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Linus Torvalds c812a51d11 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (145 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_CAP_X86_ROBUST_SINGLESTEP
  KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
  KVM: Fix emulate_sys[call, enter, exit]()'s fault handling
  KVM: Fix segment descriptor loading
  KVM: Fix load_guest_segment_descriptor() to inject page fault
  KVM: x86 emulator: Forbid modifying CS segment register by mov instruction
  KVM: Convert kvm->requests_lock to raw_spinlock_t
  KVM: Convert i8254/i8259 locks to raw_spinlocks
  KVM: x86 emulator: disallow opcode 82 in 64-bit mode
  KVM: x86 emulator: code style cleanup
  KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add LOCK prefix validity checking
  KVM: x86 emulator: Check CPL level during privilege instruction emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Fix popf emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Check IOPL level during io instruction emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add Virtual-8086 mode of emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add group9 instruction decoding
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add group8 instruction decoding
  KVM: do not store wqh in irqfd
  ...

Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-03-05 13:12:34 -08:00
Avi Kivity 50eb2a3cd0 KVM: Add KVM_MMIO kconfig item
s390 doesn't have mmio, this will simplify ifdefing it out.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:41 -03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 3a4d5c94e9 vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:43:29 -08:00
Marcelo Tosatti 2023a29cbe KVM: remove old KVMTRACE support code
Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:03 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 73880c80aa KVM: Break dependency between vcpu index in vcpus array and vcpu_id.
Archs are free to use vcpu_id as they see fit. For x86 it is used as
vcpu's apic id. New ioctl is added to configure boot vcpu id that was
assumed to be 0 till now.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Avi Kivity 0ba12d1081 KVM: Move common KVM Kconfig items to new file virt/kvm/Kconfig
Reduce Kconfig code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Zhang, Xiantao 2906e79f21 KVM: ia64: make kvm depend on CONFIG_MODULES.
Since kvm-intel modue can't be built-in, make kvm depend on
CONFIG_MODULES.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-06-10 11:48:38 +03:00
Avi Kivity 5d9b8e30f5 KVM: Add CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't.  Add a Kconfig item to
make selecting between the two models easier.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:03:02 +02:00
Avi Kivity ca93e992fd KVM: Require the PCI subsystem
PCI device assignment makes calls to pci code, so require it to be built
into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-11-11 20:56:13 +02:00
Xiantao Zhang 0be9e929e3 KVM: ia64: Enable virtio driver for ia64 in Kconfig
kvm/ia64 uses the virtio drivers to optimize its I/O subsytem.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:22 +02:00
Avi Kivity 048354c8e6 KVM: ia64: Stub out kvmtrace
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:01:21 +03:00
Xiantao Zhang b693919ca9 KVM: ia64: Enable kvm build for ia64
Update the related Makefile and KConfig for kvm build

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:01:13 +03:00