Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.
Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.
Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.
Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.
These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).
In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM currently ignores the host's round robin TLB eviction selection, instead
maintaining its own TLB state and its own round robin index. However, by
participating in the normal 44x TLB selection, we can drop the alternate TLB
processing in KVM. This results in a significant performance improvement,
since that processing currently must be done on *every* guest exit.
Accordingly, KVM needs to be able to access and increment tlb_44x_index.
(KVM on 440 cannot be a module, so there is no need to export this symbol.)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.
This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Split out the logic corresponding to undoing assign_irq() and
clean it up a bit.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Make sure kvm_request_irq_source_id() never returns
KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID.
Likewise, check that kvm_free_irq_source_id() never accepts
KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Set assigned_dev->irq_source_id to -1 so that we can avoid freeing
a source ID which we never allocated.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We never pass a NULL notifier pointer here, but we may well
pass a notifier struct which hasn't previously been
registered.
Guard against this by using hlist_del_init() which will
not do anything if the node hasn't been added to the list
and, when removing the node, will ensure that a subsequent
call to hlist_del_init() will be fine too.
Fixes an oops seen when an assigned device is freed before
and IRQ is assigned to it.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will obviously never pass a NULL struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier* to
this functions. They are always embedded in the assigned device
structure, so the assertion add nothing.
The irqchip_in_kernel() assertion is very out of place - clearly
this little abstraction needs to know nothing about the upper
layer details.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Impact: make global function static
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:134:3: warning: symbol 'vmx_capability' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Impact: make global function static
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:85:6: warning: symbol 'kvm_rebooting' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Add marker_synchronize_unregister() before module unloading.
This prevents possible trace calls into unloaded module text.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The s390 backend of kvm never calls kvm_vcpu_uninit. This causes
a memory leak of vcpu->run pages.
Lets call kvm_vcpu_uninit in kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy to free
the vcpu->run.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently it is impossible to unload the kvm module on s390.
This patch fixes kvm_arch_destroy_vm to release all cpus.
This make it possible to unload the module.
In addition we stop messing with the module refcount in arch code.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The write protect verification in set_spte is unnecessary for page sync.
Its guaranteed that, if the unsync spte was writable, the target page
does not have a write protected shadow (if it had, the spte would have
been write protected under mmu_lock by rmap_write_protect before).
Same reasoning applies to mark_page_dirty: the gfn has been marked as
dirty via the pagefault path.
The cost of hash table and memslot lookups are quite significant if the
workload is pagetable write intensive resulting in increased mmu_lock
contention.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now we use MSI as default one, and translate MSI to INTx when guest need
INTx rather than MSI. For legacy device, we provide support for non-sharing
host IRQ.
Provide a parameter msi2intx for this method. The value is true by default in
x86 architecture.
We can't guarantee this mode can work on every device, but for most of us
tested, it works. If your device encounter some trouble with this mode, you can
try set msi2intx modules parameter to 0. If the device is OK with msi2intx=0,
then please report it to KVM mailing list or me. We may prepare a blacklist for
the device that can't work in this mode.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We enable guest MSI and host MSI support in this patch. The userspace want to
enable MSI should set KVM_DEV_IRQ_ASSIGN_ENABLE_MSI in the assigned_irq's flag.
Function would return -ENOTTY if can't enable MSI, userspace shouldn't set MSI
Enable bit when KVM_ASSIGN_IRQ return -ENOTTY with
KVM_DEV_IRQ_ASSIGN_ENABLE_MSI.
Userspace can tell the support of MSI device from #ifdef KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSI.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The function is used to dispatch MSI to lapic according to MSI message
address and message data.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
It would be used for MSI in device assignment, for MSI dispatch.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Separate guest irq type and host irq type, for we can support guest using INTx
with host using MSI (but not opposite combination).
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Separate INTx enabling part to a independence function, so that we can add MSI
enabling part easily.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Distinguish common part for device assignment and INTx part, perparing for
refactor later.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, we only set the KVM paravirt signature in case
of CONFIG_KVM_GUEST. However, it is possible to have it turned
off, while CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK is turned on. This is also a paravirt
case, and should be shown accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>
Hollis Blanchard