1530 Commits

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Jan Kiszka
94fe45da48 KVM: x86: Fix guest single-stepping while interruptible
Commit 705c5323 opened the doors of hell by unconditionally injecting
single-step flags as long as guest_debug signaled this. This doesn't
work when the guest branches into some interrupt or exception handler
and triggers a vmexit with flag reloading.

Fix it by saving cs:rip when user space requests single-stepping and
restricting the trace flag injection to this guest code position.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:19 +02:00
Ed Swierk
ffde22ac53 KVM: Xen PV-on-HVM guest support
Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in
userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen
hypercall blob into guest address space.

A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill
and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future.  Thus this patch
adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR.

I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell
KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address
and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that
userspace has loaded from files.  When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM
copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest.

I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace
code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices.

[jan: fix i386 build warning]
[avi: future proof abi with a flags field]

Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
94c30d9ca6 KVM: x86: Drop unneeded CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM check
This (broken) check dates back to the days when this code was shared
across architectures. x86 has IOMEM, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Zachary Amsden
6b7d7e762b KVM: x86: Harden against cpufreq
If cpufreq can't determine the CPU khz, or cpufreq is not compiled in,
we should fallback to the measured TSC khz.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
532a46b989 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for skinit instruction
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the SKINIT instruction. This information is
important because SKINIT is an SVM extenstion not yet
implemented by nested SVM and we may need this information
for debugging hypervisors that do not yet run on nested SVM.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
ec1ff79084 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for invlpga instruction
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the INVLPGA instruction.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
236649de33 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for #vmexit because intr pending
This patch adds a special tracepoint for the event that a
nested #vmexit is injected because kvm wants to inject an
interrupt into the guest.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
17897f3668 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for injected #vmexit
This patch adds a tracepoint for a nested #vmexit that gets
re-injected to the guest.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:15 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
d8cabddf7e KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for nested #vmexit
This patch adds a tracepoint for every #vmexit we get from a
nested guest.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:15 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
0ac406de8f KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for nested vmrun
This patch adds a dedicated kvm tracepoint for a nested
vmrun.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:15 +02:00
Glauber Costa
e3267cbbbf KVM: x86: include pvclock MSRs in msrs_to_save
For a while now, we are issuing a rdmsr instruction to find out which
msrs in our save list are really supported by the underlying machine.
However, it fails to account for kvm-specific msrs, such as the pvclock
ones.

This patch moves then to the beginning of the list, and skip testing them.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:14 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
91586a3b7d KVM: x86: Rework guest single-step flag injection and filtering
Push TF and RF injection and filtering on guest single-stepping into the
vender get/set_rflags callbacks. This makes the whole mechanism more
robust wrt user space IOCTL order and instruction emulations.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:14 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
a68a6a7282 KVM: x86: disable paravirt mmu reporting
Disable paravirt MMU capability reporting, so that new (or rebooted)
guests switch to native operation.

Paravirt MMU is a burden to maintain and does not bring significant
advantages compared to shadow anymore.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:14 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
355be0b930 KVM: x86: Refactor guest debug IOCTL handling
Much of so far vendor-specific code for setting up guest debug can
actually be handled by the generic code. This also fixes a minor deficit
in the SVM part /wrt processing KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:14 +02:00
Juan Quintela
201d945bcf KVM: remove pre_task_link setting in save_state_to_tss16
Now, also remove pre_task_link setting in save_state_to_tss16.

  commit b237ac37a149e8b56436fabf093532483bff13b0
  Author: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
  Date:   Mon Mar 30 16:03:24 2009 +0300

    KVM: Fix task switch back link handling.

CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:13 +02:00
Zachary Amsden
0cca790753 KVM: Kill the confusing tsc_ref_khz and ref_freq variables
They are globals, not clearly protected by any ordering or locking, and
vulnerable to various startup races.

Instead, for variable TSC machines, register the cpufreq notifier and get
the TSC frequency directly from the cpufreq machinery.  Not only is it
always right, it is also perfectly accurate, as no error prone measurement
is required.

On such machines, when a new CPU online is brought online, it isn't clear what
frequency it will start with, and it may not correspond to the reference, thus
in hardware_enable we clear the cpu_tsc_khz variable to zero and make sure
it is set before running on a VCPU.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:12 +02:00
Zachary Amsden
b820cc0ca2 KVM: Separate timer intialization into an indepedent function
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:12 +02:00
Alexander Graf
10474ae894 KVM: Activate Virtualization On Demand
X86 CPUs need to have some magic happening to enable the virtualization
extensions on them. This magic can result in unpleasant results for
users, like blocking other VMMs from working (vmx) or using invalid TLB
entries (svm).

Currently KVM activates virtualization when the respective kernel module
is loaded. This blocks us from autoloading KVM modules without breaking
other VMMs.

