The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
CC: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
"Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."
* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
...
Conflicts:
arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
Split the base menu into more descriptive categories like processor,
memory, etc. and move virtualization related entries to the
Virtualization menu.
Also select KEXEC unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a new config option for user controlled kernel
virtual machines. It introduces a parameter to KVM_CREATE_VM that
allows to set bits that alter the capabilities of the newly created
virtual machine.
The parameter is passed to kvm_arch_init_vm for all architectures.
The only valid modifier bit for now is KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL.
This requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges and creates a user controlled
virtual machine on s390 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization,
and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch
Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected.
Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,
we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization
scope too.
Moreover, some architectures might use virtio for both virtualization
and inter-processor communications, so directly sourcing virtio
might yield unexpected results due to conflicting selections.
The simple solution offered by this patch is to always source virtio's
Kconfig in drivers/Kconfig, and remove it from the appropriate arch
Kconfigs. Additionally, a virtio menu entry has been added so virtio
drivers don't show up in the general drivers menu.
This way anyone can use virtio, though it's arguably less accessible
(and neat!) for virtualization users now.
Note: some architectures (mips and sh) seem to have a VIRTUALIZATION
menu merely for sourcing virtio's Kconfig, so that menu is removed too.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Make use of def_bool and def_tristate where possible and add sensible
defaults to the config symbols where applicable. This shortens the
defconfig file by another ~40 lines.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This config option enables or disables three single instructions
which aren't expensive. This is too fine grained.
Besided that everybody who uses kvm would enable it anyway in order
to debug performance problems.
Just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Use the SPP instruction to set a tag on entry to / exit of the virtual
machine context. This allows the cpu measurement facility to distinguish
the samples from the host and the different guests.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.
There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)
common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.
What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.
How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.
Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.
Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use
Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.
(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce user_mode to replace the two variables switch_amode and
s390_noexec. There are three valid combinations of the old values:
1) switch_amode == 0 && s390_noexec == 0
2) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 0
3) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 1
They get replaced by
1) user_mode == HOME_SPACE_MODE
2) user_mode == PRIMARY_SPACE_MODE
3) user_mode == SECONDARY_SPACE_MODE
The new kernel parameter user_mode=[primary,secondary,home] lets
you choose the address space mode the user space processes should
use. In addition the CONFIG_S390_SWITCH_AMODE config option
is removed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't. Add a Kconfig item to
make selecting between the two models easier.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it
was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used
preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called
vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host
intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered
immediately.
This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the
SIE instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the
instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm
code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting
for these types of intercept as well.
The advantages:
- works with and without preemption
- signals are delivered immediately
- much better host latencies without preemption
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch adds the virtualization submenu and the kvm option to the kernel
config. It also defines HAVE_KVM for 64bit kernels.
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
