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2011-07-12KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processorsPaul Mackerras
This adds support for running KVM guests in supervisor mode on those PPC970 processors that have a usable hypervisor mode. Unfortunately, Apple G5 machines have supervisor mode disabled (MSR[HV] is forced to 1), but the YDL PowerStation does have a usable hypervisor mode. There are several differences between the PPC970 and POWER7 in how guests are managed. These differences are accommodated using the CPU_FTR_ARCH_201 (PPC970) and CPU_FTR_ARCH_206 (POWER7) CPU feature bits. Notably, on PPC970: * The LPCR, LPID or RMOR registers don't exist, and the functions of those registers are provided by bits in HID4 and one bit in HID0. * External interrupts can be directed to the hypervisor, but unlike POWER7 they are masked by MSR[EE] in non-hypervisor modes and use SRR0/1 not HSRR0/1. * There is no virtual RMA (VRMA) mode; the guest must use an RMO (real mode offset) area. * The TLB entries are not tagged with the LPID, so it is necessary to flush the whole TLB on partition switch. Furthermore, when switching partitions we have to ensure that no other CPU is executing the tlbie or tlbsync instructions in either the old or the new partition, otherwise undefined behaviour can occur. * The PMU has 8 counters (PMC registers) rather than 6. * The DSCR, PURR, SPURR, AMR, AMOR, UAMOR registers don't exist. * The SLB has 64 entries rather than 32. * There is no mediated external interrupt facility, so if we switch to a guest that has a virtual external interrupt pending but the guest has MSR[EE] = 0, we have to arrange to have an interrupt pending for it so that we can get control back once it re-enables interrupts. We do that by sending ourselves an IPI with smp_send_reschedule after hard-disabling interrupts. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12powerpc, KVM: Split HVMODE_206 cpu feature bit into separate HV and ↵Paul Mackerras
architecture bits This replaces the single CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206 bit with two bits, one to indicate that we have a usable hypervisor mode, and another to indicate that the processor conforms to PowerISA version 2.06. We also add another bit to indicate that the processor conforms to ISA version 2.01 and set that for PPC970 and derivatives. Some PPC970 chips (specifically those in Apple machines) have a hypervisor mode in that MSR[HV] is always 1, but the hypervisor mode is not useful in the sense that there is no way to run any code in supervisor mode (HV=0 PR=0). On these processors, the LPES0 and LPES1 bits in HID4 are always 0, and we use that as a way of detecting that hypervisor mode is not useful. Where we have a feature section in assembly code around code that only applies on POWER7 in hypervisor mode, we use a construct like END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206) The definition of END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET is such that the code will be enabled (not overwritten with nops) only if all bits in the provided mask are set. Note that the CPU feature check in __tlbie() only needs to check the ARCH_206 bit, not the HVMODE bit, because __tlbie() can only get called if we are running bare-metal, i.e. in hypervisor mode. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modesPaul Mackerras
This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads per core on POWER7. The host still has to run single-threaded. This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability. The return value of the ioctl querying this capability is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4. To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined. This will put the secondary threads into nap mode. KVM will then wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while they are still offline). To wake the secondary threads, we send them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c. In other words, at this stage we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and we are using icp-native.c to drive it. Since the woken thread will need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys() for use in the low-level KVM book3s code. When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core. The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the number of threads per core in the host. This number is exported to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability. If qemu wishes to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core. We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host. We currently implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads are runnable or blocked. This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU by the other vcpus. When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the vcpu threads. The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu, or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu thread goes from busy in host state to blocked). It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g. because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already running. In that case it can start to run immediately as long as the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest. We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start to execute the guest. It synchronizes with the other threads via the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it is ready to actually enter the guest. Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread number and the vcpu number. Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are runnable. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor modePaul Mackerras
