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2013-02-24Merge tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti: "KVM updates for the 3.9 merge window, including x86 real mode emulation fixes, stronger memory slot interface restrictions, mmu_lock spinlock hold time reduction, improved handling of large page faults on shadow, initial APICv HW acceleration support, s390 channel IO based virtio, amongst others" * tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits) Revert "KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte" x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size KVM: nVMX: Remove redundant get_vmcs12 from nested_vmx_exit_handled_msr x86 emulator: fix parity calculation for AAD instruction KVM: PPC: BookE: Handle alignment interrupts booke: Added DBCR4 SPR number KVM: PPC: booke: Allow multiple exception types KVM: PPC: booke: use vcpu reference from thread_struct KVM: Remove user_alloc from struct kvm_memory_slot KVM: VMX: disable apicv by default KVM: s390: Fix handling of iscs. KVM: MMU: cleanup __direct_map KVM: MMU: remove pt_access in mmu_set_spte KVM: MMU: cleanup mapping-level KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte KVM: VMX: cleanup vmx_set_cr0(). KVM: VMX: add missing exit names to VMX_EXIT_REASONS array KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode KVM: Remove duplicate text in api.txt Revert "KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page" ...
2013-01-18KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbfAlexander Graf
Guests can trigger MMIO exits using dcbf. Since we don't emulate cache incoherent MMIO, just do nothing and move on. Reported-by: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Tested-by: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-01-10KVM: PPC: Fix mfspr/mtspr MMUCFG emulationMihai Caraman
On mfspr/mtspr emulation path Book3E's MMUCFG SPR with value 1015 clashes with G4's MSSSR0 SPR. Move MSSSR0 emulation from generic part to Books3S. MSSSR0 also clashes with Book3S's DABRX SPR. DABRX was not explicitly handled so Book3S execution flow will behave as before. Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-10-30KVM: PPC: Move mtspr/mfspr emulation into own functionsAlexander Graf
The mtspr/mfspr emulation code became quite big over time. Move it into its own function so things stay more readable. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-07-11KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for std/ld emulation.Varun Sethi
Add support for std/ld emulation. Signed-off-by: Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-06KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writesAlexander Graf
When reading and writing SPRs, every SPR emulation piece had to read or write the respective GPR the value was read from or stored in itself. This approach is pretty prone to failure. What if we accidentally implement mfspr emulation where we just do "break" and nothing else? Suddenly we would get a random value in the return register - which is always a bad idea. So let's consolidate the generic code paths and only give the core specific SPR handling code readily made variables to read/write from/to. Functionally, this patch doesn't change anything, but it increases the readability of the code and makes is less prone to bugs. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-06KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsingAlexander Graf
Instructions on PPC are pretty similarly encoded. So instead of every instruction emulation code decoding the instruction fields itself, we can move that code to more generic places and rely on the compiler to optimize the unused bits away. This has 2 advantages. It makes the code smaller and it makes the code less error prone, as the instruction fields are always available, so accidental misusage is reduced. Functionally, this patch doesn't change anything. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-06KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulationAlexander Graf
Stbux writes the address it's operating on to the register specified in ra, not into the data source register. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-06KVM: PPC: Use clockevent multiplier and shifter for decrementerBharat Bhushan
