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Paolo Bonzini
e2788c4a41 Documentation: kvm: clarify KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
The documentation does not mention how to delete a slot, add the
information.

Reported-by: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-28 17:30:11 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
919f6cd8bb KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
The series to add memcg accounting to KVM allocations[1] states:

  There are many KVM kernel memory allocations which are tied to the
  life of the VM process and should be charged to the VM process's
  cgroup.

While it is correct to account KVM kernel allocations to the cgroup of
the process that created the VM, it's technically incorrect to state
that the KVM kernel memory allocations are tied to the life of the VM
process.  This is because the VM itself, i.e. struct kvm, is not tied to
the life of the process which created it, rather it is tied to the life
of its associated file descriptor.  In other words, kvm_destroy_vm() is
not invoked until fput() decrements its associated file's refcount to
zero.  A simple example is to fork() in Qemu and have the child sleep
indefinitely; kvm_destroy_vm() isn't called until Qemu closes its file
descriptor *and* the rogue child is killed.

The allocations are guaranteed to be *accounted* to the process which
created the VM, but only because KVM's per-{VM,vCPU} ioctls reject the
ioctl() with -EIO if kvm->mm != current->mm.  I.e. the child can keep
the VM "alive" but can't do anything useful with its reference.

Note that because 'struct kvm' also holds a reference to the mm_struct
of its owner, the above behavior also applies to userspace allocations.

Given that mucking with a VM's file descriptor can lead to subtle and
undesirable behavior, e.g. memcg charges persisting after a VM is shut
down, explicitly document a VM's lifecycle and its impact on the VM's
resources.

Alternatively, KVM could aggressively free resources when the creating
process exits, e.g. via mmu_notifier->release().  However, mmu_notifier
isn't guaranteed to be available, and freeing resources when the creator
exits is likely to be error prone and fragile as KVM would need to
ensure that it only freed resources that are truly out of reach. In
practice, the existing behavior shouldn't be problematic as a properly
configured system will prevent a child process from being moved out of
the appropriate cgroup hierarchy, i.e. prevent hiding the process from
the OOM killer, and will prevent an unprivileged user from being able to
to hold a reference to struct kvm via another method, e.g. debugfs.

[1]https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10806707/

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-28 17:29:51 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
ddba91801a KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
KVM's API requires thats ioctls must be issued from the same process
that created the VM.  In other words, userspace can play games with a
VM's file descriptors, e.g. fork(), SCM_RIGHTS, etc..., but only the
creator can do anything useful.  Explicitly reject device ioctls that
are issued by a process other than the VM's creator, and update KVM's
API documentation to extend its requirements to device ioctls.

Fixes: 852b6d57dc ("kvm: add device control API")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-28 17:27:06 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
5e124900c6 KVM: doc: Fix incorrect word ordering regarding supported use of APIs
Per Paolo[1], instantiating multiple VMs in a single process is legal;
but this conflicts with KVM's API documentation, which states:

  The only supported use is one virtual machine per process, and one
  vcpu per thread.

However, an earlier section in the documentation states:

   Only run VM ioctls from the same process (address space) that was used
   to create the VM.

and:

   Only run vcpu ioctls from the same thread that was used to create the
   vcpu.

This suggests that the conflicting documentation is simply an incorrect
ordering of of words, i.e. what's really meant is that a virtual machine
can't be shared across multiple processes and a vCPU can't be shared
across multiple threads.

Tweak the blurb on issuing ioctls to use a more assertive tone, and
rewrite the "supported use" sentence to reference said blurb instead of
poorly restating it in different terms.

Opportunistically add missing punctuation.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f23265d4-528e-3bd4-011f-4d7b8f3281db@redhat.com

Fixes: 9c1b96e347 ("KVM: Document basic API")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
[Improve notes on asynchronous ioctl]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-28 17:27:04 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
47c42e6b41 KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'
The cr4_pae flag is a bit of a misnomer, its purpose is really to track
whether the guest PTE that is being shadowed is a 4-byte entry or an
8-byte entry.  Prior to supporting nested EPT, the size of the gpte was
reflected purely by CR4.PAE.  KVM fudged things a bit for direct sptes,
but it was mostly harmless since the size of the gpte never mattered.
Now that a spte may be tracking an indirect EPT entry, relying on
CR4.PAE is wrong and ill-named.

