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# 53af3ba2 30-Jan-2017 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Allow guest exit path to have MMU on

If we allow LPCR[AIL] to be set for radix guests, then interrupts from
the guest to the host can be delivered by the hardware with relocatio

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Allow guest exit path to have MMU on

If we allow LPCR[AIL] to be set for radix guests, then interrupts from
the guest to the host can be delivered by the hardware with relocation
on, and thus the code path starting at kvmppc_interrupt_hv can be
executed in virtual mode (MMU on) for radix guests (previously it was
only ever executed in real mode).

Most of the code is indifferent to whether the MMU is on or off, but
the calls to OPAL that use the real-mode OPAL entry code need to
be switched to use the virtual-mode code instead. The affected
calls are the calls to the OPAL XICS emulation functions in
kvmppc_read_one_intr() and related functions. We test the MSR[IR]
bit to detect whether we are in real or virtual mode, and call the
opal_rm_* or opal_* function as appropriate.

The other place that depends on the MMU being off is the optimization
where the guest exit code jumps to the external interrupt vector or
hypervisor doorbell interrupt vector, or returns to its caller (which
is __kvmppc_vcore_entry). If the MMU is on and we are returning to
the caller, then we don't need to use an rfid instruction since the
MMU is already on; a simple blr suffices. If there is an external
or hypervisor doorbell interrupt to handle, we branch to the
relocation-on version of the interrupt vector.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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Revision tags: v4.9
# e34af784 30-Nov-2016 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h

This moves the prototypes for functions that are only called from
assembler code out of asm/asm-prototypes.h into asm/kvm_ppc.h.
Th

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h

This moves the prototypes for functions that are only called from
assembler code out of asm/asm-prototypes.h into asm/kvm_ppc.h.
The prototypes were added in commit ebe4535fbe7a ("KVM: PPC:
Book3S HV: sparse: prototypes for functions called from assembler",
2016-10-10), but given that the functions are KVM functions,
having them in a KVM header will be better for long-term
maintenance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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# e2702871 23-Nov-2016 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix compilation with unusual configurations

This adds the "again" parameter to the dummy version of
kvmppc_check_passthru(), so that it matches the real version.
This fixes comp

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix compilation with unusual configurations

This adds the "again" parameter to the dummy version of
kvmppc_check_passthru(), so that it matches the real version.
This fixes compilation with CONFIG_BOOK3S_64_HV set but
CONFIG_KVM_XICS=n.

This includes asm/smp.h in book3s_hv_builtin.c to fix compilation
with CONFIG_SMP=n. The explicit inclusion is necessary to provide
definitions of hard_smp_processor_id() and get_hard_smp_processor_id()
in UP configs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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Revision tags: openbmc-4.4-20161121-1, v4.4.33
# f725758b 17-Nov-2016 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use OPAL XICS emulation on POWER9

POWER9 includes a new interrupt controller, called XIVE, which is
quite different from the XICS interrupt controller on POWER7 and
POWER8 machi

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use OPAL XICS emulation on POWER9

POWER9 includes a new interrupt controller, called XIVE, which is
quite different from the XICS interrupt controller on POWER7 and
POWER8 machines. KVM-HV accesses the XICS directly in several places
in order to send and clear IPIs and handle interrupts from PCI
devices being passed through to the guest.

In order to make the transition to XIVE easier, OPAL firmware will
include an emulation of XICS on top of XIVE. Access to the emulated
XICS is via OPAL calls. The one complication is that the EOI
(end-of-interrupt) function can now return a value indicating that
another interrupt is pending; in this case, the XIVE will not signal
an interrupt in hardware to the CPU, and software is supposed to
acknowledge the new interrupt without waiting for another interrupt
to be delivered in hardware.

This adapts KVM-HV to use the OPAL calls on machines where there is
no XICS hardware. When there is no XICS, we look for a device-tree
node with "ibm,opal-intc" in its compatible property, which is how
OPAL indicates that it provides XICS emulation.