Time for which the hrtimer is started for decrementer emulation is calculated using tb_ticks_per_usec. While hrtimer uses the clockevent for DEC reprogramming (if needed) and which calculate timebase ticks using the multiplier and shifter mechanism implemented within clockevent layer. It was observed that this conversion (timebase->time->timebase) are not correct because the mechanism are not consistent. In our setup it adds 2% jitter. With this patch clockevent multiplier and shifter mechanism are used when starting hrtimer for decrementer emulation. Now the jitter is < 0.5%. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-04-08KVM: PPC: Emulate tw and td instructionsAlexander Graf
There are 4 conditional trapping instructions: tw, twi, td, tdi. The ones with an i take an immediate comparison, the others compare two registers. All of them arrive in the emulator when the condition to trap was successfully fulfilled. Unfortunately, we were only implementing the i versions so far, so let's also add support for the other two. This fixes kernel booting with recents book3s_32 guest kernels. Reported-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-04-08KVM: PPC: Pass EA to updating emulation opsAlexander Graf
When emulating updating load/store instructions (lwzu, stwu, ...) we need to write the effective address of the load/store into a register. Currently, we write the physical address in there, which is very wrong. So instead let's save off where the virtual fault was on MMIO and use that information as value to put into the register. While at it, also move the XOP variants of the above instructions to the new scheme of using the already known vaddr instead of calculating it themselves. Reported-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: PPC: booke: Improve timer register emulationScott Wood
Decrementers are now properly driven by TCR/TSR, and the guest has full read/write access to these registers. The decrementer keeps ticking (and setting the TSR bit) regardless of whether the interrupts are enabled with TCR. The decrementer stops at zero, rather than going negative. Decrementers (and FITs, once implemented) are delivered as level-triggered interrupts -- dequeued when the TSR bit is cleared, not on delivery. Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> [scottwood@freescale.com: significant changes] Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: PPC: Paravirtualize SPRG4-7, ESR, PIR, MASnScott Wood
This allows additional registers to be accessed by the guest in PR-mode KVM without trapping. SPRG4-7 are readable from userspace. On booke, KVM will sync these registers when it enters the guest, so that accesses from guest userspace will work. The guest kernel, OTOH, must consistently use either the real registers or the shared area between exits. This also applies to the already-paravirted SPRG3. On non-booke, it's not clear to what extent SPRG4-7 are supported (they're not architected for book3s, but exist on at least some classic chips). They are copied in the get/set regs ioctls, but I do not see any non-booke emulation. I also do not see any syncing with real registers (in PR-mode) including the user-readable SPRG3. This patch should not make that situation any worse. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: PPC: booke: Do Not start decrementer when SPRN_DEC set 0Bharat Bhushan
As per specification the decrementer interrupt not happen when DEC is written with 0. Also when DEC is zero, no decrementer running. So we should not start hrtimer for decrementer when DEC = 0. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: PPC: Fix DEC truncation for greater than 0xffff_ffff/1000Bharat Bhushan
kvmppc_emulate_dec() uses dec_nsec of type unsigned long and does below calculation: dec_nsec = vcpu->arch.dec; dec_nsec *= 1000; This will truncate if DEC value "vcpu->arch.dec" is greater than 0xffff_ffff/1000. For example : For tb_ticks_per_usec = 4a, we can not set decrementer more than ~58ms. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com> Acked-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-05-22KVM: PPC: booke: add sregs supportScott Wood
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-05-22KVM: PPC: fix exit accounting for SPRs, tlbwe, tlbsxScott Wood
The exit type setting for mfspr/mtspr is moved from 44x to toplevel SPR emulation. This enables it on e500, and makes sure that all SPRs are covered. Exit accounting for tlbwe and tlbsx is added to e500. Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2010-10-24Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits) KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED KVM: fix typo in copyright notice KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns() KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn() KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode ...
