We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.
Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Bare metal Linux on 440 can "overmap" RAM in the kernel linear map, so that it
can use large (256MB) mappings even if memory isn't a multiple of 256MB. To
prevent the hardware prefetcher from loading from an invalid physical address
through that mapping, it's marked Guarded.
However, KVM must ensure that all guest mappings are backed by real physical
RAM (since a deliberate access through a guarded mapping could still cause a
machine check). Accordingly, we don't need to make our mappings guarded, so
let's allow prefetching as the designers intended.
Curiously this patch didn't affect performance at all on the quick test I
tried, but it's clearly the right thing to do anyways and may improve other
workloads.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 7fd49de9773fdcb7b75e823b21c1c5dc1e218c14 "KVM: ensure that memslot
userspace addresses are page-aligned" broke kernel space allocated memory
slot, for the userspace_addr is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Make sure that CONFIG_KVM cannot be selected without processor support
(currently, 440 is the only processor implementation available).
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Bad page translation and silent guest failure ensue if the userspace address is
not page-aligned. I hit this problem using large (host) pages with qemu,
because qemu currently has a hardcoded 4096-byte alignment for guest memory
allocations.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The code to traverse the cpuid data array list for counting type of leaves is
currently broken.
This patches fixes the 2 things in it.
1. Set the 1st counting entry's flag KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT. Without
it the code will never find a valid entry.
2. Also the stop condition in the for loop while looking for the next unflaged
entry is broken. It needs to stop when it find one matching entry;
and in the case of count of 1, it will be the same entry found in this
iteration.
Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
For cpuid leaf 0xb the bits 8-15 in ECX register define the end of counting
leaf. The previous code was using bits 0-7 for this purpose, which is
a bug.
Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
set ESR[PTR] when emulating a guest trap. This allows Linux guests to
properly handle WARN_ON() (i.e. detect that it's a non-fatal trap).
Also remove debugging printk in trap emulation.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In kvmppc_deliver_interrupt is just one case left in the switch and it is a
rare one (less than 8%) when looking at the exit numbers. Therefore we can
at least drop the switch/case and if an if. I inserted an unlikely too, but
that's open for discussion.
In kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt all frequent cases are in the default case.
I know compilers are smart but we can make it easier for them. By writing
down all options and removing the default case combined with the fact that
ithe values are constants 0..15 should allow the compiler to write an easy
jump table.
Modifying kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt pointed me to the fact that gcc seems
to be unable to reduce priority_exception[x] to a build time constant.
Therefore I changed the usage of the translation arrays in the interrupt
delivery path completely. It is now using priority without translation to irq
on the full irq delivery path.
To be able to do that ivpr regs are stored by their priority now.
Additionally the decision made in kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt is already
sufficient to get the value of interrupt_msr_mask[x]. Therefore we can replace
the 16x4byte array used here with a single 4byte variable (might still be one
miss, but the chance to find this in cache should be better than the right
entry of the whole array).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since we use a unsigned long here anyway we can use the optimized __ffs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently we use an unnecessary if&switch to detect some cases.
To be honest we don't need the ligh_exits counter anyway, because we can
calculate it out of others. Sum_exits can also be calculated, so we can
remove that too.
MMIO, DCR and INTR can be counted on other places without these
additional control structures (The INTR case was never hit anyway).
The handling of BOOKE_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL/BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DECREMENTER is
similar, but we can avoid the additional if when copying 3 lines of code.
I thought about a goto there to prevent duplicate lines, but rewriting three
lines should be better style than a goto cross switch/case statements (its
also not enough code to justify a new inline function).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When changing some msr bits e.g. problem state we need to take special
care of that. We call the function in our mtmsr emulation (not needed for
wrtee[i]), but we don't call kvmppc_set_msr if we change msr via set_regs
ioctl.
It's a corner case we never hit so far, but I assume it should be
kvmppc_set_msr in our arch set regs function (I found it because it is also
a corner case when using pv support which would miss the update otherwise).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
However, some of these fields could be split into separate per-core structures
in the future.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch doesn't yet move all 44x-specific data into the new structure, but
is the first step down that path. In the future we may also want to create a
struct kvm_vcpu_booke.
Based on patch from Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cores provide 3 emulation hooks, implemented for example in the new
4xx_emulate.c:
kvmppc_core_emulate_op
kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr
kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr
Strictly speaking the last two aren't necessary, but provide for more
informative error reporting ("unknown SPR").
Long term I'd like to have instruction decoding autogenerated from tables of
opcodes, and that way we could aggregate universal, Book E, and core-specific
instructions more easily and without redundant switch statements.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This is used in a couple places in KVM, but isn't KVM-specific.
However, this patch doesn't modify other in-kernel emulation code:
- xmon uses a direct copy of ppc_opc.c from binutils
- emulate_instruction() doesn't need it because it can use a series
of mask tests.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This introduces a set of core-provided hooks. For 440, some of these are
implemented by booke.c, with the rest in (the new) 44x.c.
Note that these hooks are link-time, not run-time. Since it is not possible to
build a single kernel for both e500 and 440 (for example), using function
pointers would only add overhead.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The division was somewhat artificial and cumbersome, and had no functional
benefit anyways: we can only guests built for the real host processor.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This will ease ports to other cores.
Also remove unused "struct kvm_tlb" while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This will make it easier to provide implementations for other cores.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some areas of kvm x86 mmu are using gfn offset inside a slot without
unaliasing the gfn first. This patch makes sure that the gfn will be
unaliased and add gfn_to_memslot_unaliased() to save the calculating
of the gfn unaliasing in case we have it unaliased already.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Ideally, every assigned device should in a clear condition before and after
assignment, so that the former state of device won't affect later work.
Some devices provide a mechanism named Function Level Reset, which is
defined in PCI/PCI-e document. We should execute it before and after device
assignment.
(But sadly, the feature is new, and most device on the market now don't
support it. We are considering using D0/D3hot transmit to emulate it later,
but not that elegant and reliable as FLR itself.)
[Update: Reminded by Xiantao, execute FLR after we ensure that the device can
be assigned to the guest.]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Remove the lock protection for kvm halt logic, otherwise,
once other vcpus want to acquire the lock, and they have to
wait all vcpus are waken up from halt.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If emulate_invalid_guest_state is enabled, the emulator is called
when guest state is invalid. Until now, we reported an mmio failure
when emulate_instruction() returned EMULATE_DO_MMIO. This patch adds
the case where emulate_instruction() failed and an MMIO emulation
is needed.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If we call the emulator we shouldn't call skip_emulated_instruction()
in the first place, since the emulator already computes the next rip
for us. Thus we move ->skip_emulated_instruction() out of
kvm_emulate_pio() and into handle_io() (and the svm equivalent). We
also replaced "return 0" by "break" in the "do_io:" case because now
the shadow register state needs to be committed. Otherwise eip will never
be updated.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The busy flag of the TR selector is not set by the hardware. This breaks
migration from amd hosts to intel hosts.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The hardware does not set the 'g' bit of the cs selector and this breaks
migration from amd hosts to intel hosts. Set this bit if the segment
limit is beyond 1 MB.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Also remove unnecessary parameter of unregister irq ack notifier.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
As suggested by Avi, this patch introduces a counter of VCPUs that have
LVT0 set to NMI mode. Only if the counter > 0, we push the PIT ticks via
all LAPIC LVT0 lines to enable NMI watchdog support.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch refactors the NMI watchdog delivery patch, consolidating
tests and providing a proper API for delivering watchdog events.
An included micro-optimization is to check only for apic_hw_enabled in
kvm_apic_local_deliver (the test for LVT mask is covering the
soft-disabled case already).
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
PCI device assignment would map guest MMIO spaces as separate slot, so it is
possible that the device has more than 2 MMIO spaces and overwrite current
private memslot.
The patch move private memory slot to the top of userspace visible memory slots.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Otherwise set_bit() for private memory slot(above KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS) would
corrupted memory in 32bit host.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The effective memory type of EPT is the mixture of MSR_IA32_CR_PAT and memory
type field of EPT entry.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
GUEST_PAT support is a new feature introduced by Intel Core i7 architecture.
With this, cpu would save/load guest and host PAT automatically, for EPT memory
type in guest depends on MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Also add save/restore for MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
For KVM can reuse the type define, and need them to support shadow MTRR.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Call kvm_arch_vcpu_reset() instead of directly using arch callback.
The function does additional things.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Older VMX supporting CPUs do not provide the "Virtual NMI" feature for
tracking the NMI-blocked state after injecting such events. For now
KVM is unable to inject NMIs on those CPUs.
Derived from Sheng Yang's suggestion to use the IRQ window notification
for detecting the end of NMI handlers, this patch implements virtual
NMI support without impact on the host's ability to receive real NMIs.
The downside is that the given approach requires some heuristics that
can cause NMI nesting in vary rare corner cases.
The approach works as follows:
- inject NMI and set a software-based NMI-blocked flag
- arm the IRQ window start notification whenever an NMI window is
requested
- if the guest exits due to an opening IRQ window, clear the emulated
NMI-blocked flag
- if the guest net execution time with NMI-blocked but without an IRQ
window exceeds 1 second, force NMI-blocked reset and inject anyway
This approach covers most practical scenarios:
- succeeding NMIs are seperated by at least one open IRQ window
- the guest may spin with IRQs disabled (e.g. due to a bug), but
leaving the NMI handler takes much less time than one second
- the guest does not rely on strict ordering or timing of NMIs
(would be problematic in virtualized environments anyway)
Successfully tested with the 'nmi n' monitor command, the kgdbts
testsuite on smp guests (additional patches required to add debug
register support to kvm) + the kernel's nmi_watchdog=1, and a Siemens-
specific board emulation (+ guest) that comes with its own NMI
watchdog mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the required bits to the VMX side for user space
injected NMIs. As with the preexisting in-kernel irqchip support, the
CPU must provide the "virtual NMI" feature for proper tracking of the
NMI blocking state.
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>
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>
Kick the NMI receiving VCPU in case the triggering caller runs in a
different context.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
