KVM need this function when switching from vcpu to user-space
thread. My subsequent patch will use this function.
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Instead of implementing an empty giveup_fpu() function for each
32bit processor type, replace them with an unique empty inline
function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In the current kernel, the function flush_fp_to_thread() is not
dependent on CONFIG_PPC_FPU. So most invocations of this function
is not wrapped by CONFIG_PPC_FPU. Even through we don't really
save the FPRs to the thread struct if CONFIG_PPC_FPU is not enabled,
but there does have some runtime overhead such as the check for
tsk->thread.regs and preempt disable and enable. It really make
no sense to do that. So make it a nop when CONFIG_PPC_FPU is
disabled. Also remove the wrapped #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU
when invoking this function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The only using of function disable_kernel_fp() was already dropped
in the commit 5daf9071 (powerpc: merge align.c).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.
We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.
EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.
Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
and fixes. Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
update.
Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
others are true pulls. In either case the signoffs should be correct
now."
Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.
I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
...
Add two optimisations to enable_kernel_altivec:
- enable_kernel_altivec has already determined if we need to
save the previous task's state but we call giveup_altivec
in both cases, requiring an extra branch in giveup_altivec. Create
giveup_altivec_notask which only turns on the VMX bit in the
MSR.
- We write the VMX MSR bit each time we call enable_kernel_altivec
even it was already set. Check the bit and branch out if we have
already set it. The classic case for this is vectored IO
where we have to copy multiple buffers to or from userspace.
The following testcase was used to confirm this patch improves
performance:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c
Since the current breakpoint for using VMX in copy_tofrom_user is
4096 bytes, I'm using buffers of 4096 + 1 cacheline (4224) bytes.
A benchmark of 16 entry readvs (-s 16):
time copy_to_user -l 4224 -s 16 -i 1000000
completes 5.2% faster on a POWER7 PS700.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use an empty inline instead of an empty function to implement
giveup_altivec on book3e CPUs, similar to flush_altivec_to_thread.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
e500mc has a normal PPC FPU, rather than SPE which is found
on e500v1/v2.
Based on code from Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
