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Jason Wang
eefd6b06b1 kvm: fix double free for fast mmio eventfd
We register wildcard mmio eventfd on two buses, once for KVM_MMIO_BUS
and once on KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS but with a single iodev
instance. This will lead to an issue: kvm_io_bus_destroy() knows
nothing about the devices on two buses pointing to a single dev. Which
will lead to double free[1] during exit. Fix this by allocating two
instances of iodevs then registering one on KVM_MMIO_BUS and another
on KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS.

CPU: 1 PID: 2894 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 3.19.0-26-generic #28-Ubuntu
Hardware name: LENOVO 2356BG6/2356BG6, BIOS G7ET96WW (2.56 ) 09/12/2013
task: ffff88009ae0c4b0 ti: ffff88020e7f0000 task.ti: ffff88020e7f0000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc07e25d8>]  [<ffffffffc07e25d8>] ioeventfd_release+0x28/0x60 [kvm]
RSP: 0018:ffff88020e7f3bc8  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: dead000000200200 RBX: ffff8801ec19c900 RCX: 000000018200016d
RDX: ffff8801ec19cf80 RSI: ffffea0008bf1d40 RDI: ffff8801ec19c900
RBP: ffff88020e7f3bd8 R08: 000000002fc75a01 R09: 000000018200016d
R10: ffffffffc07df6ae R11: ffff88022fc75a98 R12: ffff88021e7cc000
R13: ffff88021e7cca48 R14: ffff88021e7cca50 R15: ffff8801ec19c880
FS:  00007fc1ee3e6700(0000) GS:ffff88023e240000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f389d8000 CR3: 000000023dc13000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
Stack:
ffff88021e7cc000 0000000000000000 ffff88020e7f3be8 ffffffffc07e2622
ffff88020e7f3c38 ffffffffc07df69a ffff880232524160 ffff88020e792d80
 0000000000000000 ffff880219b78c00 0000000000000008 ffff8802321686a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffc07e2622>] ioeventfd_destructor+0x12/0x20 [kvm]
[<ffffffffc07df69a>] kvm_put_kvm+0xca/0x210 [kvm]
[<ffffffffc07df818>] kvm_vcpu_release+0x18/0x20 [kvm]
[<ffffffff811f69f7>] __fput+0xe7/0x250
[<ffffffff811f6bae>] ____fput+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff81093f04>] task_work_run+0xd4/0xf0
[<ffffffff81079358>] do_exit+0x368/0xa50
[<ffffffff81082c8f>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1f/0x60
[<ffffffff81079ad5>] do_group_exit+0x45/0xb0
[<ffffffff81085c71>] get_signal+0x291/0x750
[<ffffffff810144d8>] do_signal+0x28/0xab0
[<ffffffff810f3a3b>] ? do_futex+0xdb/0x5d0
[<ffffffff810b7028>] ? __wake_up_locked_key+0x18/0x20
[<ffffffff810f3fa6>] ? SyS_futex+0x76/0x170
[<ffffffff81014fc9>] do_notify_resume+0x69/0xb0
[<ffffffff817cb9af>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
Code: 5d c3 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 7f 20 e8 06 d6 a5 c0 48 8b 43 08 48 8b 13 48 89 df 48 89 42 08 <48> 89 10 48 b8 00 01 10 00 00
 RIP  [<ffffffffc07e25d8>] ioeventfd_release+0x28/0x60 [kvm]
 RSP <ffff88020e7f3bc8>

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-15 16:59:31 +02:00
Jason Wang
85da11ca58 kvm: factor out core eventfd assign/deassign logic
This patch factors out core eventfd assign/deassign logic and leaves
the argument checking and bus index selection to callers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-15 16:58:47 +02:00
Jason Wang
8453fecbec kvm: don't try to register to KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS for non mmio eventfd
We only want zero length mmio eventfd to be registered on
KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS. So check this explicitly when arg->len is zero to
make sure this.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-15 16:58:27 +02:00
Andre Przywara
af669ac6dc KVM: move iodev.h from virt/kvm/ to include/kvm
iodev.h contains definitions for the kvm_io_bus framework. This is
needed both by the generic KVM code in virt/kvm as well as by
architecture specific code under arch/. Putting the header file in
virt/kvm and using local includes in the architecture part seems at
least dodgy to me, so let's move the file into include/kvm, so that a
more natural "#include <kvm/iodev.h>" can be used by all of the code.
This also solves a problem later when using struct kvm_io_device
in arm_vgic.h.
Fixing up the FSF address in the GPL header and a wrong include path
on the way.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2015-03-26 21:43:12 +00:00
Nikolay Nikolaev
e32edf4fd0 KVM: Redesign kvm_io_bus_ API to pass VCPU structure to the callbacks.
This is needed in e.g. ARM vGIC emulation, where the MMIO handling
depends on the VCPU that does the access.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2015-03-26 21:43:11 +00:00
Eric Auger
01c94e64f5 KVM: introduce kvm_arch_intc_initialized and use it in irqfd
Introduce __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_INTC_INITIALIZED define and
associated kvm_arch_intc_initialized function. This latter
allows to test whether the virtual interrupt controller is initialized
and ready to accept virtual IRQ injection. On some architectures,
the virtual interrupt controller is dynamically instantiated, justifying
that kind of check.

