This patch exhances kvm-intel module to enable VMX TSC scaling and
collects information of TSC scaling ratio during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add the INVVPID instruction emulation.
Reviewed-by: Wincy Van <fanwenyi0529@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pass PCOMMIT CPU feature to guest to enable PCOMMIT instruction
Currently we do not catch pcommit instruction for L1 guest and
allow L1 to catch this instruction for L2 if, as required by the spec,
L1 can enumerate the PCOMMIT instruction via CPUID:
| IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS2[53] (which enumerates support for the
| 1-setting of PCOMMIT exiting) is always the same as
| CPUID.07H:EBX.PCOMMIT[bit 22]. Thus, software can set PCOMMIT exiting
| to 1 if and only if the PCOMMIT instruction is enumerated via CPUID
The spec can be found at
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMX encodes access rights differently from LAR, and the latter is
most likely what x86 people think of when they think of "access
rights".
Rename them to avoid confusion.
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allow a nested hypervisor to single step its guests.
Signed-off-by: Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
[Fix overlong line. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch adds PML support in VMX. A new module parameter 'enable_pml' is added
to allow user to enable/disable it manually.
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Initialize the XSS exit bitmap. It is zero so there should be no XSAVES
or XRSTORS exits.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Expose the XSAVES feature to the guest if the kvm_x86_ops say it is
available.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
SDM says bits 1, 4-6, 8, 13-16, and 26 have to be set.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The spec says those controls are at bit position 2 - makes 4 as value.
The impact of this mistake is effectively zero as we only use them to
ensure that these features are set at position 2 (or, previously, 1) in
MSR_IA32_VMX_{EXIT,ENTRY}_CTLS - which is and will be always true
according to the spec.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We can easily emulate the HLT activity state for L1: If it decides that
L2 shall be halted on entry, just invoke the normal emulation of halt
after switching to L2. We do not depend on specific host features to
provide this, so we can expose the capability unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If we let L1 use EPT, we should probably also support the INVEPT instruction.
In our current nested EPT implementation, when L1 changes its EPT table
for L2 (i.e., EPT12), L0 modifies the shadow EPT table (EPT02), and in
the course of this modification already calls INVEPT. But if last level
of shadow page is unsync not all L1's changes to EPT12 are intercepted,
which means roots need to be synced when L1 calls INVEPT. Global INVEPT
should not be different since roots are synced by kvm_mmu_load() each
time EPTP02 changes.
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add definitions for all the vmcs control fields/bits
required to enable vmcs-shadowing
Signed-off-by: Abel Gordon <abelg@il.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Detect the posted interrupt feature. If it exists, then set it in vmcs_config.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Provided the host has this feature, it's straightforward to offer it to
the guest as well. We just need to load to timer value on L2 entry if
the feature was enabled by L1 and watch out for the corresponding exit
reason.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
We will need EFER.LMA saving to provide unrestricted guest mode. All
what is missing for this is picking up EFER.LMA from VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS
on L2->L1 switches. If the host does not support EFER.LMA saving,
no change is performed, otherwise we properly emulate for L1 what the
hardware does for L0. Advertise the support, depending on the host
feature.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Only interrupt and NMI exiting are mandatory for KVM to work, thus can
be exposed to the guest unconditionally, virtual NMI exiting is
optional. So we must not advertise it unless the host supports it.
Introduce the symbolic constant PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR at
this chance.
Reviewed-by:: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Properly set those bits to 1 that the spec demands in case bit 55 of
VMX_BASIC is 0 - like in our case.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Virtual interrupt delivery avoids KVM to inject vAPIC interrupts
manually, which is fully taken care of by the hardware. This needs
some special awareness into existing interrupr injection path:
- for pending interrupt, instead of direct injection, we may need
update architecture specific indicators before resuming to guest.
- A pending interrupt, which is masked by ISR, should be also
considered in above update action, since hardware will decide
when to inject it at right time. Current has_interrupt and
get_interrupt only returns a valid vector from injection p.o.v.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
basically to benefit from apicv, we need to enable virtualized x2apic mode.
Currently, we only enable it when guest is really using x2apic.
Also, clear MSR bitmap for corresponding x2apic MSRs when guest enabled x2apic:
0x800 - 0x8ff: no read intercept for apicv register virtualization,
except APIC ID and TMCCT which need software's assistance to
get right value.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
It's easy to confuse KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS and KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM. One is
the user accessible slots and the other is user + private. Make this
more obvious.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Bit24 in VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP_MASI is not used for address-specific invalidation capability
reporting, so remove it from KVM to avoid conflicts in future.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Exporting KVM exit information to userspace to be consumed by perf.
Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: rebase it on acme's git tree ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-2-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@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>
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.
a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch adds a bunch of tests of the validity of the vmcs12 fields,
according to what the VMX spec and our implementation allows. If fields
we cannot (or don't want to) honor are discovered, an entry failure is
emulated.
According to the spec, there are two types of entry failures: If the problem
was in vmcs12's host state or control fields, the VMLAUNCH instruction simply
fails. But a problem is found in the guest state, the behavior is more
similar to that of an exit.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch implements nested_vmx_vmexit(), called when the nested L2 guest
exits and we want to run its L1 parent and let it handle this exit.
Note that this will not necessarily be called on every L2 exit. L0 may decide
to handle a particular exit on its own, without L1's involvement; In that
case, L0 will handle the exit, and resume running L2, without running L1 and
without calling nested_vmx_vmexit(). The logic for deciding whether to handle
a particular exit in L1 or in L0, i.e., whether to call nested_vmx_vmexit(),
will appear in a separate patch below.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
VMX instructions specify success or failure by setting certain RFLAGS bits.
This patch contains common functions to do this, and they will be used in
the following patches which emulate the various VMX instructions.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
In certain use-cases, we want to allocate guests fixed time slices where idle
guest cycles leave the machine idling. There are many approaches to achieve
this but the most direct is to simply avoid trapping the HLT instruction which
lets the guest directly execute the instruction putting the processor to sleep.
Introduce this as a module-level option for kvm-vmx.ko since if you do this
for one guest, you probably want to do it for all.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently the exit is unhandled, so guest halts with error if it tries
to execute INVD instruction. Call into emulator when INVD instruction
is executed by a guest instead. This instruction is not needed by ordinary
guests, but firmware (like OpenBIOS) use it and fail.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch enable guest to use XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions.
We assume that host_xcr0 would use all possible bits that OS supported.
And we loaded xcr0 in the same way we handled fpu - do it as late as we can.
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
According to SDM, we need check whether single-context INVVPID type is supported
before issuing invvpid instruction.
Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
For the sake of completeness, this patch adds a symbolic
constant for VMX exit reason 0x21 (invalid guest state).
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Following the new SDM. Now the bit is named "Ignore PAT memory type".
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Before enabling, execution of "rdtscp" in guest would result in #UD.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
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>
"Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification.
Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature.
It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode
code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the
unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code
in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode
code works like native.
The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature
if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module
parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time.
Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Haozhong Zhang