After commit a2766325cf, the error page is replaced by the
error code, it need not be released anymore
[ The patch has been compiling tested for powerpc ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Two reasons:
- x86 can integrate rmap and rmap_pde and remove heuristics in
__gfn_to_rmap().
- Some architectures do not need rmap.
Since rmap is one of the most memory consuming stuff in KVM, ppc'd
better restrict the allocation to Book3S HV.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead, check npages consistently. This helps to make rmap
architecture specific in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
- bring back critical fixes (esp. aa67f6096c)
- provide an updated base for development
* upstream: (4334 commits)
missed mnt_drop_write() in do_dentry_open()
UBIFS: nuke pdflush from comments
gfs2: nuke pdflush from comments
drbd: nuke pdflush from comments
nilfs2: nuke write_super from comments
hfs: nuke write_super from comments
vfs: nuke pdflush from comments
jbd/jbd2: nuke write_super from comments
btrfs: nuke pdflush from comments
btrfs: nuke write_super from comments
ext4: nuke pdflush from comments
ext4: nuke write_super from comments
ext3: nuke write_super from comments
Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflush
Documentation: get rid of write_super
vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers
ACPI processor: Fix tick_broadcast_mask online/offline regression
ACPI: Only count valid srat memory structures
ACPI: Untangle a return statement for better readability
Linux 3.6-rc1
...
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN was added to msrs_to_save array
KVM_SAVE_MSRS_BEGIN was not updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
When a guest migrates to a new host, the system time difference from the
previous host is used in the updates to the kvmclock system time visible
to the guest, resulting in a continuation of correct kvmclock based guest
timekeeping.
The wall clock component of the kvmclock provided time is currently not
updated with this same time offset. Since the Linux guest caches the
wall clock based time, this discrepency is not noticed until the guest is
rebooted. After reboot the guest's time calculations are off.
This patch adjusts the wall clock by the kvmclock_offset, resulting in
correct guest time after a reboot.
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
One structure nests inside the other, providing no value at all.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Handle KVM_IRQ_LINE and KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS in the generic
kvm_vm_ioctl() function and call into kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line().
This is even more relevant when KVM/ARM also uses this ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This makes it possible to loop over rmap_pde arrays in the same way as
we do over rmap so that we can optimize kvm_handle_hva_range() easily in
the following patch.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.
Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A for details.
For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
natively.
For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instead of getting an exact leaf, follow the spec and fall back to the last
main leaf instead. This lets us easily emulate the cpuid instruction in the
emulator.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Implementation of PV EOI using shared memory.
This reduces the number of exits an interrupt
causes as much as by half.
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
We set it before injecting an interrupt and clear
before injecting a nested one. Guest tests it using
a test and clear operation - this is necessary
so that host can detect interrupt nesting -
and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR.
There's a new MSR to set the address of said register
in guest memory. Otherwise not much changed:
- Guest EOI is not required
- Register is tested & ISR is automatically cleared on exit
For testing results see description of previous patch
'kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance'.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Each time we need to cancel injection we invoke same code
(cancel_injection callback). Move it towards the end of function using
the familiar goto on error pattern.
Will make it easier to do more cleanups for PV EOI.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit eb0dc6d0368072236dcd086d7fdc17fd3c4574d4 introduced apic
attention bitmask but kvm still syncs lapic unconditionally.
As that commit suggested and in anticipation of adding more attention
bits, only sync lapic if(apic_attention).
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The following commit did not care about the error handling path:
commit c1a7b32a14
KVM: Avoid wasting pages for small lpage_info arrays
If memory allocation fails, vfree() will be called with the address
returned by kzalloc(). This patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduces a couple of print functions, which are essentially wrappers
around standard printk functions, with a KVM: prefix.
Functions introduced or modified are:
- kvm_err(fmt, ...)
- kvm_info(fmt, ...)
- kvm_debug(fmt, ...)
- kvm_pr_unimpl(fmt, ...)
- pr_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...) -> vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...)
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
lpage_info is created for each large level even when the memory slot is
not for RAM. This means that when we add one slot for a PCI device, we
end up allocating at least KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES - 1 pages by vmalloc().
To make things worse, there is an increasing number of devices which
would result in more pages being wasted this way.
This patch mitigates this problem by using kvm_kvzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
and fixes. Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
update.
Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
others are true pulls. In either case the signoffs should be correct
now."
Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.
I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
...
Currently the inject_pending_event() call during guest entry happens after
kvm_mmu_reload(). This is for historical reasons - we used to
inject_pending_event() in atomic context, while kvm_mmu_reload() needs task
context.
A problem is that nested vmx can cause the mmu context to be reset, if event
injection is intercepted and causes a #VMEXIT instead (the #VMEXIT resets
CR0/CR3/CR4). If this happens, we end up with invalid root_hpa, and since
kvm_mmu_reload() has already run, no one will fix it and we end up entering
the guest this way.
Fix by reordering event injection to be before kvm_mmu_reload(). Use
->cancel_injection() to undo if kvm_mmu_reload() fails.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42980
Reported-by: Luke-Jr <luke-jr+linuxbugs@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If vcpu executes hlt instruction while async PF is waiting to be delivered
vcpu can block and deliver async PF only after another even wakes it
up. This happens because kvm_check_async_pf_completion() will remove
completion event from vcpu->async_pf.done before entering kvm_vcpu_block()
and this will make kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() return false. The solution
is to make vcpu runnable when processing completion.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.
This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.
Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it
does the VM locking for the caller.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MMIO that are split across a page boundary are currently broken - the
code does not expect to be aborted by the exit to userspace for the
first MMIO fragment.
This patch fixes the problem by generalizing the current code for handling
16-byte MMIOs to handle a number of "fragments", and changes the MMIO
code to create those fragments.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
We have seen some problems of the current implementation of
get_dirty_log() which uses synchronize_srcu_expedited() for updating
dirty bitmaps; e.g. it is noticeable that this sometimes gives us ms
order of latency when we use VGA displays.
Furthermore the recent discussion on the following thread
"srcu: Implement call_srcu()"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/211
also motivated us to implement get_dirty_log() without SRCU.
This patch achieves this goal without sacrificing the performance of
both VGA and live migration: in practice the new code is much faster
than the old one unless we have too many dirty pages.
Implementation:
The key part of the implementation is the use of xchg() operation for
clearing dirty bits atomically. Since this allows us to update only
BITS_PER_LONG pages at once, we need to iterate over the dirty bitmap
until every dirty bit is cleared again for the next call.
Although some people may worry about the problem of using the atomic
memory instruction many times to the concurrently accessible bitmap,
it is usually accessed with mmu_lock held and we rarely see concurrent
accesses: so what we need to care about is the pure xchg() overheads.
Another point to note is that we do not use for_each_set_bit() to check
which ones in each BITS_PER_LONG pages are actually dirty. Instead we
simply use __ffs() in a loop. This is much faster than repeatedly call
find_next_bit().
Performance:
The dirty-log-perf unit test showed nice improvements, some times faster
than before, except for some extreme cases; for such cases the speed of
getting dirty page information is much faster than we process it in the
userspace.
For real workloads, both VGA and live migration, we have observed pure
improvements: when the guest was reading a file during live migration,
we originally saw a few ms of latency, but with the new method the
latency was less than 200us.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Dropped such mappings when we enabled dirty logging and we will never
create new ones until we stop the logging.
For this we introduce a new function which can be used to write protect
a range of PT level pages: although we do not need to care about a range
of pages at this point, the following patch will need this feature to
optimize the write protection of many pages.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now that we have a flag that will tell the guest it was suspended, create an
interface for that communication using a KVM ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The kvm_vcpu_kick function performs roughly the same funcitonality on
most all architectures, so we shouldn't have separate copies.
PowerPC keeps a pointer to interchanging waitqueues on the vcpu_arch
structure and to accomodate this special need a
__KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VCPU_GET_WQ define and accompanying function
kvm_arch_vcpu_wq have been defined. For all other architectures this
is a generic inline that just returns &vcpu->wq;
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
large ppc update, and random fixes."
This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.
* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
KVM: MMU: make use of ->root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
...
Pull x86/fpu changes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules
kvm_write_tsc() converts from guest TSC to microseconds, not nanoseconds
as intended. The result is that the window for matching is 1000 seconds,
not 1 second.
Microsecond precision is enough for checking whether the TSC write delta
is within the heuristic values, so use it instead of nanoseconds.
