cr0.ts may change between entries, so we copy cr0 to HOST_CR0 before each
entry. That is slow, so instead, set HOST_CR0 to have TS set unconditionally
(which is a safe value), and issue a clts() just before exiting vcpu context
if the task indeed owns the fpu.
Saves ~50 cycles/exit.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
MSR_K6_EFER is unused, and MSR_K6_STAR is redundant with MSR_STAR.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279371808-24804-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
enter_lmode() and exit_lmode() modify the guest's EFER.LMA before calling
vmx_set_efer(). However, the latter function depends on the value of EFER.LMA
to determine whether MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE needs reloading, via
vmx_load_host_state(). With EFER.LMA changing under its feet, it took the
wrong choice and corrupted userspace's %gs.
This causes 32-on-64 host userspace to fault.
Fix not touching EFER.LMA; instead ask vmx_set_efer() to change it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (269 commits)
KVM: x86: Add missing locking to arch specific vcpu ioctls
KVM: PPC: Add missing vcpu_load()/vcpu_put() in vcpu ioctls
KVM: MMU: Segregate shadow pages with different cr0.wp
KVM: x86: Check LMA bit before set_efer
KVM: Don't allow lmsw to clear cr0.pe
KVM: Add cpuid.txt file
KVM: x86: Tell the guest we'll warn it about tsc stability
x86, paravirt: don't compute pvclock adjustments if we trust the tsc
x86: KVM guest: Try using new kvm clock msrs
KVM: x86: export paravirtual cpuid flags in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
KVM: x86: add new KVMCLOCK cpuid feature
KVM: x86: change msr numbers for kvmclock
x86, paravirt: Add a global synchronization point for pvclock
x86, paravirt: Enable pvclock flags in vcpu_time_info structure
KVM: x86: Inject #GP with the right rip on efer writes
KVM: SVM: Don't allow nested guest to VMMCALL into host
KVM: x86: Fix exception reinjection forced to true
KVM: Fix wallclock version writing race
KVM: MMU: Don't read pdptrs with mmu spinlock held in mmu_alloc_roots
KVM: VMX: enable VMXON check with SMX enabled (Intel TXT)
...
Per document, for feature control MSR:
Bit 1 enables VMXON in SMX operation. If the bit is clear, execution
of VMXON in SMX operation causes a general-protection exception.
Bit 2 enables VMXON outside SMX operation. If the bit is clear, execution
of VMXON outside SMX operation causes a general-protection exception.
This patch is to enable this kind of check with SMX for VMXON in KVM.
Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When EPT is enabled, we cannot emulate EFER.NX=0 through the shadow page
tables. This causes accesses through ptes with bit 63 set to succeed instead
of failing a reserved bit check.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some guest msr values cannot be used on the host (for example. EFER.NX=0),
so we need to switch them atomically during guest entry or exit.
Add a facility to program the vmx msr autoload registers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx and svm vcpus have different contents and therefore may have different
alignmment requirements. Let each specify its required alignment.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
This patch adds logic to kvm/x86 which allows to mark an
injected exception as reinjected. This allows to remove an
ugly hack from svm_complete_interrupts that prevented
exceptions from being reinjected at all in the nested case.
The hack was necessary because an reinjected exception into
the nested guest could cause a nested vmexit emulation. But
reinjected exceptions must not intercept. The downside of
the hack is that a exception that in injected could get
lost.
This patch fixes the problem and puts the code for it into
generic x86 files because. Nested-VMX will likely have the
same problem and could reuse the code.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the get_supported_cpuid callback to
kvm_x86_ops. It will be used in do_cpuid_ent to delegate the
decission about some supported cpuid bits to the
architecture modules.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Fix bug of the exception path, free allocated vpid when fail
to create vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If kvm_task_switch() fails code exits to userspace without specifying
exit reason, so the previous exit reason is reused by userspace. Fix
this by specifying exit reason correctly.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When a fault triggers a task switch, the error code, if existent, has to
be pushed on the new task's stack. Implement the missing bits.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Currently both SVM and VMX have their own DR handling code. Move it to
x86.c.
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
in/out emulation is broken now. The breakage is different depending
on where IO device resides. If it is in userspace emulator reports
emulation failure since it incorrectly interprets kvm_emulate_pio()
return value. If IO device is in the kernel emulation of 'in' will do
nothing since kvm_emulate_pio() stores result directly into vcpu
registers, so emulator will overwrite result of emulation during
commit of shadowed register.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Make use of bool as return values, and remove some useless
bool value converting. Thanks Avi to point this out.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch use generic linux function native_store_idt()
instead of kvm_get_idt(), and also removed the useless
function kvm_get_idt().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reading rip is expensive on vmx, so move it inside the tracepoint so we only
incur the cost if tracing is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
As the processor may not consider GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI as a reason for
blocking NMI, it could return immediately with EXIT_REASON_NMI_WINDOW
when we asked for it. But as we consider this state as NMI-blocking, we
can run into an endless loop.
Resolve this by allowing NMI injection if just GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI is
active (originally suggested by Gleb). Intel confirmed that this is
safe, the processor will never complain about NMI injection in this
state.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
KVM-Stable-Tag
Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Linux now has native_store_gdt() to do the same. Use it instead of
kvm local version.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The interrupt shadow created by STI or MOV-SS-like operations is part of
the VCPU state and must be preserved across migration. Transfer it in
the spare padding field of kvm_vcpu_events.interrupt.
As a side effect we now have to make vmx_set_interrupt_shadow robust
against both shadow types being set. Give MOV SS a higher priority and
skip STI in that case to avoid that VMX throws a fault on next entry.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
x86 arch defines desc_ptr for idt/gdt pointers, no need to define
another structure in kvm code.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently we set eflags.vm unconditionally when entering real mode emulation
through virtual-8086 mode, and clear it unconditionally when we enter protected
mode. The means that the following sequence
KVM_SET_REGS (rflags.vm=1)
KVM_SET_SREGS (cr0.pe=1)
Ends up with rflags.vm clear due to KVM_SET_SREGS triggering enter_pmode().
Fix by shadowing rflags.vm (and rflags.iopl) correctly while in real mode:
reads and writes to those bits access a shadow register instead of the actual
register.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Below patch implements the perf_guest_info_callbacks on kvm.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
We intercept #BP while in guest debugging mode. As VM exits due to
intercepted exceptions do not necessarily come with valid
idt_vectoring, we have to update event_exit_inst_len explicitly in such
cases. At least in the absence of migration, this ensures that
re-injections of #BP will find and use the correct instruction length.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.32, 2.6.33)
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Following the new SDM. Now the bit is named "Ignore PAT memory type".
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
msr was tested above, so the second test is not needed.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
expression *x;
expression e;
identifier l;
@@
if (x == NULL || ...) {
... when forall
return ...; }
... when != goto l;
when != x = e
when != &x
*x == NULL
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
flexpriority_enabled implies cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_apic_accesses() returning
true, so we don't need this check here.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Record failed msrs reads and writes, and the fact that they failed as well.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When cr0.mp is clear, the guest doesn't expect a #NM in response to
a WAIT instruction. Because we always keep cr0.mp set, it will get
a #NM, and potentially be confused.
Fix by keeping cr0.mp set only when the fpu is inactive, and passing
it through when inactive.
Reported-by: Lorenzo Martignoni <martignlo@gmail.com>
Analyzed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Assume that if the guest executes clts, it knows what it's doing, and load the
guest fpu to prevent an #NM exception.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
As we trap all debug register accesses, we do not need to switch real
DR6 at all. Clean up update_exception_bitmap at this chance, too.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Make sure DR4 and DR5 are aliased to DR6 and DR7, respectively, if
CR4.DE is not set.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Injecting GP without an error code is a bad idea (causes unhandled guest
exits). Moreover, we must not skip the instruction if we injected an
exception.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
As Avi noted:
>There are two problems with the kernel failure report. First, it
>doesn't report enough data - registers, surrounding instructions, etc.
>that are needed to explain what is going on. Second, it can flood
>dmesg, which is a pretty bad thing to do.
So we remove the emulation failure report in handle_invalid_guest_state(),
and would inspected the guest using userspace tool in the future.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If the guest fpu is loaded, there is nothing interesing about cr0.ts; let
the guest play with it as it will. This makes context switches between fpu
intensive guest processes faster, as we won't trap the clts and cr0 write
instructions.
[marcelo: fix cr0 read shadow update on fpu deactivation; kills F8 install]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Defer fpu deactivation as much as possible - if the guest fpu is loaded, keep
it loaded until the next heavyweight exit (where we are forced to unload it).
This reduces unnecessary exits.
We also defer fpu activation on clts; while clts signals the intent to use the
fpu, we can't be sure the guest will actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since we'd like to allow the guest to own a few bits of cr0 at times, we need
to know when we access those bits.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Then the callback can provide the maximum supported large page level, which
is more flexible.
Also move the gb page support into x86_64 specific.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Some exit reasons missed their strings; fill out the table.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops
instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction),
then instantiate the new empty slot.
Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Have a pointer to an allocated region inside struct kvm.
[alex: fix ppc book 3s]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Before enabling, execution of "rdtscp" in guest would result in #UD.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sometime, we need to adjust some state in order to reflect guest CPUID
setting, e.g. if we don't expose rdtscp to guest, we won't want to enable
it on hardware. cpuid_update() is introduced for this purpose.
Also export kvm_find_cpuid_entry() for later use.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
ept_update_paging_mode_cr4() accesses vcpu->arch.cr4 directly, which usually
needs to be accessed via kvm_read_cr4(). In this case, we can't, since cr4
is in the process of being updated. Instead of adding inane comments, fold
the function into its caller (vmx_set_cr4), so it can use the not-yet-committed
cr4 directly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We make no use of cr4.pge if ept is enabled, but the guest does (to flush
global mappings, as with vmap()), so give the guest ownership of this bit.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of specifying the bits which we want to trap on, specify the bits
which we allow the guest to change transparently. This is safer wrt future
changes to cr4.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some bits of cr4 can be owned by the guest on vmx, so when we read them,
we copy them to the vcpu structure. In preparation for making the set of
guest-owned bits dynamic, use helpers to access these bits so we don't need
to know where the bit resides.
No changes to svm since all bits are host-owned there.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We don't support these instructions, but guest can execute them even if the
feature('monitor') haven't been exposed in CPUID. So we would trap and inject
a #UD if guest try this way.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
update_transition_efer() masks out some efer bits when deciding whether
to switch the msr during guest entry; for example, NX is emulated using the
mmu so we don't need to disable it, and LMA/LME are handled by the hardware.
However, with shared msrs, the comparison is made against a stale value;
at the time of the guest switch we may be running with another guest's efer.
Fix by deferring the mask/compare to the actual point of guest entry.
Noted by Marcelo.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Otherwise would cause VMEntry failure when using ept=0 on unrestricted guest
supported processors.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to
exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space
changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration
and system reset.
[avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
These happen when we trap an exception when another exception is being
delivered; we only expect these with MCEs and page faults. If something
unexpected happens, things probably went south and we're better off reporting
an internal error and freezing.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Usually userspace will freeze the guest so we can inspect it, but some
internal state is not available. Add extra data to internal error
reporting so we can expose it to the debugger. Extra data is specific
to the suberror.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
GUEST_CR3 is updated via kvm_set_cr3 whenever CR3 is modified from
outside guest context. Similarly pdptrs are updated via load_pdptrs.
Let kvm_set_cr3 perform the update, removing it from the vcpu_run
fast path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of reloading syscall MSRs on every preemption, use the new shared
msr infrastructure to reload them at the last possible minute (just before
exit to userspace).
Improves vcpu/idle/vcpu switches by about 2000 cycles (when EFER needs to be
reloaded as well).
[jan: fix slot index missing indirection]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE is saved and restored as part of the
guest/host msr reloading. Since we wish to lazy-restore all the other
msrs, save and reload MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE explicitly instead of using
the common code.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This should have no effect, it is just to make the code clearer.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
New NHM processors will support Pause-Loop Exiting by adding 2 VM-execution
control fields:
PLE_Gap - upper bound on the amount of time between two successive
executions of PAUSE in a loop.
