Add a credential to the cdev object in sysctl_vmm_create(), then check
that we have the correct credentials in sysctl_vmm_destroy(). This
prevents a process in one jail from opening or destroying the /dev/vmm
file corresponding to a VM in a sibling jail.
Add regression tests.
Reviewed by: jhb, markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31156
We want to allow the UEFI firmware to enumerate and assign
addresses to PCI devices so we can boot from NVMe[1]. Address
assignment of PCI BARs is properly handled by the PCI emulation
code in general, but a few specific cases need additional support.
fbuf and passthru map additional objects into the guest physical
address space and so need to handle address updates. Here we add a
callback to emulated PCI devices to inform them of a BAR
configuration change. fbuf and passthru then watch for these BAR
changes and relocate the frame buffer memory segment and passthru
device mmio area respectively.
We also add new VM_MUNMAP_MEMSEG and VM_UNMAP_PPTDEV_MMIO ioctls
to vmm(4) to facilitate the unmapping needed for addres updates.
[1]: https://github.com/freebsd/uefi-edk2/pull/9/
Originally by: scottph
MFC After: 1 week
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Reviewed by: grehan
Approved by: philip (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24066
Add a new ioctl to disable all MSI-X interrupts for a PCI passthrough
device and invoke it if a write to the MSI-X capability registers
disables MSI-X. This avoids leaving MSI-X interrupts enabled on the
host if a guest device driver has disabled them (e.g. as part of
detaching a guest device driver).
This was found by Chelsio QA when testing that a Linux guest could
switch from MSI-X to MSI interrupts when using the cxgb4vf driver.
While here, explicitly fail requests to enable MSI on a passthrough
device if MSI-X is enabled and vice versa.
Reported by: Sony Arpita Das @ Chelsio
Reviewed by: grehan, markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27212
Expose the special kernel LAPIC, IOAPIC, and HPET devices to userspace
for use in, e.g., fallback instruction emulation (when userspace has a
newer instruction decode/emulation layer than the kernel vmm(4)).
Plumb the ioctl through libvmmapi and register the memory ranges in
bhyve(8).
Reviewed by: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24525
Save and restore (also known as suspend and resume) permits a snapshot
to be taken of a guest's state that can later be resumed. In the
current implementation, bhyve(8) creates a UNIX domain socket that is
used by bhyvectl(8) to send a request to save a snapshot (and
optionally exit after the snapshot has been taken). A snapshot
currently consists of two files: the first holds a copy of guest RAM,
and the second file holds other guest state such as vCPU register
values and device model state.
To resume a guest, bhyve(8) must be started with a matching pair of
command line arguments to instantiate the same set of device models as
well as a pointer to the saved snapshot.
While the current implementation is useful for several uses cases, it
has a few limitations. The file format for saving the guest state is
tied to the ABI of internal bhyve structures and is not
self-describing (in that it does not communicate the set of device
models present in the system). In addition, the state saved for some
device models closely matches the internal data structures which might
prove a challenge for compatibility of snapshot files across a range
of bhyve versions. The file format also does not currently support
versioning of individual chunks of state. As a result, the current
file format is not a fixed binary format and future revisions to save
and restore will break binary compatiblity of snapshot files. The
goal is to move to a more flexible format that adds versioning,
etc. and at that point to commit to providing a reasonable level of
compatibility. As a result, the current implementation is not enabled
by default. It can be enabled via the WITH_BHYVE_SNAPSHOT=yes option
for userland builds, and the kernel option BHYVE_SHAPSHOT.
Submitted by: Mihai Tiganus, Flavius Anton, Darius Mihai
Submitted by: Elena Mihailescu, Mihai Carabas, Sergiu Weisz
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: University Politehnica of Bucharest
Sponsored by: Matthew Grooms (student scholarships)
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked). Use it in
preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: kib (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23625
X-Generally looks fine: jhb
hard-coded value. Don't allocate space for it from the kernel stack.
Account for prefix, suffix, and separator space in the name. This
takes the effective length up to 229 bytes on 13-current, and 37 bytes
on 12-stable. 37 bytes is enough to hold a full GUID string.