The new function can now be used by irqfd to check whether the
virtual interrupt controller is ready on KVM_IRQFD request. If not,
KVM_IRQFD returns -EAGAIN.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2015-03-12 15:15:32 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
6ef768fac9 kvm: x86: move ioapic.c and irq_comm.c back to arch/x86/
ia64 does not need them anymore.  Ack notifiers become x86-specific
too.

Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-11-21 18:02:37 +01:00
Christoffer Dall
29f1b65b59 KVM: EVENTFD: Remove inclusion of irq.h
Commit c77dcac (KVM: Move more code under CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD) added
functionality that depends on definitions in ioapic.h when
__KVM_HAVE_IOAPIC is defined.

At the same time, kvm-arm commit 0ba0951 (KVM: EVENTFD: remove inclusion
of irq.h) removed the inclusion of irq.h, an architecture-specific header
that is not present on ARM but which happened to include ioapic.h on x86.

Include ioapic.h directly in eventfd.c if __KVM_HAVE_IOAPIC is defined.
This fixes x86 and lets ARM use eventfd.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-09-24 12:06:25 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
c77dcacb39 KVM: Move more code under CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
Commits e4d57e1ee1 (KVM: Move irq notifier implementation into
eventfd.c, 2014-06-30) included the irq notifier code unconditionally
in eventfd.c, while it was under CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP before.

Similarly, commit 297e21053a (KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling
Kconfig option, 2014-06-30) moved code from CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_ROUTING
to CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD but forgot to move the pieces that used to be
under CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP.

Together, this broke compilation without CONFIG_KVM_XICS.  Fix by adding
or changing the #ifdefs so that they point at CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-06 14:24:47 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
297e21053a KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling Kconfig option
Currently, the IRQFD code is conditional on CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING.
So that we can have the IRQFD code compiled in without having the
IRQ routing code, this creates a new CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD, makes
the IRQFD code conditional on it instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING,
and makes all the platforms that currently select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
also select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-05 14:26:28 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
e4d57e1ee1 KVM: Move irq notifier implementation into eventfd.c
This moves the functions kvm_irq_has_notifier(), kvm_notify_acked_irq(),
kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier() and kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier()
from irqchip.c to eventfd.c.  The reason for doing this is that those
functions are used in connection with IRQFDs, which are implemented in
eventfd.c.  In future we will want to use IRQFDs on platforms that
don't implement the GSI routing implemented in irqchip.c, so we won't
be compiling in irqchip.c, but we still need the irq notifiers.  The
implementation is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-05 14:26:24 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
9957c86d65 KVM: Move all accesses to kvm::irq_routing into irqchip.c
Now that struct _irqfd does not keep a reference to storage pointed
to by the irq_routing field of struct kvm, we can move the statement
that updates it out from under the irqfds.lock and put it in
kvm_set_irq_routing() instead.  That means we then have to take a
srcu_read_lock on kvm->irq_srcu around the irqfd_update call in
kvm_irqfd_assign(), since holding the kvm->irqfds.lock no longer
ensures that that the routing can't change.

Combined with changing kvm_irq_map_gsi() and kvm_irq_map_chip_pin()
to take a struct kvm * argument instead of the pointer to the routing
table, this allows us to to move all references to kvm->irq_routing
into irqchip.c.  That in turn allows us to move the definition of the
kvm_irq_routing_table struct into irqchip.c as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-05 14:26:20 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
8ba918d488 KVM: irqchip: Provide and use accessors for irq routing table
This provides accessor functions for the KVM interrupt mappings, in
order to reduce the amount of code that accesses the fields of the
kvm_irq_routing_table struct, and restrict that code to one file,
virt/kvm/irqchip.c.  The new functions are kvm_irq_map_gsi(), which
maps from a global interrupt number to a set of IRQ routing entries,
and kvm_irq_map_chip_pin, which maps from IRQ chip and pin numbers to
a global interrupt number.

