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Jes Sorensen
e9a999fe1f KVM: ia64: stack get/restore patch
Implement KVM_IA64_VCPU_[GS]ET_STACK ioctl calls. This is required
for live migrations.

Patch is based on previous implementation that was part of old
GET/SET_REGS ioctl calls.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:50 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
d0bfb940ec KVM: New guest debug interface
This rips out the support for KVM_DEBUG_GUEST and introduces a new IOCTL
instead: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. The IOCTL payload consists of a generic
part, controlling the "main switch" and the single-step feature. The
arch specific part adds an x86 interface for intercepting both types of
debug exceptions separately and re-injecting them when the host was not
interested. Moveover, the foundation for guest debugging via debug
registers is layed.

To signal breakpoint events properly back to userland, an arch-specific
data block is now returned along KVM_EXIT_DEBUG. For x86, the arch block
contains the PC, the debug exception, and relevant debug registers to
tell debug events properly apart.

The availability of this new interface is signaled by
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. Empty stubs for not yet supported archs are
provided.

Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:49 +02:00
Avi Kivity
7a0eb1960e KVM: Avoid using CONFIG_ in userspace visible headers
Kconfig symbols are not available in userspace, and are not stripped by
headers-install.  Avoid their use by adding #defines in <asm/kvm.h> to
suit each architecture.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-02-15 02:47:35 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
00bfddaf7f include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
Impact: fix 15 make headers_check warnings:

include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:41 -08:00
Jan Kiszka
4531220b71 KVM: x86: Rework user space NMI injection as KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
There is no point in doing the ready_for_nmi_injection/
request_nmi_window dance with user space. First, we don't do this for
in-kernel irqchip anyway, while the code path is the same as for user
space irqchip mode. And second, there is nothing to loose if a pending
NMI is overwritten by another one (in contrast to IRQs where we have to
save the number). Actually, there is even the risk of raising spurious
NMIs this way because the reason for the held-back NMI might already be
handled while processing the first one.

Therefore this patch creates a simplified user space NMI injection
interface, exporting it under KVM_CAP_USER_NMI and dropping the old
KVM_CAP_NMI capability. And this time we also take care to provide the
interface only on archs supporting NMIs via KVM (right now only x86).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Avi Kivity
1a811b6167 KVM: Advertise the bug in memory region destruction as fixed
Userspace might need to act differently.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Sheng Yang
6b9cc7fd46 KVM: Enable MSI for device assignment
We enable guest MSI and host MSI support in this patch. The userspace want to
enable MSI should set KVM_DEV_IRQ_ASSIGN_ENABLE_MSI in the assigned_irq's flag.
Function would return -ENOTTY if can't enable MSI, userspace shouldn't set MSI
Enable bit when KVM_ASSIGN_IRQ return -ENOTTY with
KVM_DEV_IRQ_ASSIGN_ENABLE_MSI.

Userspace can tell the support of MSI device from #ifdef KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSI.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:02 +02:00
Sheng Yang
0937c48d07 KVM: Add fields for MSI device assignment
Prepared for kvm_arch_assigned_device_msi_dispatch().

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:01 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
c4abb7c9cd KVM: x86: Support for user space injected NMIs
Introduces the KVM_NMI IOCTL to the generic x86 part of KVM for
injecting NMIs from user space and also extends the statistic report
accordingly.

Based on the original patch by Sheng Yang.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:42 +02:00
Avi Kivity
bb45e202e6 KVM: Future-proof device assignment ABI
Reserve some space so we can add more data.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-28 14:22:15 +02:00
Xiantao Zhang
2381ad241d KVM: ia64: Add intel iommu support for guests.
With intel iommu hardware, we can assign devices to kvm/ia64 guests.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:39 +02:00
Xiantao Zhang
8a98f6648a KVM: Move device assignment logic to common code
To share with other archs, this patch moves device assignment
logic to common parts.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:33 +02:00
Ben-Ami Yassour
62c476c7c7 KVM: Device Assignment with VT-d
Based on a patch by: Kay, Allen M <allen.m.kay@intel.com>

This patch enables PCI device assignment based on VT-d support.
When a device is assigned to the guest, the guest memory is pinned and
the mapping is updated in the VT-d IOMMU.

