Instead of injecting real-mode interrupts by writing the interrupt frame into
guest memory, abuse vmx by injecting a software interrupt. We need to
pretend the software interrupt instruction had a length > 0, so we have to
adjust rip backward.
This lets us not to mess with writing guest memory, which is complex and also
sleeps.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch based on CR8/TPR patch, and enable the TPR shadow (FlexPriority)
for 32bit Windows. Since TPR is accessed very frequently by 32bit
Windows, especially SMP guest, with FlexPriority enabled, we saw significant
performance gain.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The code that dispatches the page fault and emulates if we failed to map
is duplicated across vmx and svm. Merge it to simplify further bugfixing.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we
switch to/from a VCPU in the case of intel i386.
* Original code saves following registers:
eax, ebx, ecx, edx, edi, esi, ebp (using popa)
* Patched code:
- informs GCC that we modify following registers
using the clobber description:
ebx, edi, rsi
- doesn't save eax because it is an output operand (vmx->fail)
- cannot put ecx in clobber description because it is an input operand,
but as we modify it and we want to keep its value (vcpu), we must
save it (pop/push)
- ebp is saved (pop/push) because GCC seems to ignore its use the clobber
description.
- edx is saved (pop/push) because it is reserved by GCC (REGPARM) and
cannot be put in the clobber description.
- line "mov (%%esp), %3 \n\t" has been removed because %3
is ecx and ecx is restored just after.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we
switch to/from a VCPU in the case of intel x86_64.
* Original code saves following registers:
rax, rbx, rcx, rdx, rsi, rdi, rbp,
r8, r9, r10, r11, r12, r13, r14, r15
* Patched code:
- informs GCC that we modify following registers
using the clobber description:
rbx, rdi, rsi,
r8, r9, r10, r11, r12, r13, r14, r15
- doesn't save rax because it is an output operand (vmx->fail)
- cannot put rcx in clobber description because it is an input operand,
but as we modify it and we want to keep its value (vcpu), we must
save it (pop/push)
- rbp is saved (pop/push) because GCC seems to ignore its use in the clobber
description.
- rdx is saved (pop/push) because it is reserved by GCC (REGPARM) and
cannot be put in the clobber description.
- line "mov (%%rsp), %3 \n\t" has been removed because %3
is rcx and rcx is restored just after.
- line ASM_VMX_VMWRITE_RSP_RDX() is moved out of the ifdef/else/endif
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use
as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel. This patch moves the allocation
internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address
space we can place the tss.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Split guest reset code out of vmx_vcpu_setup(). Besides being cleaner, this
moves the realmode tss setup (which can sleep) outside vmx_vcpu_setup()
(which is executed with preemption enabled).
[izik: remove unused variable]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
First step to split kvm_vcpu. Currently, we just use an macro to define
the common fields in kvm_vcpu for all archs, and all archs need to define
its own kvm_vcpu struct.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Beside the obvious goodness of making code more common, this prevents
a livelock with the next patch which moves interrupt injection out of the
critical section.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Move kvm_create_lapic() into kvm_vcpu_init(), rather than having svm
and vmx do it. And make it return the error rather than a fairly
random -ENOMEM.
This also solves the problem that neither svm.c nor vmx.c actually
handles the error path properly.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Now that smp_call_function_single() knows how to call a function on the
current cpu, there's no need to check explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
There are two classes of page faults trapped by kvm:
- host page faults, where the fault is needed to allow kvm to install
the shadow pte or update the guest accessed and dirty bits
- guest page faults, where the guest has faulted and kvm simply injects
the fault back into the guest to handle
The second class, guest page faults, is pure overhead. We can eliminate
some of it on vmx using the following evil trick:
- when we set up a shadow page table entry, if the corresponding guest pte
is not present, set up the shadow pte as not present
- if the guest pte _is_ present, mark the shadow pte as present but also
set one of the reserved bits in the shadow pte
- tell the vmx hardware not to trap faults which have the present bit clear
With this, normal page-not-present faults go directly to the guest,
bypassing kvm entirely.
Unfortunately, this trick only works on Intel hardware, as AMD lacks a
way to discriminate among page faults based on error code. It is also
a little risky since it uses reserved bits which might become unreserved
in the future, so a module parameter is provided to disable it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM avoids reloading the efer msr when the difference between the guest
and host values consist of the long mode bits (which are switched by
hardware) and the NX bit (which is emulated by the KVM MMU).
This patch also allows KVM to ignore SCE (syscall enable) when the guest
is running in 32-bit mode. This is because the syscall instruction is
not available in 32-bit mode on Intel processors, so the SCE bit is
effectively meaningless.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Move emulate_ctxt to kvm_vcpu to keep emulate context when we exit from kvm
module. Call x86_decode_insn() only when needed. Modify x86_emulate_insn() to
not modify the context if it must be re-entered.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better
support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by
trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall
instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right
one lazily.
