- 10 Sep, 2009 40 commits
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Joerg Roedel authored
The vmcb control area contains more then 800 bytes of reserved fields which are unnecessarily copied. Fix this by introducing a copy function which only copies the relevant part and saves time. Signed-off-by:
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Acked-by:
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Only copy the necessary parts of the vmcb save area on vmrun and save precious time. Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
It is more efficient to copy only the relevant parts of the vmcb back to the nested vmcb when we emulate an vmexit. Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
This patch makes the code easier to read when it comes to setting, clearing and checking the status of the virtualized global interrupt flag for the VCPU. Signed-off-by:
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Avi Kivity authored
Needed by KVM. Signed-off-by: -
Gleb Natapov authored
They are not doing anything else now. Signed-off-by:
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
Currently they are called when irq vector is been delivered. Calling ack notifiers at this point is wrong. Device assignment ack notifier enables host interrupts, but guest not yet had a chance to clear interrupt condition in a device. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
d5ecfdd25 moved it out because back than it was impossible to call it inside spinlock. This restriction no longer exists. Signed-off-by:
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Roel Kluin authored
Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element. Signed-off-by:
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Amit Shah authored
We ignore writes to the perfctr msrs. Ignore reads as well. Kaspersky antivirus crashes Windows guests if it can't read these MSRs. Signed-off-by:
Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Avi Kivity authored
Instead of calling vmx_get_segment() (which reads a whole bunch of vmcs fields), read only the cs selector which contains the cpl. Signed-off-by: -
Jan Kiszka authored
So far unprivileged guest callers running in ring 3 can issue, e.g., MMU hypercalls. Normally, such callers cannot provide any hand-crafted MMU command structure as it has to be passed by its physical address, but they can still crash the guest kernel by passing random addresses. To close the hole, this patch considers hypercalls valid only if issued from guest ring 0. This may still be relaxed on a per-hypercall base in the future once required. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
Remove the bogus n_free_mmu_pages assignment from alloc_mmu_pages. It breaks accounting of mmu pages, since n_free_mmu_pages is modified but the real number of pages remains the same. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Izik Eidus authored
First check if the list is empty before attempting to look at list entries. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
This takes care of the following entries from Dan's list: arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +714 kvm_inject_pit_timer_irqs(6) warning: variable derefenced in initializer 'vcpu' arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +714 kvm_inject_pit_timer_irqs(6) warning: variable derefenced before check 'vcpu' Reported-by:
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: eteo@redhat.com Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
If userspace knows that the kernel part supports 1GB pages it can enable the corresponding cpuid bit so that guests actually use GB pages. Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
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Joerg Roedel authored
This patch adds support for shadow paging to the 1gb page table code in KVM. With this code the guest can use 1gb pages even if the host does not support them. [ Marcelo: fix shadow page collision on pmd level if a guest 1gb page is mapped with 4kb ptes on host level ] Signed-off-by: -
Joerg Roedel authored
The page walker may be used with nested paging too when accessing mmio areas. Make it support the additional page-level too. [ Marcelo: fix reserved bit check for 1gb pte ] Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
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Joerg Roedel authored
With the new name and the corresponding backend changes this function can now support multiple hugepage sizes. Signed-off-by:
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Joerg Roedel authored
This patch removes the largepage parameter from the rmap_add function. Together with rmap_remove this function now uses the role.level field to find determine if the page is a huge page. Signed-off-by:
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Xiao Guangrong authored
Remove debugfs file if kvm_arch_init() return error Signed-off-by:
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
Otherwise its possible to starve the host by programming lapic timer with a very high frequency. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Mikhail Ershov authored
Commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection logic to x86.c") does not update the cr8 intercept if the lapic is disabled, so when userspace updates cr8, the cr8 threshold control is not updated and we are left with illegal control fields. Fix by explicitly resetting the cr8 threshold. Signed-off-by: -
Jan Kiszka authored
Choose some allowed error values for the cases VMX returned ENOTSUPP so far as these values could be returned by the KVM_RUN IOCTL. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kiszka authored
spin_lock disables preemption, so we can simply read the current cpu. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
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Sheng Yang authored
Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page. (change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter address rather than value) Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use kvm_get_gdt() and kvm_read_ldt() to reduce inline assembly code. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use get_desc_base() and get_desc_limit() to get the base address and limit in desc_struct. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
They are not used by common code without defines which s390 does not have. Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
n_requested_mmu_pages/n_free_mmu_pages are used by kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages to calculate the number of pages to zap. alloc_mmu_pages, called from the vcpu initialization path, modifies this variables without proper locking, which can result in a negative value in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages (say, with cpu hotplug). Signed-off-by: -
Sheng Yang authored
set_cr3() should already cover the TLB flushing. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
Some Linux versions (f8) try to read EOI register that is write only. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
Remove kvm_cpu_has_interrupt() and kvm_arch_interrupt_allowed() from interface between general code and arch code. kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() checks for interrupts instead. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
It is implemented only by x86. Signed-off-by:
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Gleb Natapov authored
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Joerg Roedel authored
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Gregory Haskins authored
ioeventfd is a mechanism to register PIO/MMIO regions to trigger an eventfd signal when written to by a guest. Host userspace can register any arbitrary IO address with a corresponding eventfd and then pass the eventfd to a specific end-point of interest for handling. Normal IO requires a blocking round-trip since the operation may cause side-effects in the emulated model or may return data to the caller. Therefore, an IO in KVM traps from the guest to the host, causes a VMX/SVM "heavy-weight" exit back to userspace, and is ultimately serviced by qemu's device model synchronously before returning control back to the vcpu. However, there is a subclass of IO which acts purely as a trigger for other IO (such as to kick off an out-of-band DMA request, etc). For these patterns, the synchronous call is particularly expensive since we really only want to simply get our notification transmitted asychronously and return as quickly as possible. All the sychronous infrastructure to ensure proper data-dependencies are met in the normal IO case are just unecessary overhead for signalling. This adds additional computational load on the system, as well as latency to the signalling path. Therefore, we provide a mechanism for registration of an in-kernel trigger point that allows the VCPU to only require a very brief, lightweight exit just long enough to signal an eventfd. This also means that any clients compatible with the eventfd interface (which includes userspace and kernelspace equally well) can now register to be notified. The end result should be a more flexible and higher performance notification API for the backend KVM hypervisor and perhipheral components. To test this theory, we built a test-harness called "doorbell". This module has a function called "doorbell_ring()" which simply increments a counter for each time the doorbell is signaled. It supports signalling from either an eventfd, or an ioctl(). We then wired up two paths to the doorbell: One via QEMU via a registered io region and through the doorbell ioctl(). The other is direct via ioeventfd. You can download this test harness here: ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/doorbell.tar.bz2 The measured results are as follows: qemu-mmio: 110000 iops, 9.09us rtt ioeventfd-mmio: 200100 iops, 5.00us rtt ioeventfd-pio: 367300 iops, 2.72us rtt I didn't measure qemu-pio, because I have to figure out how to register a PIO region with qemu's device model, and I got lazy. However, for now we can extrapolate based on the data from the NULLIO runs of +2.56us for MMIO, and -350ns for HC, we get: qemu-pio: 153139 iops, 6.53us rtt ioeventfd-hc: 412585 iops, 2.37us rtt these are just for fun, for now, until I can gather more data. Here is a graph for your convenience: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/7/76/Iofd-chart.png The conclusion to draw is that we save about 4us by skipping the userspace hop. -------------------- Signed-off-by:
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Acked-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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