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Jan Kiszka 9bc5791d4a KVM: x86: Add module parameter for lapic periodic timer limit
Certain guests, specifically RTOSes, request faster periodic timers than
what we allow by default. Add a module parameter to adjust the limit for
non-standard setups. Also add a rate-limited warning in case the guest
requested more.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:44 +03:00
Jan Kiszka bd80158aff KVM: Clean up and extend rate-limited output
The use of printk_ratelimit is discouraged, replace it with
pr*_ratelimited or __ratelimit. While at it, convert remaining
guest-triggerable printks to rate-limited variants.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:43 +03:00
Jan Kiszka 7712de872c KVM: x86: Avoid guest-triggerable printks in APIC model
Convert remaining printks that the guest can trigger to apic_printk.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:42 +03:00
Jan Kiszka 1e2b1dd797 KVM: x86: Move kvm_trace_exit into atomic vmexit section
This avoids that events causing the vmexit are recorded before the
actual exit reason.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:41 +03:00
Avi Kivity caa8a168e3 KVM: x86 emulator: disable writeback for TEST
The TEST instruction doesn't write its destination operand.  This
could cause problems if an MMIO register was accessed using the TEST
instruction.  Recently Windows XP was observed to use TEST against
the APIC ICR; this can cause spurious IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:40 +03:00
Jan Kiszka c61fa9d63b KVM: Avoid needless registrations of IRQ ack notifier for assigned devices
We only perform work in kvm_assigned_dev_ack_irq if the guest IRQ is of
INTx type. This completely avoids the callback invocation in non-INTx
cases by registering the IRQ ack notifier only for INTx.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:39 +03:00
Jan Kiszka 9f9f6b7877 KVM: Clean up unneeded void pointer casts
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:38 +03:00
Avi Kivity e8f2b1d621 KVM: x86 emulator: simplify emulate_1op_rax_rdx()
emulate_1op_rax_rdx() is always called with the same parameters.  Simplify
by passing just the emulation context.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:37 +03:00
Avi Kivity 9fef72ce10 KVM: x86 emulator: merge the two emulate_1op_rax_rdx implementations
We have two emulate-with-extended-accumulator implementations: once
which expect traps (_ex) and one which doesn't (plain).  Drop the
plain implementation and always use the one which expects traps;
it will simply return 0 in the _ex argument and we can happily ignore
it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:36 +03:00
Avi Kivity d1eef45d59 KVM: x86 emulator: simplify emulate_1op()
emulate_1op() is always called with the same parameters.  Simplify
by passing just the emulation context.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:35 +03:00
Avi Kivity 29053a60d7 KVM: x86 emulator: simplify emulate_2op_cl()
emulate_2op_cl() is always called with the same parameters.  Simplify
by passing just the emulation context.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:34 +03:00
Avi Kivity 761441b9f4 KVM: x86 emulator: simplify emulate_2op_cl()
emulate_2op_cl() is always called with the same parameters.  Simplify
by passing just the emulation context.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:33 +03:00
Avi Kivity a31b9ceadb KVM: x86 emulator: simplify emulate_2op_SrcV()
emulate_2op_SrcV(), and its siblings, emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
and emulate_2op_SrcB(), all use the same calling conventions
and all get passed exactly the same parameters.  Simplify them
by passing just the emulation context.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:32 +03:00
Alexander Graf 821246a5a5 KVM: Update documentation to include detailed ENABLE_CAP description
We have an ioctl that enables capabilities individually, but no description
on what exactly happens when we enable a capability using this ioctl.

This patch adds documentation for capability enabling in a new section
of the API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:31 +03:00
Paul Mackerras 19ccb76a19 KVM: PPC: Implement H_CEDE hcall for book3s_hv in real-mode code
With a KVM guest operating in SMT4 mode (i.e. 4 hardware threads per
core), whenever a CPU goes idle, we have to pull all the other
hardware threads in the core out of the guest, because the H_CEDE
hcall is handled in the kernel.  This is inefficient.

This adds code to book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S to handle the H_CEDE hcall
in real mode.  When a guest vcpu does an H_CEDE hcall, we now only
exit to the kernel if all the other vcpus in the same core are also
idle.  Otherwise we mark this vcpu as napping, save state that could
be lost in nap mode (mainly GPRs and FPRs), and execute the nap
instruction.  When the thread wakes up, because of a decrementer or
external interrupt, we come back in at kvm_start_guest (from the
system reset interrupt vector), find the `napping' flag set in the
paca, and go to the resume path.

This has some other ramifications.  First, when starting a core, we
now start all the threads, both those that are immediately runnable and
those that are idle.  This is so that we don't have to pull all the
threads out of the guest when an idle thread gets a decrementer interrupt
and wants to start running.  In fact the idle threads will all start
with the H_CEDE hcall returning; being idle they will just do another
H_CEDE immediately and go to nap mode.

This required some changes to kvmppc_run_core() and kvmppc_run_vcpu().
These functions have been restructured to make them simpler and clearer.
We introduce a level of indirection in the wait queue that gets woken
when external and decrementer interrupts get generated for a vcpu, so
that we can have the 4 vcpus in a vcore using the same wait queue.
We need this because the 4 vcpus are being handled by one thread.

Secondly, when we need to exit from the guest to the kernel, we now
have to generate an IPI for any napping threads, because an HDEC
interrupt doesn't wake up a napping thread.

Thirdly, we now need to be able to handle virtual external interrupts
and decrementer interrupts becoming pending while a thread is napping,
and deliver those interrupts to the guest when the thread wakes.
This is done in kvmppc_cede_reentry, just before fast_guest_return.

Finally, since we are not using the generic kvm_vcpu_block for book3s_hv,
and hence not calling kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable, we can remove the #ifdef
from kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:30 +03:00
Paul Mackerras 0214394760 KVM: PPC: book3s_pr: Simplify transitions between virtual and real mode
This simplifies the way that the book3s_pr makes the transition to
real mode when entering the guest.  We now call kvmppc_entry_trampoline
(renamed from kvmppc_rmcall) in the base kernel using a normal function
call instead of doing an indirect call through a pointer in the vcpu.
If kvm is a module, the module loader takes care of generating a
trampoline as it does for other calls to functions outside the module.

kvmppc_entry_trampoline then disables interrupts and jumps to
kvmppc_handler_trampoline_enter in real mode using an rfi[d].
That then uses the link register as the address to return to
(potentially in module space) when the guest exits.

This also simplifies the way that we call the Linux interrupt handler
when we exit the guest due to an external, decrementer or performance
monitor interrupt.  Instead of turning on the MMU, then deciding that
we need to call the Linux handler and turning the MMU back off again,
we now go straight to the handler at the point where we would turn the
MMU on.  The handler will then return to the virtual-mode code
(potentially in the module).

Along the way, this moves the setting and clearing of the HID5 DCBZ32
bit into real-mode interrupts-off code, and also makes sure that
we clear the MSR[RI] bit before loading values into SRR0/1.

The net result is that we no longer need any code addresses to be
stored in vcpu->arch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:29 +03:00
Paul Mackerras 177339d7f7 KVM: PPC: Assemble book3s{,_hv}_rmhandlers.S separately
This makes arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_rmhandlers.S and
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S be assembled as
separate compilation units rather than having them #included in
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S.  We no longer have any
conditional branches between the exception prologs in
exceptions-64s.S and the KVM handlers, so there is no need to
keep their contents close together in the vmlinux image.

In their current location, they are using up part of the limited
space between the first-level interrupt handlers and the firmware
NMI data area at offset 0x7000, and with some kernel configurations
this area will overflow (e.g. allyesconfig), leading to an
"attempt to .org backwards" error when compiling exceptions-64s.S.

Moving them out requires that we add some #includes that the
book3s_{,hv_}rmhandlers.S code was previously getting implicitly
via exceptions-64s.S.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:28 +03:00
Alexander Graf af8f38b349 KVM: PPC: Add sanity checking to vcpu_run
There are multiple features in PowerPC KVM that can now be enabled
depending on the user's wishes. Some of the combinations don't make
sense or don't work though.

So this patch adds a way to check if the executing environment would
actually be able to run the guest properly. It also adds sanity
checks if PVR is set (should always be true given the current code
flow), if PAPR is only used with book3s_64 where it works and that
HV KVM is only used in PAPR mode.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:27 +03:00
Alexander Graf 930b412a00 KVM: PPC: Enable the PAPR CAP for Book3S
Now that Book3S PV mode can also run PAPR guests, we can add a PAPR cap and
enable it for all Book3S targets. Enabling that CAP switches KVM into PAPR
mode.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:26 +03:00
Alexander Graf a668f2bd3f KVM: PPC: Support SC1 hypercalls for PAPR in PR mode
PAPR defines hypercalls as SC1 instructions. Using these, the guest modifies
page tables and does other privileged operations that it wouldn't be allowed
to do in supervisor mode.

