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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-13 16:08:36 -0700
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Notable changes: - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver, as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't (yet?) made it upstream. - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and kernel crashes. - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for vmalloc when using the Radix MMU. - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros. And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing" * tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits) powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state. powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1 powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore() powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM. powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming. powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params. powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name. powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays ...
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+VCPU Dispatch Statistics:
+=========================
+
+For Shared Processor LPARs, the POWER Hypervisor maintains a relatively
+static mapping of the LPAR processors (vcpus) to physical processor
+chips (representing the "home" node) and tries to always dispatch vcpus
+on their associated physical processor chip. However, under certain
+scenarios, vcpus may be dispatched on a different processor chip (away
+from its home node).
+
+/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats can be used to obtain statistics
+related to the vcpu dispatch behavior. Writing '1' to this file enables
+collecting the statistics, while writing '0' disables the statistics.
+By default, the DTLB log for each vcpu is processed 50 times a second so
+as not to miss any entries. This processing frequency can be changed
+through /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats_freq.
+
+The statistics themselves are available by reading the procfs file
+/proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats. Each line in the output corresponds to
+a vcpu as represented by the first field, followed by 8 numbers.
+
+The first number corresponds to:
+1. total vcpu dispatches since the beginning of statistics collection
+
+The next 4 numbers represent vcpu dispatch dispersions:
+2. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on the same processor as last
+ time
+3. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on a different processor core
+ as last time, but within the same chip
+4. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on a different chip
+5. number of times this vcpu was dispatches on a different socket/drawer
+(next numa boundary)
+
+The final 3 numbers represent statistics in relation to the home node of
+the vcpu:
+6. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in its home node (chip)
+7. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in a different node
+8. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in a node further away (numa
+distance)
+
+An example output:
+ $ sudo cat /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats
+ cpu0 6839 4126 2683 30 0 6821 18 0
+ cpu1 2515 1274 1229 12 0 2509 6 0
+ cpu2 2317 1198 1109 10 0 2312 5 0
+ cpu3 2259 1165 1088 6 0 2256 3 0
+ cpu4 2205 1143 1056 6 0 2202 3 0
+ cpu5 2165 1121 1038 6 0 2162 3 0
+ cpu6 2183 1127 1050 6 0 2180 3 0
+ cpu7 2193 1133 1052 8 0 2187 6 0
+ cpu8 2165 1115 1032 18 0 2156 9 0
+ cpu9 2301 1252 1033 16 0 2293 8 0
+ cpu10 2197 1138 1041 18 0 2187 10 0
+ cpu11 2273 1185 1062 26 0 2260 13 0
+ cpu12 2186 1125 1043 18 0 2177 9 0
+ cpu13 2161 1115 1030 16 0 2153 8 0
+ cpu14 2206 1153 1033 20 0 2196 10 0
+ cpu15 2163 1115 1032 16 0 2155 8 0
+
+In the output above, for vcpu0, there have been 6839 dispatches since
+statistics were enabled. 4126 of those dispatches were on the same
+physical cpu as the last time. 2683 were on a different core, but within
+the same chip, while 30 dispatches were on a different chip compared to
+its last dispatch.
+
+Also, out of the total of 6839 dispatches, we see that there have been
+6821 dispatches on the vcpu's home node, while 18 dispatches were
+outside its home node, on a neighbouring chip.