This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors, specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode. Using hypervisor mode means that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode. That means that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged registers itself without trapping to the host. This gives excellent performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor architecture other than the one that the hardware implements. This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses. That means that existing Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run under KVM without modification. In order to communicate the PAPR hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code to include/linux/kvm.h. Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support (i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only do one or the other. This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present. Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious restriction. With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight to the guest. We will never get data or instruction storage or segment interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from the guest. Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry to those exception handlers. We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage, hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist interrupts, so we have to handle those. In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just a limited amount. Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space. We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it. We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers, so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct. The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have to be in the same partition. MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition (partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and exit from the guest. At present we require the host and guest to run in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction. This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA). We require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in order to simplify the low-level memory management. This also means that we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now, since huge pages can't be paged or swapped. This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12KVM: PPC: Split host-state fields out of kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpuPaul Mackerras
There are several fields in struct kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu that temporarily store bits of host state while a guest is running, rather than anything relating to the particular guest or vcpu. This splits them out into a new kvmppc_host_state structure and modifies the definitions in asm-offsets.c to suit. On 32-bit, we have a kvmppc_host_state structure inside the kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu since the assembly code needs to be able to get to them both with one pointer. On 64-bit they are separate fields in the PACA. This means that on 64-bit we don't need to copy the kvmppc_host_state in and out on vcpu load/unload, and in future will mean that the book3s_hv code doesn't need a shadow_vcpu struct in the PACA at all. That does mean that we have to be careful not to rely on any values persisting in the hstate field of the paca across any point where we could block or get preempted. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12powerpc, KVM: Rework KVM checks in first-level interrupt handlersPaul Mackerras
Instead of branching out-of-line with the DO_KVM macro to check if we are in a KVM guest at the time of an interrupt, this moves the KVM check inline in the first-level interrupt handlers. This speeds up the non-KVM case and makes sure that none of the interrupt handlers are missing the check. Because the first-level interrupt handlers are now larger, some things had to be move out of line in exceptions-64s.S. This all necessitated some minor changes to the interrupt entry code in KVM. This also streamlines the book3s_32 KVM test. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-05-19powerpc: Improve scheduling of system call entry instructionsAnton Blanchard
After looking at our system call path, Mary Brown suggested that we should put all mfspr SRR* instructions before any mtspr SRR*. To test this I used a very simple null syscall (actually getppid) testcase at http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c I tested with the following changes against the pseries_defconfig: CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=n CONFIG_AUDIT=n to remove the overhead of virtual CPU accounting and syscall auditing. POWER6: baseline: mean = 757.2 cycles sd = 2.108 modified: mean = 759.1 cycles sd = 2.020 POWER7: baseline: mean = 411.4 cycles sd = 0.138 modified: mean = 404.1 cycles sd = 0.109 So we have 1.77% improvement on POWER7 which looks significant. The POWER6 suggest a 0.25% slowdown, but the results are within 1 standard deviation and may be in the noise. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-04powerpc: Save Come-From Address Register (CFAR) in exception framePaul Mackerras
Recent 64-bit server processors (POWER6 and POWER7) have a "Come-From Address Register" (CFAR), that records the address of the most recent branch or rfid (return from interrupt) instruction for debugging purposes. This saves the value of the CFAR in the exception entry code and stores it in the exception frame. We also make xmon print the CFAR value in its register dump code. Rather than extend the pt_regs struct at this time, we steal the orig_gpr3 field, which is only used for system calls, and use it for the CFAR value for all exceptions/interrupts other than system calls. This means we don't save the CFAR on system calls, which is not a great problem since system calls tend not to happen unexpectedly, and also avoids adding the overhead of reading the CFAR to the system call entry path. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-04powerpc: Save register r9-r13 values accurately on interrupt with bad stackPaul Mackerras
When we take an interrupt or exception from kernel mode and the stack pointer is obviously not a kernel address (i.e. the top bit is 0), we switch to an emergency stack, save register values and panic. However, on 64-bit server machines, we don't actually save the values of r9 - r13 at the time of the interrupt, but rather values corrupted by the exception entry code for r12-r13, and nothing at all for r9-r11. This fixes it by passing a pointer to the register save area in the paca through to the bad_stack code in r3. The register values are saved in one of the paca register save areas (depending on which exception this is). Using the pointer in r3, the bad_stack code now retrieves the saved values of r9 - r13 and stores them in the exception frame on the emergency stack. This also stores the normal exception frame marker ("regshere") in the exception frame. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-27powerpc: Free up some CPU feature bits by moving out MMU-related featuresMatt Evans
