In a lightweight exit (where we exit and reenter the guest without
scheduling or exiting to userspace in between), we don't need various
msrs on the host, and avoiding shuffling them around reduces raw exit
time by 8%.
i386 compile fix by Daniel Hecken <dh@bahntechnik.de>.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instructions with address size override prefix opcode 0x67
Cause the #SS fault with 0 error code in VM86 mode. Forward
them to the emulator.
Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kunmap() expects a struct page, not a virtual address. Fixes an oops loading
kvm-intel.ko on i386 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
Thanks to Michael Ivanov <deruhu@peterstar.ru> for reporting.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The real mode tr needs to be set to a specific tss so that I/O
instructions can function. Divert the new tr values to the real
mode save area from where they will be restored on transition to
protected mode.
This fixes some crashes on reboot when the bios accesses an I/O
instruction.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
If we set an msr via an ioctl() instead of by handling a guest exit, we
have the host state loaded, so reloading the msrs would clobber host
state instead of guest state.
This fixes a host oops (and loss of a cpu) on a guest reboot.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Attempting to boot the default 'bsd' kernel of OpenBSD 4.1 i386 in a guest
fails early in the kernel init inside p3_get_bus_clock while trying to read
the IA32_EBL_CR_POWERON MSR. KVM logs an 'unhandled MSR' message and the
guest kernel faults.
This patch is sufficient to allow OpenBSD to boot, after which it seems to
run fine. I'm not sure if this is the correct solution for dealing with
this particular MSR, but it works for me.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Everyone owns a piece of the exception bitmap, but they happily write to
the entire thing like there's no tomorrow. Centralize handling in
update_exception_bitmap() and have everyone call that.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The lightweight vmexit path avoids saving and reloading certain host
state. However in certain cases lightweight vmexit handling can schedule()
which requires reloading the host state.
So we store the host state in the vcpu structure, and reloaded it if we
relinquish the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A typical demand page/copy on write pattern is:
- page fault on vaddr
- kvm propagates fault to guest
- guest handles fault, updates pte
- kvm traps write, clears shadow pte, resumes guest
- guest returns to userspace, re-faults on same vaddr
- kvm installs shadow pte, resumes guest
- guest continues
So, three vmexits for a single guest page fault. But if instead of clearing
the page table entry, we update to correspond to the value that the guest
has just written, we eliminate the third vmexit.
This patch does exactly that, reducing kbuild time by about 10%.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a guest writes to a page that has an mmu shadow, we have to clear
the shadow pte corresponding to the memory location touched by the guest.
Now, in nonpae mode, a single guest page may have two or four shadow
pages (because a nonpae page maps 4MB or 4GB, whereas the pae shadow maps
2MB or 1GB), so we when we look up the page we find up to three additional
aliases for the page. Since we _clear_ the shadow pte, it doesn't matter
except for a slight performance penalty, but if we want to _update_ the
shadow pte instead of clearing it, it is vital that we don't modify the
aliases.
Fortunately, exactly which page is needed (the "quadrant") is easily
computed, and is accessible in the shadow page header. All we need is
to ignore shadow pages from the wrong quadrants.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Instead of calling two functions and repeating expensive checks, call one
function and provide it with before/after information.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
i386 wants fs for accessing the pda even on a lightweight exit, so ensure
we can always restore it. This fixes a regression on i386 introduced by
the lightweight vmexit patch.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kvm mmu tries to detects forks by looking for repeated writes to a
page table. If it sees a fork, it unshadows the page table so the page
table copying can proceed at native speed instead of being emulated.
However, the detector also triggered on simple demand paging access patterns:
a linear walk of memory would of course cause repeated writes to the same
pagetable page, causing it to unshadow prematurely.
Fix by resetting the fork detector if we detect a demand fault.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Many msrs and the like will only be used by the host if we schedule() or
return to userspace. Therefore, we avoid saving them if we handle the
exit within the kernel, and if a reschedule is not requested.
Based on a patch from Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> with a couple of
fixes by me.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu(Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This allows us to remove write protection earlier than otherwise. Should
some mad OS choose to use byte writes to update pagetables, it will suffer
a performance hit, but still work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The PC debug port is used for IO delay and does not require emulation.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables IO bitmaps control on vmx and unmask the 0x80 port to
avoid VMEXITs caused by accessing port 0x80. 0x80 is used as delays (see
include/asm/io.h), and handling VMEXITs on its access is unnecessary but
slows things down. This patch improves kernel build test at around
3%~5%.
