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Avi Kivity
cdc0e24456 KVM: VMX: Move some cr[04] related constants to vmx.c
They have no place in common code.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:39 -03:00
Sheng Yang
59708670b6 KVM: VMX: Trap and invalid MWAIT/MONITOR instruction
We don't support these instructions, but guest can execute them even if the
feature('monitor') haven't been exposed in CPUID. So we would trap and inject
a #UD if guest try this way.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:39 -03:00
Avi Kivity
186a3e526a KVM: MMU: Report spte not found in rmap before BUG()
In the past we've had errors of single-bit in the other two cases; the
printk() may confirm it for the third case (many->many).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:39 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
cb84b55f6c KVM: x86: raise TSS exception for NULL CS and SS segments
Windows 2003 uses task switch to triple fault and reboot (the other
exception being reserved pdptrs bits).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:38 -03:00
Eddie Dong
3fd28fce76 KVM: x86: make double/triple fault promotion generic to all exceptions
Move Double-Fault generation logic out of page fault
exception generating function to cover more generic case.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:38 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
ee73f656a6 KVM: PIT: control word is write-only
PIT control word (address 0x43) is write-only, reads are undefined.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-02-09 19:20:15 +02:00
Jason Wang
923de3cf5b kvmclock: count total_sleep_time when updating guest clock
Current kvm wallclock does not consider the total_sleep_time which could cause
wrong wallclock in guest after host suspend/resume. This patch solve
this issue by counting total_sleep_time to get the correct host boot time.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-02-09 19:20:15 +02:00
Wei Yongjun
443c39bc9e KVM: x86: Fix leak of free lapic date in kvm_arch_vcpu_init()
In function kvm_arch_vcpu_init(), if the memory malloc for
vcpu->arch.mce_banks is fail, it does not free the memory
of lapic date. This patch fixed it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:40 -02:00
Wei Yongjun
36cb93fd6b KVM: x86: Fix probable memory leak of vcpu->arch.mce_banks
vcpu->arch.mce_banks is malloc in kvm_arch_vcpu_init(), but
never free in any place, this may cause memory leak. So this
patch fixed to free it in kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:40 -02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
a6085fbaf6 KVM: MMU: bail out pagewalk on kvm_read_guest error
Exit the guest pagetable walk loop if reading gpte failed. Otherwise its
possible to enter an endless loop processing the previous present pte.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:38 -02:00
Sheng Yang
82b7005f0e KVM: x86: Fix host_mapping_level()
When found a error hva, should not return PAGE_SIZE but the level...

Also clean up the coding style of the following loop.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:37 -02:00
Avi Kivity
a5d36f82c4 KVM: Fix race between APIC TMR and IRR
When we queue an interrupt to the local apic, we set the IRR before the TMR.
The vcpu can pick up the IRR and inject the interrupt before setting the TMR,
and perhaps even EOI it, causing incorrect behaviour.

The race is really insignificant since it can only occur on the first
interrupt (usually following interrupts will not change TMR), but it's better
closed than open.

Fixed by reordering setting the TMR vs IRR.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:36 -02:00
Jan Kiszka
dab4b911a5 KVM: x86: Extend KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with selective updates
User space may not want to overwrite asynchronously changing VCPU event
states on write-back. So allow to skip nmi.pending and sipi_vector by
setting corresponding bits in the flags field of kvm_vcpu_events.

[avi: advertise the bits in KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:33 -02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
6e24a6eff4 KVM: LAPIC: make sure IRR bitmap is scanned after vm load
The vcpus are initialized with irr_pending set to false, but
loading the LAPIC registers with pending IRR fails to reset
the irr_pending variable.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:31 -02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
fb341f572d KVM: MMU: remove prefault from invlpg handler
The invlpg prefault optimization breaks Windows 2008 R2 occasionally.

The visible effect is that the invlpg handler instantiates a pte which
is, microseconds later, written with a different gfn by another vcpu.

The OS could have other mechanisms to prevent a present translation from
being used, which the hypervisor is unaware of.

While the documentation states that the cpu is at liberty to prefetch tlb
entries, it looks like this is not heeded, so remove tlb prefetch from
invlpg.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:30 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
d0316554d3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
Joe Perches
a78d9626f4 x86: i8254.c: Add pr_fmt(fmt)
- Add pr_fmt(fmt) "pit: " fmt
 - Strip pit: prefixes from pr_debug

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
LKML-Reference: <bbd4de532f18bb7c11f64ba20d224c08291cb126.1260383912.git.joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:57:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ed9216c171 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
Avi Kivity
d5696725b2 KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
update_transition_efer() masks out some efer bits when deciding whether
to switch the msr during guest entry; for example, NX is emulated using the
mmu so we don't need to disable it, and LMA/LME are handled by the hardware.

However, with shared msrs, the comparison is made against a stale value;
at the time of the guest switch we may be running with another guest's efer.

Fix by deferring the mask/compare to the actual point of guest entry.