In order to handle the EOI return value, kvmppc_read_intr() has
become kvmppc_read_one_intr(), with a boolean variable passed by
reference which can be set by the EOI functions to indicate that
another interrupt is pending. The new kvmppc_read_intr() keeps
calling kvmppc_read_one_intr() until there are no more interrupts
to process. The return value from kvmppc_read_intr() is the
largest non-zero value of the returns from kvmppc_read_one_intr().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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# 1704a81c 17-Nov-2016 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for IPIs to other cores on POWER9

On POWER9, the msgsnd instruction is able to send interrupts to
other cores, as well as other threads on the local core. Since
msgs

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for IPIs to other cores on POWER9

On POWER9, the msgsnd instruction is able to send interrupts to
other cores, as well as other threads on the local core. Since
msgsnd is generally simpler and faster than sending an IPI via the
XICS, we use msgsnd for all IPIs sent by KVM on POWER9.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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Revision tags: v4.4.32, v4.4.31, v4.4.30, v4.4.29, v4.4.28, v4.4.27, v4.7.10, openbmc-4.4-20161021-1, v4.7.9, v4.4.26, v4.7.8, v4.4.25
# ebe4535f 09-Oct-2016 Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: sparse: prototypes for functions called from assembler

A bunch of KVM functions are only called from assembler.
Give them prototypes in asm-prototypes.h
This reduces sparse warn

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: sparse: prototypes for functions called from assembler

A bunch of KVM functions are only called from assembler.
Give them prototypes in asm-prototypes.h
This reduces sparse warnings.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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Revision tags: v4.4.24, v4.7.7, v4.8, v4.4.23, v4.7.6, v4.7.5, v4.4.22, v4.4.21, v4.7.4, v4.7.3, v4.4.20, v4.7.2, v4.4.19
# f7af5209 19-Aug-2016 Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Complete passthrough interrupt in host

In existing real mode ICP code, when updating the virtual ICP
state, if there is a required action that cannot be completely
handled in re

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Complete passthrough interrupt in host

In existing real mode ICP code, when updating the virtual ICP
state, if there is a required action that cannot be completely
handled in real mode, as for instance, a VCPU needs to be woken
up, flags are set in the ICP to indicate the required action.
This is checked when returning from hypercalls to decide whether
the call needs switch back to the host where the action can be
performed in virtual mode. Note that if h_ipi_redirect is enabled,
real mode code will first try to message a free host CPU to
complete this job instead of returning the host to do it ourselves.

Currently, the real mode PCI passthrough interrupt handling code
checks if any of these flags are set and simply returns to the host.
This is not good enough as the trap value (0x500) is treated as an
external interrupt by the host code. It is only when the trap value
is a hypercall that the host code searches for and acts on unfinished
work by calling kvmppc_xics_rm_complete.

This patch introduces a special trap BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_HV_RM_HARD
which is returned by KVM if there is unfinished business to be
completed in host virtual mode after handling a PCI passthrough
interrupt. The host checks for this special interrupt condition
and calls into the kvmppc_xics_rm_complete, which is made an
exported function for this reason.

[paulus@ozlabs.org - moved logic to set r12 to BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_HV_RM_HARD
in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S into the end of kvmppc_check_wake_reason.]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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# e3c13e56 19-Aug-2016 Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle passthrough interrupts in guest

Currently, KVM switches back to the host to handle any external
interrupt (when the interrupt is received while running in the
guest). Thi

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle passthrough interrupts in guest

Currently, KVM switches back to the host to handle any external
interrupt (when the interrupt is received while running in the
guest). This patch updates real-mode KVM to check if an interrupt
is generated by a passthrough adapter that is owned by this guest.
If so, the real mode KVM will directly inject the corresponding
virtual interrupt to the guest VCPU's ICS and also EOI the interrupt
in hardware. In short, the interrupt is handled entirely in real
mode in the guest context without switching back to the host.

In some rare cases, the interrupt cannot be completely handled in
real mode, for instance, a VCPU that is sleeping needs to be woken
up. In this case, KVM simply switches back to the host with trap
reason set to 0x500. This works, but it is clearly not very efficient.
A following patch will distinguish this case and handle it
correctly in the host. Note that we can use the existing
check_too_hard() routine even though we are not in a hypercall to
determine if there is unfinished business that needs to be
completed in host virtual mode.

The patch assumes that the mapping between hardware interrupt IRQ
and virtual IRQ to be injected to the guest already exists for the
PCI passthrough interrupts that need to be handled in real mode.
If the mapping does not exist, KVM falls back to the default
existing behavior.

