1. It's related to a Linux kernel bug which fixed by Ingo on
07a66d7c53. The original code exists for quite a
long time, and it would convert a PDE for large page into a normal PDE. But it
fail to fit normal PDE well. With the code before Ingo's fix, the kernel would
fall reserved bit checking with bit 8 - the remaining global bit of PTE. So the
kernel would receive a double-fault.
2. After discussion, we decide to discard PDE bit 7-8 reserved checking for now.
For this marked as reserved in SDM, but didn't checked by the processor in
fact...
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Detect, indicate, and propagate page faults where reserved bits are set.
Take care to handle the different paging modes, each of which has different
sets of reserved bits.
[avi: fix pte reserved bits for efer.nxe=0]
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
free_mmu_pages() should only undo what alloc_mmu_pages() does.
Free mmu pages from the generic VM destruction function, kvm_destroy_vm().
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also
to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used
as a replacement for reloading CR3. Change the code to do the entire
CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Impact: Make symbols static.
Fix this sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:992:5: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_add' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1124:5: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_next' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1144:6: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_clear_parents' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2037:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_read_guest_virt' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2067:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_write_guest_virt' was not declared. Should it be static?
virt/kvm/irq_comm.c:220:5: warning: symbol 'setup_routing_entry' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The assertion no longer makes sense since we don't clear page tables on
allocation; instead we clear them during prefetch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The following code flow is unnecessary:
if (largepage)
was_rmapped = is_large_pte(*shadow_pte);
else
was_rmapped = 1;
The is_large_pte() function will always evaluate to one here because the
(largepage && !is_large_pte) case is already handled in the first
if-clause. So we can remove this check and set was_rmapped to one always
here.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This actually describes what is going on, rather than alerting the reader
that something strange is going on.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc is unnecessary since:
- Smaller areas are pre-allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc.
- Page pointed by ->spt is overwritten with prefetch_page
and entries in page pointed by ->gfns are initialized
before reading.
[avi: zeroing pages is unnecessary]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Using kvm_mmu_lookup_page() will result in multiple scans of the hash chains;
use hlist_for_each_entry_safe() to achieve a single scan instead.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Using a for_each loop style removes the need to write callback and nasty
casts.
Implement the walk_shadow() using the for_each_shadow_entry().
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If cr4.pge is cleared, we ought to treat any ptes in the page as non-global.
This allows us to remove the check from set_spte().
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of "calculating" it on every shadow page allocation, set it once
when switching modes, and copy it when allocating pages.
This doesn't buy us much, but sets up the stage for inheriting more
information related to the mmu setup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Software are not allow to access device MMIO using cacheable memory type, the
patch limit MMIO region with UC and WC(guest can select WC using PAT and
PCD/PWT).
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The invlpg and sync walkers lack knowledge of large host sptes,
descending to non-existant pagetable level.
Stop at directory level in such case.
Fixes SMP Windows XP with hugepages.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The pte.g bit is meaningless if global pages are disabled; deferring
mmu page synchronization on these ptes will lead to the guest using stale
shadow ptes.
Fixes Vista x86 smp bootloader failure.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
walk_shadow assumes the caller verified validity of the pdptr pointer in
question, which is not the case for the invlpg handler.
Fixes oops during Solaris 10 install.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the guest executes invlpg, peek into the pagetable and attempt to
prepopulate the shadow entry.
Also stop dirty fault updates from interfering with the fork detector.
2% improvement on RHEL3/AIM7.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Skip syncing global pages on cr3 switch (but not on cr4/cr0). This is
important for Linux 32-bit guests with PAE, where the kmap page is
marked as global.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync.
kernbench is 2.7% faster on 4-way guest. Improvements have been seen
with other loads such as AIM7.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of invoking the handler directly collect pages into
an array so the caller can work with it.
Simplifies TLB flush collapsing.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The write protect verification in set_spte is unnecessary for page sync.
Its guaranteed that, if the unsync spte was writable, the target page
does not have a write protected shadow (if it had, the spte would have
been write protected under mmu_lock by rmap_write_protect before).
Same reasoning applies to mark_page_dirty: the gfn has been marked as
dirty via the pagefault path.
The cost of hash table and memslot lookups are quite significant if the
workload is pagetable write intensive resulting in increased mmu_lock
contention.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx.h will be used by core code that is independent of KVM, so I am
moving it outside the arch/x86/kvm directory.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some areas of kvm x86 mmu are using gfn offset inside a slot without
unaliasing the gfn first. This patch makes sure that the gfn will be
unaliased and add gfn_to_memslot_unaliased() to save the calculating
of the gfn unaliasing in case we have it unaliased already.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Otherwise set_bit() for private memory slot(above KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS) would
corrupted memory in 32bit host.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The effective memory type of EPT is the mixture of MSR_IA32_CR_PAT and memory
type field of EPT entry.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
During page sync, if a pagetable contains a self referencing pte (that
points to the pagetable), the corresponding spte may be marked as
writable even though all mappings are supposed to be write protected.
Fix by clearing page unsync before syncing individual sptes.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The page fault path can use two rmap_desc structures, if:
- walk_addr's dirty pte update allocates one rmap_desc.
- mmu_lock is dropped, sptes are zapped resulting in rmap_desc being
freed.
- fetch->mmu_set_spte allocates another rmap_desc.
Increase to 4 for safety.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The pvmmu TLB flush handler should request a root sync, similarly to
a native read-write CR3.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cache the unsynced children information in a per-page bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Allow guest pagetables to go out of sync. Instead of emulating write
accesses to guest pagetables, or unshadowing them, we un-write-protect
the page table and allow the guest to modify it at will. We rely on
invlpg executions to synchronize individual ptes, and will synchronize
the entire pagetable on tlb flushes.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Need to convert shadow_notrap_nonpresent -> shadow_trap_nonpresent when
unsyncing pages.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
kvm_mmu_zap_page will soon zap the unsynced children of a page. Restart
list walk in such case.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce a function to walk all parents of a given page, invoking a handler.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
With pages out of sync invlpg needs to be trapped. For now simply nuke
the entry.
Untested on AMD.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Examine guest pagetable and bring the shadow back in sync. Caller is responsible
for local TLB flush before re-entering guest mode.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is not much point in write protecting large mappings. This
can only happen when a page is shadowed during the window between
is_largepage_backed and mmu_lock acquision. Zap the entry instead, so
the next pagefault will find a shadowed page via is_largepage_backed and
fallback to 4k translations.
Simplifies out of sync shadow.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Split the spte entry creation code into a new set_spte function.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Convert gfn_to_pfn to use get_user_pages_fast, which can do lockless
pagetable lookups on x86. Kernel compilation on 4-way guest is 3.7%
faster on VMX.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
EPT is 4 level by default in 32pae(48 bits), but the addr parameter
of kvm_shadow_walk->entry() only accept unsigned long as virtual
address, which is 32bit in 32pae. This result in SHADOW_PT_INDEX()
overflow when try to fetch level 4 index.
Fix it by extend kvm_shadow_walk->entry() to accept 64bit addr in
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The accessed bit was accidentally turned on in a random flag word, rather
than, the spte itself, which was lucky, since it used the non-EPT compatible
PT_ACCESSED_MASK.
Fix by turning the bit on in the spte and changing it to use the portable
accessed mask.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Otherwise, the cpu may allow writes to the tracked pages, and we lose
some display bits or fail to migrate correctly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
