All modern IBM Z and Linux One machines do offer support for the
Extended System Control Area (ESCA). The ESCA is available since the
z114/z196 released in 2010.
KVM needs to allocate and manage the SCA for guest VMs. Prior to this
change the SCA was setup as Basic SCA only supporting a maximum of 64
vCPUs when initializing the VM. With addition of the 65th vCPU the SCA
was needed to be converted to a ESCA.
Instead we will now allocate the ESCA directly upon VM creation
simplifying the code in multiple places as well as completely removing
the need to convert an existing SCA.
In cases where the ESCA is not supported (z10 and earlier) the use of
the SCA entries and with that SIGP interpretation are disabled for VMs.
This increases the number of exits from the VM in multiprocessor
scenarios and thus decreases performance.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Christoph Schlameuss (3):
KVM: s390: Set KVM_MAX_VCPUS to 256
KVM: s390: Always allocate esca_block
KVM: s390: Specify kvm->arch.sca as esca_block
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 +-
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host_types.h | 2 +
arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c | 10 +-
arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 74 +++++----------
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 161 ++++++---------------------------
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h | 9 +-
6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 82f2b0b97b36ee3fcddf0f0780a9a0825d52fec3
change-id: 20250513-rm-bsca-ab1e8649aca7
Best regards,
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Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
