The idea is from Avi:
| We could cache the result of a miss in an spte by using a reserved bit, and
| checking the page fault error code (or seeing if we get an ept violation or
| ept misconfiguration), so if we get repeated mmio on a page, we don't need to
| search the slot list/tree.
| (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/22/221)
When the page fault is caused by mmio, we cache the info in the shadow page
table, and also set the reserved bits in the shadow page table, so if the mmio
is caused again, we can quickly identify it and emulate it directly
Searching mmio gfn in memslots is heavy since we need to walk all memeslots, it
can be reduced by this feature, and also avoid walking guest page table for
soft mmu.
[jan: fix operator precedence issue]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The idea is from Avi:
| Maybe it's time to kill off bypass_guest_pf=1. It's not as effective as
| it used to be, since unsync pages always use shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte,
| and since we convert between the two nonpresent_ptes during sync and unsync.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
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>
Introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to translate the gva to gpa, we can use it
to cleanup the code between read emulation and write emulation
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest
information about how much time was spent running other processes
outside the VM, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
time does not count.
This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
runqueue but not running.
Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
memory area address containing information about steal time
This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
and can be backported independently of the guest portion.
[avi, yongjie: export delayacct_on, to avoid build failures in some configs]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongjie Ren <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch exposes ERMS feature to KVM guests.
The REP MOVSB/STOSB instruction can enhance fast strings attempts to
move as much of the data with larger size load/stores as possible.
Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch exposes DRNG feature to KVM guests.
The RDRAND instruction can provide software with sequences of
random numbers generated from white noise.
Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
commit 123108f1c1aafd51d6a5c79cc04d7999dd88a930 tried to fix KVMs
XSAVE valid feature scanning, but it was wrong. It was not considering
the sparse nature of this bitfield, instead reading values from
uninitialized members of the entries array.
This patch now separates subleaf indicies from KVM's array indicies
and fills the entry before querying it's value.
This fixes AVX support in KVM guests.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This saves a lot of pointless casts x86_emulate_ctxt and decode_cache.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The name eip conflicts with a field of the same name in x86_emulate_ctxt,
which we plan to fold decode_cache into.
The name _eip is unfortunate, but what's really needed is a refactoring
here, not a better name.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
We should use the local variables ctxt and c when the emulate_ctxt and
decode appears many times. At least, we need to be consistent about
how we use these in a function.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@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>
This patch allows the guest to enable the VMXE bit in CR4, which is a
prerequisite to running VMXON.
Whether to allow setting the VMXE bit now depends on the architecture (svm
or vmx), so its checking has moved to kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4(). This function
now returns an int: If kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4() returns 1, __kvm_set_cr4()
will also return 1, and this will cause kvm_set_cr4() will throw a #GP.
Turning on the VMXE bit is allowed only when the nested VMX feature is
enabled, and turning it off is forbidden after a vmxon.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
During tracing the emulator, we noticed that init_emulate_ctxt()
sometimes took a bit longer time than we expected.
This patch is for mitigating the problem by some degree.
By looking into the function, we soon notice that it clears the whole
decode_cache whose size is about 2.5K bytes now. Furthermore, most of
the bytes are taken for the two read_cache arrays, which are used only
by a few instructions.
Considering the fact that we are not assuming the cache arrays have
been cleared when we store actual data, we do not need to clear the
arrays: 2K bytes elimination. In addition, we can avoid clearing the
fetch_cache and regs arrays.
This patch changes the initialization not to clear the arrays.
On our 64-bit host, init_emulate_ctxt() becomes 0.3 to 0.5us faster with
this patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use a local pointer to the emulate_ctxt for simplicity. Then, arrange
the hard-to-read mode selection lines neatly.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
So far kvm_arch_vcpu_setup is responsible for freeing the vcpu struct if
it fails. Move this confusing resonsibility back into the hands of
kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu. Only kvm_arch_vcpu_setup of x86 is affected,
all other archs cannot fail.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of blacklisting known-unsupported cpuid leaves, whitelist known-
supported leaves. This is more conservative and prevents us from reporting
features we don't support. Also whitelist a few more leaves while at it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Simply use __copy_to_user/__clear_user to write guest page since we have
already verified the user address when the memslot is set
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Dereference it in the actual users.
This not only cleans up the emulator but also makes it easy to convert
the old emulation functions to the new em_xxx() form later.
Note: Remove some inline keywords to let the compiler decide inlining.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Instead of separate accessors for the segment selector and cached descriptor,
use one accessor for both. This simplifies the code somewhat.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The CPUIDs for Centaur are added, and then the features of
PadLock hardware engine on VIA CPU, such as "ace", "ace_en"
and so on, can be passed into the kvm guest.
Signed-off-by: Brilly Wu <brillywu@viatech.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kary Jin <karyjin@viatech.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
mmio_index should be taken into account when copying data from
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Avoid using ctxt->vcpu; we can do everything with ->get_cr() and ->set_cr().
A side effect is that we no longer activate the fpu on emulated CLTS; but that
should be very rare.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Making the emulator caller agnostic.
[Takuya Yoshikawa: fix typo leading to LDT failures]
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The last_guest_tsc is used in vcpu_load to adjust the
tsc_offset since tsc-scaling is merged. So the
last_guest_tsc needs to be updated in vcpu_put instead of
the the last_host_tsc. This is fixed with this patch.
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Tested-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
Currently we sync registers back and forth before/after exiting
to userspace for IO, but during IO device model shouldn't need to
read/write the registers, so we can as well skip those sync points. The
only exaception is broken vmware backdor interface. The new code sync
registers content during IO only if registers are read from/written to
by userspace in the middle of the IO operation and this almost never
happens in practise.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch implements two new vm-ioctls to get and set the
virtual_tsc_khz if the machine supports tsc-scaling. Setting
the tsc-frequency is only possible before userspace creates
any vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
With TSC scaling in SVM the tsc-offset needs to be
calculated differently. This patch propagates this
calculation into the architecture specific modules so that
this complexity can be handled there.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The calculation of the tsc_delta value to ensure a
forward-going tsc for the guest is a function of the
host-tsc. This works as long as the guests tsc_khz is equal
to the hosts tsc_khz. With tsc-scaling hardware support this
is not longer true and the tsc_delta needs to be calculated
using guest_tsc values.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>