A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to
userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to
communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code
in tree that uses userspace hypercalls.
[avi: fix #ud injection on vmx]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
There's no need for the *_MASK flags (TF_MASK, IF_MASK, etc), found in
processor.h (both _32 and _64). They have a one-to-one mapping with the
EFLAGS value. This patch removes the definitions, and use the already
existent X86_EFLAGS_ version when applicable.
[ roland@redhat.com: KVM build fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Resetting an SMP guest will force AP enter real mode (RESET) with
paging enabled in protected mode. While current enter_rmode() can
only handle mode switch from nonpaging mode to real mode which leads
to SMP reboot failure.
Fix by reloading the mmu context on entering real mode.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This makes sure we handle NMI on the current cpu, and that we don't service
maskable interrupts before non-maskable ones.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
According to Intel Software Developer's Manual, Vol. 3B, Appendix H.4.2,
exit qualification should be of natural width. However, current code
uses u64 as the data type for this register, which occasionally
introduces invalid value to VMExit handling logics. This patch fixes
this bug.
I have tested Windows and Linux guest on i386 host, and they can boot
successfully with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch just renames the current (misnamed) _arch namings to _x86 to
ensure better readability when a real arch layer takes place.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables INIT/SIPI handling using in-kernel APIC by
introducing a ->mp_state field to emulate the SMP state transition.
[avi: remove smp_processor_id() warning]
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin.b.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This reduces overhead by accessing cachelines from the wrong node, as well
as simplifying locking.
[Qing: fix for inactive or expired one-shot timer]
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <Eddie.Dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
APIC timer IRQ is set every time when a certain period
expires at host time, but the guest may be descheduled
at that time and thus the irq be overwritten by later fire.
This patch keep track of firing irq numbers and decrease
only when the IRQ is injected to guest or buffered in
APIC.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <Eddie.Dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables TPR shadow of VMX on CR8 access. 64bit Windows using
CR8 access TPR frequently. The TPR shadow can improve the performance of
access TPR by not causing vmexit.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
By sleeping in the kernel when hlt is executed, we simplify the in-kernel
guest interrupt path considerably.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Because lightweight exits (exits which don't involve userspace) are many
times faster than heavyweight exits, it makes sense to emulate high usage
devices in the kernel. The local APIC is one such device, especially for
Windows and for SMP, so we add an APIC model to kvm.
It also allows in-kernel host-side drivers to inject interrupts without
going through userspace.
[compile fix on i386 from Jindrich Makovicka]
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <Eddie.Dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch is to wrap APIC base register and CR8 operation which can
provide a unique API for user level irqchip and kernel irqchip.
This is a preparation of merging lapic/ioapic patch.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
vmx_load_host_state() bundles fs, gs, ldt, and tss reloading into
one in the hope that it is infrequent. With smp guests, fs reloading is
frequent due to fs being used by threads.
Unbundle the reloads so reduce expensive gs reloads.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We need to check for signals inside the critical section, otherwise a
signal can be sent which we will not notice. Also move the check
before entry, so that if the signal happens before the first entry,
we exit immediately instead of waiting for something to happen to the
guest.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Split kvm_setup_pio() into two functions, one to setup in/out pio
(kvm_emulate_pio()) and one to setup ins/outs pio (kvm_emulate_pio_string()).
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Both vmx and svm decode the I/O instructions, and both botch the job,
requiring the instruction prefixes to be fetched in order to completely
decode the instruction.
So, if we see a string I/O instruction, use the x86 emulator to decode it,
as it already has all the prefix decoding machinery.
This patch defines ins/outs opcodes in x86_emulate.c and calls
emulate_instruction() from io_interception() (svm.c) and from handle_io()
(vmx.c). It removes all vmx/svm prefix instruction decoders
(get_addr_size(), io_get_override(), io_address(), get_io_count())
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Remove a duplicated ia32e mode VM Entry control definition and use the
proper one.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin.b.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We use kfree in svm.c and vmx.c, and this works, but it could break at
any time. kfree() is supposed to match up with kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
All guest-invokable printks should be ratelimited to prevent malicious
guests from flooding logs. This is a start.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
move_msr_up() is used only on X86_64 and generates a warning on !X86_64
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
alloc_vmcs_cpu is already declared (static) above, no need to
redeclare.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
All the physical CPUs on the board should support the same VMX feature
set. Add check_processor_compatibility to kvm_arch_ops for the consistency
check.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Avi wants the allocations of vcpus centralized again. The easiest way
is to add a "size" arg to kvm_init_arch, and expose the thus-prepared
cache to the modules.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
... in favor of the more general emulator_{read,write}_*.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>