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  1. Oct 16, 2018
  3. Oct 09, 2018
  5. Sep 19, 2018
    • Drew Schmitt's avatar
      KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO · 6fbbde9a
      Drew Schmitt authored 
      

Add KVM_CAP_MSR_PLATFORM_INFO so that userspace can disable guest access
to reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO.

Disabling access to reads of this MSR gives userspace the control to "expose"
this platform-dependent information to guests in a clear way. As it exists
today, guests that read this MSR would get unpopulated information if userspace
hadn't already set it (and prior to this patch series, only the CPUID faulting
information could have been populated). This existing interface could be
confusing if guests don't handle the potential for incorrect/incomplete
information gracefully (e.g. zero reported for base frequency).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDrew Schmitt <dasch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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  7. Sep 12, 2018
  9. Aug 22, 2018
  11. Aug 06, 2018
    • Wanpeng Li's avatar
      KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercall · 4180bf1b
      Wanpeng Li authored 
      Using hypercall to send IPIs by one vmexit instead of one by one for
xAPIC/x2APIC physical mode and one vmexit per-cluster for x2APIC cluster
mode. Intel guest can enter x2apic cluster mode when interrupt remmaping
is enabled in qemu, however, latest AMD EPYC still just supports xapic
mode which can get great improvement by Exit-less IPIs. This patchset
lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 destinations per
hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per hypercall in 32-bit mode.

Hardware: Xeon Skylake 2.5GHz, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads, the VM
is 80 vCPUs, IPI microbenchmark(https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/141

):

x2apic cluster mode, vanilla

 Dry-run:                         0,            2392199 ns
 Self-IPI:                  6907514,           15027589 ns
 Normal IPI:              223910476,          251301666 ns
 Broadcast IPI:                   0,         9282161150 ns
 Broadcast lock:                  0,         8812934104 ns

x2apic cluster mode, pv-ipi

 Dry-run:                         0,            2449341 ns
 Self-IPI:                  6720360,           15028732 ns
 Normal IPI:              228643307,          255708477 ns
 Broadcast IPI:                   0,         7572293590 ns  => 22% performance boost
 Broadcast lock:                  0,         8316124651 ns

x2apic physical mode, vanilla

 Dry-run:                         0,            3135933 ns
 Self-IPI:                  8572670,           17901757 ns
 Normal IPI:              226444334,          255421709 ns
 Broadcast IPI:                   0,        19845070887 ns
 Broadcast lock:                  0,        19827383656 ns

x2apic physical mode, pv-ipi

 Dry-run:                         0,            2446381 ns
 Self-IPI:                  6788217,           15021056 ns
 Normal IPI:              219454441,          249583458 ns
 Broadcast IPI:                   0,         7806540019 ns  => 154% performance boost
 Broadcast lock:                  0,         9143618799 ns

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      4180bf1b
    • Jim Mattson's avatar
      kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE · 8fcc4b59
      Jim Mattson authored 
      

For nested virtualization L0 KVM is managing a bit of state for L2 guests,
this state can not be captured through the currently available IOCTLs. In
fact the state captured through all of these IOCTLs is usually a mix of L1
and L2 state. It is also dependent on whether the L2 guest was running at
the moment when the process was interrupted to save its state.

With this capability, there are two new vcpu ioctls: KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE
and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. These can be used for saving and restoring a VM
that is in VMX operation.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[karahmed@ - rename structs and functions and make them ready for AMD and
             address previous comments.
           - handle nested.smm state.
           - rebase & a bit of refactoring.
           - Merge 7/8 and 8/8 into one patch. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarKarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      8fcc4b59
  13. Jul 30, 2018
    • Janosch Frank's avatar
      KVM: s390: Add huge page enablement control · a4499382
      Janosch Frank authored 
      

General KVM huge page support on s390 has to be enabled via the
kvm.hpage module parameter. Either nested or hpage can be enabled, as
we currently do not support vSIE for huge backed guests. Once the vSIE
support is added we will either drop the parameter or enable it as
default.

For a guest the feature has to be enabled through the new
KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M capability and the hpage module
parameter. Enabling it means that cmm can't be enabled for the vm and
disables pfmf and storage key interpretation.

This is due to the fact that in some cases, in upcoming patches, we
have to split huge pages in the guest mapping to be able to set more
granular memory protection on 4k pages. These split pages have fake
page tables that are not visible to the Linux memory management which
subsequently will not manage its PGSTEs, while the SIE will. Disabling
these features lets us manage PGSTE data in a consistent matter and
solve that problem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJanosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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  15. Jul 21, 2018
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  19. Jun 01, 2018
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  23. May 25, 2018
  25. May 17, 2018
    • Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar
      kvm: rename KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED to KVM_HINTS_REALTIME · 633711e8
      Michael S. Tsirkin authored 
      

KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED seems to be somewhat confusing:

Guest doesn't really care whether it's the only task running on a host
CPU as long as it's not preempted.