This also moves the update of kvm_irq_routing_table::chip[][]
into irqchip.c, out of the various kvm_set_routing_entry
implementations.  That means that none of the kvm_set_routing_entry
implementations need the kvm_irq_routing_table argument anymore,
so this removes it.

This does not change any locking or data lifetime rules.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-05 14:26:16 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
56f89f3629 KVM: Don't keep reference to irq routing table in irqfd struct
This makes the irqfd code keep a copy of the irq routing table entry
for each irqfd, rather than a reference to the copy in the actual
irq routing table maintained in kvm/virt/irqchip.c.  This will enable
us to change the routing table structure in future, or even not have a
routing table at all on some platforms.

The synchronization that was previously achieved using srcu_dereference
on the read side is now achieved using a seqcount_t structure.  That
ensures that we don't get a halfway-updated copy of the structure if
we read it while another thread is updating it.

We still use srcu_read_lock/unlock around the read side so that when
changing the routing table we can be sure that after calling
synchronize_srcu, nothing will be using the old routing.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-08-05 14:24:23 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
719d93cd5f kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING
When starting lots of dataplane devices the bootup takes very long on
Christian's s390 with irqfd patches. With larger setups he is even
able to trigger some timeouts in some components.  Turns out that the
KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl takes very long (strace claims up to 0.1 sec)
when having multiple CPUs.  This is caused by the  synchronize_rcu and
the HZ=100 of s390.  By changing the code to use a private srcu we can
speed things up.  This patch reduces the boot time till mounting root
from 8 to 2 seconds on my s390 guest with 100 disks.

Uses of hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_add_head_rcu, hlist_del_init_rcu
are fine because they do not have lockdep checks (hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
uses rcu_dereference_raw rather than rcu_dereference, and write-sides
do not do rcu lockdep at all).

Note that we're hardly relying on the "sleepable" part of srcu.  We just
want SRCU's faster detection of grace periods.

Testing was done by Andrew Theurer using netperf tests STREAM, MAERTS
and RR.  The difference between results "before" and "after" the patch
has mean -0.2% and standard deviation 0.6%.  Using a paired t-test on the
data points says that there is a 2.5% probability that the patch is the
cause of the performance difference (rather than a random fluctuation).

(Restricting the t-test to RR, which is the most likely to be affected,
changes the numbers to respectively -0.3% mean, 0.7% stdev, and 8%
probability that the numbers actually say something about the patch.
The probability increases mostly because there are fewer data points).

Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # s390
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-05-05 16:29:11 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
68c3b4d167 KVM: VMX: speed up wildcard MMIO EVENTFD
With KVM, MMIO is much slower than PIO, due to the need to
do page walk and emulation. But with EPT, it does not have to be: we
know the address from the VMCS so if the address is unique, we can look
up the eventfd directly, bypassing emulation.

Unfortunately, this only works if userspace does not need to match on
access length and data.  The implementation adds a separate FAST_MMIO
bus internally. This serves two purposes:
    - minimize overhead for old userspace that does not use eventfd with lengtth = 0
    - minimize disruption in other code (since we don't know the length,
      devices on the MMIO bus only get a valid address in write, this
      way we don't need to touch all devices to teach them to handle
      an invalid length)

At the moment, this optimization only has effect for EPT on x86.

It will be possible to speed up MMIO for NPT and MMU using the same
idea in the future.

With this patch applied, on VMX MMIO EVENTFD is essentially as fast as PIO.
I was unable to detect any measureable slowdown to non-eventfd MMIO.

Making MMIO faster is important for the upcoming virtio 1.0 which
includes an MMIO signalling capability.

The idea was suggested by Peter Anvin.  Lots of thanks to Gleb for
pre-review and suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2014-04-17 14:01:43 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
f848a5a8dc KVM: support any-length wildcard ioeventfd
It is sometimes benefitial to ignore IO size, and only match on address.
In hindsight this would have been a better default than matching length
when KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_DATAMATCH is not set, In particular, this kind
of access can be optimized on VMX: there no need to do page lookups.
This can currently be done with many ioeventfds but in a suboptimal way.

However we can't change kernel/userspace ABI without risk of breaking
some applications.
Use len = 0 to mean "ignore length for matching" in a more optimal way.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2014-04-17 14:01:42 -03:00
Cornelia Huck
684a0b719d KVM: eventfd: Fix lock order inversion.
When registering a new irqfd, we call its ->poll method to collect any
event that might have previously been pending so that we can trigger it.
This is done under the kvm->irqfds.lock, which means the eventfd's ctx
lock is taken under it.

However, if we get a POLLHUP in irqfd_wakeup, we will be called with the
ctx lock held before getting the irqfds.lock to deactivate the irqfd,
causing lockdep to complain.

Calling the ->poll method does not really need the irqfds.lock, so let's
just move it after we've given up the irqfds.lock in kvm_irqfd_assign().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-03-18 17:06:04 +01:00
Al Viro
cffe78d92c kvm eventfd: switch to fdget
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-03 23:04:45 -04:00
Amos Kong
6ea34c9b78 kvm: exclude ioeventfd from counting kvm_io_range limit
We can easily reach the 1000 limit by start VM with a couple
hundred I/O devices (multifunction=on). The hardcode limit
already been adjusted 3 times (6 ~ 200 ~ 300 ~ 1000).

In userspace, we already have maximum file descriptor to
limit ioeventfd count. But kvm_io_bus devices also are used
for pit, pic, ioapic, coalesced_mmio. They couldn't be limited
by maximum file descriptor.

Currently only ioeventfds take too much kvm_io_bus devices,
so just exclude it from counting kvm_io_range limit.

Also fixed one indent issue in kvm_host.h

Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2013-06-04 11:49:38 +03:00
Alexander Graf
a725d56a02 KVM: Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
Quite a bit of code in KVM has been conditionalized on availability of
IOAPIC emulation. However, most of it is generically applicable to
platforms that don't have an IOPIC, but a different type of irq chip.

Make code that only relies on IRQ routing, not an APIC itself, on
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING, so that we can reuse it later.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-04-26 20:27:14 +02:00
Yang Zhang
aa2fbe6d44 KVM: Let ioapic know the irq line status
Userspace may deliver RTC interrupt without query the status. So we
want to track RTC EOI for this case.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-04-15 23:20:34 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
05e07f9bdb kvm: fix MMIO/PIO collision misdetection
PIO and MMIO are separate address spaces, but
ioeventfd registration code mistakenly detected
two eventfds as duplicate if they use the same address,
even if one is PIO and another one MMIO.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2013-04-07 14:53:47 +03:00
Cornelia Huck
2b83451b45 KVM: ioeventfd for virtio-ccw devices.
Enhance KVM_IOEVENTFD with a new flag that allows to attach to virtio-ccw
devices on s390 via the KVM_VIRTIO_CCW_NOTIFY_BUS.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-03-05 19:12:17 -03:00
Cornelia Huck
a0f155e964 KVM: Initialize irqfd from kvm_init().
Currently, eventfd introduces module_init/module_exit functions
to initialize/cleanup the irqfd workqueue. This only works, however,
if no other module_init/module_exit functions are built into the
same module.

Let's just move the initialization and cleanup to kvm_init and kvm_exit.
This way, it is also clearer where kvm startup may fail.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-03-05 19:12:16 -03:00
Sasha Levin
b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
Alex Williamson
49f8a1a539 kvm: Fix irqfd resampler list walk
Typo for the next pointer means we're walking random data here.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-12-10 18:16:36 -02:00
Alexander Graf
914daba865 KVM: Distangle eventfd code from irqchip
The current eventfd code assumes that when we have eventfd, we also have
irqfd for in-kernel interrupt delivery. This is not necessarily true. On
PPC we don't have an in-kernel irqchip yet, but we can still support easily
support eventfd.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-12-06 01:33:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ecefbd94b8 KVM updates for the 3.7 merge window
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
  level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
  Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
  PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."

* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
  KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
  KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
  KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
  KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
  KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
  KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
  KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
  KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
  KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
  KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
  KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
  KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
  KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
  KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
  KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
	arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
2012-10-04 09:30:33 -07:00
Alex Williamson
7a84428af7 KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
To emulate level triggered interrupts, add a resample option to
KVM_IRQFD.  When specified, a new resamplefd is provided that notifies
the user when the irqchip has been resampled by the VM.  This may, for
instance, indicate an EOI.  Also in this mode, posting of an interrupt
through an irqfd only asserts the interrupt.  On resampling, the
interrupt is automatically de-asserted prior to user notification.
This enables level triggered interrupts to be posted and re-enabled
from vfio with no userspace intervention.

