Allocate a userspace buffer for older userspaces. Also eliminate phys_mem
buffer. The memset() in kvmctl really kills initial memory usage but swapping
works even with old userspaces.
A side effect is that maximum guest side is reduced for older userspace on
i386.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
ppc and s390 offer the possibility to track process times precisely
by looking at cpu timer on every context switch, irq, softirq etc.
We can use that infrastructure as well for guest time accounting.
We need to account the used time before we change the state.
This patch adds a call to account_system_vtime to kvm_guest_enter
and kvm_guest exit. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not set,
account_system_vtime is defined in hardirq.h as an empty function,
which means this patch does not change the behaviour on other
platforms.
I compile tested this patch on x86 and function tested the patch on
s390.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This allows guest memory to be swapped. Pages which are currently mapped
via shadow page tables are pinned into memory, but all other pages can
be freely swapped.
The patch makes gfn_to_page() elevate the page's reference count, and
introduces kvm_release_page() that pairs with it.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
In case the page is not present in the guest memory map, return a dummy
page the guest can scribble on.
This simplifies error checking in its users.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch splits kvm_vcpu_ioctl into archtecture independent parts, and
x86 specific parts which go to kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl in x86.c.
Common ioctls for all architectures are:
KVM_RUN, KVM_GET/SET_(S-)REGS, KVM_TRANSLATE, KVM_INTERRUPT,
KVM_DEBUG_GUEST, KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK, KVM_GET/SET_FPU
Note that some PPC chips don't have an FPU, so we might need an #ifdef
around KVM_GET/SET_FPU one day.
x86 specific ioctls are:
KVM_GET/SET_LAPIC, KVM_SET_CPUID, KVM_GET/SET_MSRS
An interresting aspect is vcpu_load/vcpu_put. We now have a common
vcpu_load/put which does the preemption stuff, and an architecture
specific kvm_arch_vcpu_load/put. In the x86 case, this one calls the
vmx/svm function defined in kvm_x86_ops.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This time, the biggest change is gpa_to_hpa. The translation of GPA to HPA does
not depend on the VCPU state unlike GVA to GPA so there's no need to pass in
the kvm_vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of having the kernel allocate memory to the guest, let userspace
allocate it and pass the address to the kernel.
This is required for s390 support, but also enables features like memory
sharing and using hugetlbfs backed memory.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The user is now able to set how many mmu pages will be allocated to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When kvm uses user-allocated pages in the future for the guest, we won't
be able to use page->private for rmap, since page->rmap is reserved for
the filesystem. So we move the rmap base pointers to the memory slot.
A side effect of this is that we need to store the gfn of each gpte in
the shadow pages, since the memory slot is addressed by gfn, instead of
hfn like struct page.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izik@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When we allow guest page faults to reach the guests directly, we lose
the fault tracking which allows us to detect demand paging. So we provide
an alternate mechnism by clearing the accessed bit when we set a pte, and
checking it later to see if the guest actually used it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
There are two classes of page faults trapped by kvm:
- host page faults, where the fault is needed to allow kvm to install
the shadow pte or update the guest accessed and dirty bits
- guest page faults, where the guest has faulted and kvm simply injects
the fault back into the guest to handle
The second class, guest page faults, is pure overhead. We can eliminate
some of it on vmx using the following evil trick:
- when we set up a shadow page table entry, if the corresponding guest pte
is not present, set up the shadow pte as not present
- if the guest pte _is_ present, mark the shadow pte as present but also
set one of the reserved bits in the shadow pte
- tell the vmx hardware not to trap faults which have the present bit clear
With this, normal page-not-present faults go directly to the guest,
bypassing kvm entirely.
Unfortunately, this trick only works on Intel hardware, as AMD lacks a
way to discriminate among page faults based on error code. It is also
a little risky since it uses reserved bits which might become unreserved
in the future, so a module parameter is provided to disable it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Move emulate_ctxt to kvm_vcpu to keep emulate context when we exit from kvm
module. Call x86_decode_insn() only when needed. Modify x86_emulate_insn() to
not modify the context if it must be re-entered.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better
support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by
trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall
instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right
one lazily.
A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to
userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to
communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code
in tree that uses userspace hypercalls.
[avi: fix #ud injection on vmx]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch just renames the current (misnamed) _arch namings to _x86 to
ensure better readability when a real arch layer takes place.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The mutex->splinlock convertion alllows us to make some code simplifications.
As we can keep the lock longer, we don't have to release it and then
have to check if the environment has not been modified before re-taking it. We
can remove kvm->busy and kvm->memory_config_version.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
SVM gets the DB and L bits for the cs by decoding the segment. This
is in fact the completely generic code, so hoist it for kvm-lite to use.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
invlpg shouldn't fetch the "src" address, since it may not be valid,
however SVM's "solution" which neuters emulation of all group 7
instruction is horrible and breaks kvm-lite. The simplest fix is to
put a special check in for invlpg.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables INIT/SIPI handling using in-kernel APIC by
introducing a ->mp_state field to emulate the SMP state transition.
[avi: remove smp_processor_id() warning]
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin.b.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
By sleeping in the kernel when hlt is executed, we simplify the in-kernel
guest interrupt path considerably.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Because lightweight exits (exits which don't involve userspace) are many
times faster than heavyweight exits, it makes sense to emulate high usage
devices in the kernel. The local APIC is one such device, especially for
Windows and for SMP, so we add an APIC model to kvm.
It also allows in-kernel host-side drivers to inject interrupts without
going through userspace.
[compile fix on i386 from Jindrich Makovicka]
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <Eddie.Dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch is to wrap APIC base register and CR8 operation which can
provide a unique API for user level irqchip and kernel irqchip.
This is a preparation of merging lapic/ioapic patch.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Split kvm_setup_pio() into two functions, one to setup in/out pio
(kvm_emulate_pio()) and one to setup ins/outs pio (kvm_emulate_pio_string()).
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
All guest-invokable printks should be ratelimited to prevent malicious
guests from flooding logs. This is a start.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
All the physical CPUs on the board should support the same VMX feature
set. Add check_processor_compatibility to kvm_arch_ops for the consistency
check.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Now we use a kmem cache for allocating vcpus, we can get the 16-byte
alignment required by fxsave & fxrstor instructions, and avoid
manually aligning the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Avi wants the allocations of vcpus centralized again. The easiest way
is to add a "size" arg to kvm_init_arch, and expose the thus-prepared
cache to the modules.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
... in favor of the more general emulator_{read,write}_*.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This allows the kvm mmu to perform sleepy operations, such as memory
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Current kvm disables preemption while the new virtualization registers are
in use. This of course is not very good for latency sensitive workloads (one
use of virtualization is to offload user interface and other latency
insensitive stuff to a container, so that it is easier to analyze the
remaining workload). This patch re-enables preemption for kvm; preemption
is now only disabled when switching the registers in and out, and during
the switch to guest mode and back.
Contains fixes from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch converts the vcpus array in "struct kvm" to a pointer
array, and changes the "vcpu_create" and "vcpu_setup" hooks into one
"vcpu_create" call which does the allocation and initialization of the
vcpu (calling back into the kvm_vcpu_init core helper).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
struct kvm_vcpu has vmx-specific members; remove them to a private structure.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
gfn_to_page might sleep with swap support. Move it out of the kmap calls.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Creating one's own BITMAP macro seems suboptimal: if we use manual
arithmetic in the one place exposed to userspace, we can use standard
macros elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
On this machine (Intel), writing to the CR4 bits 0x00000800 and
0x00001000 cause a GPF. The Intel manual is a little unclear, but
AFIACT they're reserved, too.
Also fix spelling of CR4_RESEVED_BITS.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kernel now has asm/cpu-features.h: use those macros instead of inventing
our own.
Also spell out definition of CR3_RESEVED_BITS, fix spelling and
tighten it for the non-PAE case.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kernel now has asm/cpu-features.h: use those macros instead of
inventing our own.
Also spell out definition of CR0_RESEVED_BITS (no code change) and fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds a `vcpu_id' field in `struct vcpu', so we can
differentiate BSP and APs without pointer comparison or arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
