x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB flush
authorVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Aug 2017 16:09:19 +0000 (18:09 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:16:44 +0000 (20:16 +0200)
commit2ffd9e33ce4af4e8cfa3e17bf493defe8474e2eb
tree47f4afe37d6bf0e6e0219ab1b08ca45fc692aa47
parent7415aea6072bab15969b6c3c5b2a193d88095326
x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB flush

Hyper-V host can suggest us to use hypercall for doing remote TLB flush,
this is supposed to work faster than IPIs.

Implementation details: to do HvFlushVirtualAddress{Space,List} hypercalls
we need to put the input somewhere in memory and we don't really want to
have memory allocation on each call so we pre-allocate per cpu memory areas
on boot.

pv_ops patching is happening very early so we need to separate
hyperv_setup_mmu_ops() and hyper_alloc_mmu().

It is possible and easy to implement local TLB flushing too and there is
even a hint for that. However, I don't see a room for optimization on the
host side as both hypercall and native tlb flush will result in vmexit. The
hint is also not set on modern Hyper-V versions.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802160921.21791-8-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/hyperv/Makefile
arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
drivers/hv/Kconfig