the vcpu should be kicked to process a pending interrupt. This will be useful
in the implementation of the Posted Interrupt APICv feature.
Change the return value of 'vlapic_pending_intr()' to indicate whether or not
an interrupt is available to be delivered to the vcpu depending on the value
of the PPR.
Add KTR tracepoints to debug guest IPI delivery.
guest disables the HPET.
The HPET timer interrupt is triggered from the callout handler associated with
the timer. It is possible for the callout handler to be delayed before it gets
a chance to execute. If the guest disables the HPET during this window then the
handler never gets a chance to execute and the timer interrupt is lost.
This is now fixed by injecting a timer interrupt into the guest if the callout
time is detected to be in the past when the HPET is disabled.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
This also implies that we need to keep a snapshot of the last value written
to a LVT register. We can no longer rely on the LVT registers in the APIC
page to be "clean" because the guest can write anything to it before the
hypervisor has had a chance to sanitize it.
registers.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
We can no longer rely on the value of 'icr_timer' on the APIC page
in the callout handler. With APIC register virtualization the value of
'icr_timer' will be updated by the processor in guest-context before an
APIC-write VM-exit.
Clear the 'delivery status' bit in the ICRLO register in the write handler.
With APIC register virtualization the write happens in guest-context and
we cannot prevent a (buggy) guest from setting this bit.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
Additionally, mask all the LVT entries when the vlapic is software-disabled.
The handlers are now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
Additionally, we need to ensure that the value of these registers is always
correctly reflected in the virtual APIC page, because there is no VM exit
when the guest reads these registers with APIC register virtualization.
emulation.
The vlapic initialization and cleanup is done via processor specific vmm_ops.
This will allow the VT-x/SVM modules to layer any hardware-assist for APIC
emulation or virtual interrupt delivery on top of the vlapic device model.
Add a parameter to 'vcpu_notify_event()' to distinguish between vlapic
interrupts versus other events (e.g. NMI). This provides an opportunity to
use hardware-assists like Posted Interrupts (VT-x) or doorbell MSR (SVM)
to deliver an interrupt to a guest without causing a VM-exit.
Get rid of lapic_pending_intr() and lapic_intr_accepted() and use the
vlapic_xxx() counterparts directly.
Associate an 'Apic Page' with each vcpu and reference it from the 'vlapic'.
The 'Apic Page' is intended to be referenced from the Intel VMCS as the
'virtual APIC page' or from the AMD VMCB as the 'vAPIC backing page'.
- Add a generic routine to trigger an LVT interrupt that supports both
fixed and NMI delivery modes.
- Add an ioctl and bhyvectl command to trigger local interrupts inside a
guest. In particular, a global NMI similar to that raised by SERR# or
PERR# can be simulated by asserting LINT1 on all vCPUs.
- Extend the LVT table in the vCPU local APIC to support CMCI.
- Flesh out the local APIC error reporting a bit to cache errors and
report them via ESR when ESR is written to. Add support for asserting
the error LVT when an error occurs. Raise illegal vector errors when
attempting to signal an invalid vector for an interrupt or when sending
an IPI.
- Ignore writes to reserved bits in LVT entries.
- Export table entries the MADT and MP Table advertising the stock x86
config of LINT0 set to ExtInt and LINT1 wired to NMI.
Reviewed by: neel (earlier version)
callers treat the MSI 'addr' and 'data' fields as opaque and also lets
bhyve implement multiple destination modes: physical, flat and clustered.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
Reviewed by: grehan@
When the guest is bringing up the APs in the x2APIC mode a write to the
ICR register will now trigger a return to userspace with an exitcode of
VM_EXITCODE_SPINUP_AP. This gets SMP guests working again with x2APIC.
Change the vlapic timer lock to be a spinlock because the vlapic can be
accessed from within a critical section (vm run loop) when guest is using
x2apic mode.
Reviewed by: grehan@
This decouples the guest's 'hz' from the host's 'hz' setting. For e.g. it is
now possible to have a guest run at 'hz=1000' while the host is at 'hz=100'.
