On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 15:05 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 04:10 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > On 08.11.2013, at 03:44, Liu Ping Fan <kernelf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > syscall is a very common behavior inside guest, and this patch
> > > optimizes the path for the emulation of BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_SYSCALL,
> > > so hypervisor can return to guest without heavy exit, i.e, no need
> > > to swap TLB, HTAB,.. etc
> >
> > The syscall exit you touch here only happens when you do an sc > 0
> > with MSR_PR set inside the guest. The only case you realistically see
> > this is when you run PR KVM inside of an HV KVM guest.
> >
> > I don't think we should optimize for that case. Instead, we should
> > rather try to not bounce to the 1st hypervisor in the first place in
> > that scenario :).
>
> Well, so unfortunately openstack CI uses PR inside HV pretty
> heavily .... it *might* be worthwhile optimizing that path if the patch
> is simple enough... I'd make that Paul's call.
Note that this is a statement of value for the idea ... not the
implementation ;-) From a quick look with Paulus, the patch is quite
broken. I'll let Paul comment in details.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <pingf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > > Compiled, but lack of bare metal, I have not tested it yet.
> > > ---
> > > arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 6 ------
> > > arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> > > index 62a2b5a..73dc852 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> > > @@ -628,12 +628,6 @@ static int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run
> > *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > > /* hcall - punt to userspace */
> > > int i;
> > >
> > > - if (vcpu->arch.shregs.msr & MSR_PR) {
> > > - /* sc 1 from userspace - reflect to guest syscall */
> > > - kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu,
> > > BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_SYSCALL);
> > > - r = RESUME_GUEST;
> > > - break;
> > > - }
> > > run->papr_hcall.nr = kvmppc_get_gpr(vcpu, 3);
> > > for (i = 0; i < 9; ++i)
> > > run->papr_hcall.args[i] = kvmppc_get_gpr(vcpu, 4 + i);
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > > index c71103b..9f626c3 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > > @@ -1388,7 +1388,8 @@ kvmppc_hisi:
> > > hcall_try_real_mode:
> > > ld r3,VCPU_GPR(R3)(r9)
> > > andi. r0,r11,MSR_PR
> > > - bne guest_exit_cont
> > > + /* sc 1 from userspace - reflect to guest syscall */
> > > + bne sc_0_fast_return
> > > clrrdi r3,r3,2
> > > cmpldi r3,hcall_real_table_end - hcall_real_table
> > > bge guest_exit_cont
> > > @@ -1409,6 +1410,16 @@ hcall_try_real_mode:
> > > ld r11,VCPU_MSR(r4)
> > > b fast_guest_return
> > >
> > > +sc_0_fast_return:
> > > + ld r10,VCPU_PC(r9)
> > > + ld r11,VCPU_MSR(r9)
> > > + mtspr SPRN_SRR0,r10
> > > + mtspr SPRN_SRR1,r11
> > > + li r10, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_SYSCALL
> > > + LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r3,0xffffffff87a0ffff) /* zero 33:36,42:47 */
> > > + and r11,r11,r3
> > > + b fast_guest_return
> > > +
> > > /* We've attempted a real mode hcall, but it's punted it back
> > > * to userspace. We need to restore some clobbered volatiles
> > > * before resuming the pass-it-to-qemu path */
> > > --
> > > 1.8.1.4
> > >
>
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