Enable the Virtual GIF feature. This is done by setting bit 25 at position
60h in the vmcb.
With this feature enabled, the processor uses bit 9 at position 60h as the
virtual GIF when executing STGI/CLGI instructions.
Since the execution of STGI by the L1 hypervisor does not cause a return to
the outermost (L0) hypervisor, the enable_irq_window and enable_nmi_window
are modified.
The IRQ window will be opened even if GIF is not set, under the assumption
that on resuming the L1 hypervisor the IRQ will be held pending until the
processor executes the STGI instruction.
For the NMI window, the STGI intercept is set. This will assist in opening
the window only when GIF=1.
Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Enable the Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE feature. This is done by setting bit 1
at position B8h in the vmcb.
The processor must have nested paging enabled, be in 64-bit mode and
have support for the Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE feature for the bit to be set
in the vmcb.
Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Rename the lbr_ctl variable to better reflect the purpose of the field -
provide support for virtualization extensions.
Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
The lbr_ctl variable in the vmcb control area is used to enable or
disable Last Branch Record (LBR) virtualization. However, this is to be
done using only bit 0 of the variable. To correct this and to prepare
for a new feature, change the current usage to work only on a particular
bit.
Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
This patch introduces AVIC-related data structure, and AVIC
initialization code.
There are three main data structures for AVIC:
* Virtual APIC (vAPIC) backing page (per-VCPU)
* Physical APIC ID table (per-VM)
* Logical APIC ID table (per-VM)
Currently, AVIC is disabled by default. Users can manually
enable AVIC via kernel boot option kvm-amd.avic=1 or during
kvm-amd module loading with parameter avic=1.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
[Avoid extra indentation (Boris). - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Exporting KVM exit information to userspace to be consumed by perf.
Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: rebase it on acme's git tree ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-2-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In case of a nested page fault or an intercepted #PF newer SVM
implementations provide a copy of the faulting instruction bytes
in the VMCB.
Use these bytes to feed the instruction emulator and avoid the costly
guest instruction fetch in this case.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Newer SVM implementations provide the GPR number in the VMCB, so
that the emulation path is no longer necesarry to handle CR
register access intercepts. Implement the handling in svm.c and
use it when the info is provided.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch implements the xsetbv intercept to the AMD part
of KVM. This makes AVX usable in a save way for the guest on
AVX capable AMD hardware.
The patch is tested by using AVX in the guest and host in
parallel and checking for data corruption. I also used the
KVM xsave unit-tests and they all pass.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the new flush-by-asid of upcoming AMD
processors to the KVM-AMD module.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the infrastructure for the implementation of
the individual clean-bits.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch wraps changes to the DRx intercepts of SVM into
seperate functions to abstract nested-svm better and prepare
the implementation of the vmcb-clean-bits feature.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch wraps changes to the CRx intercepts of SVM into
seperate functions to abstract nested-svm better and prepare
the implementation of the vmcb-clean-bits feature.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When a fault triggers a task switch, the error code, if existent, has to
be pushed on the new task's stack. Implement the missing bits.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
On SVM we set the instruction length of skipped instructions
to hard-coded, well known values, which could be wrong when (bogus,
but valid) prefixes (REX, segment override) are used.
Newer AMD processors (Fam10h 45nm and better, aka. PhenomII or
AthlonII) have an explicit NEXTRIP field in the VMCB containing the
desired information.
Since it is cheap to do so, we use this field to override the guessed
value on newer processors.
A fix for older CPUs would be rather expensive, as it would require
to fetch and partially decode the instruction. As the problem is not
a security issue and needs special, handcrafted code to trigger
(no compiler will ever generate such code), I omit a fix for older
CPUs.
If someone is interested, I have both a patch for these CPUs as well as
demo code triggering this issue: It segfaults under KVM, but runs
perfectly on native Linux.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch implements the emulation of the vm_cr msr for
nested svm.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of selecting TS and MP as the comments say, the macro included TS and
PE. Luckily the macro is unused now, but fix in order to save a few hours of
debugging from anyone who attempts to use it.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause
Filter Feature. This feature creates a new field in the VMCB
called Pause Filter Count. If Pause Filter Count is greater
than 0 and intercepting PAUSEs is enabled, the processor will
increment an internal counter when a PAUSE instruction occurs
instead of intercepting. When the internal counter reaches the
Pause Filter Count value, a PAUSE intercept will occur.
This feature can be used to detect contended spinlocks,
especially when the lock holding VCPU is not scheduled.
Rescheduling another VCPU prevents the VCPU seeking the
lock from wasting its quantum by spinning idly.
Experimental results show that most spinlocks are held
for less than 1000 PAUSE cycles or more than a few
thousand. Default the Pause Filter Counter to 3000 to
detect the contended spinlocks.
Processor support for this feature is indicated by a CPUID
bit.
On a 24 core system running 4 guests each with 16 VCPUs,
this patch improved overall performance of each guest's
32 job kernbench by approximately 3-5% when combined
with a scheduler algorithm thati caused the VCPU to
sleep for a brief period. Further performance improvement
may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
There is no need to skip instruction if the reason for a task switch
is a task gate in IDT and access to it is caused by an external even.
The problem is currently solved only for VMX since there is no reliable
way to skip an instruction in SVM. We should emulate it instead.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
MSR_EFER_SVME_MASK, MSR_VM_CR and MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA are set in KVM
specific headers. Linux does have nice header files to collect
EFER bits and MSR IDs, so IMHO we should put them there.
While at it, I also changed the naming scheme to match that
of the other defines.
(introduced in v6)
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
svm.h will be used by core code that is independent of KVM, so I am
moving it outside the arch/x86/kvm directory.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