Discussed with: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
vcpu and destroy its thread context. Also modify the 'HLT' processing to ignore
pending interrupts in the IRR if interrupts have been disabled by the guest.
The interrupt cannot be injected into the guest in any case so resuming it
is futile.
With this change "halt" from a Linux guest works correctly.
Reviewed by: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
commit level triggered interrupts would work as long as the pin was not shared
among multiple interrupt sources.
The vlapic now keeps track of level triggered interrupts in the trigger mode
register and will forward the EOI for a level triggered interrupt to the
vioapic. The vioapic in turn uses the EOI to sample the level on the pin and
re-inject the vector if the pin is still asserted.
The vhpet is the first consumer of level triggered interrupts and advertises
that it can generate interrupts on pins 20 through 23 of the vioapic.
Discussed with: grehan@
bhyve supports a single timer block with 8 timers. The timers are all 32-bit
and capable of being operated in periodic mode. All timers support interrupt
delivery using MSI. Timers 0 and 1 also support legacy interrupt routing.
At the moment the timers are not connected to any ioapic pins but that will
be addressed in a subsequent commit.
This change is based on a patch from Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com).
to inject edge triggered legacy interrupts into the guest.
Start using the new API in device models that use edge triggered interrupts:
viz. the 8254 timer and the LPC/uart device emulation.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
upcoming in-kernel device emulations like the HPET.
The ioctls VM_IOAPIC_ASSERT_IRQ and VM_IOAPIC_DEASSERT_IRQ are used to
manipulate the ioapic pin state.
Discussed with: grehan@
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
in the kernel. This abstraction was redundant because the only device emulated
inside vmm.ko is the local apic and it is always at a fixed guest physical
address.
Discussed with: grehan
Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.
Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.
pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.
The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.
Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.
An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)
The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).
The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.
TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.
Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.
PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.
Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.
Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.
Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.
Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.
Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho
the maximum number of VT-d domains (256 on a Sandybridge). We now allocate a
VT-d domain for a guest only if the administrator has explicitly configured
one or more PCI passthru device(s).
If there are no PCI passthru devices configured (the common case) then the
number of virtual machines is no longer limited by the maximum number of
VT-d domains.
Reviewed by: grehan@
Approved by: re@
An array-type stat in vmm.ko is defined as follows:
VMM_STAT_ARRAY(IPIS_SENT, VM_MAXCPU, "ipis sent to vcpu");
It is incremented as follows:
vmm_stat_array_incr(vm, vcpuid, IPIS_SENT, array_index, 1);
And output of 'bhyvectl --get-stats' looks like:
ipis sent to vcpu[0] 3114
ipis sent to vcpu[1] 0
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.
The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().
Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.
Discussed with: grehan
can only be located at the beginning or the end of the BAR.
If the MSI-table is located in the middle of a BAR then we will split the
BAR into two and create two mappings - one before the table and one after
the table - leaving a hole in place of the table so accesses to it can be
trapped and emulated.
Obtained from: NetApp
The maximum length of an environment variable puts a limitation on the
number of passthru devices that can be specified via a single variable.
The workaround is to allow user to specify passthru devices via multiple
environment variables instead of a single one.
Obtained from: NetApp
x2apic mode on the guest.
The guest can decide whether or not it wants to use legacy mmio or x2apic
access to the APIC by writing to the MSR_APICBASE register.
Obtained from: NetApp
In the case where the underlying host had disabled MSI-X via the
"hw.pci.enable_msix" tunable, the ppt_setup_msix() function would fail
and return an error without properly cleaning up. This in turn would
cause a page fault on the next boot of the guest.
Fix this by calling ppt_teardown_msix() in all the error return paths.
Obtained from: NetApp
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.
This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.
AP needs to be activated by spinning up an execution context for it.
The local apic emulation is now completely done in the hypervisor and it will
detect writes to the ICR_LO register that try to bring up the AP. In response
to such writes it will return to userspace with an exit code of SPINUP_AP.
Reviewed by: grehan
Includes instruction emulation for memory r/w access. This
opens the door for io-apic, local apic, hpet timer, and
legacy device emulation.
Submitted by: ryan dot berryhill at sandvine dot com
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: Sandvine
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface
bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.
Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski
