The KVM MMU tries to detect when a speculative pte update is not actually
used by demand fault, by checking the accessed bit of the shadow pte. If
the shadow pte has not been accessed, we deem that page table flooded and
remove the shadow page table, allowing further pte updates to proceed
without emulation.
However, if the pte itself points at a page table and only used for write
operations, the accessed bit will never be set since all access will happen
through the emulator.
This is exactly what happens with kscand on old (2.4.x) HIGHMEM kernels.
The kernel points a kmap_atomic() pte at a page table, and then
proceeds with read-modify-write operations to look at the dirty and accessed
bits. We get a false flood trigger on the kmap ptes, which results in the
mmu spending all its time setting up and tearing down shadows.
Fix by setting the shadow accessed bit on emulated accesses.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Noticed by sparse:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:1583:6: warning: symbol 'vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3406:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_task_switch_16' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3429:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_task_switch_32' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1968:6: warning: symbol 'kvm_mmu_remove_one_alloc_mmu_page' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:2014:6: warning: symbol 'mmu_destroy_caches' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:862:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_lapic_get_base' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:94:5: warning: symbol 'pit_get_gate' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:196:5: warning: symbol '__pit_timer_fn' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:561:6: warning: symbol '__inject_pit_timer_intr' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM has a heuristic to unshadow guest pagetables when userspace accesses
them, on the assumption that most guests do not allow userspace to access
pagetables directly. Unfortunately, in addition to unshadowing the pagetables,
it also oopses.
This never triggers on ordinary guests since sane OSes will clear the
pagetables before assigning them to userspace, which will trigger the flood
heuristic, unshadowing the pagetables before the first userspace access. One
particular guest, though (Xenner) will run the kernel in userspace, triggering
the oops. Since the heuristic is incorrect in this case, we can simply
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm_mmu_pte_write() does not handle 32-bit non-PAE large page backed
guests properly. It will instantiate two 2MB sptes pointing to the same
physical 2MB page when a guest large pte update is trapped.
Instead of duplicating code to handle this, disallow directory level
updates to happen through kvm_mmu_pte_write(), so the two 2MB sptes
emulating one guest 4MB pte can be correctly created by the page fault
handling path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
rmap_next() does not work correctly after rmap_remove(), as it expects
the rmap chains not to change during iteration. Fix (for now) by restarting
iteration from the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Shadows for large guests can take a long time to tear down, so reschedule
occasionally to avoid softlockup warnings.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
nonpae guests can call rmap_write_protect twice per page (for page tables)
or four times per page (for page directories), triggering a bogus warning.
Remove the warning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Currently EPT level is 4 for both pae and x86_64. The patch remove the #ifdef
for alloc root_hpa and free root_hpa to support EPT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The function get_tdp_level() provided the number of tdp level for EPT and
NPT rather than the NPT specific macro.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Move some definitions to mmu.h in order to allow building common table
entries between EPT and non-EPT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm_pv_mmu_op should not take mmap_sem. All gfn_to_page() callers down
in the MMU processing will take it if necessary, so as it is it can
deadlock.
Apparently a leftover from the days before slots_lock.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch introduces a gfn_to_pfn() function and corresponding functions like
kvm_release_pfn_dirty(). Using these new functions, we can modify the x86
MMU to no longer assume that it can always get a struct page for any given gfn.
We don't want to eliminate gfn_to_page() entirely because a number of places
assume they can do gfn_to_page() and then kmap() the results. When we support
IO memory, gfn_to_page() will fail for IO pages although gfn_to_pfn() will
succeed.
This does not implement support for avoiding reference counting for reserved
RAM or for IO memory. However, it should make those things pretty straight
forward.
Since we're only introducing new common symbols, I don't think it will break
the non-x86 architectures but I haven't tested those. I've tested Intel,
AMD, NPT, and hugetlbfs with Windows and Linux guests.
[avi: fix overflow when shifting left pfns by adding casts]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Zdenek reported a bug where a looping "dmsetup status" eventually hangs
on SMP guests.
The problem is that kvm_mmu_get_page() prepopulates the shadow MMU
before write protecting the guest page tables. By doing so, it leaves a
window open where the guest can mark a pte as present while the host has
shadow cached such pte as "notrap". Accesses to such address will fault
in the guest without the host having a chance to fix the situation.
Fix by moving the write protection before the pte prefetch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If the accessed bit is not set, the guest has never accessed this page
(at least through this spte), so there's no need to mark the page
accessed. This provides more accurate data for the eviction algortithm.
Noted by Andrea Arcangeli.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Allow the Linux memory manager to reclaim memory in the kvm shadow cache.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Unify slots_lock acquision around vcpu_run(). This is simpler and less
error-prone.
Also fix some callsites that were not grabbing the lock properly.
[avi: drop slots_lock while in guest mode to avoid holding the lock
for indefinite periods]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When mmu_set_spte() checks if a page related to spte should be release as
dirty or clean, it check if the shadow pte was writeble, but in case
rmap_write_protect() is called called it is possible for shadow ptes that were
writeble to become readonly and therefor mmu_set_spte will release the pages
as clean.
This patch fix this issue by marking the page as dirty inside
rmap_write_protect().
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If we populate a shadow pte due to a fault (and not speculatively due to a
pte write) then we can set the accessed bit on it, as we know it will be
set immediately on the next guest instruction. This saves a read-modify-write
operation.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Hypercall based pte updates are faster than faults, and also allow use
of the lazy MMU mode to batch operations.
Don't report the feature if two dimensional paging is enabled.
[avi:
- one mmu_op hypercall instead of one per op
- allow 64-bit gpa on hypercall
- don't pass host errors (-ENOMEM) to guest]
[akpm: warning fix on i386]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and
the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. If the largepage contains
write-protected pages, a large pte is not used.
Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted
filesystem, without NPT/EPT.
Anthony measures a 4% improvement on 4-way kernbench, with NPT.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Mark zapped root pagetables as invalid and ignore such pages during lookup.
This is a problem with the cr3-target feature, where a zapped root table fools
the faulting code into creating a read-only mapping. The result is a lockup
if the instruction can't be emulated.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch contains the changes to the KVM MMU necessary for support of the
Nested Paging feature in AMD Barcelona and Phenom Processors.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The mapping function for the nonpaging case in the softmmu does basically the
same as required for Nested Paging. Make this function generic so it can be
used for both.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The generic x86 code has to know if the specific implementation uses Nested
Paging. In the generic code Nested Paging is called Two Dimensional Paging
(TDP) to avoid confusion with (future) TDP implementations of other vendors.
This patch exports the availability of TDP to the generic x86 code.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Currently an mmio guest pte is encoded in the shadow pagetable as a
not-present trapping pte, with the SHADOW_IO_MARK bit set. However
nothing is ever done with this information, so maintaining it is a
useless complication.
This patch moves the check for mmio to before shadow ptes are instantiated,
so the shadow code is never invoked for ptes that reference mmio. The code
is simpler, and with future work, can be made to handle mmio concurrently.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A guest partial guest pte write will leave shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte
in spte, which generates a vmexit at the next guest access through that pte.
This patch improves this by reading the full guest pte in advance and thus
being able to update the spte and eliminate the vmexit.
This helps pae guests which use two 32-bit writes to set a single 64-bit pte.
[truncation fix by Eric]
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
While backporting 72dc67a696, a gfn_to_page()
call was duplicated instead of moved (due to an unrelated patch not being
present in mainline). This caused a page reference leak, resulting in a
fairly massive memory leak.
Fix by removing the extraneous gfn_to_page() call.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Do not assume that a shadow mapping will always point to the same host
frame number. Fixes crash with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
[avi: move after first printk(), add another printk()]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
For improved concurrency, the guest walk is performed concurrently with other
vcpus. This means that we need to revalidate the guest ptes once we have
write-protected the guest page tables, at which point they can no longer be
modified.
The current code attempts to avoid this check if the shadow page table is not
new, on the assumption that if it has existed before, the guest could not have
modified the pte without the shadow lock. However the assumption is incorrect,
as the racing vcpu could have modified the pte, then instantiated the shadow
page, before our vcpu regains control:
vcpu0 vcpu1
fault
walk pte
modify pte
fault in same pagetable
instantiate shadow page
lookup shadow page
conclude it is old
instantiate spte based on stale guest pte
We could do something clever with generation counters, but a test run by
Marcelo suggests this is unnecessary and we can just do the revalidation
unconditionally. The pte will be in the processor cache and the check can
be quite fast.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
the cr3 variable is now inside the vcpu->arch structure.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new
kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where
kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Right now rmap_remove won't set the page as dirty if the shadow pte
pointed to this page had write access and then it became readonly.
This patches fixes that, by setting the page as dirty for spte changes from
write to readonly access.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If some other cpu steals mmu pages between our check and an attempt to
allocate, we can run out of mmu pages. Fix by moving the check into the
same critical section as the allocation.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Convert the synchronization of the shadow handling to a separate mmu_lock
spinlock.
Also guard fetch() by mmap_sem in read-mode to protect against alias
and memslot changes.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Since gfn_to_page() is a sleeping function, and we want to make the core mmu
spinlocked, we need to pass the page from the walker context (which can sleep)
to the shadow context (which cannot).
[marcelo: avoid recursive locking of mmap_sem]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Do not hold kvm->lock mutex across the entire pagefault code,
only acquire it in places where it is necessary, such as mmu
hash list, active list, rmap and parent pte handling.
Allow concurrent guest walkers by switching walk_addr() to use
mmap_sem in read-mode.
And get rid of the lockless __gfn_to_page.
[avi: move kvm_mmu_pte_write() locking inside the function]
[avi: add locking for real mode]
[avi: fix cmpxchg locking]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Host side TLB flush can be merged together if multiple
spte need to be write-protected.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This paves the way for multiple architecture support. Note that while
ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Avi Kivity