Checking EFLAGS.IF is incorrect as we might be in interrupt shadow. If
that is the case, the main loop will notice that and not inject the interrupt,
causing an endless loop.
Fix by using vmx_interrupt_allowed() to check if we can inject an interrupt
instead.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Otherwise, if the guest ends up looping, we never exit the srcu critical
section, which causes synchronize_srcu() to hang.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some userspace (e.g. QEMU 1.1) munge the d and g bits of segment
descriptors, causing us not to recognize them as unusable segments
with emulate_invalid_guest_state=1. Relax the check by testing for
segment not present (a non-present segment cannot be usable).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In protected mode, the CPL is defined as the lower two bits of CS, as set by
the last far jump. But during the transition to protected mode, there is no
last far jump, so we need to return zero (the inherited real mode CPL).
Fix by reading CPL from the cache during the transition. This isn't 100%
correct since we don't set the CPL cache on a far jump, but since protected
mode transition will always jump to a segment with RPL=0, it will always
work.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduces a couple of print functions, which are essentially wrappers
around standard printk functions, with a KVM: prefix.
Functions introduced or modified are:
- kvm_err(fmt, ...)
- kvm_info(fmt, ...)
- kvm_debug(fmt, ...)
- kvm_pr_unimpl(fmt, ...)
- pr_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...) -> vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...)
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
For example migration between Westmere and Nehelem hosts, caught in big real mode.
The code that fixes the segments for real mode guest was moved from enter_rmode
to vmx_set_segments. enter_rmode calls vmx_set_segments for each segment.
Signed-off-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@rehdat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add kernel parameter to control A/D bits support, it's on by default.
Signed-off-by: Haitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
On x86_64, we can defer %ds and %es reload to the heavyweight context switch,
since nothing in the lightweight paths uses the host %ds or %es (they are
ignored by the processor). Furthermore we can avoid the load if the segments
are null, by letting the hardware load the null segments for us. This is the
expected case.
On i386, we could avoid the reload entirely, since the entry.S paths take care
of reload, except for the SYSEXIT path which leaves %ds and %es set to __USER_DS.
So we set them to the same values as well.
Saves about 70 cycles out of 1600 (around 4%; noisy measurements).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The vmx exit code unconditionally restores %ds and %es to __USER_DS. This
can override the user's values, since %ds and %es are not saved and restored
in x86_64 syscalls. In practice, this isn't dangerous since nobody uses
segment registers in long mode, least of all programs that use KVM.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Merge reason: development work has dependency on kvm patches merged
upstream.
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
kvm_set_shared_msr() may not be called in preemptible context,
but vmx_set_msr() does so:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: qemu-kvm/22713
caller is kvm_set_shared_msr+0x32/0xa0 [kvm]
Pid: 22713, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 3.4.0-rc3+ #39
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8131fa82>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe2/0x100
[<ffffffffa0328ae2>] kvm_set_shared_msr+0x32/0xa0 [kvm]
[<ffffffffa03a103b>] vmx_set_msr+0x28b/0x2d0 [kvm_intel]
...
Making kvm_set_shared_msr() work in preemptible is cleaner, but
it's used in the fast path. Making two variants is overkill, so
this patch just disables preemption around the call.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Enable x86 feature-based autoloading for the kvm-intel module on CPUs
with X86_FEATURE_VMX.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_cr0 is called from vcpu run context, therefore it expects
kvm->srcu to be held (for setting up the real-mode TSS).
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
large ppc update, and random fixes."
This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.
* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
KVM: MMU: make use of ->root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
...
The code which checks whether to inject a pagefault to L1 or L2 (in
nested VMX) was wrong, incorrect in how it checked the PF_VECTOR bit.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Shared MSRs (MSR_*STAR and related) are stored in both vmx->guest_msrs
and in the CPU registers, but vmx_set_msr() only updated memory. Prior
to 46199f33c2, this didn't matter, since we called vmx_load_host_state(),
which scheduled a vmx_save_host_state(), which re-synchronized the CPU
state, but now we don't, so the CPU state will not be synchronized until
the next exit to host userspace. This mostly affects nested vmx workloads,
which play with these MSRs a lot.
