This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
per core on POWER7.  The host still has to run single-threaded.

This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
capability.  The return value of the ioctl querying this capability
is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4.

To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads
active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined.
This will put the secondary threads into nap mode.  KVM will then
wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while
they are still offline).  To wake the secondary threads, we send
them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in
arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c.  In other words, at this stage
we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and
we are using icp-native.c to drive it.  Since the woken thread will
need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base
physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys()
for use in the low-level KVM book3s code.

When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core.
The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the
number of threads per core in the host.  This number is exported
to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability.  If qemu wishes
to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu
numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core.

We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute
the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host.  We currently
implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads
are runnable or blocked.  This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere
in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU
by the other vcpus.

When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the
vcpu threads.  The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep
until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu,
or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu
thread goes from busy in host state to blocked).

It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g.
because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already
running.  In that case it can start to run immediately as long as
the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest.
We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start
to execute the guest.  It synchronizes with the other threads via
the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go
into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it
is ready to actually enter the guest.

Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread
number and the vcpu number.  Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus
as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered
hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all
the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are
runnable.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode.  H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interface.

Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new
KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables.  The
ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly
created table.  The qemu driver models use them in the same way as
userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the
guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number
of host/guest context switches during guest IO.

There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu
to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used
most of the time.  Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness
when we need to reset the table.  More importantly, we will in the
future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a
checkpoint resume or migration.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

Neither host_irq nor the guest_msi struct are used anymore today.
Tag the former, drop the latter to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

This patch implements two new vm-ioctls to get and set the
virtual_tsc_khz if the machine supports tsc-scaling. Setting
the tsc-frequency is only possible before userspace creates
any vcpu.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Guest enables async PF vcpu functionality using this MSR.
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Now that we have all the level interrupt magic in place, let's
expose the capability to user space, so it can make use of it!
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

We need to tell the guest the opcodes that make up a hypercall through
interfaces that are controlled by userspace. So we need to add a call
for userspace to allow it to query those opcodes so it can pass them
on.

This is required because the hypercall opcodes can change based on
the hypervisor conditions. If we're running in hardware accelerated
hypervisor mode, a hypercall looks different from when we're running
without hardware acceleration.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt.  Equivalent support is provided
by overlapping memory regions.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This patch enable save/restore of xsave state.
Signed-off-by: NSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

MOL uses its own hypercall interface to call back into userspace when
the guest wants to do something.

So let's implement that as an exit reason, specify it with a CAP and
only really use it when userspace wants us to.

The only user of it so far is MOL.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Some times we don't want all capabilities to be available to all
our vcpus. One example for that is the OSI interface, implemented
in the next patch.

In order to have a generic mechanism in how to enable capabilities
individually, this patch introduces a new ioctl that can be used
for this purpose. That way features we don't want in all guests or
userspace configurations can just not be enabled and we're good.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Userspace can tell us that it wants to trigger an interrupt. But
so far it can't tell us that it wants to stop triggering one.

So let's interpret the parameter to the ioctl that we have anyways
to tell us if we want to raise or lower the interrupt line.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

v2 -> v3:

 - Add CAP for unset irq
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

So far user space was not able to save and restore debug registers for
migration or after reset. Plug this hole.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

The interrupt shadow created by STI or MOV-SS-like operations is part of
the VCPU state and must be preserved across migration. Transfer it in
the spare padding field of kvm_vcpu_events.interrupt.

As a side effect we now have to make vmx_set_interrupt_shadow robust
against both shadow types being set. Give MOV SS a higher priority and
skip STI in that case to avoid that VMX throws a fault on next entry.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

We need to tell userspace that we can emulate paired single instructions.
So let's add a capability export.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This marks the guest single-step API improvement of 94fe45da and
91586a3b with a capability flag to allow reliable detection by user
space.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.33)
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Enable optional parameter (default 0) - PCI segment (or domain) besides
BDF, when assigning PCI device to guest.
Signed-off-by: NZhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Acked-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Windows issues this hypercall after guest was spinning on a spinlock
for too many iterations.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NVadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Implement HYPER-V apic MSRs. Spec defines three MSRs that speed-up
access to EOI/TPR/ICR apic registers for PV guests.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NVadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Minimum HYPER-V implementation should have GUEST_OS_ID, HYPERCALL and
VP_INDEX MSRs.

[avi: fix build on i386]
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NVadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops
instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction),
then instantiate the new empty slot.

Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Currently userspace has no chance to find out which virtual address space we're
in and resolve addresses. While that is a big problem for migration, it's also
unpleasent when debugging, as gdb and the monitor don't work on virtual
addresses.

This patch exports enough of the MMU segment state to userspace to make
debugging work and thus also includes the groundwork for migration.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This patch moves s390 processor status word into the base kvm_run
struct and keeps it up-to date on all userspace exits.

The userspace ABI is broken by this, however there are no applications
in the wild using this.  A capability check is provided so users can
verify the updated API exists.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to
exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space
changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration
and system reset.

[avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field]
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

These happen when we trap an exception when another exception is being
delivered; we only expect these with MCEs and page faults.  If something
unexpected happens, things probably went south and we're better off reporting
an internal error and freezing.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Usually userspace will freeze the guest so we can inspect it, but some
internal state is not available.  Add extra data to internal error
reporting so we can expose it to the debugger.  Extra data is specific
to the suberror.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Obviously, people tend to extend this header at the bottom - more or
less blindly. Ensure that deprecated stuff gets its own corner again by
moving things to the top. Also add some comments and reindent IOCTLs to
make them more readable and reduce the risk of number collisions.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

When we migrate a kvm guest that uses pvclock between two hosts, we may
suffer a large skew. This is because there can be significant differences
between the monotonic clock of the hosts involved. When a new host with
a much larger monotonic time starts running the guest, the view of time
will be significantly impacted.