Because every VM uses the same io bitmap, it is shared between
all VMs rather than a per-VM data structure.
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The lazy fpu changes did not take into account that some vmexit handlers
can sleep. Move loading the guest state into the inner loop so that it
can be reloaded if necessary, and move loading the host state into
vmx_vcpu_put() so it can be performed whenever we relinquish the vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Fix following section mismatch warning in kvm-intel.o:
WARNING: o-i386/drivers/kvm/kvm-intel.o(.init.text+0xbd): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: (between 'hardware_setup' and 'vmx_disabled_by_bios')
The function free_kvm_area is used in the function alloc_kvm_area which
is marked __init.
The __exit area is discarded by some archs during link-time if a
module is built-in resulting in an oops.
Note: This warning is only seen by my local copy of modpost
but the change will soon hit upstream.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
getting them indirectly
Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
Cross-compile tested on
all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
alpha alpha-up
arm
i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
ia64 ia64-up
m68k
mips
parisc parisc-up
powerpc powerpc-up
s390 s390-up
sparc sparc-up
sparc64 sparc64-up
um-x86_64
x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Refine some depends statements to limit their visibility to the
environments that are actually supported.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).
[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is illegal not to return from a pio or mmio request without completing
it, as mmio or pio is an atomic operation. Therefore, we can simplify
the userspace interface by avoiding the completion indication.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When emulating an mmio read, we actually emulate twice: once to determine
the physical address of the mmio, and, after we've exited to userspace to
get the mmio value, we emulate again to place the value in the result
register and update any flags.
But we don't really need to enter the guest again for that, only to take
an immediate vmexit. So, if we detect that we're doing an mmio read,
emulate a single instruction before entering the guest again.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We only have to save/restore MSR_GS_BASE on every VMEXIT. The rest can be
saved/restored when we leave the VCPU. Since we don't emulate the DEBUGCTL
MSRs and the guest cannot write to them, we don't have to worry about
saving/restoring them at all.
This shaves a whopping 40% off raw vmexit costs on AMD.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
It might have worked in this case since PT_PRESENT_MASK is 1, but let's
express this correctly.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Only save/restore the FPU host state when the guest is actually using the
FPU.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Set all of the host mask bits for CR0 so that we can maintain a proper
shadow of CR0. This exposes CR0.TS, paving the way for lazy fpu handling.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Avoid saving and restoring the guest fpu state on every exit. This
shaves ~100 cycles off the guest/host switch.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Make the exit statistics per-vcpu instead of global. This gives a 3.5%
boost when running one virtual machine per core on my two socket dual core
(4 cores total) machine.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
By checking if a reschedule is needed, we avoid dropping the vcpu.
[With changes by me, based on Anthony Liguori's observations]
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Intel hosts only support syscall/sysret in long more (and only if efer.sce
is enabled), so only reload the related MSR_K6_STAR if the guest will
actually be able to use it.
This reduces vmexit cost by about 500 cycles (6400 -> 5870) on my setup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Some msrs are only used by x86_64 instructions, and are therefore
not needed when the guest is legacy mode. By not bothering to switch
them, we reduce vmexit latency by 2400 cycles (from about 8800) when
running a 32-bt guest on a 64-bit host.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
THe automatically switched msrs are never changed on the host (with
the exception of MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE) and thus there is no need to save
them on every vm entry.
This reduces vmexit latency by ~400 cycles on i386 and by ~900 cycles (10%)
on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Usually, guest page faults are detected by the kvm page fault handler,
which detects if they are shadow faults, mmio faults, pagetable faults,
or normal guest page faults.
However, in ceratin circumstances, we can detect a page fault much later.
One of these events is the following combination:
- A two memory operand instruction (e.g. movsb) is executed.
- The first operand is in mmio space (which is the fault reported to kvm)
- The second operand is in an ummaped address (e.g. a guest page fault)
The Windows 2000 installer does such an access, an promptly hangs. Fix
by adding the missing page fault injection on that path.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Eddie Dong