Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
large ppc update, and random fixes."
This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.
* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
KVM: MMU: make use of ->root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
...
As kvm_notify_acked_irq calls kvm_assigned_dev_ack_irq under
rcu_read_lock, we cannot use a mutex in the latter function. Switch to a
spin lock to address this.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
PCI 2.3 allows to generically disable IRQ sources at device level. This
enables us to share legacy IRQs of such devices with other host devices
when passing them to a guest.
The new IRQ sharing feature introduced here is optional, user space has
to request it explicitly. Moreover, user space can inform us about its
view of PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE so that we can avoid unmasking the
interrupt and signaling it if the guest masked it via the virtualized
PCI config space.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If some vcpus are created before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, then
irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic will be inconsistent, leading
to potential NULL pointer dereferences.
Fix by:
- ensuring that no vcpus are installed when KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP is called
- ensuring that a vcpu has an apic if it is installed after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
This is somewhat long winded because vcpu->arch.apic is created without
kvm->lock held.
Based on earlier patch by Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some members of kvm_memory_slot are not used by every architecture.
This patch is the first step to make this difference clear by
introducing kvm_memory_slot::arch; lpage_info is moved into it.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the code and removes the "(void)level;" warning
suppressor.
Note that we can also use this for PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL to treat every
level uniformly later.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This moves __gfn_to_memslot() and search_memslots() from kvm_main.c to
kvm_host.h to reduce the code duplication caused by the need for
non-modular code in arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c to call
gfn_to_memslot() in real mode.
Rather than putting gfn_to_memslot() itself in a header, which would
lead to increased code size, this puts __gfn_to_memslot() in a header.
Then, the non-modular uses of gfn_to_memslot() are changed to call
__gfn_to_memslot() instead. This way there is only one place in the
source code that needs to be changed should the gfn_to_memslot()
implementation need to be modified.
On powerpc, the Book3S HV style of KVM has code that is called from
real mode which needs to call gfn_to_memslot() and thus needs this.
(Module code is allocated in the vmalloc region, which can't be
accessed in real mode.)
With this, we can remove builtin_gfn_to_memslot() from book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This adds an smp_wmb in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() and an
smp_rmb in mmu_notifier_retry() so that mmu_notifier_retry() will give
the correct answer when called without kvm->mmu_lock being held.
PowerPC Book3S HV KVM wants to use a bitlock per guest page rather than
a single global spinlock in order to improve the scalability of updates
to the guest MMU hashed page table, and so needs this.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch exports the s390 SIE hardware control block to userspace
via the mapping of the vcpu file descriptor. In order to do so,
a new arch callback named kvm_arch_vcpu_fault is introduced for all
architectures. It allows to map architecture specific pages.
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>
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>
If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any
other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then
that header really should be including <linux/bug.h> and not just
expecting it to be implicitly present.
We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these
headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have
been causing compile failures/warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Use perf_events to emulate an architectural PMU, version 2.
Based on PMU version 1 emulation by Avi Kivity.
[avi: adjust for cpuid.c]
[jan: fix anonymous field initialization for older gcc]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Drop bsp_vcpu pointer from kvm struct since its only use is incorrect
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The operation of getting dirty log is frequent when framebuffer-based
displays are used(for example, Xwindow), so, we introduce a mapping table
to speed up id_to_memslot()
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sort memslots base on its size and use line search to find it, so that the
larger memslots have better fit
The idea is from Avi
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce id_to_memslot to get memslot by slot id
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce kvm_for_each_memslot to walk all valid memslot
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce update_memslots to update slot which will be update to
kvm->memslots
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Needed for the next patch which uses this number to decide how to write
protect a slot.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The kvm_host struct can include an mmu_notifier struct but mmu_notifier.h is
not included directly.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If simultaneous NMIs happen, we're supposed to queue the second
and next (collapsing them), but currently we sometimes collapse
the second into the first.
Fix by using a counter for pending NMIs instead of a bool; since
the counter limit depends on whether the processor is currently
in an NMI handler, which can only be checked in vcpu context
(via the NMI mask), we add a new KVM_REQ_NMI to request recalculation
of the counter.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The use of printk_ratelimit is discouraged, replace it with
pr*_ratelimited or __ratelimit. While at it, convert remaining
guest-triggerable printks to rate-limited variants.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.
Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.
Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.
Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch changes coalesced mmio to create one mmio device per
zone instead of handling all zones in one device.
Doing so enables us to take advantage of existing locking and prevents
a race condition between coalesced mmio registration/unregistration
and lookups.
Suggested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If the page fault is caused by mmio, the gfn can not be found in memslots, and
'bad_pfn' is returned on gfn_to_hva path, so we can use 'bad_pfn' to identify
the mmio page fault.
And, to clarify the meaning of mmio pfn, we return fault page instead of bad
page when the gfn is not allowd to prefetch
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest
information about how much time was spent running other processes
outside the VM, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
time does not count.
This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
runqueue but not running.
Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
memory area address containing information about steal time
This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
and can be backported independently of the guest portion.
[avi, yongjie: export delayacct_on, to avoid build failures in some configs]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongjie Ren <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce kvm_read_guest_cached() function in addition to write one we
already have.
[ by glauber: export function signature in kvm header ]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits)
PCI: Don't use dmi_name_in_vendors in quirk
PCI: remove unused AER functions
PCI/sysfs: move bus cpuaffinity to class dev_attrs
PCI: add rescan to /sys/.../pci_bus/.../
PCI: update bridge resources to get more big ranges when allocating space (again)
KVM: Use pci_store/load_saved_state() around VM device usage
PCI: Add interfaces to store and load the device saved state
PCI: Track the size of each saved capability data area
PCI/e1000e: Add and use pci_disable_link_state_locked()
x86/PCI: derive pcibios_last_bus from ACPI MCFG
PCI: add latency tolerance reporting enable/disable support
PCI: add OBFF enable/disable support
PCI: add ID-based ordering enable/disable support
PCI hotplug: acpiphp: assume device is in state D0 after powering on a slot.
PCI: Set PCIE maxpayload for card during hotplug insertion
PCI/ACPI: Report _OSC control mask returned on failure to get control
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs
PCI: handle positive error codes
PCI: check pci_vpd_pci22_wait() return
PCI: Use ICH6_GPIO_EN in ich6_lpc_acpi_gpio
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/pci_ids.h: commit a6e5e2be44
moved the intel SMBUS ID definitons to the i2c-i801.c driver.
KVM does not hold any references to rcu protected data when it switches
CPU into a guest mode. In fact switching to a guest mode is very similar
to exiting to userspase from rcu point of view. In addition CPU may stay
in a guest mode for quite a long time (up to one time slice). Lets treat
guest mode as quiescent state, just like we do with user-mode execution.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Store the device saved state so that we can reload the device back
to the original state when it's unassigned. This has the benefit
that the state survives across pci_reset_function() calls via
the PCI sysfs reset interface while the VM is using the device.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch avoids gcc issuing the following warning when KVM_MAX_VCPUS=1:
warning: array subscript is above array bounds
kvm_for_each_vcpu currently checks to see if the index for the vcpu is
valid /after/ loading it. We don't run into problems because the address
is still inside the enclosing struct kvm and we never deference or write
to it, so this isn't a security issue.
The warning occurs when KVM_MAX_VCPUS=1 because the increment portion of
the loop will *always* cause the loop to load an invalid location since
++idx will always be > 0.
This patch moves the load so that the check occurs before the load and
we don't run into the compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since sse instructions can issue 16-byte mmios, we need to support them. We
can't increase the kvm_run mmio buffer size to 16 bytes without breaking
compatibility, so instead we break the large mmios into two smaller 8-byte
ones. Since the bus is 64-bit we aren't breaking any atomicity guarantees.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We can get memslot id from memslot->id directly
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The interrupt injection logic looks something like
if an nmi is pending, and nmi injection allowed
inject nmi
if an nmi is pending
request exit on nmi window
the problem is that "nmi is pending" can be set asynchronously by
the PIT; if it happens to fire between the two if statements, we
will request an nmi window even though nmi injection is allowed. On
SVM, this has disasterous results, since it causes eflags.TF to be
set in random guest code.
