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Yang, Sheng
6e5d865c0b KVM: VMX: Use shadow TPR/cr8 for 64-bits guests
This patch enables TPR shadow of VMX on CR8 access. 64bit Windows using
CR8 access TPR frequently. The TPR shadow can improve the performance of
access TPR by not causing vmexit.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:26 +02:00
Li, Xin B
1e4e6e0013 KVM: VMX: Remove a duplicated ia32e mode vm entry control
Remove a duplicated ia32e mode VM Entry control definition and use the
proper one.

Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin.b.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:23 +02:00
Yang, Sheng
62b3ffb8b3 KVM: VMX: Import some constants of vmcs from IA32 SDM
This patch mainly imports some constants and rename two exist constants
of vmcs according to IA32 SDM.

It also adds two constants to indicate Lock bit and Enable bit in
MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL, and replace the hardcode _5_ with these two
bits.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:19 +02:00
Rusty Russell
66aee91aaa KVM: Use standard CR4 flags, tighten checking
On this machine (Intel), writing to the CR4 bits 0x00000800 and
0x00001000 cause a GPF.  The Intel manual is a little unclear, but
AFIACT they're reserved, too.

Also fix spelling of CR4_RESEVED_BITS.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13 10:18:18 +02:00
Avi Kivity
988ad74ff6 [PATCH] kvm: vmx: handle triple faults by returning EXIT_REASON_SHUTDOWN to userspace
Just like svm.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
Nguyen Anh Quynh
c68876fd28 [PATCH] KVM: Rename some msrs
No need to append _MSR to msr names, a prefix should suffice.

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30 10:56:44 -08:00
Avi Kivity
6aa8b732ca [PATCH] kvm: userspace interface
web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net

mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
  (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel)

The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization
extensions to the x86 architecture.  The driver adds a character device
(/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace.  Using
this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully
virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and
display.

Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host.

Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in
that process.  kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected.  In effect, the
driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel
mode, user mode, and guest mode.  Guest mode has its own address space mapping
guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing
/dev/kvm).  Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is
intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation.

The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests.  All combinations are
allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host.  For i386 guests and hosts, both pae
and non-pae paging modes are supported.

SMP hosts and UP guests are supported.  At the moment only Intel
hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on.

Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the
mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries
every context switch.  We plan to address this in two ways:

- cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes
- wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables

Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU.  Under
Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent
CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization.  Linux/X is slower, probably due
to X being in a separate process.

In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O
device emulation and the BIOS.

Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true):

- The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the
  virtual APIC.  We are working on a fix.  A temporary workaround is to
  use an existing image or install through qemu
- Windows 64-bit does not work.  That's also true for qemu, so it's
  probably a problem with the device model.

[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes]
[uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap]
[akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix]
[mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes]
[rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings]
[anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support]
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se>
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00