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Alexander Graf
2f4cf5e42d Add book3s.c
This adds the book3s core handling file. Here everything that is generic to
desktop PowerPC cores is handled, including interrupt injections, MSR settings,
etc.

It basically takes over the same role as booke.c for embedded PowerPCs.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:49:54 +11:00
Alexander Graf
c862125c8a Add interrupt handling code
Getting from host state to the guest is only half the story. We also need
to return to our host context and handle whatever happened to get us out of
the guest.

On PowerPC every guest exit is an interrupt. So all we need to do is trap
the host's interrupt handlers and get into our #VMEXIT code to handle it.

PowerPCs also have a register that can add an offset to the interrupt handlers'
adresses which is what the booke KVM code uses. Unfortunately that is a
hypervisor ressource and we also want to be able to run KVM when we're running
in an LPAR. So we have to hook into the Linux interrupt handlers.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:49:54 +11:00
Alexander Graf
5126ed3760 Add SLB switching code for entry/exit
This is the really low level of guest entry/exit code.

Book3s_64 has an SLB, which stores all ESID -> VSID mappings we're
currently aware of.

The segments in the guest differ from the ones on the host, so we need
to switch the SLB to tell the MMU that we're in a new context.

So we store a shadow of the guest's SLB in the PACA, switch to that on
entry and only restore bolted entries on exit, leaving the rest to the
Linux SLB fault handler.

That way we get a really clean way of switching the SLB.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:49:53 +11:00
Alexander Graf
29eb61bca1 Add book3s_64 highmem asm code
This is the of entry / exit code. In order to switch between host and guest
context, we need to switch register state and call the exit code handler on
exit.

This assembly file does exactly that. To finally enter the guest it calls
into book3s_64_slb.S. On exit it gets jumped at from book3s_64_slb.S too.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:49:53 +11:00
Alexander Graf
4e755758cb Move dirty logging code to sub-arch
PowerPC code handles dirty logging in the generic parts atm. While this
is great for "return -ENOTSUPP", we need to be rather target specific
when actually implementing it.

So let's split it to implementation specific code, so we can implement
it for book3s.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05 16:49:51 +11:00
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
Linus Torvalds
723e9db7a4 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (134 commits)
  powerpc/nvram: Enable use Generic NVRAM driver for different size chips
  powerpc/iseries: Fix oops reading from /proc/iSeries/mf/*/cmdline
  powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error
  powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 instead
  powerpc/perf_counters: Reduce stack usage of power_check_constraints
  powerpc: Fix bug where perf_counters breaks oprofile
  powerpc/85xx: Fix SMP compile error and allow NULL for smp_ops
  powerpc/irq: Improve nanodoc
  powerpc: Fix some late PowerMac G5 with PCIe ATI graphics
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Use HW PTE format if CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/book3e: Add missing page sizes
  powerpc/pseries: Fix to handle slb resize across migration
  powerpc/powermac: Thermal control turns system off too eagerly
  powerpc/pci: Merge ppc32 and ppc64 versions of phb_scan()
  powerpc/405ex: support cuImage via included dtb
  powerpc/405ex: provide necessary fixup function to support cuImage
  powerpc/40x: Add support for the ESTeem 195E (PPC405EP) SBC
  powerpc/44x: Add Eiger AMCC (AppliedMicro) PPC460SX evaluation board support.
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches defconfig
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches dts
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c
2009-09-15 09:51:09 -07:00
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
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
46f43c6ee0 KVM: powerpc: convert marker probes to event trace
[avi: make it build]
[avi: fold trace-arch.h into trace.h]

CC: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:03 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
988a2cae6a KVM: Use macro to iterate over vcpus.
[christian: remove unused variables on s390]

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Liu Yu
06579dd9c1 KVM: ppc: e500: Add MMUCFG and PVR emulation
Latest kernel started to use these two registers.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:47 +03:00
Liu Yu
5b7c1a2c17 KVM: ppc: e500: Directly pass pvr to guest
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:47 +03:00
Liu Yu
0cfb50e50d KVM: ppc: e500: Move to Book-3e MMU definitions
According to commit 70fe3af840.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:47 +03:00
Stephen Rothwell
2986b8c72c KVM: powerpc: fix some init/exit annotations
Fixes a couple of warnings like this one:

