History log of /linux-master/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig
Revision Date Author Comments
# f48212ee 04-Jan-2024 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

treewide: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM

It has no users anymore.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# caadf876 04-Jan-2024 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON

CONFIG_HAVE_KVM is currently used by some architectures to either
enabled the KVM config proper, or to enable host-side code that is
not part of the KVM module. However, CONFIG_KVM's "select" statement
in virt/kvm/Kconfig corresponds to a third meaning, namely to
enable common Kconfigs required by all architectures that support
KVM.

These three meanings can be replaced respectively by an
architecture-specific Kconfig, by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM), or by
a new Kconfig symbol that is in turn selected by the
architecture-specific "config KVM".

Start by introducing such a new Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_KVM_COMMON.
Unlike CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, it is selected by CONFIG_KVM, not by
architecture code, and it brings in all dependencies of common
KVM code. In particular, INTERVAL_TREE was missing in loongarch
and riscv, so that is another thing that is fixed.

Fixes: 8132d887a702 ("KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD", 2023-12-08)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# c5b31cc2 17-Oct-2023 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD

All platforms with a kernel irqchip have support for irqfd. Unify the
two configuration items so that userspace can expect to use irqfd to
inject interrupts into the irqchip.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 8132d887 17-Oct-2023 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD

virt/kvm/eventfd.c is compiled unconditionally, meaning that the ioeventfds
member of struct kvm is accessed unconditionally. CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
therefore must be defined for KVM common code to compile successfully,
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 79cf833b 24-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

kvm: Remove "select SRCU"

Now that the SRCU Kconfig option is unconditionally selected, there is
no longer any point in selecting it. Therefore, remove the "select SRCU"
Kconfig statements from the various KVM Kconfig files.

Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> (x86)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> (arm64)
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> (riscv)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> (s390)
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>


# ca2fd060 28-Jun-2022 Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: pv: add mmu_notifier

Add an mmu_notifier for protected VMs. The callback function is
triggered when the mm is torn down, and will attempt to convert all
protected vCPUs to non-protected. This allows the mm teardown to use
the destroy page UVC instead of export.

Also make KVM select CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER, needed to use mmu_notifiers.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220628135619.32410-10-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Message-Id: <20220628135619.32410-10-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
[frankja@linux.ibm.com: Conflict resolution for mmu_notifier.h include
and struct kvm_s390_pv]
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>


# ed922739 06-Dec-2021 Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>

KVM: Use interval tree to do fast hva lookup in memslots

The current memslots implementation only allows quick binary search by gfn,
quick lookup by hva is not possible - the implementation has to do a linear
scan of the whole memslots array, even though the operation being performed
might apply just to a single memslot.

This significantly hurts performance of per-hva operations with higher
memslot counts.

Since hva ranges can overlap between memslots an interval tree is needed
for tracking them.

[sean: handle interval tree updates in kvm_replace_memslot()]
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <d66b9974becaa9839be9c4e1a5de97b177b4ac20.1638817640.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>


# a7f7f624 13-Jun-2020 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>


# 20c384f1 26-Mar-2020 Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig

Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.

To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.

While at it, also squash Kconfig.vringh into vhost Kconfig file. This
avoids the trick of conditional inclusion from VOP or CAIF. Then it
will be easier to introduce new vringh users and common dependency for
both vringh and vhost.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-2-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>


# 8b905d28 05-Mar-2019 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: provide kvm_arch_no_poll function

We do track the current steal time of the host CPUs. Let us use
this value to disable halt polling if the steal time goes beyond
a configured value.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>


# 5dd50aae 05-Nov-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Make anon_inodes unconditional

Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code and pidfd code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message to mention pidfds]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>


# dadd2299 05-Nov-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Make anon_inodes unconditional

Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8636a1f9 11-Dec-2018 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

treewide: surround Kconfig file paths with double quotes

The Kconfig lexer supports special characters such as '.' and '/' in
the parameter context. In my understanding, the reason is just to
support bare file paths in the source statement.

I do not see a good reason to complicate Kconfig for the room of
ambiguity.

The majority of code already surrounds file paths with double quotes,
and it makes sense since file paths are constant string literals.

Make it treewide consistent now.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 5cb0944c 12-Dec-2017 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

KVM: introduce kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl

After the vcpu_load/vcpu_put pushdown, the handling of asynchronous VCPU
ioctl is already much clearer in that it is obvious that they bypass
vcpu_load and vcpu_put.

However, it is still not perfect in that the different state of the VCPU
mutex is still hidden in the caller. Separate those ioctls into a new
function kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl that returns -ENOIOCTLCMD for more
"traditional" synchronous ioctls.

Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

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>


# 3491caf2 12-May-2016 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll

Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on
s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs
would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for
transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough.
This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests.
This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they
should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls.

For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but
known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating
interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered
by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the
woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll.
This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or
expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as
not sucessful. As KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor,
we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though.

This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte
transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP
while still providing a proper speedup.

This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks
wakeups that are considered not good for polling.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version)
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
[Rename config symbol. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 14b0b4ac 19-Jan-2016 Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: Enable the KVM-VFIO device

The KVM-VFIO device is used by the QEMU VFIO device. It is used to
record the list of in-use VFIO groups so that KVM can manipulate
them.
While we don't need this on s390 currently, let's try to be like
everyone else.

