This patch implements the xsetbv intercept to the AMD part
of KVM. This makes AVX usable in a save way for the guest on
AVX capable AMD hardware.

The patch is tested by using AVX in the guest and host in
parallel and checking for data corruption. I also used the
KVM xsave unit-tests and they all pass.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This patch adds the new flush-by-asid of upcoming AMD
processors to the KVM-AMD module.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This patch adds the infrastructure for the implementation of
the individual clean-bits.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This patch wraps changes to the DRx intercepts of SVM into
seperate functions to abstract nested-svm better and prepare
the implementation of the vmcb-clean-bits feature.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

This patch wraps changes to the CRx intercepts of SVM into
seperate functions to abstract nested-svm better and prepare
the implementation of the vmcb-clean-bits feature.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

When a fault triggers a task switch, the error code, if existent, has to
be pushed on the new task's stack. Implement the missing bits.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

On SVM we set the instruction length of skipped instructions
to hard-coded, well known values, which could be wrong when (bogus,
but valid) prefixes (REX, segment override) are used.
Newer AMD processors (Fam10h 45nm and better, aka. PhenomII or
AthlonII) have an explicit NEXTRIP field in the VMCB containing the
desired information.
Since it is cheap to do so, we use this field to override the guessed
value on newer processors.
A fix for older CPUs would be rather expensive, as it would require
to fetch and partially decode the instruction. As the problem is not
a security issue and needs special, handcrafted code to trigger
(no compiler will ever generate such code), I omit a fix for older
CPUs.
If someone is interested, I have both a patch for these CPUs as well as
demo code triggering this issue: It segfaults under KVM, but runs
perfectly on native Linux.
Signed-off-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

This patch implements the emulation of the vm_cr msr for
nested svm.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Instead of selecting TS and MP as the comments say, the macro included TS and
PE.  Luckily the macro is unused now, but fix in order to save a few hours of
debugging from anyone who attempts to use it.
Acked-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause
Filter Feature.  This feature creates a new field in the VMCB
called Pause Filter Count.  If Pause Filter Count is greater
than 0 and intercepting PAUSEs is enabled, the processor will
increment an internal counter when a PAUSE instruction occurs
instead of intercepting.  When the internal counter reaches the
Pause Filter Count value, a PAUSE intercept will occur.

This feature can be used to detect contended spinlocks,
especially when the lock holding VCPU is not scheduled.
Rescheduling another VCPU prevents the VCPU seeking the
lock from wasting its quantum by spinning idly.

Experimental results show that most spinlocks are held
for less than 1000 PAUSE cycles or more than a few
thousand.  Default the Pause Filter Counter to 3000 to
detect the contended spinlocks.

Processor support for this feature is indicated by a CPUID
bit.

On a 24 core system running 4 guests each with 16 VCPUs,
this patch improved overall performance of each guest's
32 job kernbench by approximately 3-5% when combined
with a scheduler algorithm thati caused the VCPU to
sleep for a brief period. Further performance improvement
may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm.
Signed-off-by: NMark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

There is no need to skip instruction if the reason for a task switch
is a task gate in IDT and access to it is caused by an external even.
The problem  is currently solved only for VMX since there is no reliable
way to skip an instruction in SVM. We should emulate it instead.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

MSR_EFER_SVME_MASK, MSR_VM_CR and MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA are set in KVM
specific headers. Linux does have nice header files to collect
EFER bits and MSR IDs, so IMHO we should put them there.

While at it, I also changed the naming scheme to match that
of the other defines.

(introduced in v6)
Acked-by: NJoerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAvi 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: NEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This emulates the x86 hardware task switch mechanism in software, as it is
unsupported by either vmx or svm.  It allows operating systems which use it,
like freedos, to run as kvm guests.
Signed-off-by: NIzik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

This paves the way for multiple architecture support.  Note that while
ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

Later we may be able to use the virtual tpr feature, but for now,
just trap it.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

Signed-off-by: NMike D. Day <ncmike@ncultra.org>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

This patch adds an implementation to the svm is_disabled function to
detect reliably if the BIOS disabled the SVM feature in the CPU. This
fixes the issues with kernel panics when loading the kvm-amd module on
machines where SVM is available but disabled.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

This patch forbids the guest to execute monitor/mwait instructions on
SVM. This is necessary because the guest can execute these instructions
if they are available even if the kvm cpuid doesn't report its
existence.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net

mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
  (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel)

The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization
extensions to the x86 architecture.  The driver adds a character device
(/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace.  Using
this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully
virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and
display.

Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host.

Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in
that process.  kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected.  In effect, the
driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel
mode, user mode, and guest mode.  Guest mode has its own address space mapping
guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing
/dev/kvm).  Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is
intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation.

The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests.  All combinations are
allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host.  For i386 guests and hosts, both pae
and non-pae paging modes are supported.

SMP hosts and UP guests are supported.  At the moment only Intel
hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on.

Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the
mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries
every context switch.  We plan to address this in two ways:

- cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes
- wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables

Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU.  Under
Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent
CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization.  Linux/X is slower, probably due
to X being in a separate process.

In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O
device emulation and the BIOS.

Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true):

- The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the
  virtual APIC.  We are working on a fix.  A temporary workaround is to
  use an existing image or install through qemu
- Windows 64-bit does not work.  That's also true for qemu, so it's
  probably a problem with the device model.

[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes]
[uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap]
[akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix]
[mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes]
[rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings]
[anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support]
Signed-off-by: NYaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se>
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NUri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>