And there are more reasons for Guest to be preempted than host CPU
sharing, for example, with memory overcommit it can get preempted on a
memory access, post copy migration can cause preemption, etc.

Let's call it KVM_HINTS_REALTIME which seems to better
match what guests expect.

Also, the flag most be set on all vCPUs - current guests assume this.
Note so in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      633711e8
  27. Apr 20, 2018
    • Marc Zyngier's avatar
      arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API · 85bd0ba1
      Marc Zyngier authored 
      

Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1
or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI
implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is
no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM.

But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests
that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2,
let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular
version of the API.

This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where
we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be
save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to
any supported version if the guest requires it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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  29. Mar 28, 2018
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  35. Mar 06, 2018
  37. Mar 01, 2018
  39. Feb 24, 2018
  41. Jan 19, 2018
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds · 3214d01f
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      

This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
      3214d01f
  43. Jan 16, 2018
    • Wanpeng Li's avatar
      KVM: X86: use paravirtualized TLB Shootdown · 858a43aa
      Wanpeng Li authored 
      

Remote TLB flush does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted or
blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up busy-waiting
for a long amount of time; it also consumes CPU unnecessarily to wake
up the target of the shootdown.

This patch set adds support for KVM's new paravirtualized TLB flush;
remote TLB flush does not wait for vcpus that are sleeping, instead
KVM will flush the TLB as soon as the vCPU starts running again.

The improvement is clearly visible when the host is overcommitted; in this
case, the PV TLB flush (in addition to avoiding the wait on the main CPU)
prevents preempted vCPUs from stealing precious execution time from the
running ones.

Testing on a Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 2 sockets, 32 cores, 64 threads,
so 64 pCPUs, and each VM is 64 vCPUs.

ebizzy -M
              vanilla    optimized     boost
1VM            46799       48670         4%
2VM            23962       42691        78%
3VM            16152       37539       132%

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
      858a43aa
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable migration of decrementer register · 5855564c
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      

This adds a register identifier for use with the one_reg interface
to allow the decrementer expiry time to be read and written by
userspace.  The decrementer expiry time is in guest timebase units
and is equal to the sum of the decrementer and the guest timebase.
(The expiry time is used rather than the decrementer value itself
because the expiry time is not constantly changing, though the
decrementer value is, while the guest vcpu is not running.)

Without this, a guest vcpu migrated to a new host will see its
decrementer set to some random value.  On POWER8 and earlier, the
decrementer is 32 bits wide and counts down at 512MHz, so the
guest vcpu will potentially see no decrementer interrupts for up
to about 4 seconds, which will lead to a stall.  With POWER9, the
decrementer is now 56 bits side, so the stall can be much longer
(up to 2.23 years) and more noticeable.

To help work around the problem in cases where userspace has not been
updated to migrate the decrementer expiry time, we now set the
default decrementer expiry at vcpu creation time to the current time
rather than the maximum possible value.  This should mean an
immediate decrementer interrupt when a migrated vcpu starts
running.  In cases where the decrementer is 32 bits wide and more
than 4 seconds elapse between the creation of the vcpu and when it
first runs, the decrementer would have wrapped around to positive
values and there may still be a stall - but this is no worse than
the current situation.  In the large-decrementer case, we are sure
to get an immediate decrementer interrupt (assuming the time from
vcpu creation to first run is less than 2.23 years) and we thus
avoid a very long stall.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
      5855564c
  45. Jan 02, 2018
  47. Dec 06, 2017
  49. Dec 04, 2017
    • Brijesh Singh's avatar
      KVM: Define SEV key management command id · dc48bae0
      Brijesh Singh authored 
      Define Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) key management command id
and structure. The command definition is available in SEV KM spec
0.14 (http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM

 API_Specification.pdf)
and Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.txt.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Improvements-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      dc48bae0
    • Brijesh Singh's avatar
      KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_{UN,}REG_REGION ioctl · 69eaedee
      Brijesh Singh authored 
      

If hardware supports memory encryption then KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
and KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_UNREG_REGION ioctl's can be used by userspace to
register/unregister the guest memory regions which may contain the encrypted
data (e.g guest RAM, PCI BAR, SMRAM etc).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Improvements-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      69eaedee