[Amit: Expose KVM_CAP_IOMMU so we can check if an IOMMU is present
and also control enable/disable from userspace]

Signed-off-by: Kay, Allen M <allen.m.kay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>

Acked-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:04 +02:00
Ben-Ami Yassour
4d5c5d0fe8 KVM: pci device assignment
Based on a patch from: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>

This patch adds support for handling PCI devices that are assigned to
the guest.

The device to be assigned to the guest is registered in the host kernel
and interrupt delivery is handled.  If a device is already assigned, or
the device driver for it is still loaded on the host, the device
assignment is failed by conveying a -EBUSY reply to the userspace.

Devices that share their interrupt line are not supported at the moment.

By itself, this patch will not make devices work within the guest.
The VT-d extension is required to enable the device to perform DMA.
Another alternative is PVDMA.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:18 +02:00
Christian Ehrhardt
3b4bd7969f KVM: ppc: trace powerpc instruction emulation
This patch adds a trace point for the instruction emulation on embedded powerpc
utilizing the KVM_TRACE interface.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Jerone Young
31711f2294 KVM: ppc: adds trace points for ppc tlb activity
This patch adds trace points to track powerpc TLB activities using the
KVM_TRACE infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Christian Ehrhardt
3f7f95c65e KVM: kvmtrace: replace get_cycles with ktime_get v3
The current kvmtrace code uses get_cycles() while the interpretation would be
easier using using nanoseconds. ktime_get() should give at least the same
accuracy as get_cycles on all architectures (even better on 32bit archs) but
at a better unit (e.g. comparable between hosts with different frequencies.

[avi: avoid ktime_t in public header]

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Christian Ehrhardt
e32c8f2c07 KVM: kvmtrace: Remove use of bit fields in kvm trace structure
This patch fixes kvmtrace use on big endian systems. When using bit fields the
compiler will lay data out in the wrong order expected when laid down into a
file.
This fixes it by using one variable instead of using bit fields.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:14 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
d98e634635 KVM: Move KVM TRACE DEFINITIONS to common header
Move KVM trace definitions from x86 specific kvm headers to common kvm
headers to create a cross-architecture numbering scheme for trace
events. This means the kvmtrace_format userspace tool won't need to know
which architecture produced the log file being processed.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:12 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
1327138e29 KVM: fix userspace ABI breakage
The following part of commit 9ef621d3be
(KVM: Support mixed endian machines) changed on the size of a struct
that is exported to userspace:

include/linux/kvm.h:

@@ -318,14 +318,14 @@ struct kvm_trace_rec {
 	__u32 vcpu_id;
 	union {
 		struct {
-			__u32 cycle_lo, cycle_hi;
+			__u64 cycle_u64;
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
 		} cycle;
 		struct {
 			__u32 extra_u32[KVM_TRC_EXTRA_MAX];
 		} nocycle;
 	} u;
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));

Packing a struct was the correct idea, but it packed the wrong struct.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-08-25 17:28:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity
ed84862433 KVM: Advertise synchronized mmu support to userspace
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-29 12:34:02 +03:00
Tan, Li
9ef621d3be KVM: Support mixed endian machines
Currently kvmtrace is not portable. This will prevent from copying a
trace file from big-endian target to little-endian workstation for analysis.
In the patch, kernel outputs metadata containing a magic number to trace
log, and changes 64-bit words to be u64 instead of a pair of u32s.

Signed-off-by: Tan Li <li.tan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:32 +03:00
Laurent Vivier
5f94c1741b KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (common part)
This patch adds all needed structures to coalesce MMIOs.
Until an architecture uses it, it is not compiled.

Coalesced MMIO introduces two ioctl() to define where are the MMIO zones that
can be coalesced:

- KVM_REGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO registers a coalesced MMIO zone.
  It requests one parameter (struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_zone) which defines
  a memory area where MMIOs can be coalesced until the next switch to
  user space. The maximum number of MMIO zones is KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_ZONE_MAX.

- KVM_UNREGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO cancels all registered zones inside
  the given bounds (bounds are also given by struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_zone).

The userspace client can check kernel coalesced MMIO availability by asking
ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION) for the KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO capability.
The ioctl() call to KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO will return 0 if not supported,
or the page offset where will be stored the ring buffer.
The page offset depends on the architecture.

After an ioctl(KVM_RUN), the first page of the KVM memory mapped points to
a kvm_run structure. The offset given by KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO is
an offset to the coalesced MMIO ring expressed in PAGE_SIZE relatively
to the address of the start of th kvm_run structure. The MMIO ring buffer
is defined by the structure kvm_coalesced_mmio_ring.

[akio: fix oops during guest shutdown]

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
b2312f059c KVM: ppc: Add DCR access information to struct kvm_run
Device Control Registers are essentially another address space found on PowerPC
4xx processors, analogous to PIO on x86. DCRs are always 32 bits, and can be
identified by a 32-bit number. We forward most DCR accesses to userspace for
emulation (with the exception of CPR0 registers, which can be read directly
for simplicity in timebase frequency determination).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:37 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
62d9f0dbc9 KVM: add ioctls to save/store mpstate
So userspace can save/restore the mpstate during migration.

[avi: export the #define constants describing the value]
[christian: add s390 stubs]
[avi: ditto for ia64]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:16 +03:00
Feng (Eric) Liu
2714d1d3d6 KVM: Add trace markers
Trace markers allow userspace to trace execution of a virtual machine
in order to monitor its performance.

Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:01:19 +03:00
Christian Borntraeger
e28acfea5d KVM: s390: intercepts for diagnose instructions
This patch introduces interpretation of some diagnose instruction intercepts.
Diagnose is our classic architected way of doing a hypercall. This patch
features the following diagnose codes:
- vm storage size, that tells the guest about its memory layout
- time slice end, which is used by the guest to indicate that it waits
  for a lock and thus cannot use up its time slice in a useful way
- ipl functions, which a guest can use to reset and reboot itself

In order to implement ipl functions, we also introduce an exit reason that
causes userspace to perform various resets on the virtual machine. All resets
are described in the principles of operation book, except KVM_S390_RESET_IPL
which causes a reboot of the machine.

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <martin.schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:46 +03:00
Carsten Otte
ba5c1e9b6c KVM: s390: interrupt subsystem, cpu timer, waitpsw
This patch contains the s390 interrupt subsystem (similar to in kernel apic)
including timer interrupts (similar to in-kernel-pit) and enabled wait
(similar to in kernel hlt).

In order to achieve that, this patch also introduces intercept handling
for instruction intercepts, and it implements load control instructions.

This patch introduces an ioctl KVM_S390_INTERRUPT which is valid for both
the vm file descriptors and the vcpu file descriptors. In case this ioctl is
issued against a vm file descriptor, the interrupt is considered floating.
Floating interrupts may be delivered to any virtual cpu in the configuration.

The following interrupts are supported:
SIGP STOP       - interprocessor signal that stops a remote cpu
SIGP SET PREFIX - interprocessor signal that sets the prefix register of a
                  (stopped) remote cpu
INT EMERGENCY   - interprocessor interrupt, usually used to signal need_reshed
                  and for smp_call_function() in the guest.
PROGRAM INT     - exception during program execution such as page fault, illegal
                  instruction and friends
RESTART         - interprocessor signal that starts a stopped cpu
INT VIRTIO      - floating interrupt for virtio signalisation
INT SERVICE     - floating interrupt for signalisations from the system
                  service processor

struct kvm_s390_interrupt, which is submitted as ioctl parameter when injecting
an interrupt, also carrys parameter data for interrupts along with the interrupt
type. Interrupts on s390 usually have a state that represents the current
operation, or identifies which device has caused the interruption on s390.

kvm_s390_handle_wait() does handle waitpsw in two flavors: in case of a
disabled wait (that is, disabled for interrupts), we exit to userspace. In case
of an enabled wait we set up a timer that equals the cpu clock comparator value
and sleep on a wait queue.

