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21 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Avi Kivity
07c116d2f5 KVM: VMX: Add definitions for more vm entry/exit control bits
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:31:08 +02:00
Anthony Liguori
443381a828 KVM: VMX: add module parameter to avoid trapping HLT instructions (v5)
In certain use-cases, we want to allocate guests fixed time slices where idle
guest cycles leave the machine idling.  There are many approaches to achieve
this but the most direct is to simply avoid trapping the HLT instruction which
lets the guest directly execute the instruction putting the processor to sleep.

Introduce this as a module-level option for kvm-vmx.ko since if you do this
for one guest, you probably want to do it for all.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:30:46 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
ec25d5e66e KVM: handle exit due to INVD in VMX
Currently the exit is unhandled, so guest halts with error if it tries
to execute INVD instruction. Call into emulator when INVD instruction
is executed by a guest instead. This instruction is not needed by ordinary
guests, but firmware (like OpenBIOS) use it and fail.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:28:53 +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
Gui Jianfeng
b9d762fa79 KVM: VMX: Add all-context INVVPID type support
Add all-context INVVPID type support.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:04 +03:00
Gui Jianfeng
518c8aee5c KVM: VMX: Make sure single type invvpid is supported before issuing invvpid instruction
According to SDM, we need check whether single-context INVVPID type is supported
before issuing invvpid instruction.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:39:26 +03:00
Mohammed Gamal
c8174f7b35 KVM: VMX: Add constant for invalid guest state exit reason
For the sake of completeness, this patch adds a symbolic
constant for VMX exit reason 0x21 (invalid guest state).

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:52 +03:00
Avi Kivity
5dfa3d170e KVM: VMX: Add definitions for guest and host EFER autoswitch vmcs entries
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-19 11:36:31 +03:00
Avi Kivity
19b95dba03 KVM: VMX: Add definition for msr autoload entry
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-19 11:36:30 +03:00
Sheng Yang
a19a6d1131 KVM: VMX: Rename VMX_EPT_IGMT_BIT to VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT
Following the new SDM. Now the bit is named "Ignore PAT memory type".

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:09 -03:00
Sheng Yang
878403b788 KVM: VMX: Enable EPT 1GB page support
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
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
59708670b6 KVM: VMX: Trap and invalid MWAIT/MONITOR instruction
We don't support these instructions, but guest can execute them even if the
feature('monitor') haven't been exposed in CPUID. So we would trap and inject
a #UD if guest try this way.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:39 -03:00
Zhai, Edwin
4b8d54f972 KVM: VMX: Add support for Pause-Loop Exiting
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>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
e799794e02 KVM: VMX: more MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP capability bits
Required for EPT misconfiguration handler.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:55 +03:00
Nitin A Kamble
3a624e29c7 KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature
"Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification.
Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature.

    It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode
code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the
unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code
in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode
code works like native.

  The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature
if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module
parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time.

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:49 +03:00
Andi Kleen
a0861c02a9 KVM: Add VT-x machine check support
VT-x needs an explicit MC vector intercept to handle machine checks in the
hyper visor.

It also has a special option to catch machine checks that happen
during VT entry.

Do these interceptions and forward them to the Linux machine check
handler. Make it always look like user space is interrupted because
the machine check handler treats kernel/user space differently.

Thanks to Jiang Yunhong for help and testing.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-06-10 12:27:08 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
42dbaa5a05 KVM: x86: Virtualize debug registers
So far KVM only had basic x86 debug register support, once introduced to
realize guest debugging that way. The guest itself was not able to use
those registers.

This patch now adds (almost) full support for guest self-debugging via
hardware registers. It refactors the code, moving generic parts out of
SVM (VMX was already cleaned up by the KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG patches), and
it ensures that the registers are properly switched between host and
guest.

This patch also prepares debug register usage by the host. The latter
will (once wired-up by the following patch) allow for hardware
breakpoints/watchpoints in guest code. If this is enabled, the guest
will only see faked debug registers without functionality, but with
content reflecting the guest's modifications.

Tested on Intel only, but SVM /should/ work as well, but who knows...

Known limitations: Trapping on tss switch won't work - most probably on
Intel.

Credits also go to Joerg Roedel - I used his once posted debugging
series as platform for this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:49 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
8ab2d2e231 KVM: VMX: Support for injecting software exceptions
VMX differentiates between processor and software generated exceptions
when injecting them into the guest. Extend vmx_queue_exception
accordingly (and refactor related constants) so that we can use this
service reliably for the new guest debugging framework.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:02:48 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
eca70fc567 KVM: VMX: move ASM_VMX_* definitions from asm/kvm_host.h to asm/vmx.h
Those definitions will be used by code outside KVM, so move it outside
of a KVM-specific source file.

Those definitions are used only on kvm/vmx.c, that already includes
asm/vmx.h, so they can be moved safely.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:28 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
13673a90f1 KVM: VMX: move vmx.h to include/asm
vmx.h will be used by core code that is independent of KVM, so I am
moving it outside the arch/x86/kvm directory.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:27 +02:00