We make no use of cr4.pge if ept is enabled, but the guest does (to flush
global mappings, as with vmap()), so give the guest ownership of this bit.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of specifying the bits which we want to trap on, specify the bits
which we allow the guest to change transparently. This is safer wrt future
changes to cr4.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some bits of cr4 can be owned by the guest on vmx, so when we read them,
we copy them to the vcpu structure. In preparation for making the set of
guest-owned bits dynamic, use helpers to access these bits so we don't need
to know where the bit resides.
No changes to svm since all bits are host-owned there.
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>
update_transition_efer() masks out some efer bits when deciding whether
to switch the msr during guest entry; for example, NX is emulated using the
mmu so we don't need to disable it, and LMA/LME are handled by the hardware.
However, with shared msrs, the comparison is made against a stale value;
at the time of the guest switch we may be running with another guest's efer.
Fix by deferring the mask/compare to the actual point of guest entry.
Noted by Marcelo.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Otherwise would cause VMEntry failure when using ept=0 on unrestricted guest
supported processors.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to
exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space
changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration
and system reset.
[avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
These happen when we trap an exception when another exception is being
delivered; we only expect these with MCEs and page faults. If something
unexpected happens, things probably went south and we're better off reporting
an internal error and freezing.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Usually userspace will freeze the guest so we can inspect it, but some
internal state is not available. Add extra data to internal error
reporting so we can expose it to the debugger. Extra data is specific
to the suberror.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
GUEST_CR3 is updated via kvm_set_cr3 whenever CR3 is modified from
outside guest context. Similarly pdptrs are updated via load_pdptrs.
Let kvm_set_cr3 perform the update, removing it from the vcpu_run
fast path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of reloading syscall MSRs on every preemption, use the new shared
msr infrastructure to reload them at the last possible minute (just before
exit to userspace).
Improves vcpu/idle/vcpu switches by about 2000 cycles (when EFER needs to be
reloaded as well).
[jan: fix slot index missing indirection]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE is saved and restored as part of the
guest/host msr reloading. Since we wish to lazy-restore all the other
msrs, save and reload MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE explicitly instead of using
the common code.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This should have no effect, it is just to make the code clearer.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.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>
Much of so far vendor-specific code for setting up guest debug can
actually be handled by the generic code. This also fixes a minor deficit
in the SVM part /wrt processing KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Both VMX and SVM require per-cpu memory allocation, which is done at module
init time, for only online cpus.
Backend was not allocating enough structure for all possible CPUs, so
new CPUs coming online could not be hardware enabled.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
X86 CPUs need to have some magic happening to enable the virtualization
extensions on them. This magic can result in unpleasant results for
users, like blocking other VMMs from working (vmx) or using invalid TLB
entries (svm).
Currently KVM activates virtualization when the respective kernel module
is loaded. This blocks us from autoloading KVM modules without breaking
other VMMs.
To circumvent this problem at least a bit, this patch introduces on
demand activation of virtualization. This means, that instead
virtualization is enabled on creation of the first virtual machine
and disabled on destruction of the last one.
So using this, KVM can be easily autoloaded, while keeping other
hypervisors usable.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
- Change returned handle_invalid_guest_state() to return relevant exit codes
- Move triggering the emulation from vmx_vcpu_run() to vmx_handle_exit()
- Return to userspace instead of repeatedly trying to emulate instructions that have already failed
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
It is possible that stale EPTP-tagged mappings are used, if a
vcpu migrates to a different pcpu.
Set KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH in vmx_vcpu_load, when switching pcpus, which
will invalidate both VPID and EPT mappings on the next vm-entry.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Debug registers may only be accessed from cpl 0. Unfortunately, vmx will
code to emulate the instruction even though it was issued from guest
userspace, possibly leading to an unexpected trap later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
No need to call it before each kvm_(set|get)_msr_common()
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Only reload debug register 6 if we're running with the guest's
debug registers. Saves around 150 cycles from the guest lightweight
exit path.
dr6 contains a couple of bits that are updated on #DB, so intercept
that unconditionally and update those bits then.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Don't call adjust_vmx_controls() two times for the same control.
It restores options that were dropped earlier. This loses us the cr8
exit control, which causes a massive performance regression Windows x64.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
QNX update WP bit when paging enabled, which is not covered yet. This one fix
QNX boot with EPT.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We set rflags.vm86 when virtualizing real mode to do through vm8086 mode;
so we need to take it out again when reading rflags.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of calling vmx_get_segment() (which reads a whole bunch of
vmcs fields), read only the cs selector which contains the cpl.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If userspace knows that the kernel part supports 1GB pages it can enable
the corresponding cpuid bit so that guests actually use GB pages.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Choose some allowed error values for the cases VMX returned ENOTSUPP so
far as these values could be returned by the KVM_RUN IOCTL.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page.
(change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter
address rather than value)
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This allows use of the powerful ftrace infrastructure.
See Documentation/trace/ for usage information.
[avi, stephen: various build fixes]
[sheng: fix control register breakage]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
cr2 changes only rarely, and writing it is expensive. Avoid the costly cr2
writes by checking if it does not already hold the desired value.
Shaves 70 cycles off the vmexit latency.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Disable usage of 2M pages if VMX_EPT_2MB_PAGE_BIT (bit 16) is clear
in MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP and EPT is enabled.
[avi: s/largepages_disabled/largepages_enabled/ to avoid negative logic]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Handler for EPT misconfiguration which checks for valid state
in the shadow pagetables, printing the spte on each level.
The separate WARN_ONs are useful for kerneloops.org.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The performance counter MSRs are different for AMD and Intel CPUs and they
are chosen mainly by the CPUID vendor string. This patch catches writes to
all addresses (regardless of VMX/SVM path) and handles them in the generic
MSR handler routine. Writing a 0 into the event select register is something
we perfectly emulate ;-), so don't print out a warning to dmesg in this
case.
This fixes booting a 64bit Windows guest with an AMD CPUID on an Intel host.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
Instead of reloading the pdptrs on every entry and exit (vmcs writes on vmx,
guest memory access on svm) extract them on demand.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of reading the PDPTRs from memory after every exit (which is slow
and wrong, as the PDPTRs are stored on the cpu), sync the PDPTRs from
memory to the VMCS before entry, and from the VMCS to memory after exit.
Do the same for cr3.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_cr3() will call vmx_tlb_flush(), which will flush the ept context.
So there is no need to call ept_sync_context() explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The problem exists only on VMX. Also currently we skip this step if
there is pending exception. The patch fixes this too.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use standard msr-index.h's MSR declaration.
MSR_IA32_TSC is better than MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER as it also solves
80 column issue.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When reinjecting a software interrupt or exception, use the correct
instruction length provided by the hardware instead of a hardcoded 1.
Fixes problems running the suse 9.1 livecd boot loader.
Problem introduced by commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection
logic to x86.c").
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity