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In the interest of minimising the amount of code that is run in "real-mode", don't handle hcalls in real mode in the P9 path. This requires some new handlers for H_CEDE and xics-on-xive to be added before xive is pulled or cede logic is checked. This introduces a change in radix guest behaviour where radix guests that execute 'sc 1' in userspace now get a privilege fault whereas previously the 'sc 1' would be reflected as a syscall interrupt to the guest kernel. That reflection is only required for hash guests that run PR KVM. Background: In POWER8 and earlier processors, it is very expensive to exit from the HV real mode context of a guest hypervisor interrupt, and switch to host virtual mode. On those processors, guest->HV interrupts reach the hypervisor with the MMU off because the MMU is loaded with guest context (LPCR, SDR1, SLB), and the other threads in the sub-core need to be pulled out of the guest too. Then the primary must save off guest state, invalidate SLB and ERAT, and load up host state before the MMU can be enabled to run in host virtual mode (~= regular Linux mode). Hash guests also require a lot of hcalls to run due to the nature of the MMU architecture and paravirtualisation design. The XICS interrupt controller requires hcalls to run. So KVM traditionally tries hard to avoid the full exit, by handling hcalls and other interrupts in real mode as much as possible. By contrast, POWER9 has independent MMU context per-thread, and in radix mode the hypervisor is in host virtual memory mode when the HV interrupt is taken. Radix guests do not require significant hcalls to manage their translations, and xive guests don't need hcalls to handle interrupts. So it's much less important for performance to handle hcalls in real mode on POWER9. One caveat is that the TCE hcalls are performance critical, real-mode variants introduced for POWER8 in order to achieve 10GbE performance. Real mode TCE hcalls were found to be less important on POWER9, which was able to drive 40GBe networking without them (using the virt mode hcalls) but performance is still important. These hcalls will benefit from subsequent guest entry/exit optimisation including possibly a faster "partial exit" that does not entirely switch to host context to handle the hcall. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210528090752.3542186-14-npiggin@gmail.com |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.