Fix by loading the MSR eagerly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, all task switches check privileges against the DPL of the
TSS. This is only correct for jmp/call to a TSS. If a task gate is used,
the DPL of this take gate is used for the check instead. Exceptions,
external interrupts and iret shouldn't perform any check.
[avi: kill kvm-kmod remnants]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
yield_on_hlt was introduced for CPU bandwidth capping. Now it is
redundant with CFS hardlimit.
yield_on_hlt also complicates the scenario in paravirtual environment,
that needs to trap halt. for e.g. paravirtualized ticket spinlocks.
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Redefine the API to take a parameter indicating whether an
adjustment is in host or guest cycles.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This requires some restructuring; rather than use 'virtual_tsc_khz'
to indicate whether hardware rate scaling is in effect, we consider
each VCPU to always have a virtual TSC rate. Instead, there is new
logic above the vendor-specific hardware scaling that decides whether
it is even necessary to use and updates all rate variables used by
common code. This means we can simply query the virtual rate at
any point, which is needed for software rate scaling.
There is also now a threshold added to the TSC rate scaling; minor
differences and variations of measured TSC rate can accidentally
provoke rate scaling to be used when it is not needed. Instead,
we have a tolerance variable called tsc_tolerance_ppm, which is
the maximum variation from user requested rate at which scaling
will be used. The default is 250ppm, which is the half the
threshold for NTP adjustment, allowing for some hardware variation.
In the event that hardware rate scaling is not available, we can
kludge a bit by forcing TSC catchup to turn on when a faster than
hardware speed has been requested, but there is nothing available
yet for the reverse case; this requires a trap and emulate software
implementation for RDTSC, which is still forthcoming.
[avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
While various modules include <asm/i387.h> to get access to things we
actually *intend* for them to use, most of that header file was really
pretty low-level internal stuff that we really don't want to expose to
others.
So split the header file into two: the small exported interfaces remain
in <asm/i387.h>, while the internal definitions that are only used by
core architecture code are now in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.
The guiding principle for this was to expose functions that we export to
modules, and leave them in <asm/i387.h>, while stuff that is used by
task switching or was marked GPL-only is in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.
The fpu-internal.h file could be further split up too, especially since
arch/x86/kvm/ uses some of the remaining stuff for its module. But that
kvm usage should probably be abstracted out a bit, and at least now the
internal FPU accessor functions are much more contained. Even if it
isn't perhaps as contained as it _could_ be.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202211340330.5354@i5.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This moves the bit that indicates whether a thread has ownership of the
FPU from the TS_USEDFPU bit in thread_info->status to a word of its own
(called 'has_fpu') in task_struct->thread.has_fpu.
This fixes two independent bugs at the same time:
- changing 'thread_info->status' from the scheduler causes nasty
problems for the other users of that variable, since it is defined to
be thread-synchronous (that's what the "TS_" part of the naming was
supposed to indicate).
So perfectly valid code could (and did) do
ti->status |= TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK;
and the compiler was free to do that as separate load, or and store
instructions. Which can cause problems with preemption, since a task
switch could happen in between, and change the TS_USEDFPU bit. The
change to TS_USEDFPU would be overwritten by the final store.
In practice, this seldom happened, though, because the 'status' field
was seldom used more than once, so gcc would generally tend to
generate code that used a read-modify-write instruction and thus
happened to avoid this problem - RMW instructions are naturally low
fat and preemption-safe.
- On x86-32, the current_thread_info() pointer would, during interrupts
and softirqs, point to a *copy* of the real thread_info, because
x86-32 uses %esp to calculate the thread_info address, and thus the
separate irq (and softirq) stacks would cause these kinds of odd
thread_info copy aliases.
This is normally not a problem, since interrupts aren't supposed to
look at thread information anyway (what thread is running at
interrupt time really isn't very well-defined), but it confused the
heck out of irq_fpu_usable() and the code that tried to squirrel
away the FPU state.
(It also caused untold confusion for us poor kernel developers).
It also turns out that using 'task_struct' is actually much more natural
for most of the call sites that care about the FPU state, since they
tend to work with the task struct for other reasons anyway (ie
scheduling). And the FPU data that we are going to save/restore is
found there too.
Thanks to Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> for pointing us to
the %esp issue.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia>
Acked-and-tested-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This creates three helper functions that do the TS_USEDFPU accesses, and
makes everybody that used to do it by hand use those helpers instead.
In addition, there's a couple of helper functions for the "change both
CR0.TS and TS_USEDFPU at the same time" case, and the places that do
that together have been changed to use those. That means that we have
fewer random places that open-code this situation.
The intent is partly to clarify the code without actually changing any
semantics yet (since we clearly still have some hard to reproduce bug in
this area), but also to make it much easier to use another approach
entirely to caching the CR0.TS bit for software accesses.
Right now we use a bit in the thread-info 'status' variable (this patch
does not change that), but we might want to make it a full field of its
own or even make it a per-cpu variable.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Intercept RDPMC and forward it to the PMU emulation code.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce id_to_memslot to get memslot by slot id
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_load_host_state() does not handle msrs switching (except
MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE) since commit 26bb0981b3. Remove call to it
where it is no longer make sense.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When L0 wishes to inject an interrupt while L2 is running, it emulates an exit
to L1 with EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT. This was explained in the original
nVMX patch 23, titled "Correct handling of interrupt injection".
Unfortunately, it is possible (though rare) that at this point there is valid
idt_vectoring_info in vmcs02. For example, L1 injected some interrupt to L2,
and when L2 tried to run this interrupt's handler, it got a page fault - so
it returns the original interrupt vector in idt_vectoring_info. The problem
is that if this is the case, we cannot exit to L1 with EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT
like we wished to, because the VMX spec guarantees that idt_vectoring_info
and exit_reason_external_interrupt can never happen together. This is not
just specified in the spec - a KVM L1 actually prints a kernel warning
"unexpected, valid vectoring info" if we violate this guarantee, and some
users noticed these warnings in L1's logs.
In order to better emulate a processor, which would never return the external
interrupt and the idt-vectoring-info together, we need to separate the two
injection steps: First, complete L1's injection into L2 (i.e., enter L2,
injecting to it the idt-vectoring-info); Second, after entry into L2 succeeds
and it exits back to L0, exit to L1 with the EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT.
Most of this is already in the code - the only change we need is to remain
in L2 (and not exit to L1) in this case.
Note that the previous patch ensures (by using KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT) that
although we do enter L2 first, it will exit immediately after processing its
injection, allowing us to promptly inject to L1.
Note how we test vmcs12->idt_vectoring_info_field; This isn't really the
vmcs12 value (we haven't exited to L1 yet, so vmcs12 hasn't been updated),
but rather the place we save, at the end of vmx_vcpu_run, the vmcs02 value
of this field. This was explained in patch 25 ("Correct handling of idt
vectoring info") of the original nVMX patch series.
Thanks to Dave Allan and to Federico Simoncelli for reporting this bug,
to Abel Gordon for helping me figure out the solution, and to Avi Kivity
for helping to improve it.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new vcpu->requests bit, KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT.
This bit requests that when next entering the guest, we should run it only
for as little as possible, and exit again.
We use this new option in nested VMX: When L1 launches L2, but L0 wishes L1
to continue running so it can inject an event to it, we unfortunately cannot
just pretend to have run L2 for a little while - We must really launch L2,
otherwise certain one-off vmcs12 parameters (namely, L1 injection into L2)
will be lost. So the existing code runs L2 in this case.
But L2 could potentially run for a long time until it exits, and the
injection into L1 will be delayed. The new KVM_REQ_IMMEDIATE_EXIT allows us
to request that L2 will be entered, as necessary, but will exit as soon as
possible after entry.
Our implementation of this request uses smp_send_reschedule() to send a
self-IPI, with interrupts disabled. The interrupts remain disabled until the
guest is entered, and then, after the entry is complete (often including
processing an injection and jumping to the relevant handler), the physical
interrupt is noticed and causes an exit.