For direct shadow pages, force the gpte_size to '1' as they are always
8-byte entries; EPT entries can only be 8-bytes and KVM always uses
8-byte entries for NPT and its identity map (when running with EPT but
not unrestricted guest).

Likewise, nested EPT entries are always 8-bytes.  Nested EPT presents a
unique scenario as the size of the entries are not dictated by CR4.PAE,
but neither is the shadow page a direct map.  To handle this scenario,
set cr0_wp=1 and smap_andnot_wp=1, an otherwise impossible combination,
to denote a nested EPT shadow page.  Use the information to avoid
incorrectly zapping an unsync'd indirect page in __kvm_sync_page().

Providing a consistent and accurate gpte_size fixes a bug reported by
Vitaly where fast_cr3_switch() always fails when switching from L2 to
L1 as kvm_mmu_get_page() would force role.cr4_pae=0 for direct pages,
whereas kvm_calc_mmu_role_common() would set it according to CR4.PAE.

Fixes: 7dcd575520 ("x86/kvm/mmu: check if tdp/shadow MMU reconfiguration is needed")
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-28 17:27:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
636deed6c0 Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - some cleanups
   - direct physical timer assignment
   - cache sanitization for 32-bit guests

  s390:
   - interrupt cleanup
   - introduction of the Guest Information Block
   - preparation for processor subfunctions in cpu models

  PPC:
   - bug fixes and improvements, especially related to machine checks
     and protection keys

  x86:
   - many, many cleanups, including removing a bunch of MMU code for
     unnecessary optimizations
   - AVIC fixes

  Generic:
   - memcg accounting"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (147 commits)
  kvm: vmx: fix formatting of a comment
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  MAINTAINERS: Add KVM selftests to existing KVM entry
  Revert "KVM/MMU: Flush tlb directly in the kvm_zap_gfn_range()"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
  KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled
  KVM: Minor cleanups for kvm_main.c
  KVM: s390: add debug logging for cpu model subfunctions
  KVM: s390: implement subfunction processor calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix architecturally invalid reset value for FPEXC32_EL2
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unused timer variable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix build failure without IOMMU support
  Revert "KVM: Eliminate extra function calls in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()"
  x86: kvmguest: use TSC clocksource if invariant TSC is exposed
  KVM: Never start grow vCPU halt_poll_ns from value below halt_poll_ns_grow_start
  KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
  KVM: grow_halt_poll_ns() should never shrink vCPU halt_poll_ns
  KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if zapping a MMIO spte results in zapping children
  ...
2019-03-15 15:00:28 -07:00
Sean Christopherson
eca6be566d KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
The series to add memcg accounting to KVM allocations[1] states:

  There are many KVM kernel memory allocations which are tied to the
  life of the VM process and should be charged to the VM process's
  cgroup.

While it is correct to account KVM kernel allocations to the cgroup of
the process that created the VM, it's technically incorrect to state
that the KVM kernel memory allocations are tied to the life of the VM
process.  This is because the VM itself, i.e. struct kvm, is not tied to
the life of the process which created it, rather it is tied to the life
of its associated file descriptor.  In other words, kvm_destroy_vm() is
not invoked until fput() decrements its associated file's refcount to
zero.  A simple example is to fork() in Qemu and have the child sleep
indefinitely; kvm_destroy_vm() isn't called until Qemu closes its file
descriptor *and* the rogue child is killed.

The allocations are guaranteed to be *accounted* to the process which
created the VM, but only because KVM's per-{VM,vCPU} ioctls reject the
ioctl() with -EIO if kvm->mm != current->mm.  I.e. the child can keep
the VM "alive" but can't do anything useful with its reference.

Note that because 'struct kvm' also holds a reference to the mm_struct
of its owner, the above behavior also applies to userspace allocations.

Given that mucking with a VM's file descriptor can lead to subtle and
undesirable behavior, e.g. memcg charges persisting after a VM is shut
down, explicitly document a VM's lifecycle and its impact on the VM's
resources.