Noted by Avi Kivity.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When CPUID Fn8000_0001_EAX reports 0x00100f22 Windows 7 x64 guest
tries to set bit 3 in MSRC001_0015 in nt!KiDisableCacheErrataSource
and fails. This patch will ignore this step and allow things to move
on without having to fake CPUID value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolae Mogoreanu <mogoreanu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
PCI 2.3 allows to generically disable IRQ sources at device level. This
enables us to share legacy IRQs of such devices with other host devices
when passing them to a guest.
The new IRQ sharing feature introduced here is optional, user space has
to request it explicitly. Moreover, user space can inform us about its
view of PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE so that we can avoid unmasking the
interrupt and signaling it if the guest masked it via the virtualized
PCI config space.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If some vcpus are created before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, then
irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic will be inconsistent, leading
to potential NULL pointer dereferences.
Fix by:
- ensuring that no vcpus are installed when KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP is called
- ensuring that a vcpu has an apic if it is installed after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
This is somewhat long winded because vcpu->arch.apic is created without
kvm->lock held.
Based on earlier patch by Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Task switches can switch between Protected Mode and VM86. The current
mode must be updated during the task switch emulation so that the new
segment selectors are interpreted correctly.
In order to let privilege checks succeed, rflags needs to be updated in
the vcpu struct as this causes a CPL update.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, all task switches check privileges against the DPL of the
TSS. This is only correct for jmp/call to a TSS. If a task gate is used,
the DPL of this take gate is used for the check instead. Exceptions,
external interrupts and iret shouldn't perform any check.
[avi: kill kvm-kmod remnants]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some members of kvm_memory_slot are not used by every architecture.
This patch is the first step to make this difference clear by
introducing kvm_memory_slot::arch; lpage_info is moved into it.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a race introduced by:
commit 95d4c16ce7
KVM: Optimize dirty logging by rmap_write_protect()
During protecting pages for dirty logging, other threads may also try
to protect a page in mmu_sync_children() or kvm_mmu_get_page().
In such a case, because get_dirty_log releases mmu_lock before flushing
TLB's, the following race condition can happen:
A (get_dirty_log) B (another thread)
lock(mmu_lock)
clear pte.w
unlock(mmu_lock)
lock(mmu_lock)
pte.w is already cleared
unlock(mmu_lock)
skip TLB flush
return
...
TLB flush
Though thread B assumes the page has already been protected when it
returns, the remaining TLB entry will break that assumption.
This patch fixes this problem by making get_dirty_log hold the mmu_lock
until it flushes the TLB's.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This allows us to track the original nanosecond and counter values
at each phase of TSC writing by the guest. This gets us perfect
offset matching for stable TSC systems, and perfect software
computed TSC matching for machines with unstable TSC.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
During a host suspend, TSC may go backwards, which KVM interprets
as an unstable TSC. Technically, KVM should not be marking the
TSC unstable, which causes the TSC clocksource to go bad, but we
need to be adjusting the TSC offsets in such a case.
Dealing with this issue is a little tricky as the only place we
can reliably do it is before much of the timekeeping infrastructure
is up and running. On top of this, we are not in a KVM thread
context, so we may not be able to safely access VCPU fields.
Instead, we compute our best known hardware offset at power-up and
stash it to be applied to all VCPUs when they actually start running.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Redefine the API to take a parameter indicating whether an
adjustment is in host or guest cycles.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The variable last_host_tsc was removed from upstream code. I am adding
it back for two reasons. First, it is unnecessary to use guest TSC
computation to conclude information about the host TSC. The guest may
set the TSC backwards (this case handled by the previous patch), but
the computation of guest TSC (and fetching an MSR) is significanlty more
work and complexity than simply reading the hardware counter. In addition,
we don't actually need the guest TSC for any part of the computation,
by always recomputing the offset, we can eliminate the need to deal with
the current offset and any scaling factors that may apply.
The second reason is that later on, we are going to be using the host
TSC value to restore TSC offsets after a host S4 suspend, so we need to
be reading the host values, not the guest values here.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The variable last_guest_tsc was being used as an ad-hoc indicator
that guest TSC has been initialized and recorded correctly. However,
it may not have been, it could be that guest TSC has been set to some
large value, the back to a small value (by, say, a software reboot).
This defeats the logic and causes KVM to falsely assume that the
guest TSC has gone backwards, marking the host TSC unstable, which
is undesirable behavior.
