There is a race where VCPU0 is shadowing a pagetable entry while VCPU1
is updating it, which results in a stale shadow copy.
Fix that by comparing the contents of the cached guest pte with the
current guest pte after write-protecting the guest pagetable.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
In addition to removing some duplicated code, this also handles the unlikely
case of real-mode code updating a guest page table. This can happen when
one vcpu (in real mode) touches a second vcpu's (in protected mode) page
tables, or if a vcpu switches to real mode, touches page tables, and switches
back.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
As set_pte() no longer references either a gpte or the guest walker, we can
move it out of paging mode dependent code (which compiles twice and is
generally nasty).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When we emulate a guest pte write, we fail to apply the correct inherited
permissions from the parent ptes. Now that we store inherited permissions
in the shadow page, we can use that to update the pte permissions correctly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The nx bit is awkwardly placed in the 63rd bit position; furthermore it
has a reversed meaning compared to the other bits, which means we can't use
a bitwise and to calculate compounded access masks.
So, we simplify things by creating a new 3-bit exec/write/user access word,
and doing all calculations in that.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Mark guest pages as accessed when removed from the shadow page tables for
better lru processing.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
These are traditionally named 'page', but even more traditionally, that name
is reserved for variables that point to a 'struct page'. Rename them to 'sp'
(for "shadow page").
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If all we're doing is increasing permissions on a pte (typical for demand
paging), then there's not need to flush remote tlbs. Worst case they'll
get a spurious page fault.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of incrementally changing the mmu cache size for every memory slot
operation, recalculate it from scratch. This is simpler and safer.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Improve dirty bit setting for pages that kvm release, until now every page
that we released we marked dirty, from now only pages that have potential
to get dirty we mark dirty.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When we map a page, we check whether some other vcpu mapped it for us and if
so, bail out. But we should decrease the refcount on the page as we do so.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Emulation may cause a shadow pte to be instantiated, which requires
memory resources. Make sure the caches are filled to avoid an oops.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The code that dispatches the page fault and emulates if we failed to map
is duplicated across vmx and svm. Merge it to simplify further bugfixing.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
First step to split kvm_vcpu. Currently, we just use an macro to define
the common fields in kvm_vcpu for all archs, and all archs need to define
its own kvm_vcpu struct.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.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>
The current kvm mmu only reverse maps writable translation. This is used
to write-protect a page in case it becomes a pagetable.
But with swapping support, we need a reverse mapping of read-only pages as
well: when we evict a page, we need to remove any mapping to it, whether
writable or not.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This is more consistent with the accessed bit management, and makes the dirty
bit available earlier for other purposes.
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>
Some of the MMU functions take a struct kvm_vcpu even though they affect all
VCPUs. This patch cleans up some of them to instead take a struct kvm. This
makes things a bit more clear.
The main thing that was confusing me was whether certain functions need to be
called on all VCPUs.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.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>
Resetting an SMP guest will force AP enter real mode (RESET) with
paging enabled in protected mode. While current enter_rmode() can
only handle mode switch from nonpaging mode to real mode which leads
to SMP reboot failure.
Fix by reloading the mmu context on entering real mode.
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>
Setting shadow page table entry should be set atomicly using set_shadow_pte().
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Before preempt notifiers, kvm needed to allocate memory with GFP_NOWAIT so
as not to have to enable preemption and take a heavyweight exit. On oom, we'd
fall back to a GFP_KERNEL allocation.
With preemption notifiers, we can do a GFP_KERNEL allocation, and perform
the heavyweight exit only if the kernel decides to put us to sleep.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
__free_page() wants a struct page, not a virtual address.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kvm mmu uses page->private on shadow page tables; so does slub, and
an oops result. Fix by allocating regular pages for shadows instead of
using slub.
Tested-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
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>
