PCI device assignment would map guest MMIO spaces as separate slot, so it is
possible that the device has more than 2 MMIO spaces and overwrite current
private memslot.
The patch move private memory slot to the top of userspace visible memory slots.
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>
GUEST_PAT support is a new feature introduced by Intel Core i7 architecture.
With this, cpu would save/load guest and host PAT automatically, for EPT memory
type in guest depends on MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Also add save/restore for MSR_IA32_CR_PAT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Older VMX supporting CPUs do not provide the "Virtual NMI" feature for
tracking the NMI-blocked state after injecting such events. For now
KVM is unable to inject NMIs on those CPUs.
Derived from Sheng Yang's suggestion to use the IRQ window notification
for detecting the end of NMI handlers, this patch implements virtual
NMI support without impact on the host's ability to receive real NMIs.
The downside is that the given approach requires some heuristics that
can cause NMI nesting in vary rare corner cases.
The approach works as follows:
- inject NMI and set a software-based NMI-blocked flag
- arm the IRQ window start notification whenever an NMI window is
requested
- if the guest exits due to an opening IRQ window, clear the emulated
NMI-blocked flag
- if the guest net execution time with NMI-blocked but without an IRQ
window exceeds 1 second, force NMI-blocked reset and inject anyway
This approach covers most practical scenarios:
- succeeding NMIs are seperated by at least one open IRQ window
- the guest may spin with IRQs disabled (e.g. due to a bug), but
leaving the NMI handler takes much less time than one second
- the guest does not rely on strict ordering or timing of NMIs
(would be problematic in virtualized environments anyway)
Successfully tested with the 'nmi n' monitor command, the kgdbts
testsuite on smp guests (additional patches required to add debug
register support to kvm) + the kernel's nmi_watchdog=1, and a Siemens-
specific board emulation (+ guest) that comes with its own NMI
watchdog mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds the required bits to the VMX side for user space
injected NMIs. As with the preexisting in-kernel irqchip support, the
CPU must provide the "virtual NMI" feature for proper tracking of the
NMI blocking state.
Based on the original patch by Sheng Yang.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Fix NMI injection in real-mode with the same pattern we perform IRQ
injection.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
do_interrupt_requests and vmx_intr_assist go different way for
achieving the same: enabling the nmi/irq window start notification.
Unify their code over enable_{irq|nmi}_window, get rid of a redundant
call to enable_intr_window instead of direct enable_nmi_window
invocation and unroll enable_intr_window for both in-kernel and user
space irq injection accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There are currently two ways in VMX to check if an IRQ or NMI can be
injected:
- vmx_{nmi|irq}_enabled and
- vcpu.arch.{nmi|interrupt}_window_open.
Even worse, one test (at the end of vmx_vcpu_run) uses an inconsistent,
likely incorrect logic.
This patch consolidates and unifies the tests over
{nmi|interrupt}_window_open as cache + vmx_update_window_states
for updating the cache content.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Properly set GUEST_INTR_STATE_NMI and reset nmi_injected when a
task-switch vmexit happened due to a task gate being used for handling
NMIs. Also avoid the false warning about valid vectoring info in
kvm_handle_exit.
Based on original patch by Gleb Natapov.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
irq_window_exits only tracks IRQ window exits due to user space
requests, nmi_window_exits include all exits. The latter makes more
sense, so let's adjust irq_window_exits accounting.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If an interrupt cannot be injected for some reason (say, page fault
when fetching the IDT descriptor), the interrupt is marked for
reinjection. However, if an NMI is queued at this time, the NMI
will be injected instead and the NMI will be lost.
Fix by deferring the NMI injection until the interrupt has been
injected successfully.
Analyzed by Jan Kiszka.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is a potential issue that, when guest using pagetable without vmexit when
EPT enabled, guest would use PAT/PCD/PWT bits to index PAT msr for it's memory,
which would be inconsistent with host side and would cause host MCE due to
inconsistent cache attribute.
The patch set IGMT bit in EPT entry to ignore guest PAT and use WB as default
memory type to protect host (notice that all memory mapped by KVM should be WB).
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.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>
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>
Commit 1c0f4f5011829dac96347b5f84ba37c2252e1e08 left a useless access
of VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD in vmx_intr_assist behind. Clean this up.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch modifies mode switching and vmentry function in order to
drive invalid guest state emulation.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This adds the invalid guest state handler function which invokes the x86
emulator until getting the guest to a VMX-friendly state.
[avi: leave atomic context if scheduling]
[guillaume: return to atomic context correctly]
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The patch adds the module parameter required to enable emulating invalid
guest state, as well as the emulation_required flag used to drive
emulation whenever needed.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds functions to check whether guest state is VMX compliant.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Usually HOST_RSP retains its value across guest entries. Take advantage
of this and avoid a vmwrite() when this is so.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
As we execute real mode guests in VM86 mode, exception have to be
reinjected appropriately when the guest triggered them. For this purpose
the patch adopts the real-mode injection pattern used in vmx_inject_irq
to vmx_queue_exception, additionally taking care that the IP is set
correctly for #BP exceptions. Furthermore it extends
handle_rmode_exception to reinject all those exceptions that can be
raised in real mode.
This fixes the execution of himem.exe from FreeDOS and also makes its
debug.com work properly.
Note that guest debugging in real mode is broken now. This has to be
fixed by the scheduled debugging infrastructure rework (will be done
once base patches for QEMU have been accepted).
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Since checking for vcpu->arch.rmode.active is already done whenever we
call handle_rmode_exception(), checking it inside the function is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of looking at failed injections in the vm entry path, move
processing to the exit path in vmx_complete_interrupts(). This simplifes
the logic and removes any state that is hidden in vmx registers.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The vmx code assumes that IDT-Vectoring can only be set when an exception
is injected due to the exception in question. That's not true, however:
if the exception is injected correctly, and later another exception occurs
but its delivery is blocked due to a fault, then we will incorrectly assume
the first exception was not delivered.
Fix by unconditionally dequeuing the pending exception, and requeuing it
(or the second exception) if we see it in the IDT-Vectoring field.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of processing nmi injection failure in the vm entry path, move
it to the vm exit path (vm_complete_interrupts()). This separates nmi
injection from nmi post-processing, and moves the nmi state from the VT
state into vcpu state (new variable nmi_injected specifying an injection
in progress).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Currently most interrupt exit processing is handled on the entry path,
which is confusing. Move the NMI IRET fault processing to a new function,
vmx_complete_interrupts(), which is called on the vmexit path.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
As suggested by Avi, introduce accessors to read/write guest registers.
This simplifies the ->cache_regs/->decache_regs interface, and improves
register caching which is important for VMX, where the cost of
vmcs_read/vmcs_write is significant.
[avi: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
MSR_IA32_FEATURE_LOCKED is just a bit in fact, which shouldn't be prefixed with
MSR_. So is MSR_IA32_FEATURE_VMXON_ENABLED.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
As well as discard fake accessed bit and dirty bit of EPT.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When an event (such as an interrupt) is injected, and the stack is
shadowed (and therefore write protected), the guest will exit. The
current code will see that the stack is shadowed and emulate a few
instructions, each time postponing the injection. Eventually the
injection may succeed, but at that time the guest may be unwilling
to accept the interrupt (for example, the TPR may have changed).
This occurs every once in a while during a Windows 2008 boot.
Fix by unshadowing the fault address if the fault was due to an event
injection.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Fix a potention issue caused by kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(). The
old behavior don't sync EPT TLB with modified EPT entry, which result
in inconsistent content of EPT TLB and EPT table.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Older linux guests (in this case, 2.6.9) can attempt to
access the performance counter MSRs without a fixup section, and injecting
a GPF kills the guest. Work around by allowing the guest to write those MSRs.
Tested by me on RHEL-4 i386 and x86_64 guests, as well as F-9 guests.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The function ept_update_paging_mode_cr0() write to
CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL based on vmcs_config.cpu_based_exec_ctrl. That's
wrong because the variable may not consistent with the content in the
CPU_BASE_VM_EXEC_CONTROL MSR.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
VMX hardware can cache the contents of a vcpu's vmcs. This cache needs
to be flushed when migrating a vcpu to another cpu, or (which is the case
that interests us here) when disabling hardware virtualization on a cpu.
The current implementation of decaching iterates over the list of all vcpus,
picks the ones that are potentially cached on the cpu that is being offlined,
and flushes the cache. The problem is that it uses mutex_trylock() to gain
exclusive access to the vcpu, which fires off a (benign) warning about using
the mutex in an interrupt context.
To avoid this, and to make things generally nicer, add a new per-cpu list
of potentially cached vcus. This makes the decaching code much simpler. The
list is vmx-specific since other hardware doesn't have this issue.
[andrea: fix crash on suspend/resume]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM turns off hardware virtualization extensions during reboot, in order
to disassociate the memory used by the virtualization extensions from the
processor, and in order to have the system in a consistent state.
Unfortunately virtual machines may still be running while this goes on,
and once virtualization extensions are turned off, any virtulization
instruction will #UD on execution.
Fix by adding an exception handler to virtualization instructions; if we get
an exception during reboot, we simply spin waiting for the reset to complete.
If it's a true exception, BUG() so we can have our stack trace.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch moves the trace entry for APIC accesses from the VMX code to the
generic lapic code. This way APIC accesses from SVM will also be traced.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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>
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Switching msrs can occur either synchronously as a result of calls to
the msr management functions (usually in response to the guest touching
virtualized msrs), or asynchronously when preempting a kvm thread that has
guest state loaded. If we're unlucky enough to have the two at the same
time, host msrs are corrupted and the machine goes kaput on the next syscall.
Most easily triggered by Windows Server 2008, as it does a lot of msr
switching during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Clear CR4.VMXE in hardware_disable. There's no reason to leave it set
after doing a VMXOFF.
VMware Workstation 6.5 checks CR4.VMXE as a proxy for whether the CPU is
in VMX mode, so leaving VMXE set means we'll refuse to power on. With this
change the user can power on after unloading the kvm-intel module. I
tested on kvm-67 and kvm-69.
Signed-off-by: Eli Collins <ecollins@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Migrate the PIT timer to the physical CPU which vcpu0 is scheduled on,
similarly to what is done for the LAPIC timers, otherwise PIT interrupts
will be delayed until an unrelated event causes an exit.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
[aliguory: plug leak]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.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>
Trace markers allow userspace to trace execution of a virtual machine
in order to monitor its performance.
Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.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>
MSR Bitmap controls whether the accessing of an MSR causes VM Exit.
Eliminating exits on automatically saved and restored MSRs yields a
small performance gain.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This emulates the x86 hardware task switch mechanism in software, as it is
unsupported by either vmx or svm. It allows operating systems which use it,
like freedos, to run as kvm guests.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Most Intel hosts have a stable tsc, and playing with the offset only
reduces accuracy. By limiting tsc offset adjustment only to forward updates,
we effectively disable tsc offset adjustment on these hosts.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Looking at Intel Volume 3b, page 148, table 20-11 and noticed
that the field name is 'Deliver' not 'Deliever'. Attached patch changes
the define name and its user in vmx.c
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To allow access to the EFER register in 32bit KVM the EFER specific code has to
be exported to the x86 generic code. This patch does this in a backwards
compatible manner.
[avi: add check for EFER-less hosts]
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch aligns the bits the guest can set in the EFER register with the
features in the host processor. Currently it lets EFER.NX disabled if the
processor does not support it and enables EFER.LME and EFER.LMA only for KVM on
64 bit hosts.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To allow TLB entries to be retained across VM entry and VM exit, the VMM
can now identify distinct address spaces through a new virtual-processor ID
(VPID) field of the VMCS.
[avi: drop vpid_sync_all()]
[avi: add "cc" to asm constraints]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The vmx hardware state restore restores the tss selector and base address, but
not its length. Usually, this does not matter since most of the tss contents
is within the default length of 0x67. However, if a process is using ioperm()
to grant itself I/O port permissions, an additional bitmap within the tss,
but outside the default length is consulted. The effect is that the process
will receive a SIGSEGV instead of transparently accessing the port.
Fix by restoring the tss length. Note that i386 had this working already.
Closes bugzilla 10246.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM tries to run as much as possible with the guest msrs loaded instead of
host msrs, since switching msrs is very expensive. It also tries to minimize
the number of msrs switched according to the guest mode; for example,
MSR_LSTAR is needed only by long mode guests. This optimization is done by
setup_msrs().
However, we must not change which msrs are switched while we are running with
guest msr state:
- switch to guest msr state
- call setup_msrs(), removing some msrs from the list
- switch to host msr state, leaving a few guest msrs loaded
An easy way to trigger this is to kexec an x86_64 linux guest. Early during
setup, the guest will switch EFER to not include SCE. KVM will stop saving
MSR_LSTAR, and on the next msr switch it will leave the guest LSTAR loaded.
The next host syscall will end up in a random location in the kernel.
Fix by reloading the host msrs before changing the msr list.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
alloc_apic_access_page() can sleep, while vmx_vcpu_setup is called
inside a non preemptable region. Move it after put_cpu().
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>
When executing a test program called "crashme", we found the KVM guest cannot
survive more than ten seconds, then encounterd kernel panic. The basic concept
of "crashme" is generating random assembly code and trying to execute it.
After some fixes on emulator insn validity judgment, we found it's hard to
get the current emulator handle the invalid instructions correctly, for the
#UD trap for hypercall patching caused troubles. The problem is, if the opcode
itself was OK, but combination of opcode and modrm_reg was invalid, and one
operand of the opcode was memory (SrcMem or DstMem), the emulator will fetch
the memory operand first rather than checking the validity, and may encounter
an error there. For example, ".byte 0xfe, 0x34, 0xcd" has this problem.
In the patch, we simply check that if the invalid opcode wasn't vmcall/vmmcall,
then return from emulate_instruction() and inject a #UD to guest. With the
patch, the guest had been running for more than 12 hours.
Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>