The one big thing about the Gekko is paired singles.
Paired singles are an extension to the instruction set, that adds 32 single
precision floating point registers (qprs), some SPRs to modify the behavior
of paired singled operations and instructions to deal with qprs to the
instruction set.
Unfortunately, it also changes semantics of existing operations that affect
single values in FPRs. In most cases they get mirrored to the coresponding
QPR.
Thanks to that we need to emulate all FPU operations and all the new paired
single operations too.
In order to achieve that, we use the just introduced FPU call helpers to
call the real FPU whenever the guest wants to modify an FPR. Additionally
we also fix up the QPR values along the way.
That way we can execute paired single FPU operations without implementing a
soft fpu.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To emulate paired single instructions, we need to be able to call FPU
operations from within the kernel. Since we don't want gcc to spill
arbitrary FPU code everywhere, we tell it to use a soft fpu.
Since we know we can really call the FPU in safe areas, let's also add
some calls that we can later use to actually execute real world FPU
operations on the host's FPU.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now we have everything in place to be able to build KVM, so let's add it
as config option and in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add the option to build the code under arch/powerpc with -Werror.
The intention is to make it harder for people to inadvertantly introduce
warnings in the arch/powerpc code. It needs to be configurable so that
if a warning is introduced, people can easily work around it while it's
being fixed.
The option is a negative, ie. don't enable -Werror, so that it will be
turned on for allyes and allmodconfig builds.
The default is n, in the hope that developers will build with -Werror,
that will probably lead to some build breaks, I am prepared to be flamed.
It's not enabled for math-emu, which is a steaming pile of warnings.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Book E code will be shared with e500.
I've left PID in kvmppc_core_emulate_op() just so that we don't need to move
kvmppc_set_pid() right now. Once we have the e500 implementation, we can
probably share that too.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.
Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.
Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cores provide 3 emulation hooks, implemented for example in the new
4xx_emulate.c:
kvmppc_core_emulate_op
kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr
kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr
Strictly speaking the last two aren't necessary, but provide for more
informative error reporting ("unknown SPR").
Long term I'd like to have instruction decoding autogenerated from tables of
opcodes, and that way we could aggregate universal, Book E, and core-specific
instructions more easily and without redundant switch statements.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This introduces a set of core-provided hooks. For 440, some of these are
implemented by booke.c, with the rest in (the new) 44x.c.
Note that these hooks are link-time, not run-time. Since it is not possible to
build a single kernel for both e500 and 440 (for example), using function
pointers would only add overhead.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The division was somewhat artificial and cumbersome, and had no functional
benefit anyways: we can only guests built for the real host processor.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch enables KVM_TRACE to build for PowerPC arch. This means just
adding sections to Kconfig and Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables coalesced MMIO for powerpc architecture.
It defines KVM_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET and KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO.
It enables the compilation of coalesced_mmio.c.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running
unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only
tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace
support other SoC/board combinations should work.)
See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details.
[stephen: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Alexander Graf