- No emulation of A/D bits is required since AMD-V RVI
supports A/D bits.
- Enable pmap PT_RVI support(w/o PAT) which is required for
memory over-commit support.
- Other minor fixes:
* Make use of VMCB EXITINTINFO field. If a #VMEXIT happens while
delivering an interrupt, EXITINTINFO has all the details that bhyve
needs to inject the same interrupt.
* SVM h/w decode assist code was incomplete - removed for now.
* Some minor code clean-up (more coming).
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
all vcpus belonging to a guest. This means that when different vcpus belonging
to the same guest are executing on the same host cpu there may be "leakage"
in the mappings created by one vcpu to another.
The proper fix for this is being worked on and will be committed shortly.
In the meantime workaround this bug by flushing the guest TLB entries on every
VM entry.
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
hang on console output (due to a missing interrupt).
SVM does exit processing and then handles ASTPENDING which
overwrites the already handled SVM exit cause and corrupts
virtual machine state. For example, if the SVM exit was due to
an I/O port access but the main loop detected an ASTPENDING,
the exit would be processed as ASTPENDING and leave the
device (e.g. emulated UART) for that I/O port in bad state.
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
Reviewed by: 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
immediate operand. The presence of an SIB byte in decoding the ModR/M field
would cause 'imm_bytes' to not be set to the correct value.
Fix this by initializing 'imm_bytes' independent of the ModR/M decoding.
Reported by: grehan@
Approved by: re@
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@
This is a workaround to hide the fact that we do not have any code to
demote a superpage mapping before we unmap a single page that is part
of the superpage.
architectural state on CR vmexits by guaranteeing
that EFER, CR0 and the VMCS entry controls are
all in sync when transitioning to IA-32e mode.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale <at> plurisbusnetworks.com)
of unloading the module while VMs existed. This would
result in EBUSY, but would prevent further operations
on VMs resulting in the module being impossible to
unload.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale <at> plurisbusnetworks.com)
Reviewed by: grehan, neel
This was exposed with AP spinup of Linux, and
booting OpenBSD, where the CR0 register is unconditionally
written to prior to the longjump to enter protected
mode. The CR-vmexit handling was not updating CPU state which
resulted in a vmentry failure with invalid guest state.
A follow-on submit will fix the CPU state issue, but this
fix prevents the CR-vmexit prior to entering protected
mode by properly initializing and maintaining CR* state.
Reviewed by: neel
Reported by: Gopakumar.T @ netapp
bhyve process when an unhandled one is encountered.
Hide some additional capabilities from the guest (e.g. debug store).
This fixes the issue with FreeBSD 9.1 MP guests exiting the VM on
AP spinup (where CPUID is used when sync'ing the TSCs) and the
issue with the Java build where CPUIDs are issued from a guest
userspace.
Submitted by: tycho nightingale at pluribusnetworks com
Reviewed by: neel
Reported by: many
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
The initial version of this came from Sandvine but had "PROVIDED BY NETAPP,
INC" in the copyright text, presuambly because the license block was copied
from another file. Replace it with standard "AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS" form.
Approvided by: grehan@
- Define data structures to contain the SVM vcpu context
- Define data structures to contain guest and host software context
- Change license in vmcb.h and vmcb.c to remove references to NetApp that
inadvertently sneaked in when the license text was copied from amdv.c.
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
Rework the guest register fetch code to allow the RIP to
be extracted from the VMCS while the kernel decoder is
functioning.
Hit by the OpenBSD local-apic code.
Submitted by: neel
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
- use clock_gettime(2) as the time base for the emulated ACPI timer instead
of directly using rdtsc().
- don't advertise the invariant TSC capability to the guest to discourage it
from using the TSC as its time base.
Discussed with: jhb@ (about making 'smp_tsc' a global)
Reported by: Dan Mack on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp
decode. This is to accomodate hardware assist implementations that do not
provide the 'guest linear address' as part of nested page fault collateral.
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3 at gmail dot com)
This can be done by using the new macros VMM_STAT_INTEL() and VMM_STAT_AMD().
Statistic counters that are common across the two are defined using VMM_STAT().
Suggested by: Anish Gupta
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