[christian: change virtio interrupt to 0x2603]

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:44 +03:00
Christian Borntraeger
8f2abe6a1e KVM: s390: sie intercept handling
This path introduces handling of sie intercepts in three flavors: Intercepts
are either handled completely in-kernel by kvm_handle_sie_intercept(),
or passed to userspace with corresponding data in struct kvm_run in case
kvm_handle_sie_intercept() returns -ENOTSUPP.
In case of partial execution in kernel with the need of userspace support,
kvm_handle_sie_intercept() may choose to set up struct kvm_run and return
-EREMOTE.

The trivial intercept reasons are handled in this patch:
handle_noop() just does nothing for intercepts that don't require our support
  at all
handle_stop() is called when a cpu enters stopped state, and it drops out to
  userland after updating our vcpu state
handle_validity() faults in the cpu lowcore if needed, or passes the request
  to userland

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:43 +03:00
Heiko Carstens
b0c632db63 KVM: s390: arch backend for the kvm kernel module
This patch contains the port of Qumranet's kvm kernel module to IBM zSeries
 (aka s390x, mainframe) architecture. It uses the mainframe's virtualization
instruction SIE to run virtual machines with up to 64 virtual CPUs each.
This port is only usable on 64bit host kernels, and can only run 64bit guest
kernels. However, running 31bit applications in guest userspace is possible.

The following source files are introduced by this patch
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c    similar to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c, this implements all
                            arch callbacks for kvm. __vcpu_run calls back into
                            sie64a to enter the guest machine context
arch/s390/kvm/sie64a.S      assembler function sie64a, which enters guest
                            context via SIE, and switches world before and after                            that
include/asm-s390/kvm_host.h contains all vital data structures needed to run
                            virtual machines on the mainframe
include/asm-s390/kvm.h      defines kvm_regs and friends for user access to
                            guest register content
arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.h     functions similar to uaccess to access guest memory
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h    header file for kvm-s390 internals, extended by
                            later patches

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:42 +03:00
Christian Borntraeger
97646202bc KVM: kvm.h: __user requires compiler.h
include/linux/kvm.h defines struct kvm_dirty_log to
	[...]
	union {
		void __user *dirty_bitmap; /* one bit per page */
		__u64 padding;
	};

__user requires compiler.h to compile. Currently, this works on x86
only coincidentally due to other include files. This patch makes
kvm.h compile in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:32 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
2f333bcb4e KVM: MMU: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushes
Hypercall based pte updates are faster than faults, and also allow use
of the lazy MMU mode to batch operations.

Don't report the feature if two dimensional paging is enabled.

[avi:
 - one mmu_op hypercall instead of one per op
 - allow 64-bit gpa on hypercall
 - don't pass host errors (-ENOMEM) to guest]

[akpm: warning fix on i386]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:27 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
a28e4f5a62 KVM: add basic paravirt support
Add basic KVM paravirt support. Avoid vm-exits on IO delays.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:24 +03:00
Sheng Yang
e0f63cb927 KVM: Add save/restore supporting of in kernel PIT
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:22 +03:00
Sheng Yang
7837699fa6 KVM: In kernel PIT model
The patch moves the PIT model from userspace to kernel, and increases
the timer accuracy greatly.

[marcelo: make last_injected_time per-guest]

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:21 +03:00
Avi Kivity
a988b910ef KVM: Add API for determining the number of supported memory slots
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
f725230af9 KVM: Add API to retrieve the number of supported vcpus per vm
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:23 +03:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
18068523d3 KVM: paravirtualized clocksource: host part
This is the host part of kvm clocksource implementation. As it does
not include clockevents, it is a fairly simple implementation. We
only have to register a per-vcpu area, and start writing to it periodically.

The area is binary compatible with xen, as we use the same shadow_info
structure.