To circumvent this problem at least a bit, this patch introduces on
demand activation of virtualization. This means, that instead
virtualization is enabled on creation of the first virtual machine
and disabled on destruction of the last one.

So using this, KVM can be easily autoloaded, while keeping other
hypervisors usable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:10 +02:00
Avi Kivity
367e1319b2 KVM: Return -ENOTTY on unrecognized ioctls
Not the incorrect -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:08 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
680b3648ba KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path
The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and
this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access
to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take
kvm->irq_lock.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:08 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
eba0226bdf KVM: Move IO APIC to its own lock
The allows removal of irq_lock from the injection path.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:08 +02:00
Avi Kivity
851ba6922a KVM: Don't pass kvm_run arguments
They're just copies of vcpu->run, which is readily accessible.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
96200591a3 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
	kernel/trace/Makefile

Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
              good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
              are mounting up - so merge & resolve.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
59d8eb53ea hw-breakpoints: Wrap in the KVM breakpoint active state check
Wrap in the cpu dr7 check that tells if we have active
breakpoints that need to be restored in the cpu.

This wrapper makes the check more self-explainable and also
reusable for any further other uses.

Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-10 11:23:43 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
Gleb Natapov
abb3911965 KVM: get_tss_base_addr() should return a gpa_t
If TSS we are switching to resides in high memory task switch will fail
since address will be truncated. Windows2k3 does this sometimes when
running with more then 4G

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-11-04 12:42:36 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
a9e38c3e01 KVM: x86: Catch potential overrun in MCE setup
We only allocate memory for 32 MCE banks (KVM_MAX_MCE_BANKS) but we
allow user space to fill up to 255 on setup (mcg_cap & 0xff), corrupting
kernel memory. Catch these overflows.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-11-04 12:42:35 -02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Avi Kivity
6a54435560 KVM: Prevent overflow in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
The number of entries is multiplied by the entry size, which can
overflow on 32-bit hosts.  Bound the entry count instead.

Reported-by: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-10-04 17:04:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Avi Kivity
0a79b00952 KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
Debug registers may only be accessed from cpl 0.  Unfortunately, vmx will
code to emulate the instruction even though it was issued from guest
userspace, possibly leading to an unexpected trap later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:10 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
e3904e6ed0 KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access already calls it.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:08 +03:00
Avi Kivity
3d53c27d05 KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
Instead of saving the debug registers from the processor to a kvm data
structure, rely in the debug registers stored in the thread structure.
This allows us not to save dr6 and dr7.

Reduces lightweight vmexit cost by 350 cycles, or 11 percent.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 18:11:04 +03:00
Avi Kivity
88c808fd42 KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
update_cr8_intercept() can be triggered from userspace while there
is no apic present.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:54 +03:00
Mikhail Ershov
d9048d3278 KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
Segment descriptors tables can be placed on two non-contiguous pages.
This patch makes reading segment descriptors by linear address.

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Ershov <Mike.Ershov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:52 +03:00
Avi Kivity
56e8231841 KVM: Rename x86_emulate.c to emulate.c
We're in arch/x86, what could we possibly be emulating?

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:45 +03:00
Anthony Liguori
c0c7c04b87 KVM: When switching to a vm8086 task, load segments as 16-bit
According to 16.2.5 in the SDM, eflags.vm in the tss is consulted before loading
and new segments.  If eflags.vm == 1, then the segments are treated as 16-bit
segments.  The LDTR and TR are not normally available in vm86 mode so if they
happen to somehow get loaded, they need to be treated as 32-bit segments.

This fixes an invalid vmentry failure in a custom OS that was happening after
a task switch into vm8086 mode.  Since the segments were being mistakenly
treated as 32-bit, we loaded garbage state.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:44 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
cb142eb743 KVM: Update cr8 intercept when APIC TPR is changed by userspace
Since on vcpu entry we do it only if apic is enabled we should do
it when TPR is changed while apic is disabled. This happens when windows
resets HW without setting TPR to zero.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 10:46:39 +03:00
Amit Shah
1f3ee616dd KVM: ignore reads to perfctr msrs
We ignore writes to the perfctr msrs. Ignore reads as well.

Kaspersky antivirus crashes Windows guests if it can't read
these MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:21 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
07708c4af1 KVM: x86: Disallow hypercalls for guest callers in rings > 0
So far unprivileged guest callers running in ring 3 can issue, e.g., MMU
hypercalls. Normally, such callers cannot provide any hand-crafted MMU
command structure as it has to be passed by its physical address, but
they can still crash the guest kernel by passing random addresses.

To close the hole, this patch considers hypercalls valid only if issued
from guest ring 0. This may still be relaxed on a per-hypercall base in
the future once required.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:20 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
344f414fa0 KVM: report 1GB page support to userspace
If userspace knows that the kernel part supports 1GB pages it can enable
the corresponding cpuid bit so that guests actually use GB pages.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:19 +03:00
Mikhail Ershov
5f0269f5d7 KVM: Align cr8 threshold when userspace changes cr8
Commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection logic to x86.c") does not
update the cr8 intercept if the lapic is disabled, so when userspace updates
cr8, the cr8 threshold control is not updated and we are left with illegal
control fields.

