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Joerg Roedel
7f5d8b5600 KVM: SVM: Handle nested selective_cr0 intercept correctly
If we have the following situation with nested svm:

1. Host KVM intercepts cr0 writes
2. Guest hypervisor intercepts only selective cr0 writes

Then we get an cr0 write intercept which is handled on the
host. But that intercepts may actually be a selective cr0
intercept for the guest. This patch checks for this
condition and injects a selective cr0 intercept if needed.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:23 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
4a810181c8 KVM: SVM: Implement emulation of vm_cr msr
This patch implements the emulation of the vm_cr msr for
nested svm.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:14 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
2e554e8d67 KVM: SVM: Add kvm_nested_intercepts tracepoint
This patch adds a tracepoint to get information about the
most important intercept bitmasks from the nested vmcb.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:10 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
ecf1405df2 KVM: SVM: Restore tracing of nested vmcb address
A recent change broke tracing of the nested vmcb address. It
was reported as 0 all the time. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:07 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
887f500ca1 KVM: SVM: Check for nested intercepts on NMI injection
This patch implements the NMI intercept checking for nested
svm.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:04 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
0e5cbe368b KVM: SVM: Reset MMU on nested_svm_vmrun for NPT too
Without resetting the MMU the gva_to_pga function will not
work reliably when the vcpu is running in nested context.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:53:01 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
e02317153e KVM: SVM: Coding style cleanup
This patch removes whitespace errors, fixes comment formats
and most of checkpatch warnings. Now vim does not show
c-space-errors anymore.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:52:58 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
66b7138f91 KVM: SVM: Emulate nRIP feature when reinjecting INT3
When in guest debugging mode, we have to reinject those #BP software
exceptions that are caused by guest-injected INT3. As older AMD
processors do not support the required nRIP VMCB field, try to emulate
it by moving RIP past the instruction on exception injection. Fix it up
again in case the injection failed and we were able to catch this. This
does not work for unintercepted faults, but it is better than doing
nothing.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:00:43 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
116a4752c8 KVM: SVM: Move svm_queue_exception
Move svm_queue_exception past skip_emulated_instruction to allow calling
it later on.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 13:00:37 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
48005f64d0 KVM: x86: Save&restore interrupt shadow mask
The interrupt shadow created by STI or MOV-SS-like operations is part of
the VCPU state and must be preserved across migration. Transfer it in
the spare padding field of kvm_vcpu_events.interrupt.

As a side effect we now have to make vmx_set_interrupt_shadow robust
against both shadow types being set. Give MOV SS a higher priority and
skip STI in that case to avoid that VMX throws a fault on next entry.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:38:28 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
8fe546547c KVM: SVM: Fix wrong interrupt injection in enable_irq_windows
The nested_svm_intr() function does not execute the vmexit
anymore. Therefore we may still be in the nested state after
that function ran. This patch changes the nested_svm_intr()
function to return wether the irq window could be enabled.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:38:11 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
66a562f7e2 KVM: SVM: Make lazy FPU switching work with nested svm
The new lazy fpu switching code may disable cr0 intercepts
when running nested. This is a bug because the nested
hypervisor may still want to intercept cr0 which will break
in this situation. This patch fixes this issue and makes
lazy fpu switching working with nested svm.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:28 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
06fc777269 KVM: SVM: Activate nested state only when guest state is complete
Certain functions called during the emulated world switch
behave differently when the vcpu is running nested. This is
not the expected behavior during a world switch emulation.
This patch ensures that the nested state is activated only
if the vcpu is completly in nested state.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:25 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
88ab24adc7 KVM: SVM: Don't sync nested cr8 to lapic and back
This patch makes syncing of the guest tpr to the lapic
conditional on !nested. Otherwise a nested guest using the
TPR could freeze the guest.
Another important change this patch introduces is that the
cr8 intercept bits are no longer ORed at vmrun emulation if
the guest sets VINTR_MASKING in its VMCB. The reason is that
nested cr8 accesses need alway be handled by the nested
hypervisor because they change the shadow version of the
tpr.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:22 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
4c7da8cb43 KVM: SVM: Fix nested msr intercept handling
The nested_svm_exit_handled_msr() function maps only one
page of the guests msr permission bitmap. This patch changes
the code to use kvm_read_guest to fix the bug.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:19 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
6c3bd3d766 KVM: SVM: Annotate nested_svm_map with might_sleep()
The nested_svm_map() function can sleep and must not be
called from atomic context. So annotate that function.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:16 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
cdbbdc1210 KVM: SVM: Sync all control registers on nested vmexit
Currently the vmexit emulation does not sync control
registers were the access is typically intercepted by the
nested hypervisor. But we can not count on that intercepts
to sync these registers too and make the code
architecturally more correct.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:13 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
b8e88bc8ff KVM: SVM: Fix schedule-while-atomic on nested exception handling
Move the actual vmexit routine out of code that runs with
irqs and preemption disabled.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:10 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
7597f129d8 KVM: SVM: Don't use kmap_atomic in nested_svm_map
Use of kmap_atomic disables preemption but if we run in
shadow-shadow mode the vmrun emulation executes kvm_set_cr3
which might sleep or fault. So use kmap instead for
nested_svm_map.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:34:07 +03:00
Gleb Natapov
89a27f4d0e KVM: use desc_ptr struct instead of kvm private descriptor_table
x86 arch defines desc_ptr for idt/gdt pointers, no need to define
another structure in kvm code.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-25 12:27:28 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa
b7af404338 KVM: SVM: Fix memory leaks that happen when svm_create_vcpu() fails
svm_create_vcpu() does not free the pages allocated during the creation
when it fails to complete the allocations. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-20 12:55:04 +03:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Avi Kivity
59200273c4 KVM: Trace failed msr reads and writes
Record failed msrs reads and writes, and the fact that they failed as well.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:06 -03:00
Avi Kivity
f6801dff23 KVM: Rename vcpu->shadow_efer to efer
None of the other registers have the shadow_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:04 -03:00
Avi Kivity
6b52d18605 KVM: Activate fpu on clts
Assume that if the guest executes clts, it knows what it's doing, and load the
guest fpu to prevent an #NM exception.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:04 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
727f5a23e2 KVM: SVM: Trap all debug register accesses
To enable proper debug register emulation under all conditions, trap
access to all DR0..7. This may be optimized later on.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:02 -03:00
Jan Kiszka
c76de350c8 KVM: SVM: Clean up and enhance mov dr emulation
Enhance mov dr instruction emulation used by SVM so that it properly
handles dr4/5: alias to dr6/7 if cr4.de is cleared. Otherwise return
EMULATE_FAIL which will let our only possible caller in that scenario,
ud_interception, re-inject UD.