PLE_Window - upper bound on the amount of time a guest is allowed to execute in
a PAUSE loop
If the time, between this execution of PAUSE and previous one, exceeds the
PLE_Gap, processor consider this PAUSE belongs to a new loop.
Otherwise, processor determins the the total execution time of this loop(since
1st PAUSE in this loop), and triggers a VM exit if total time exceeds the
PLE_Window.
* Refer SDM volume 3b section 21.6.13 & 22.1.3.
Pause-Loop Exiting can be used to detect Lock-Holder Preemption, where one VP
is sched-out after hold a spinlock, then other VPs for same lock are sched-in
to waste the CPU time.
Our tests indicate that most spinlocks are held for less than 212 cycles.
Performance tests show that with 2X LP over-commitment we can get +2% perf
improvement for kernel build(Even more perf gain with more LPs).
Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Much of so far vendor-specific code for setting up guest debug can
actually be handled by the generic code. This also fixes a minor deficit
in the SVM part /wrt processing KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Both VMX and SVM require per-cpu memory allocation, which is done at module
init time, for only online cpus.
Backend was not allocating enough structure for all possible CPUs, so
new CPUs coming online could not be hardware enabled.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
X86 CPUs need to have some magic happening to enable the virtualization
extensions on them. This magic can result in unpleasant results for
users, like blocking other VMMs from working (vmx) or using invalid TLB
entries (svm).
Currently KVM activates virtualization when the respective kernel module
is loaded. This blocks us from autoloading KVM modules without breaking
other VMMs.
To circumvent this problem at least a bit, this patch introduces on
demand activation of virtualization. This means, that instead
virtualization is enabled on creation of the first virtual machine
and disabled on destruction of the last one.
So using this, KVM can be easily autoloaded, while keeping other
hypervisors usable.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
- Change returned handle_invalid_guest_state() to return relevant exit codes
- Move triggering the emulation from vmx_vcpu_run() to vmx_handle_exit()
- Return to userspace instead of repeatedly trying to emulate instructions that have already failed
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
It is possible that stale EPTP-tagged mappings are used, if a
vcpu migrates to a different pcpu.
Set KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH in vmx_vcpu_load, when switching pcpus, which
will invalidate both VPID and EPT mappings on the next vm-entry.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Debug registers may only be accessed from cpl 0. Unfortunately, vmx will
code to emulate the instruction even though it was issued from guest
userspace, possibly leading to an unexpected trap later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
No need to call it before each kvm_(set|get)_msr_common()
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Only reload debug register 6 if we're running with the guest's
debug registers. Saves around 150 cycles from the guest lightweight
exit path.
dr6 contains a couple of bits that are updated on #DB, so intercept
that unconditionally and update those bits then.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Don't call adjust_vmx_controls() two times for the same control.
It restores options that were dropped earlier. This loses us the cr8
exit control, which causes a massive performance regression Windows x64.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
QNX update WP bit when paging enabled, which is not covered yet. This one fix
QNX boot with EPT.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We set rflags.vm86 when virtualizing real mode to do through vm8086 mode;
so we need to take it out again when reading rflags.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of calling vmx_get_segment() (which reads a whole bunch of
vmcs fields), read only the cs selector which contains the cpl.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If userspace knows that the kernel part supports 1GB pages it can enable
the corresponding cpuid bit so that guests actually use GB pages.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Choose some allowed error values for the cases VMX returned ENOTSUPP so
far as these values could be returned by the KVM_RUN IOCTL.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page.
(change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter
address rather than value)
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This allows use of the powerful ftrace infrastructure.
See Documentation/trace/ for usage information.
[avi, stephen: various build fixes]
[sheng: fix control register breakage]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
cr2 changes only rarely, and writing it is expensive. Avoid the costly cr2
writes by checking if it does not already hold the desired value.
Shaves 70 cycles off the vmexit latency.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Disable usage of 2M pages if VMX_EPT_2MB_PAGE_BIT (bit 16) is clear
in MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP and EPT is enabled.
[avi: s/largepages_disabled/largepages_enabled/ to avoid negative logic]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handler for EPT misconfiguration which checks for valid state
in the shadow pagetables, printing the spte on each level.
The separate WARN_ONs are useful for kerneloops.org.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity