Common: Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other architectures).
This can improve latency up to 50% on some scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes
or TCP_RR netperf tests). This also has to be enabled manually for now,
but the plan is to auto-tune this in the future.
ARM/ARM64: the highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
tracking
s390: several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature
exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
MIPS: Bugfixes.
x86: Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested virtualization
improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization), usual round of emulation
fixes. There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.
Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
have already included his tree.
ARM has other conflicts where functions are added in the same place
by 3.19-rc and 3.20 patches. These are not large though, and entirely
within KVM.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
"Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.
Common:
Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
architectures). This can improve latency up to 50% on some
scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests). This
also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
auto-tune this in the future.
ARM/ARM64:
The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
tracking
s390:
Several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature
exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
MIPS:
Bugfixes.
x86:
Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
usual round of emulation fixes.
There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.
Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
have already included his tree.
Powerpc:
Nothing yet.
The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
offline for some part of next week"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
KVM: s390: add cpu model support
KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
...
This patch enables ARMv8 ditry page logging support. Plugs ARMv8 into generic
layer through Kconfig symbol, and drops earlier ARM64 constraints to enable
logging at architecture layer.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.
The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.
If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.
text data bss dec hex filename
2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o
Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from
text data bss dec hex filename
831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after
so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
Current max VCPUs per-Guest is set to 4 which is preventing
us from creating a Guest (or VM) with 8 VCPUs on Host (e.g.
X-Gene Storm SOC) with 8 Host CPUs.
The correct value of max VCPUs per-Guest should be same as
the max CPUs supported by GICv2 which is 8 but, increasing
value of max VCPUs per-Guest can make things slower hence
we add Kconfig option to let KVM users select appropriate
max VCPUs per-Guest.
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
running at all.
The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
when the VM is severely overcommited.
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Finally plug KVM/arm64 into the config system, making it possible
to enable KVM support on AArch64 CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds
Mario Smarduch
Pranith Kumar
Anup Patel
Marc Zyngier