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>

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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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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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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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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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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