The KVM real mode code reads mappings from the mapped array in the
passthrough IRQ map without taking any lock. We carefully order the
loads and stores of the fields in the kvmppc_irq_map data structure
using memory barriers to avoid an inconsistent mapping being seen by
the reader. Thus, although it is possible to miss a map entry, it is
not possible to read a stale value.

[paulus@ozlabs.org - get irq_chip from irq_map rather than pimap,
pulled out powernv eoi change into a separate patch, made
kvmppc_read_intr get the vcpu from the paca rather than being
passed in, rewrote the logic at the end of kvmppc_read_intr to
avoid deep indentation, simplified logic in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
since we were always restoring SRR0/1 anyway, get rid of the cached
array (just use the mapped array), removed the kick_all_cpus_sync()
call, clear saved_xirr PACA field when we handle the interrupt in
real mode, fix compilation with CONFIG_KVM_XICS=n.]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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# 37f55d30 19-Aug-2016 Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert kvmppc_read_intr to a C function

Modify kvmppc_read_intr to make it a C function. Because it is called
from kvmppc_check_wake_reason, any of the assembler code that cal

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert kvmppc_read_intr to a C function

Modify kvmppc_read_intr to make it a C function. Because it is called
from kvmppc_check_wake_reason, any of the assembler code that calls
either kvmppc_read_intr or kvmppc_check_wake_reason now has to assume
that the volatile registers might have been modified.

This also adds in the optimization of clearing saved_xirr in the case
where we completely handle and EOI an IPI. Without this, the next
device interrupt will require two trips through the host interrupt
handling code.

[paulus@ozlabs.org - made kvmppc_check_wake_reason create a stack frame
when it is calling kvmppc_read_intr, which means we can set r12 to
the trap number (0x500) after the call to kvmppc_read_intr, instead
of using r31. Also moved the deliver_guest_interrupt label so as to
restore XER and CTR, plus other minor tweaks.]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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Revision tags: openbmc-4.4-20160819-1, v4.7.1, v4.4.18, v4.4.17, openbmc-4.4-20160804-1, v4.4.16, v4.7, openbmc-4.4-20160722-1, openbmc-20160722-1, openbmc-20160713-1, v4.4.15, v4.6.4, v4.6.3, v4.4.14, v4.6.2, v4.4.13, openbmc-20160606-1, v4.6.1, v4.4.12, openbmc-20160521-1, v4.4.11, openbmc-20160518-1, v4.6, v4.4.10, openbmc-20160511-1, openbmc-20160505-1, v4.4.9, v4.4.8, v4.4.7, openbmc-20160329-2, openbmc-20160329-1, openbmc-20160321-1, v4.4.6, v4.5, v4.4.5, v4.4.4, v4.4.3, openbmc-20160222-1, v4.4.2, openbmc-20160212-1, openbmc-20160210-1, openbmc-20160202-2, openbmc-20160202-1, v4.4.1, openbmc-20160127-1, openbmc-20160120-1, v4.4
# 79b6c247 17-Dec-2015 Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Host-side RM data structures

This patch defines the data structures to support the setting up
of host side operations while running in real mode in the guest,
and also the funct

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Host-side RM data structures

This patch defines the data structures to support the setting up
of host side operations while running in real mode in the guest,
and also the functions to allocate and free it.

The operations are for now limited to virtual XICS operations.
Currently, we have only defined one operation in the data
structure:
- Wake up a VCPU sleeping in the host when it
receives a virtual interrupt

The operations are assigned at the core level because PowerKVM
requires that the host run in SMT off mode. For each core,
we will need to manage its state atomically - where the state
is defined by:
1. Is the core running in the host?
2. Is there a Real Mode (RM) operation pending on the host?

Currently, core state is only managed at the whole-core level
even when the system is in split-core mode. This just limits
the number of free or "available" cores in the host to perform
any host-side operations.

The kvmppc_host_rm_core.rm_data allows any data to be passed by
KVM in real mode to the host core along with the operation to
be performed.

