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>
The various syscall-related MSRs are fairly expensive to switch. Currently
we switch them on every vcpu preemption, which is far too often:
- if we're switching to a kernel thread (idle task, threaded interrupt,
kernel-mode virtio server (vhost-net), for example) and back, then
there's no need to switch those MSRs since kernel threasd won't
be exiting to userspace.
- if we're switching to another guest running an identical OS, most likely
those MSRs will have the same value, so there's little point in reloading
them.
- if we're running the same OS on the guest and host, the MSRs will have
identical values and reloading is unnecessary.
This patch uses the new user return notifiers to implement last-minute
switching, and checks the msr values to avoid unnecessary reloading.
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>
The svm_set_cr0() call will initialize save->cr0 properly even when npt is
enabled, clearing the NW and CD bits as expected, so we don't need to
initialize it manually for npt_enabled anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
svm_vcpu_reset() was not properly resetting the contents of the guest-visible
cr0 register, causing the following issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525699
Without resetting cr0 properly, the vcpu was running the SIPI bootstrap routine
with paging enabled, making the vcpu get a pagefault exception while trying to
run it.
Instead of setting vmcb->save.cr0 directly, the new code just resets
kvm->arch.cr0 and calls kvm_set_cr0(). The bits that were set/cleared on
vmcb->save.cr0 (PG, WP, !CD, !NW) will be set properly by svm_set_cr0().
kvm_set_cr0() is used instead of calling svm_set_cr0() directly to make sure
kvm_mmu_reset_context() is called to reset the mmu to nonpaging mode.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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>
When we migrate a kvm guest that uses pvclock between two hosts, we may
suffer a large skew. This is because there can be significant differences
between the monotonic clock of the hosts involved. When a new host with
a much larger monotonic time starts running the guest, the view of time
will be significantly impacted.
Situation is much worse when we do the opposite, and migrate to a host with
a smaller monotonic clock.
This proposed ioctl will allow userspace to inform us what is the monotonic
clock value in the source host, so we can keep the time skew short, and
more importantly, never goes backwards. Userspace may also need to trigger
the current data, since from the first migration onwards, it won't be
reflected by a simple call to clock_gettime() anymore.
[marcelo: future-proof abi with a flags field]
[jan: fix KVM_GET_CLOCK by clearing flags field instead of checking it]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 705c5323 opened the doors of hell by unconditionally injecting
single-step flags as long as guest_debug signaled this. This doesn't
work when the guest branches into some interrupt or exception handler
and triggers a vmexit with flag reloading.
Fix it by saving cs:rip when user space requests single-stepping and
restricting the trace flag injection to this guest code position.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in
userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen
hypercall blob into guest address space.
A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill
and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future. Thus this patch
adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR.
I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell
KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address
and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that
userspace has loaded from files. When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM
copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest.
I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace
code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices.
[jan: fix i386 build warning]
[avi: future proof abi with a flags field]
Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This (broken) check dates back to the days when this code was shared
across architectures. x86 has IOMEM, so drop it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If cpufreq can't determine the CPU khz, or cpufreq is not compiled in,
we should fallback to the measured TSC khz.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause
Filter Feature. This feature creates a new field in the VMCB
called Pause Filter Count. If Pause Filter Count is greater
than 0 and intercepting PAUSEs is enabled, the processor will
increment an internal counter when a PAUSE instruction occurs
instead of intercepting. When the internal counter reaches the
Pause Filter Count value, a PAUSE intercept will occur.
This feature can be used to detect contended spinlocks,
especially when the lock holding VCPU is not scheduled.
Rescheduling another VCPU prevents the VCPU seeking the
lock from wasting its quantum by spinning idly.
Experimental results show that most spinlocks are held
for less than 1000 PAUSE cycles or more than a few
thousand. Default the Pause Filter Counter to 3000 to
detect the contended spinlocks.
Processor support for this feature is indicated by a CPUID
bit.
On a 24 core system running 4 guests each with 16 VCPUs,
this patch improved overall performance of each guest's
32 job kernbench by approximately 3-5% when combined
with a scheduler algorithm thati caused the VCPU to
sleep for a brief period. Further performance improvement
may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@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>
With all important informations now delivered through
tracepoints we can savely remove the nsvm_printk debugging
code for nested svm.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the SKINIT instruction. This information is
important because SKINIT is an SVM extenstion not yet
implemented by nested SVM and we may need this information
for debugging hypervisors that do not yet run on nested SVM.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the INVLPGA instruction.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a special tracepoint for the event that a
nested #vmexit is injected because kvm wants to inject an
interrupt into the guest.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a tracepoint for a nested #vmexit that gets
re-injected to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a tracepoint for every #vmexit we get from a
nested guest.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds a dedicated kvm tracepoint for a nested
vmrun.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The nested SVM code emulates a #vmexit caused by a request
to open the irq window right in the request function. This
is a bug because the request function runs with preemption
and interrupts disabled but the #vmexit emulation might
sleep. This can cause a schedule()-while-atomic bug and is
fixed with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If event_inj is valid on a #vmexit the host CPU would write
the contents to exit_int_info, so the hypervisor knows that
the event wasn't injected.
We don't do this in nested SVM by now which is a bug and
fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
For a while now, we are issuing a rdmsr instruction to find out which
msrs in our save list are really supported by the underlying machine.
However, it fails to account for kvm-specific msrs, such as the pvclock
ones.
This patch moves then to the beginning of the list, and skip testing them.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Push TF and RF injection and filtering on guest single-stepping into the
vender get/set_rflags callbacks. This makes the whole mechanism more
robust wrt user space IOCTL order and instruction emulations.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Disable paravirt MMU capability reporting, so that new (or rebooted)
guests switch to native operation.
Paravirt MMU is a burden to maintain and does not bring significant
advantages compared to shadow anymore.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
They are globals, not clearly protected by any ordering or locking, and
vulnerable to various startup races.
Instead, for variable TSC machines, register the cpufreq notifier and get
the TSC frequency directly from the cpufreq machinery. Not only is it
always right, it is also perfectly accurate, as no error prone measurement
is required.
On such machines, when a new CPU online is brought online, it isn't clear what
frequency it will start with, and it may not correspond to the reference, thus
in hardware_enable we clear the cpu_tsc_khz variable to zero and make sure
it is set before running on a VCPU.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch replaces them with native_read_tsc() which can
also be used in expressions and saves a variable on the
stack in this case.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The exit_int_info field is only written by the hardware and
never read. So it does not need to be copied on a vmrun
emulation.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch reorganizes the logic in svm_interrupt_allowed to
make it better to read. This is important because the logic
is a lot more complicated with Nested SVM.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.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>
nested_svm_map unnecessarily takes mmap_sem around gfn_to_page, since
gfn_to_page / get_user_pages are responsible for it.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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>
This adds pusha and popa instructions (opcodes 0x60-0x61), this enables booting
MINIX with invalid guest state emulation on.
[marcelo: remove unused variable]
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add missing decoder flags for or instructions (0xc-0xd).
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and
this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access
to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take
kvm->irq_lock.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This removes assumptions that max GSIs is smaller than number of pins.
Sharing is tracked on pin level not GSI level.
[avi: no PIC on ia64]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
