Avi Kivity wrote:
> Suggest wrapping in a function and hiding it deep inside kvm-all.c.
>

Done in v2:

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If the KVM MMU is asynchronous (kernel does not support MMU_NOTIFIER),
we have to avoid COW for the guest memory. Otherwise we risk serious
breakage when guest pages change there physical locations due to COW
after fork. Seen when forking smbd during runtime via -smb.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

There is no need to reject an unaligned memory region registration if
the region will be I/O memory and it will not split an existing KVM
slot. This fixes KVM support on PPC.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

This reworks the slot management to handle more patterns of
cpu_register_physical_memory*, finally allowing to reset KVM guests (so
far address remapping on reset broke the slot management).

We could actually handle all possible ones without failing, but a KVM
kernel bug in older versions would force us to track all previous
fragmentations and maintain them (as that bug prevents registering
larger slots that overlap also deleted ones). To remain backward
compatible but avoid overly complicated workarounds, we apply a simpler
workaround that covers all currently used patterns.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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Fail loudly if we run out of memory slot.

Make sure that dirty log start/stop works with consistent memory regions
by reporting invalid parameters. This reveals several inconsistencies in
the vga code, patch to fix them follows later in this series.

And, for simplicity reasons, also catch and report unaligned memory
regions passed to kvm_set_phys_mem (KVM works on page basis).
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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Testing for TLB_MMIO on unmap makes no sense as A) that flag belongs to
CPUTLBEntry and not to io_memory slots or physical addresses and B) we
already use a different condition before mapping. So make this test
consistent.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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Signed-off-by: NPaul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>


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This is a backport of the guest debugging support for the KVM
accelerator that is now part of the KVM tree. It implements the reworked
KVM kernel API for guest debugging (KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG) which is
not yet part of any mainline kernel but will probably be 2.6.30 stuff.
So far supported is x86, but PPC is expected to catch up soon.

Core features are:
 - unlimited soft-breakpoints via code patching
 - hardware-assisted x86 breakpoints and watchpoints

Changes in this version:
 - use generic hook cpu_synchronize_state to transfer registers between
   user space and kvm
 - push kvm_sw_breakpoints into KVMState
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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env->interrupt_request is accessed as the bit level from both main code
and signal handler, making a race condition possible even on CISC CPU.
This causes freeze of QEMU under high load when running the dyntick
clock.

The patch below move the bit corresponding to CPU_INTERRUPT_EXIT in a
separate variable, declared as volatile sig_atomic_t, so it should be
work even on RISC CPU.

We may want to move the cpu_interrupt(env, CPU_INTERRUPT_EXIT) case in
its own function and get rid of CPU_INTERRUPT_EXIT. That can be done
later, I wanted to keep the patch short for easier review.
Signed-off-by: NAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

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Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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Move s under #ifdef to avoid compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

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Currently on x86, qemu initializes CPUState but KVM ignores it and does its
own vcpu initialization. However, PowerPC KVM needs to be able to set the
initial register state to support the -kernel and -append options.
Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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MMIO exits are more expensive in KVM or Xen than in QEMU because they 
involve, at least, privilege transitions.  However, MMIO write 
operations can be effectively batched if those writes do not have side 
effects.

Good examples of this include VGA pixel operations when in a planar 
mode.  As it turns out, we can get a nice boost in other areas too.  
Laurent mentioned a 9.7% performance boost in iperf with the coalesced 
MMIO changes for the e1000 when he originally posted this work for KVM.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Prior to kvm-80, memory slot deletion was broken in the KVM kernel 
modules.  In kvm-81, a new capability is introduced to signify that this
problem has been fixed.

Since we rely on being able to delete memory slots, refuse to work with 
any kernel module that does not have this capability present.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This adds a VirtIO based balloon driver.  It uses madvise() to actually balloon
the memory when possible.

Until 2.6.27, KVM forced memory pinning so we must disable ballooning unless the
kernel actually supports it when using KVM.  It's always safe when using TCG.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Introduce functions to control logging of memory regions.
We select regions based on its start address, a
guest_physical_addr (target_phys_addr_t, in qemu nomenclature).

The main user of this interface right now is VGA optimization
(a way of reducing the number of mmio exits).
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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struct kvm_userspace_memory_region does not use QEMU friendly types to 
define memory slots.  This results in lots of ugly casting with warnings 
on 32-bit platforms.

This patch introduces a proper KVMSlot structure that uses QEMU types to
describe memory slots.  This eliminates many of the casts and isolates 
the type conversions to one spot.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Besides unassigned memory, we also don't care about MMIO.
So if we're giving an MMIO area that is already registered,
wipe it out.
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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KVM keeps track of physical memory based on slots in the kernel.  The current
code that translates QEMU memory mappings to slots work but is not robust
in the fact of reregistering partial regions of memory.

This patch does the right thing for reregistering partial regions of memory.  It
also prevents QEMU from using KVM private slots.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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The third argument to ioctl is a ... which allows any value to be passed.  In
practice, glibc always treats the argument as a void *.

Do the same thing for the kvm ioctls to keep things consistent with a
traditional ioctl.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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We don't need to use cpu_loop_exit() because we never use the 
condition codes so everything can be folded into a single case.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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