We do not need to inject faults, SVM does this for us (exceptions take
precedence over instruction interceptions). For the same reason, the
value overflow checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:02 -03:00
Avi Kivity
4610c83cdc KVM: SVM: Lazy fpu with npt
Now that we can allow the guest to play with cr0 when the fpu is loaded,
we can enable lazy fpu when npt is in use.

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:51 -03:00
Avi Kivity
d225157bc6 KVM: SVM: Selective cr0 intercept
If two conditions apply:
 - no bits outside TS and EM differ between the host and guest cr0
 - the fpu is active

then we can activate the selective cr0 write intercept and drop the
unconditional cr0 read and write intercept, and allow the guest to run
with the host fpu state.  This reduces cr0 exits due to guest fpu management
while the guest fpu is loaded.

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:51 -03:00
Avi Kivity
888f9f3e0c KVM: SVM: Restore unconditional cr0 intercept under npt
Currently we don't intercept cr0 at all when npt is enabled.  This improves
performance but requires us to activate the fpu at all times.

Remove this behaviour in preparation for adding selective cr0 intercepts.

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:51 -03:00
Avi Kivity
bff7827479 KVM: SVM: Initialize fpu_active in init_vmcb()
init_vmcb() sets up the intercepts as if the fpu is active, so initialize it
there.  This avoids an INIT from setting up intercepts inconsistent with
fpu_active.

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:51 -03:00
Avi Kivity
02daab21d9 KVM: Lazify fpu activation and deactivation
Defer fpu deactivation as much as possible - if the guest fpu is loaded, keep
it loaded until the next heavyweight exit (where we are forced to unload it).
This reduces unnecessary exits.

We also defer fpu activation on clts; while clts signals the intent to use the
fpu, we can't be sure the guest will actually use it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:50 -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
Sheng Yang
17cc393596 KVM: x86: Rename gb_page_enable() to get_lpage_level() in kvm_x86_ops
Then the callback can provide the maximum supported large page level, which
is more flexible.

Also move the gb page support into x86_64 specific.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:46 -03:00
Joerg Roedel
953899b659 KVM: SVM: Adjust tsc_offset only if tsc_unstable
The tsc_offset adjustment in svm_vcpu_load is executed
unconditionally even if Linux considers the host tsc as
stable. This causes a Linux guest detecting an unstable tsc
in any case.
This patch removes the tsc_offset adjustment if the host tsc
is stable. The guest will now get the benefit of a stable
tsc too.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:41 -03:00
Sheng Yang
4e47c7a6d7 KVM: VMX: Add instruction rdtscp support for guest
Before enabling, execution of "rdtscp" in guest would result in #UD.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:40 -03:00
Sheng Yang
0e85188049 KVM: Add cpuid_update() callback to kvm_x86_ops
Sometime, we need to adjust some state in order to reflect guest CPUID
setting, e.g. if we don't expose rdtscp to guest, we won't want to enable
it on hardware. cpuid_update() is introduced for this purpose.

Also export kvm_find_cpuid_entry() for later use.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:40 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
d0316554d3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
Jan Kiszka
3cfc3092f4 KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to
exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space
changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration
and system reset.

[avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:25 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
3ce672d484 KVM: SVM: init_vmcb(): remove redundant save->cr0 initialization
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
18fa000ae4 KVM: SVM: Reset cr0 properly on vcpu reset
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
6be7d3062b KVM: SVM: Cleanup NMI singlestep
Push the NMI-related singlestep variable into vcpu_svm. It's dealing
with an AMD-specific deficit, nothing generic for x86.

Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    1 -
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |   12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:19 +02:00
Mark Langsdorf
565d0998ec KVM: SVM: Support Pause Filter in AMD processors
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
d36f19e9ec KVM: SVM: Remove nsvm_printk debugging code
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
532a46b989 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for skinit instruction
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
ec1ff79084 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for invlpga instruction
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
236649de33 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for #vmexit because intr pending
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
17897f3668 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for injected #vmexit
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:15 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
d8cabddf7e KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for nested #vmexit
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:15 +02:00