Don't call adjust_vmx_controls() two times for the same control.
It restores options that were dropped earlier. This loses us the cr8
exit control, which causes a massive performance regression Windows x64.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
QNX update WP bit when paging enabled, which is not covered yet. This one fix
QNX boot with EPT.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We set rflags.vm86 when virtualizing real mode to do through vm8086 mode;
so we need to take it out again when reading rflags.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of calling vmx_get_segment() (which reads a whole bunch of
vmcs fields), read only the cs selector which contains the cpl.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If userspace knows that the kernel part supports 1GB pages it can enable
the corresponding cpuid bit so that guests actually use GB pages.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Choose some allowed error values for the cases VMX returned ENOTSUPP so
far as these values could be returned by the KVM_RUN IOCTL.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page.
(change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter
address rather than value)
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This allows use of the powerful ftrace infrastructure.
See Documentation/trace/ for usage information.
[avi, stephen: various build fixes]
[sheng: fix control register breakage]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
cr2 changes only rarely, and writing it is expensive. Avoid the costly cr2
writes by checking if it does not already hold the desired value.
Shaves 70 cycles off the vmexit latency.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Disable usage of 2M pages if VMX_EPT_2MB_PAGE_BIT (bit 16) is clear
in MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP and EPT is enabled.
[avi: s/largepages_disabled/largepages_enabled/ to avoid negative logic]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handler for EPT misconfiguration which checks for valid state
in the shadow pagetables, printing the spte on each level.
The separate WARN_ONs are useful for kerneloops.org.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The performance counter MSRs are different for AMD and Intel CPUs and they
are chosen mainly by the CPUID vendor string. This patch catches writes to
all addresses (regardless of VMX/SVM path) and handles them in the generic
MSR handler routine. Writing a 0 into the event select register is something
we perfectly emulate ;-), so don't print out a warning to dmesg in this
case.
This fixes booting a 64bit Windows guest with an AMD CPUID on an Intel host.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
"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>
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>
Instead of reading the PDPTRs from memory after every exit (which is slow
and wrong, as the PDPTRs are stored on the cpu), sync the PDPTRs from
memory to the VMCS before entry, and from the VMCS to memory after exit.
Do the same for cr3.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_cr3() will call vmx_tlb_flush(), which will flush the ept context.
So there is no need to call ept_sync_context() explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The problem exists only on VMX. Also currently we skip this step if
there is pending exception. The patch fixes this too.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use standard msr-index.h's MSR declaration.
MSR_IA32_TSC is better than MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER as it also solves
80 column issue.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When reinjecting a software interrupt or exception, use the correct
instruction length provided by the hardware instead of a hardcoded 1.
Fixes problems running the suse 9.1 livecd boot loader.
Problem introduced by commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection
logic to x86.c").
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have to disable preemption and IRQs on every exit from
handle_invalid_guest_state, otherwise we generate at least a
preempt_disable imbalance.
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>
Release and re-acquire preemption and IRQ lock in the same order as
vcpu_enter_guest does.
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>
IF a guest tries to use vmx instructions, inject a #UD to let it know the
instruction is not implemented, rather than crashing.
This prevents guest userspace from crashing the guest kernel.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
That way the interpretation of rmode.active becomes more clear with
unrestricted guest code.
Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Re-inject event instead. This is what Intel suggest. Also use correct
instruction length when re-injecting soft fault/interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch replaces drop_interrupt_shadow with the more
general set_interrupt_shadow, that can either drop or raise
it, depending on its parameter. It also adds ->get_interrupt_shadow()
for future use.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Memory aliases with different memory type is a problem for guest. For the guest
without assigned device, the memory type of guest memory would always been the
same as host(WB); but for the assigned device, some part of memory may be used
as DMA and then set to uncacheable memory type(UC/WC), which would be a conflict of
host memory type then be a potential issue.
Snooping control can guarantee the cache correctness of memory go through the
DMA engine of VT-d.
[avi: fix build on ia64]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Shadow_mt_mask is out of date, now it have only been used as a flag to indicate
if TDP enabled. Get rid of it and use tdp_enabled instead.
Also put memory type logical in kvm_x86_ops->get_mt_mask().
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
It just returns pending IRQ vector from the queue for VMX/SVM.
Get IRQ directly from the queue before migration and put it back
after.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Saves many exits to userspace in a case of IRQ chip in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use the same callback to inject irq/nmi events no matter what irqchip is
in use. Only from VMX for now.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
At the vector level, kernel and userspace irqchip are fairly similar.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is no need to skip instruction if the reason for a task switch
is a task gate in IDT and access to it is caused by an external even.
The problem is currently solved only for VMX since there is no reliable
way to skip an instruction in SVM. We should emulate it instead.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will need it later in task_switch().
