The new RTC emulation supports all interrupt modes: periodic, update ended
and alarm. It is also capable of maintaining the date/time and NVRAM contents
across virtual machine reset. Also, the date/time fields can now be modified
by the guest.
Since bhyve now emulates both the PIT and the RTC there is no need for
"Legacy Replacement Routing" in the HPET so get rid of it.
The RTC device state can be inspected via bhyvectl as follows:
bhyvectl --vm=vm --get-rtc-time
bhyvectl --vm=vm --set-rtc-time=<unix_time_secs>
bhyvectl --vm=vm --rtc-nvram-offset=<offset> --get-rtc-nvram
bhyvectl --vm=vm --rtc-nvram-offset=<offset> --set-rtc-nvram=<value>
Reviewed by: tychon
Discussed with: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1385
MFC after: 2 weeks
problems than it solves. SYSDIR is already defined almost always and
can be used instead. Working around the one case where it isn't is
much easier than working around the fact that @ may not exist in 18
other places.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1100
This reduces variability during timer calibration by keeping the emulation
"close" to the guest. Additionally having all timer emulations in the kernel
will ease the transition to a per-VM clock source (as opposed to using the
host's uptime keep track of time).
Discussed with: grehan
Rename vmx_assym.s to vmx_assym.h to reflect that file's actual use
and update vmx_support.S's include to match. Add vmx_assym.h to the
SRCS to that it gets properly added to the dependency list. Add
vmx_support.S to SRCS as well, so it gets built and needs fewer
special-case goo. Remove now-redundant special-case goo. Finally,
vmx_genassym.o doesn't need to depend on a hand expanded ${_ILINKS}
explicitly, that's all taken care of by beforedepend.
With these items fixed, we no longer build vmm.ko every single time
through the modules on a KERNFAST build.
Sponsored by: Netflix
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
New ioctls VM_ISA_ASSERT_IRQ, VM_ISA_DEASSERT_IRQ and VM_ISA_PULSE_IRQ
can be used to manipulate the pic, and optionally the ioapic, pin state.
Reviewed by: jhb, neel
Approved by: neel (co-mentor)
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).
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
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