Situation is much worse when we do the opposite, and migrate to a host with
a smaller monotonic clock.

This proposed ioctl will allow userspace to inform us what is the monotonic
clock value in the source host, so we can keep the time skew short, and
more importantly, never goes backwards. Userspace may also need to trigger
the current data, since from the first migration onwards, it won't be
reflected by a simple call to clock_gettime() anymore.

[marcelo: future-proof abi with a flags field]
[jan: fix KVM_GET_CLOCK by clearing flags field instead of checking it]
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in
userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen
hypercall blob into guest address space.

A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill
and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future.  Thus this patch
adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR.

I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell
KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address
and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that
userspace has loaded from files.  When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM
copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest.

I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace
code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices.

[jan: fix i386 build warning]
[avi: future proof abi with a flags field]
Signed-off-by: NEd Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Now KVM allow guest to modify guest's physical address of EPT's identity mapping page.

(change from v1, discard unnecessary check, change ioctl to accept parameter
address rather than value)
Signed-off-by: NSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

ioeventfd is a mechanism to register PIO/MMIO regions to trigger an eventfd
signal when written to by a guest.  Host userspace can register any
arbitrary IO address with a corresponding eventfd and then pass the eventfd
to a specific end-point of interest for handling.

Normal IO requires a blocking round-trip since the operation may cause
side-effects in the emulated model or may return data to the caller.
Therefore, an IO in KVM traps from the guest to the host, causes a VMX/SVM
"heavy-weight" exit back to userspace, and is ultimately serviced by qemu's
device model synchronously before returning control back to the vcpu.

However, there is a subclass of IO which acts purely as a trigger for
other IO (such as to kick off an out-of-band DMA request, etc).  For these
patterns, the synchronous call is particularly expensive since we really
only want to simply get our notification transmitted asychronously and
return as quickly as possible.  All the sychronous infrastructure to ensure
proper data-dependencies are met in the normal IO case are just unecessary
overhead for signalling.  This adds additional computational load on the
system, as well as latency to the signalling path.

Therefore, we provide a mechanism for registration of an in-kernel trigger
point that allows the VCPU to only require a very brief, lightweight
exit just long enough to signal an eventfd.  This also means that any
clients compatible with the eventfd interface (which includes userspace
and kernelspace equally well) can now register to be notified. The end
result should be a more flexible and higher performance notification API
for the backend KVM hypervisor and perhipheral components.

To test this theory, we built a test-harness called "doorbell".  This
module has a function called "doorbell_ring()" which simply increments a
counter for each time the doorbell is signaled.  It supports signalling
from either an eventfd, or an ioctl().

We then wired up two paths to the doorbell: One via QEMU via a registered
io region and through the doorbell ioctl().  The other is direct via
ioeventfd.

You can download this test harness here:

ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/doorbell.tar.bz2

The measured results are as follows:

qemu-mmio:       110000 iops, 9.09us rtt
ioeventfd-mmio: 200100 iops, 5.00us rtt
ioeventfd-pio:  367300 iops, 2.72us rtt

I didn't measure qemu-pio, because I have to figure out how to register a
PIO region with qemu's device model, and I got lazy.  However, for now we
can extrapolate based on the data from the NULLIO runs of +2.56us for MMIO,
and -350ns for HC, we get:

qemu-pio:      153139 iops, 6.53us rtt
ioeventfd-hc: 412585 iops, 2.37us rtt

these are just for fun, for now, until I can gather more data.

Here is a graph for your convenience:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/7/76/Iofd-chart.png

The conclusion to draw is that we save about 4us by skipping the userspace
hop.

--------------------
Signed-off-by: NGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

When kvm is in hpet_legacy_mode, the hpet is providing the timer
interrupt and the pit should not be. So in legacy mode, the pit timer
is destroyed, but the *state* of the pit is maintained. So if kvm or
the guest tries to modify the state of the pit, this modification is
accepted, *except* that the timer isn't actually started. When we exit
hpet_legacy_mode, the current state of the pit (which is up to date
since we've been accepting modifications) is used to restart the pit
timer.

The saved_mode code in kvm_pit_load_count temporarily changes mode to
0xff in order to destroy the timer, but then restores the actual
value, again maintaining "current" state of the pit for possible later
reenablement.

[avi: add some reserved storage in the ioctl; make SET_PIT2 IOW]
[marcelo: fix memory corruption due to reserved storage]
Signed-off-by: NBeth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Instead of mindlessly retrying to execute the instruction, report the
failure to userspace.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Archs are free to use vcpu_id as they see fit. For x86 it is used as
vcpu's apic id. New ioctl is added to configure boot vcpu id that was
assumed to be 0 till now.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Somehow the VM ioctls got unsorted; resort.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

We only trap one page for MSI-X entry now, so it's 4k/(128/8) = 256 entries at
most.
Signed-off-by: NSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

The in-kernel speaker emulation is only a dummy and also unneeded from
the performance point of view. Rather, it takes user space support to
generate sound output on the host, e.g. console beeps.

To allow this, introduce KVM_CREATE_PIT2 which controls in-kernel
speaker port emulation via a flag passed along the new IOCTL. It also
leaves room for future extensions of the PIT configuration interface.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>