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2019-07-24Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virtChristoph Hellwig1-154/+0
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt, as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation to match that. Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-07-02KVM: X86: Yield to IPI target if necessaryWanpeng Li1-0/+11
When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-08-06KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercallWanpeng Li1-0/+20
Using hypercall to send IPIs by one vmexit instead of one by one for xAPIC/x2APIC physical mode and one vmexit per-cluster for x2APIC cluster mode. Intel guest can enter x2apic cluster mode when interrupt remmaping is enabled in qemu, however, latest AMD EPYC still just supports xapic mode which can get great improvement by Exit-less IPIs. This patchset lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per hypercall in 32-bit mode. Hardware: Xeon Skylake 2.5GHz, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads, the VM is 80 vCPUs, IPI microbenchmark(https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/141): x2apic cluster mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 2392199 ns Self-IPI: 6907514, 15027589 ns Normal IPI: 223910476, 251301666 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 9282161150 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 8812934104 ns x2apic cluster mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2449341 ns Self-IPI: 6720360, 15028732 ns Normal IPI: 228643307, 255708477 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7572293590 ns => 22% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 8316124651 ns x2apic physical mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 3135933 ns Self-IPI: 8572670, 17901757 ns Normal IPI: 226444334, 255421709 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 19845070887 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 19827383656 ns x2apic physical mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2446381 ns Self-IPI: 6788217, 15021056 ns Normal IPI: 219454441, 249583458 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7806540019 ns => 154% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 9143618799 ns Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-03-28KVM: MIPS: Implement HYPCALL emulationJames Hogan1-0/+5
Emulate the HYPCALL instruction added in the VZ ASE and used by the MIPS paravirtualised guest support that is already merged. The new hypcall.c handles arguments and the return value. No actual hypercalls are yet supported, but this still allows us to safely step over hypercalls and set an error code in the return value for forward compatibility. Non-zero HYPCALL codes are not handled. We also document the hypercall ABI which asm/kvm_para.h uses. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2017-02-07KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercallMarcelo Tosatti1-0/+35
Add a hypercall to retrieve the host realtime clock and the TSC value used to calculate that clock read. Used to implement clock synchronization between host and guest. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-12-31KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvmMasanari Iida1-1/+1
Correct spelling typo in Documentations/virtual/kvm Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-12-11KVM: s390: diagnose call documentationCornelia Huck1-0/+3
Add some further documentation on the DIAGNOSE calls we support. Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2013-08-26Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlockRaghavendra K T1-0/+14
KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall added to wakeup halted vcpu in paravirtual spinlock enabled guest. KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT enables guest to check whether pv spinlock can be enabled in guest. Thanks Vatsa for rewriting KVM_HC_KICK_CPU Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2012-08-13KVM: Add documentation on hypercallsRaghavendra K T1-0/+66
Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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