Guests that are heavy on futexes end up IPI'ing each other a lot. That
can lead to significant slowdowns and latency increase for those guests
when running within KVM.
If only a single guest is needed on a host, we have a lot of spare host
CPU time we can throw at the problem. Modern CPUs implement a feature
called "MWAIT" which allows guests to wake up sleeping remote CPUs without
an IPI - thus without an exit - at the expense of never going out of guest
context.
The decision whether this is something sensible to use should be up to the
VM admin, so to user space. We can however allow MWAIT execution on systems
that support it properly hardware wise.
This patch adds a CAP to user space and a KVM cpuid leaf to indicate
availability of native MWAIT execution. With that enabled, the worst a
guest can do is waste as many cycles as a "jmp ." would do, so it's not
a privilege problem.
We consciously do *not* expose the feature in our CPUID bitmap, as most
people will want to benefit from sleeping vCPUs to allow for over commit.
Reported-by: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
[agraf: fix amd, change commit message]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Introduce a function that reads the exact nanoseconds value that is
provided to the guest in kvmclock. This crystallizes the notion of
kvmclock as a thin veneer over a stable TSC, that the guest will
(hopefully) convert with NTP. In other words, kvmclock is *not* a
paravirtualized host-to-guest NTP.
Drop the get_kernel_ns() function, that was used both to get the base
value of the master clock and to get the current value of kvmclock.
The former use is replaced by ktime_get_boot_ns(), the latter is
the purpose of get_kernel_ns().
This also allows KVM to provide a Hyper-V time reference counter that
is synchronized with the time that is computed from the TSC page.
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move the inline function nsec_to_cycles from x86.c to x86.h, as
the next patch uses it from lapic.c.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch adds pkeys support for xsave state.
Signed-off-by: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use vector-hashing to deliver lowest-priority interrupts, As an
example, modern Intel CPUs in server platform use this method to
handle lowest-priority interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This is similar to the existing div_frac function, but it returns the
remainder too. Unlike div_frac, it can be used to implement long
division, e.g. (a << 64) / b for 32-bit a and b.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
There are two concepts that have some confusing naming:
1. Extended State Component numbers (currently called
XFEATURE_BIT_*)
2. Extended State Component masks (currently called XSTATE_*)
The numbers are (currently) from 0-9. State component 3 is the
bounds registers for MPX, for instance.
But when we want to enable "state component 3", we go set a bit
in XCR0. The bit we set is 1<<3. We can check to see if a
state component feature is enabled by looking at its bit.
The current 'xfeature_bit's are at best xfeature bit _numbers_.
Calling them bits is at best inconsistent with ending the enum
list with 'XFEATURES_NR_MAX'.
This patch renames the enum to be 'xfeature'. These also
happen to be what the Intel documentation calls a "state
component".
We also want to differentiate these from the "XSTATE_*" macros.
The "XSTATE_*" macros are a mask, and we rename them to match.
These macros are reasonably widely used so this patch is a
wee bit big, but this really is just a rename.
The only non-mechanical part of this is the
s/XSTATE_EXTEND_MASK/XFEATURE_MASK_EXTEND/
We need a better name for it, but that's another patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dave@sr71.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150902233126.38653250@viggo.jf.intel.com
[ Ported to v4.3-rc1. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch introduce Hyper-V related source code file - hyperv.c and
per vm and per vcpu hyperv context structures.
All Hyper-V MSR's and hypercall code moved into hyperv.c.
All Hyper-V kvm/vcpu fields moved into appropriate hyperv context
structures. Copyrights and authors information copied from x86.c
to hyperv.c.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hornyack <peterhornyack@google.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The logic of the disabled_quirks field usually results in a double
negation. Wrap it in a simple function that checks the bit and
negates it.
Based on a patch from Xiao Guangrong.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Based on Intel's SDM, mapping huge page which do not have consistent
memory cache for each 4k page will cause undefined behavior
In order to avoiding this kind of undefined behavior, we force to use
4k pages under this case
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Sort all valid variable MTRRs based on its base address, it will help us to
check a range to see if it's fully contained in variable MTRRs
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
[Fix list insertion sort, simplify var_mtrr_range_is_valid to just
test the V bit. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
MTRR code locates in x86.c and mmu.c so that move them to a separate file to
make the organization more clearer and it will be the place where we fully
implement vMTRR
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
PAT should be 0007_0406_0007_0406h on RESET and not modified on INIT.
VMX used a wrong value (host's PAT) and while SVM used the right one,
it never got to arch.pat.
This is not an issue with QEMU as it will force the correct value.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Adds a function kvm_vcpu_set_pending_timer instead of calling
kvm_make_request in lapic.c.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For the hrtimer which emulates the tscdeadline timer in the guest,
add an option to advance expiration, and busy spin on VM-entry waiting
for the actual expiration time to elapse.
This allows achieving low latencies in cyclictest (or any scenario
which requires strict timing regarding timer expiration).
Reduces average cyclictest latency from 12us to 8us
on Core i5 desktop.
Note: this option requires tuning to find the appropriate value
for a particular hardware/guest combination. One method is to measure the
average delay between apic_timer_fn and VM-entry.