Fix by explicitly resetting the cr8 threshold.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:17 +03:00
Sheng Yang
b927a3cec0 KVM: VMX: Introduce KVM_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR ioctl
Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page.

(change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter
address rather than value)

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:16 +03:00
Akinobu Mita
b792c344df KVM: x86: use kvm_get_gdt() and kvm_read_ldt()
Use kvm_get_gdt() and kvm_read_ldt() to reduce inline assembly code.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:15 +03:00
Akinobu Mita
46a359e715 KVM: x86: use get_desc_base() and get_desc_limit()
Use get_desc_base() and get_desc_limit() to get the base address and
limit in desc_struct.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:15 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
a1b37100d9 KVM: Reduce runnability interface with arch support code
Remove kvm_cpu_has_interrupt() and kvm_arch_interrupt_allowed() from
interface between general code and arch code. kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable()
checks for interrupts instead.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:13 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
b59bb7bdf0 KVM: Move exception handling to the same place as other events
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:13 +03:00
Gregory Haskins
d34e6b175e KVM: add ioeventfd support
ioeventfd is a mechanism to register PIO/MMIO regions to trigger an eventfd
signal when written to by a guest.  Host userspace can register any
arbitrary IO address with a corresponding eventfd and then pass the eventfd
to a specific end-point of interest for handling.

Normal IO requires a blocking round-trip since the operation may cause
side-effects in the emulated model or may return data to the caller.
Therefore, an IO in KVM traps from the guest to the host, causes a VMX/SVM
"heavy-weight" exit back to userspace, and is ultimately serviced by qemu's
device model synchronously before returning control back to the vcpu.

However, there is a subclass of IO which acts purely as a trigger for
other IO (such as to kick off an out-of-band DMA request, etc).  For these
patterns, the synchronous call is particularly expensive since we really
only want to simply get our notification transmitted asychronously and
return as quickly as possible.  All the sychronous infrastructure to ensure
proper data-dependencies are met in the normal IO case are just unecessary
overhead for signalling.  This adds additional computational load on the
system, as well as latency to the signalling path.

Therefore, we provide a mechanism for registration of an in-kernel trigger
point that allows the VCPU to only require a very brief, lightweight
exit just long enough to signal an eventfd.  This also means that any
clients compatible with the eventfd interface (which includes userspace
and kernelspace equally well) can now register to be notified. The end
result should be a more flexible and higher performance notification API
for the backend KVM hypervisor and perhipheral components.

To test this theory, we built a test-harness called "doorbell".  This
module has a function called "doorbell_ring()" which simply increments a
counter for each time the doorbell is signaled.  It supports signalling
from either an eventfd, or an ioctl().

We then wired up two paths to the doorbell: One via QEMU via a registered
io region and through the doorbell ioctl().  The other is direct via
ioeventfd.

You can download this test harness here:

ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/doorbell.tar.bz2

The measured results are as follows:

qemu-mmio:       110000 iops, 9.09us rtt
ioeventfd-mmio: 200100 iops, 5.00us rtt
ioeventfd-pio:  367300 iops, 2.72us rtt

I didn't measure qemu-pio, because I have to figure out how to register a
PIO region with qemu's device model, and I got lazy.  However, for now we
can extrapolate based on the data from the NULLIO runs of +2.56us for MMIO,
and -350ns for HC, we get:

qemu-pio:      153139 iops, 6.53us rtt
ioeventfd-hc: 412585 iops, 2.37us rtt

these are just for fun, for now, until I can gather more data.

Here is a graph for your convenience:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/7/76/Iofd-chart.png

The conclusion to draw is that we save about 4us by skipping the userspace
hop.

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Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:12 +03:00
Beth Kon
e9f4275732 KVM: PIT support for HPET legacy mode
When kvm is in hpet_legacy_mode, the hpet is providing the timer
interrupt and the pit should not be. So in legacy mode, the pit timer
is destroyed, but the *state* of the pit is maintained. So if kvm or
the guest tries to modify the state of the pit, this modification is
accepted, *except* that the timer isn't actually started. When we exit
hpet_legacy_mode, the current state of the pit (which is up to date
since we've been accepting modifications) is used to restart the pit
timer.

The saved_mode code in kvm_pit_load_count temporarily changes mode to
0xff in order to destroy the timer, but then restores the actual
value, again maintaining "current" state of the pit for possible later
reenablement.

[avi: add some reserved storage in the ioctl; make SET_PIT2 IOW]
[marcelo: fix memory corruption due to reserved storage]

Signed-off-by: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:12 +03:00