If we're injecting an interrupt, and another one is pending, request
an interrupt window notification so we don't have excess latency on the
second interrupt.
This shouldn't happen in practice since an EOI will be issued, giving a second
chance to request an interrupt window, but...
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since vmm runs in an isolated address space and it is just a copy
of host's kvm-intel module, so once vmm crashes, we just crash all guests
running on it instead of crashing whole kernel.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use printk infrastructure to print out some debug info once VM crashes.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
kvm-intel module is relocated to an isolated address space
with kernel, so it can't call host kernel's printk for debug
purpose. In the module, we implement the printk to output debug
info of vmm.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
On emergency_restart, we may need to use an NMI to disable virtualization
on all CPUs. We do that using nmi_shootdown_cpus() if VMX is enabled.
Note: With this patch, we will run the NMI stuff only when the CPU where
emergency_restart() was called has VMX enabled. This should work on most
cases because KVM enables VMX on all CPUs, but we may miss the small
window where KVM is doing that. Also, I don't know if all code using
VMX out there always enable VMX on all CPUs like KVM does. We have two
other alternatives for that:
a) Have an API that all code that enables VMX on any CPU should use
to tell the kernel core that it is going to enable VMX on the CPUs.
b) Always call nmi_shootdown_cpus() if the CPU supports VMX. This is
a bit intrusive and more risky, as it would run nmi_shootdown_cpus()
on emergency_reboot() even on systems where virtualization is never
enabled.
Finding a proper point to hook the nmi_shootdown_cpus() call isn't
trivial, as the non-emergency machine_restart() (that doesn't need the
NMI tricks) uses machine_emergency_restart() directly.
The solution to make this work without adding a new function or argument
to machine_ops was setting a 'reboot_emergency' flag that tells if
native_machine_emergency_restart() needs to do the virt cleanup or not.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We need to disable virtualization extensions on all CPUs before booting
the kdump kernel, otherwise the kdump kernel booting will fail, and
rebooting after the kdump kernel did its task may also fail.
We do it using cpu_emergency_vmxoff() and cpu_emergency_svm_disable(),
that should always work, because those functions check if the CPUs
support SVM or VMX before doing their tasks.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This function can be used by the reboot or kdump code to forcibly
disable SVM on the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use a trick to keep the printk()s on has_svm() working as before. gcc
will take care of not generating code for the 'msg' stuff when the
function is called with a NULL msg argument.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add cpu_emergency_vmxoff() and its friends: cpu_vmx_enabled() and
__cpu_emergency_vmxoff().
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Along with some comments on why it is different from the core cpu_vmxoff()
function.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Unfortunately we can't use exactly the same code from vmx
hardware_disable(), because the KVM function uses the
__kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() tricks.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
It will be used by core code on kdump and reboot, to disable
vmx if needed.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Those definitions will be used by code outside KVM, so move it outside
of a KVM-specific source file.
Those definitions are used only on kvm/vmx.c, that already includes
asm/vmx.h, so they can be moved safely.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
svm.h will be used by core code that is independent of KVM, so I am
moving it outside the arch/x86/kvm directory.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx.h will be used by core code that is independent of KVM, so I am
moving it outside the arch/x86/kvm directory.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.
Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Bare metal Linux on 440 can "overmap" RAM in the kernel linear map, so that it
can use large (256MB) mappings even if memory isn't a multiple of 256MB. To
prevent the hardware prefetcher from loading from an invalid physical address
through that mapping, it's marked Guarded.
However, KVM must ensure that all guest mappings are backed by real physical
RAM (since a deliberate access through a guarded mapping could still cause a
machine check). Accordingly, we don't need to make our mappings guarded, so
let's allow prefetching as the designers intended.
Curiously this patch didn't affect performance at all on the quick test I
tried, but it's clearly the right thing to do anyways and may improve other
workloads.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 7fd49de9773fdcb7b75e823b21c1c5dc1e218c14 "KVM: ensure that memslot
userspace addresses are page-aligned" broke kernel space allocated memory
slot, for the userspace_addr is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Make sure that CONFIG_KVM cannot be selected without processor support
(currently, 440 is the only processor implementation available).
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Bad page translation and silent guest failure ensue if the userspace address is
not page-aligned. I hit this problem using large (host) pages with qemu,
because qemu currently has a hardcoded 4096-byte alignment for guest memory
allocations.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The code to traverse the cpuid data array list for counting type of leaves is
currently broken.
This patches fixes the 2 things in it.
1. Set the 1st counting entry's flag KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT. Without
it the code will never find a valid entry.
2. Also the stop condition in the for loop while looking for the next unflaged
entry is broken. It needs to stop when it find one matching entry;
and in the case of count of 1, it will be the same entry found in this
iteration.
Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity
Xiantao Zhang
Eduardo Habkost
Hollis Blanchard
Sheng Yang
Nitin A Kamble