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2008-03-03KVM: Make the supported cpuid list a host property rather than a vm propertyAvi Kivity
One of the use cases for the supported cpuid list is to create a "greatest common denominator" of cpu capabilities in a server farm. As such, it is useful to be able to get the list without creating a virtual machine first. Since the code does not depend on the vm in any way, all that is needed is to move it to the device ioctl handler. The capability identifier is also changed so that binaries made against -rc1 will fail gracefully. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_fpu to asm-x86/kvm.hChristian Ehrhardt
This patch moves kvm_fpu asm-x86/kvm.h to allow every architecture to define an own representation used for KVM_GET_FPU/KVM_SET_FPU. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Accelerated apic supportAvi Kivity
This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority than the new tpr). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: local APIC TPR access reporting facilityAvi Kivity
Add a facility to report on accesses to the local apic tpr even if the local apic is emulated in the kernel. This is basically a hack that allows userspace to patch Windows which tends to bang on the tpr a lot. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Expose ioapic to ia64 save/restore APIsZhang Xiantao
IA64 also needs to see ioapic structure in irqchip. Signed-off-by: xiantao.zhang@intel.com <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Add ifdef in irqchip struct for x86 only structuresJerone Young
This patch fixes a small issue where sturctures: kvm_pic_state kvm_ioapic_state are defined inside x86 specific code and may or may not be defined in anyway for other architectures. The problem caused is one cannot compile userspace apps (ex. libkvm) for other archs since a size cannot be determined for these structures. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Enhance guest cpuid managementDan Kenigsberg
The current cpuid management suffers from several problems, which inhibit passing through the host feature set to the guest: - No way to tell which features the host supports While some features can be supported with no changes to kvm, others need explicit support. That means kvm needs to vet the feature set before it is passed to the guest. - No support for indexed or stateful cpuid entries Some cpuid entries depend on ecx as well as on eax, or on internal state in the processor (running cpuid multiple times with the same input returns different output). The current cpuid machinery only supports keying on eax. - No support for save/restore/migrate The internal state above needs to be exposed to userspace so it can be saved or migrated. This patch adds extended cpuid support by means of three new ioctls: - KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID: get all cpuid entries the host (and kvm) supports - KVM_SET_CPUID2: sets the vcpu's cpuid table - KVM_GET_CPUID2: gets the vcpu's cpuid table, including hidden state [avi: fix original KVM_SET_CPUID not removing nx on non-nx hosts as it did before] Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move cpuid structures to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_cpuid_entry kvm_cpuid from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_sregs and msr structures to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
Move structures: kvm_sregs kvm_msr_entry kvm_msrs kvm_msr_list from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_segment & kvm_dtable structure to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_segment kvm_dtable from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move structure lapic_state to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structure lapic_state from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_regs to <asm/kvm.h>Jerone Young
This patch moves structure kvm_regs to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Each architecture will need to create there own version of this structure. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move x86 pic strutcturesJerone Young
This patch moves structures: kvm_pic_state kvm_ioapic_state to inclue/asm-x86/kvm.h. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Portability: Move kvm_memory_alias to asm/kvm.hJerone Young
This patch moves sturct kvm_memory_alias from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Also have include/linux/kvm.h include include/asm/kvm.h. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Add ioctl to tss address from userspace,Izik Eidus
Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel. This patch moves the allocation internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address space we can place the tss. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Support assigning userspace memory to the guestIzik Eidus
Instead of having the kernel allocate memory to the guest, let userspace allocate it and pass the address to the kernel. This is required for s390 support, but also enables features like memory sharing and using hugetlbfs backed memory. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30KVM: Allow dynamic allocation of the mmu shadow cache sizeIzik Eidus
The user is now able to set how many mmu pages will be allocated to the guest. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Replace enum by #defineAvi Kivity
Easier for existence test (#ifdef) in userspace. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: in-kernel LAPIC save and restore supportEddie Dong
This patch adds a new vcpu-based IOCTL to save and restore the local apic registers for a single vcpu. The kernel only copies the apic page as a whole, extraction of registers is left to userspace side. On restore, the APIC timer is restarted from the initial count, this introduces a little delay, but works fine. Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: in-kernel IOAPIC save and restore supportHe, Qing
This patch adds support for in-kernel ioapic save and restore (to and from userspace). It uses the same get/set_irqchip ioctl as in-kernel PIC. Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Add get/set irqchip ioctls for in-kernel PIC live migration supportHe, Qing
This patch adds two new ioctls to dump and write kernel irqchips for save/restore and live migration. PIC s/r and l/m is implemented in this patch. Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Emulate hlt in the kernelEddie Dong
By sleeping in the kernel when hlt is executed, we simplify the in-kernel guest interrupt path considerably. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Emulate local APIC in kernelEddie Dong
Because lightweight exits (exits which don't involve userspace) are many times faster than heavyweight exits, it makes sense to emulate high usage devices in the kernel. The local APIC is one such device, especially for Windows and for SMP, so we add an APIC model to kvm. It also allows in-kernel host-side drivers to inject interrupts without going through userspace. [compile fix on i386 from Jindrich Makovicka] Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <Eddie.Dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Add support for in-kernel PIC emulationEddie Dong
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Communicate cr8 changes to userspaceYang, Sheng
This allows running 64-bit Windows. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: add hypercall nr to kvm_runJeff Dike
