lwn.git/virt/kvm, branch docs-5.3-1

KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts

2019-07-20T07:00:45+00:00

Inspired by commit 9cac38dd5d (KVM/s390: Set preempted flag during vcpu wakeup and interrupt delivery), we want to also boost not just lock holders but also vCPUs that are delivering interrupts. Most smp_call_function_many calls are synchronous, so the IPI target vCPUs are also good yield candidates. This patch introduces vcpu->ready to boost vCPUs during wakeup and interrupt delivery time; unlike s390 we do not reuse vcpu->preempted so that voluntarily preempted vCPUs are taken into account by kvm_vcpu_on_spin, but vmx_vcpu_pi_put is not affected (VT-d PI handles voluntary preemption separately, in pi_pre_block). Testing on 80 HT 2 socket Xeon Skylake server, with 80 vCPUs VM 80GB RAM: ebizzy -M vanilla boosting improved 1VM 21443 23520 9% 2VM 2800 8000 180% 3VM 1800 3100 72% Testing on my Haswell desktop 8 HT, with 8 vCPUs VM 8GB RAM, two VMs, one running ebizzy -M, the other running 'stress --cpu 2': w/ boosting + w/o pv sched yield(vanilla) vanilla boosting improved 1570 4000 155% w/ boosting + w/ pv sched yield(vanilla) vanilla boosting improved 1844 5157 179% w/o boosting, perf top in VM: 72.33% [kernel] [k] smp_call_function_many 4.22% [kernel] [k] call_function_i 3.71% [kernel] [k] async_page_fault w/ boosting, perf top in VM: 38.43% [kernel] [k] smp_call_function_many 6.31% [kernel] [k] async_page_fault 6.13% libc-2.23.so [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned 4.88% [kernel] [k] call_function_interrupt Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2019-07-12T22:35:14+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - support for chained PMU counters in guests - improved SError handling - handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291 - allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated - standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s - fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit - selftests ckleanups x86: - PMU event {white,black}listing - ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling - fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization), - new hypercall to yield to IPI target - support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest - lots of cleanups and optimizations Generic: - Some txt->rST conversions for the documentation" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits) Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc->bitmask KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC ...

arm64: switch to generic version of pte allocation

2019-07-12T18:05:45+00:00

The PTE allocations in arm64 are identical to the generic ones modulo the GFP flags. Using the generic pte_alloc_one() functions ensures that the user page tables are allocated with __GFP_ACCOUNT set. The arm64 definition of PGALLOC_GFP is removed and replaced with GFP_PGTABLE_USER for p[gum]d_alloc_one() for the user page tables and GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL for the kernel page tables. The KVM memory cache is now using GFP_PGTABLE_USER. The mappings created with create_pgd_mapping() are now using GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL. The conversion to the generic version of pte_free_kernel() removes the NULL check for pte. The pte_free() version on arm64 is identical to the generic one and can be simply dropped. [cai@lca.pw: fix a bogus GFP flag in pgd_alloc()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1559656836-24940-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw/ [and fix it more] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190617151252.GF16810@rapoport-lnx/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557296232-15361-5-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Creasey Cc: Vincent Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2019-07-11T13:14:16+00:00

KVM/arm updates for 5.3 - Add support for chained PMU counters in guests - Improve SError handling - Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291 - Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated - Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s - Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit

KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap

2019-07-10T14:25:39+00:00

The field "page" is initialized to KVM_UNMAPPED_PAGE when it is not used (i.e. when the memory lives outside kernel control). So this check will always end up using kunmap even for memremap regions. Fixes: e45adf665a53 ("KVM: Introduce a new guest mapping API") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register

2019-07-08T15:29:48+00:00

As part of setting up the host context, we populate its MPIDR by using cpu_logical_map(). It turns out that contrary to arm64, cpu_logical_map() on 32bit ARM doesn't return the *full* MPIDR, but a truncated version. This leaves the host MPIDR slightly corrupted after the first run of a VM, since we won't correctly restore the MPIDR on exit. Oops. Since we cannot trust cpu_logical_map(), let's adopt a different strategy. We move the initialization of the host CPU context as part of the per-CPU initialization (which, in retrospect, makes a lot of sense), and directly read the MPIDR from the HW. This is guaranteed to work on both arm and arm64. Reported-by: Andre Przywara Tested-by: Andre Przywara Fixes: 32f139551954 ("arm/arm64: KVM: Statically configure the host's view of MPIDR") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier

KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s

2019-07-05T12:57:25+00:00

Currently, the {read,write}_sysreg_el*() accessors for accessing particular ELs' sysregs in the presence of VHE rely on some local hacks and define their system register encodings in a way that is inconsistent with the core definitions in . As a result, it is necessary to add duplicate definitions for any system register that already needs a definition in sysreg.h for other reasons. This is a bit of a maintenance headache, and the reasons for the _el*() accessors working the way they do is a bit historical. This patch gets rid of the shadow sysreg definitions in , converts the _el*() accessors to use the core __msr_s/__mrs_s interface, and converts all call sites to use the standard sysreg #define names (i.e., upper case, with SYS_ prefix). This patch will conflict heavily anyway, so the opportunity to clean up some bad whitespace in the context of the changes is taken. The change exposes a few system registers that have no sysreg.h definition, due to msr_s/mrs_s being used in place of msr/mrs: additions are made in order to fill in the gaps. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christoffer Dall Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Will Deacon Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm-arm/msg31717.html [Rebased to v4.21-rc1] Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla [Rebased to v5.2-rc5, changelog updates] Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier

KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state

2019-07-05T12:56:27+00:00

KVM implements the firmware interface for mitigating cache speculation vulnerabilities. Guests may use this interface to ensure mitigation is active. If we want to migrate such a guest to a host with a different support level for those workarounds, migration might need to fail, to ensure that critical guests don't loose their protection. Introduce a way for userland to save and restore the workarounds state. On restoring we do checks that make sure we don't downgrade our mitigation level. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Eric Auger Reviewed-by: Steven Price Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier

arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests

2019-07-05T12:56:27+00:00

Recent commits added the explicit notion of "workaround not required" to the state of the Spectre v2 (aka. BP_HARDENING) workaround, where we just had "needed" and "unknown" before. Export this knowledge to the rest of the kernel and enhance the existing kvm_arm_harden_branch_predictor() to report this new state as well. Export this new state to guests when they use KVM's firmware interface emulation. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Steven Price Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier

KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters

2019-07-05T12:56:22+00:00

ARMv8 provides support for chained PMU counters, where an event type of 0x001E is set for odd-numbered counters, the event counter will increment by one for each overflow of the preceding even-numbered counter. Let's emulate this in KVM by creating a 64 bit perf counter when a user chains two emulated counters together. For chained events we only support generating an overflow interrupt on the high counter. We use the attributes of the low counter to determine the attributes of the perf event. Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier