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  3. May 19, 2015
  5. May 11, 2015
  7. May 07, 2015
    • Nadav Amit's avatar
      KVM: x86: Support for disabling quirks · 90de4a18
      Nadav Amit authored 
      

Introducing KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS for disabling x86 quirks that were previous
created in order to overcome QEMU issues. Those issue were mostly result of
invalid VM BIOS.  Currently there are two quirks that can be disabled:

1. KVM_QUIRK_LINT0_REENABLED - LINT0 was enabled after boot
2. KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED - CD and NW are cleared after boot

These two issues are already resolved in recent releases of QEMU, and would
therefore be disabled by QEMU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Message-Id: <1428879221-29996-1-git-send-email-namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
[Report capability from KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION too. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      90de4a18
  9. Apr 21, 2015
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add fast real-mode H_RANDOM implementation. · e928e9cb
      Michael Ellerman authored 
      

Some PowerNV systems include a hardware random-number generator.
This HWRNG is present on POWER7+ and POWER8 chips and is capable of
generating one 64-bit random number every microsecond.  The random
numbers are produced by sampling a set of 64 unstable high-frequency
oscillators and are almost completely entropic.

PAPR defines an H_RANDOM hypercall which guests can use to obtain one
64-bit random sample from the HWRNG.  This adds a real-mode
implementation of the H_RANDOM hypercall.  This hypercall was
implemented in real mode because the latency of reading the HWRNG is
generally small compared to the latency of a guest exit and entry for
all the threads in the same virtual core.

Userspace can detect the presence of the HWRNG and the H_RANDOM
implementation by querying the KVM_CAP_PPC_HWRNG capability.  The
H_RANDOM hypercall implementation will only be invoked when the guest
does an H_RANDOM hypercall if userspace first enables the in-kernel
H_RANDOM implementation using the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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  11. Mar 31, 2015
  13. Mar 27, 2015
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Wire up MSA capability · d952bd07
      James Hogan authored 
      

Now that the code is in place for KVM to support MIPS SIMD Architecutre
(MSA) in MIPS guests, wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA capability.

For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of MSA from the guest.

The capability is not supported if the hardware supports MSA vector
partitioning, since the extra support cannot be tested yet and it
extends the state that the userland program would have to save.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
      d952bd07
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Expose MSA registers · ab86bd60
      James Hogan authored 
      

Add KVM register numbers for the MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) registers,
and implement access to them with the KVM_GET_ONE_REG / KVM_SET_ONE_REG
ioctls when the MSA capability is enabled (exposed in a later patch) and
present in the guest according to its Config3.MSAP bit.

The MSA vector registers use the same register numbers as the FPU
registers except with a different size (128bits). Since MSA depends on
Status.FR=1, these registers are inaccessible when Status.FR=0. These
registers are returned as a single native endian 128bit value, rather
than least significant half first with each 64-bit half native endian as
the kernel uses internally.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
      ab86bd60
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Wire up FPU capability · 5fafd874
      James Hogan authored 
      

Now that the code is in place for KVM to support FPU in MIPS KVM guests,
wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_FPU capability.

For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of the FPU from the guest.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
      5fafd874
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Expose FPU registers · 379245cd
      James Hogan authored 
      

Add KVM register numbers for the MIPS FPU registers, and implement
access to them with the KVM_GET_ONE_REG / KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls when
the FPU capability is enabled (exposed in a later patch) and present in
the guest according to its Config1.FP bit.

The registers are accessible in the current mode of the guest, with each
sized access showing what the guest would see with an equivalent access,
and like the architecture they may become UNPREDICTABLE if the FR mode
is changed. When FR=0, odd doubles are inaccessible as they do not exist
in that mode.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
      379245cd
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Add Config4/5 and writing of Config registers · c771607a
      James Hogan authored 
      

Add Config4 and Config5 co-processor 0 registers, and add capability to
write the Config1, Config3, Config4, and Config5 registers using the KVM
API.

Only supported bits can be written, to minimise the chances of the guest
being given a configuration from e.g. QEMU that is inconsistent with
that being emulated, and as such the handling is in trap_emul.c as it
may need to be different for VZ. Currently the only modification
permitted is to make Config4 and Config5 exist via the M bits, but other
bits will be added for FPU and MSA support in future patches.

Care should be taken by userland not to change bits without fully
handling the possible extra state that may then exist and which the
guest may begin to use and depend on.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
      c771607a
    • James Hogan's avatar
      MIPS: KVM: Implement PRid CP0 register access · 1068eaaf
      James Hogan authored 
      

Implement access to the guest Processor Identification CP0 register
using the KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls. This allows the
owning process to modify and read back the value that is exposed to the
guest in this register.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
      1068eaaf
  15. Mar 17, 2015
  17. Mar 14, 2015
  19. Mar 12, 2015
    • Eric Auger's avatar
      KVM: arm/arm64: add irqfd support · 174178fe
      Eric Auger authored 
      

This patch enables irqfd on arm/arm64.

Both irqfd and resamplefd are supported. Injection is implemented
in vgic.c without routing.

This patch enables CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD and CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

KVM_CAP_IRQFD is now advertised. KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE capability
automatically is advertised as soon as CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD is set.

