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2008-04-27KVM: add vm refcountingIzik Eidus
the main purpose of adding this functions is the abilaty to release the spinlock that protect the kvm list while still be able to do operations on a specific kvm in a safe way. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: function declaration parameter name cleanupJoerg Roedel
The kvm_host.h file for x86 declares the functions kvm_set_cr[0348]. In the header file their second parameter is named cr0 in all cases. This patch renames the parameters so that they match the function name. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Free apic access page on vm destructionAvi Kivity
Noticed by Marcelo Tosatti. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: allow the vm to shrink the kvm mmu shadow cachesIzik Eidus
Allow the Linux memory manager to reclaim memory in the kvm shadow cache. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: unify slots_lock usageMarcelo Tosatti
Unify slots_lock acquision around vcpu_run(). This is simpler and less error-prone. Also fix some callsites that were not grabbing the lock properly. [avi: drop slots_lock while in guest mode to avoid holding the lock for indefinite periods] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: VMX: Enable MSR Bitmap featureSheng Yang
MSR Bitmap controls whether the accessing of an MSR causes VM Exit. Eliminating exits on automatically saved and restored MSRs yields a small performance gain. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27s390: KVM guest: virtio device support, and kvm hypercallsChristian Borntraeger
This patch implements kvm guest kernel support for paravirtualized devices and contains two parts: o a basic virtio stub using virtio_ring and external interrupts and hypercalls o full hypercall implementation in kvm_para.h Currently we dont have PCI on s390. Making virtio_pci usable for s390 seems more complicated that providing an own stub. This virtio stub is similar to the lguest one, the memory for the descriptors and the device detection is made via additional mapped memory on top of the guest storage. We use an external interrupt with extint code 0x2603 for host->guest notification. The hypercall definition uses the diag instruction for issuing a hypercall. The parameters are written in R2-R7, the hypercall number is written in R1. This is similar to the system call ABI (svc) which can use R1 for the number and R2-R6 for the parameters. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27s390: KVM guest: detect when running on kvmCarsten Otte
This patch adds functionality to detect if the kernel runs under the KVM hypervisor. A macro MACHINE_IS_KVM is exported for device drivers. This allows drivers to skip device detection if the systems runs non-virtualized. We also define a preferred console to avoid having the ttyS0, which is a line mode only console. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: update maintainersChristian Borntraeger
This patch adds an entry for kvm on s390 to the MAINTAINERS file :-). We intend to push all patches regarding this via Avi's kvm.git. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: API documentationCarsten Otte
This patch adds Documentation/s390/kvm.txt, which describes specifics of kvm's user interface that are unique to s390 architecture. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: add kvm to kconfig on s390Christian Borntraeger
This patch adds the virtualization submenu and the kvm option to the kernel config. It also defines HAVE_KVM for 64bit kernels. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: intercepts for diagnose instructionsChristian Borntraeger
This patch introduces interpretation of some diagnose instruction intercepts. Diagnose is our classic architected way of doing a hypercall. This patch features the following diagnose codes: - vm storage size, that tells the guest about its memory layout - time slice end, which is used by the guest to indicate that it waits for a lock and thus cannot use up its time slice in a useful way - ipl functions, which a guest can use to reset and reboot itself In order to implement ipl functions, we also introduce an exit reason that causes userspace to perform various resets on the virtual machine. All resets are described in the principles of operation book, except KVM_S390_RESET_IPL which causes a reboot of the machine. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <martin.schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: interprocessor communication via sigpChristian Borntraeger
This patch introduces in-kernel handling of _some_ sigp interprocessor signals (similar to ipi). kvm_s390_handle_sigp() decodes the sigp instruction and calls individual handlers depending on the operation requested: - sigp sense tries to retrieve information such as existence or running state of the remote cpu - sigp emergency sends an external interrupt to the remove cpu - sigp stop stops a remove cpu - sigp stop store status stops a remote cpu, and stores its entire internal state to the cpus lowcore - sigp set arch sets the architecture mode of the remote cpu. setting to ESAME (s390x 64bit) is accepted, setting to ESA/S390 (s390, 31 or 24 bit) is denied, all others are passed to userland - sigp set prefix sets the prefix register of a remote cpu For implementation of this, the stop intercept indication starts to get reused on purpose: a set of action bits defines what to do once a cpu gets stopped: ACTION_STOP_ON_STOP really stops the cpu when a stop intercept is recognized ACTION_STORE_ON_STOP stores the cpu status to lowcore when a stop intercept is recognized Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: intercepts for privileged instructionsChristian Borntraeger
This patch introduces in-kernel handling of some intercepts for privileged instructions: handle_set_prefix() sets the prefix register of the local cpu handle_store_prefix() stores the content of the prefix register to memory handle_store_cpu_address() stores the cpu number of the current cpu to memory handle_skey() just decrements the instruction address and retries handle_stsch() delivers condition code 3 "operation not supported" handle_chsc() same here handle_stfl() stores the facility list which contains the capabilities of the cpu handle_stidp() stores cpu type/model/revision and such handle_stsi() stores information about the system topology Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: interrupt subsystem, cpu timer, waitpswCarsten Otte
This patch contains the s390 interrupt subsystem (similar to in kernel apic) including timer interrupts (similar to in-kernel-pit) and enabled wait (similar to in kernel hlt). In order to achieve that, this patch also introduces intercept handling for instruction intercepts, and it implements load control instructions. This patch introduces an ioctl KVM_S390_INTERRUPT which is valid for both the vm file descriptors and the vcpu file descriptors. In case this ioctl is issued against a vm file descriptor, the interrupt is considered floating. Floating interrupts may be delivered to any virtual cpu in the configuration. The following interrupts are supported: SIGP STOP - interprocessor signal that stops a remote cpu SIGP SET PREFIX - interprocessor signal that sets the prefix register of a (stopped) remote cpu INT EMERGENCY - interprocessor interrupt, usually used to signal need_reshed and for smp_call_function() in the guest. PROGRAM INT - exception during program execution such as page fault, illegal instruction and friends RESTART - interprocessor signal that starts a stopped cpu INT VIRTIO - floating interrupt for virtio signalisation INT SERVICE - floating interrupt for signalisations from the system service processor struct kvm_s390_interrupt, which is submitted as ioctl parameter when injecting an interrupt, also carrys parameter data for interrupts along with the interrupt type. Interrupts on s390 usually have a state that represents the current operation, or identifies which device has caused the interruption on s390. kvm_s390_handle_wait() does handle waitpsw in two flavors: in case of a disabled wait (that is, disabled for interrupts), we exit to userspace. In case of an enabled wait we set up a timer that equals the cpu clock comparator value and sleep on a wait queue. [christian: change virtio interrupt to 0x2603] Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: sie intercept handlingChristian Borntraeger
This path introduces handling of sie intercepts in three flavors: Intercepts are either handled completely in-kernel by kvm_handle_sie_intercept(), or passed to userspace with corresponding data in struct kvm_run in case kvm_handle_sie_intercept() returns -ENOTSUPP. In case of partial execution in kernel with the need of userspace support, kvm_handle_sie_intercept() may choose to set up struct kvm_run and return -EREMOTE. The trivial intercept reasons are handled in this patch: handle_noop() just does nothing for intercepts that don't require our support at all handle_stop() is called when a cpu enters stopped state, and it drops out to userland after updating our vcpu state handle_validity() faults in the cpu lowcore if needed, or passes the request to userland Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: s390: arch backend for the kvm kernel moduleHeiko Carstens
This patch contains the port of Qumranet's kvm kernel module to IBM zSeries (aka s390x, mainframe) architecture. It uses the mainframe's virtualization instruction SIE to run virtual machines with up to 64 virtual CPUs each. This port is only usable on 64bit host kernels, and can only run 64bit guest kernels. However, running 31bit applications in guest userspace is possible. The following source files are introduced by this patch arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c similar to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c, this implements all arch callbacks for kvm. __vcpu_run calls back into sie64a to enter the guest machine context arch/s390/kvm/sie64a.S assembler function sie64a, which enters guest context via SIE, and switches world before and after that include/asm-s390/kvm_host.h contains all vital data structures needed to run virtual machines on the mainframe include/asm-s390/kvm.h defines kvm_regs and friends for user access to guest register content arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.h functions similar to uaccess to access guest memory arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h header file for kvm-s390 internals, extended by later patches Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27s390: KVM preparation: address of the 64bit extint parm in lowcoreChristian Borntraeger