2010-10-24KVM: PPC: Convert SPRG[0-4] to shared pageAlexander Graf
When in kernel mode there are 4 additional registers available that are simple data storage. Instead of exiting to the hypervisor to read and write those, we can just share them with the guest using the page. This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24KVM: PPC: Convert SRR0 and SRR1 to shared pageAlexander Graf
The SRR0 and SRR1 registers contain cached values of the PC and MSR respectively. They get written to by the hypervisor when an interrupt occurs or directly by the kernel. They are also used to tell the rfi(d) instruction where to jump to. Because it only gets touched on defined events that, it's very simple to share with the guest. Hypervisor and guest both have full r/w access. This patch converts all users of the current field to the shared page. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-13powerpc: Remove pr_<level> uses of KERN_<level>Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-05-17KVM: PPC: Remove fetch fail codeAlexander Graf
When instruction fetch failed, the inline function hook automatically detects that and starts the internal guest memory load function. So whenever we access kvmppc_get_last_inst(), we're sure the result is sane. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-17KVM: PPC: Use CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S defineAlexander Graf
Upstream recently added a new name for PPC64: Book3S_64. So instead of using CONFIG_PPC64 we should use CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S consotently. That makes understanding the code easier (I hope). Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-17KVM: PPC: Improve indirect svcpu accessorsAlexander Graf
We already have some inline fuctions we use to access vcpu or svcpu structs, depending on whether we're on booke or book3s. Since we just put a few more registers into the svcpu, we also need to make sure the respective callbacks are available and get used. So this patch moves direct use of the now in the svcpu struct fields to inline function calls. While at it, it also moves the definition of those inline function calls to respective header files for booke and book3s, greatly improving readability. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-17KVM: PPC: Implement emulation for lbzux and lhaxAlexander Graf
We get MMIOs with the weirdest instructions. But every time we do, we need to improve our emulator to implement them. So let's do that - this time it's lbzux and lhax's round. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25KVM: PPC: Add AGAIN type for emulation returnAlexander Graf
Emulation of an instruction can have different outcomes. It can succeed, fail, require MMIO, do funky BookE stuff - or it can just realize something's odd and will be fixed the next time around. Exactly that is what EMULATE_AGAIN means. Using that flag we can now tell the caller that nothing happened, but we still want to go back to the guest and see what happens next time we come around. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25KVM: PPC: Teach MMIO SignednessAlexander Graf
The guest I was trying to get to run uses the LHA and LHAU instructions. Those instructions basically do a load, but also sign extend the result. Since we need to fill our registers by hand when doing MMIO, we also need to sign extend manually. This patch implements sign extended MMIO and the LHA(U) instructions. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: ppc/booke: Set ESR and DEAR when inject interrupt to guestLiu Yu
Old method prematurely sets ESR and DEAR. Move this part after we decide to inject interrupt, which is more like hardware behave. Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: PPC: Pass through program interruptsAlexander Graf
When we get a program interrupt in guest kernel mode, we try to emulate the instruction. If that doesn't fail, we report to the user and try again - at the exact same instruction pointer. So if the guest kernel really does trigger an invalid instruction, we loop forever. So let's better go and forward program exceptions to the guest when we don't know the instruction we're supposed to emulate. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: PPC: Emulate trap SRR1 flags properlyAlexander Graf
Book3S needs some flags in SRR1 to get to know details about an interrupt. One such example is the trap instruction. It tells the guest kernel that a program interrupt is due to a trap using a bit in SRR1. This patch implements above behavior, making WARN_ON behave like WARN_ON. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: PPC: Implement 'skip instruction' modeAlexander Graf
To fetch the last instruction we were interrupted on, we enable DR in early exit code, where we are still in a very transitional phase between guest and host state. Most of the time this seemed to work, but another CPU can easily flush our TLB and HTAB which makes us go in the Linux page fault handler which totally breaks because we still use the guest's SLB entries. To work around that, let's introduce a second KVM guest mode that defines that whenever we get a trap, we don't call the Linux handler or go into the KVM exit code, but just jump over the faulting instruction. That way a potentially bad lwz doesn't trigger any faults and we can later on interpret the invalid instruction we fetched as "fetch didn't work". Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: PPC: Use accessor functions for GPR accessAlexander Graf