Add the hypercall number to kvm_run and initialize it. This changes the ABI, but as this particular ABI was unusable before this no users are affected. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Trivial: Use standard BITMAP macros, open-code userspace-exposed headerRusty Russell
Creating one's own BITMAP macro seems suboptimal: if we use manual arithmetic in the one place exposed to userspace, we can use standard macros elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Trivial: /dev/kvm interface is no longer experimental.Rusty Russell
KVM interface is no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-13KVM: Future-proof the exit information union ABIAvi Kivity
Note that as the size of struct kvm_run is not part of the ABI, we can add things at the end. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Remove unused 'instruction_length'Avi Kivity
As we no longer emulate in userspace, this is meaningless. We don't compute it on SVM anyway. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Don't require explicit indication of completion of mmio or pioAvi Kivity
It is illegal not to return from a pio or mmio request without completing it, as mmio or pio is an atomic operation. Therefore, we can simplify the userspace interface by avoiding the completion indication. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Add fpu get/set operationsAvi Kivity
These are really helpful when migrating an floating point app to another machine. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Add physical memory aliasing featureAvi Kivity
With this, we can specify that accesses to one physical memory range will be remapped to another. This is useful for the vga window at 0xa0000 which is used as a movable window into the (much larger) framebuffer. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Avoid guest virtual addresses in string pio userspace interfaceAvi Kivity
The current string pio interface communicates using guest virtual addresses, relying on userspace to translate addresses and to check permissions. This interface cannot fully support guest smp, as the check needs to take into account two pages at one in case an unaligned string transfer straddles a page boundary. Change the interface not to communicate guest addresses at all; instead use a buffer page (mmaped by userspace) and do transfers there. The kernel manages the virtual to physical translation and can perform the checks atomically by taking the appropriate locks. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Allow kernel to select size of mmap() bufferAvi Kivity
This allows us to store offsets in the kernel/user kvm_run area, and be sure that userspace has them mapped. As offsets can be outside the kvm_run struct, userspace has no way of knowing how much to mmap. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Add guest mode signal maskAvi Kivity
Allow a special signal mask to be used while executing in guest mode. This allows signals to be used to interrupt a vcpu without requiring signal delivery to a userspace handler, which is quite expensive. Userspace still receives -EINTR and can get the signal via sigwait(). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Add a special exit reason when exiting due to an interruptAvi Kivity
This is redundant, as we also return -EINTR from the ioctl, but it allows us to examine the exit_reason field on resume without seeing old data. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Fold kvm_run::exit_type into kvm_run::exit_reasonAvi Kivity
Currently, userspace is told about the nature of the last exit from the guest using two fields, exit_type and exit_reason, where exit_type has just two enumerations (and no need for more). So fold exit_type into exit_reason, reducing the complexity of determining what really happened. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Allow userspace to process hypercalls which have no kernel handlerAvi Kivity
This is useful for paravirtualized graphics devices, for example. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Add method to check for backwards-compatible API extensionsAvi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Renumber ioctlsAvi Kivity
The recent changes have left the ioctl numbers in complete disarray. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Remove minor wart from KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctlAvi Kivity
That ioctl does not transfer any data, so it should be an _IO rather than an _IOW. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Remove the 'emulated' field from the userspace interfaceAvi Kivity
We no longer emulate single instructions in userspace. Instead, we service mmio or pio requests. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Handle cpuid in the kernel instead of punting to userspaceAvi Kivity
KVM used to handle cpuid by letting userspace decide what values to return to the guest. We now handle cpuid completely in the kernel. We still let userspace decide which values the guest will see by having userspace set up the value table beforehand (this is necessary to allow management software to set the cpu features to the least common denominator, so that live migration can work). The motivation for the change is that kvm kernel code can be impacted by cpuid features, for example the x86 emulator. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Do not communicate to userspace through cpu registers during PIOAvi Kivity
Currently when passing the a PIO emulation request to userspace, we rely on userspace updating %rax (on 'in' instructions) and %rsi/%rdi/%rcx (on string instructions). This (a) requires two extra ioctls for getting and setting the registers and (b) is unfriendly to non-x86 archs, when they get kvm ports. So fix by doing the register fixups in the kernel and passing to userspace only an abstract description of the PIO to be done. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03KVM: Use a shared page for kernel/user communication when runing a vcpuAvi Kivity
Instead of passing a 'struct kvm_run' back and forth between the kernel and userspace, allocate a page and allow the user to mmap() it. This reduces needless copying and makes the interface expandable by providing lots of free space. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04KVM: Bump API versionAvi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04KVM: Per-vcpu inodesAvi Kivity
Allocate a distinct inode for every vcpu in a VM. This has the following benefits: - the filp cachelines are no longer bounced when f_count is incremented on every ioctl() - the API and internal code are distinctly clearer; for example, on the KVM_GET_REGS ioctl, there is no need to copy the vcpu number from userspace and then copy the registers back; the vcpu identity is derived from the fd used to make the call Right now the performance benefits are completely theoretical since (a) we don't support more than one vcpu per VM and (b) virtualization hardware inefficiencies completely everwhelm any cacheline bouncing effects. But both of these will change, and we need to prepare the API today. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-03-04KVM: Create an inode per virtual machineAvi Kivity
This avoids having filp->f_op and the corresponding inode->i_fop different, which is a little unorthodox. The ioctl list is split into two: global kvm ioctls and per-vm ioctls. A new ioctl, KVM_CREATE_VM, is used to create VMs and return the VM fd. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-02-12[PATCH] kvm: Fix mismatch between 32-bit and 64-bit abiAvi Kivity
Unfortunately requiring a version bump. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>