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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/powerpc/kvm, branch linux-3.1.y</title>
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<updated>2011-11-21T22:35:27+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add hvcall.h include to book3s_hv.c</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T22:35:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-09T20:39:49+00:00</published>
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commit de1d9248eadd27539eba449b4d09428252e80c04 upstream.

If you build with KVM and UP it fails with the following due to a
missing include.

/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: In function 'do_h_register_vpa':
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:156:10: error: 'H_PARAMETER' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:156:10: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:192:12: error: 'H_RESOURCE' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:222:9: error: 'H_SUCCESS' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: In function 'kvmppc_pseries_do_hcall':
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:228:30: error: 'H_SUCCESS' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:232:7: error: 'H_CEDE' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:234:7: error: 'H_PROD' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:238:10: error: 'H_PARAMETER' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:250:7: error: 'H_CONFER' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c:252:7: error: 'H_REGISTER_VPA' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: Fix build errors with older toolchains</title>
<updated>2011-08-05T04:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishanth Aravamudan</name>
<email>nacc@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T08:55:54+00:00</published>
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On a box with gcc 4.3.2, I see errors like:

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S:1254: Error: Unrecognized opcode: stxvd2x
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S:1316: Error: Unrecognized opcode: lxvd2x

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2011-07-24T16:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-24T16:07:03+00:00</published>
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* 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits)
  KVM: IOMMU: Disable device assignment without interrupt remapping
  KVM: MMU: trace mmio page fault
  KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support
  KVM: MMU: reorganize struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator
  KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table
  KVM: MMU: do not need atomicly to set/clear spte
  KVM: MMU: introduce the rules to modify shadow page table
  KVM: MMU: abstract some functions to handle fault pfn
  KVM: MMU: filter out the mmio pfn from the fault pfn
  KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pf
  KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page
  KVM: MMU: count used shadow pages on prepareing path
  KVM: MMU: rename 'pt_write' to 'emulate'
  KVM: MMU: cleanup for FNAME(fetch)
  KVM: MMU: optimize to handle dirty bit
  KVM: MMU: cache mmio info on page fault path
  KVM: x86: introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to cleanup the code
  KVM: MMU: do not update slot bitmap if spte is nonpresent
  KVM: MMU: fix walking shadow page table
  KVM guest: KVM Steal time registration
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too</title>
<updated>2011-07-23T06:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ohad Ben-Cohen</name>
<email>ohad@wizery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-05T14:06:14+00:00</published>
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virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization,
and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch
Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected.

Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,
we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization
scope too.

Moreover, some architectures might use virtio for both virtualization
and inter-processor communications, so directly sourcing virtio
might yield unexpected results due to conflicting selections.

The simple solution offered by this patch is to always source virtio's
Kconfig in drivers/Kconfig, and remove it from the appropriate arch
Kconfigs. Additionally, a virtio menu entry has been added so virtio
drivers don't show up in the general drivers menu.

This way anyone can use virtio, though it's arguably less accessible
(and neat!) for virtualization users now.

Note: some architectures (mips and sh) seem to have a VIRTUALIZATION
menu merely for sourcing virtio's Kconfig, so that menu is removed too.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen &lt;ohad@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:40:08+00:00</published>
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This adds support for running KVM guests in supervisor mode on those
PPC970 processors that have a usable hypervisor mode.  Unfortunately,
Apple G5 machines have supervisor mode disabled (MSR[HV] is forced to
1), but the YDL PowerStation does have a usable hypervisor mode.

There are several differences between the PPC970 and POWER7 in how
guests are managed.  These differences are accommodated using the
CPU_FTR_ARCH_201 (PPC970) and CPU_FTR_ARCH_206 (POWER7) CPU feature
bits.  Notably, on PPC970:

* The LPCR, LPID or RMOR registers don't exist, and the functions of
  those registers are provided by bits in HID4 and one bit in HID0.

* External interrupts can be directed to the hypervisor, but unlike
  POWER7 they are masked by MSR[EE] in non-hypervisor modes and use
  SRR0/1 not HSRR0/1.

* There is no virtual RMA (VRMA) mode; the guest must use an RMO
  (real mode offset) area.

* The TLB entries are not tagged with the LPID, so it is necessary to
  flush the whole TLB on partition switch.  Furthermore, when switching
  partitions we have to ensure that no other CPU is executing the tlbie
  or tlbsync instructions in either the old or the new partition,
  otherwise undefined behaviour can occur.

* The PMU has 8 counters (PMC registers) rather than 6.

* The DSCR, PURR, SPURR, AMR, AMOR, UAMOR registers don't exist.

* The SLB has 64 entries rather than 32.

* There is no mediated external interrupt facility, so if we switch to
  a guest that has a virtual external interrupt pending but the guest
  has MSR[EE] = 0, we have to arrange to have an interrupt pending for
  it so that we can get control back once it re-enables interrupts.  We
  do that by sending ourselves an IPI with smp_send_reschedule after
  hard-disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc, KVM: Split HVMODE_206 cpu feature bit into separate HV and architecture bits</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:26:11+00:00</published>
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This replaces the single CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206 bit with two bits, one to
indicate that we have a usable hypervisor mode, and another to indicate
that the processor conforms to PowerISA version 2.06.  We also add
another bit to indicate that the processor conforms to ISA version 2.01
and set that for PPC970 and derivatives.