The address 0x11b8 is used by z/VM for pfault and diag 250 I/O to provide a 64 bit extint parameter. virtio uses the same address, so its time to update the lowcore structure. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27s390: KVM preparation: host memory management changes for s390 kvmChristian Borntraeger
This patch changes the s390 memory management defintions to use the pgste field for dirty and reference bit tracking of host and guest code. Usually on s390, dirty and referenced are tracked in storage keys, which belong to the physical page. This changes with virtualization: The guest and host dirty/reference bits are defined to be the logical OR of the values for the mapping and the physical page. This patch implements the necessary changes in pgtable.h for s390. There is a common code change in mm/rmap.c, the call to page_test_and_clear_young must be moved. This is a no-op for all architecture but s390. page_referenced checks the referenced bits for the physiscal page and for all mappings: o The physical page is checked with page_test_and_clear_young. o The mappings are checked with ptep_test_and_clear_young and friends. Without pgstes (the current implementation on Linux s390) the physical page check is implemented but the mapping callbacks are no-ops because dirty and referenced are not tracked in the s390 page tables. The pgstes introduces guest and host dirty and reference bits for s390 in the host mapping. These mapping must be checked before page_test_and_clear_young resets the reference bit. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27s390: KVM preparation: provide hook to enable pgstes in user pagetableCarsten Otte
The SIE instruction on s390 uses the 2nd half of the page table page to virtualize the storage keys of a guest. This patch offers the s390_enable_sie function, which reorganizes the page tables of a single-threaded process to reserve space in the page table: s390_enable_sie makes sure that the process is single threaded and then uses dup_mm to create a new mm with reorganized page tables. The old mm is freed and the process has now a page status extended field after every page table. Code that wants to exploit pgstes should SELECT CONFIG_PGSTE. This patch has a small common code hit, namely making dup_mm non-static. Edit (Carsten): I've modified Martin's patch, following Jeremy Fitzhardinge's review feedback. Now we do have the prototype for dup_mm in include/linux/sched.h. Following Martin's suggestion, s390_enable_sie() does now call task_lock() to prevent race against ptrace modification of mm_users. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: x86: hardware task switching supportIzik Eidus
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: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: x86: add functions to get the cpl of vcpuIzik Eidus
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: VMX: Add module option to disable flexpriorityAvi Kivity
Useful for debugging. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: no longer EXPERIMENTALAvi Kivity
Long overdue. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: Introduce and use spte_to_page()Avi Kivity
Encapsulate the pte mask'n'shift in a function. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: fix dirty bit setting when removing write permissionsIzik Eidus
When mmu_set_spte() checks if a page related to spte should be release as dirty or clean, it check if the shadow pte was writeble, but in case rmap_write_protect() is called called it is possible for shadow ptes that were writeble to become readonly and therefor mmu_set_spte will release the pages as clean. This patch fix this issue by marking the page as dirty inside rmap_write_protect(). Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Move some x86 specific constants and structures to include/asm-x86Avi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: Set the accessed bit on non-speculative shadow ptesAvi Kivity
If we populate a shadow pte due to a fault (and not speculatively due to a pte write) then we can set the accessed bit on it, as we know it will be set immediately on the next guest instruction. This saves a read-modify-write operation. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: kvm.h: __user requires compiler.hChristian Borntraeger
include/linux/kvm.h defines struct kvm_dirty_log to [...] union { void __user *dirty_bitmap; /* one bit per page */ __u64 padding; }; __user requires compiler.h to compile. Currently, this works on x86 only coincidentally due to other include files. This patch makes kvm.h compile in all cases. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: KVM guest: disable clock before rebooting.Glauber Costa
