@@ -5330,6 +5330,10 @@
as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
+ nopvspin [X86,KVM] Disables the qspinlock slow path
+ using PV optimizations which allow the hypervisor to
+ 'idle' the guest on lock contention.
+
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static __always_inline u32 queued_fetch_set_pending_acquire(struct qspinlock *lo
extern void __pv_init_lock_hash(void);
extern void __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val);
extern void __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock);
+extern bool pvspin;
#define queued_spin_unlock queued_spin_unlock
/**
@@ -842,6 +842,13 @@ void __init kvm_spinlock_init(void)
if (num_possible_cpus() == 1)
return;
+ if (!pvspin) {
+ pr_info("PV spinlocks disabled\n");
+ static_branch_disable(&virt_spin_lock_key);
+ return;
+ }
+ pr_info("PV spinlocks enabled\n");
+
__pv_init_lock_hash();
pv_ops.lock.queued_spin_lock_slowpath = __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath;
pv_ops.lock.queued_spin_unlock =
@@ -580,4 +580,11 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
#include "qspinlock_paravirt.h"
#include "qspinlock.c"
+bool pvspin = true;
+static __init int parse_nopvspin(char *arg)
+{
+ pvspin = false;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nopvspin", parse_nopvspin);
#endif
There are cases where a guest tries to switch spinlocks to bare metal behavior (e.g. by setting "xen_nopvspin" on XEN platform and "hv_nopvspin" on HYPER_V). That feature is missed on KVM, add a new parameter "nopvspin" to disable PV spinlocks for KVM guest. This new parameter is also used to replace "xen_nopvspin" and "hv_nopvspin". The global variable pvspin isn't defined as __initdata as it's used at runtime by XEN guest. Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 7 +++++++ kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 7 +++++++ 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+)