Noted by Marcelo.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:34:20 +02:00
Avi Kivity
3548bab501 KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
This way, we don't leave a dangling notifier on cpu hotunplug or module
unload.  In particular, module unload leaves the notifier pointing into
freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:26 +02:00
Sheng Yang
046d87103a KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
Otherwise would cause VMEntry failure when using ept=0 on unrestricted guest
supported processors.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:25 +02:00
Avi Kivity
eb3c79e64a KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
While we are never normally passed an instruction that exceeds 15 bytes,
smp games can cause us to attempt to interpret one, which will cause
large latencies in non-preempt hosts.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:25 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
3cfc3092f4 KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to
exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space
changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration
and system reset.

[avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:25 +02:00
Avi Kivity
65ac726404 KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
These happen when we trap an exception when another exception is being
delivered; we only expect these with MCEs and page faults.  If something
unexpected happens, things probably went south and we're better off reporting
an internal error and freezing.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:24 +02:00
Avi Kivity
a9c7399d6c KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
Usually userspace will freeze the guest so we can inspect it, but some
internal state is not available.  Add extra data to internal error
reporting so we can expose it to the debugger.  Extra data is specific
to the suberror.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:24 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
4f926bf291 KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
Decouple KVM_GUESTDBG_INJECT_DB and KVM_GUESTDBG_INJECT_BP from
KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE, their are actually orthogonal. At this chance,
avoid triggering the WARN_ON in kvm_queue_exception if there is already
an exception pending and reject such invalid requests.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:24 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
2204ae3c96 KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
Otherwise kvm might attempt to dereference a NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:23 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
3ddea128ad KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
Otherwise kvm will leak memory on multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP.
Also serialize multiple accesses with kvm->lock.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:23 +02:00
Avi Kivity
92c0d90015 KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
This variable is used to communicate between a caller and a callee; switch
to a function argument instead.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:23 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
5f5c35aad5 KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
Large page translations are always synchronized (either in level 3
or level 2), so its not necessary to properly deal with them
in the invlpg handler.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:23 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
7c93be44a4 KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
GUEST_CR3 is updated via kvm_set_cr3 whenever CR3 is modified from
outside guest context. Similarly pdptrs are updated via load_pdptrs.

Let kvm_set_cr3 perform the update, removing it from the vcpu_run
fast path.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:22 +02:00
Gleb Natapov
1655e3a3dc KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
Probably introduced by a bad merge.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:22 +02:00
Avi Kivity
26bb0981b3 KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
Instead of reloading syscall MSRs on every preemption, use the new shared
msr infrastructure to reload them at the last possible minute (just before
exit to userspace).

Improves vcpu/idle/vcpu switches by about 2000 cycles (when EFER needs to be
reloaded as well).

[jan: fix slot index missing indirection]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:22 +02:00
Avi Kivity
18863bdd60 KVM: x86 shared msr infrastructure
The various syscall-related MSRs are fairly expensive to switch.  Currently
we switch them on every vcpu preemption, which is far too often:

- if we're switching to a kernel thread (idle task, threaded interrupt,
  kernel-mode virtio server (vhost-net), for example) and back, then
  there's no need to switch those MSRs since kernel threasd won't
  be exiting to userspace.

- if we're switching to another guest running an identical OS, most likely
  those MSRs will have the same value, so there's little point in reloading
  them.

- if we're running the same OS on the guest and host, the MSRs will have
  identical values and reloading is unnecessary.

This patch uses the new user return notifiers to implement last-minute
switching, and checks the msr values to avoid unnecessary reloading.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Avi Kivity
44ea2b1758 KVM: VMX: Move MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE out of the vmx autoload msr area
Currently MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE is saved and restored as part of the
guest/host msr reloading.  Since we wish to lazy-restore all the other
msrs, save and reload MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE explicitly instead of using
the common code.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
3ce672d484 KVM: SVM: init_vmcb(): remove redundant save->cr0 initialization
The svm_set_cr0() call will initialize save->cr0 properly even when npt is
enabled, clearing the NW and CD bits as expected, so we don't need to
initialize it manually for npt_enabled anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
18fa000ae4 KVM: SVM: Reset cr0 properly on vcpu reset
svm_vcpu_reset() was not properly resetting the contents of the guest-visible
cr0 register, causing the following issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525699

Without resetting cr0 properly, the vcpu was running the SIPI bootstrap routine
with paging enabled, making the vcpu get a pagefault exception while trying to
run it.

Instead of setting vmcb->save.cr0 directly, the new code just resets
kvm->arch.cr0 and calls kvm_set_cr0(). The bits that were set/cleared on
vmcb->save.cr0 (PG, WP, !CD, !NW) will be set properly by svm_set_cr0().

kvm_set_cr0() is used instead of calling svm_set_cr0() directly to make sure
kvm_mmu_reset_context() is called to reset the mmu to nonpaging mode.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
fa40052ca0 KVM: VMX: Use macros instead of hex value on cr0 initialization
This should have no effect, it is just to make the code clearer.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:21 +02:00
Glauber Costa
afbcf7ab8d KVM: allow userspace to adjust kvmclock offset
When we migrate a kvm guest that uses pvclock between two hosts, we may
suffer a large skew. This is because there can be significant differences
between the monotonic clock of the hosts involved. When a new host with
a much larger monotonic time starts running the guest, the view of time
will be significantly impacted.

