Update comments to reflect what is really going on and add the TWE bit
to the comments in kvm_arm.h.
Also renames the function to kvm_handle_wfx like is done on arm64 for
consistency and uber-correctness.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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.
This creates contention, and the observed slowdown is 40x for
hackbench. No, this isn't a typo.
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.
Quick test to estimate the performance: hackbench 1 process 1000
2xA15 host (baseline): 1.843s
2xA15 guest w/o patch: 2.083s
4xA15 guest w/o patch: 80.212s
8xA15 guest w/o patch: Could not be bothered to find out
2xA15 guest w/ patch: 2.102s
4xA15 guest w/ patch: 3.205s
8xA15 guest w/ patch: 6.887s
So we go from a 40x degradation to 1.5x in the 2x overcommit case,
which is vaguely more acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Currently, kvmtool unconditionally declares that HVC should be used
to call PSCI, so the function numbers in the DT tell the guest
nothing about the function ID namespace or calling convention for
SMC.
We already assume that the guest will examine and honour the DT,
since there is no way it could possibly guess the KVM-specific PSCI
function IDs otherwise. So let's not encourage guests to violate
what's specified in the DT by using SMC to make the call.
[ Modified to apply to top of kvm/arm tree - Christoffer ]
Signed-off-by: Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"The major items included in here are:
- MCPM, multi-cluster power management, part of the infrastructure
required for ARMs big.LITTLE support.
- A rework of the ARM KVM code to allow re-use by ARM64.
- Error handling cleanups of the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() madness and fixes
of that stuff for arch/arm
- Preparatory patches for Cortex-M3 support from Uwe Kleine-König.
There is also a set of three patches in here from Hugh/Catalin to
address freeing of inappropriate page tables on LPAE. You already
have these from akpm, but they were already part of my tree at the
time he sent them, so unfortunately they'll end up with duplicate
commits"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (77 commits)
ARM: EXYNOS: remove unnecessary use of IS_ERR_VALUE()
ARM: IMX: remove unnecessary use of IS_ERR_VALUE()
ARM: OMAP: use consistent error checking
ARM: cleanup: OMAP hwmod error checking
ARM: 7709/1: mcpm: Add explicit AFLAGS to support v6/v7 multiplatform kernels
ARM: 7700/2: Make cpu_init() notrace
ARM: 7702/1: Set the page table freeing ceiling to TASK_SIZE
ARM: 7701/1: mm: Allow arch code to control the user page table ceiling
ARM: 7703/1: Disable preemption in broadcast_tlb*_a15_erratum()
ARM: mcpm: provide an interface to set the SMP ops at run time
ARM: mcpm: generic SMP secondary bringup and hotplug support
ARM: mcpm_head.S: vlock-based first man election
ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes
ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup
ARM: mcpm: introduce the CPU/cluster power API
ARM: multi-cluster PM: secondary kernel entry code
ARM: cacheflush: add synchronization helpers for mixed cache state accesses
ARM: cpu hotplug: remove majority of cache flushing from platforms
ARM: smp: flush L1 cache in cpu_die()
ARM: tegra: remove tegra specific cpu_disable()
...
This one got lost in the move to handle_exit, so let's reintroduce it
using an accessor to the immediate value field like the other ones.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
The exit handler selection code cannot be shared with arm64
(two different modes, more exception classes...).
Move it to a separate file (handle_exit.c).
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
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