Irqfd injection is restricted to SPI. The rationale behind not
supporting PPI irqfd injection is that any device using a PPI would
be a private-to-the-CPU device (timer for instance), so its state
would have to be context-switched along with the VCPU and would
require in-kernel wiring anyhow. It is not a relevant use case for
irqfds.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      174178fe
  21. Mar 06, 2015
    • Eric Farman's avatar
      KVM: s390: Allocate and save/restore vector registers · 68c55750
      Eric Farman authored 
      

Define and allocate space for both the host and guest views of
the vector registers for a given vcpu.  The 32 vector registers
occupy 128 bits each (512 bytes total), but architecturally are
paired with 512 additional bytes of reserved space for future
expansion.

The kvm_sync_regs structs containing the registers are union'ed
with 1024 bytes of padding in the common kvm_run struct.  The
addition of 1024 bytes of new register information clearly exceeds
the existing union, so an expansion of that padding is required.

When changing environments, we need to appropriately save and
restore the vector registers viewed by both the host and guest,
into and out of the sync_regs space.

The floating point registers overlay the upper half of vector
registers 0-15, so there's a bit of data duplication here that
needs to be carefully avoided.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      68c55750
  23. Feb 13, 2015
    • Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar
      virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt · a2e19991
      Luis R. Rodriguez authored 
      

The general documentation we have for pv_ops is currenty present
on the IA64 docs, but since this documentation covers IA64 xen
enablement and IA64 Xen support got ripped out a while ago
through commit d52eefb4 present since v3.14-rc1 lets just
simplify, generalize and move the pv_ops documentation to a
shared place.

Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a2e19991
  25. Feb 09, 2015
    • Michael Mueller's avatar
      KVM: s390: add cpu model support · 658b6eda
      Michael Mueller authored 
      

This patch enables cpu model support in kvm/s390 via the vm attribute
interface.

During KVM initialization, the host properties cpuid, IBC value and the
facility list are stored in the architecture specific cpu model structure.

During vcpu setup, these properties are taken to initialize the related SIE
state. This mechanism allows to adjust the properties from user space and thus
to implement different selectable cpu models.

This patch uses the IBC functionality to block instructions that have not
been implemented at the requested CPU type and GA level compared to the
full host capability.

Userspace has to initialize the cpu model before vcpu creation. A cpu model
change of running vcpus is not possible.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      658b6eda
  27. Jan 23, 2015
  29. Jan 20, 2015
  31. Jan 11, 2015
    • Eric Auger's avatar
      KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: add init entry to VGIC KVM device · 065c0034
      Eric Auger authored 
      

Since the advent of VGIC dynamic initialization, this latter is
initialized quite late on the first vcpu run or "on-demand", when
injecting an IRQ or when the guest sets its registers.

This initialization could be initiated explicitly much earlier
by the users-space, as soon as it has provided the requested
dimensioning parameters.

This patch adds a new entry to the VGIC KVM device that allows
the user to manually request the VGIC init:
- a new KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL group is introduced.
- Its first attribute is KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT

The rationale behind introducing a group is to be able to add other
controls later on, if needed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      065c0034
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  47. Sep 03, 2014
    • David Matlack's avatar
      kvm: fix potentially corrupt mmio cache · ee3d1570
      David Matlack authored 
      

vcpu exits and memslot mutations can run concurrently as long as the
vcpu does not aquire the slots mutex. Thus it is theoretically possible
for memslots to change underneath a vcpu that is handling an exit.

If we increment the memslot generation number again after
synchronize_srcu_expedited(), vcpus can safely cache memslot generation
without maintaining a single rcu_dereference through an entire vm exit.
And much of the x86/kvm code does not maintain a single rcu_dereference
of the current memslots during each exit.

We can prevent the following case:

   vcpu (CPU 0)                             | thread (CPU 1)
--------------------------------------------+--------------------------
1  vm exit                                  |
2  srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu)             |
3  decide to cache something based on       |
     old memslots                           |
4                                           | change memslots
                                            | (increments generation)
5                                           | synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu);
6  retrieve generation # from new memslots  |
7  tag cache with new memslot generation    |
8  srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu)             |
...                                         |
   <action based on cache occurs even       |
    though the caching decision was based   |
    on the old memslots>                    |
...                                         |
   <action *continues* to occur until next  |
    memslot generation change, which may    |
    be never>                               |
                                            |

By incrementing the generation after synchronizing with kvm->srcu readers,
we ensure that the generation retrieved in (6) will become invalid soon
after (8).

Keeping the existing increment is not strictly necessary, but we
do keep it and just move it for consistency from update_memslots to
install_new_memslots.  It invalidates old cached MMIOs immediately,
instead of having to wait for the end of synchronize_srcu_expedited,
which makes the code more clearly correct in case CPU 1 is preempted
right after synchronize_srcu() returns.

To avoid halving the generation space in SPTEs, always presume that the
low bit of the generation is zero when reconstructing a generation number
out of an SPTE.  This effectively disables MMIO caching in SPTEs during
the call to synchronize_srcu_expedited.  Using the low bit this way is
somewhat like a seqcount---where the protected thing is a cache, and
instead of retrying we can simply punt if we observe the low bit to be 1.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      ee3d1570