linux/arch/powerpc/kvm
Paul Mackerras 1b400ba0cd KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations
When we change or remove a HPT (hashed page table) entry, we can do
either a global TLB invalidation (tlbie) that works across the whole
machine, or a local invalidation (tlbiel) that only affects this core.
Currently we do local invalidations if the VM has only one vcpu or if
the guest requests it with the H_LOCAL flag, though the guest Linux
kernel currently doesn't ever use H_LOCAL.  Then, to cope with the
possibility that vcpus moving around to different physical cores might
expose stale TLB entries, there is some code in kvmppc_hv_entry to
flush the whole TLB of entries for this VM if either this vcpu is now
running on a different physical core from where it last ran, or if this
physical core last ran a different vcpu.

There are a number of problems on POWER7 with this as it stands:

- The TLB invalidation is done per thread, whereas it only needs to be
  done per core, since the TLB is shared between the threads.
- With the possibility of the host paging out guest pages, the use of
  H_LOCAL by an SMP guest is dangerous since the guest could possibly
  retain and use a stale TLB entry pointing to a page that had been
  removed from the guest.
- The TLB invalidations that we do when a vcpu moves from one physical
  core to another are unnecessary in the case of an SMP guest that isn't
  using H_LOCAL.
- The optimization of using local invalidations rather than global should
  apply to guests with one virtual core, not just one vcpu.

(None of this applies on PPC970, since there we always have to
invalidate the whole TLB when entering and leaving the guest, and we
can't support paging out guest memory.)

To fix these problems and simplify the code, we now maintain a simple
cpumask of which cpus need to flush the TLB on entry to the guest.
(This is indexed by cpu, though we only ever use the bits for thread
0 of each core.)  Whenever we do a local TLB invalidation, we set the
bits for every cpu except the bit for thread 0 of the core that we're
currently running on.  Whenever we enter a guest, we test and clear the
bit for our core, and flush the TLB if it was set.

On initial startup of the VM, and when resetting the HPT, we set all the
bits in the need_tlb_flush cpumask, since any core could potentially have
stale TLB entries from the previous VM to use the same LPID, or the
previous contents of the HPT.

Then, we maintain a count of the number of online virtual cores, and use
that when deciding whether to use a local invalidation rather than the
number of online vcpus.  The code to make that decision is extracted out
into a new function, global_invalidates().  For multi-core guests on
POWER7 (i.e. when we are using mmu notifiers), we now never do local
invalidations regardless of the H_LOCAL flag.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-12-06 01:34:05 +01:00
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44x_emulate.c KVM: PPC: 44x: fix DCR read/write 2012-10-30 10:54:50 +01:00
44x_tlb.c KVM: do not release the error page 2012-08-06 16:04:58 +03:00
44x_tlb.h
44x.c KVM: PPC: 44x: Initialize PVR 2012-10-05 23:38:47 +02:00
book3s_32_mmu_host.c KVM: do not treat noslot pfn as a error pfn 2012-10-29 20:31:04 -02:00
book3s_32_mmu.c KVM: PPC: Put segment registers in shared page 2010-10-24 10:52:11 +02:00
book3s_32_sr.S KVM: PPC: book3s_pr: Simplify transitions between virtual and real mode 2011-09-25 19:52:29 +03:00
book3s_64_mmu_host.c KVM: do not treat noslot pfn as a error pfn 2012-10-29 20:31:04 -02:00
book3s_64_mmu_hv.c KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations 2012-12-06 01:34:05 +01:00
book3s_64_mmu.c KVM: PPC: Interpret SDR1 as HVA in PAPR mode 2011-09-25 19:52:21 +03:00
book3s_64_slb.S KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: No isync in slbie path 2012-05-06 16:19:09 +02:00
book3s_64_vio_hv.c kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM 2012-05-06 16:19:11 +02:00
book3s_64_vio.c kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM 2012-05-06 16:19:11 +02:00
book3s_emulate.c KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate PURR, SPURR and DSCR registers 2012-12-06 01:34:01 +01:00
book3s_exports.c KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix VSX handling 2012-12-06 01:34:02 +01:00
book3s_hv_builtin.c KVM: PPC: Quieten message about allocating linear regions 2012-10-05 23:38:40 +02:00
book3s_hv_interrupts.S KVM: PPC: Work around POWER7 DABR corruption problem 2012-04-08 14:01:36 +03:00
book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations 2012-12-06 01:34:05 +01:00
book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations 2012-12-06 01:34:05 +01:00
book3s_hv.c KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations 2012-12-06 01:34:05 +01:00
book3s_interrupts.S powerpc: Merge VCPU_GPR 2012-07-10 19:18:06 +10:00
book3s_mmu_hpte.c KVM: PPC: Book3s: PR: Add (dumb) MMU Notifier support 2012-10-05 23:38:43 +02:00
book3s_paired_singles.c powerpc/kvm: Fallout from system.h disintegration 2012-04-02 14:00:04 +10:00
book3s_pr_papr.c powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE 2012-07-11 17:36:38 +02:00
book3s_pr.c KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: MSR_DE doesn't exist on Book 3S 2012-12-06 01:34:03 +01:00
book3s_rmhandlers.S KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix VSX handling 2012-12-06 01:34:02 +01:00
book3s_segment.S powerpc: Move and fix MTMSR_EERI definition 2012-07-10 19:18:08 +10:00
book3s.c KVM: PPC: Book3S: Get/set guest FP regs using the GET/SET_ONE_REG interface 2012-10-05 23:38:54 +02:00
booke_emulate.c KVM: PPC: BookE: Add MCSR SPR support 2012-10-05 23:38:48 +02:00
booke_interrupts.S KVM updates for the 3.6 merge window 2012-07-24 12:01:20 -07:00
booke.c KVM: PPC: set IN_GUEST_MODE before checking requests 2012-10-05 23:38:54 +02:00
booke.h KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes 2012-05-06 16:19:13 +02:00
bookehv_interrupts.S powerpc/kvm/bookehv: Fix build regression 2012-07-27 11:42:32 +10:00
e500_emulate.c KVM: PPC: booke: Added DECAR support 2012-05-30 11:43:11 +02:00
e500_tlb.c KVM: do not treat noslot pfn as a error pfn 2012-10-29 20:31:04 -02:00
e500.c KVM: PPC: e500: refactor core-specific TLB code 2012-04-08 12:51:12 +03:00
e500.h KVM: PPC: E500: Remove E500_TLB_DIRTY flag 2012-10-05 23:38:48 +02:00
e500mc.c KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests 2012-07-11 17:39:38 +02:00
emulate.c KVM: PPC: Move mtspr/mfspr emulation into own functions 2012-10-30 10:54:51 +01:00
fpu.S powerpc: Remove fpscr use from [kvm_]cvt_{fd,df} 2010-09-02 14:07:32 +10:00
Kconfig KVM: PPC: Support eventfd 2012-12-06 01:33:50 +01:00
Makefile KVM: PPC: Support eventfd 2012-12-06 01:33:50 +01:00
powerpc.c KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Provide a method for userspace to read and write the HPT 2012-12-06 01:33:57 +01:00
timing.c KVM: PPC: fix partial application of "exit timing in ticks" 2011-07-12 13:16:28 +03:00
timing.h KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support 2012-04-08 12:51:19 +03:00
trace.h Merge remote-tracking branch 'master' into queue 2012-10-29 19:15:32 -02:00