From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/6] KVM: fix guest_mode optimization in kvm_make_all_cpus_request()
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:20:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170406202056.18379-2-rkrcmar@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170406202056.18379-1-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
We have kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick() to decide whether the target cpu
needs to be kicked. The previous condition was wrong, because
architectures that don't use vcpu->mode would not get interrupts and
also suboptimal, because it sent IPI in cases where none was necessary.
The situation is even more convoluted. MIPS and POWERPC return 1 from
kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(), but implement vcpu->mode for some reason,
so now they might kick uselessly. This is not a huge problem.
s390, on the other hand, never changed vcpu->mode, so it would always be
OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE before and therefore didn't send IPIs.
I don't see a reason why s390 had kvm_make_all_cpus_request() that did
nothing but set the bit in vcpu->request, so the new behavior seems
better.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
---
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 4 +---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index fd6cd05bb6a7..45b6d9ca5d24 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -2130,9 +2130,7 @@ static void kvm_gmap_notifier(struct gmap *gmap, unsigned long start,
int kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- /* kvm common code refers to this, but never calls it */
- BUG();
- return 0;
+ return 1;
}
static int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_one_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index f489167839c4..2389e9c41cd2 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ bool kvm_make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
smp_mb__after_atomic();
if (cpus != NULL && cpu != -1 && cpu != me &&
- kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode(vcpu) != OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE)
+ kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(vcpu))
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpus);
}
if (unlikely(cpus == NULL))
--
2.12.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-06 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-06 20:20 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: towards maintainable kvm_make_all_cpus_request() Radim Krčmář
2017-04-06 20:20 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] KVM: fix guest_mode optimization in kvm_make_all_cpus_request() James Hogan
2017-04-10 15:59 ` Andrew Jones
2017-04-11 10:43 ` James Hogan
2017-04-11 5:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-11 9:37 ` James Hogan
2017-04-11 19:31 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-11 19:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-11 20:45 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-12 0:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-07 10:47 ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-04-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: use kvm_{test,clear}_request instead of {test,clear}_bit Radim Krčmář
2017-04-07 10:55 ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-04-07 12:24 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-07 14:05 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: use kvm_make_request instead of set_bit Radim Krčmář
2017-04-07 8:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-04-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: remove #ifndef CONFIG_S390 around kvm_vcpu_wake_up Radim Krčmář
2017-04-07 11:01 ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-04-06 20:20 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] KVM: mark requests that do not need a wakeup Radim Krčmář
2017-04-07 8:27 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-04-07 12:29 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: perform a wake_up in kvm_make_all_cpus_request Radim Krčmář
2017-04-10 11:14 ` Andrew Jones
2017-04-11 5:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-11 12:04 ` Andrew Jones
2017-04-11 5:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-11 8:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
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