Some of the 64bit PPC CPU features are MMU-related, so this patch moves them to MMU_FTR_ bits. All cpu_has_feature()-style tests are moved to mmu_has_feature(), and seven feature bits are freed as a result. Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-20powerpc: Add NAP mode support on Power7 in HV modeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Wakeup comes from the system reset handler with a potential loss of the non-hypervisor CPU state. We save the non-volatile state on the stack and a pointer to it in the PACA, which the system reset handler uses to restore things Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-20powerpc: Always use SPRN_SPRG_HSCRATCH0 when running in HV modePaul Mackerras
This uses feature sections to arrange that we always use HSPRG1 as the scratch register in the interrupt entry code rather than SPRG2 when we're running in hypervisor mode on POWER7. This will ensure that we don't trash the guest's SPRG2 when we are running KVM guests. To simplify the code, we define GET_SCRATCH0() and SET_SCRATCH0() macros like the GET_PACA/SET_PACA macros. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-20powerpc: More work to support HV exceptionsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Rework exception macros a bit to split offset from vector and add some basic support for HDEC, HDSI, HISI and a few more. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-20powerpc: Base support for exceptions using HSRR0/1Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Pass the register type to the prolog, also provides alternate "HV" version of hardware interrupt (0x500) and adjust LPES accordingly We tag those interrupts by setting bit 0x2 in the trap number Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-20powerpc: In HV mode, use HSPRG0 for PACABenjamin Herrenschmidt
When running in Hypervisor mode (arch 2.06 or later), we store the PACA in HSPRG0 instead of SPRG1. The architecture specifies that SPRGs may be lost during a "nap" power management operation (though they aren't currently on POWER7) and this enables use of SPRG1 by KVM guests. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-30powerpc/mm: Move the STAB0 location to 0x8000 to make room in low memoryBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Recent upstream builds with allmodconfig fail due to lack of space between 0x3000 and 0x6000. We have a hard block at 0x7000 but we can spare a page by moving the STAB0 from 0x6000 to 0x8000. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-11-29powerpc: Remove second definition of STACK_FRAME_OVERHEADStephen Rothwell
Since STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD is defined in asm/ptrace.h and that is ASSEMBER safe, we can just include that instead of going via asm-offsets.h. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-10-24Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits) KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED KVM: fix typo in copyright notice KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns() KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn() KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode ...
2010-10-24KVM: PPC: Move KVM trampolines before __end_interruptsAlexander Graf
When using a relocatable kernel we need to make sure that the trampline code and the interrupt handlers are both copied to low memory. The only way to do this reliably is to put them in the copied section. This patch should make relocated kernels work with KVM. KVM-Stable-Tag Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-07Fix IRQ flag handling namingDavid Howells
Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration, it maps: local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable() local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable() local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save() ... and under the other configuration, it maps: raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable() raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable() raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save() ... This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected by users of this facility. Change this to have the arch provide: flags = arch_local_save_flags() flags = arch_local_irq_save() arch_local_irq_restore(flags) arch_local_irq_disable() arch_local_irq_enable() arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags) arch_irqs_disabled() arch_safe_halt() Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide: raw_local_save_flags(flags) raw_local_irq_save(flags) raw_local_irq_restore(flags) raw_local_irq_disable() raw_local_irq_enable() raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags) raw_irqs_disabled() raw_safe_halt() with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide: local_save_flags(flags) local_irq_save(flags) local_irq_restore(flags) local_irq_disable() local_irq_enable() irqs_disabled_flags(flags) irqs_disabled() safe_halt() with tracing included if enabled. The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them having to be macros. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [X86, FRV, MN10300] Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [Tile] Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [Microblaze] Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [ARM] Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [AVR] Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [IA-64] Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [M32R] Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> [M68K/M68KNOMMU] Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [MIPS] Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [PA-RISC] Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [PowerPC] Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390] Acked-by: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> [Score] Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> [SH] Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [Sparc] Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> [Xtensa] Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [Alpha] Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> [H8300] Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS] Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS] Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
