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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2015-10-21 16:03:14 +1100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2015-10-21 20:50:30 +1100
commit23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33 (patch)
tree626a3bd09fb97a4cd11a64a78a0b1fa5c649cef7 /arch/powerpc/kvm
parentabb39bc792aa8e9143e78a39ec13d7de1391f4b4 (diff)
downloadlinux-23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33.tar.bz2
powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional memory corruption. In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to by r0. The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the buffer. The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical core from the one where the write-out was initiated. These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the function (since the measured performance improvement from using the feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is the best option. Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kvm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c55
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 228049786888..9c26c5a96ea2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
#include <asm/reg.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
-#include <asm/cache.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -75,12 +74,6 @@
static DECLARE_BITMAP(default_enabled_hcalls, MAX_HCALL_OPCODE/4 + 1);
-#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES)
-#define MPP_BUFFER_ORDER 0
-#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES)
-#define MPP_BUFFER_ORDER 3
-#endif
-
static int dynamic_mt_modes = 6;
module_param(dynamic_mt_modes, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(dynamic_mt_modes, "Set of allowed dynamic micro-threading modes: 0 (= none), 2, 4, or 6 (= 2 or 4)");
@@ -1455,13 +1448,6 @@ static struct kvmppc_vcore *kvmppc_vcore_create(struct kvm *kvm, int core)
vcore->kvm = kvm;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcore->preempt_list);
- vcore->mpp_buffer_is_valid = false;
-
- if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S))
- vcore->mpp_buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(
- GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO,
- MPP_BUFFER_ORDER);
-
return vcore;
}
@@ -1894,33 +1880,6 @@ static int on_primary_thread(void)
return 1;
}
-static void kvmppc_start_saving_l2_cache(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
-{
- phys_addr_t phy_addr, mpp_addr;
-
- phy_addr = (phys_addr_t)virt_to_phys(vc->mpp_buffer);
- mpp_addr = phy_addr & PPC_MPPE_ADDRESS_MASK;
-
- mtspr(SPRN_MPPR, mpp_addr | PPC_MPPR_FETCH_ABORT);
- logmpp(mpp_addr | PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_L2);
-
- vc->mpp_buffer_is_valid = true;
-}
-
-static void kvmppc_start_restoring_l2_cache(const struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
-{
- phys_addr_t phy_addr, mpp_addr;
-
- phy_addr = virt_to_phys(vc->mpp_buffer);
- mpp_addr = phy_addr & PPC_MPPE_ADDRESS_MASK;
-
- /* We must abort any in-progress save operations to ensure
- * the table is valid so that prefetch engine knows when to
- * stop prefetching. */
- logmpp(mpp_addr | PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_ABORT);
- mtspr(SPRN_MPPR, mpp_addr | PPC_MPPR_FETCH_WHOLE_TABLE);
-}
-
/*
* A list of virtual cores for each physical CPU.
* These are vcores that could run but their runner VCPU tasks are
@@ -2471,14 +2430,8 @@ static noinline void kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&vc->kvm->srcu);
- if (vc->mpp_buffer_is_valid)
- kvmppc_start_restoring_l2_cache(vc);
-
__kvmppc_vcore_entry();
- if (vc->mpp_buffer)
- kvmppc_start_saving_l2_cache(vc);
-
srcu_read_unlock(&vc->kvm->srcu, srcu_idx);
spin_lock(&vc->lock);
@@ -3073,14 +3026,8 @@ static void kvmppc_free_vcores(struct kvm *kvm)
{
long int i;
- for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCORES; ++i) {
- if (kvm->arch.vcores[i] && kvm->arch.vcores[i]->mpp_buffer) {
- struct kvmppc_vcore *vc = kvm->arch.vcores[i];
- free_pages((unsigned long)vc->mpp_buffer,
- MPP_BUFFER_ORDER);
- }
+ for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCORES; ++i)
kfree(kvm->arch.vcores[i]);
- }
kvm->arch.online_vcores = 0;
}