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* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Make kvm_mmu_alloc_page() return a kvm_mmu_page pointerAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | This allows further manipulation on the shadow page table. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Make the shadow page tables also special-case paeAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Use the guest pdptrs instead of mapping cr3 in pae modeAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | This lets us not write protect a partial page, and is anyway what a real processor does. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MU: Special treatment for shadow pae root pagesAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Since we're not going to cache the pae-mode shadow root pages, allocate a single pae shadow that will hold the four lower-level pages, which will act as roots. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Fold fetch_guest() into init_walker()Avi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is never necessary to fetch a guest entry from an intermediate page table level (except for large pages), so avoid some confusion by always descending into the lowest possible level. Rename init_walker() to walk_addr() as it is no longer restricted to initialization. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Load the pae pdptrs on cr3 change like the processor doesAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | In pae mode, a load of cr3 loads the four third-level page table entries in addition to cr3 itself. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Teach the page table walker to track guest page table gfnsAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Saving the table gfns removes the need to walk the guest and host page tables in lockstep. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Implement simple reverse mappingAvi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Keep in each host page frame's page->private a pointer to the shadow pte which maps it. If there are multiple shadow ptes mapping the page, set bit 0 of page->private, and use the rest as a pointer to a linked list of all such mappings. Reverse mappings are needed because we when we cache shadow page tables, we must protect the guest page tables from being modified by the guest, as that would invalidate the cached ptes. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Prevent stale bits in cr0 and cr4Avi Kivity2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hardware virtualization implementations allow the guests to freely change some of the bits in cr0 and cr4, but trap when changing the other bits. This is useful to avoid excessive exits due to changing, for example, the ts flag. It also means the kvm's copy of cr0 and cr4 may be stale with respect to these bits. most of the time this doesn't matter as these bits are not very interesting. Other times, however (for example when returning cr0 to userspace), they are, so get the fresh contents of these bits from the guest by means of a new arch operation. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Improve interrupt responseDor Laor2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current interrupt injection mechanism might delay an interrupt under the following circumstances: - if injection fails because the guest is not interruptible (rflags.IF clear, or after a 'mov ss' or 'sti' instruction). Userspace can check rflags, but the other cases or not testable under the current API. - if injection fails because of a fault during delivery. This probably never happens under normal guests. - if injection fails due to a physical interrupt causing a vmexit so that it can be handled by the host. In all cases the guest proceeds without processing the interrupt, reducing the interactive feel and interrupt throughput of the guest. This patch fixes the situation by allowing userspace to request an exit when the 'interrupt window' opens, so that it can re-inject the interrupt at the right time. Guest interactivity is very visibly improved. Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Recover after an arch module load failureYoshimi Ichiyanagi2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | If we load the wrong arch module, it leaves behind kvm_arch_ops set, which prevents loading of the correct arch module later. Fix be not setting kvm_arch_ops until we're sure it's good. Signed-off-by: Yoshimi Ichiyanagi <ichiyanagi.yoshimi@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id() where ↵Ingo Molnar2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | applicable Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Fix GFP_KERNEL alloc in atomic section bugIngo Molnar2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | KVM does kmalloc() in an atomic section while having preemption disabled via vcpu_load(). Fix this by moving the ->*_msr setup from the vcpu_setup method to the vcpu_create method. (This is also a small speedup for setting up a vcpu, which can in theory be more frequent than the vcpu_create method). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kvm: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section in ↵Ingo Molnar2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu() fix an GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section: kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu() called kvm_mmu_init(), which calls alloc_pages(), while holding the vcpu. The fix is to set up the MMU state in two phases: kvm_mmu_create() and kvm_mmu_setup(). (NOTE: free_vcpus does an kvm_mmu_destroy() call so there's no need for any extra teardown branch on allocation/init failure here.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Fix oops on oomAvi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | __free_page() doesn't like a NULL argument, so check before calling it. A NULL can only happen if memory is exhausted during allocation of a memory slot. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Rename some msrsNguyen Anh Quynh2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | No need to append _MSR to msr names, a prefix should suffice. Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: More msr miseryAvi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | These msrs are referenced by benchmarking software when pretending to be an Intel cpu. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Move common msr handling to arch independent codeAvi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Implement a few system configuration msrsAvi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | Resolves sourceforge bug 1622229 (guest crashes running benchmark software). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Initialize kvm_arch_ops on unloadYoshimi Ichiyanagi2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The latest version of kvm doesn't initialize kvm_arch_ops in kvm_init(), which causes an error with the following sequence. 1. Load the supported arch's module. 2. Load the unsupported arch's module.$B!!(B(loading error) 3. Unload the unsupported arch's module. You'll get the following error message after step 3. "BUG: unable to handle to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx" The problem here is that the unsupported arch's module overwrites kvm_arch_ops of the supported arch's module at step 2. This patch initializes kvm_arch_ops upon loading architecture specific kvm module, and prevents overwriting kvm_arch_ops when kvm_arch_ops is already set correctly. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Simplify is_long_mode()Avi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Instead of doing tricky stuff with the arch dependent virtualization registers, take a peek at the guest's efer. This simlifies some code, and fixes some confusion in the mmu branch. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Use boot_cpu_data instead of current_cpu_dataAvi Kivity2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | current_cpu_data invokes smp_processor_id(), which is inadvisable when preemption is enabled. Switch to boot_cpu_data instead. Resolves sourceforge bug 1621401. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: API versioningAvi Kivity2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | Add compile-time and run-time API versioning. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Handle p5 mce msrsMichael Riepe2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | | This allows plan9 to get a little further booting. Signed-off-by: Michael Riepe <michael@mr511.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Force real-mode cs limit to 64KMichael Riepe2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | | This allows opensolaris to boot on kvm/intel. Signed-off-by: Michael Riepe <michael@mr511.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Do not export unsupported msrs to userspaceMichael Riepe2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | Some msrs, such as MSR_STAR, are not available on all processors. Exporting them causes qemu to try to fetch them, which will fail. So, check all msrs for validity at module load time. Signed-off-by: Michael Riepe <michael@mr511.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Use more traditional error handling in kvm_mmu_init()Avi Kivity2006-12-22
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: AMD SVM: Save and restore the floating point unit stateAvi Kivity2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | Fixes sf bug 1614113 (segfaults in nbench). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: AMD SVM: handle MSR_STAR in 32-bit modeAvi Kivity2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | This is necessary for linux guests. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: add valid_vcpu() helperJames Morris2006-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | Consolidate the logic for checking whether a vcpu index is valid. Also, use likely(), as a valid value should be the overwhelmingly common case. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Fix vmx hardware_enable() on macbooksAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | It seems macbooks set bit 2 but not bit 0, which is an "enabled but vmxon will fault" setting. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Tested-by: Alex Larsson (sometimes testing helps) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Don't touch the virtual apic vt registers on 32-bitMichael Riepe2006-12-13
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Disallow the kvm-amd module on intel hardware, and vice versaAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | They're not on speaking terms. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Ignore pcd, pwt, and pat bits on ptesAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The pcd, pwt, and pat bits on page table entries affect the cpu cache. Since the cache is a host resource, the guest should not be able to control it. Moreover, the meaning of these bits changes depending on whether pat is enabled or not. So, force these bits to zero on shadow page table entries at all times. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Remove extranous put_cpu() from vcpu_put()Avi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | The arch splitting patchset left an extra put_cpu() in core code, where it can cause trouble for CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels. Reported-by: Huihong Luo <huisinro@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Move find_vmx_entry() to vmx.cAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Make the GET_SREGS and SET_SREGS ioctls symmetricUri Lublin2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | This makes the SET_SREGS ioctl behave symmetrically to the GET_SREGS ioctl wrt the segment access rights flag. Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Replace __x86_64__ with CONFIG_X86_64Avi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | As per akpm's request. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Clean up AMD SVM debug registers load and unloadAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | By letting gcc choose the temporary register for us, we lose arch dependency and some ugliness. Conceivably gcc will also generate marginally better code. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Put KVM in a new Virtualization menuAvi Kivity2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | Instead of in the main drivers menu. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] KVM: Add missing includeAnthony Liguori2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | load_TR_desc() lives in asm/desc.h, so #include that file. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kvm: userspace interfaceAvi Kivity2006-12-10
web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel) The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and display. Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. In effect, the driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel mode, user mode, and guest mode. Guest mode has its own address space mapping guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing /dev/kvm). Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation. The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported. SMP hosts and UP guests are supported. At the moment only Intel hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on. Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries every context switch. We plan to address this in two ways: - cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes - wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU. Under Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization. Linux/X is slower, probably due to X being in a separate process. In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O device emulation and the BIOS. Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true): - The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the virtual APIC. We are working on a fix. A temporary workaround is to use an existing image or install through qemu - Windows 64-bit does not work. That's also true for qemu, so it's probably a problem with the device model. [bero@arklinux.org: build fix] [simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes] [uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap] [akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix] [mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes] [rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings] [anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support] Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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