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authorJuergen Gross2017-06-12 13:53:56 +0200
committerJuergen Gross2017-06-25 13:11:27 +0200
commita5d5f328b0e2baa5ee7c119fd66324eb79eeeb66 (patch)
tree7a56d9ab6a01a47a8b758f90b5cbfee96461f10d /arch
parent1a3fc2c402810bf336882e695abd1678dbc8d279 (diff)
xen: allocate page for shared info page from low memory
In a HVM guest the kernel allocates the page for mapping the shared info structure via extend_brk() today. This will lead to a drop of performance as the underlying EPT entry will have to be split up into 4kB entries as the single shared info page is located in hypervisor memory. The issue has been detected by using the libmicro munmap test: unmapping 8kB of memory was faster by nearly a factor of two when no pv interfaces were active in the HVM guest. So instead of taking a page from memory which might be mapped via large EPT entries use a page which is already mapped via a 4kB EPT entry: we can take a page from the first 1MB of memory as the video memory at 640kB disallows using larger EPT entries. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c31
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
index 13b5fa1a211c..87d791356ea9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <xen/features.h>
#include <xen/events.h>
@@ -10,9 +11,11 @@
#include <asm/reboot.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <asm/hypervisor.h>
+#include <asm/e820/api.h>
#include <asm/xen/cpuid.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
+#include <asm/xen/page.h>
#include "xen-ops.h"
#include "mmu.h"
@@ -21,19 +24,33 @@
void __ref xen_hvm_init_shared_info(void)
{
struct xen_add_to_physmap xatp;
- static struct shared_info *shared_info_page;
+ u64 pa;
+
+ if (HYPERVISOR_shared_info == &xen_dummy_shared_info) {
+ /*
+ * Search for a free page starting at 4kB physical address.
+ * Low memory is preferred to avoid an EPT large page split up
+ * by the mapping.
+ * Starting below X86_RESERVE_LOW (usually 64kB) is fine as
+ * the BIOS used for HVM guests is well behaved and won't
+ * clobber memory other than the first 4kB.
+ */
+ for (pa = PAGE_SIZE;
+ !e820__mapped_all(pa, pa + PAGE_SIZE, E820_TYPE_RAM) ||
+ memblock_is_reserved(pa);
+ pa += PAGE_SIZE)
+ ;
+
+ memblock_reserve(pa, PAGE_SIZE);
+ HYPERVISOR_shared_info = __va(pa);
+ }
- if (!shared_info_page)
- shared_info_page = (struct shared_info *)
- extend_brk(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
xatp.domid = DOMID_SELF;
xatp.idx = 0;
xatp.space = XENMAPSPACE_shared_info;
- xatp.gpfn = __pa(shared_info_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ xatp.gpfn = virt_to_pfn(HYPERVISOR_shared_info);
if (HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_add_to_physmap, &xatp))
BUG();
-
- HYPERVISOR_shared_info = (struct shared_info *)shared_info_page;
}
static void __init init_hvm_pv_info(void)
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
index bc44d2175459..811e4ddb3f37 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@
void *xen_initial_gdt;
-RESERVE_BRK(shared_info_page_brk, PAGE_SIZE);
-
static int xen_cpu_up_prepare_pv(unsigned int cpu);
static int xen_cpu_dead_pv(unsigned int cpu);