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2021-03-11x86/paravirt: Add new features for paravirt patchingJuergen Gross
For being able to switch paravirt patching from special cased custom code sequences to ALTERNATIVE handling some X86_FEATURE_* are needed as new features. This enables to have the standard indirect pv call as the default code and to patch that with the non-Xen custom code sequence via ALTERNATIVE patching later. Make sure paravirt patching is performed before alternatives patching. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311142319.4723-9-jgross@suse.com
2018-09-03x86/paravirt: Use a single ops structureJuergen Gross
Instead of using six globally visible paravirt ops structures combine them in a single structure, keeping the original structures as sub-structures. This avoids the need to assemble struct paravirt_patch_template at runtime on the stack each time apply_paravirt() is being called (i.e. when loading a module). [ tglx: Made the struct and the initializer tabular for readability sake ] Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: akataria@vmware.com Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828074026.820-9-jgross@suse.com
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-22Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures. ARM: - GICv3 save/restore - cache flushing fixes - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS - physical timer emulation MIPS: - various improvements under the hood - support for SMP guests - a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking, swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware virtualization support. PPC: - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest - resizable hashed page table - bugfixes. s390: - expose more features to the guest - more SIMD extensions - instruction execution protection - ESOP2 x86: - improved hashing in the MMU - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live migration support of nested hypervisors - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit - host-to-guest PTP support - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown in and some duct tape removed. - remove lazy FPU handling - optimizations of user-mode exits - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests generic: - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on tsk->sighand->siglock" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits) x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64 x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base() x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log() KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect() KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl() KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache KVM: use separate generations for each address space ...
2017-02-21x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to longWaiman Long
The cpu argument in the function prototype of vcpu_is_preempted() is changed from int to long. That makes it easier to provide a better optimized assembly version of that function. For Xen, vcpu_is_preempted(long) calls xen_vcpu_stolen(int), the downcast from long to int is not a problem as vCPU number won't exceed 32 bits. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-01-14locking/spinlocks/x86, paravirt: Remove paravirt_ticketlocks_enabledWaiman Long
This is a follow-up of commit: cfd8983f03c7b2 ("x86, locking/spinlocks: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementation") The static_key structure 'paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled' is now removed as it is no longer used. As a result, the init functions kvm_spinlock_init_jump() and xen_init_spinlocks_jump() are also removed. A simple build and boot test was done to verify it. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484252878-1962-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-11-22x86/paravirt: Optimize native pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted()Peter Zijlstra
Avoid the pointless function call to pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted() when a paravirt spinlock enabled kernel is ran on native hardware. Do this by patching out the CALL instruction with "XOR %RAX,%RAX" which has the same effect (0 return value). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-11-22locking/core, x86/paravirt: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) for KVM and Xen ↵Pan Xinhui
guests Optimize spinlock and mutex busy-loops by providing a vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) function on KVM and Xen platforms. Extend the pv_lock_ops interface accordingly and implement the callbacks on KVM and Xen. Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Translated to English. ] Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-7-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-09-30x86, locking/spinlocks: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementationPeter Zijlstra
We've unconditionally used the queued spinlock for many releases now. Its time to remove the old ticket lock code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> Cc: Waiman.Long@hpe.com Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518184302.GO3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-14x86/kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.hPaul Gortmaker
Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends. That changed when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file. This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig. The advantage in doing so is that module.h itself sources about 15 other headers; adding significantly to what we feed cpp, and it can obscure what headers we are effectively using. Since module.h was the source for init.h (for __init) and for export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each obj-y/bool instance for the presence of either and replace as needed. Build testing revealed some implicit header usage that was fixed up accordingly. Note that some bool/obj-y instances remain since module.h is the header for some exception table entry stuff, and for things like __init_or_module (code that is tossed when MODULES=n). Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714001901.31603-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-11locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKSIngo Molnar
Valentin Rothberg reported that we use CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c, while the symbol is called CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCK. (Note the extra 'S') But the typo was natural: the proper English term for such a generic object would be 'queued spinlocks' - so rename this and related symbols accordingly to the plural form. Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patchingPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
We use the regular paravirt call patching to switch between: native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath() __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath() native_queued_spin_unlock() __pv_queued_spin_unlock() We use a callee saved call for the unlock function which reduces the i-cache footprint and allows 'inlining' of SPIN_UNLOCK functions again. We further optimize the unlock path by patching the direct call with a "movb $0,%arg1" if we are indeed using the native unlock code. This makes the unlock code almost as fast as the !PARAVIRT case. This significantly lowers the overhead of having CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS enabled, even for native code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-10-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-09x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logicJeremy Fitzhardinge
