If the time stamp counter goes backwards, a guest delay loop can become
infinite. This can happen if a vcpu is migrated to another cpu, where
the counter has a lower value than the first cpu.
Since we're doing an IPI to the first cpu anyway, we can use that to pick
up the old tsc, and use that to calculate the adjustment we need to make
to the tsc offset.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a vcpu causes a shadow tlb entry to have reduced permissions, it
must also clear the tlb on remote vcpus. We do that by:
- setting a bit on the vcpu that requests a tlb flush before the next entry
- if the vcpu is currently executing, we send an ipi to make sure it
exits before we continue
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A vcpu can pin up to four mmu shadow pages, which means the freeing
loop will never terminate. Fix by first unpinning shadow pages on
all vcpus, then freeing shadow pages.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Switch guest paging context may require us to allocate memory, which
might fail. Instead of wiring up error paths everywhere, make context
switching lazy and actually do the switch before the next guest entry,
where we can return an error if allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This was once used to avoid accessing the guest pte when upgrading
the shadow pte from read-only to read-write. But usually we need
to set the guest pte dirty or accessed bits anyway, so this wasn't
really exploited.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Always set the accessed and dirty bit (since having them cleared causes
a read-modify-write cycle), always set the present bit, and copy the
nx bit from the guest.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
With guest smp, a second vcpu might see partial updates when the first
vcpu services a page fault. So delay all updates until we have figured
out what the pte should look like.
Note that on i386, this is still not completely atomic as a 64-bit write
will be split into two on a 32-bit machine.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This prevents some work from being performed twice, and, more importantly,
reduces the number of places where we modify shadow ptes.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We will need the accessed bit (in addition to the dirty bit) and
also write access (for setting the dirty bit) in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM compilation fails for some .configs. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu",
so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once
instead of having to disable each option separately.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
MSR_EFER.LME/LMA bits are automatically save/restored by VMX
hardware, KVM only needs to save NX/SCE bits at time of heavy
weight VM Exit. But clearing NX bits in host envirnment may
cause system hang if the host page table is using EXB bits,
thus we leave NX bits as it is. If Host NX=1 and guest NX=0, we
can do guest page table EXB bits check before inserting a shadow
pte (though no guest is expecting to see this kind of gp fault).
If host NX=0, we present guest no Execute-Disable feature to guest,
thus no host NX=0, guest NX=1 combination.
This patch reduces raw vmexit time by ~27%.
Me: fix compile warnings on i386.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
In a lightweight exit (where we exit and reenter the guest without
scheduling or exiting to userspace in between), we don't need various
msrs on the host, and avoiding shuffling them around reduces raw exit
time by 8%.
i386 compile fix by Daniel Hecken <dh@bahntechnik.de>.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instructions with address size override prefix opcode 0x67
Cause the #SS fault with 0 error code in VM86 mode. Forward
them to the emulator.
Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kunmap() expects a struct page, not a virtual address. Fixes an oops loading
kvm-intel.ko on i386 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
Thanks to Michael Ivanov <deruhu@peterstar.ru> for reporting.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The real mode tr needs to be set to a specific tss so that I/O
instructions can function. Divert the new tr values to the real
mode save area from where they will be restored on transition to
protected mode.
This fixes some crashes on reboot when the bios accesses an I/O
instruction.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If we set an msr via an ioctl() instead of by handling a guest exit, we
have the host state loaded, so reloading the msrs would clobber host
state instead of guest state.
This fixes a host oops (and loss of a cpu) on a guest reboot.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Attempting to boot the default 'bsd' kernel of OpenBSD 4.1 i386 in a guest
fails early in the kernel init inside p3_get_bus_clock while trying to read
the IA32_EBL_CR_POWERON MSR. KVM logs an 'unhandled MSR' message and the
guest kernel faults.
This patch is sufficient to allow OpenBSD to boot, after which it seems to
run fine. I'm not sure if this is the correct solution for dealing with
this particular MSR, but it works for me.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Everyone owns a piece of the exception bitmap, but they happily write to
the entire thing like there's no tomorrow. Centralize handling in
update_exception_bitmap() and have everyone call that.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The lightweight vmexit path avoids saving and reloading certain host
state. However in certain cases lightweight vmexit handling can schedule()
which requires reloading the host state.
So we store the host state in the vcpu structure, and reloaded it if we
relinquish the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A typical demand page/copy on write pattern is:
- page fault on vaddr
- kvm propagates fault to guest
- guest handles fault, updates pte
- kvm traps write, clears shadow pte, resumes guest
- guest returns to userspace, re-faults on same vaddr
- kvm installs shadow pte, resumes guest
- guest continues
So, three vmexits for a single guest page fault. But if instead of clearing
the page table entry, we update to correspond to the value that the guest
has just written, we eliminate the third vmexit.
This patch does exactly that, reducing kbuild time by about 10%.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
