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14 Commits

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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
Avi Kivity aff48baa34 KVM: Fetch guest cr3 from hardware on demand
Instead of syncing the guest cr3 every exit, which is expensince on vmx
with ept enabled, sync it only on demand.

[sheng: fix incorrect cr3 seen by Windows XP]

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:31:16 +02:00
Avi Kivity 9f8fe5043f KVM: Replace reads of vcpu->arch.cr3 by an accessor
This allows us to keep cr3 in the VMCS, later on.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:31:15 +02:00
Joerg Roedel ec9e60b219 KVM: X86: Introduce generic guest-mode representation
This patch introduces a generic representation of guest-mode
fpr a vcpu. This currently only exists in the SVM code.
Having this representation generic will help making the
non-svm code aware of nesting when this is necessary.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:30:04 +02:00
Joerg Roedel d41d1895eb KVM: MMU: Introduce kvm_pdptr_read_mmu
This function is implemented to load the pdptr pointers of
the currently running guest (l1 or l2 guest). Therefore it
takes care about the current paging mode and can read pdptrs
out of l2 guest physical memory.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:42 +02:00
Joerg Roedel ff03a073e7 KVM: MMU: Add kvm_mmu parameter to load_pdptrs function
This function need to be able to load the pdptrs from any
mmu context currently in use. So change this function to
take an kvm_mmu parameter to fit these needs.
As a side effect this patch also moves the cached pdptrs
from vcpu_arch into the kvm_mmu struct.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:41 +02:00
Dexuan Cui 2acf923e38 KVM: VMX: Enable XSAVE/XRSTOR for guest
This patch enable guest to use XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions.

We assume that host_xcr0 would use all possible bits that OS supported.

And we loaded xcr0 in the same way we handled fpu - do it as late as we can.

Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:31 +03:00
Avi Kivity 08acfa1871 KVM: kvm_pdptr_read() may sleep
Annotate it thusly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:27 +03:00
Avi Kivity 8ae0991276 KVM: Optimize kvm_read_cr[04]_bits()
'mask' is always a constant, so we can check whether it includes a bit that
might be owned by the guest very cheaply, and avoid the decache call.  Saves
a few hundred bytes of module text.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:05 -03:00
Avi Kivity e8467fda83 KVM: VMX: Allow the guest to own some cr0 bits
We will use this later to give the guest ownership of cr0.ts.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:50 -03:00
Avi Kivity 4d4ec08745 KVM: Replace read accesses of vcpu->arch.cr0 by an accessor
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>
2010-03-01 12:35:50 -03:00
Avi Kivity fc78f51938 KVM: Add accessor for reading cr4 (or some bits of cr4)
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>
2010-03-01 12:35:39 -03:00
Avi Kivity 6de4f3ada4 KVM: Cache pdptrs
Instead of reloading the pdptrs on every entry and exit (vmcs writes on vmx,
guest memory access on svm) extract them on demand.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:46 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 5fdbf9765b KVM: x86: accessors for guest registers
As suggested by Avi, introduce accessors to read/write guest registers.
This simplifies the ->cache_regs/->decache_regs interface, and improves
register caching which is important for VMX, where the cost of
vmcs_read/vmcs_write is significant.

[avi: fix warnings]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:13:57 +02:00