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  1. 27 Dec, 2011 7 commits
    • Xiao Guangrong's avatar
      KVM: x86: retry non-page-table writing instructions · 1cb3f3ae
      Xiao Guangrong authored 
      If the emulation is caused by #PF and it is non-page_table writing instruction,
it means the VM-EXIT is caused by shadow page protected, we can zap the shadow
page and retry this instruction directly

The idea is from Avi
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      1cb3f3ae
    • Xiao Guangrong's avatar
      KVM: x86: tag the instructions which are used to write page table · d5ae7ce8
      Xiao Guangrong authored 
      The idea is from Avi:
| tag instructions that are typically used to modify the page tables, and
| drop shadow if any other instruction is used.
| The list would include, I'd guess, and, or, bts, btc, mov, xchg, cmpxchg,
| and cmpxchg8b.

This patch is used to tag the instructions and in the later path, shadow page
is dropped if it is written by other instructions
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      d5ae7ce8
    • Xiao Guangrong's avatar
      KVM: MMU: avoid pte_list_desc running out in kvm_mmu_pte_write · f759e2b4
      Xiao Guangrong authored 
      kvm_mmu_pte_write is unsafe since we need to alloc pte_list_desc in the
function when spte is prefetched, unfortunately, we can not know how many
spte need to be prefetched on this path, that means we can use out of the
free  pte_list_desc object in the cache, and BUG_ON() is triggered, also some
path does not fill the cache, such as INS instruction emulated that does not
trigger page fault
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      f759e2b4
    • Nadav Har'El's avatar
      KVM: nVMX: Fix warning-causing idt-vectoring-info behavior · 51cfe38e
      Nadav Har'El authored 
      When L0 wishes to inject an interrupt while L2 is running, it emulates an exit
to L1 with EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT. This was explained in the original
nVMX patch 23, titled "Correct handling of interrupt injection".

Unfortunately, it is possible (though rare) that at this point there is valid
idt_vectoring_info in vmcs02. For example, L1 injected some interrupt to L2,
and when L2 tried to run this interrupt's handler, it got a page fault - so
it returns the original interrupt vector in idt_vectoring_info. The problem
is that if this is the case, we cannot exit to L1 with EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT
like we wished to, because the VMX spec guarantees that idt_vectoring_info
and exit_reason_external_interrupt can never happen together. This is not
just specified in the spec - a KVM L1 actually prints a kernel warning
"unexpected, valid vectoring info" if we violate this guarantee, and some
users noticed these warnings in L1's logs.

In order to better emulate a processor, which would never return the external
interrupt and the idt-vectoring-info together, we need to separate the two
injection steps: First, complete L1's injection into L2 (i.e., enter L2,
injecting to it the idt-vectoring-info); Second, after entry into L2 succeeds
and it exits back to L0, exit to L1 with the EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT.
Most of this is already in the code - the only change we need is to remain
in L2 (and not exit to L1) in this case.

Note that the previous patch ensures (by using KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT) that
although we do enter L2 first, it will exit immediately after processing its
injection, allowing us to promptly inject to L1.

Note how we test vmcs12->idt_vectoring_info_field; This isn't really the
vmcs12 value (we haven't exited to L1 yet, so vmcs12 hasn't been updated),
but rather the place we save, at the end of vmx_vcpu_run, the vmcs02 value
of this field. This was explained in patch 25 ("Correct handling of idt
vectoring info") of the original nVMX patch series.

Thanks to Dave Allan and to Federico Simoncelli for reporting this bug,
to Abel Gordon for helping me figure out the solution, and to Avi Kivity
for helping to improve it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      51cfe38e
    • Nadav Har'El's avatar
      KVM: nVMX: Add KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT · d6185f20
      Nadav Har'El authored 
      This patch adds a new vcpu->requests bit, KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT.
This bit requests that when next entering the guest, we should run it only
for as little as possible, and exit again.

