1. It's related to a Linux kernel bug which fixed by Ingo on
07a66d7c53. The original code exists for quite a
long time, and it would convert a PDE for large page into a normal PDE. But it
fail to fit normal PDE well. With the code before Ingo's fix, the kernel would
fall reserved bit checking with bit 8 - the remaining global bit of PTE. So the
kernel would receive a double-fault.
2. After discussion, we decide to discard PDE bit 7-8 reserved checking for now.
For this marked as reserved in SDM, but didn't checked by the processor in
fact...
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Detect, indicate, and propagate page faults where reserved bits are set.
Take care to handle the different paging modes, each of which has different
sets of reserved bits.
[avi: fix pte reserved bits for efer.nxe=0]
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
free_mmu_pages() should only undo what alloc_mmu_pages() does.
Free mmu pages from the generic VM destruction function, kvm_destroy_vm().
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The paravirt tlb flush may be used not only to flush TLBs, but also
to reload the four page-directory-pointer-table entries, as it is used
as a replacement for reloading CR3. Change the code to do the entire
CR3 reloading dance instead of simply flushing the TLB.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Impact: Make symbols static.
Fix this sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:992:5: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_add' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1124:5: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_next' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1144:6: warning: symbol 'mmu_pages_clear_parents' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2037:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_read_guest_virt' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2067:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_write_guest_virt' was not declared. Should it be static?
virt/kvm/irq_comm.c:220:5: warning: symbol 'setup_routing_entry' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The assertion no longer makes sense since we don't clear page tables on
allocation; instead we clear them during prefetch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The following code flow is unnecessary:
if (largepage)
was_rmapped = is_large_pte(*shadow_pte);
else
was_rmapped = 1;
The is_large_pte() function will always evaluate to one here because the
(largepage && !is_large_pte) case is already handled in the first
if-clause. So we can remove this check and set was_rmapped to one always
here.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This actually describes what is going on, rather than alerting the reader
that something strange is going on.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc is unnecessary since:
- Smaller areas are pre-allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc.
- Page pointed by ->spt is overwritten with prefetch_page
and entries in page pointed by ->gfns are initialized
before reading.
[avi: zeroing pages is unnecessary]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Using kvm_mmu_lookup_page() will result in multiple scans of the hash chains;
use hlist_for_each_entry_safe() to achieve a single scan instead.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Using a for_each loop style removes the need to write callback and nasty
casts.
Implement the walk_shadow() using the for_each_shadow_entry().
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If cr4.pge is cleared, we ought to treat any ptes in the page as non-global.
This allows us to remove the check from set_spte().
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of "calculating" it on every shadow page allocation, set it once
when switching modes, and copy it when allocating pages.
This doesn't buy us much, but sets up the stage for inheriting more
information related to the mmu setup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Software are not allow to access device MMIO using cacheable memory type, the
patch limit MMIO region with UC and WC(guest can select WC using PAT and
PCD/PWT).
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The invlpg and sync walkers lack knowledge of large host sptes,
descending to non-existant pagetable level.
Stop at directory level in such case.
Fixes SMP Windows XP with hugepages.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The pte.g bit is meaningless if global pages are disabled; deferring
mmu page synchronization on these ptes will lead to the guest using stale
shadow ptes.
Fixes Vista x86 smp bootloader failure.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
walk_shadow assumes the caller verified validity of the pdptr pointer in
question, which is not the case for the invlpg handler.
Fixes oops during Solaris 10 install.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the guest executes invlpg, peek into the pagetable and attempt to
prepopulate the shadow entry.
Also stop dirty fault updates from interfering with the fork detector.
2% improvement on RHEL3/AIM7.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Skip syncing global pages on cr3 switch (but not on cr4/cr0). This is
important for Linux 32-bit guests with PAE, where the kmap page is
marked as global.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync.
kernbench is 2.7% faster on 4-way guest. Improvements have been seen
with other loads such as AIM7.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of invoking the handler directly collect pages into
an array so the caller can work with it.
Simplifies TLB flush collapsing.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sheng Yang
Dong, Eddie
Gleb Natapov
Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti
Hannes Eder
Joerg Roedel