Some PPC970 chips (specifically those in Apple machines) have a
hypervisor mode in that MSR[HV] is always 1, but the hypervisor mode
is not useful in the sense that there is no way to run any code in
supervisor mode (HV=0 PR=0).  On these processors, the LPES0 and LPES1
bits in HID4 are always 0, and we use that as a way of detecting that
hypervisor mode is not useful.

Where we have a feature section in assembly code around code that
only applies on POWER7 in hypervisor mode, we use a construct like

END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)

The definition of END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET is such that the code will
be enabled (not overwritten with nops) only if all bits in the
provided mask are set.

Note that the CPU feature check in __tlbie() only needs to check the
ARCH_206 bit, not the HVMODE bit, because __tlbie() can only get called
if we are running bare-metal, i.e. in hypervisor mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Allocate RMAs (Real Mode Areas) at boot for use by guests</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:25:44+00:00</published>
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This adds infrastructure which will be needed to allow book3s_hv KVM to
run on older POWER processors, including PPC970, which don't support
the Virtual Real Mode Area (VRMA) facility, but only the Real Mode
Offset (RMO) facility.  These processors require a physically
contiguous, aligned area of memory for each guest.  When the guest does
an access in real mode (MMU off), the address is compared against a
limit value, and if it is lower, the address is ORed with an offset
value (from the Real Mode Offset Register (RMOR)) and the result becomes
the real address for the access.  The size of the RMA has to be one of
a set of supported values, which usually includes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB
and some larger powers of 2.

Since we are unlikely to be able to allocate 64MB or more of physically
contiguous memory after the kernel has been running for a while, we
allocate a pool of RMAs at boot time using the bootmem allocator.  The
size and number of the RMAs can be set using the kvm_rma_size=xx and
kvm_rma_count=xx kernel command line options.

KVM exports a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA, to signal the availability
of the pool of preallocated RMAs.  The capability value is 1 if the
processor can use an RMA but doesn't require one (because it supports
the VRMA facility), or 2 if the processor requires an RMA for each guest.

This adds a new ioctl, KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA, which allocates an RMA from the
pool and returns a file descriptor which can be used to map the RMA.  It
also returns the size of the RMA in the argument structure.

Having an RMA means we will get multiple KMV_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
ioctl calls from userspace.  To cope with this, we now preallocate the
kvm-&gt;arch.ram_pginfo array when the VM is created with a size sufficient
for up to 64GB of guest memory.  Subsequently we will get rid of this
array and use memory associated with each memslot instead.

This moves most of the code that translates the user addresses into
host pfns (page frame numbers) out of kvmppc_prepare_vrma up one level
to kvmppc_core_prepare_memory_region.  Also, instead of having to look
up the VMA for each page in order to check the page size, we now check
that the pages we get are compound pages of 16MB.  However, if we are
adding memory that is mapped to an RMA, we don't bother with calling
get_user_pages_fast and instead just offset from the base pfn for the
RMA.

Typically the RMA gets added after vcpus are created, which makes it
inconvenient to have the LPCR (logical partition control register) value
in the vcpu-&gt;arch struct, since the LPCR controls whether the processor
uses RMA or VRMA for the guest.  This moves the LPCR value into the
kvm-&gt;arch struct and arranges for the MER (mediated external request)
bit, which is the only bit that varies between vcpus, to be set in
assembly code when going into the guest if there is a pending external
interrupt request.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:23:08+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real mode</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>dwg@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:22:41+00:00</published>
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This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode.  H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interface.

Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new
KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables.  The
ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly
created table.  The qemu driver models use them in the same way as
userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the
guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number
of host/guest context switches during guest IO.

There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu
to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used
most of the time.  Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness
when we need to reset the table.  More importantly, we will in the
future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a
checkpoint resume or migration.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Handle some PAPR hcalls in the kernel</title>
<updated>2011-07-12T10:16:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-29T00:22:05+00:00</published>
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This adds the infrastructure for handling PAPR hcalls in the kernel,
either early in the guest exit path while we are still in real mode,
or later once the MMU has been turned back on and we are in the full
kernel context.  The advantage of handling hcalls in real mode if
possible is that we avoid two partition switches -- and this will
become more important when we support SMT4 guests, since a partition
switch means we have to pull all of the threads in the core out of
the guest.  The disadvantage is that we can only access the kernel
linear mapping, not anything vmalloced or ioremapped, since the MMU
is off.

This also adds code to handle the following hcalls in real mode:

H_ENTER       Add an HPTE to the hashed page table
H_REMOVE      Remove an HPTE from the hashed page table
H_READ        Read HPTEs from the hashed page table
H_PROTECT     Change the protection bits in an HPTE
H_BULK_REMOVE Remove up to 4 HPTEs from the hashed page table
H_SET_DABR    Set the data address breakpoint register

Plus code to handle the following hcalls in the kernel:

H_CEDE        Idle the vcpu until an interrupt or H_PROD hcall arrives
H_PROD        Wake up a ceded vcpu
H_REGISTER_VPA Register a virtual processor area (VPA)

The code that runs in real mode has to be in the base kernel, not in
the module, if KVM is compiled as a module.  The real-mode code can
only access the kernel linear mapping, not vmalloc or ioremap space.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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