This patch writes 0 (actually, what really matters is that the LSB is cleared) to the system time msr before shutting down the machine for kexec. Without it, we can have a random memory location being written when the guest comes back It overrides the functions shutdown, used in the path of kernel_kexec() (sys.c) and crash_shutdown, used in the path of crash_kexec() (kexec.c) Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: make native_machine_shutdown non-staticGlauber Costa
it will allow external users to call it. It is mainly useful for routines that will override its machine_ops field for its own special purposes, but want to call the normal shutdown routine after they're done Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: allow machine_crash_shutdown to be replacedGlauber Costa
This patch a llows machine_crash_shutdown to be replaced, just like any of the other functions in machine_ops Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: KVM guest: hypercall batchingMarcelo Tosatti
Batch pte updates and tlb flushes in lazy MMU mode. [avi: - adjust to mmu_op - helper for getting para_state without debug warnings] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: KVM guest: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushesMarcelo Tosatti
Hypercall based pte updates are faster than faults, and also allow use of the lazy MMU mode to batch operations. Don't report the feature if two dimensional paging is enabled. [avi: - guest/host split - fix 32-bit truncation issues - adjust to mmu_op - adjust to ->release_*() renamed - add ->release_pud()] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushesMarcelo Tosatti
Hypercall based pte updates are faster than faults, and also allow use of the lazy MMU mode to batch operations. Don't report the feature if two dimensional paging is enabled. [avi: - one mmu_op hypercall instead of one per op - allow 64-bit gpa on hypercall - don't pass host errors (-ENOMEM) to guest] [akpm: warning fix on i386] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Provide unlocked version of emulator_write_phys()Avi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27x86: KVM guest: add basic paravirt supportMarcelo Tosatti
Add basic KVM paravirt support. Avoid vm-exits on IO delays. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: add basic paravirt supportMarcelo Tosatti
Add basic KVM paravirt support. Avoid vm-exits on IO delays. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Add reset support for in kernel PITSheng Yang
Separate the reset part and prepare for reset support. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Add save/restore supporting of in kernel PITSheng Yang
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: In kernel PIT modelSheng Yang
The patch moves the PIT model from userspace to kernel, and increases the timer accuracy greatly. [marcelo: make last_injected_time per-guest] Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Tested-and-Acked-by: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Remove pointless desc_ptr #ifdefAvi Kivity
The desc_struct changes left an unnecessary #ifdef; remove it. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: VMX: Don't adjust tsc offset forwardAvi Kivity
Most Intel hosts have a stable tsc, and playing with the offset only reduces accuracy. By limiting tsc offset adjustment only to forward updates, we effectively disable tsc offset adjustment on these hosts. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurancesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: detect if VCPU triple faultsJoerg Roedel
In the current inject_page_fault path KVM only checks if there is another PF pending and injects a DF then. But it has to check for a pending DF too to detect a shutdown condition in the VCPU. If this is not detected the VCPU goes to a PF -> DF -> PF loop when it should triple fault. This patch detects this condition and handles it with an KVM_SHUTDOWN exit to userspace. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Use kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stackXiantao Zhang
Since the size of kvm_regs is too big to allocate from kernel stack on ia64, use kzalloc to allocate it. Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Prefix control register accessors with kvm_ to avoid namespace pollutionAvi Kivity
Names like 'set_cr3()' look dangerously close to affecting the host. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: large page supportMarcelo Tosatti
Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. If the largepage contains write-protected pages, a large pte is not used. Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted filesystem, without NPT/EPT. Anthony measures a 4% improvement on 4-way kernbench, with NPT. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: MMU: ignore zapped root pagetablesMarcelo Tosatti
Mark zapped root pagetables as invalid and ignore such pages during lookup. This is a problem with the cr3-target feature, where a zapped root table fools the faulting code into creating a read-only mapping. The result is a lockup if the instruction can't be emulated. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27KVM: Implement dummy values for MSR_PERF_STATUSAlexander Graf
Darwin relies on this and ceases to work without. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>