Currently, write protecting a slot needs to walk all the shadow pages
and checks ones which have a pte mapping a page in it.
The walk is overly heavy when dirty pages in that slot are not so many
and checking the shadow pages would result in unwanted cache pollution.
To mitigate this problem, we use rmap_write_protect() and check only
the sptes which can be reached from gfns marked in the dirty bitmap
when the number of dirty pages are less than that of shadow pages.
This criterion is reasonable in its meaning and worked well in our test:
write protection became some times faster than before when the ratio of
dirty pages are low and was not worse even when the ratio was near the
criterion.
Note that the locking for this write protection becomes fine grained.
The reason why this is safe is descripted in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Needed for the next patch which uses this number to decide how to write
protect a slot.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The host side pv mmu support has been marked for feature removal in
January 2011. It's not in use, is slower than shadow or hardware
assisted paging, and a maintenance burden. It's November 2011, time to
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Fast prefetch spte for the unsync shadow page on invlpg path
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Remove the same code between emulator_pio_in_emulated and
emulator_pio_out_emulated
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the emulation is caused by #PF and it is non-page_table writing instruction,
it means the VM-EXIT is caused by shadow page protected, we can zap the shadow
page and retry this instruction directly
The idea is from Avi
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new vcpu->requests bit, KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT.
This bit requests that when next entering the guest, we should run it only
for as little as possible, and exit again.
We use this new option in nested VMX: When L1 launches L2, but L0 wishes L1
to continue running so it can inject an event to it, we unfortunately cannot
just pretend to have run L2 for a little while - We must really launch L2,
otherwise certain one-off vmcs12 parameters (namely, L1 injection into L2)
will be lost. So the existing code runs L2 in this case.
But L2 could potentially run for a long time until it exits, and the
injection into L1 will be delayed. The new KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT allows us
to request that L2 will be entered, as necessary, but will exit as soon as
possible after entry.
Our implementation of this request uses smp_send_reschedule() to send a
self-IPI, with interrupts disabled. The interrupts remain disabled until the
guest is entered, and then, after the entry is complete (often including
processing an injection and jumping to the relevant handler), the physical
interrupt is noticed and causes an exit.
On recent Intel processors, we could have achieved the same goal by using
MTF instead of a self-IPI. Another technique worth considering in the future
is to use VM_EXIT_ACK_INTR_ON_EXIT and a highest-priority vector IPI - to
slightly improve performance by avoiding the useless interrupt handler
which ends up being called when smp_send_reschedule() is used.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Unlike all of the other cpuid bits, the TSC deadline timer bit is set
unconditionally, regardless of what userspace wants.
This is broken in several ways:
- if userspace doesn't use KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, and doesn't emulate the TSC
deadline timer feature, a guest that uses the feature will break
- live migration to older host kernels that don't support the TSC deadline
timer will cause the feature to be pulled from under the guest's feet;
breaking it
- guests that are broken wrt the feature will fail.
Fix by not enabling the feature automatically; instead report it to userspace.
Because the feature depends on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, which we cannot guarantee
will be called, we expose it via a KVM_CAP_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER and not
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID.
Fixes the Illumos guest kernel, which uses the TSC deadline timer feature.
[avi: add the KVM_CAP + documentation]
Reported-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (33 commits)
iommu/core: Remove global iommu_ops and register_iommu
iommu/msm: Use bus_set_iommu instead of register_iommu
iommu/omap: Use bus_set_iommu instead of register_iommu
iommu/vt-d: Use bus_set_iommu instead of register_iommu
iommu/amd: Use bus_set_iommu instead of register_iommu
iommu/core: Use bus->iommu_ops in the iommu-api
iommu/core: Convert iommu_found to iommu_present
iommu/core: Add bus_type parameter to iommu_domain_alloc
Driver core: Add iommu_ops to bus_type
iommu/core: Define iommu_ops and register_iommu only with CONFIG_IOMMU_API
iommu/amd: Fix wrong shift direction
iommu/omap: always provide iommu debug code
iommu/core: let drivers know if an iommu fault handler isn't installed
iommu/core: export iommu_set_fault_handler()
iommu/omap: Fix build error with !IOMMU_SUPPORT
iommu/omap: Migrate to the generic fault report mechanism
iommu/core: Add fault reporting mechanism
iommu/core: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of hard-coded value
iommu/core: use the existing IS_ALIGNED macro
iommu/msm: ->unmap() should return order of unmapped page
...
Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/iommu/Makefile: "move omap iommu to
dedicated iommu folder" vs "Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config
options" just happened to touch lines next to each other.
With per-bus iommu_ops the iommu_found function needs to
work on a bus_type too. This patch adds a bus_type parameter
to that function and converts all call-places.
The function is also renamed to iommu_present because the
function now checks if an iommu is present for a given bus
and does not check for a global iommu anymore.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
If simultaneous NMIs happen, we're supposed to queue the second
and next (collapsing them), but currently we sometimes collapse
the second into the first.
Fix by using a counter for pending NMIs instead of a bool; since
the counter limit depends on whether the processor is currently
in an NMI handler, which can only be checked in vcpu context
(via the NMI mask), we add a new KVM_REQ_NMI to request recalculation
of the counter.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM assumed in several places that reading the TSC MSR returns the value for
L1. This is incorrect, because when L2 is running, the correct TSC read exit
emulation is to return L2's value.
We therefore add a new x86_ops function, read_l1_tsc, to use in places that
specifically need to read the L1 TSC, NOT the TSC of the current level of
guest.
Note that one change, of one line in kvm_arch_vcpu_load, is made redundant
by a different patch sent by Zachary Amsden (and not yet applied):
kvm_arch_vcpu_load() should not read the guest TSC, and if it didn't, of
course we didn't have to change the call of kvm_get_msr() to read_l1_tsc().
[avi: moved callback to kvm_x86_ops tsc block]
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsdem <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Windows Server 2008 SP2 checked build with smp > 1 BSOD's during
boot due to lack of microcode update:
*** Assertion failed: The system BIOS on this machine does not properly
support the processor. The system BIOS did not load any microcode update.
A BIOS containing the latest microcode update is needed for system reliability.
(CurrentUpdateRevision != 0)
*** Source File: d:\longhorn\base\hals\update\intelupd\update.c, line 440
Report a non-zero microcode update signature to make it happy.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Return EMULATION_OK/FAILED consistently. Also treat instruction fetch
errors, not restricted to X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE, as EMULATION_FAILED;
although this cannot happen in practice, the current logic will continue
the emulation even if the decoder fails to fetch the instruction.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.
Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.
Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.
Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 0945d4b228 tried to fix the get_msr path for the
HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr, but was poorly tested. We should be
returning 0 if the read succeeded, and passing the value back to the
caller via the pdata out argument, not returning the value directly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
"get" support for the HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE msr was missing, even
though it is explicitly enumerated as something the vmm should save in
msrs_to_save and reported to userland via the KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
ioctl.
Add "get" support for HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE. We simply return the
guest visible value of this register, which seems to be correct as a set
on the register is validated for us already.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The patch raises the hard limit of VCPU count to 254.
This will allow developers to easily work on scalability
and will allow users to test high VCPU setups easily without
patching the kernel.
To prevent possible issues with current setups, KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS
now returns the recommended VCPU limit (which is still 64) - this
should be a safe value for everybody, while a new KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS
returns the hard limit which is now 254.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Using the read/write operation to remove the same code
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The operations of read emulation and write emulation are very similar, so we
can abstract the operation of them, in larter patch, it is used to cleanup the
same code
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the range spans a page boundary, the mmio access can be broke, fix it as
write emulation.
And we already get the guest physical address, so use it to read guest data
directly to avoid walking guest page table again
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The idea is from Avi:
| We could cache the result of a miss in an spte by using a reserved bit, and
| checking the page fault error code (or seeing if we get an ept violation or
| ept misconfiguration), so if we get repeated mmio on a page, we don't need to
| search the slot list/tree.
| (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/22/221)
When the page fault is caused by mmio, we cache the info in the shadow page
table, and also set the reserved bits in the shadow page table, so if the mmio
is caused again, we can quickly identify it and emulate it directly
Searching mmio gfn in memslots is heavy since we need to walk all memeslots, it
can be reduced by this feature, and also avoid walking guest page table for
soft mmu.