All resampling irqfds can make use of a single irq source ID, so we
reserve a new one for this interface.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-09-23 13:50:15 +02:00
Tejun Heo
43829731dd workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious.  Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().

If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-08-20 14:51:24 -07:00
Alex Williamson
326cf0334b KVM: Sanitize KVM_IRQFD flags
We only know of one so far.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-07-02 21:10:30 -03:00
Alex Williamson
d4db2935e4 KVM: Pass kvm_irqfd to functions
Prune this down to just the struct kvm_irqfd so we can avoid
changing function definition for every flag or field we use.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2012-07-02 21:10:30 -03:00
Sasha Levin
743eeb0b01 KVM: Intelligent device lookup on I/O bus
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.

Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.

Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.

Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:59 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
7bc30c23c8 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: move and fix substitue search for missing CPUID entries
  KVM: fix XSAVE bit scanning
  KVM: Enable async page fault processing
  KVM: fix crash on irqfd deassign
2011-04-07 11:33:04 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
9e02fb9633 KVM: fix crash on irqfd deassign
irqfd in kvm used flush_work incorrectly: it assumed that work scheduled
previously can't run after flush_work, but since kvm uses a non-reentrant
workqueue (by means of schedule_work) we need flush_work_sync to get that
guarantee.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jean-Philippe Menil <jean-philippe.menil@univ-nantes.fr>
Tested-by: Jean-Philippe Menil <jean-philippe.menil@univ-nantes.fr>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-04-06 13:15:55 +03:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
c8ce057eaf KVM: improve comment on rcu use in irqfd_deassign
The RCU use in kvm_irqfd_deassign is tricky: we have rcu_assign_pointer
but no synchronize_rcu: synchronize_rcu is done by kvm_irq_routing_update
which we share a spinlock with.

Fix up a comment in an attempt to make this clearer.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-03-17 13:08:33 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
bd2b53b20f KVM: fast-path msi injection with irqfd
Store irq routing table pointer in the irqfd object,
and use that to inject MSI directly without bouncing out to
a kernel thread.

While we touch this structure, rearrange irqfd fields to make fastpath
better packed for better cache utilization.

This also adds some comments about locking rules and rcu usage in code.

Some notes on the design:
- Use pointer into the rt instead of copying an entry,
  to make it possible to use rcu, thus side-stepping
  locking complexities.  We also save some memory this way.
- Old workqueue code is still used for level irqs.
  I don't think we DTRT with level anyway, however,
  it seems easier to keep the code around as
  it has been thought through and debugged, and fix level later than
  rip out and re-instate it later.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:29:38 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
6bbfb26531 KVM: fix irqfd assign/deassign race
I think I see the following (theoretical) race:

During irqfd assign, we drop irqfds lock before we
schedule inject work. Therefore, deassign running
on another CPU could cause shutdown and flush to run
before inject, causing user after free in inject.

A simple fix it to schedule inject under the lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-09-23 11:31:51 -03:00
Avi Kivity
221d059d15 KVM: Update Red Hat copyrights
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:51 +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
Michael S. Tsirkin
8b97fb0fcb KVM: do not store wqh in irqfd
wqh is unused, so we do not need to store it in irqfd anymore

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:10 -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
Michael S. Tsirkin
b6a114d272 KVM: fix spurious interrupt with irqfd
kvm didn't clear irqfd counter on deassign, as a result we could get a
spurious interrupt when irqfd is assigned back. this leads to poor
performance and, in theory, guest crash.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:39 -02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
f1d1c309f3 KVM: only allow one gsi per fd
Looks like repeatedly binding same fd to multiple gsi's with irqfd can
use up a ton of kernel memory for irqfd structures.

A simple fix is to allow each fd to only trigger one gsi: triggering a
storm of interrupts in guest is likely useless anyway, and we can do it
by binding a single gsi to many interrupts if we really want to.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:37 -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
Julia Lawall
6223011fb9 KVM: correct error-handling code
This code is not executed before file has been initialized to the result of
calling eventfd_fget.  This function returns an ERR_PTR value in an error
case instead of NULL.  Thus the test that file is not NULL is always true.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
statement S1, S2;
@@

x = eventfd_fget(...)
... when != x = E
(
*  if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
|
*  if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:12 +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