ioeventfd is a mechanism to register PIO/MMIO regions to trigger an eventfd
signal when written to by a guest. Host userspace can register any
arbitrary IO address with a corresponding eventfd and then pass the eventfd
to a specific end-point of interest for handling.
Normal IO requires a blocking round-trip since the operation may cause
side-effects in the emulated model or may return data to the caller.
Therefore, an IO in KVM traps from the guest to the host, causes a VMX/SVM
"heavy-weight" exit back to userspace, and is ultimately serviced by qemu's
device model synchronously before returning control back to the vcpu.
However, there is a subclass of IO which acts purely as a trigger for
other IO (such as to kick off an out-of-band DMA request, etc). For these
patterns, the synchronous call is particularly expensive since we really
only want to simply get our notification transmitted asychronously and
return as quickly as possible. All the sychronous infrastructure to ensure
proper data-dependencies are met in the normal IO case are just unecessary
overhead for signalling. This adds additional computational load on the
system, as well as latency to the signalling path.
Therefore, we provide a mechanism for registration of an in-kernel trigger
point that allows the VCPU to only require a very brief, lightweight
exit just long enough to signal an eventfd. This also means that any
clients compatible with the eventfd interface (which includes userspace
and kernelspace equally well) can now register to be notified. The end
result should be a more flexible and higher performance notification API
for the backend KVM hypervisor and perhipheral components.
To test this theory, we built a test-harness called "doorbell". This
module has a function called "doorbell_ring()" which simply increments a
counter for each time the doorbell is signaled. It supports signalling
from either an eventfd, or an ioctl().
We then wired up two paths to the doorbell: One via QEMU via a registered
io region and through the doorbell ioctl(). The other is direct via
ioeventfd.
You can download this test harness here:
ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/doorbell.tar.bz2
The measured results are as follows:
qemu-mmio: 110000 iops, 9.09us rtt
ioeventfd-mmio: 200100 iops, 5.00us rtt
ioeventfd-pio: 367300 iops, 2.72us rtt
I didn't measure qemu-pio, because I have to figure out how to register a
PIO region with qemu's device model, and I got lazy. However, for now we
can extrapolate based on the data from the NULLIO runs of +2.56us for MMIO,
and -350ns for HC, we get:
qemu-pio: 153139 iops, 6.53us rtt
ioeventfd-hc: 412585 iops, 2.37us rtt
these are just for fun, for now, until I can gather more data.
Here is a graph for your convenience:
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/7/76/Iofd-chart.png
The conclusion to draw is that we save about 4us by skipping the userspace
hop.
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Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Today kvm_io_bus_regsiter_dev() returns void and will internally BUG_ON
if it fails. We want to create dynamic MMIO/PIO entries driven from
userspace later in the series, so we need to enhance the code to be more
robust with the following changes:
1) Add a return value to the registration function
2) Fix up all the callsites to check the return code, handle any
failures, and percolate the error up to the caller.
3) Add an unregister function that collapses holes in the array
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When kvm is in hpet_legacy_mode, the hpet is providing the timer
interrupt and the pit should not be. So in legacy mode, the pit timer
is destroyed, but the *state* of the pit is maintained. So if kvm or
the guest tries to modify the state of the pit, this modification is
accepted, *except* that the timer isn't actually started. When we exit
hpet_legacy_mode, the current state of the pit (which is up to date
since we've been accepting modifications) is used to restart the pit
timer.
The saved_mode code in kvm_pit_load_count temporarily changes mode to
0xff in order to destroy the timer, but then restores the actual
value, again maintaining "current" state of the pit for possible later
reenablement.
[avi: add some reserved storage in the ioctl; make SET_PIT2 IOW]
[marcelo: fix memory corruption due to reserved storage]
Signed-off-by: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We emulate x2apic in software, so host support is not required.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This will save a couple of IPIs.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add tracepoint in msi/ioapic/pic set_irq() functions,
in IPI sending and in the point where IRQ is placed into
apic's IRR.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Irqfd sets level for interrupt to 1 and then to 0.
For MSI, check level so that a single message is sent.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some Windows versions check whether the BIOS has setup MMI/O for
config space accesses on AMD Fam10h CPUs, we say "no" by returning 0 on
reads and only allow disabling of MMI/O CfgSpace setup by igoring "0" writes.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 6c20e1442bb1c62914bb85b7f4a38973d2a423ba.