On recent Intel processors, we could have achieved the same goal by using
MTF instead of a self-IPI. Another technique worth considering in the future
is to use VM_EXIT_ACK_INTR_ON_EXIT and a highest-priority vector IPI - to
slightly improve performance by avoiding the useless interrupt handler
which ends up being called when smp_send_reschedule() is used.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Support guest/host-only profiling by switch perf msrs on
a guest entry if needed.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some cpus have special support for switching PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL msr.
Add logic to detect if such support exists and works properly and extend
msr switching code to use it if available. Also extend number of generic
msr switching entries to 8.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The use of printk_ratelimit is discouraged, replace it with
pr*_ratelimited or __ratelimit. While at it, convert remaining
guest-triggerable printks to rate-limited variants.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This avoids that events causing the vmexit are recorded before the
actual exit reason.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.
a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch fixes two corner cases in nested (L2) handling of TSC-related
issues:
1. Somewhat suprisingly, according to the Intel spec, if L1 allows WRMSR to
the TSC MSR without an exit, then this should set L1's TSC value itself - not
offset by vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET (like was wrongly done in the previous code).
2. Allow L1 to disable the TSC_OFFSETING control, and then correctly ignore
the vmcs12.TSC_OFFSET.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM assumed in several places that reading the TSC MSR returns the value for
L1. This is incorrect, because when L2 is running, the correct TSC read exit
emulation is to return L2's value.
We therefore add a new x86_ops function, read_l1_tsc, to use in places that
specifically need to read the L1 TSC, NOT the TSC of the current level of
guest.
Note that one change, of one line in kvm_arch_vcpu_load, is made redundant
by a different patch sent by Zachary Amsden (and not yet applied):
kvm_arch_vcpu_load() should not read the guest TSC, and if it didn't, of
course we didn't have to change the call of kvm_get_msr() to read_l1_tsc().
[avi: moved callback to kvm_x86_ops tsc block]
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsdem <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use BUG_ON(x) rather than if(x) BUG();
The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@ identifier x; @@
-if (x) BUG();
+BUG_ON(x);
@@ identifier x; @@
-if (!x) BUG();
+BUG_ON(!x);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The vmexit tracepoints format the exit_reason to make it human-readable.
Since the exit_reason depends on the instruction set (vmx or svm),
formatting is handled with ftrace_print_symbols_seq() by referring to
the appropriate exit reason table.
However, the ftrace_print_symbols_seq() function is not meant to be used
directly in tracepoints since it does not export the formatting table
which userspace tools like trace-cmd and perf use to format traces.
In practice perf dies when formatting vmexit-related events and
trace-cmd falls back to printing the numeric value (with extra
formatting code in the kvm plugin to paper over this limitation). Other
userspace consumers of vmexit-related tracepoints would be in similar
trouble.
To avoid significant changes to the kvm_exit tracepoint, this patch
moves the vmx and svm exit reason tables into arch/x86/kvm/trace.h and
selects the right table with __print_symbolic() depending on the
instruction set. Note that __print_symbolic() is designed for exporting
the formatting table to userspace and allows trace-cmd and perf to work.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
The nested VMX feature is supposed to fully emulate VMX for the guest. This
(theoretically) not only allows it to run its own guests, but also also
to further emulate VMX for its own guests, and allow arbitrarily deep nesting.
This patch fixes a bug (discovered by Kevin Tian) in handling a VMLAUNCH
by L2, which prevented deeper nesting.
Deeper nesting now works (I only actually tested L3), but is currently
*absurdly* slow, to the point of being unusable.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Small corrections of KVM (spelling, etc.) not directly related to nested VMX.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If the "nested" module option is enabled, add the "VMX" CPU feature to the
list of CPU features KVM advertises with the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl.
Qemu uses this ioctl, and intersects KVM's list with its own list of desired
cpu features (depending on the -cpu option given to qemu) to determine the
final list of features presented to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
