This allows the kvm mmu to perform sleepy operations, such as memory
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Current kvm disables preemption while the new virtualization registers are
in use. This of course is not very good for latency sensitive workloads (one
use of virtualization is to offload user interface and other latency
insensitive stuff to a container, so that it is easier to analyze the
remaining workload). This patch re-enables preemption for kvm; preemption
is now only disabled when switching the registers in and out, and during
the switch to guest mode and back.
Contains fixes from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch converts the vcpus array in "struct kvm" to a pointer
array, and changes the "vcpu_create" and "vcpu_setup" hooks into one
"vcpu_create" call which does the allocation and initialization of the
vcpu (calling back into the kvm_vcpu_init core helper).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
struct kvm_vcpu has vmx-specific members; remove them to a private structure.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
gfn_to_page might sleep with swap support. Move it out of the kmap calls.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Creating one's own BITMAP macro seems suboptimal: if we use manual
arithmetic in the one place exposed to userspace, we can use standard
macros elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
On this machine (Intel), writing to the CR4 bits 0x00000800 and
0x00001000 cause a GPF. The Intel manual is a little unclear, but
AFIACT they're reserved, too.
Also fix spelling of CR4_RESEVED_BITS.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kernel now has asm/cpu-features.h: use those macros instead of inventing
our own.
Also spell out definition of CR3_RESEVED_BITS, fix spelling and
tighten it for the non-PAE case.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kernel now has asm/cpu-features.h: use those macros instead of
inventing our own.
Also spell out definition of CR0_RESEVED_BITS (no code change) and fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds a `vcpu_id' field in `struct vcpu', so we can
differentiate BSP and APs without pointer comparison or arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A guest context switch to an uncached cr3 can require allocation of
shadow pages, but we only recycle shadow pages in kvm_mmu_page_fault().
Move shadow page recycling to mmu_topup_memory_caches(), which is called
from both the page fault handler and from guest cr3 reload.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow real-mode emulation of rdmsr and wrmsr. This allows smp Windows to
boot, presumably for its sipi trampoline.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The memory slot management functions were oriented against vcpu 0, where
they should be kvm-wide. This causes hangs starting X on guest smp.
Fix by making the functions (and resultant tail in the mmu) non-vcpu-specific.
Unfortunately this reduces the efficiency of the mmu object cache a bit. We
may have to revisit this later.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We need to distinguish between large page shadows which have the nx bit set
and those which don't. The problem shows up when booting a newer smp Linux
kernel, where the trampoline page (which is in real mode, which uses the
same shadow pages as large pages) is using the same mapping as a kernel data
page, which is mapped using nx, causing kvm to spin on that page.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a vcpu causes a shadow tlb entry to have reduced permissions, it
must also clear the tlb on remote vcpus. We do that by:
- setting a bit on the vcpu that requests a tlb flush before the next entry
- if the vcpu is currently executing, we send an ipi to make sure it
exits before we continue
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Switch guest paging context may require us to allocate memory, which
might fail. Instead of wiring up error paths everywhere, make context
switching lazy and actually do the switch before the next guest entry,
where we can return an error if allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM compilation fails for some .configs. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
MSR_EFER.LME/LMA bits are automatically save/restored by VMX
hardware, KVM only needs to save NX/SCE bits at time of heavy
weight VM Exit. But clearing NX bits in host envirnment may
cause system hang if the host page table is using EXB bits,
thus we leave NX bits as it is. If Host NX=1 and guest NX=0, we
can do guest page table EXB bits check before inserting a shadow
pte (though no guest is expecting to see this kind of gp fault).
If host NX=0, we present guest no Execute-Disable feature to guest,
thus no host NX=0, guest NX=1 combination.
This patch reduces raw vmexit time by ~27%.
Me: fix compile warnings on i386.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
In a lightweight exit (where we exit and reenter the guest without
scheduling or exiting to userspace in between), we don't need various
msrs on the host, and avoiding shuffling them around reduces raw exit
time by 8%.
i386 compile fix by Daniel Hecken <dh@bahntechnik.de>.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The lightweight vmexit path avoids saving and reloading certain host
state. However in certain cases lightweight vmexit handling can schedule()
which requires reloading the host state.
So we store the host state in the vcpu structure, and reloaded it if we
relinquish the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of calling two functions and repeating expensive checks, call one
function and provide it with before/after information.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Many msrs and the like will only be used by the host if we schedule() or
return to userspace. Therefore, we avoid saving them if we handle the
exit within the kernel, and if a reschedule is not requested.
Based on a patch from Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> with a couple of
fixes by me.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu(Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The lazy fpu changes did not take into account that some vmexit handlers
can sleep. Move loading the guest state into the inner loop so that it
can be reloaded if necessary, and move loading the host state into
vmx_vcpu_put() so it can be performed whenever we relinquish the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
getting them indirectly
Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
Cross-compile tested on
all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
alpha alpha-up
arm
i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
ia64 ia64-up
m68k
mips
parisc parisc-up
powerpc powerpc-up
s390 s390-up
sparc sparc-up
sparc64 sparc64-up
um-x86_64
x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When emulating an mmio read, we actually emulate twice: once to determine
the physical address of the mmio, and, after we've exited to userspace to
get the mmio value, we emulate again to place the value in the result
register and update any flags.
But we don't really need to enter the guest again for that, only to take
an immediate vmexit. So, if we detect that we're doing an mmio read,
emulate a single instruction before entering the guest again.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Set all of the host mask bits for CR0 so that we can maintain a proper
shadow of CR0. This exposes CR0.TS, paving the way for lazy fpu handling.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Avoid saving and restoring the guest fpu state on every exit. This
shaves ~100 cycles off the guest/host switch.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Make the exit statistics per-vcpu instead of global. This gives a 3.5%
boost when running one virtual machine per core on my two socket dual core
(4 cores total) machine.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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>
Mapping a guest page to a host page is a common operation. Currently,
one has first to find the memory slot where the page belongs (gfn_to_memslot),
then locate the page itself (gfn_to_page()).
This is clumsy, and also won't work well with memory aliases. So simplify
gfn_to_page() not to require memory slot translation first, and instead do it
internally.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Functions that play around with the physical memory map
need a way to clear mappings to possibly nonexistent or
invalid memory. Both the mmu cache and the processor tlb
are cleared.
Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a vcpu is migrated from one cpu to another, its timestamp counter
may lose its monotonic property if the host has unsynced timestamp counters.
This can confuse the guest, sometimes to the point of refusing to boot.
As the rdtsc instruction is rather fast on AMD processors (7-10 cycles),
we can simply record the last host tsc when we drop the cpu, and adjust
the vcpu tsc offset when we detect that we've migrated to a different cpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kvm mmu keeps a shadow page for hugepage pdes; if several such pdes map
the same physical address, they share the same shadow page. This is a fairly
common case (kernel mappings on i386 nonpae Linux, for example).
However, if the two pdes map the same memory but with different permissions, kvm
will happily use the cached shadow page. If the access through the more
permissive pde will occur after the access to the strict pde, an endless pagefault
loop will be generated and the guest will make no progress.
Fix by making the access permissions part of the cache lookup key.
The fix allows Xen pae to boot on kvm and run guest domains.
Thanks to Jeremy Fitzhardinge for reporting the bug and testing the fix.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
set_cr0_no_modeswitch() was a hack to avoid corrupting segment registers.
As we now cache the protected mode values on entry to real mode, this
isn't an issue anymore, and it interferes with reboot (which usually _is_
a modeswitch).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The initial, noncaching, version of the kvm mmu flushed the all nonglobal
shadow page table translations (much like a native tlb flush). The new
implementation flushes translations only when they change, rendering global
pte tracking superfluous.
This removes the unused tracking mechanism and storage space.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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>
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>
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>