This patch adds support for PR KVM to trap these instructions and route them
through the same PAPR hypercall interface that we already use for HV style
KVM.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:25 +03:00
Alexander Graf aacf9aa3a7 KVM: PPC: Stub emulate CFAR and PURR SPRs
Recent Linux versions use the CFAR and PURR SPRs, but don't really care about
their contents (yet). So for now, we can simply return 0 when the guest wants
to read them.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:25 +03:00
Alexander Graf 0254f07429 KVM: PPC: Add PAPR hypercall code for PR mode
When running a PAPR guest, we need to handle a few hypercalls in kernel space,
most prominently the page table invalidation (to sync the shadows).

So this patch adds handling for a few PAPR hypercalls to PR mode KVM. I tried
to share the code with HV mode, but it ended up being a lot easier this way
around, as the two differ too much in those details.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

---

v1 -> v2:

  - whitespace fix
2011-09-25 19:52:24 +03:00
Alexander Graf a15bd354f0 KVM: PPC: Add support for explicit HIOR setting
Until now, we always set HIOR based on the PVR, but this is just wrong.
Instead, we should be setting HIOR explicitly, so user space can decide
what the initial HIOR value is - just like on real hardware.

We keep the old PVR based way around for backwards compatibility, but
once user space uses the SREGS based method, we drop the PVR logic.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:23 +03:00
Alexander Graf 77e675ad82 KVM: PPC: Read out syscall instruction on trap
We have a few traps where we cache the instruction that cause the trap
for analysis later on. Since we now need to be able to distinguish
between SC 0 and SC 1 system calls and the only way to find out which
is which is by looking at the instruction, we also read out the instruction
causing the system call.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:22 +03:00
Alexander Graf 04fcc11bb5 KVM: PPC: Interpret SDR1 as HVA in PAPR mode
When running a PAPR guest, the guest is not allowed to set SDR1 - instead
the HTAB information is held in internal hypervisor structures. But all of
our current code relies on SDR1 and walking the HTAB like on real hardware.

So in order to not be too intrusive, we simply set SDR1 to the HTAB we hold
in host memory. That way we can keep the HTAB in user space, but use it from
kernel space to map the guest.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:21 +03:00
Alexander Graf 317a8fa304 KVM: PPC: Check privilege level on SPRs
We have 3 privilege levels: problem state, supervisor state and hypervisor
state. Each of them can access different SPRs, so we need to check on every
SPR if it's accessible in the respective mode.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:20 +03:00
Alexander Graf 9432ba6015 KVM: PPC: Add papr_enabled flag
When running a PAPR guest, some things change. The privilege level drops
from hypervisor to supervisor, SDR1 gets treated differently and we interpret
hypercalls. For bisectability sake, add the flag now, but only enable it when
all the support code is there.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:19 +03:00
Alexander Graf db507c300e KVM: PPC: move compute_tlbie_rb to book3s common header
We need the compute_tlbie_rb in _pr and _hv implementations for papr
soon, so let's move it over to a common header file that both
implementations can leverage.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-09-25 19:52:18 +03:00
Avi Kivity 364426871c KVM: Restore missing powerpc API docs
Commit 371fefd6 lost a doc hunk somehow, restore it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:18 +03:00
Kevin Tian 58fbbf26eb KVM: APIC: avoid instruction emulation for EOI writes
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.

a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:52:17 +03:00
Nadav Har'El 45133ecaae KVM: SVM: Fix TSC MSR read in nested SVM
When the TSC MSR is read by an L2 guest (when L1 allowed this MSR to be
read without exit), we need to return L2's notion of the TSC, not L1's.

The current code incorrectly returned L1 TSC, because svm_get_msr() was also
used in x86.c where this was assumed, but now that these places call the new
svm_read_l1_tsc(), the MSR read can be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:03 +03:00
Nadav Har'El 27fc51b21c KVM: nVMX: Fix nested VMX TSC emulation
This patch fixes two corner cases in nested (L2) handling of TSC-related
issues:

1. Somewhat suprisingly, according to the Intel spec, if L1 allows WRMSR to
the TSC MSR without an exit, then this should set L1's TSC value itself - not
offset by vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET (like was wrongly done in the previous code).

2. Allow L1 to disable the TSC_OFFSETING control, and then correctly ignore
the vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:02 +03:00
Nadav Har'El d5c1785d2f KVM: L1 TSC handling
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>
2011-09-25 19:18:02 +03:00
Sasha Levin e1a72ae287 KVM: nVMX: Document 'nested' parameter
Add documentation of the new 'nested' parameter to
'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt'.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:02 +03:00
Yang, Wei Y cd46868c7f KVM: MMU: Fix SMEP failure during fetch
This patch fix kvm-unit-tests hanging and incorrect PT_ACCESSED_MASK
bit set in the case of SMEP fault.  The code updated 'eperm' after
the variable was checked.

Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:02 +03:00
Avi Kivity e4e517b4be KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory
Architecturally, PDPTEs are cached in the PDPTRs when CR3 is reloaded.
On SVM, it is not possible to implement this, but on VMX this is possible
and was indeed implemented until nested SVM changed this to unconditionally
read PDPTEs dynamically.  This has noticable impact when running PAE guests.

Fix by changing the MMU to read PDPTRs from the cache, falling back to
reading from memory for the nested MMU.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:01 +03:00
Julia Lawall cf3ace79c0 KVM: VMX: trivial: use BUG_ON
Use BUG_ON(x) rather than if(x) BUG();

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@ identifier x; @@
-if (x) BUG();
+BUG_ON(x);

@@ identifier x; @@
-if (!x) BUG();
+BUG_ON(!x);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:01 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 742bc67042 KVM: x86: report valid microcode update ID
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>
2011-09-25 19:18:01 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 1d2887e2d8 KVM: x86 emulator: Make x86_decode_insn() return proper macros
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>
2011-09-25 19:18:01 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 7d88bb4803 KVM: x86 emulator: Let compiler know insn_fetch() rarely fails
Fetching the instruction which was to be executed by the guest cannot
fail normally.  So compiler should always predict that it will succeed.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:00 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa e85a10852c KVM: x86 emulator: Drop _size argument from insn_fetch()
_type is enough to know the size.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:59 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 807941b121 KVM: x86 emulator: Use ctxt->_eip directly in do_insn_fetch_byte()
Instead of passing ctxt->_eip from insn_fetch() call sites, get it from
ctxt in do_insn_fetch_byte().  This is done by replacing the argument
_eip of insn_fetch() with _ctxt, which should be better than letting the
macro use ctxt silently in its body.

Though this changes the place where ctxt->_eip is incremented from
insn_fetch() to do_insn_fetch_byte(), this does not have any real
effect.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:59 +03:00
Sasha Levin 743eeb0b01 KVM: Intelligent device lookup on I/O bus
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>
2011-09-25 19:17:59 +03:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 0d460ffc09 KVM: Use __print_symbolic() for vmexit tracepoints
The vmexit tracepoints format the exit_reason to make it human-readable.
Since the exit_reason depends on the instruction set (vmx or svm),
formatting is handled with ftrace_print_symbols_seq() by referring to
the appropriate exit reason table.

However, the ftrace_print_symbols_seq() function is not meant to be used
directly in tracepoints since it does not export the formatting table
which userspace tools like trace-cmd and perf use to format traces.

In practice perf dies when formatting vmexit-related events and
trace-cmd falls back to printing the numeric value (with extra
formatting code in the kvm plugin to paper over this limitation).  Other
userspace consumers of vmexit-related tracepoints would be in similar
trouble.

To avoid significant changes to the kvm_exit tracepoint, this patch
moves the vmx and svm exit reason tables into arch/x86/kvm/trace.h and
selects the right table with __print_symbolic() depending on the
instruction set.  Note that __print_symbolic() is designed for exporting
the formatting table to userspace and allows trace-cmd and perf to work.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:59 +03:00
Stefan Hajnoczi e097e5ffd6 KVM: Record instruction set in all vmexit tracepoints
The kvm_exit tracepoint recently added the isa argument to aid decoding
exit_reason.  The semantics of exit_reason depend on the instruction set
(vmx or svm) and the isa argument allows traces to be analyzed on other
machines.

Add the isa argument to kvm_nested_vmexit and kvm_nested_vmexit_inject
so these tracepoints can also be self-describing.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:58 +03:00
Mike Waychison d1613ad5d0 KVM: Really fix HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE
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>
2011-09-25 19:17:58 +03:00
Mike Waychison 14fa67ee95 KVM: x86: get_msr support for HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE
"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>
2011-09-25 19:17:58 +03:00
Sasha Levin 2b3c246a68 KVM: Make coalesced mmio use a device per zone
This patch changes coalesced mmio to create one mmio device per
zone instead of handling all zones in one device.

Doing so enables us to take advantage of existing locking and prevents
a race condition between coalesced mmio registration/unregistration
and lookups.

Suggested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:57 +03:00
Sasha Levin 8c3ba334f8 KVM: x86: Raise the hard VCPU count limit
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>
2011-09-25 19:17:57 +03:00
Sasha Levin c298125f4b KVM: MMIO: Lock coalesced device when checking for available entry
Move the check whether there are available entries to within the spinlock.
This allows working with larger amount of VCPUs and reduces premature
exits when using a large number of VCPUs.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:17:18 +03:00