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
This eliminates the need to recompile the kernel when the default value
of NKPT is not big enough - for e.g. when loading large kernel modules
or memory disk images from the loader.
If NKPT is defined in the kernel configuration file then it overrides the
dynamic calculation.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
- change 'pics' from STAILQ to TAILQ
- ensure that Local APIC is always first in 'pics'
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Sergey V. Dyatko <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>,
KAHO Toshikazu <kaho@elam.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
MFC after: 12 days
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
FreeBSD TCP-level socket options (only the first two are). Instead,
using a mapping function and fail unsupported options as we do for other
socket option levels.
MFC after: 2 weeks
that 'smp_started != 0'.
This is required because the VT-x initialization calls smp_rendezvous()
to set the CR4_VMXE bit on all the cpus.
With this change we can preload vmm.ko from the loader.
Reported by: alfred@, sbruno@
Obtained from: NetApp
'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).
Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.
Obtained from: NetApp
CPUs exhibit bad behavior if this is done (Intel Errata AAJ3, hangs on
Pentium-M, and trashing of the local APIC registers on a VIA C7). The
local APIC is implicitly mapped UC already via MTRRs, so the clflush isn't
necessary anyway.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This should not matter much when running on bare metal but it makes the guest
more friendly when running inside a virtual machine.
Discussed with: jhb
Obtained from: NetApp
During the early days of bhyve it did not support instruction emulation
which necessitated the use of x2apic to access the local apic. This is no
longer the case and the dependency on x2apic has gone away.
The x2apic patches can be considered independently of bhyve and will be
merged into head via projects/x2apic.
Discussed with: grehan
the guest to execute real or unpaged protected mode code - bhyve relies on
this feature to execute the AP bootstrap code.
Get rid of the hack that allowed bhyve to support SMP guests on processors
that do not have the "unrestricted guest" capability. This hack was entirely
FreeBSD-specific and would not work with any other guest OS.
Instead, limit the number of vcpus to 1 when executing on processors without
"unrestricted guest" capability.
Suggested by: grehan
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
Provide a tunable 'machdep.x2apic_desired' to let the administrator override
the default behavior.
Provide a read-only sysctl 'machdep.x2apic' to let the administrator know
whether the kernel is using x2apic or legacy mmio to access local apic.
Tested with Parallels Desktop 8 and bhyve hypervisors.
Also tested running on bare metal Intel Xeon E5-2658.
Obtained from: NetApp
Discussed with: jhb, attilio, avg, grehan
guest floating point state without having to know the
size of floating-point state.
Unstaticize fpurestore to allow the hypervisor to
save/restore guest state using fpusave/fpurestore
on the allocated FPU state area.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: NetApp/bhyve
MFC after: 1 week
hierarchy of the page table entries which map the specified address.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
by clang in the local APIC code.
0x81 is a read-modify-write instruction - the EPT check
that only allowed read or write and not both has been
relaxed to allow read and write.
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
On a nested page table fault the hypervisor will:
- fetch the instruction using the guest %rip and %cr3
- decode the instruction in 'struct vie'
- emulate the instruction in host kernel context for local apic accesses
- any other type of mmio access is punted up to user-space (e.g. ioapic)
The decoded instruction is passed as collateral to the user-space process
that is handling the PAGING exit.
The emulation code is fleshed out to include more addressing modes (e.g. SIB)
and more types of operands (e.g. imm8). The source code is unified into a
single file (vmm_instruction_emul.c) that is compiled into vmm.ko as well
as /usr/sbin/bhyve.
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