[marcelo: fix bad_page on MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME]
[avi: save full value of the msr, even if enable bit is clear]
[avi: clear previous value of time_page]

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:22 +03:00
Avi Kivity
674eea0fc4 KVM: Make the supported cpuid list a host property rather than a vm property
One of the use cases for the supported cpuid list is to create a "greatest
common denominator" of cpu capabilities in a server farm.  As such, it is
useful to be able to get the list without creating a virtual machine first.

Since the code does not depend on the vm in any way, all that is needed is
to move it to the device ioctl handler.  The capability identifier is also
changed so that binaries made against -rc1 will fail gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-03 11:22:25 +02:00
Christian Ehrhardt
6f723c7911 KVM: Portability: Move kvm_fpu to asm-x86/kvm.h
This patch moves kvm_fpu asm-x86/kvm.h to allow every architecture to
define an own representation used for KVM_GET_FPU/KVM_SET_FPU.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:22 +02:00
Avi Kivity
b93463aa59 KVM: Accelerated apic support
This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a
protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if
conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority
than the new tpr).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:20 +02:00
Avi Kivity
b209749f52 KVM: local APIC TPR access reporting facility
Add a facility to report on accesses to the local apic tpr even if the
local apic is emulated in the kernel.  This is basically a hack that
allows userspace to patch Windows which tends to bang on the tpr a lot.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:20 +02:00
Zhang Xiantao
ec10f4750d KVM: Expose ioapic to ia64 save/restore APIs
IA64 also needs to see ioapic structure in irqchip.

Signed-off-by: xiantao.zhang@intel.com <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:19 +02:00
Jerone Young
51e296258c KVM: Add ifdef in irqchip struct for x86 only structures
This patch fixes a small issue where sturctures:
	kvm_pic_state
	kvm_ioapic_state

are defined inside x86 specific code and may or may not
be defined in anyway for other architectures. The problem
caused is one cannot compile userspace apps (ex. libkvm)
for other archs since a size cannot be determined for these
structures.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:15 +02:00
Dan Kenigsberg
0771671749 KVM: Enhance guest cpuid management
The current cpuid management suffers from several problems, which inhibit
passing through the host feature set to the guest:

 - No way to tell which features the host supports

  While some features can be supported with no changes to kvm, others
  need explicit support.  That means kvm needs to vet the feature set
  before it is passed to the guest.

 - No support for indexed or stateful cpuid entries

  Some cpuid entries depend on ecx as well as on eax, or on internal
  state in the processor (running cpuid multiple times with the same
  input returns different output).  The current cpuid machinery only
  supports keying on eax.

 - No support for save/restore/migrate

  The internal state above needs to be exposed to userspace so it can
  be saved or migrated.

This patch adds extended cpuid support by means of three new ioctls:

 - KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID: get all cpuid entries the host (and kvm)
   supports

 - KVM_SET_CPUID2: sets the vcpu's cpuid table

 - KVM_GET_CPUID2: gets the vcpu's cpuid table, including hidden state

[avi: fix original KVM_SET_CPUID not removing nx on non-nx hosts as it did
      before]

Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:13 +02:00
Jerone Young
a162dd5873 KVM: Portability: Move cpuid structures to <asm/kvm.h>
This patch moves structures:
	kvm_cpuid_entry
	kvm_cpuid

from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:08 +02:00
Jerone Young
244d57ece9 KVM: Portability: Move kvm_sregs and msr structures to <asm/kvm.h>
Move structures:
	kvm_sregs
	kvm_msr_entry
	kvm_msrs
	kvm_msr_list

from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:08 +02:00
Jerone Young
3a56b20104 KVM: Portability: Move kvm_segment & kvm_dtable structure to <asm/kvm.h>
This patch moves structures:
	kvm_segment
	kvm_dtable
from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:08 +02:00
Jerone Young
d9ecf92810 KVM: Portability: Move structure lapic_state to <asm/kvm.h>
This patch moves structure lapic_state from include/linux/kvm.h
to include/asm-x86/kvm.h