The kvmppc_host_rm_ops structure is allocated the very first time
a guest VM is started. Initial core state is also set - all online
cores are in the host. This structure is never deleted, not even
when there are no active guests. However, it needs to be freed
when the module is unloaded because the kvmppc_host_rm_ops_hv
can contain function pointers to kvm-hv.ko functions for the
different supported host operations.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

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Revision tags: openbmc-20151217-1, openbmc-20151210-1, openbmc-20151202-1, openbmc-20151123-1, openbmc-20151118-1, openbmc-20151104-1, v4.3, openbmc-20151102-1, openbmc-20151028-1, v4.3-rc1, v4.2, v4.2-rc8, v4.2-rc7, v4.2-rc6, v4.2-rc5, v4.2-rc4, v4.2-rc3, v4.2-rc2, v4.2-rc1
# b4deba5c 02-Jul-2015 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8

This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical
core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8

This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical
core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER8
chip. Previously, only vcores from the same VM could be run together,
and (on POWER8) only if they had just one thread per core. With the
ability to split the core on guest entry and unsplit it on guest exit,
we can run up to 8 vcpu threads from up to 4 different VMs, and we can
run multiple vcores with 2 or 4 vcpus per vcore.

Dynamic micro-threading is only available if the static configuration
of the cores is whole-core mode (unsplit), and only on POWER8.

To manage this, we introduce a new kvm_split_mode struct which is
shared across all of the subcores in the core, with a pointer in the
paca on each thread. In addition we extend the core_info struct to
have information on each subcore. When deciding whether to add a
vcore to the set already on the core, we now have two possibilities:
(a) piggyback the vcore onto an existing subcore, or (b) start a new
subcore.

Currently, when any vcpu needs to exit the guest and switch to host
virtual mode, we interrupt all the threads in all subcores and switch
the core back to whole-core mode. It may be possible in future to
allow some of the subcores to keep executing in the guest while
subcore 0 switches to the host, but that is not implemented in this
patch.

This adds a module parameter called dynamic_mt_modes which controls
which micro-threading (split-core) modes the code will consider, as a
bitmap. In other words, if it is 0, no micro-threading mode is
considered; if it is 2, only 2-way micro-threading is considered; if
it is 4, only 4-way, and if it is 6, both 2-way and 4-way
micro-threading mode will be considered. The default is 6.

With this, we now have secondary threads which are the primary thread
for their subcore and therefore need to do the MMU switch. These
threads will need to be started even if they have no vcpu to run, so
we use the vcore pointer in the PACA rather than the vcpu pointer to
trigger them.

It is now possible for thread 0 to find that an exit has been
requested before it gets to switch the subcore state to the guest. In
that case we haven't added the guest's timebase offset to the
timebase, so we need to be careful not to subtract the offset in the
guest exit path. In fact we just skip the whole path that switches
back to host context, since we haven't switched to the guest context.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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# ec257165 24-Jun-2015 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make use of unused threads when running guests

When running a virtual core of a guest that is configured with fewer
threads per core than the physical cores have, the extra phys

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make use of unused threads when running guests

When running a virtual core of a guest that is configured with fewer
threads per core than the physical cores have, the extra physical
threads are currently unused. This makes it possible to use them to
run one or more other virtual cores from the same guest when certain
conditions are met. This applies on POWER7, and on POWER8 to guests
with one thread per virtual core. (It doesn't apply to POWER8 guests
with multiple threads per vcore because they require a 1-1 virtual to
physical thread mapping in order to be able to use msgsndp and the
TIR.)

The idea is that we maintain a list of preempted vcores for each
physical cpu (i.e. each core, since the host runs single-threaded).
Then, when a vcore is about to run, it checks to see if there are
any vcores on the list for its physical cpu that could be
piggybacked onto this vcore's execution. If so, those additional
vcores are put into state VCORE_PIGGYBACK and their runnable VCPU
threads are started as well as the original vcore, which is called
the master vcore.

After the vcores have exited the guest, the extra ones are put back
onto the preempted list if any of their VCPUs are still runnable and
not idle.