Code in handle_exception() is dead. is_external_interrupt(vect_info)
will always be false since idt_vectoring_info is zeroed in
vmx_complete_interrupts().
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
...with a more straightforward switch().
Also fix a bug when NMI could be dropped on exit. Although this should
never happen in practice, since NMIs can only be injected, never triggered
internally by the guest like exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Bit 12 is undefined in any of the following cases:
If the VM exit sets the valid bit in the IDT-vectoring information field.
If the VM exit is due to a double fault.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The testing of feature is too early now, before vmcs_config complete initialization.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
EXIT_QUALIFICATION and GUEST_LINEAR_ADDRESS are natural width, not 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
kvm_vcpu_block() unhalts vpu on an interrupt/timer without checking
if interrupt window is actually opened.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The prioritized bit vector manipulation functions are useful in both vmx and
svm.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Windows 2008 accesses this MSR often on context switch intensive workloads;
since we run in guest context with the guest MSR value loaded (so swapgs can
work correctly), we can simply disable interception of rdmsr/wrmsr for this
MSR.
A complication occurs since in legacy mode, we run with the host MSR value
loaded. In this case we enable interception. This means we need two MSR
bitmaps, one for legacy mode and one for long mode.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_msr() does not allow i386 guests to touch EFER, but they can still
do so through the default: label in the switch. If they set EFER_LME, they
can oops the host.
Fix by having EFER access through the normal channel (which will check for
EFER_LME) even on i386.
Reported-and-tested-by: Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
setup_msrs() should be called when entering long mode to save the
shadow state for the 64-bit guest state.
Using vmx_set_efer() in enter_lmode() removes some duplicated code
and also ensures we call setup_msrs(). We can safely pass the value
of shadow_efer to vmx_set_efer() as no other bits in the efer change
while enabling long mode (guest first sets EFER.LME, then sets CR0.PG
which causes a vmexit where we activate long mode).
With this fix, is_long_mode() can check for EFER.LMA set instead of
EFER.LME and 5e23049e86dd298b72e206b420513dbc3a240cd9 can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Looks like neither the direction nor the rep prefix are used anymore.
Drop related evaluations from SVM's and VMX's I/O exit handlers.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If we've just emulated an instruction, we won't have any valid exit
reason and associated information.
Fix by moving the clearing of the emulation_required flag to the exit handler.
This way the exit handler can notice that we've been emulating and abort
early.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
VMX initializes the TSC offset for each vcpu at different times, and
also reinitializes it for vcpus other than 0 on APIC SIPI message.
This bug causes the TSC's to appear unsynchronized in the guest, even if
the host is good.
Older Linux kernels don't handle the situation very well, so
gettimeofday is likely to go backwards in time:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg02955.htmlhttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2025534&group_id=180599&atid=893831
Fix it by initializating the offset of each vcpu relative to vm creation
time, and moving it from vmx_vcpu_reset to vmx_vcpu_setup, out of the
APIC MP init path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add the remaining bits to make use of debug registers also for guest
debugging, thus enabling the use of hardware breakpoints and
watchpoints.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
When single-stepping over STI and MOV SS, we must clear the
corresponding interruptibility bits in the guest state. Otherwise
vmentry fails as it then expects bit 14 (BS) in pending debug exceptions
being set, but that's not correct for the guest debugging case.
Note that clearing those bits is safe as we check for interruptibility
based on the original state and do not inject interrupts or NMIs if
guest interruptibility was blocked.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This rips out the support for KVM_DEBUG_GUEST and introduces a new IOCTL
instead: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. The IOCTL payload consists of a generic
part, controlling the "main switch" and the single-step feature. The
arch specific part adds an x86 interface for intercepting both types of
debug exceptions separately and re-injecting them when the host was not
interested. Moveover, the foundation for guest debugging via debug
registers is layed.
To signal breakpoint events properly back to userland, an arch-specific
data block is now returned along KVM_EXIT_DEBUG. For x86, the arch block
contains the PC, the debug exception, and relevant debug registers to
tell debug events properly apart.
The availability of this new interface is signaled by
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. Empty stubs for not yet supported archs are
provided.
Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
Some msrs (notable MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE) are held in the processor registers
and need to be flushed to the vcpu struture before they can be read.
This fixes cygwin longjmp() failure on Windows x64.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Simplify LAPIC TMCCT calculation by using hrtimer provided
function to query remaining time until expiration.
Fixes host hang with nested ESX.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Software are not allow to access device MMIO using cacheable memory type, the
patch limit MMIO region with UC and WC(guest can select WC using PAT and
PCD/PWT).
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is no point in doing the ready_for_nmi_injection/
request_nmi_window dance with user space. First, we don't do this for
in-kernel irqchip anyway, while the code path is the same as for user
space irqchip mode. And second, there is nothing to loose if a pending
NMI is overwritten by another one (in contrast to IRQs where we have to
save the number). Actually, there is even the risk of raising spurious
NMIs this way because the reason for the held-back NMI might already be
handled while processing the first one.