Maintain a flag in the LSB of the ticket lock tail which indicates whether anyone is in the lock slowpath and may need kicking when the current holder unlocks. The flags are set when the first locker enters the slowpath, and cleared when unlocking to an empty queue (ie, no contention). In the specific implementation of lock_spinning(), make sure to set the slowpath flags on the lock just before blocking. We must do this before the last-chance pickup test to prevent a deadlock with the unlocker: Unlocker Locker test for lock pickup -> fail unlock test slowpath -> false set slowpath flags block Whereas this works in any ordering: Unlocker Locker set slowpath flags test for lock pickup -> fail block unlock test slowpath -> true, kick If the unlocker finds that the lock has the slowpath flag set but it is actually uncontended (ie, head == tail, so nobody is waiting), then it clears the slowpath flag. The unlock code uses a locked add to update the head counter. This also acts as a full memory barrier so that its safe to subsequently read back the slowflag state, knowing that the updated lock is visible to the other CPUs. If it were an unlocked add, then the flag read may just be forwarded from the store buffer before it was visible to the other CPUs, which could result in a deadlock. Unfortunately this means we need to do a locked instruction when unlocking with PV ticketlocks. However, if PV ticketlocks are not enabled, then the old non-locked "add" is the only unlocking code. Note: this code relies on gcc making sure that unlikely() code is out of line of the fastpath, which only happens when OPTIMIZE_SIZE=n. If it doesn't the generated code isn't too bad, but its definitely suboptimal. Thanks to Srivatsa Vaddagiri for providing a bugfix to the original version of this change, which has been folded in. Thanks to Stephan Diestelhorst for commenting on some code which relied on an inaccurate reading of the x86 memory ordering rules. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-11-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-08-09x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinningJeremy Fitzhardinge
Although the lock_spinning calls in the spinlock code are on the uncommon path, their presence can cause the compiler to generate many more register save/restores in the function pre/postamble, which is in the fast path. To avoid this, convert it to using the pvops callee-save calling convention, which defers all the save/restores until the actual function is called, keeping the fastpath clean. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-8-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Tested-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-08-09x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocksJeremy Fitzhardinge
Rather than outright replacing the entire spinlock implementation in order to paravirtualize it, keep the ticket lock implementation but add a couple of pvops hooks on the slow patch (long spin on lock, unlocking a contended lock). Ticket locks have a number of nice properties, but they also have some surprising behaviours in virtual environments. They enforce a strict FIFO ordering on cpus trying to take a lock; however, if the hypervisor scheduler does not schedule the cpus in the correct order, the system can waste a huge amount of time spinning until the next cpu can take the lock. (See Thomas Friebel's talk "Prevent Guests from Spinning Around" http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf for more details.) To address this, we add two hooks: - __ticket_spin_lock which is called after the cpu has been spinning on the lock for a significant number of iterations but has failed to take the lock (presumably because the cpu holding the lock has been descheduled). The lock_spinning pvop is expected to block the cpu until it has been kicked by the current lock holder. - __ticket_spin_unlock, which on releasing a contended lock (there are more cpus with tail tickets), it looks to see if the next cpu is blocked and wakes it if so. When compiled with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS disabled, a set of stub functions causes all the extra code to go away. Results: ======= setup: 32 core machine with 32 vcpu KVM guest (HT off) with 8GB RAM base = 3.11-rc patched = base + pvspinlock V12 +-----------------+----------------+--------+ dbench (Throughput in MB/sec. Higher is better) +-----------------+----------------+--------+ | base (stdev %)|patched(stdev%) | %gain | +-----------------+----------------+--------+ | 15035.3 (0.3) |15150.0 (0.6) | 0.8 | | 1470.0 (2.2) | 1713.7 (1.9) | 16.6 | | 848.6 (4.3) | 967.8 (4.3) | 14.0 | | 652.9 (3.5) | 685.3 (3.7) | 5.0 | +-----------------+----------------+--------+ pvspinlock shows benefits for overcommit ratio > 1 for PLE enabled cases, and undercommits results are flat Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-2-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Tested-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> [ Raghavendra: Changed SPIN_THRESHOLD, fixed redefinition of arch_spinlock_t] Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-14locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*Thomas Gleixner
Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlockThomas Gleixner
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-20x86: remove byte locksJiri Kosina
Impact: cleanup Remove byte locks implementation, which was introduced by Jeremy in 8efcbab6 ("paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation"), but turned out to be dead code that is not used by any in-kernel virtualization guest (Xen uses its own variant of spinlocks implementation and KVM is not planning to move to byte locks). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08x86: fix default_spin_lock_flags() prototypeIngo Molnar
these warnings: arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c: In function ‘default_spin_lock_flags’: arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c:12: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__raw_spin_lock’ from incompatible pointer type arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c: At top level: arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c:11: warning: ‘default_spin_lock_flags’ defined but not used showed that the prototype of default_spin_lock_flags() was confused about what type spinlocks have. the proper type on UP is raw_spinlock_t. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPLJeremy Fitzhardinge
None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for pv_lock_ops to be. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
2008-08-20x86/paravirt: add spin_lock_flags lock opJeremy Fitzhardinge
It is useful for a pv_lock_ops backend to know whether interrupts are enabled or not in the context a spin_lock is being called. This allows it to enable interrupts while spinning, which could be particularly helpful when spinning becomes blocking. The default implementation just calls the normal spin_lock op, ignoring the flags. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-24x86: split spinlock implementations out into their own filesJeremy Fitzhardinge
ftrace requires certain low-level code, like spinlocks and timestamps, to be compiled without -pg in order to avoid infinite recursion. This patch splits out the core paravirt spinlocks and the Xen spinlocks into separate files which can be compiled without -pg. Also do xen/time.c while we're about it. As a result, we can now use ftrace within a Xen domain. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>