This means that vcpu->arch.ptid is no longer necessarily the same as
the physical thread that the vcpu runs on. In order to make it easier
for code that wants to send an IPI to know which CPU to target, we
now store that in a new field in struct vcpu_arch, called thread_cpu.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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Revision tags: v4.1, v4.1-rc8, v4.1-rc7, v4.1-rc6, v4.1-rc5, v4.1-rc4, v4.1-rc3, v4.1-rc2, v4.1-rc1, v4.0, v4.0-rc7, v4.0-rc6
# 66feed61 27-Mar-2015 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8

This uses msgsnd where possible for signalling other threads within
the same core on POWER8 systems, rather than IPIs through the XIC

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8

This uses msgsnd where possible for signalling other threads within
the same core on POWER8 systems, rather than IPIs through the XICS
interrupt controller. This includes waking secondary threads to run
the guest, the interrupts generated by the virtual XICS, and the
interrupts to bring the other threads out of the guest when exiting.

Aggregated statistics from debugfs across vcpus for a guest with 32
vcpus, 8 threads/vcore, running on a POWER8, show this before the
change:

rm_entry: 3387.6ns (228 - 86600, 1008969 samples)
rm_exit: 4561.5ns (12 - 3477452, 1009402 samples)
rm_intr: 1660.0ns (12 - 553050, 3600051 samples)

and this after the change:

rm_entry: 3060.1ns (212 - 65138, 953873 samples)
rm_exit: 4244.1ns (12 - 9693408, 954331 samples)
rm_intr: 1342.3ns (12 - 1104718, 3405326 samples)

for a test of booting Fedora 20 big-endian to the login prompt.

The time taken for a H_PROD hcall (which is handled in the host
kernel) went down from about 35 microseconds to about 16 microseconds
with this change.

The noinline added to kvmppc_run_core turned out to be necessary for
good performance, at least with gcc 4.9.2 as packaged with Fedora 21
and a little-endian POWER8 host.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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# eddb60fb 27-Mar-2015 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C

This replaces the assembler code for kvmhv_commence_exit() with C code
in book3s_hv_builtin.c. It also moves the IPI sending code that was
in

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C

This replaces the assembler code for kvmhv_commence_exit() with C code
in book3s_hv_builtin.c. It also moves the IPI sending code that was
in book3s_hv_rm_xics.c into a new kvmhv_rm_send_ipi() function so it
can be used by kvmhv_commence_exit() as well as icp_rm_set_vcpu_irq().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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# 7d6c40da 27-Mar-2015 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count

Currently, the entry_exit_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct
contains two 8-bit counts, one of the threads that have started e

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count

Currently, the entry_exit_count field in the kvmppc_vcore struct
contains two 8-bit counts, one of the threads that have started entering
the guest, and one of the threads that have started exiting the guest.
This changes it to an entry_exit_map field which contains two bitmaps
of 8 bits each. The advantage of doing this is that it gives us a
bitmap of which threads need to be signalled when exiting the guest.
That means that we no longer need to use the trick of setting the
HDEC to 0 to pull the other threads out of the guest, which led in
some cases to a spurious HDEC interrupt on the next guest entry.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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Revision tags: v4.0-rc5
# e928e9cb 20-Mar-2015 Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation.

Some PowerNV systems include a hardware random-number generator.
This HWRNG is present on POWER7+ and POWER8 chips and is capable of

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation.

Some PowerNV systems include a hardware random-number generator.
This HWRNG is present on POWER7+ and POWER8 chips and is capable of
generating one 64-bit random number every microsecond. The random
numbers are produced by sampling a set of 64 unstable high-frequency
oscillators and are almost completely entropic.

PAPR defines an H_RANDOM hypercall which guests can use to obtain one
64-bit random sample from the HWRNG. This adds a real-mode
implementation of the H_RANDOM hypercall. This hypercall was
implemented in real mode because the latency of reading the HWRNG is
generally small compared to the latency of a guest exit and entry for
all the threads in the same virtual core.

Userspace can detect the presence of the HWRNG and the H_RANDOM
implementation by querying the KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG capability. The
H_RANDOM hypercall implementation will only be invoked when the guest
does an H_RANDOM hypercall if userspace first enables the in-kernel
H_RANDOM implementation using the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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Revision tags: v4.0-rc4, v4.0-rc3, v4.0-rc2, v4.0-rc1, v3.19, v3.19-rc7, v3.19-rc6, v3.19-rc5, v3.19-rc4, v3.19-rc3, v3.19-rc2, v3.19-rc1, v3.18
# 90fd09f8 02-Dec-2014 Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation

Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in tha

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation

Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest. This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU. The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything. If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer. The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer. If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS. In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler. If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore. In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock. This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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# c17b98cf 02-Dec-2014 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors

This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors. The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors

This removes the code that was added to enable HV KVM to work
on PPC970 processors. The PPC970 is an old CPU that doesn't
support virtualizing guest memory. Removing PPC970 support also
lets us remove the code for allocating and managing contiguous
real-mode areas, the code for the !kvm->arch.using_mmu_notifiers
case, the code for pinning pages of guest memory when first
accessed and keeping track of which pages have been pinned, and
the code for handling H_ENTER hypercalls in virtual mode.