We use this new option in nested VMX: When L1 launches L2, but L0 wishes L1
to continue running so it can inject an event to it, we unfortunately cannot
just pretend to have run L2 for a little while - We must really launch L2,
otherwise certain one-off vmcs12 parameters (namely, L1 injection into L2)
will be lost. So the existing code runs L2 in this case.
But L2 could potentially run for a long time until it exits, and the
injection into L1 will be delayed. The new KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT allows us
to request that L2 will be entered, as necessary, but will exit as soon as
possible after entry.

Our implementation of this request uses smp_send_reschedule() to send a
self-IPI, with interrupts disabled. The interrupts remain disabled until the
guest is entered, and then, after the entry is complete (often including
processing an injection and jumping to the relevant handler), the physical
interrupt is noticed and causes an exit.

On recent Intel processors, we could have achieved the same goal by using
MTF instead of a self-IPI. Another technique worth considering in the future
is to use VM_EXIT_ACK_INTR_ON_EXIT and a highest-priority vector IPI - to
slightly improve performance by avoiding the useless interrupt handler
which ends up being called when smp_send_reschedule() is used.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      d6185f20
    • Keith Packard's avatar
      drm/i915: Disable RC6 on Sandybridge by default · 371de6e4
      Keith Packard authored 
      RC6 fails again.

> I found my system freeze mostly during starting up X and KDE. Sometimes it
> works for some minutes, sometimes it freezes immediatly. When the freeze
> happens, everything is dead (even the reset button does not work, I need to
> power cycle).

> I disabled RC6, and my system runs wonderfully.

> The system is a Z68 Pro board with Sandybridge i5-2500K processor, 8
> GB of RAM and UEFI firmware.
Reported-by: default avatarKai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      371de6e4
    • Keith Packard's avatar
      drm/i915: Disable semaphores by default on SNB · ebbd857e
      Keith Packard authored 
      Semaphores still cause problems on some machines:

> From Udo Steinberg:
>
> With Linux-3.2-rc6 I'm frequently seeing GPU hangs when large amounts of
> text scroll in an xterm, such as when extracting a tar archive. Such as this
> one (note the timestamps):
>
>  I can reproduce it fairly easily with something
>  as simple as:
>
>	  while true; do dmesg; done

This patch turns them off on SNB while leaving them on for IVB.
Reported-by: default avatarUdo Steinberg <udo@hypervisor.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni@dodonov.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ebbd857e
  3. 26 Dec, 2011 8 commits
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  11. 22 Dec, 2011 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md · ad1fca20
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/bitmap: It is OK to clear bits during recovery.
  md: don't give up looking for spares on first failure-to-add
  md/raid5: ensure correct assessment of drives during degraded reshape.
  md/linear: fix hot-add of devices to linear arrays.
      ad1fca20
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md/bitmap: It is OK to clear bits during recovery. · 961902c0
      NeilBrown authored 
      commit d0a4bb49 introduced a
regression which is annoying but fairly harmless.

When writing to an array that is undergoing recovery (a spare
in being integrated into the array), writing to the array will
set bits in the bitmap, but they will not be cleared when the
write completes.

For bits covering areas that have not been recovered yet this is not a
problem as the recovery will clear the bits.  However bits set in
already-recovered region will stay set and never be cleared.
This doesn't risk data integrity.  The only negatives are:
 - next time there is a crash, more resyncing than necessary will
   be done.
 - the bitmap doesn't look clean, which is confusing.

While an array is recovering we don't want to update the
'events_cleared' setting in the bitmap but we do still want to clear
bits that have very recently been set - providing they were written to
the recovering device.

So split those two needs - which previously both depended on 'success'
and always clear the bit of the write went to all devices.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      961902c0
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: don't give up looking for spares on first failure-to-add · 60fc1370
      NeilBrown authored 
      Before performing a recovery we try to remove any spares that
might not be working, then add any that might have become relevant.

Currently we abort on the first spare that cannot be added.
This is a false optimisation.
It is conceivable that - depending on rules in the personality - a
subsequent spare might be accepted.
Also the loop does other things like count the available spares and
reset the 'recovery_offset' value.

If we abort early these might not happen properly.

So remove the early abort.

In particular if you have an array what is undergoing recovery and
which has extra spares, then the recovery may not restart after as
reboot as the could of 'spares' might end up as zero.
Reported-by: default avatarAnssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      60fc1370
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