Randomise ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, which is used when loading position independent
executables.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Randomise the lower bits of the stack address. More randomisation is good for
security but the scatter can also help with SMT threads that share an L1. A
quick test case shows this working:
int main()
{
int sp;
printf("%x\n", (unsigned long)&sp & 4095);
}
before:
80
80
80
80
80
after:
610
490
300
6b0
d80
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment we randomise the stack by 8MB on 32bit and 64bit tasks. Since we
have a lot more address space to play with on 64bit, lets do what x86 does and
increase that randomisation to 1GB:
before:
# for i in seq `1 10` ; do sleep 1 & cat /proc/${!}/maps | grep stack; done
fffffebc000-fffffed1000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffff5a000-ffffff6f000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffffdb2000-fffffdc7000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffffd3e000-fffffd53000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffffad9000-fffffaee000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
after:
# for i in seq `1 10` ; do sleep 1 & cat /proc/${!}/maps | grep stack; done
ffff5c27000-ffff5c3c000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffebe5e000-fffebe73000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffcb298000-fffcb2ad000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffc719d000-fffc71b2000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
fffe01af000-fffe01c4000 rw-p ffffffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Move is_32bit_task into asm/thread_info.h, that allows us to test for
32/64bit tasks without an ugly CONFIG_PPC64 ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The e500mc supports the new msgsnd/doorbell mechanisms that were added in
the Power ISA 2.05 architecture. We use the normal level doorbell for
doing SMP IPIs at this point.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
include/asm/bootx.h:12: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
include/asm/bootx.h:57: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
include/asm/elf.h:5: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
include/asm/kvm.h:23: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
include/asm/kvm.h:26: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
include/asm/ps3fb.h:33: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
include/asm/spu_info.h:27: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
include/asm/swab.h:11: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.
We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.
Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: clean up
Use a macro to save and restore the registers for PowerPC32,
since that code is duplicated.
This is similar to the work done by Cyrill Gorcunov for the
mcount code in x86_64.
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards.
For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume
2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space
reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are
actually used. But this may be an acceptable trade-off to achieve the
high performance we have with big PAGE_SIZEs in some applications (e.g.
RAID).
Also with 256KB PAGE_SIZE we increase THREAD_SIZE up to 32KB to minimize
the risk of stack overflows in the cases of on-stack arrays, which size
depends on the page size (e.g. multipage BIOs, NTFS, etc.).
With 256KB PAGE_SIZE we need to decrease the PKMAP_ORDER at least down
to 9, otherwise all high memory (2 ^ 10 * PAGE_SIZE == 256MB) we'll be
occupied by PKMAP addresses leaving no place for vmalloc. We do not
separate PKMAP_ORDER for 256K from 16K/64K PAGE_SIZE here; actually that
value of 10 in support for 16K/64K had been selected rather intuitively.
Thus now for all cases of PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x (including the default, 4KB,
one) we have 512 pages for PKMAP.
Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should
use binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K
for building applications, which are to be run with the 256KB-page sized
kernel. If using the older binutils, then you should patch them like follows:
--- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig
+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c
-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x10000
+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x40000
One more restriction we currently have with 256KB page sizes is inability
to use shmem safely, so, for now, the 256KB is available only if you turn
the CONFIG_SHMEM option off (another variant is to use BROKEN).
Though, if you need shmem with 256KB pages, you can always remove the !SHMEM
dependency in 'config PPC_256K_PAGES', and use the workaround available here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/20
Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fix _PAGE_CHG_MASK so that pte_modify() does not affect the _PAGE_SPECIAL bit.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Power ISA 2.06 spec introduces a standard MMU programming model that
is based on the Freescale Book-E MMU programing model. The Freescale
version is pretty backwards compatiable with the ISA 2.06 definition so
we are starting to refactor some of the Freescale code so it can be
easily shared.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
The Power ISA 2.06 added power of two page sizes to the embedded MMU
architecture. Its done it such a way to be code compatiable with the
existing HW. Made the minor code changes to support both power of two
and power of four page sizes. Also added some new MAS bits and macros
that are defined as part of the 2.06 ISA. Renamed some things to use
the 'Book-3e' concept to convey the new MMU that is based on the
Freescale Book-E MMU programming model.
Note, its still invalid to try and use a page size that isn't supported
by cpu.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch reworks the way we do I and D cache coherency on PowerPC.
The "old" way was split in 3 different parts depending on the processor type:
- Hash with per-page exec support (64-bit and >= POWER4 only) does it
at hashing time, by preventing exec on unclean pages and cleaning pages
on exec faults.
- Everything without per-page exec support (32-bit hash, 8xx, and
64-bit < POWER4) does it for all page going to user space in update_mmu_cache().
- Embedded with per-page exec support does it from do_page_fault() on
exec faults, in a way similar to what the hash code does.
That leads to confusion, and bugs. For example, the method using update_mmu_cache()
is racy on SMP where another processor can see the new PTE and hash it in before
we have cleaned the cache, and then blow trying to execute. This is hard to hit but
I think it has bitten us in the past.
Also, it's inefficient for embedded where we always end up having to do at least
one more page fault.
This reworks the whole thing by moving the cache sync into two main call sites,
though we keep different behaviours depending on the HW capability. The call
sites are set_pte_at() which is now made out of line, and ptep_set_access_flags()
which joins the former in pgtable.c
The base idea for Embedded with per-page exec support, is that we now do the
flush at set_pte_at() time when coming from an exec fault, which allows us
to avoid the double fault problem completely (we can even improve the situation
more by implementing TLB preload in update_mmu_cache() but that's for later).
If for some reason we didn't do it there and we try to execute, we'll hit
the page fault, which will do a minor fault, which will hit ptep_set_access_flags()
to do things like update _PAGE_ACCESSED or _PAGE_DIRTY if needed, we just make
this guys also perform the I/D cache sync for exec faults now. This second path
is the catch all for things that weren't cleaned at set_pte_at() time.
For cpus without per-pag exec support, we always do the sync at set_pte_at(),
thus guaranteeing that when the PTE is visible to other processors, the cache
is clean.
For the 64-bit hash with per-page exec support case, we keep the old mechanism
for now. I'll look into changing it later, once I've reworked a bit how we
use _PAGE_EXEC.
This is also a first step for adding _PAGE_EXEC support for embedded platforms
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We currently have a few variants of fsl-booke processors (e500v1, e500v2,
e500mc, and e200). They all have minor differences that we had previously
been handling via ifdefs.
To move towards having this support the following changes have been made:
* PID1, PID2 only exist on e500v1 & e500v2 and should not be accessed on
e500mc or e200. We use MMUCFG[NPIDS] to determine which case we are
since we only touch PID1/2 in extremely early init code.
* Not all IVORs exist on all the processors so introduce cpu_setup
functions for each variant to setup the proper IVORs that are either
unique or exist but have some variations between the processors
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Push the dma_addr_t type usage all the way down to where the actual
values are manipulated.
Now that u64 is "unsigned long long", this removes warnings like:
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c:532: warning: passing argument 4 of 'ps3_dma_map' from incompatible pointer type
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c:649: warning: passing argument 4 of 'ps3_dma_map' from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (29 commits)
powerpc/83xx: Move mcu_mpc8349emitx driver out of drivers/i2c/chips/
powerpc/83xx: Make serial ports work on MPC8315E-RDB w/ FSL U-Boots
powerpc/e500mc: Doorbells need to be taken w/exceptions disabled
powerpc: Enable PS3 options and QPACE in ppc64_defconfig
powerpc/powermac: Fix occasional SMP boot failure
powerpc/cacheinfo: Rename cache_dir per-cpu variable
hvc_console: Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() + memset()
hvc_console: Do not set low_latency when using interrupts
hvc_console: Call free_irq() only if request_irq() was successful
hvc_console: Change an mb() to smp_mb() and add some comments
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: drivers/net
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: drivers/char
powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: arch code
powerpc: Change u64/s64 to a long long integer type
powerpc/kexec: Check crash_base for relocatable kernel
powerpc: Make dummy section a valid note header
Xilinx: SPI: updated driver for device tree
drivers/of: Add the of_find_i2c_device_by_node function.
powerpc/xsysace: add compatible string for non-ipcore instance
powerpc/mpc52xx: remove dead code from GPIO driver
...
* 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (44 commits)
[CVE-2009-0029] s390 specific system call wrappers
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 31
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 25
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 23
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 22
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 21
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 20
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 19
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 18
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 17
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 16
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 15
...
