.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:13 +03:00
Gregory Haskins
d34e6b175e KVM: add ioeventfd support
ioeventfd is a mechanism to register PIO/MMIO regions to trigger an eventfd
signal when written to by a guest.  Host userspace can register any
arbitrary IO address with a corresponding eventfd and then pass the eventfd
to a specific end-point of interest for handling.

Normal IO requires a blocking round-trip since the operation may cause
side-effects in the emulated model or may return data to the caller.
Therefore, an IO in KVM traps from the guest to the host, causes a VMX/SVM
"heavy-weight" exit back to userspace, and is ultimately serviced by qemu's
device model synchronously before returning control back to the vcpu.

However, there is a subclass of IO which acts purely as a trigger for
other IO (such as to kick off an out-of-band DMA request, etc).  For these
patterns, the synchronous call is particularly expensive since we really
only want to simply get our notification transmitted asychronously and
return as quickly as possible.  All the sychronous infrastructure to ensure
proper data-dependencies are met in the normal IO case are just unecessary
overhead for signalling.  This adds additional computational load on the
system, as well as latency to the signalling path.

Therefore, we provide a mechanism for registration of an in-kernel trigger
point that allows the VCPU to only require a very brief, lightweight
exit just long enough to signal an eventfd.  This also means that any
clients compatible with the eventfd interface (which includes userspace
and kernelspace equally well) can now register to be notified. The end
result should be a more flexible and higher performance notification API
for the backend KVM hypervisor and perhipheral components.

To test this theory, we built a test-harness called "doorbell".  This
module has a function called "doorbell_ring()" which simply increments a
counter for each time the doorbell is signaled.  It supports signalling
from either an eventfd, or an ioctl().

We then wired up two paths to the doorbell: One via QEMU via a registered
io region and through the doorbell ioctl().  The other is direct via
ioeventfd.

You can download this test harness here:

ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/doorbell.tar.bz2

The measured results are as follows:

qemu-mmio:       110000 iops, 9.09us rtt
ioeventfd-mmio: 200100 iops, 5.00us rtt
ioeventfd-pio:  367300 iops, 2.72us rtt

I didn't measure qemu-pio, because I have to figure out how to register a
PIO region with qemu's device model, and I got lazy.  However, for now we
can extrapolate based on the data from the NULLIO runs of +2.56us for MMIO,
and -350ns for HC, we get:

qemu-pio:      153139 iops, 6.53us rtt
ioeventfd-hc: 412585 iops, 2.37us rtt

these are just for fun, for now, until I can gather more data.

Here is a graph for your convenience:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/7/76/Iofd-chart.png

The conclusion to draw is that we save about 4us by skipping the userspace
hop.

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Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:12 +03:00
Gregory Haskins
090b7aff27 KVM: make io_bus interface more robust
Today kvm_io_bus_regsiter_dev() returns void and will internally BUG_ON
if it fails.  We want to create dynamic MMIO/PIO entries driven from
userspace later in the series, so we need to enhance the code to be more
robust with the following changes:

   1) Add a return value to the registration function
   2) Fix up all the callsites to check the return code, handle any
      failures, and percolate the error up to the caller.
   3) Add an unregister function that collapses holes in the array

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:12 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
22fc02943a KVM: document lock nesting rule
Document kvm->lock nesting within kvm->slots_lock

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:06 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
bda9020e24 KVM: remove in_range from io devices
This changes bus accesses to use high-level kvm_io_bus_read/kvm_io_bus_write
functions. in_range now becomes unused so it is removed from device ops in
favor of read/write callbacks performing range checks internally.

This allows aliasing (mostly for in-kernel virtio), as well as better error
handling by making it possible to pass errors up to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:05 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
6c47469453 KVM: convert bus to slots_lock
Use slots_lock to protect device list on the bus.  slots_lock is already
taken for read everywhere, so we only need to take it for write when
registering devices.  This is in preparation to removing in_range and
kvm->lock around it.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:05 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
2023a29cbe KVM: remove old KVMTRACE support code
Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:03 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
894a9c5543 KVM: x86: missing locking in PIT/IRQCHIP/SET_BSP_CPU ioctl paths
Correct missing locking in a few places in x86's vm_ioctl handling path.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:02 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
ec04b2604c KVM: Prepare memslot data structures for multiple hugepage sizes
[avi: fix build on non-x86]

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:02 +03:00