In addition, rather than try to compute an offset adjustment for the
TSC on unstable platforms, just recompute the whole offset. This
allows us to get rid of one callsite for adjust_tsc_offset, which
is problematic because the units it takes are in guest units, but
here, the computation was originally being done in host units.
Doing this, and also recording last_guest_tsc when the TSC is written
allow us to remove the tricky logic which depended on last_guest_tsc
being zero to indicate a reset of uninitialized value.
Instead, we now have the guarantee that the guest TSC offset is
always at least something which will get us last_guest_tsc.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, when the TSC is written by the guest, the variable
ns is updated to force the current write to appear to have taken
place at the time of the first write in this sync phase. This
leaves a cliff at the end of the match window where updates will
fall of the end. There are two scenarios where this can be a
problem in practe - first, on a system with a large number of
VCPUs, the sync period may last for an extended period of time.
The second way this can happen is if the VM reboots very rapidly
and we catch a VCPU TSC synchronization just around the edge.
We may be unaware of the reboot, and thus the first VCPU might
synchronize with an old set of the timer (at, say 0.97 seconds
ago, when first powered on). The second VCPU can come in 0.04
seconds later to try to synchronize, but it misses the window
because it is just over the threshold.
Instead, stop doing this artificial setback of the ns variable
and just update it with every write of the TSC.
It may be observed that doing so causes values computed by
compute_guest_tsc to diverge slightly across CPUs - note that
the last_tsc_ns and last_tsc_write variable are used here, and
now they last_tsc_ns will be different for each VCPU, reflecting
the actual time of the update.
However, compute_guest_tsc is used only for guests which already
have TSC stability issues, and further, note that the previous
patch has caused last_tsc_write to be incremented by the difference
in nanoseconds, converted back into guest cycles. As such, only
boundary rounding errors should be visible, which given the
resolution in nanoseconds, is going to only be a few cycles and
only visible in cross-CPU consistency tests. The problem can be
fixed by adding a new set of variables to track the start offset
and start write value for the current sync cycle.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There are a few improvements that can be made to the TSC offset
matching code. First, we don't need to call the 128-bit multiply
(especially on a constant number), the code works much nicer to
do computation in nanosecond units.
Second, the way everything is setup with software TSC rate scaling,
we currently have per-cpu rates. Obviously this isn't too desirable
to use in practice, but if for some reason we do change the rate of
all VCPUs at runtime, then reset the TSCs, we will only want to
match offsets for VCPUs running at the same rate.
Finally, for the case where we have an unstable host TSC, but
rate scaling is being done in hardware, we should call the platform
code to compute the TSC offset, so the math is reorganized to recompute
the base instead, then transform the base into an offset using the
existing API.
[avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM: Fix 64-bit division in kvm_write_tsc()
Breaks i386 build.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This requires some restructuring; rather than use 'virtual_tsc_khz'
to indicate whether hardware rate scaling is in effect, we consider
each VCPU to always have a virtual TSC rate. Instead, there is new
logic above the vendor-specific hardware scaling that decides whether
it is even necessary to use and updates all rate variables used by
common code. This means we can simply query the virtual rate at
any point, which is needed for software rate scaling.
There is also now a threshold added to the TSC rate scaling; minor
differences and variations of measured TSC rate can accidentally
provoke rate scaling to be used when it is not needed. Instead,
we have a tolerance variable called tsc_tolerance_ppm, which is
the maximum variation from user requested rate at which scaling
will be used. The default is 250ppm, which is the half the
threshold for NTP adjustment, allowing for some hardware variation.
In the event that hardware rate scaling is not available, we can
kludge a bit by forcing TSC catchup to turn on when a faster than
hardware speed has been requested, but there is nothing available
yet for the reverse case; this requires a trap and emulate software
implementation for RDTSC, which is still forthcoming.
[avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In some cases guests should not provide workarounds for errata even when the
physical processor is affected. For example, because of erratum 400 on family
10h processors a Linux guest will read an MSR (resulting in VMEXIT) before
going to idle in order to avoid getting stuck in a non-C0 state. This is not
necessary: HLT and IO instructions are intercepted and therefore there is no
reason for erratum 400 workaround in the guest.
This patch allows us to present a guest with certain errata as fixed,
regardless of the state of actual hardware.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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