All code in PPC KVM currently accesses gprs in the vcpu struct directly. While there's nothing wrong with that wrt the current way gprs are stored and loaded, it doesn't suffice for the PACA acceleration that will follow in this patchset. So let's just create little wrapper inline functions that we call whenever a GPR needs to be read from or written to. The compiled code shouldn't really change at all for now. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: powerpc: Improve DEC handlingAlexander Graf
We treated the DEC interrupt like an edge based one. This is not true for Book3s. The DEC keeps firing until mtdec is issued again and thus clears the interrupt line. So let's implement this logic in KVM too. This patch moves the line clearing from the firing of the interrupt to the mtdec emulation. This makes PPC64 guests work without AGGRESSIVE_DEC defined. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-11-05Use hrtimers for the decrementerAlexander Graf
Following S390's good example we should use hrtimers for the decrementer too! This patch converts the timer from the old mechanism to hrtimers. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05Add desktop PowerPC specific emulationAlexander Graf
Little opcodes behave differently on desktop and embedded PowerPC cores. In order to reflect those differences, let's add some #ifdef code to emulate.c. We could probably also handle them in the core specific emulation files, but I would prefer to reuse as much code as possible. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-05Add mfdec emulationAlexander Graf
We support setting the DEC to a certain value right now. Doing that basically triggers the CPU local timer. But there's also an mfdec command that enabled the OS to read the decrementor. This is required at least by all desktop and server PowerPC Linux kernels. It can't really hurt to allow embedded ones to do it as well though. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-09-10KVM: powerpc: convert marker probes to event traceMarcelo Tosatti
[avi: make it build] [avi: fold trace-arch.h into trace.h] CC: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10KVM: ppc: e500: Add MMUCFG and PVR emulationLiu Yu
Latest kernel started to use these two registers. Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10KVM: ppc: e500: Directly pass pvr to guestLiu Yu
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24KVM: ppc: use macros instead of hardcoded literals for instruction decodingHollis Blanchard
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: Implement in-kernel exit timing statisticsHollis Blanchard
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>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: improve trap emulationHollis Blanchard
set ESR[PTR] when emulating a guest trap. This allows Linux guests to properly handle WARN_ON() (i.e. detect that it's a non-fatal trap). Also remove debugging printk in trap emulation. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: adjust vcpu types to support 64-bit coresHollis Blanchard
However, some of these fields could be split into separate per-core structures in the future. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: refactor instruction emulation into generic and core-specific piecesHollis Blanchard
Cores provide 3 emulation hooks, implemented for example in the new 4xx_emulate.c: kvmppc_core_emulate_op kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr Strictly speaking the last two aren't necessary, but provide for more informative error reporting ("unknown SPR"). Long term I'd like to have instruction decoding autogenerated from tables of opcodes, and that way we could aggregate universal, Book E, and core-specific instructions more easily and without redundant switch statements. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31ppc: Create disassemble.h to extract instruction fieldsHollis Blanchard
This is used in a couple places in KVM, but isn't KVM-specific. However, this patch doesn't modify other in-kernel emulation code: - xmon uses a direct copy of ppc_opc.c from binutils - emulate_instruction() doesn't need it because it can use a series of mask tests. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: Refactor powerpc.c to relocate 440-specific codeHollis Blanchard
This introduces a set of core-provided hooks. For 440, some of these are implemented by booke.c, with the rest in (the new) 44x.c. Note that these hooks are link-time, not run-time. Since it is not possible to build a single kernel for both e500 and 440 (for example), using function pointers would only add overhead. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31KVM: ppc: Move 440-specific TLB code into 44x_tlb.cHollis Blanchard
This will make it easier to provide implementations for other cores. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15KVM: powerpc: Map guest userspace with TID=0 mappingsHollis Blanchard
When we use TID=N userspace mappings, we must ensure that kernel mappings have been destroyed when entering userspace. Using TID=1/TID=0 for kernel/user mappings and running userspace with PID=0 means that userspace can't access the kernel mappings, but the kernel can directly access userspace. The net is that we don't need to flush the TLB on privilege switches, but we do on guest context switches (which are far more infrequent). Guest boot time performance improvement: about 30%. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15KVM: ppc: trace powerpc instruction emulationChristian Ehrhardt
This patch adds a trace point for the instruction emulation on embedded powerpc utilizing the KVM_TRACE interface. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15KVM: ppc: adds trace points for ppc tlb activityJerone Young
This patch adds trace points to track powerpc TLB activities using the KVM_TRACE infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>