Add swab.h to kbuild.asm and remove the individual entries from
each arch, mark as unifdef as some arches have some kernel-only
bits inside.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert arch/powerpc/ over to long long based u64:
-#ifdef __powerpc64__
-# include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
-#else
-# include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
-#endif
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
This will avoid reoccuring spurious warnings in core kernel code that
comes when people test on their own hardware. (i.e. x86 in ~98% of the
cases) This is what x86 uses and it generally helps keep 64-bit code
32-bit clean too.
[Adjusted to not impact user mode (from paulus) - sfr]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (31 commits)
powerpc/oprofile: fix whitespaces in op_model_cell.c
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support
powerpc/oprofile: fix cell/pr_util.h
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: cleanup and restructuring
oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the api
oprofile: remove #ifdef CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS in non-ibs code
ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length()
oprofile: use new data sample format for ibs
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_get_data()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_add_data()
oprofile: rework implementation of cpu buffer events
oprofile: modify op_cpu_buffer_read_entry()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve()
oprofile: rename variables in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: rename add_sample() in cpu_buffer.c
oprofile: rename variable ibs_allowed to has_ibs in op_model_amd.c
oprofile: making add_sample_entry() inline
oprofile: remove backtrace code for ibs
oprofile: remove unused ibs macro
oprofile: remove unused components in struct oprofile_cpu_buffer
...
This patch adds the SPU event based profiling funcitonality for the
IBM Cell processor. Previously, the CELL OProfile kernel code supported
PPU event, PPU cycle profiling and SPU cycle profiling. The addition of
SPU event profiling allows the users to identify where in their SPU code
various SPU evnets are occuring. This should help users further identify
issues with their code. Note, SPU profiling has some limitations due to HW
constraints. Only one event at a time can be used for profiling and SPU event
profiling must be time sliced across all of the SPUs in a node.
The patch adds a new arch specific file to the OProfile file system. The
file has bit 0 set to indicate that the kernel supports SPU event profiling.
The user tool must check this file/bit to make sure the kernel supports
SPU event profiling before trying to do SPU event profiling. The user tool
check is part of the user tool patch for SPU event profiling.
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
The patch replaces internal registers dump implementation with
ppc_save_regs(). From now on PPC64 and PPC32 are using the same
code for crash_setup_regs().
NOTE: The old regs dump implementation was capturing SP (r1) directly
as is, so you could see crash_kexec() function on top of the back-trace.
But ppc_save_regs() goes up one stack frame, so you'll not see it
anymore, at the top-level you'll see who actually triggered the crash
dump instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Update ps3vram driver to use the new ps3 three id modalias support.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add ps3vram driver, which exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a MTD
device suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved
using a local cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So change the flags member of struct spu from u64 to unsigned long.
This change will also prevent some warnings when we change u64 to unsigned
long long.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
These ioctls take a struct serial_rs485
(see linux/serial.h) as argument. They are already available
on x86. This patch adds them for the powerpc architecture.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@ma-fu.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add the UCC_GETH_UPSMR_xxx definitions to qe.h. The ucc_geth driver will
eventually use these instead of the UPSMR_ macros it currently defines.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
The atomic_t type cannot currently be used in some header files because it
would create an include loop with asm/atomic.h. Move the type definition
to linux/types.h to break the loop.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The KernelPageSize entry in /proc/pid/smaps is the pagesize used by the
kernel to back a VMA. This matches the size used by the MMU in the
majority of cases. However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels
whereby a kernel using 64K as a base pagesize may still use 4K pages for
the MMU on older processor. To distinguish, this patch reports
MMUPageSize as the pagesize used by the MMU in /proc/pid/smaps.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
...
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
Impact: New API
The old topology_core_siblings() and topology_thread_siblings() return
a cpumask_t; these new ones return a (const) struct cpumask *.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.
Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.
Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.
Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.
These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).
In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM currently ignores the host's round robin TLB eviction selection, instead
maintaining its own TLB state and its own round robin index. However, by
participating in the normal 44x TLB selection, we can drop the alternate TLB
processing in KVM. This results in a significant performance improvement,
since that processing currently must be done on *every* guest exit.
Accordingly, KVM needs to be able to access and increment tlb_44x_index.
(KVM on 440 cannot be a module, so there is no need to export this symbol.)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.
This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.
Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