WARNING: arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-440.o(.text+0x1e8c): Section mismatch in reference from the function kvmppc_44x_exit() to the function .exit.text:kvmppc_booke_exit()
The function kvmppc_44x_exit() references a function in an exit section.
Often the function kvmppc_booke_exit() has valid usage outside the exit section
and the fix is to remove the __exit annotation of kvmppc_booke_exit.

Also add some __init annotations on obvious routines.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:44 +03:00
Avi Kivity
0ba12d1081 KVM: Move common KVM Kconfig items to new file virt/kvm/Kconfig
Reduce Kconfig code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ee43eb788b powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in
low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu
global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer.

We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers
as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some
of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc..
and the current choice isn't always the best.

This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the
usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement
and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to
what those are used for on each processor family.

The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM
or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all
the SPRGs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20 10:12:27 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
ba55bd7436 powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc
Add the option to build the code under arch/powerpc with -Werror.

The intention is to make it harder for people to inadvertantly introduce
warnings in the arch/powerpc code. It needs to be configurable so that
if a warning is introduced, people can easily work around it while it's
being fixed.

The option is a negative, ie. don't enable -Werror, so that it will be
turned on for allyes and allmodconfig builds.

The default is n, in the hope that developers will build with -Werror,
that will probably lead to some build breaks, I am prepared to be flamed.

It's not enabled for math-emu, which is a steaming pile of warnings.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-16 14:15:45 +10:00
Gleb Natapov
78646121e9 KVM: Fix interrupt unhalting a vcpu when it shouldn't
kvm_vcpu_block() unhalts vpu on an interrupt/timer without checking
if interrupt window is actually opened.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-06-10 11:48:33 +03:00
Liu Yu
046a48b35b KVM: ppc: e500: Fix the bug that KVM is unstable in SMP
TLB entry should enable memory coherence in SMP.

And like commit 631fba9dd3aca519355322cef035730609e91593,
remove guard attribute to enable the prefetch of guest memory.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:15 +02:00
Liu Yu
bc35cbc85c KVM: ppc: e500: Fix the bug that mas0 update to wrong value when read TLB entry
Should clear and then update the next victim area here.

Guest kernel only read TLB1 when startup kernel,
this bug result in an extra 4K TLB1 mapping in guest from 0x0 to 0x0.

As the problem has no impact to bootup a guest,
we didn't notice it before.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:14 +02:00
Liu Yu
b0a1835d53 KVM: ppc: Add emulation of E500 register mmucsr0
Latest kernel flushes TLB via mmucsr0.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:12 +02:00
Liu Yu
9aa4dd5e5f KVM: ppc: Move to new TLB invalidate interface
Commit 2a4aca1144 removed old method _tlbia().

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:05 +02:00
Liu Yu
fb2838d446 KVM: ppc: Fix e500 warnings and some spelling problems
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
5d9b8e30f5 KVM: Add CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't.  Add a Kconfig item to
make selecting between the two models easier.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:02 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
f5d0906b5b KVM: ppc: remove debug support broken by KVM debug rewrite
After the rewrite of KVM's debug support, this code doesn't even build any
more.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:01 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
bb3a8a178d KVM: ppc: Add extra E500 exceptions
e500 has additional interrupt vectors (and corresponding IVORs) for SPE and
performance monitoring interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:59 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
bdc89f13ec KVM: ppc: distinguish between interrupts and priorities
Although BOOKE_MAX_INTERRUPT has the right value, the meaning is not match.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:59 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
b52a638c39 KVM: ppc: Add kvmppc_mmu_dtlb/itlb_miss for booke
When itlb or dtlb miss happens, E500 needs to update some mmu registers.
So that the auto-load mechanism can work on E500 when write a tlb entry.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:59 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
bc8080cbcc KVM: ppc: E500 core-specific code
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:58 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
17c885eb5c KVM: ppc: ifdef iccci with CONFIG_44x
E500 deosn't support this instruction.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:58 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
f7b200af8f KVM: ppc: Add dbsr in kvm_vcpu_arch
Kernel for E500 need clear dbsr when startup.
So add dbsr register in kvm_vcpu_arch for BOOKE.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:57 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
d0c7dc0344 KVM: ppc: split out common Book E instruction emulation
The Book E code will be shared with e500.