Another method is to start with 1000ns, and increase the value
in say 500ns increments until avg cyclictest numbers stop decreasing.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Guest which sets the PAT CR to invalid value should get a #GP. Currently, if
vmx supports loading PAT CR during entry, then the value is not checked. This
patch makes the required check in that case.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The following events can lead to an incorrect KVM_EXIT_MMIO bubbling
up to userspace:
(1) Guest accesses gpa X without a memory slot. The gfn is cached in
struct kvm_vcpu_arch (mmio_gfn). On Intel EPT-enabled hosts, KVM sets
the SPTE write-execute-noread so that future accesses cause
EPT_MISCONFIGs.
(2) Host userspace creates a memory slot via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
covering the page just accessed.
(3) Guest attempts to read or write to gpa X again. On Intel, this
generates an EPT_MISCONFIG. The memory slot generation number that
was incremented in (2) would normally take care of this but we fast
path mmio faults through quickly_check_mmio_pf(), which only checks
the per-vcpu mmio cache. Since we hit the cache, KVM passes a
KVM_EXIT_MMIO up to userspace.
This patch fixes the issue by using the memslot generation number
to validate the mmio cache.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
[xiaoguangrong: adjust the code to make it simpler for stable-tree fix.]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMX instructions use 32-bit operands in 32-bit mode, and 64-bit operands in
64-bit mode. The current implementation is broken since it does not use the
register operands correctly, and always uses 64-bit for reads and writes.
Moreover, write to memory in vmwrite only considers long-mode, so it ignores
cs.l. This patch fixes this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When the guest sets DR6 and DR7, KVM asserts the high 32-bits are clear, and
otherwise injects a #GP exception. This exception should only be injected only
if running in long-mode.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
XSAVE support for KVM is already using host_xcr0 & KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0 as
a "dynamic" version of KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0.
However, this is not enough because the MPX bits should not be presented
to the guest unless kvm_x86_ops confirms the support. So, replace all
instances of host_xcr0 & KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0 with a new function
kvm_supported_xcr0() that also has this check.
Note that here:
if (xstate_bv & ~KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0)
return -EINVAL;
if (xstate_bv & ~host_cr0)
return -EINVAL;
the code is equivalent to
if ((xstate_bv & ~KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0) ||
(xstate_bv & ~host_cr0)
return -EINVAL;
i.e. "xstate_bv & (~KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0 | ~host_cr0)" which is in turn
equal to "xstate_bv & ~(KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0 & host_cr0)". So we should
also use the new function there.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Limit PIT timer frequency similarly to the limit applied by
LAPIC timer.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
XSAVE entries that KVM does not support are reported by
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID for leaf 0Dh index 0 if the host supports them;
they should be left out unless there is also hypervisor support for them.
Sub-leafs are correctly handled in supported_xcr0_bit, fix index 0
to match.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
In order to track who initiated the call (host or guest) to modify an msr
value I have changed function call parameters along the call path. The
specific change is to add a struct pointer parameter that points to (index,
data, caller) information rather than having this information passed as
individual parameters.
The initial use for this capability is for updating the IA32_TSC_ADJUST msr
while setting the tsc value. It is anticipated that this capability is
useful for other tasks.
Signed-off-by: Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Usually all vcpus have local apic pointer initialized, so the check may
be completely skipped.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since most guests will have paging enabled for memory management, add likely() optimization
around CR0.PG checks.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the page fault is caused by mmio, we can cache the mmio info, later, we do
not need to walk guest page table and quickly know it is a mmio fault while we
emulate the mmio instruction
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch includes a utility function for decoding pointer operands of VMX
instructions issued by L1 (a guest hypervisor)
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When doing a soft int, we need to bump eip before pushing it to
the stack. Otherwise we'll do the int a second time.
[apw@canonical.com: merged eip update as per Jan's recommendation.]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To support xsave properly for the guest the SVM module need
software support for it. As long as this is not present do
not report the xsave as supported feature in cpuid.
As a side-effect this patch moves the bit() helper function
into the x86.h file so that it can be used in svm.c too.
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This adds a wrapper function kvm_inject_realmode_interrupt() around the
emulator function emulate_int_real() to allow real mode interrupt injection.
[avi: initialize operand and address sizes before emulating interrupts]
[avi: initialize rip for real mode interrupt injection]
[avi: clear interrupt pending flag after emulating interrupt injection]
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch adds the functions to do a nested l2_gva to
l1_gpa page table walk.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Also, ensure that the storing of the offset and the reading of the TSC
are never preempted by taking a spinlock. While the lock is overkill
now, it is useful later in this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Equivalent support is provided
by overlapping memory regions.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Below patch implements the perf_guest_info_callbacks on kvm.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Directed EOI is specified by x2APIC, but is available even when lapic is
in xAPIC mode.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.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>
Only one interrupt vector can be injected from userspace irqchip at
any given time so no need to store it in a bitmap. Put it into interrupt
queue directly.
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>
Similar to the exception queue, this hold interrupts that have been
accepted by the virtual processor core but not yet injected.
Not yet used.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If we're emulating an instruction, either it will succeed, in which case
any previously queued exception will be spurious, or we will requeue the
same exception.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
