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authorStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>2015-11-23 10:33:49 +0000
committerDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>2015-12-21 14:40:54 +0000
commitdfd57bc3a5664b98eb7b477e8d7bb2591a5198cf (patch)
treee44701938f29156839179744ab078b078f11d517
parent02c2433b3aa6b57313c261c9811bbbe49528101c (diff)
downloadlinux-dfd57bc3a5664b98eb7b477e8d7bb2591a5198cf.tar.bz2
arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on ARM64. Necessary duplication of paravirt.h and paravirt.c with ARM. The only paravirt interface supported is pv_time_ops.steal_clock, so no runtime pvops patching needed. This allows us to make use of steal_account_process_tick for stolen ticks accounting. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/Kconfig20
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h20
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c25
4 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 871f21783866..987ae39cc471 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -556,6 +556,25 @@ config SECCOMP
and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
defined by each seccomp mode.
+config PARAVIRT
+ bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
+ help
+ This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
+ under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
+ over full virtualization.
+
+config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+ bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
+ select PARAVIRT
+ default n
+ help
+ Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time
+ accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with
+ the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for
+ that, there can be a small performance impact.
+
+ If in doubt, say N here.
+
config XEN_DOM0
def_bool y
depends on XEN
@@ -564,6 +583,7 @@ config XEN
bool "Xen guest support on ARM64"
depends on ARM64 && OF
select SWIOTLB_XEN
+ select PARAVIRT
help
Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM64.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fd5f42886251
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_ARM64_PARAVIRT_H
+#define _ASM_ARM64_PARAVIRT_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+struct static_key;
+extern struct static_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
+extern struct static_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
+
+struct pv_time_ops {
+ unsigned long long (*steal_clock)(int cpu);
+};
+extern struct pv_time_ops pv_time_ops;
+
+static inline u64 paravirt_steal_clock(int cpu)
+{
+ return pv_time_ops.steal_clock(cpu);
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 474691f8b13a..ca9fbe1d7bd9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_EFI) += efi.o efi-entry.stub.o
arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_PCI) += pci.o
arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_ARMV8_DEPRECATED) += armv8_deprecated.o
arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += acpi.o
+arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_PARAVIRT) += paravirt.o
obj-y += $(arm64-obj-y) vdso/
obj-m += $(arm64-obj-m)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..53f371ed4568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Citrix Systems
+ *
+ * Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
+ */
+
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/paravirt.h>
+
+struct static_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
+struct static_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
+
+struct pv_time_ops pv_time_ops;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pv_time_ops);