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:08 +02:00
Jerone Young
19d30b1644 KVM: Portability: Move kvm_regs to <asm/kvm.h>
This patch moves structure kvm_regs to include/asm-x86/kvm.h.
Each architecture will need to create there own version of this
structure.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:07 +02:00
Jerone Young
da1386a5bc KVM: Portability: Move x86 pic strutctures
This patch moves structures:
	kvm_pic_state
	kvm_ioapic_state

to inclue/asm-x86/kvm.h.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:07 +02:00
Jerone Young
f6a40e3bdf KVM: Portability: Move kvm_memory_alias to asm/kvm.h
This patch moves sturct kvm_memory_alias from include/linux/kvm.h
to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Also have include/linux/kvm.h include
include/asm/kvm.h.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:53:07 +02:00
Izik Eidus
cbc9402297 KVM: Add ioctl to tss address from userspace,
Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use
as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel.  This patch moves the allocation
internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address
space we can place the tss.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:52:56 +02:00
Izik Eidus
6fc138d227 KVM: Support assigning userspace memory to the guest
Instead of having the kernel allocate memory to the guest, let userspace
allocate it and pass the address to the kernel.

This is required for s390 support, but also enables features like memory
sharing and using hugetlbfs backed memory.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 17:52:51 +02:00
Izik Eidus
82ce2c9683 KVM: Allow dynamic allocation of the mmu shadow cache size
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>
2008-01-30 17:52:50 +02:00
Avi Kivity
8a45450d0a KVM: Replace enum by #define
Easier for existence test (#ifdef) in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:29 +02:00
Eddie Dong
96ad2cc613 KVM: in-kernel LAPIC save and restore support
This patch adds a new vcpu-based IOCTL to save and restore the local
apic registers for a single vcpu. The kernel only copies the apic page as
a whole, extraction of registers is left to userspace side. On restore, the
APIC timer is restarted from the initial count, this introduces a little
delay, but works fine.

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>
2007-10-13 10:18:25 +02:00
He, Qing
6bf9e962d1 KVM: in-kernel IOAPIC save and restore support
This patch adds support for in-kernel ioapic save and restore (to
and from userspace). It uses the same get/set_irqchip ioctl as
in-kernel PIC.

Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:25 +02:00
He, Qing
6ceb9d791e KVM: Add get/set irqchip ioctls for in-kernel PIC live migration support
This patch adds two new ioctls to dump and write kernel irqchips for
save/restore and live migration. PIC s/r and l/m is implemented in this
patch.

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>
2007-10-13 10:18:25 +02:00
Eddie Dong
b6958ce44a KVM: Emulate hlt in the kernel
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>
2007-10-13 10:18:25 +02:00
Eddie Dong
97222cc831 KVM: Emulate local APIC in kernel
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>
2007-10-13 10:18:25 +02:00
Eddie Dong
85f455f7dd KVM: Add support for in-kernel PIC emulation
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:24 +02:00
Yang, Sheng
253abdee5e KVM: Communicate cr8 changes to userspace
This allows running 64-bit Windows.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:23 +02:00
Jeff Dike
519ef35341 KVM: add hypercall nr to kvm_run
Add the hypercall number to kvm_run and initialize it.  This changes the ABI,
but as this particular ABI was unusable before this no users are affected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:20 +02:00
Rusty Russell
9eb829ced8 KVM: Trivial: Use standard BITMAP macros, open-code userspace-exposed header
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>
2007-10-13 10:18:18 +02:00
Rusty Russell
dea8caee7b KVM: Trivial: /dev/kvm interface is no longer experimental.
KVM interface is no longer experimental.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:17 +02:00
Avi Kivity
24cbc7e9cb KVM: Future-proof the exit information union ABI
Note that as the size of struct kvm_run is not part of the ABI, we can add
things at the end.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:17 +02:00
Avi Kivity
2ff81f70b5 KVM: Remove unused 'instruction_length'
As we no longer emulate in userspace, this is meaningless.  We don't
compute it on SVM anyway.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:32 +03:00
Avi Kivity
02c8320972 KVM: Don't require explicit indication of completion of mmio or pio
It is illegal not to return from a pio or mmio request without completing
it, as mmio or pio is an atomic operation.  Therefore, we can simplify
the userspace interface by avoiding the completion indication.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:32 +03:00
Avi Kivity
b8836737d9 KVM: Add fpu get/set operations
These are really helpful when migrating an floating point app to another
machine.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity
e8207547d2 KVM: Add physical memory aliasing feature
With this, we can specify that accesses to one physical memory range will
be remapped to another.  This is useful for the vga window at 0xa0000 which
is used as a movable window into the (much larger) framebuffer.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity
039576c03c KVM: Avoid guest virtual addresses in string pio userspace interface
The current string pio interface communicates using guest virtual addresses,
relying on userspace to translate addresses and to check permissions.  This
interface cannot fully support guest smp, as the check needs to take into
account two pages at one in case an unaligned string transfer straddles a
page boundary.

