When taking a cpu down, we need to hardware_disable() it.
Unfortunately, the CPU_DYING notifier is called with interrupts
disabled, which means we can't use smp_call_function_single().
Fortunately, the CPU_DYING notifier is always called on the dying cpu,
so we don't need to use the function at all and can simply call
hardware_disable() directly.
Tested-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Testing the wrong bit caused kvm not to disable nx on the guest when it is
disabled on the host (an mmu optimization relies on the nx bits being the
same in the guest and host).
This allows Windows to boot when nx is disabled on te host (e.g. when
host pae is disabled).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This reverts commit a3c870bdce. While it
does save useless updates, it (probably) defeats the fork detector, causing
a massive performance loss.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We add the kvm to the vm_list before initializing the vcpu mutexes,
which can be mutex_trylock()'ed by decache_vcpus_on_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Writes that are contiguous in virtual memory may not be contiguous in
physical memory; so split writes that straddle a page boundary.
Thanks to Aurelien for reporting the bug, patient testing, and a fix
to this very patch.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Allow real-mode emulation of rdmsr and wrmsr. This allows smp Windows to
boot, presumably for its sipi trampoline.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The memory slot management functions were oriented against vcpu 0, where
they should be kvm-wide. This causes hangs starting X on guest smp.
Fix by making the functions (and resultant tail in the mmu) non-vcpu-specific.
Unfortunately this reduces the efficiency of the mmu object cache a bit. We
may have to revisit this later.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Only at the CPU_DYING stage can we be sure that no user process will
be scheduled onto the cpu and oops when trying to use virtualization
extensions.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The hotplug IPIs can be called from the cpu on which we are currently
running on, so use on_cpu(). Similarly, drop on_each_cpu() for the
suspend/resume callbacks, as we're in atomic context here and only one
cpu is up anyway.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
By keeping track of which cpus have virtualization enabled, we
prevent double-enable or double-disable during hotplug, which is a
very fatal oops.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm uses a pseudo filesystem, kvmfs, to generate inodes, a job that the
new anonymous inodes source does much better.
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When writing to normal memory and the memory area is unchanged the write
can be safely skipped, avoiding the costly kvm_mmu_pte_write.
Signed-Off-By: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
When a vcpu causes a shadow tlb entry to have reduced permissions, it
must also clear the tlb on remote vcpus. We do that by:
- setting a bit on the vcpu that requests a tlb flush before the next entry
- if the vcpu is currently executing, we send an ipi to make sure it
exits before we continue
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
A vcpu can pin up to four mmu shadow pages, which means the freeing
loop will never terminate. Fix by first unpinning shadow pages on
all vcpus, then freeing shadow pages.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
MSR_EFER.LME/LMA bits are automatically save/restored by VMX
hardware, KVM only needs to save NX/SCE bits at time of heavy
weight VM Exit. But clearing NX bits in host envirnment may
cause system hang if the host page table is using EXB bits,
thus we leave NX bits as it is. If Host NX=1 and guest NX=0, we
can do guest page table EXB bits check before inserting a shadow
pte (though no guest is expecting to see this kind of gp fault).
If host NX=0, we present guest no Execute-Disable feature to guest,
thus no host NX=0, guest NX=1 combination.
This patch reduces raw vmexit time by ~27%.
Me: fix compile warnings on i386.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
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>
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>
Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell
Luca Tettamanti
Eddie Dong
Gregory Haskins
Nguyen Anh Quynh
Matthew Gregan