1. 22 Oct, 2013 4 commits
  2. 18 Oct, 2013 4 commits
  3. 17 Oct, 2013 2 commits
    • Christoffer Dall's avatar
      KVM: ARM: Update comments for kvm_handle_wfi · 86ed81aa
      Christoffer Dall authored
      Update comments to reflect what is really going on and add the TWE bit
      to the comments in kvm_arm.h.
      
      Also renames the function to kvm_handle_wfx like is done on arm64 for
      consistency and uber-correctness.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      86ed81aa
    • Marc Zyngier's avatar
      ARM: KVM: Yield CPU when vcpu executes a WFE · 58d5ec8f
      Marc Zyngier authored
      On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
      becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
      lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
      running at all.
      
      This creates contention, and the observed slowdown is 40x for
      hackbench. No, this isn't a typo.
      
      The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
      now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
      boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
      CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
      when the VM is severely overcommited.
      
      Quick test to estimate the performance: hackbench 1 process 1000
      
      2xA15 host (baseline):	1.843s
      
      2xA15 guest w/o patch:	2.083s
      4xA15 guest w/o patch:	80.212s
      8xA15 guest w/o patch:	Could not be bothered to find out
      
      2xA15 guest w/ patch:	2.102s
      4xA15 guest w/ patch:	3.205s
      8xA15 guest w/ patch:	6.887s
      
      So we go from a 40x degradation to 1.5x in the 2x overcommit case,
      which is vaguely more acceptable.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      58d5ec8f
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    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      KVM: Convert kvm_lock back to non-raw spinlock · 2f303b74
      Paolo Bonzini authored
      In commit e935b837 ("KVM: Convert kvm_lock to raw_spinlock"),
      the kvm_lock was made a raw lock.  However, the kvm mmu_shrink()
      function tries to grab the (non-raw) mmu_lock within the scope of
      the raw locked kvm_lock being held.  This leads to the following:
      
      BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:659
      in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 55, name: kswapd0
      Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffffa0376eac>] mmu_shrink+0x5c/0x1b0 [kvm]
      
      Pid: 55, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.4.34_preempt-rt
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff8106f2ad>] __might_sleep+0xfd/0x160
       [<ffffffff817d8d64>] rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x50
       [<ffffffffa0376f3c>] mmu_shrink+0xec/0x1b0 [kvm]
       [<ffffffff8111455d>] shrink_slab+0x17d/0x3a0
       [<ffffffff81151f00>] ? mem_cgroup_iter+0x130/0x260
       [<ffffffff8111824a>] balance_pgdat+0x54a/0x730
       [<ffffffff8111fe47>] ? set_pgdat_percpu_threshold+0xa7/0xd0
       [<ffffffff811185bf>] kswapd+0x18f/0x490
       [<ffffffff81070961>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
       [<ffffffff81061970>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x50/0x50
       [<ffffffff81118430>] ? balance_pgdat+0x730/0x730
       [<ffffffff81060d2b>] kthread+0xdb/0xe0
       [<ffffffff8106e122>] ? finish_task_switch+0x52/0x100
       [<ffffffff817e1e94>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
       [<ffffffff81060c50>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x
      
      After the previous patch, kvm_lock need not be a raw spinlock anymore,
      so change it back.
      Reported-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: gleb@redhat.com
      Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com
      Reviewed-by: default avatarGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      2f303b74