emulating a large number of MSRs.
Ignore writes to a couple more AMD-specific MSRs and return 0 on read.
This further reduces the unimplemented MSRs accessed by a Linux guest on boot.
CPUID.80000001H:ECX.
Handle accesses to PerfCtrX and PerfEvtSelX MSRs by ignoring writes and
returning 0 on reads.
This further reduces the number of unimplemented MSRs hit by a Linux guest
during boot.
This gets rid of the "TSC doesn't count with P0 frequency!" message when
booting a Linux guest.
Tested on an "AMD Opteron 6320" courtesy of Ben Perrault.
code. There are only a handful of MSRs common between the two so there isn't
too much duplicate functionality.
The VT-x code has the following types of MSRs:
- MSRs that are unconditionally saved/restored on every guest/host context
switch (e.g., MSR_GSBASE).
- MSRs that are restored to guest values on entry to vmx_run() and saved
before returning. This is an optimization for MSRs that are not used in
host kernel context (e.g., MSR_KGSBASE).
- MSRs that are emulated and every access by the guest causes a trap into
the hypervisor (e.g., MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE).
Reviewed by: grehan
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
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
