Subject: Re: [RFC 06/11] powerpc: kvm: introduce online in paca to indicate whether cpu is needed by host

From: Preeti U Murthy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:02:28 +0530

Hi Liu,

On 10/17/2014 12:59 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
> Nowadays, powerKVM runs with secondary hwthread offline. Although
> we can make all secondary hwthread online later, we still preserve
> this behavior for dedicated KVM env. Achieve this by setting
> paca->online as false.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h         |  3 +++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c       |  3 +++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c               |  3 +++
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 12 ++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> index a5139ea..67c2500 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ struct paca_struct {
>  	u8 cpu_start;			/* At startup, processor spins until */
>  					/* this becomes non-zero. */
>  	u8 kexec_state;		/* set when kexec down has irqs off */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVMPPC_ENABLE_SECONDARY
> +	u8 online;
> +#endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64
>  	struct slb_shadow *slb_shadow_ptr;
>  	struct dtl_entry *dispatch_log;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> index 9d7dede..0faa8fe 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> @@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ int main(void)
>  	DEFINE(PACATOC, offsetof(struct paca_struct, kernel_toc));
>  	DEFINE(PACAKBASE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, kernelbase));
>  	DEFINE(PACAKMSR, offsetof(struct paca_struct, kernel_msr));
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVMPPC_ENABLE_SECONDARY
> +	DEFINE(PACAONLINE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, online));
> +#endif
>  	DEFINE(PACASOFTIRQEN, offsetof(struct paca_struct, soft_enabled));
>  	DEFINE(PACAIRQHAPPENED, offsetof(struct paca_struct, irq_happened));
>  	DEFINE(PACACONTEXTID, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.id));
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index a0738af..4c3843e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -736,6 +736,9 @@ void start_secondary(void *unused)
>  
>  	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_ONLINE);
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVMPPC_ENABLE_SECONDARY
> +	get_paca()->online = true;
> +#endif 
>  	BUG();
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index f0c4db7..d5594b0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -322,6 +322,13 @@ kvm_no_guest:
>  	li	r0, KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_NAP
>  	stb	r0, HSTATE_HWTHREAD_STATE(r13)
>  kvm_do_nap:
> +#ifdef PPCKVM_ENABLE_SECONDARY
> +	/* check the cpu is needed by host or not */
> +	ld      r2, PACAONLINE(r13)
> +	ld      r3, 0
> +	cmp     r2, r3
> +	bne     kvm_secondary_exit_trampoline
> +#endif
>  	/* Clear the runlatch bit before napping */
>  	mfspr	r2, SPRN_CTRLF
>  	clrrdi	r2, r2, 1
> @@ -340,6 +347,11 @@ kvm_do_nap:
>  	nap
>  	b	.
>  
> +#ifdef PPCKVM_ENABLE_SECONDARY
> +kvm_secondary_exit_trampoline:
> +	b	.

Uh? When we have no vcpu to run, we loop here instead of doing a nap?
What are we achieving?

If I understand the intention of the patch well, we are looking to
provide a knob whereby the host can indicate if it needs the secondaries
at all.

Today the host does boot with all threads online. There are some init
scripts which take the secondaries down. So today the host does not have
a say in preventing this, compile time or runtime. So lets see how we
can switch between the two behaviors if we don't have the init script,
which looks like a saner thing to do.

We should set the paca->online flag to false by default. If
KVM_PPC_ENABLE_SECONDARY is configured, we need to set this flag to
true. So at compile time, we resolve the flag.

While booting, we look at the flag and decide whether to get the
secondaries online. So we get the current behavior if we have not
configured KVM_PPC_ENABLE_SECONDARY. Will this achieve the purpose of
this patch?

Regards
Preeti U Murthy