From: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 17/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Implement PMU save/restore in C
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:24:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D683A065-D7DB-45E2-8625-E74B682015C4@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1628827731.ai2zz7xxwa.astroid@bobo.none>
> On 13-Aug-2021, at 9:54 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Athira Rajeev's message of August 9, 2021 1:03 pm:
>>
>>
>>> On 26-Jul-2021, at 9:19 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> +static void freeze_pmu(unsigned long mmcr0, unsigned long mmcra)
>>> +{
>>> + if (!(mmcr0 & MMCR0_FC))
>>> + goto do_freeze;
>>> + if (mmcra & MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE)
>>> + goto do_freeze;
>>> + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31)) {
>>> + if (!(mmcr0 & MMCR0_PMCCEXT))
>>> + goto do_freeze;
>>> + if (!(mmcra & MMCRA_BHRB_DISABLE))
>>> + goto do_freeze;
>>> + }
>>> + return;
>>> +
>>> +do_freeze:
>>> + mmcr0 = MMCR0_FC;
>>> + mmcra = 0;
>>> + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31)) {
>>> + mmcr0 |= MMCR0_PMCCEXT;
>>> + mmcra = MMCRA_BHRB_DISABLE;
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> + mtspr(SPRN_MMCR0, mmcr0);
>>> + mtspr(SPRN_MMCRA, mmcra);
>>> + isync();
>>> +}
>>> +
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> After feezing pmu, do we need to clear “pmcregs_in_use” as well?
>
> Not until we save the values out of the registers. pmcregs_in_use = 0
> means our hypervisor is free to clear our PMU register contents.
>
>> Also can’t we unconditionally do the MMCR0/MMCRA/ freeze settings in here ? do we need the if conditions for FC/PMCCEXT/BHRB ?
>
> I think it's possible, but pretty minimal advantage. I would prefer to
> set them the way perf does for now.
Sure Nick,
Other changes looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thanks
Athira
> If we can move this code into perf/
> it should become easier for you to tweak things.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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2021-07-26 3:49 [PATCH v1 00/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: entry/exit optimisations Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 01/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove TM emulation from POWER7/8 path Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 02/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Fixes for TM softpatch interrupt Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 1:16 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-06 10:25 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 03/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitise vcpu registers in nested path Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 04/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Stop forwarding all HFUs to L1 Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 05/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV Nested: Reflect guest PMU in-use to L0 when guest SPRs are live Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 06/55] powerpc/64s: Remove WORT SPR from POWER9/10 Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 07/55] KMV: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Use set_dec to set decrementer to host Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 08/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Use host timer accounting to avoid decrementer read Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 09/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Use large decrementer for HDEC Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 10/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce mftb per guest entry/exit Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 11/55] powerpc/time: add API for KVM to re-arm the host timer/decrementer Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-05 7:22 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-06 10:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 12/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: POWER10 enable HAIL when running radix guests Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 13/55] powerpc/64s: Keep AMOR SPR a constant ~0 at runtime Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 14/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't always save PMU for guest capable of nesting Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 7:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-06 10:32 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 15/55] powerpc/64s: Always set PMU control registers to frozen/disabled when not in use Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 16/55] powerpc/64s: Implement PMU override command line option Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 7:45 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2021-08-06 10:38 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-11 12:58 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2021-08-06 9:40 ` Athira Rajeev
2021-08-06 10:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-11 10:54 ` Athira Rajeev
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 17/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Implement PMU save/restore in C Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-09 3:15 ` Athira Rajeev
2021-08-13 4:24 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-14 7:24 ` Athira Rajeev [this message]
2021-07-26 3:49 ` [PATCH v1 18/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Factor PMU save/load into context switch functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 19/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Demand fault PMU SPRs when marked not inuse Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 20/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Factor out yield_count increment Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 21/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: CTRL SPR does not require read-modify-write Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 22/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move SPRG restore to restore_p9_host_os_sprs Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 23/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce mtmsrd instructions required to save host SPRs Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 6:57 ` kernel test robot
2021-07-26 7:01 ` kernel test robot
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 24/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Improve mtmsrd scheduling by delaying MSR[EE] disable Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 25/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Add kvmppc_stop_thread to match kvmppc_start_thread Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 26/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Change dec_expires to be relative to guest timebase Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-07 23:17 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 27/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move TB updates Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 28/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Optimise timebase reads Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 29/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Avoid SPR scoreboard stalls Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 30/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Only execute mtSPR if the value changed Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 20:45 ` Fabiano Rosas
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 31/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Juggle SPR switching around Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 20:46 ` Fabiano Rosas
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 32/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move vcpu register save/restore into functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-06 20:49 ` Fabiano Rosas
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 33/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move host OS save/restore functions to built-in Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 34/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move nested guest entry into its own function Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 35/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move remaining SPR and MSR access into low level entry Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 36/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Implement TM fastpath for guest entry/exit Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 37/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Switch PMU to guest as late as possible Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 38/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Restrict DSISR canary workaround to processors that require Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 39/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: More SPR speed improvements Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 40/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Demand fault EBB facility registers Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 41/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Demand fault TM " Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 42/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Use Linux SPR save/restore to manage some host SPRs Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 43/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Comment and fix MMU context switching code Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 44/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Test dawr_enabled() before saving host DAWR SPRs Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 45/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Don't restore PSSCR if not needed Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 46/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Avoid tlbsync sequence on radix guest exit Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 47/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV Nested: Avoid extra mftb() in nested entry Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 48/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Improve mfmsr performance on entry Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 49/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Optimise hash guest SLB saving Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 50/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Add unlikely annotation for !mmu_ready Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 51/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Avoid cpu_in_guest atomics on entry and exit Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 52/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Remove most of the vcore logic Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 53/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Tidy kvmppc_create_dtl_entry Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 54/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Stop using vc->dpdes Nicholas Piggin
2021-07-26 3:50 ` [PATCH v1 55/55] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Remove subcore HMI handling Nicholas Piggin
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