The fix is simple; make nmi_pending synchronous using the standard
vcpu->requests mechanism; this ensures the code above is completely
synchronous wrt nmi_pending.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of sleeping in kvm_vcpu_on_spin, which can cause gigantic
slowdowns of certain workloads, we instead use yield_to to get
another VCPU in the same KVM guest to run sooner.
This seems to give a 10-15% speedup in certain workloads.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Keep track of which task is running a KVM vcpu. This helps us
figure out later what task to wake up if we want to boost a
vcpu that got preempted.
Unfortunately there are no guarantees that the same task
always keeps the same vcpu, so we can only track the task
across a single "run" of the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now, we have 'vcpu->mode' to judge whether need to send ipi to other
cpus, this way is very exact, so checking request bit is needless,
then we can drop the spinlock let it's collateral
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently we keep track of only two states: guest mode and host
mode. This patch adds an "exiting guest mode" state that tells
us that an IPI will happen soon, so unless we need to wait for the
IPI, we can avoid it completely.
Also
1: No need atomically to read/write ->mode in vcpu's thread
2: reorganize struct kvm_vcpu to make ->mode and ->requests
in the same cache line explicitly
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Large page information has two elements but one of them, write_count, alone
is accessed by a helper function.
This patch replaces this helper function with more generic one which returns
newly named kvm_lpage_info structure and use it to access the other element
rmap_pde.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Quote from Avi:
| I don't think we need to flush immediately; set a "tlb dirty" bit somewhere
| that is cleareded when we flush the tlb. kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page()
| can consult the bit and force a flush if set.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM compilation fails with the following warning:
include/linux/kvm_host.h: In function 'kvm_irq_routing_update':
include/linux/kvm_host.h:679:2: error: 'struct kvm' has no member named 'irq_routing'
That function is only used and reasonable to have on systems that implement
an in-kernel interrupt chip. PPC doesn't.
Fix by #ifdef'ing it out when no irqchip is available.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Store irq routing table pointer in the irqfd object,
and use that to inject MSI directly without bouncing out to
a kernel thread.
While we touch this structure, rearrange irqfd fields to make fastpath
better packed for better cache utilization.
This also adds some comments about locking rules and rcu usage in code.
Some notes on the design:
- Use pointer into the rt instead of copying an entry,
to make it possible to use rcu, thus side-stepping
locking complexities. We also save some memory this way.
- Old workqueue code is still used for level irqs.
I don't think we DTRT with level anyway, however,
it seems easier to keep the code around as
it has been thought through and debugged, and fix level later than
rip out and re-instate it later.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cosmetic change, but it helps to correlate IRQs with PCI devices.
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This improves the IRQ forwarding for assigned devices: By using the
kernel's threaded IRQ scheme, we can get rid of the latency-prone work
queue and simplify the code in the same run.
Moreover, we no longer have to hold assigned_dev_lock while raising the
guest IRQ, which can be a lenghty operation as we may have to iterate
over all VCPUs. The lock is now only used for synchronizing masking vs.
unmasking of INTx-type IRQs, thus is renames to intx_lock.
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
IA64 support forces us to abstract the allocation of the kvm structure.
But instead of mixing this up with arch-specific initialization and
doing the same on destruction, split both steps. This allows to move
generic destruction calls into generic code.
It also fixes error clean-up on failures of kvm_create_vm for IA64.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently x86's kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() needs to allocate a bitmap by
vmalloc() which will be used in the next logging and this has been causing
bad effect to VGA and live-migration: vmalloc() consumes extra systime,
triggers tlb flush, etc.
This patch resolves this issue by pre-allocating one more bitmap and switching
between two bitmaps during dirty logging.
Performance improvement:
I measured performance for the case of VGA update by trace-cmd.
The result was 1.5 times faster than the original one.
In the case of live migration, the improvement ratio depends on the workload
and the guest memory size. In general, the larger the memory size is the more
benefits we get.
Note:
This does not change other architectures's logic but the allocation size
becomes twice. This will increase the actual memory consumption only when
the new size changes the number of pages allocated by vmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
