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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/48] spapr: allocate the ICPState object from u
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Cédric Le Goater |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/48] spapr: allocate the ICPState object from under sPAPRCPUCore |
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Wed, 17 May 2017 07:50:42 +0200 |
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On 05/16/2017 06:10 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2017 17:18:27 +0200
> Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 05/16/2017 02:55 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>> On 16/05/2017 14:50, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> On 05/16/2017 02:03 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>>>> On 26/04/2017 09:00, David Gibson wrote:
>>>>>> From: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today, all the ICPs are created before the CPUs, stored in an array
>>>>>> under the sPAPR machine and linked to the CPU when the core threads
>>>>>> are realized. This modeling brings some complexity when a lookup in
>>>>>> the array is required and it can be simplified by allocating the ICPs
>>>>>> when the CPUs are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the purpose of this proposal which introduces a new 'icp_type'
>>>>>> field under the machine and creates the ICP objects of the right type
>>>>>> (KVM or not) before the PowerPCCPU object are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This change allows more cleanups : the removal of the icps array under
>>>>>> the sPAPR machine and the removal of the xics_get_cpu_index_by_dt_id()
>>>>>> helper.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> hw/intc/xics.c | 11 -----------
>>>>>> hw/ppc/spapr.c | 47
>>>>>> ++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>>>>>> hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>>>>>> include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 2 +-
>>>>>> include/hw/ppc/xics.h | 2 --
>>>>>> 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This commit breaks CPU re-hotplugging with KVM
>>>>>
>>>>> the sequence "device_add, device_del, device_add" brings to the
>>>>> following error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Unable to connect CPUx to kernel XICS: Device or resource busy
>>>>>
>>>>> It comes from icp_kvm_cpu_setup():
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS, 0, kernel_xics_fd,
>>>>> kvm_arch_vcpu_id(cs));
>>>>> if (ret < 0) {
>>>>> error_report("Unable to connect CPU%ld to kernel XICS: %s",
>>>>> kvm_arch_vcpu_id(cs), strerror(errno));
>>>>> exit(1);
>>>>> }
>>>>> ..
>>>>>
>>>>> It should be protected by cap_irq_xics_enabled:
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> /*
>>>>> * If we are reusing a parked vCPU fd corresponding to the CPU
>>>>> * which was hot-removed earlier we don't have to renable
>>>>> * KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS capability again.
>>>>> */
>>>>> if (icp->cap_irq_xics_enabled) {
>>>>> return;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(...);
>>>>> ...
>>>>> icp->cap_irq_xics_enabled = true;
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> But since this commit, "icp" is a new object on each call:
>>>>>
>>>>> spapr_cpu_core_realize_child()
>>>>> ...
>>>>> obj = object_new(spapr->icp_type);
>>>>> ...
>>>>> xics_cpu_setup(XICS_FABRIC(spapr), cpu, ICP(obj));
>>>>> ...
>>>>> icpc->cpu_setup(icp, cpu); -> icp_kvm_cpu_setup()
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> and "cap_irq_xics_enabled" is reinitialized.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea how to fix that?
>>>>
>>>> it seems that a cleanup is not done in the kernel. We are missing
>>>> a way to call kvmppc_xics_free_icp() from QEMU. Today the only
>>>> way is to destroy the vcpu.
>>>
>>> The commit introducing this hack, for reference:
>>>
>>> commit a45863bda90daa8ec39e5a312b9734fd4665b016
>>> Author: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Thu Jul 2 16:23:20 2015 +1000
>>>
>>> xics_kvm: Don't enable KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS if already enabled
>>>
>>> When supporting CPU hot removal by parking the vCPU fd and reusing
>>> it during hotplug again, there can be cases where we try to reenable
>>> KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS CAP for the vCPU for which it was already enabled.
>>> Introduce a boolean member in ICPState to track this and don't
>>> reenable the CAP if it was already enabled earlier.
>>>
>>> Re-enabling this CAP should ideally work, but currently it results in
>>> kernel trying to create and associate ICP with this vCPU and that
>>> fails since there is already an ICP associated with it. Hence this
>>> patch is needed to work around this problem in the kernel.
>>>
>>> This change allows CPU hot removal to work for sPAPR.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
>>> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> Greg is looking at re-adding the ICPState array because of a
>> migration issue with older machines. We might need to do so
>> unconditionally ...
>>
>
> That would be a pity to carry on with the pre-allocated ICPStates for
> new machine types just because of that... What about keeping track
> of all the cap_irq_xics_enabled flags in a separate max_cpus sized
> static array ?
Could we use 'cpu->unplug' instead ?
C.
>> But for that specific issue, I think it would have been better
>> to clean up the kernel state. Is that possible ?
>>
>
> Commit 4c055ab54fae ("cpu: Reclaim vCPU objects") gives some more details
> on why we don't destroy the vCPU in KVM on unplug, but rather park the vCPU
> fd for later use... so I'm not sure we can clean up the kernel state.
>
> But since the vCPU is still present, maybe we can find a way to tell KVM
> that we want to reuse an already present ICP ?
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> C.
>>
>>
>>>> Else we need to reintroduce the array of icps (again) to keep some
>>>> xics state ... but that just sucks :/ Let me think about it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laurent
>>>> C.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>