I've left PID in kvmppc_core_emulate_op() just so that we don't need to move
kvmppc_set_pid() right now. Once we have the e500 implementation, we can
probably share that too.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:57 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
cea5d8c9de KVM: ppc: use macros instead of hardcoded literals for instruction decoding
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:57 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
f44353610b KVM: ppc: remove last 44x-specific bits from booke.c
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:57 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
fa86b8dda2 KVM: ppc: rename 44x MMU functions used in booke.c
e500 will provide its own implementation of these.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:56 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
be8d1cae07 KVM: ppc: turn tlb_xlate() into a per-core hook (and give it a better name)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:56 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
58a96214a3 KVM: ppc: change kvmppc_mmu_map() parameters
Passing just the TLB index will ease an e500 implementation.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:56 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
475e7cdd69 KVM: ppc: small cosmetic changes to Book E DTLB miss handler
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:56 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
ecc0981ff0 KVM: ppc: cosmetic changes to mmu hook names
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:55 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
d0bfb940ec KVM: New guest debug interface
This rips out the support for KVM_DEBUG_GUEST and introduces a new IOCTL
instead: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. The IOCTL payload consists of a generic
part, controlling the "main switch" and the single-step feature. The
arch specific part adds an x86 interface for intercepting both types of
debug exceptions separately and re-injecting them when the host was not
interested. Moveover, the foundation for guest debugging via debug
registers is layed.

To signal breakpoint events properly back to userland, an arch-specific
data block is now returned along KVM_EXIT_DEBUG. For x86, the arch block
contains the PC, the debug exception, and relevant debug registers to
tell debug events properly apart.

The availability of this new interface is signaled by
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. Empty stubs for not yet supported archs are
provided.

Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:49 +02:00
Sheng Yang
ad8ba2cd44 KVM: Add kvm_arch_sync_events to sync with asynchronize events
kvm_arch_sync_events is introduced to quiet down all other events may happen
contemporary with VM destroy process, like IRQ handler and work struct for
assigned device.

For kvm_arch_sync_events is called at the very beginning of kvm_destroy_vm(), so
the state of KVM here is legal and can provide a environment to quiet down other
events.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-02-15 02:47:36 +02:00
Avi Kivity
ca9edaee1a KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7b7015914b KVM: ppc: mostly cosmetic updates to the exit timing accounting code
The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
73e75b416f KVM: ppc: Implement in-kernel exit timing statistics
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.

Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.

Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c5fbdffbda KVM: ppc: save and restore guest mappings on context switch
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7924bd4109 KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.

Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.

These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).

In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
891686188f KVM: ppc: support large host pages
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.

This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
fe4e771d5c KVM: ppc: fix userspace mapping invalidation on context switch
We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.

Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:26 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
df9b856c45 KVM: ppc: use prefetchable mappings for guest memory
Bare metal Linux on 440 can "overmap" RAM in the kernel linear map, so that it
can use large (256MB) mappings even if memory isn't a multiple of 256MB. To
prevent the hardware prefetcher from loading from an invalid physical address
through that mapping, it's marked Guarded.

However, KVM must ensure that all guest mappings are backed by real physical
RAM (since a deliberate access through a guarded mapping could still cause a
machine check). Accordingly, we don't need to make our mappings guarded, so
let's allow prefetching as the designers intended.

Curiously this patch didn't affect performance at all on the quick test I
tried, but it's clearly the right thing to do anyways and may improve other
workloads.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:26 +02:00