2010-06-22powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processorsK.Prasad
Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC 64-bit server (Book III S) processors. This allows access to a given location to be used as an event that can be counted or profiled by the perf_events subsystem. This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can also be used for process debugging via ptrace. When perf_event hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint. [Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to - emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the per-task breakpoints - perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() ] Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-04-07powerpc: Disable interrupts for data breakpoint exceptionsK.Prasad
Data address breakpoint exceptions are currently handled along with page-faults which require interrupts to remain in enabled state. Since exception handling for data breakpoints aren't pre-empt safe, we handle them separately. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-12-09Merge commit 'origin/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Conflicts: include/linux/kvm.h
2009-11-05Make head_64.S aware of KVM real mode codeAlexander Graf
We need to run some KVM trampoline code in real mode. Unfortunately, real mode only covers 8MB on Cell so we need to squeeze ourselves as low as possible. Also, we need to trap interrupts to get us back from guest state to host state without telling Linux about it. This patch adds interrupt traps and includes the KVM code that requires real mode in the real mode parts of Linux. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-28powerpc: perf_event: Cleanup output by adding symbolsAnton Blanchard
Add some dummy symbols for the branches at 0xf00, 0xf20 and 0xf40, otherwise hits end up in trap_0e which is confusing to the user. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-08-20Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-20powerpc: Remove use of a second scratch SPRG in STAB codeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The STAB code used on Power3 and RS/64 uses a second scratch SPRG to save a GPR in order to decide whether to go to do_stab_bolted_* or to handle a normal data access exception. This prevents our scheme of freeing SPRG3 which is user visible for user uses since we cannot use SPRG0 which, on RS/64, seems to be read-only for supervisor mode (like POWER4). This reworks the STAB exception entry to use the PACA as temporary storage instead. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs (v2)Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specific constraints realted to some of them, for example, some have userspace readable aliases, etc.. and the current choice isn't always the best. This patch should not change any code generation, and replaces the usage of SPRN_SPRGn everywhere in the kernel with a named replacement and adds documentation next to the definition of the names as to what those are used for on each processor family. The only parts that still use the original numbers are bits of KVM or suspend/resume code that just blindly needs to save/restore all the SPRGs. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20powerpc: Rename exception.h to exception-64s.hBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The file include/asm/exception.h contains definitions that are specific to exception handling on 64-bit server type processors. This renames the file to exception-64s.h to reflect that fact and avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-18powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt timePaul Mackerras
This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access user memory in a PMU interrupt routine. Such an access can cause various kinds of interrupt: SLB miss, MMU hash table miss, segment table miss, or TLB miss, depending on the processor. This commit only deals with 64-bit classic/server processors, which use an MMU hash table. 32-bit processors are already able to access user memory at interrupt time. Since we don't soft-disable on 32-bit, we avoid the possibility of reentering hash_page or the TLB miss handlers, since they run with interrupts disabled. On 64-bit processors, an SLB miss interrupt on a user address will update the slb_cache and slb_cache_ptr fields in the paca. This is OK except in the case where a PMU interrupt occurs in switch_slb, which also accesses those fields. To prevent this, we hard-disable interrupts in switch_slb. Interrupts are already soft-disabled at this point, and will get hard-enabled when they get soft-enabled later. This also reworks slb_flush_and_rebolt: to avoid hard-disabling twice, and to make sure that it clears the slb_cache_ptr when called from other callers than switch_slb, the existing routine is renamed to __slb_flush_and_rebolt, which is called by switch_slb and the new version of slb_flush_and_rebolt. Similarly, switch_stab (used on POWER3 and RS64 processors) gets a hard_irq_disable() to protect the per-cpu variables used there and in ste_allocate. If a MMU hashtable miss interrupt occurs, normally we would call hash_page to look up the Linux PTE for the address and create a HPTE. However, hash_page is fairly complex and takes some locks, so to avoid the possibility of deadlock, we check the preemption count to see if we are in a (pseudo-)NMI handler, and if so, we don't call hash_page but instead treat it like a bad access that will get reported up through the exception table mechanism. An interrupt whose handler runs even though the interrupt occurred when soft-disabled (such as the PMU interrupt) is considered a pseudo-NMI handler, which should use nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() rather than irq_enter()/irq_exit(). Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-06-09powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.SBenjamin Herrenschmidt
To prepare for future support of Book3E 64-bit PowerPC processors, which use a completely different exception handling, we move that code to a new exceptions-64s.S file. This file is #included from head_64.S due to some of the absolute address requirements which can currently only be fulfilled from within that file. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>