Alternatively, KVM could aggressively free resources when the creating
process exits, e.g. via mmu_notifier->release().  However, mmu_notifier
isn't guaranteed to be available, and freeing resources when the creator
exits is likely to be error prone and fragile as KVM would need to
ensure that it only freed resources that are truly out of reach. In
practice, the existing behavior shouldn't be problematic as a properly
configured system will prevent a child process from being moved out of
the appropriate cgroup hierarchy, i.e. prevent hiding the process from
the OOM killer, and will prevent an unprivileged user from being able to
to hold a reference to struct kvm via another method, e.g. debugfs.

[1]https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10806707/

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-03-15 19:24:33 +01:00
Cornelia Huck
8457fdfeb1 virtio-ccw: diag 500 may return a negative cookie
If something goes wrong in the kvm io bus handling, the virtio-ccw
diagnose may return a negative error value in the cookie gpr.

Document this.

Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 11:19:33 -05:00
Nir Weiner
49113d360b KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
The hard-coded value 10000 in grow_halt_poll_ns() stands for the initial
start value when raising up vcpu->halt_poll_ns.
It actually sets the first timeout to the first polling session.
This value has significant effect on how tolerant we are to outliers.
On the standard case, higher value is better - we will spend more time
in the polling busyloop, handle events/interrupts faster and result
in better performance.
But on outliers it puts us in a busy loop that does nothing.
Even if the shrink factor is zero, we will still waste time on the first
iteration.
The optimal value changes between different workloads. It depends on
outliers rate and polling sessions length.
As this value has significant effect on the dynamic halt-polling
algorithm, it should be configurable and exposed.

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nir Weiner <nir.weiner@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 22:48:50 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
a592a3b8fc Revert "KVM: MMU: document fast invalidate all pages"
Remove x86 KVM's fast invalidate mechanism, i.e. revert all patches
from the original series[1].

Though not explicitly stated, for all intents and purposes the fast
invalidate mechanism was added to speed up the scenario where removing
a memslot, e.g. as part of accessing reading PCI ROM, caused KVM to
flush all shadow entries[1].  Now that the memslot case flushes only
shadow entries belonging to the memslot, i.e. doesn't use the fast
invalidate mechanism, the only remaining usage of the mechanism are
when the VM is being destroyed and when the MMIO generation rolls
over.

When a VM is being destroyed, either there are no active vcpus, i.e.
there's no lock contention, or the VM has ungracefully terminated, in
which case we want to reclaim its pages as quickly as possible, i.e.
not release the MMU lock if there are still CPUs executing in the VM.

The MMIO generation scenario is almost literally a one-in-a-million
occurrence, i.e. is not a performance sensitive scenario.

Given that lock-breaking is not desirable (VM teardown) or irrelevant
(MMIO generation overflow), remove the fast invalidate mechanism to
simplify the code (a small amount) and to discourage future code from
zapping all pages as using such a big hammer should be a last restort.

This reverts commit f6f8adeef5.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369960590-14138-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 22:48:39 +01:00
Sean Christopherson
164bf7e56c KVM: Move the memslot update in-progress flag to bit 63
...now that KVM won't explode by moving it out of bit 0.  Using bit 63
eliminates the need to jump over bit 0, e.g. when calculating a new
memslots generation or when propagating the memslots generation to an
MMIO spte.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 22:48:37 +01:00
Christophe de Dinechin
cf1754c2a1 Documentation/virtual/kvm: Update URL for AMD SEV API specification
The URL of [api-spec] in Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
is no longer valid, replaced space with underscore.

Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
Vitaly Kuznetsov
2bc39970e9 x86/kvm/hyper-v: Introduce KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_HV_CPUID
With every new Hyper-V Enlightenment we implement we're forced to add a
KVM_CAP_HYPERV_* capability. While this approach works it is fairly
inconvenient: the majority of the enlightenments we do have corresponding
CPUID feature bit(s) and userspace has to know this anyways to be able to
expose the feature to the guest.

Add KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_HV_CPUID ioctl (backed by KVM_CAP_HYPERV_CPUID, "one
cap to rule them all!") returning all Hyper-V CPUID feature leaves.

Using the existing KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID doesn't seem to be possible:
Hyper-V CPUID feature leaves intersect with KVM's (e.g. 0x40000000,
0x40000001) and we would probably confuse userspace in case we decide to
return these twice.

KVM_CAP_HYPERV_CPUID's number is interim: we're intended to drop
KVM_CAP_HYPERV_STIMER_DIRECT and use its number instead.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-12-14 17:59:54 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
2a31b9db15 kvm: introduce manual dirty log reprotect
There are two problems with KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG.  First, and less important,
it can take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time.  Second, its user
can actually see many false positives in some cases.  The latter is due
to a benign race like this:

  1. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns a set of dirty pages and write protects
     them.
  2. The guest modifies the pages, causing them to be marked ditry.
  3. Userspace actually copies the pages.
  4. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns those pages as dirty again, even though
     they were not written to since (3).

This is especially a problem for large guests, where the time between
(1) and (3) can be substantial.  This patch introduces a new
capability which, when enabled, makes KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG not
write-protect the pages it returns.  Instead, userspace has to
explicitly clear the dirty log bits just before using the content
of the page.  The new KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctl can also operate on a
64-page granularity rather than requiring to sync a full memslot;
this way, the mmu_lock is taken for small amounts of time, and
only a small amount of time will pass between write protection
of pages and the sending of their content.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-12-14 12:34:19 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
e5d83c74a5 kvm: make KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP_VM architecture agnostic
The first such capability to be handled in virt/kvm/ will be manual
dirty page reprotection.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-12-14 12:34:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0d1e8b8d2b Merge tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits)

   - RAS event delivery for 32bit

   - PMU fixes

   - Guest entry hardening

   - Various cleanups

   - Port of dirty_log_test selftest

  PPC:
   - Nested HV KVM support for radix guests on POWER9. The performance
     is much better than with PR KVM. Migration and arbitrary level of
     nesting is supported.

   - Disable nested HV-KVM on early POWER9 chips that need a particular
     hardware bug workaround

   - One VM per core mode to prevent potential data leaks

   - PCI pass-through optimization

   - merge ppc-kvm topic branch and kvm-ppc-fixes to get a better base

  s390:
   - Initial version of AP crypto virtualization via vfio-mdev

   - Improvement for vfio-ap

   - Set the host program identifier

   - Optimize page table locking

  x86:
   - Enable nested virtualization by default

   - Implement Hyper-V IPI hypercalls

   - Improve #PF and #DB handling

   - Allow guests to use Enlightened VMCS

   - Add migration selftests for VMCS and Enlightened VMCS

   - Allow coalesced PIO accesses

   - Add an option to perform nested VMCS host state consistency check
     through hardware

   - Automatic tuning of lapic_timer_advance_ns

   - Many fixes, minor improvements, and cleanups"

* tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  KVM/nVMX: Do not validate that posted_intr_desc_addr is page aligned
  Revert "kvm: x86: optimize dr6 restore"
  KVM: PPC: Optimize clearing TCEs for sparse tables
  x86/kvm/nVMX: tweak shadow fields
  selftests/kvm: add missing executables to .gitignore
  KVM: arm64: Safety check PSTATE when entering guest and handle IL
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't use streamlined entry path on early POWER9 chips
  arm/arm64: KVM: Enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Rename function kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension()
  KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value
  KVM: VMX: enable nested virtualization by default
  KVM/x86: Use 32bit xor to clear registers in svm.c
  kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD
  kvm: vmx: Defer setting of DR6 until #DB delivery
  kvm: x86: Defer setting of CR2 until #PF delivery
  kvm: x86: Add payload operands to kvm_multiple_exception
  kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events
  kvm: x86: Add has_payload and payload to kvm_queued_exception
  KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_events
  KVM: selftests: add Enlightened VMCS test
  ...
2018-10-25 17:57:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01aa9d518e Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...
2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
e42b4a507e Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/arm updates for 4.20

- Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits)
- RAS event delivery for 32bit
- PMU fixes
- Guest entry hardening
- Various cleanups
2018-10-19 15:24:24 +02:00
Jim Mattson
c4f55198c7 kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD
This is a per-VM capability which can be enabled by userspace so that
the faulting linear address will be included with the information
about a pending #PF in L2, and the "new DR6 bits" will be included
with the information about a pending #DB in L2. With this capability
enabled, the L1 hypervisor can now intercept #PF before CR2 is
modified. Under VMX, the L1 hypervisor can now intercept #DB before
DR6 and DR7 are modified.

When userspace has enabled KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, it should
generally provide an appropriate payload when injecting a #PF or #DB
exception via KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS. However, to support restoring old
checkpoints, this payload is not required.

Note that bit 16 of the "new DR6 bits" is set to indicate that a debug
exception (#DB) or a breakpoint exception (#BP) occurred inside an RTM
region while advanced debugging of RTM transactional regions was
enabled. This is the reverse of DR6.RTM, which is cleared in this
scenario.

This capability also enables exception.pending in struct
kvm_vcpu_events, which allows userspace to distinguish between pending
and injected exceptions.

Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 19:07:44 +02:00
Jim Mattson
59073aaf6d kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events
The per-VM capability KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD (to be introduced in a
later commit) adds the following fields to struct kvm_vcpu_events:
exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending.

With this capability set, all of the details of vcpu->arch.exception,
including the payload for a pending exception, are reported to
userspace in response to KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS.

With this capability clear, the original ABI is preserved, and the
exception.injected field is set for either pending or injected
exceptions.

When userspace calls KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD clear, exception.injected is no longer
translated to exception.pending. KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS can now only
establish a pending exception when KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is set.

Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 19:07:38 +02:00
Jim Mattson
bba9ce58d9 KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_events
The header file indicates that there are 36 reserved bytes at the end
of this structure. Adjust the documentation to agree with the header
file.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 00:30:21 +02:00
Peng Hao
0804c849f1 kvm/x86 : add coalesced pio support
Coalesced pio is based on coalesced mmio and can be used for some port
like rtc port, pci-host config port and so on.

Specially in case of rtc as coalesced pio, some versions of windows guest
access rtc frequently because of rtc as system tick. guest access rtc like
this: write register index to 0x70, then write or read data from 0x71.
writing 0x70 port is just as index and do nothing else. So we can use
coalesced pio to handle this scene to reduce VM-EXIT time.

When starting and closing a virtual machine, it will access pci-host config
port frequently. So setting these port as coalesced pio can reduce startup
and shutdown time.

without my patch, get the vm-exit time of accessing rtc 0x70 and piix 0xcf8
using perf tools: (guest OS : windows 7 64bit)
IO Port Access  Samples Samples%  Time%  Min Time  Max Time  Avg time
0x70:POUT        86     30.99%    74.59%   9us      29us    10.75us (+- 3.41%)
0xcf8:POUT     1119     2.60%     2.12%   2.79us    56.83us 3.41us (+- 2.23%)

with my patch
IO Port Access  Samples Samples%  Time%   Min Time  Max Time   Avg time
0x70:POUT       106    32.02%    29.47%    0us      10us     1.57us (+- 7.38%)
0xcf8:POUT      1065    1.67%     0.28%   0.41us    65.44us   0.66us (+- 10.55%)

Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 00:30:11 +02:00
Peng Hao
9943450b7b kvm/x86 : add document for coalesced mmio
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 00:30:10 +02:00
Vitaly Kuznetsov
214ff83d44 KVM: x86: hyperv: implement PV IPI send hypercalls
Using hypercall for sending IPIs is faster because this allows to specify
any number of vCPUs (even > 64 with sparse CPU set), the whole procedure
will take only one VMEXIT.

Current Hyper-V TLFS (v5.0b) claims that HvCallSendSyntheticClusterIpi
hypercall can't be 'fast' (passing parameters through registers) but
apparently this is not true, Windows always uses it as 'fast' so we need
to support that.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17 00:29:47 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
901f8c3f6f KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add NO_HASH flag to GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl result
This adds a KVM_PPC_NO_HASH flag to the flags field of the
kvm_ppc_smmu_info struct, and arranges for it to be set when
running as a nested hypervisor, as an unambiguous indication
to userspace that HPT guests are not supported.  Reporting the
KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_HASH_V3 capability as false could be taken as
indicating only that the new HPT features in ISA V3.0 are not
supported, leaving it ambiguous whether pre-V3.0 HPT features
are supported.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2018-10-09 16:14:54 +11:00