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>
A guest context switch to an uncached cr3 can require allocation of
shadow pages, but we only recycle shadow pages in kvm_mmu_page_fault().
Move shadow page recycling to mmu_topup_memory_caches(), which is called
from both the page fault handler and from guest cr3 reload.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow real-mode emulation of rdmsr and wrmsr. This allows smp Windows to
boot, presumably for its sipi trampoline.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The memory slot management functions were oriented against vcpu 0, where
they should be kvm-wide. This causes hangs starting X on guest smp.
Fix by making the functions (and resultant tail in the mmu) non-vcpu-specific.
Unfortunately this reduces the efficiency of the mmu object cache a bit. We
may have to revisit this later.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We need to distinguish between large page shadows which have the nx bit set
and those which don't. The problem shows up when booting a newer smp Linux
kernel, where the trampoline page (which is in real mode, which uses the
same shadow pages as large pages) is using the same mapping as a kernel data
page, which is mapped using nx, causing kvm to spin on that page.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a vcpu causes a shadow tlb entry to have reduced permissions, it
must also clear the tlb on remote vcpus. We do that by:
- setting a bit on the vcpu that requests a tlb flush before the next entry
- if the vcpu is currently executing, we send an ipi to make sure it
exits before we continue
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Switch guest paging context may require us to allocate memory, which
might fail. Instead of wiring up error paths everywhere, make context
switching lazy and actually do the switch before the next guest entry,
where we can return an error if allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
