litmus-rt.git/arch/ia64/kvm, branch master

KVM: ia64: remove

2014-11-20T10:08:33+00:00

KVM for ia64 has been marked as broken not just once, but twice even,
and the last patch from the maintainer is now roughly 5 years old.
Time for it to rest in peace.

Acked-by: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: remove garbage arg to *hardware_{en,dis}able

2014-08-29T14:35:55+00:00

In the beggining was on_each_cpu(), which required an unused argument to
kvm_arch_ops.hardware_{en,dis}able, but this was soon forgotten.

Remove unnecessary arguments that stem from this.

Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃ¡Å™ 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: static inline empty kvm_arch functions

2014-08-29T14:35:55+00:00

Using static inline is going to save few bytes and cycles.
For example on powerpc, the difference is 700 B after stripping.
(5 kB before)

This patch also deals with two overlooked empty functions:
kvm_arch_flush_shadow was not removed from arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
  2df72e9bc KVM: split kvm_arch_flush_shadow
and kvm_arch_sched_in never made it into arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c.
  e790d9ef6 KVM: add kvm_arch_sched_in

Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃ¡Å™ 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling Kconfig option

2014-08-05T12:26:28+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Eric Auger 
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Rename and add argument to check_extension

2014-07-28T13:23:17+00:00

In preparation to make the check_extension function available to VM scope
we add a struct kvm * argument to the function header and rename the function
accordingly. It will still be called from the /dev/kvm fd, but with a NULL
argument for struct kvm *.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf 
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'please-pull-ia64-erratum' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

2014-04-16T18:22:45+00:00

Pull itanium erratum fix from Tony Luck:
 "Small workaround for a rare, but annoying, erratum #237"

* tag 'please-pull-ia64-erratum' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  [IA64] Change default PSR.ac from '1' to '0' (Fix erratum #237)

[IA64] Change default PSR.ac from '1' to '0' (Fix erratum #237)

2014-04-16T17:20:34+00:00

April 2014 Itanium processor specification update:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/itanium/itanium-specification-update.html

describes this erratum:

=========================================================================
237. Under a complex set of conditions, store to load forwarding for a
sub 8-byte load may complete incorrectly

Problem: A load instruction may complete incorrectly when a code sequence
using 4-byte or smaller load and store operations to the same address
is executed in combination with specific timing of all the following
concurrent conditions: store to load forwarding, alignment checking
enabled, a mis-predicted branch, and complex cache utilization activity.

Implication: The affected sub 8-byte instruction may complete
incorrectly resulting in unpredictable system behavior. There is an
extremely low probability of exposure due to the significant number of
complex microarchitectural concurrent conditions required to encounter
the erratum.

Workaround: Set PSR.ac = 0 to completely avoid the erratum. Disabling
Hyper-Threading will significantly reduce exposure to the conditions
that contribute to encountering the erratum.

Status: See the Summary Table of Changes for the affected steppings.
=========================================================================

[Table of changes essentially lists all models from McKinley to Tukwila]

The PSR.ac bit controls whether the processor will always generate
an unaligned reference trap (0x5a00) for a misaligned data access
(when PSR.ac=1) or if it will let the access succeed when running
on a cpu that implements logic to handle some unaligned accesses.

Way back in 2008 in commit b704882e70d87d7f56db5ff17e2253f3fa90e4f3
  [IA64] Rationalize kernel mode alignment checking
we made the decision to always enable strict checking. We were
already doing so in trap/interrupt context because the common
preamble code set this bit - but the rest of supervisor code
(and by inheritance user code) ran with PSR.ac=0.

We now reverse that decision and set PSR.ac=0 everywhere in the
kernel (also inherited by user processes). This will avoid the
erratum using the method described in the Itanium specification
update.  Net effect for users is that the processor will handle
unaligned access when it can (typically with a tiny performance
bubble in the pipeline ... but much less invasive than taking a
trap and having the OS perform the access).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

kvm: x86: ignore ioapic polarity

2014-03-13T10:58:21+00:00

Both QEMU and KVM have already accumulated a significant number of
optimizations based on the hard-coded assumption that ioapic polarity
will always use the ActiveHigh convention, where the logical and
physical states of level-triggered irq lines always match (i.e.,
active(asserted) == high == 1, inactive == low == 0). QEMU guests
are expected to follow directions given via ACPI and configure the
ioapic with polarity 0 (ActiveHigh). However, even when misbehaving
guests (e.g. OS X <= 10.9) set the ioapic polarity to 1 (ActiveLow),
QEMU will still use the ActiveHigh signaling convention when
interfacing with KVM.

This patch modifies KVM to completely ignore ioapic polarity as set by
the guest OS, enabling misbehaving guests to work alongside those which
comply with the ActiveHigh polarity specified by QEMU's ACPI tables.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Gabriel L. Somlo 
[Move documentation to KVM_IRQ_LINE, add ia64. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Use cond_resched() directly and remove useless kvm_resched()

2013-12-13T13:23:45+00:00

Since the commit 15ad7146 ("KVM: Use the scheduler preemption notifiers
to make kvm preemptible"), the remaining stuff in this function is a
simple cond_resched() call with an extra need_resched() check which was
there to avoid dropping VCPUs unnecessarily.  Now it is meaningless.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: Add struct kvm arg to memslot APIs

2013-10-17T13:49:23+00:00

We will use that in the later patch to find the kvm ops handler

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf