1. 11 Nov, 2013 2 commits
  2. 07 Nov, 2013 3 commits
  3. 06 Nov, 2013 7 commits
  4. 05 Nov, 2013 4 commits
  5. 04 Nov, 2013 1 commit
  6. 03 Nov, 2013 1 commit
    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax" · daf72722
      Paolo Bonzini authored
      When I was looking at RHEL5.9's failure to start with
      unrestricted_guest=0/emulate_invalid_guest_state=1, I got it working with a
      slightly older tree than kvm.git.  I now debugged the remaining failure,
      which was introduced by commit 660696d1 (KVM: X86 emulator: fix
      source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x instructions, 2013-04-24)
      introduced a similar mis-emulation to the one in commit 8acb4207 (KVM:
      fix sil/dil/bpl/spl in the mod/rm fields, 2013-05-30).  The incorrect
      decoding occurs in 8-bit movzx/movsx instructions whose 8-bit operand
      is sil/dil/bpl/spl.
      
      Needless to say, "movzbl %bpl, %eax" does occur in RHEL5.9's decompression
      prolog, just a handful of instructions before finally giving control to
      the decompressed vmlinux and getting out of the invalid guest state.
      
      Because OpMem8 bypasses decode_modrm, the same handling of the REX prefix
      must be applied to OpMem8.
      Reported-by: default avatarMichele Baldessari <michele@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      daf72722
  7. 31 Oct, 2013 8 commits
  8. 30 Oct, 2013 8 commits
  9. 29 Oct, 2013 1 commit
    • Marc Zyngier's avatar
      arm64: KVM: Yield CPU when vcpu executes a WFE · d241aac7
      Marc Zyngier authored
      On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
      becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
      lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
      running at all.
      
      The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
      now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
      boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
      CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
      when the VM is severely overcommited.
      Acked-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      d241aac7
  10. 28 Oct, 2013 5 commits