The purpose of the KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK API is to let userspace "kick"
a VCPU out of KVM_RUN through a POSIX signal. A signal is attached
to a dummy signal handler; by blocking the signal outside KVM_RUN and
unblocking it inside, this possible race is closed:
VCPU thread service thread
--------------------------------------------------------------
check flag
set flag
raise signal
(signal handler does nothing)
KVM_RUN
However, one issue with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK is that it has to take
tsk->sighand->siglock on every KVM_RUN. This lock is often on a
remote NUMA node, because it is on the node of a thread's creator.
Taking this lock can be very expensive if there are many userspace
exits (as is the case for SMP Windows VMs without Hyper-V reference
time counter).
As an alternative, we can put the flag directly in kvm_run so that
KVM can see it:
VCPU thread service thread
--------------------------------------------------------------
raise signal
signal handler
set run->immediate_exit
KVM_RUN
check run->immediate_exit
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Provide versions of struct gfn_to_hva_cache functions that
take vcpu as a parameter instead of struct kvm. The existing functions
are not needed anymore, so delete them. This allows dirty pages to
be logged in the vcpu dirty ring, instead of the global dirty ring,
for ring-based dirty memory tracking.
Signed-off-by: Lei Cao <lei.cao@stratus.com>
Message-Id: <CY1PR08MB19929BD2AC47A291FD680E83F04F0@CY1PR08MB1992.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This will make it easier to support multiple address spaces in
kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init. Instead of having to check the address
space id, we can keep on checking just the generation number.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This will make it a bit simpler to handle multiple address spaces
in gfn_to_hva_cache.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
No point in registering the device if it cannot work.
The hypercall does not advertise itself, so we have to call it.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Nested_vmx_run is split into two parts: the part that handles the
VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME instruction, and the part that modifies the vcpu state
to transition from VMX root mode to VMX non-root mode. The latter will
be used when restoring the checkpointed state of a vCPU that was in VMX
operation when a snapshot was taken.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The checks performed on the contents of the vmcs12 are extracted from
nested_vmx_run so that they can be used to validate a vmcs12 that has
been restored from a checkpoint.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[Change prepare_vmcs02 and nested_vmx_load_cr3's last argument to u32,
to match check_vmentry_postreqs. Update comments for singlestep
handling. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Perform the checks on vmcs12 state early, but defer the gpa->hpa lookups
until after prepare_vmcs02. Later, when we restore the checkpointed
state of a vCPU in guest mode, we will not be able to do the gpa->hpa
lookups when the restore is done.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Handle_vmptrld is split into two parts: the part that handles the
VMPTRLD instruction, and the part that establishes the current VMCS
pointer. The latter will be used when restoring the checkpointed state
of a vCPU that had a valid VMCS pointer when a snapshot was taken.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Handle_vmon is split into two parts: the part that handles the VMXON
instruction, and the part that modifies the vcpu state to transition
from legacy mode to VMX operation. The latter will be used when
restoring the checkpointed state of a vCPU that was in VMX operation
when a snapshot was taken.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Split prepare_vmcs12 into two parts: the part that stores the current L2
guest state and the part that sets up the exit information fields. The
former will be used when checkpointing the vCPU's VMX state.
Modify prepare_vmcs02 so that it can construct a vmcs02 midway through
L2 execution, using the checkpointed L2 guest state saved into the
cached vmcs12 above.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[Rebasing: add from_vmentry argument to prepare_vmcs02 instead of using
vmx->nested.nested_run_pending, because it is no longer 1 at the
point prepare_vmcs02 is called. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Since bf9f6ac8d7 ("KVM: Update Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU
is blocked", 2015-09-18) the posted interrupt descriptor is checked
unconditionally for PIR.ON. Therefore we don't need KVM_REQ_EVENT to
trigger the scan and, if NMIs or SMIs are not involved, we can avoid
the complicated event injection path.
Calling kvm_vcpu_kick if PIR.ON=1 is also useless, though it has been
there since APICv was introduced.
However, without the KVM_REQ_EVENT safety net KVM needs to be much
more careful about races between vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt and
vcpu_enter_guest. First, the IPI for posted interrupts may be issued
between setting vcpu->mode = IN_GUEST_MODE and disabling interrupts.
If that happens, kvm_trigger_posted_interrupt returns true, but
smp_kvm_posted_intr_ipi doesn't do anything about it. The guest is
entered with PIR.ON, but the posted interrupt IPI has not been sent
and the interrupt is only delivered to the guest on the next vmentry
(if any). To fix this, disable interrupts before setting vcpu->mode.
This ensures that the IPI is delayed until the guest enters non-root mode;
it is then trapped by the processor causing the interrupt to be injected.
Second, the IPI may be issued between kvm_x86_ops->sync_pir_to_irr(vcpu)
and vcpu->mode = IN_GUEST_MODE. In this case, kvm_vcpu_kick is called
but it (correctly) doesn't do anything because it sees vcpu->mode ==
OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE. Again, the guest is entered with PIR.ON but no
posted interrupt IPI is pending; this time, the fix for this is to move
the RVI update after IN_GUEST_MODE.
Both issues were mostly masked by the liberal usage of KVM_REQ_EVENT,
though the second could actually happen with VT-d posted interrupts.
In both race scenarios KVM_REQ_EVENT would cancel guest entry, resulting
in another vmentry which would inject the interrupt.
This saves about 300 cycles on the self_ipi_* tests of vmexit.flat.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Calls to apic_find_highest_irr are scanning IRR twice, once
in vmx_sync_pir_from_irr and once in apic_search_irr. Change
sync_pir_from_irr to get the new maximum IRR from kvm_apic_update_irr;
now that it does the computation, it can also do the RVI write.
In order to avoid complications in svm.c, make the callback optional.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
vcpu_run calls kvm_vcpu_running, not kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable,
and the former does not call check_nested_events.
Once KVM_REQ_EVENT is removed from the APICv interrupt injection
path, however, this would leave no place to trigger a vmexit
from L2 to L1, causing a missed interrupt delivery while in guest
mode. This is caught by the "ack interrupt on exit" test in
vmx.flat.
[This does not change the calls to check_nested_events in
inject_pending_event. That is material for a separate cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pending interrupts might be in the PI descriptor when the
LAPIC is restored from an external state; we do not want
them to be injected.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
As in the SVM patch, the guest physical address is passed by
VMX to x86_emulate_instruction already, so mark the GPA as available
in vcpu->arch.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The newly added hypercall doesn't work on x86-32:
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: In function 'kvm_pv_clock_pairing':
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:6163:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread';did you mean 'kvm_get_time_scale'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
This adds an #ifdef around it, matching the one around the related
functions that are also only implemented on 64-bit systems.
Fixes: 55dd00a73a ("KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercall")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the memory alloc error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Add a driver with gettime method returning hosts realtime clock.
This allows Chrony to synchronize host and guest clocks with
high precision (see results below).
chronyc> sources
MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
To configure Chronyd to use PHC refclock, add the
following line to its configuration file:
refclock PHC /dev/ptpX poll 3 dpoll -2 offset 0
Where /dev/ptpX is the kvmclock PTP clock.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini
Cao, Lei
Radim Krčmář
David Hildenbrand
Jim Mattson
Arnd Bergmann
Wei Yongjun
Marcelo Tosatti