Currently KVM pretends that pages with EPT mappings never got
accessed. This has some side effects in the VM, like swapping
out actively used guest pages and needlessly breaking up actively
used hugepages.
We can avoid those very costly side effects by emulating the
accessed bit for EPT PTEs, which should only be slightly costly
because pages pass through page_referenced infrequently.
TLB flushing is taken care of by kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young().
This seems to help prevent KVM guests from being swapped out when
they should not on my system.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a generic function to find out the
host page size for a given gfn. This function is needed by
the kvm iommu code. This patch also simplifies the x86
host_mapping_level function.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
msr was tested above, so the second test is not needed.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
expression *x;
expression e;
identifier l;
@@
if (x == NULL || ...) {
... when forall
return ...; }
... when != goto l;
when != x = e
when != &x
*x == NULL
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch fixes kvm_fix_hypercall() to propagate X86EMUL_*
info generated by emulator_write_emulated() to its callers:
suggested by Marcelo.
The effect of this is x86_emulate_insn() will begin to handle
the page faults which occur in emulator_write_emulated():
this should be OK because emulator_write_emulated_onepage()
always injects page fault when emulator_write_emulated()
returns X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch fixes load_guest_segment_descriptor() to return
X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT when it tries to access the descriptor
table beyond the limit of it: suggested by Marcelo.
I have checked current callers of this helper function,
- kvm_load_segment_descriptor()
- kvm_task_switch()
and confirmed that this patch will change nothing in the
upper layers if we do not change the handling of this
return value from load_guest_segment_descriptor().
Next step: Although fixing the kvm_task_switch() to handle the
propagated faults properly seems difficult, and maybe not worth
it because TSS is not used commonly these days, we can fix
kvm_load_segment_descriptor(). By doing so, the injected #GP
becomes possible to be handled by the guest. The only problem
for this is how to differentiate this fault from the page faults
generated by kvm_read_guest_virt(). We may have to split this
function to achive this goal.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
flexpriority_enabled implies cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_apic_accesses() returning
true, so we don't need this check here.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Record failed msrs reads and writes, and the fact that they failed as well.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
- data is 64 bits wide, not unsigned long
- rw is confusingly named
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
On HW task switch newly loaded segments should me marked as accessed.
Reported-by: Lorenzo Martignoni <martignlo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When cr0.mp is clear, the guest doesn't expect a #NM in response to
a WAIT instruction. Because we always keep cr0.mp set, it will get
a #NM, and potentially be confused.
Fix by keeping cr0.mp set only when the fpu is inactive, and passing
it through when inactive.
Reported-by: Lorenzo Martignoni <martignlo@gmail.com>
Analyzed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If we fail to alloc page for vcpu->arch.mmu.pae_root, call to
free_mmu_pages() is unnecessary, which just do free the page
malloc for vcpu->arch.mmu.pae_root.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
'mask' is always a constant, so we can check whether it includes a bit that
might be owned by the guest very cheaply, and avoid the decache call. Saves
a few hundred bytes of module text.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Assume that if the guest executes clts, it knows what it's doing, and load the
guest fpu to prevent an #NM exception.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This allows accessing the guest fpu from the instruction emulator, as well as
being symmetric with kvm_put_guest_fpu().
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Move to/from Control Registers chapter of Intel SDM says. "Reserved bits
in CR0 remain clear after any load of those registers; attempts to set
them have no impact". Control Register chapter says "Bits 63:32 of CR0 are
reserved and must be written with zeros. Writing a nonzero value to any
of the upper 32 bits results in a general-protection exception, #GP(0)."
This patch tries to implement this twisted logic.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Lorenzo Martignoni <martignlo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To enable proper debug register emulation under all conditions, trap
access to all DR0..7. This may be optimized later on.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Enhance mov dr instruction emulation used by SVM so that it properly
handles dr4/5: alias to dr6/7 if cr4.de is cleared. Otherwise return
EMULATE_FAIL which will let our only possible caller in that scenario,
ud_interception, re-inject UD.
We do not need to inject faults, SVM does this for us (exceptions take
precedence over instruction interceptions). For the same reason, the
value overflow checks can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
As we trap all debug register accesses, we do not need to switch real
DR6 at all. Clean up update_exception_bitmap at this chance, too.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Make sure DR4 and DR5 are aliased to DR6 and DR7, respectively, if
CR4.DE is not set.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Injecting GP without an error code is a bad idea (causes unhandled guest
exits). Moreover, we must not skip the instruction if we injected an
exception.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The return values from x86_emulate_ops are defined
in kvm_emulate.h as macros X86EMUL_*.
But in emulate.c, we are comparing the return values
from these ops with 0 to check if they're X86EMUL_CONTINUE
or not: X86EMUL_CONTINUE is defined as 0 now.
To avoid possible mistakes in the future, this patch
substitutes "X86EMUL_CONTINUE" for "0" that are being
compared with the return values from x86_emulate_ops.
We think that there are more places we should use these
macros, but the meanings of rc values in x86_emulate_insn()
were not so clear at a glance. If we use proper macros in
this function, we would be able to follow the flow of each
emulation more easily and, maybe, more securely.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
As Avi noted:
>There are two problems with the kernel failure report. First, it
>doesn't report enough data - registers, surrounding instructions, etc.
>that are needed to explain what is going on. Second, it can flood
>dmesg, which is a pretty bad thing to do.
So we remove the emulation failure report in handle_invalid_guest_state(),
and would inspected the guest using userspace tool in the future.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
There are two spellings of "writable" in
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c and paging_tmpl.h .
This patch renames is_writeble_pte() to is_writable_pte()
and makes grepping easy.
New name is consistent with the definition of itself:
return pte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Windows issues this hypercall after guest was spinning on a spinlock
for too many iterations.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now that we can allow the guest to play with cr0 when the fpu is loaded,
we can enable lazy fpu when npt is in use.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If two conditions apply:
- no bits outside TS and EM differ between the host and guest cr0
- the fpu is active
then we can activate the selective cr0 write intercept and drop the
unconditional cr0 read and write intercept, and allow the guest to run
with the host fpu state. This reduces cr0 exits due to guest fpu management
while the guest fpu is loaded.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently we don't intercept cr0 at all when npt is enabled. This improves
performance but requires us to activate the fpu at all times.
Remove this behaviour in preparation for adding selective cr0 intercepts.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
init_vmcb() sets up the intercepts as if the fpu is active, so initialize it
there. This avoids an INIT from setting up intercepts inconsistent with
fpu_active.
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the guest fpu is loaded, there is nothing interesing about cr0.ts; let
the guest play with it as it will. This makes context switches between fpu
intensive guest processes faster, as we won't trap the clts and cr0 write
instructions.
[marcelo: fix cr0 read shadow update on fpu deactivation; kills F8 install]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Defer fpu deactivation as much as possible - if the guest fpu is loaded, keep
it loaded until the next heavyweight exit (where we are forced to unload it).
This reduces unnecessary exits.
We also defer fpu activation on clts; while clts signals the intent to use the
fpu, we can't be sure the guest will actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since we'd like to allow the guest to own a few bits of cr0 at times, we need
to know when we access those bits.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Then the callback can provide the maximum supported large page level, which
is more flexible.
Also move the gb page support into x86_64 specific.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Some exit reasons missed their strings; fill out the table.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