To my understanding, it became obsolete with the advent of the more
robust check in mmu_alloc_roots (89da4ff17f). Moreover, it prevents
the conceptually safe pattern
1. set sregs
2. register mem-slots
3. run vcpu
by setting a sticky triple fault during step 1.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Windows 7 tries to update the CPU's microcode on some processors,
so we ignore the MSR write here. The patchlevel register is already handled
(returning 0), because the MSR number is the same as Intel's.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some in-famous OS do unaligned writing for APIC MMIO, and the return value
has been missed in recent change, then the OS hangs.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch implements MSR interface to local apic as defines by x2apic
Intel specification.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.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>
Linux guests will try to enable access to the extended PCI config space
via the I/O ports 0xCF8/0xCFC on AMD Fam10h CPU. Since we (currently?)
don't use ECS, simply ignore write and read attempts.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is a missing unlock on one fail path in ioapic_mmio_write,
fix that.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This changes bus accesses to use high-level kvm_io_bus_read/kvm_io_bus_write
functions. in_range now becomes unused so it is removed from device ops in
favor of read/write callbacks performing range checks internally.
This allows aliasing (mostly for in-kernel virtio), as well as better error
handling by making it possible to pass errors up to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use slots_lock to protect device list on the bus. slots_lock is already
taken for read everywhere, so we only need to take it for write when
registering devices. This is in preparation to removing in_range and
kvm->lock around it.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
switch pit creation to slots_lock. slots_lock is already taken for read
everywhere, so we only need to take it for write when creating pit.
This is in preparation to removing in_range and kvm->lock around it.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
switch coalesced mmio slots_lock. slots_lock is already taken for read
everywhere, so we only need to take it for write when changing zones.
This is in preparation to removing in_range and kvm->lock around it.
[avi: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
slots_lock is taken everywhere when device ops are called.
Document this as we will use this to rework locking for io.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Change kvm_vcpu_is_bsp to use vcpu_id instead of bsp_vcpu pointer, which
is only initialized at the end of kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM will inject a #GP into the guest if that tries to access unhandled
MSRs. This will crash many guests. Although it would be the correct
way to actually handle these MSRs, we introduce a runtime switchable
module param called "ignore_msrs" (defaults to 0). If this is Y, unknown
MSR reads will return 0, while MSR writes are simply dropped. In both cases
we print a message to dmesg to inform the user about that.
You can change the behaviour at any time by saying:
# echo 1 > /sys/modules/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the Linux kernel detects an C1E capable AMD processor (K8 RevF and
higher), it will access a certain MSR on every attempt to go to halt.
Explicitly handle this read and return 0 to let KVM run a Linux guest
with the native AMD host CPU propagated to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Linux tries to disable the flush filter on all AMD K8 CPUs. Since KVM
does not handle the needed MSR, the injected #GP will panic the Linux
kernel. Ignore setting of the HWCR.FFDIS bit in this MSR to let Linux
boot with an AMD K8 family guest CPU.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Correct missing locking in a few places in x86's vm_ioctl handling path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since
commit 854b5338196b1175706e99d63be43a4f8d8ab607
Author: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
KVM: s390: streamline memslot handling
s390 uses the values of the memslot instead of doing everything in the arch
ioctl handler of the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION. Unfortunately we missed to
set the userspace_addr of our memslot due to our s390 ifdef in
__kvm_set_memory_region.
Old s390 userspace launchers did not notice, since they started the guest at
userspace address 0.
Because of CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR we now put the guest at 1M userspace,
which does not work. This patch makes sure that new.userspace_addr is set
on s390.
This fix should go in quickly. Nevertheless, looking at the code we should
clean up that ifdef in the long term. Any kernel janitors?
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handle #UD intercept of the sysexit instruction in 64bit mode returning to
32bit compat mode on an AMD host.
Setup the segment descriptors for CS and SS and the EIP/ESP registers
according to the manual.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handle #UD intercept of the sysenter instruction in 32bit compat mode on
an AMD host.
Setup the segment descriptors for CS and SS and the EIP/ESP registers
according to the manual.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handle #UD intercept of the syscall instruction in 32bit compat mode on
an Intel host.
Setup the segment descriptors for CS and SS and the EIP/ESP registers
according to the manual. Save the RIP and EFLAGS to the correct registers.
[avi: fix build on i386 due to missing R11]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add the flags needed for syscall, sysenter and sysexit to the opcode table.
Catch (but for now ignore) the opcodes in the emulation switch/case.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add the opcodes for syscall, sysenter and sysexit to the list of instructions
handled by the undefined opcode handler.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
While trying to get Hyper-V running, I realized that the interrupt injection
mechanisms that are in place right now are not 100% correct.
This patch makes nested SVM's interrupt injection behave more like on a
real machine.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
SVM adds another way to do INVLPG by ASID which Hyper-V makes use of,
so let's implement it!
For now we just do the same thing invlpg does, as asid switching
means we flush the mmu anyways. That might change one day though.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Hyper-V uses some MSRs, some of which are actually reserved for BIOS usage.
But let's be nice today and have it its way, because otherwise it fails
terribly.
[jaswinder: fix build for linux-next changes]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
