Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753393Ab3GHBeQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jul 2013 21:34:16 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:40352 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753326Ab3GHBeO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jul 2013 21:34:14 -0400 Message-ID: <1373247199.4446.29.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] powerpc: Prepare to support kernel handling of IOMMU map/unmap From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Alexey Kardashevskiy Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Gibson , Paul Mackerras , Alexander Graf , Alex Williamson , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Yasuaki Ishimatsu , Christoffer Dall , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:33:19 +1000 In-Reply-To: <1373123227-22969-5-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> References: <1373123227-22969-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <1373123227-22969-5-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6424 Lines: 174 On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 01:07 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > The current VFIO-on-POWER implementation supports only user mode > driven mapping, i.e. QEMU is sending requests to map/unmap pages. > However this approach is really slow, so we want to move that to KVM. > Since H_PUT_TCE can be extremely performance sensitive (especially with > network adapters where each packet needs to be mapped/unmapped) we chose > to implement that as a "fast" hypercall directly in "real > mode" (processor still in the guest context but MMU off). > > To be able to do that, we need to provide some facilities to > access the struct page count within that real mode environment as things > like the sparsemem vmemmap mappings aren't accessible. > > This adds an API to increment/decrement page counter as > get_user_pages API used for user mode mapping does not work > in the real mode. > > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and CONFIG_FLATMEM are supported. This patch will need an ack from "mm" people to make sure they are ok with our approach and ack the change to the generic header. (Added linux-mm). Cheers, Ben. > Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras > Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy > > --- > > Changes: > 2013/06/27: > * realmode_get_page() fixed to use get_page_unless_zero(). If failed, > the call will be passed from real to virtual mode and safely handled. > * added comment to PageCompound() in include/linux/page-flags.h. > > 2013/05/20: > * PageTail() is replaced by PageCompound() in order to have the same checks > for whether the page is huge in realmode_get_page() and realmode_put_page() > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy > --- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 4 ++ > arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/linux/page-flags.h | 4 +- > 3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > index e3d55f6f..7b46e5f 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > @@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ static inline pte_t *find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(pgd_t *pgdir, unsigned long ea, > } > #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */ > > +struct page *realmode_pfn_to_page(unsigned long pfn); > +int realmode_get_page(struct page *page); > +int realmode_put_page(struct page *page); > + > #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ > > #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_PGTABLE_PPC64_H_ */ > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > index a90b9c4..7031be3 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > @@ -297,5 +297,81 @@ void vmemmap_free(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) > { > } > > -#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */ > +/* > + * We do not have access to the sparsemem vmemmap, so we fallback to > + * walking the list of sparsemem blocks which we already maintain for > + * the sake of crashdump. In the long run, we might want to maintain > + * a tree if performance of that linear walk becomes a problem. > + * > + * Any of realmode_XXXX functions can fail due to: > + * 1) As real sparsemem blocks do not lay in RAM continously (they > + * are in virtual address space which is not available in the real mode), > + * the requested page struct can be split between blocks so get_page/put_page > + * may fail. > + * 2) When huge pages are used, the get_page/put_page API will fail > + * in real mode as the linked addresses in the page struct are virtual > + * too. > + * When 1) or 2) takes place, the API returns an error code to cause > + * an exit to kernel virtual mode where the operation will be completed. > + */ > +struct page *realmode_pfn_to_page(unsigned long pfn) > +{ > + struct vmemmap_backing *vmem_back; > + struct page *page; > + unsigned long page_size = 1 << mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmemmap_psize].shift; > + unsigned long pg_va = (unsigned long) pfn_to_page(pfn); > > + for (vmem_back = vmemmap_list; vmem_back; vmem_back = vmem_back->list) { > + if (pg_va < vmem_back->virt_addr) > + continue; > + > + /* Check that page struct is not split between real pages */ > + if ((pg_va + sizeof(struct page)) > > + (vmem_back->virt_addr + page_size)) > + return NULL; > + > + page = (struct page *) (vmem_back->phys + pg_va - > + vmem_back->virt_addr); > + return page; > + } > + > + return NULL; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(realmode_pfn_to_page); > + > +#elif defined(CONFIG_FLATMEM) > + > +struct page *realmode_pfn_to_page(unsigned long pfn) > +{ > + struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn); > + return page; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(realmode_pfn_to_page); > + > +#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP/CONFIG_FLATMEM */ > + > +#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) || defined(CONFIG_FLATMEM) > +int realmode_get_page(struct page *page) > +{ > + if (PageCompound(page)) > + return -EAGAIN; > + > + if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) > + return -EAGAIN; > + > + return 0; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(realmode_get_page); > + > +int realmode_put_page(struct page *page) > +{ > + if (PageCompound(page)) > + return -EAGAIN; > + > + if (!atomic_add_unless(&page->_count, -1, 1)) > + return -EAGAIN; > + > + return 0; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(realmode_put_page); > +#endif > diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h > index 6d53675..98ada58 100644 > --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h > +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h > @@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ static inline void set_page_writeback(struct page *page) > * System with lots of page flags available. This allows separate > * flags for PageHead() and PageTail() checks of compound pages so that bit > * tests can be used in performance sensitive paths. PageCompound is > - * generally not used in hot code paths. > + * generally not used in hot code paths except arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > + * and arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c which use it to detect huge pages > + * and avoid handling those in real mode. > */ > __PAGEFLAG(Head, head) CLEARPAGEFLAG(Head, head) > __PAGEFLAG(Tail, tail) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/