"Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification.
Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature.
It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode
code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the
unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code
in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode
code works like native.
The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature
if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module
parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time.
Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of reloading the pdptrs on every entry and exit (vmcs writes on vmx,
guest memory access on svm) extract them on demand.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of reading the PDPTRs from memory after every exit (which is slow
and wrong, as the PDPTRs are stored on the cpu), sync the PDPTRs from
memory to the VMCS before entry, and from the VMCS to memory after exit.
Do the same for cr3.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_cr3() will call vmx_tlb_flush(), which will flush the ept context.
So there is no need to call ept_sync_context() explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The problem exists only on VMX. Also currently we skip this step if
there is pending exception. The patch fixes this too.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use standard msr-index.h's MSR declaration.
MSR_IA32_TSC is better than MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER as it also solves
80 column issue.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When reinjecting a software interrupt or exception, use the correct
instruction length provided by the hardware instead of a hardcoded 1.
Fixes problems running the suse 9.1 livecd boot loader.
Problem introduced by commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection
logic to x86.c").
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have to disable preemption and IRQs on every exit from
handle_invalid_guest_state, otherwise we generate at least a
preempt_disable imbalance.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Release and re-acquire preemption and IRQ lock in the same order as
vcpu_enter_guest does.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
IF a guest tries to use vmx instructions, inject a #UD to let it know the
instruction is not implemented, rather than crashing.
This prevents guest userspace from crashing the guest kernel.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
VT-x needs an explicit MC vector intercept to handle machine checks in the
hyper visor.
It also has a special option to catch machine checks that happen
during VT entry.
Do these interceptions and forward them to the Linux machine check
handler. Make it always look like user space is interrupted because
the machine check handler treats kernel/user space differently.
Thanks to Jiang Yunhong for help and testing.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
That way the interpretation of rmode.active becomes more clear with
unrestricted guest code.
Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Re-inject event instead. This is what Intel suggest. Also use correct
instruction length when re-injecting soft fault/interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch replaces drop_interrupt_shadow with the more
general set_interrupt_shadow, that can either drop or raise
it, depending on its parameter. It also adds ->get_interrupt_shadow()
for future use.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Memory aliases with different memory type is a problem for guest. For the guest
without assigned device, the memory type of guest memory would always been the
same as host(WB); but for the assigned device, some part of memory may be used
as DMA and then set to uncacheable memory type(UC/WC), which would be a conflict of
host memory type then be a potential issue.
Snooping control can guarantee the cache correctness of memory go through the
DMA engine of VT-d.
[avi: fix build on ia64]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Shadow_mt_mask is out of date, now it have only been used as a flag to indicate
if TDP enabled. Get rid of it and use tdp_enabled instead.
Also put memory type logical in kvm_x86_ops->get_mt_mask().
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
It just returns pending IRQ vector from the queue for VMX/SVM.
Get IRQ directly from the queue before migration and put it back
after.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Saves many exits to userspace in a case of IRQ chip in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity
Nitin A Kamble
Gleb Natapov
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Jan Kiszka
Jan Kiszka
Mel Gorman
Andi Kleen
Glauber Costa
Sheng Yang