Change the interface not to communicate guest addresses at all; instead use
a buffer page (mmaped by userspace) and do transfers there.  The kernel
manages the virtual to physical translation and can perform the checks
atomically by taking the appropriate locks.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity
07c45a366d KVM: Allow kernel to select size of mmap() buffer
This allows us to store offsets in the kernel/user kvm_run area, and be
sure that userspace has them mapped.  As offsets can be outside the
kvm_run struct, userspace has no way of knowing how much to mmap.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
1961d276c8 KVM: Add guest mode signal mask
Allow a special signal mask to be used while executing in guest mode.  This
allows signals to be used to interrupt a vcpu without requiring signal
delivery to a userspace handler, which is quite expensive.  Userspace still
receives -EINTR and can get the signal via sigwait().

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
1b19f3e61d KVM: Add a special exit reason when exiting due to an interrupt
This is redundant, as we also return -EINTR from the ioctl, but it
allows us to examine the exit_reason field on resume without seeing
old data.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
8eb7d334bd KVM: Fold kvm_run::exit_type into kvm_run::exit_reason
Currently, userspace is told about the nature of the last exit from the
guest using two fields, exit_type and exit_reason, where exit_type has
just two enumerations (and no need for more).  So fold exit_type into
exit_reason, reducing the complexity of determining what really happened.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
b4e63f560b KVM: Allow userspace to process hypercalls which have no kernel handler
This is useful for paravirtualized graphics devices, for example.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
5d308f4550 KVM: Add method to check for backwards-compatible API extensions
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity
739872c56f KVM: Renumber ioctls
The recent changes have left the ioctl numbers in complete disarray.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
2a4dac3952 KVM: Remove minor wart from KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl
That ioctl does not transfer any data, so it should be an _IO rather than an
_IOW.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
106b552b43 KVM: Remove the 'emulated' field from the userspace interface
We no longer emulate single instructions in userspace.  Instead, we service
mmio or pio requests.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
06465c5a3a KVM: Handle cpuid in the kernel instead of punting to userspace
KVM used to handle cpuid by letting userspace decide what values to
return to the guest.  We now handle cpuid completely in the kernel.  We
still let userspace decide which values the guest will see by having
userspace set up the value table beforehand (this is necessary to allow
management software to set the cpu features to the least common denominator,
so that live migration can work).

The motivation for the change is that kvm kernel code can be impacted by
cpuid features, for example the x86 emulator.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
46fc147788 KVM: Do not communicate to userspace through cpu registers during PIO
Currently when passing the a PIO emulation request to userspace, we
rely on userspace updating %rax (on 'in' instructions) and %rsi/%rdi/%rcx
(on string instructions).  This (a) requires two extra ioctls for getting
and setting the registers and (b) is unfriendly to non-x86 archs, when
they get kvm ports.

So fix by doing the register fixups in the kernel and passing to userspace
only an abstract description of the PIO to be done.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
9a2bb7f486 KVM: Use a shared page for kernel/user communication when runing a vcpu
Instead of passing a 'struct kvm_run' back and forth between the kernel and
userspace, allocate a page and allow the user to mmap() it.  This reduces
needless copying and makes the interface expandable by providing lots of
free space.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity
f7e6a45ad9 KVM: Bump API version
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04 11:12:42 +02:00
Avi Kivity
bccf2150fe KVM: Per-vcpu inodes
Allocate a distinct inode for every vcpu in a VM.  This has the following
benefits:

 - the filp cachelines are no longer bounced when f_count is incremented on
   every ioctl()
 - the API and internal code are distinctly clearer; for example, on the
   KVM_GET_REGS ioctl, there is no need to copy the vcpu number from
   userspace and then copy the registers back; the vcpu identity is derived
   from the fd used to make the call

Right now the performance benefits are completely theoretical since (a) we
don't support more than one vcpu per VM and (b) virtualization hardware
inefficiencies completely everwhelm any cacheline bouncing effects.  But
both of these will change, and we need to prepare the API today.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04 11:12:42 +02:00
Avi Kivity
f17abe9a44 KVM: Create an inode per virtual machine
This avoids having filp->f_op and the corresponding inode->i_fop different,
which is a little unorthodox.

The ioctl list is split into two: global kvm ioctls and per-vm ioctls.  A new
ioctl, KVM_CREATE_VM, is used to create VMs and return the VM fd.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04 11:12:42 +02:00
Avi Kivity
8cd133073f [PATCH] kvm: Fix mismatch between 32-bit and 64-bit abi
Unfortunately requiring a version bump.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
Dor Laor
54810342f1 [PATCH] kvm: Two-way apic tpr synchronization
We report the value of cr8 to userspace on an exit.  Also let userspace change
cr8 when we re-enter the guest.  The lets 64-bit guest code maintain the tpr
correctly.

Thanks for Yaniv Kamay for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
Joerg Roedel
46fe4ddd9d [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Propagate cpu shutdown events to userspace
This patch implements forwarding of SHUTDOWN intercepts from the guest on to
userspace on AMD SVM.  A SHUTDOWN event occurs when the guest produces a
triple fault (e.g.  on reboot).  This also fixes the bug that a guest reboot
actually causes a host reboot under some circumstances.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:57 -08:00
Dor Laor
c1150d8cf9 [PATCH] KVM: Improve interrupt response
The current interrupt injection mechanism might delay an interrupt under
the following circumstances:

 - if injection fails because the guest is not interruptible (rflags.IF clear,
   or after a 'mov ss' or 'sti' instruction).  Userspace can check rflags,
   but the other cases or not testable under the current API.
 - if injection fails because of a fault during delivery.  This probably
   never happens under normal guests.
 - if injection fails due to a physical interrupt causing a vmexit so that
   it can be handled by the host.

In all cases the guest proceeds without processing the interrupt, reducing
the interactive feel and interrupt throughput of the guest.

This patch fixes the situation by allowing userspace to request an exit
when the 'interrupt window' opens, so that it can re-inject the interrupt
at the right time.  Guest interactivity is very visibly improved.

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05 23:55:22 -08:00
Avi Kivity
0b76e20b27 [PATCH] KVM: API versioning
Add compile-time and run-time API versioning.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:46 -08:00
Avi Kivity
6aa8b732ca [PATCH] kvm: userspace interface
web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net

mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
  (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel)

The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization
extensions to the x86 architecture.  The driver adds a character device
(/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace.  Using
this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully
virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and
display.

Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host.

Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in
that process.  kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected.  In effect, the
driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel
mode, user mode, and guest mode.  Guest mode has its own address space mapping
guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing
/dev/kvm).  Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is
intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation.

The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests.  All combinations are
allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host.  For i386 guests and hosts, both pae
and non-pae paging modes are supported.

SMP hosts and UP guests are supported.  At the moment only Intel
hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on.

Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the
mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries
every context switch.  We plan to address this in two ways:

- cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes
- wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables

Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU.  Under
Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent
CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization.  Linux/X is slower, probably due
to X being in a separate process.

In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O
device emulation and the BIOS.

Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true):

- The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the
  virtual APIC.  We are working on a fix.  A temporary workaround is to
  use an existing image or install through qemu
- Windows 64-bit does not work.  That's also true for qemu, so it's
  probably a problem with the device model.

[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes]
[uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap]
[akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix]
[mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes]
[rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings]
[anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support]
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se>
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00