Signed-off-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>


# 83fe27ea 05-Dec-2014 Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU

SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.

The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.

If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.

text data bss dec hex filename
2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o

Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from

text data bss dec hex filename
831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after

so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]


# 297e2105 30-Jun-2014 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

KVM: Give IRQFD its own separate enabling Kconfig option

Currently, the IRQFD code is conditional on CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING.
So that we can have the IRQFD code compiled in without having the
IRQ routing code, this creates a new CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD, makes
the IRQFD code conditional on it instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING,
and makes all the platforms that currently select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
also select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 84223598 15-Jul-2013 Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: irq routing for adapter interrupts.

Introduce a new interrupt class for s390 adapter interrupts and enable
irqfds for s390.

This is depending on a new s390 specific vm capability, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP,
that needs to be enabled by userspace.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>


# 3c038e6b 07-Oct-2013 Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: async_pf: Async page fault support on s390

This patch enables async page faults for s390 kvm guests.
It provides the userspace API to enable and disable_wait this feature.
The disable_wait will enforce that the feature is off by waiting on it.
Also it includes the diagnose code, called by the guest to enable async page faults.

The async page faults will use an already existing guest interface for this
purpose, as described in "CP Programming Services (SC24-6084)".

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>


# 10ccaa1e 27-Feb-2013 Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: Wire up ioeventfd.

Enable ioeventfd support on s390 and hook up diagnose 500 virtio-ccw
notifications.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>


# b186ba6e 02-Oct-2012 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

arch/s390/kvm: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.

CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
CC: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>


# 843c48fd 27-Aug-2012 Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>

s390/kconfig: split the s390 base menu

Split the base menu into more descriptive categories like processor,
memory, etc. and move virtualization related entries to the
Virtualization menu.
Also select KEXEC unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>


# f2a74347 18-Jul-2012 Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

KVM: Add config to support ple or cpu relax optimzation

Suggested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# e08b9637 04-Jan-2012 Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: add parameter for KVM_CREATE_VM

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>


# e7254219 05-Jul-2011 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>

virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too

virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization,
and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch
Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected.

Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,
we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization
scope too.

Moreover, some architectures might use virtio for both virtualization
and inter-processor communications, so directly sourcing virtio
might yield unexpected results due to conflicting selections.

The simple solution offered by this patch is to always source virtio's
Kconfig in drivers/Kconfig, and remove it from the appropriate arch
Kconfigs. Additionally, a virtio menu entry has been added so virtio
drivers don't show up in the general drivers menu.

This way anyone can use virtio, though it's arguably less accessible
(and neat!) for virtualization users now.

Note: some architectures (mips and sh) seem to have a VIRTUALIZATION
menu merely for sourcing virtio's Kconfig, so that menu is removed too.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


# 6f9a3c33 04-Jan-2011 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

[S390] cleanup s390 Kconfig

Make use of def_bool and def_tristate where possible and add sensible
defaults to the config symbols where applicable. This shortens the
defconfig file by another ~40 lines.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>


# 2ffbb3f6 26-May-2010 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

[S390] spp: remove KVM_AWARE_CMF config option

This config option enables or disables three single instructions
which aren't expensive. This is too fine grained.
Besided that everybody who uses kvm would enable it anyway in order
to debug performance problems.
Just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>


# cd3b70f5 17-May-2010 Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>

[S390] virtualization aware cpu measurement

Use the SPP instruction to set a tag on entry to / exit of the virtual
machine context. This allows the cpu measurement facility to distinguish
the samples from the host and the different guests.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>


# 3a4d5c94 13-Jan-2010 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# b11b5334 06-Dec-2009 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

[S390] Improve address space mode selection.

Introduce user_mode to replace the two variables switch_amode and
s390_noexec. There are three valid combinations of the old values:
1) switch_amode == 0 && s390_noexec == 0
2) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 0
3) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 1
They get replaced by
1) user_mode == HOME_SPACE_MODE
2) user_mode == PRIMARY_SPACE_MODE
3) user_mode == SECONDARY_SPACE_MODE
The new kernel parameter user_mode=[primary,secondary,home] lets
you choose the address space mode the user space processes should
use. In addition the CONFIG_S390_SWITCH_AMODE config option
is removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>


# 2023a29c 18-Jun-2009 Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

KVM: remove old KVMTRACE support code

Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# 0ba12d10 21-May-2009 Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

KVM: Move common KVM Kconfig items to new file virt/kvm/Kconfig

Reduce Kconfig code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# 5d9b8e30 04-Jan-2009 Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

KVM: Add CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP

Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't. Add a Kconfig item to
make selecting between the two models easier.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# 0eaeafa1 07-May-2008 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

[S390] s390-kvm: leave sie context on work. Removes preemption requirement

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it
was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used
preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called
vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host
intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered
immediately.

This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the
SIE instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the
instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm
code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting
for these types of intercept as well.

The advantages:
- works with and without preemption
- signals are delivered immediately
- much better host latencies without preemption

Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>


# 7732a8d1 10-Apr-2008 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

KVM: s390: Stub out kvmtrace

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>


# 77b455f1 25-Mar-2008 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

KVM: s390: add kvm to kconfig on s390

This patch adds the virtualization submenu and the kvm option to the kernel
config. It also defines HAVE_KVM for 64bit kernels.

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>