Book3S HV KVM is now supported only on POWER7 and POWER8 processors.
The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability now always returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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Revision tags: v3.18-rc7, v3.18-rc6, v3.18-rc5, v3.18-rc4, v3.18-rc3, v3.18-rc2, v3.18-rc1, v3.17, v3.17-rc7, v3.17-rc6
# 68cf0d64 17-Sep-2014 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

powerpc: Remove superfluous bootmem includes

Lots of places included bootmem.h even when not using bootmem.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Fre

powerpc: Remove superfluous bootmem includes

Lots of places included bootmem.h even when not using bootmem.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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# 14ed7409 17-Sep-2014 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

powerpc: Remove some old bootmem related comments

Now bootmem is gone from powerpc we can remove comments mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Emil Medve <Emil

powerpc: Remove some old bootmem related comments

Now bootmem is gone from powerpc we can remove comments mentioning it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Tested-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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# cec26bc3 29-Sep-2014 Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: CMA: Reserve cma region only in hypervisor mode

We use cma reserved area for creating guest hash page table.
Don't do the reservation in non-hypervisor mode. This avoids unnece

KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: CMA: Reserve cma region only in hypervisor mode

We use cma reserved area for creating guest hash page table.
Don't do the reservation in non-hypervisor mode. This avoids unnecessary
CMA reservation when booting with limited memory configs like
fadump and kdump.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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Revision tags: v3.17-rc5, v3.17-rc4, v3.17-rc3, v3.17-rc2, v3.17-rc1
# c04fa583 14-Aug-2014 Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>

PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong get_order() use

fc95ca7284bc54953165cba76c3228bd2cdb9591 claims that there is no
functional change but this is not true as it calls get_order() (which
ta

PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong get_order() use

fc95ca7284bc54953165cba76c3228bd2cdb9591 claims that there is no
functional change but this is not true as it calls get_order() (which
takes bytes) where it should have called order_base_2() and the kernel
stops on VM_BUG_ON().

This replaces get_order() with order_base_2() (round-up version of ilog2).

Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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# c1f733aa 06-Aug-2014 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

mm, CMA: change cma_declare_contiguous() to obey coding convention

Conventionally, we put output param to the end of param list and put the
'base' ahead of 'size', but cma_declare_contiguous() doesn

mm, CMA: change cma_declare_contiguous() to obey coding convention

Conventionally, we put output param to the end of param list and put the
'base' ahead of 'size', but cma_declare_contiguous() doesn't look like
that, so change it.

Additionally, move down cma_areas reference code to the position where
it is really needed.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# fc95ca72 06-Aug-2014 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

PPC, KVM, CMA: use general CMA reserved area management framework

Now, we have general CMA reserved area management framework, so use it
for future maintainabilty. There is no functional change.

S

PPC, KVM, CMA: use general CMA reserved area management framework

Now, we have general CMA reserved area management framework, so use it
for future maintainabilty. There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v3.16, v3.16-rc7, v3.16-rc6, v3.16-rc5, v3.16-rc4, v3.16-rc3, v3.16-rc2, v3.16-rc1, v3.15, v3.15-rc8
# ae2113a4 01-Jun-2014 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Allow only implemented hcalls to be enabled or disabled

This adds code to check that when the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL
capability is used to enable or disable in-kernel handling of

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Allow only implemented hcalls to be enabled or disabled

This adds code to check that when the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL
capability is used to enable or disable in-kernel handling of an
hcall, that the hcall is actually implemented by the kernel.
If not an EINVAL error is returned.

This also checks the default-enabled list of hcalls and prints a
warning if any hcall there is not actually implemented.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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