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>
Michael S. Tsirkin