CPUID.7.0.EBX[1]=1 indicates IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR 0x3b is supported
Basic design is to emulate the MSR by allowing reads and writes to a guest
vcpu specific location to store the value of the emulated MSR while adding
the value to the vmcs tsc_offset. In this way the IA32_TSC_ADJUST value will
be included in all reads to the TSC MSR whether through rdmsr or rdtsc. This
is of course as long as the "use TSC counter offsetting" VM-execution control
is enabled as well as the IA32_TSC_ADJUST control.
However, because hardware will only return the TSC + IA32_TSC_ADJUST +
vmsc tsc_offset for a guest process when it does and rdtsc (with the correct
settings) the value of our virtualized IA32_TSC_ADJUST must be stored in one
of these three locations. The argument against storing it in the actual MSR
is performance. This is likely to be seldom used while the save/restore is
required on every transition. IA32_TSC_ADJUST was created as a way to solve
some issues with writing TSC itself so that is not an option either.
The remaining option, defined above as our solution has the problem of
returning incorrect vmcs tsc_offset values (unless we intercept and fix, not
done here) as mentioned above. However, more problematic is that storing the
data in vmcs tsc_offset will have a different semantic effect on the system
than does using the actual MSR. This is illustrated in the following example:
The hypervisor set the IA32_TSC_ADJUST, then the guest sets it and a guest
process performs a rdtsc. In this case the guest process will get
TSC + IA32_TSC_ADJUST_hyperviser + vmsc tsc_offset including
IA32_TSC_ADJUST_guest. While the total system semantics changed the semantics
as seen by the guest do not and hence this will not cause a problem.
Signed-off-by: Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Some fields can be constified and/or made static to reduce code and data
size.
Numbers for a 32 bit build:
text data bss dec hex filename
before: 3351 80 0 3431 d67 cpuid.o
after: 3391 0 0 3391 d3f cpuid.o
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.
Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A for details.
For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
natively.
For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce kvm_cpuid() to perform the leaf limit check and calculate
register values, and let kvm_emulate_cpuid() just handle reading and
writing the registers from/to the vcpu. This allows us to reuse
kvm_cpuid() in a context where directly reading and writing registers
is not desired.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Implementation of PV EOI using shared memory.
This reduces the number of exits an interrupt
causes as much as by half.
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
We set it before injecting an interrupt and clear
before injecting a nested one. Guest tests it using
a test and clear operation - this is necessary
so that host can detect interrupt nesting -
and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR.
There's a new MSR to set the address of said register
in guest memory. Otherwise not much changed:
- Guest EOI is not required
- Register is tested & ISR is automatically cleared on exit
For testing results see description of previous patch
'kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance'.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
cpuid eax should return the max leaf so that
guests can find out the valid range.
This matches Xen et al.
Update documentation to match.
Tested with -cpu host.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Intel recently release 2 new features, HLE and RTM.
Refer to http://software.intel.com/file/41417.
This patch expose them to guest.
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In some cases guests should not provide workarounds for errata even when the
physical processor is affected. For example, because of erratum 400 on family
10h processors a Linux guest will read an MSR (resulting in VMEXIT) before
going to idle in order to avoid getting stuck in a non-C0 state. This is not
necessary: HLT and IO instructions are intercepted and therefore there is no
reason for erratum 400 workaround in the guest.
This patch allows us to present a guest with certain errata as fixed,
regardless of the state of actual hardware.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use perf_events to emulate an architectural PMU, version 2.
Based on PMU version 1 emulation by Avi Kivity.
[avi: adjust for cpuid.c]
[jan: fix anonymous field initialization for older gcc]
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>
Works so far by change, but it is not guaranteed to stay like this.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch cleans and simplifies kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid by using a table
instead of duplicating code as Avi suggested.
This patch also fixes a bug where kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid would return
-E2BIG when amount of entries passed was just right.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Intel latest cpu add 6 new features, refer http://software.intel.com/file/36945
The new feature cpuid listed as below:
1. FMA CPUID.EAX=01H:ECX.FMA[bit 12]
2. MOVBE CPUID.EAX=01H:ECX.MOVBE[bit 22]
3. BMI1 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.BMI1[bit 3]
4. AVX2 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.AVX2[bit 5]
5. BMI2 CPUID.EAX=07H,ECX=0H:EBX.BMI2[bit 8]
6. LZCNT CPUID.EAX=80000001H:ECX.LZCNT[bit 5]
This patch expose these features to guest.
Among them, FMA/MOVBE/LZCNT has already been defined, MOVBE/LZCNT has
already been exposed.
This patch defines BMI1/AVX2/BMI2, and exposes FMA/BMI1/AVX2/BMI2 to guest.
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Will Auld