Situation is much worse when we do the opposite, and migrate to a host with
a smaller monotonic clock.

This proposed ioctl will allow userspace to inform us what is the monotonic
clock value in the source host, so we can keep the time skew short, and
more importantly, never goes backwards. Userspace may also need to trigger
the current data, since from the first migration onwards, it won't be
reflected by a simple call to clock_gettime() anymore.

[marcelo: future-proof abi with a flags field]
[jan: fix KVM_GET_CLOCK by clearing flags field instead of checking it]

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:19 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
6be7d3062b KVM: SVM: Cleanup NMI singlestep
Push the NMI-related singlestep variable into vcpu_svm. It's dealing
with an AMD-specific deficit, nothing generic for x86.

Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    1 -
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |   12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:19 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
94fe45da48 KVM: x86: Fix guest single-stepping while interruptible
Commit 705c5323 opened the doors of hell by unconditionally injecting
single-step flags as long as guest_debug signaled this. This doesn't
work when the guest branches into some interrupt or exception handler
and triggers a vmexit with flag reloading.

Fix it by saving cs:rip when user space requests single-stepping and
restricting the trace flag injection to this guest code position.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:19 +02:00
Ed Swierk
ffde22ac53 KVM: Xen PV-on-HVM guest support
Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in
userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen
hypercall blob into guest address space.

A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill
and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future.  Thus this patch
adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR.

I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell
KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address
and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that
userspace has loaded from files.  When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM
copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest.

I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace
code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices.

[jan: fix i386 build warning]
[avi: future proof abi with a flags field]

Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
94c30d9ca6 KVM: x86: Drop unneeded CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM check
This (broken) check dates back to the days when this code was shared
across architectures. x86 has IOMEM, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
9fb41ba896 KVM: VMX: fix handle_pause declaration
There's no kvm_run argument anymore.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Zachary Amsden
6b7d7e762b KVM: x86: Harden against cpufreq
If cpufreq can't determine the CPU khz, or cpufreq is not compiled in,
we should fallback to the measured TSC khz.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:18 +02:00
Mark Langsdorf
565d0998ec KVM: SVM: Support Pause Filter in AMD processors
New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause
Filter Feature.  This feature creates a new field in the VMCB
called Pause Filter Count.  If Pause Filter Count is greater
than 0 and intercepting PAUSEs is enabled, the processor will
increment an internal counter when a PAUSE instruction occurs
instead of intercepting.  When the internal counter reaches the
Pause Filter Count value, a PAUSE intercept will occur.

This feature can be used to detect contended spinlocks,
especially when the lock holding VCPU is not scheduled.
Rescheduling another VCPU prevents the VCPU seeking the
lock from wasting its quantum by spinning idly.

Experimental results show that most spinlocks are held
for less than 1000 PAUSE cycles or more than a few
thousand.  Default the Pause Filter Counter to 3000 to
detect the contended spinlocks.

Processor support for this feature is indicated by a CPUID
bit.

On a 24 core system running 4 guests each with 16 VCPUs,
this patch improved overall performance of each guest's
32 job kernbench by approximately 3-5% when combined
with a scheduler algorithm thati caused the VCPU to
sleep for a brief period. Further performance improvement
may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Zhai, Edwin
4b8d54f972 KVM: VMX: Add support for Pause-Loop Exiting
New NHM processors will support Pause-Loop Exiting by adding 2 VM-execution
control fields:
PLE_Gap    - upper bound on the amount of time between two successive
             executions of PAUSE in a loop.
PLE_Window - upper bound on the amount of time a guest is allowed to execute in
             a PAUSE loop

If the time, between this execution of PAUSE and previous one, exceeds the
PLE_Gap, processor consider this PAUSE belongs to a new loop.
Otherwise, processor determins the the total execution time of this loop(since
1st PAUSE in this loop), and triggers a VM exit if total time exceeds the
PLE_Window.
* Refer SDM volume 3b section 21.6.13 & 22.1.3.

Pause-Loop Exiting can be used to detect Lock-Holder Preemption, where one VP
is sched-out after hold a spinlock, then other VPs for same lock are sched-in
to waste the CPU time.

Our tests indicate that most spinlocks are held for less than 212 cycles.
Performance tests show that with 2X LP over-commitment we can get +2% perf
improvement for kernel build(Even more perf gain with more LPs).

Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
d36f19e9ec KVM: SVM: Remove nsvm_printk debugging code
With all important informations now delivered through
tracepoints we can savely remove the nsvm_printk debugging
code for nested svm.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:17 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
532a46b989 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for skinit instruction
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the SKINIT instruction. This information is
important because SKINIT is an SVM extenstion not yet
implemented by nested SVM and we may need this information
for debugging hypervisors that do not yet run on nested SVM.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
ec1ff79084 KVM: SVM: Add tracepoint for invlpga instruction
This patch adds a tracepoint for the event that the guest
executed the INVLPGA instruction.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:16 +02:00