[jan: fix operator precedence issue]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The idea is from Avi:
| Maybe it's time to kill off bypass_guest_pf=1. It's not as effective as
| it used to be, since unsync pages always use shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte,
| and since we convert between the two nonpresent_ptes during sync and unsync.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the page fault is caused by mmio, we can cache the mmio info, later, we do
not need to walk guest page table and quickly know it is a mmio fault while we
emulate the mmio instruction
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to translate the gva to gpa, we can use it
to cleanup the code between read emulation and write emulation
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest
information about how much time was spent running other processes
outside the VM, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
time does not count.
This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
runqueue but not running.
Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
memory area address containing information about steal time
This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
and can be backported independently of the guest portion.
[avi, yongjie: export delayacct_on, to avoid build failures in some configs]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongjie Ren <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch exposes ERMS feature to KVM guests.
The REP MOVSB/STOSB instruction can enhance fast strings attempts to
move as much of the data with larger size load/stores as possible.
Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch exposes DRNG feature to KVM guests.
The RDRAND instruction can provide software with sequences of
random numbers generated from white noise.
Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
commit 123108f1c1aafd51d6a5c79cc04d7999dd88a930 tried to fix KVMs
XSAVE valid feature scanning, but it was wrong. It was not considering
the sparse nature of this bitfield, instead reading values from
uninitialized members of the entries array.
This patch now separates subleaf indicies from KVM's array indicies
and fills the entry before querying it's value.
This fixes AVX support in KVM guests.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This saves a lot of pointless casts x86_emulate_ctxt and decode_cache.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The name eip conflicts with a field of the same name in x86_emulate_ctxt,
which we plan to fold decode_cache into.
The name _eip is unfortunate, but what's really needed is a refactoring
here, not a better name.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
We should use the local variables ctxt and c when the emulate_ctxt and
decode appears many times. At least, we need to be consistent about
how we use these in a function.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch includes a utility function for decoding pointer operands of VMX
instructions issued by L1 (a guest hypervisor)
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch allows the guest to enable the VMXE bit in CR4, which is a
prerequisite to running VMXON.
Whether to allow setting the VMXE bit now depends on the architecture (svm
or vmx), so its checking has moved to kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4(). This function
now returns an int: If kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4() returns 1, __kvm_set_cr4()
will also return 1, and this will cause kvm_set_cr4() will throw a #GP.
Turning on the VMXE bit is allowed only when the nested VMX feature is
enabled, and turning it off is forbidden after a vmxon.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
During tracing the emulator, we noticed that init_emulate_ctxt()
sometimes took a bit longer time than we expected.
This patch is for mitigating the problem by some degree.
By looking into the function, we soon notice that it clears the whole
decode_cache whose size is about 2.5K bytes now. Furthermore, most of
the bytes are taken for the two read_cache arrays, which are used only
by a few instructions.
Considering the fact that we are not assuming the cache arrays have
been cleared when we store actual data, we do not need to clear the
arrays: 2K bytes elimination. In addition, we can avoid clearing the
fetch_cache and regs arrays.
This patch changes the initialization not to clear the arrays.
On our 64-bit host, init_emulate_ctxt() becomes 0.3 to 0.5us faster with
this patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use a local pointer to the emulate_ctxt for simplicity. Then, arrange
the hard-to-read mode selection lines neatly.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
So far kvm_arch_vcpu_setup is responsible for freeing the vcpu struct if
it fails. Move this confusing resonsibility back into the hands of
kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu. Only kvm_arch_vcpu_setup of x86 is affected,
all other archs cannot fail.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of blacklisting known-unsupported cpuid leaves, whitelist known-
supported leaves. This is more conservative and prevents us from reporting
features we don't support. Also whitelist a few more leaves while at it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Simply use __copy_to_user/__clear_user to write guest page since we have
already verified the user address when the memslot is set
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Dereference it in the actual users.
This not only cleans up the emulator but also makes it easy to convert
the old emulation functions to the new em_xxx() form later.
Note: Remove some inline keywords to let the compiler decide inlining.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Instead of separate accessors for the segment selector and cached descriptor,
use one accessor for both. This simplifies the code somewhat.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The CPUIDs for Centaur are added, and then the features of
PadLock hardware engine on VIA CPU, such as "ace", "ace_en"
and so on, can be passed into the kvm guest.
Signed-off-by: Brilly Wu <brillywu@viatech.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kary Jin <karyjin@viatech.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