Therefore this patch creates a simplified user space NMI injection
interface, exporting it under KVM_CAP_USER_NMI and dropping the old
KVM_CAP_NMI capability. And this time we also take care to provide the
interface only on archs supporting NMIs via KVM (right now only x86).
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
As with the kernel irqchip, don't allow an NMI to stomp over an already
injected IRQ; instead wait for the IRQ injection to be completed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Impact: make global function static
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:134:3: warning: symbol 'vmx_capability' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If we're injecting an interrupt, and another one is pending, request
an interrupt window notification so we don't have excess latency on the
second interrupt.
This shouldn't happen in practice since an EOI will be issued, giving a second
chance to request an interrupt window, but...
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Along with some comments on why it is different from the core cpu_vmxoff()
function.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
It will be used by core code on kdump and reboot, to disable
vmx if needed.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
If emulate_invalid_guest_state is enabled, the emulator is called
when guest state is invalid. Until now, we reported an mmio failure
when emulate_instruction() returned EMULATE_DO_MMIO. This patch adds
the case where emulate_instruction() failed and an MMIO emulation
is needed.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If we call the emulator we shouldn't call skip_emulated_instruction()
in the first place, since the emulator already computes the next rip
for us. Thus we move ->skip_emulated_instruction() out of
kvm_emulate_pio() and into handle_io() (and the svm equivalent). We
also replaced "return 0" by "break" in the "do_io:" case because now
the shadow register state needs to be committed. Otherwise eip will never
be updated.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
PCI device assignment would map guest MMIO spaces as separate slot, so it is
possible that the device has more than 2 MMIO spaces and overwrite current
private memslot.
The patch move private memory slot to the top of userspace visible memory slots.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The effective memory type of EPT is the mixture of MSR_IA32_CR_PAT and memory
type field of EPT entry.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
GUEST_PAT support is a new feature introduced by Intel Core i7 architecture.
With this, cpu would save/load guest and host PAT automatically, for EPT memory
type in guest depends on MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Also add save/restore for MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Older VMX supporting CPUs do not provide the "Virtual NMI" feature for
tracking the NMI-blocked state after injecting such events. For now
KVM is unable to inject NMIs on those CPUs.
Derived from Sheng Yang's suggestion to use the IRQ window notification
for detecting the end of NMI handlers, this patch implements virtual
NMI support without impact on the host's ability to receive real NMIs.
The downside is that the given approach requires some heuristics that
can cause NMI nesting in vary rare corner cases.
The approach works as follows:
- inject NMI and set a software-based NMI-blocked flag
- arm the IRQ window start notification whenever an NMI window is
requested
- if the guest exits due to an opening IRQ window, clear the emulated
NMI-blocked flag
- if the guest net execution time with NMI-blocked but without an IRQ
window exceeds 1 second, force NMI-blocked reset and inject anyway
This approach covers most practical scenarios:
- succeeding NMIs are seperated by at least one open IRQ window
- the guest may spin with IRQs disabled (e.g. due to a bug), but
leaving the NMI handler takes much less time than one second
- the guest does not rely on strict ordering or timing of NMIs
(would be problematic in virtualized environments anyway)
Successfully tested with the 'nmi n' monitor command, the kgdbts
testsuite on smp guests (additional patches required to add debug
register support to kvm) + the kernel's nmi_watchdog=1, and a Siemens-
specific board emulation (+ guest) that comes with its own NMI
watchdog mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the required bits to the VMX side for user space
injected NMIs. As with the preexisting in-kernel irqchip support, the
CPU must provide the "virtual NMI" feature for proper tracking of the
NMI blocking state.
Based on the original patch by Sheng Yang.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Fix NMI injection in real-mode with the same pattern we perform IRQ
injection.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
do_interrupt_requests and vmx_intr_assist go different way for
achieving the same: enabling the nmi/irq window start notification.
Unify their code over enable_{irq|nmi}_window, get rid of a redundant
call to enable_intr_window instead of direct enable_nmi_window
invocation and unroll enable_intr_window for both in-kernel and user
space irq injection accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There are currently two ways in VMX to check if an IRQ or NMI can be
injected:
- vmx_{nmi|irq}_enabled and
- vcpu.arch.{nmi|interrupt}_window_open.
Even worse, one test (at the end of vmx_vcpu_run) uses an inconsistent,
likely incorrect logic.
This patch consolidates and unifies the tests over
{nmi|interrupt}_window_open as cache + vmx_update_window_states
for updating the cache content.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Properly set GUEST_INTR_STATE_NMI and reset nmi_injected when a
task-switch vmexit happened due to a task gate being used for handling
NMIs. Also avoid the false warning about valid vectoring info in
kvm_handle_exit.
Based on original patch by Gleb Natapov.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