PR: 234134
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: http://reviews.freebsd.org/D20924
Replace most VM_MAXCPU constant useses with an accessor function to
vm->maxcpus which for now is initialized and kept at the value of
VM_MAXCPUS.
This is a rework of Fabian Freyer (fabian.freyer_physik.tu-berlin.de)
work from D10070 to adjust it for the cpu topology changes that
occured in r332298
Submitted by: Fabian Freyer (fabian.freyer_physik.tu-berlin.de)
Reviewed by: Patrick Mooney <patrick.mooney@joyent.com>
Approved by: bde (mentor), jhb (maintainer)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18755
This patch adds a new sysctl(8) knob "security.jail.vmm_allowed",
by default this option is disable.
Submitted by: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb____hardenedbsd.org>
Reviewed by: jamie@ and myself.
Relnotes: Yes.
Sponsored by: HardenedBSD and G2, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16057
Currently, when using dd(1) to take a VM memory image, the capture never ends,
reading zeroes when it's beyond VM system memory max address.
Return EFAULT when trying to read beyond VM system memory max address.
Reviewed by: imp, grehan, anish
Approved by: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15156
from userland without the need to use sysctls, it allows the old
sysctls to continue to function, but deprecates them at
FreeBSD_version 1200060 (Relnotes for deprecate).
The command line of bhyve is maintained in a backwards compatible way.
The API of libvmmapi is maintained in a backwards compatible way.
The sysctl's are maintained in a backwards compatible way.
Added command option looks like:
bhyve -c [[cpus=]n][,sockets=n][,cores=n][,threads=n][,maxcpus=n]
The optional parts can be specified in any order, but only a single
integer invokes the backwards compatible parse. [,maxcpus=n] is
hidden by #ifdef until kernel support is added, though the api
is put in place.
bhyvectl --get-cpu-topology option added.
Reviewed by: grehan (maintainer, earlier version),
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
Approved by: bde (mentor), phk (mentor)
Tested by: Oleg Ginzburg <olevole@olevole.ru> (cbsd)
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: Y
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9930
This is used as part of implementing run control in bhyve's debug
server. The hypervisor now maintains a set of "debugged" CPUs.
Attempting to run a debugged CPU will fail to execute any guest
instructions and will instead report a VM_EXITCODE_DEBUG exit to
the userland hypervisor. Virtual CPUs are placed into the debugged
state via vm_suspend_cpu() (implemented via a new VM_SUSPEND_CPU ioctl).
Virtual CPUs can be resumed via vm_resume_cpu() (VM_RESUME_CPU ioctl).
The debug server suspends virtual CPUs when it wishes them to stop
executing in the guest (for example, when a debugger attaches to the
server). The debug server can choose to resume only a subset of CPUs
(for example, when single stepping) or it can choose to resume all
CPUs. The debug server must explicitly mark a CPU as resumed via
vm_resume_cpu() before the virtual CPU will successfully execute any
guest instructions.
Reviewed by: avg, grehan
Tested on: Intel (jhb), AMD (avg)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14466
Unlike the existing GLA2GPA ioctl, GLA2GPA_NOFAULT does not modify
the guest. In particular, it does not inject any faults or modify
PTEs in the guest when performing an address space translation.
This is used by bhyve's debug server to read and write memory for
the remote debugger.
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14075
These are a convenience for bhyve's debug server to use a single
ioctl for 'g' and 'G' rather than a loop of individual get/set
ioctl requests.
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 2 months
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14074
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
The error is:
vmm_dev.c: In function 'alloc_memseg':
vmm_dev.c:261:11: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 1) [-Werror=nonnull]
Apparently, the gcc is unable to figure out that if a ternary operator
produced a non-NULL value once, then the operator with exactly the same
operands would produce the same value again.
MFC after: 1 week
Some external tools just do a 'ls /dev/vmm' to figure out the bhyve virtual
machines on the host. These tools break if the devmem device nodes also
appear in /dev/vmm.
Requested by: grehan
devmem is used to represent MMIO devices like the boot ROM or a VESA framebuffer
where doing a trap-and-emulate for every access is impractical. devmem is a
hybrid of system memory (sysmem) and emulated device models.
devmem is mapped in the guest address space via nested page tables similar
to sysmem. However the address range where devmem is mapped may be changed
by the guest at runtime (e.g. by reprogramming a PCI BAR). Also devmem is
usually mapped RO or RW as compared to RWX mappings for sysmem.
Each devmem segment is named (e.g. "bootrom") and this name is used to
create a device node for the devmem segment (e.g. /dev/vmm/testvm.bootrom).
The device node supports mmap(2) and this decouples the host mapping of
devmem from its mapping in the guest address space (which can change).
Reviewed by: tychon
Discussed with: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2762
MFC after: 4 weeks
Prior to this change both functions returned 0 for success, -1 for failure
and +1 to indicate that an exception was injected into the guest.
The numerical value of ERESTART also happens to be -1 so when these functions
returned -1 it had to be translated to a positive errno value to prevent the
VM_RUN ioctl from being inadvertently restarted. This made it easy to introduce
bugs when writing emulation code.
Fix this by adding an 'int *guest_fault' parameter and setting it to '1' if
an exception was delivered to the guest. The return value is 0 or EFAULT so
no additional translation is needed.
Reviewed by: tychon
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2428
%rdi, %rsi, etc are inadvertently bypassed along with the check to
see if the instruction needs to be repeated per the 'rep' prefix.
Add "MOVS" instruction support for the 'MMIO to MMIO' case.
Reviewed by: neel
Keep track of the next instruction to be executed by the vcpu as 'nextrip'.
As a result the VM_RUN ioctl no longer takes the %rip where a vcpu should
start execution.
Also, instruction restart happens implicitly via 'vm_inject_exception()' or
explicitly via 'vm_restart_instruction()'. The APIs behave identically in
both kernel and userspace contexts. The main beneficiary is the instruction
emulation code that executes in both contexts.
bhyve(8) VM exit handlers now treat 'vmexit->rip' and 'vmexit->inst_length'
as readonly:
- Restarting an instruction is now done by calling 'vm_restart_instruction()'
as opposed to setting 'vmexit->inst_length' to 0 (e.g. emulate_inout())
- Resuming vcpu at an arbitrary %rip is now done by setting VM_REG_GUEST_RIP
as opposed to changing 'vmexit->rip' (e.g. vmexit_task_switch())
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1526
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 2 weeks
VM_INJECT_EXCEPTION ioctl. However it morphed into other uses like keeping
track pending exceptions for a vcpu. This in turn causes confusion because
some fields in 'struct vm_exception' like 'vcpuid' make sense only in the
ioctl context. It also makes it harder to add or remove structure fields.
Fix this by using 'struct vm_exception' only to communicate information
from userspace to vmm.ko when injecting an exception.
Also, add a field 'restart_instruction' to 'struct vm_exception'. This
field is set to '1' for exceptions where the faulting instruction is
restarted after the exception is handled.
MFC after: 1 week
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
A nested exception condition arises when a second exception is triggered while
delivering the first exception. Most nested exceptions can be handled serially
but some are converted into a double fault. If an exception is generated during
delivery of a double fault then the virtual machine shuts down as a result of
a triple fault.
vm_exit_intinfo() is used to record that a VM-exit happened while an event was
being delivered through the IDT. If an exception is triggered while handling
the VM-exit it will be treated like a nested exception.
vm_entry_intinfo() is used by processor-specific code to get the event to be
injected into the guest on the next VM-entry. This function is responsible for
deciding the disposition of nested exceptions.
it implicitly in vmm.ko.
Add ioctl VM_GET_CPUS to get the current set of 'active' and 'suspended' cpus
and display them via /usr/sbin/bhyvectl using the "--get-active-cpus" and
"--get-suspended-cpus" options.
This is in preparation for being able to reset virtual machine state without
having to destroy and recreate it.
of the guest linear address space. These APIs in turn use a new ioctl
'VM_GLA2GPA' to convert the guest linear address to guest physical.
Use the new copyin/copyout APIs when emulating ins/outs instruction in
bhyve(8).
the legacy 8259A PICs.
- Implement an ICH-comptabile PCI interrupt router on the lpc device with
8 steerable pins configured via config space access to byte-wide
registers at 0x60-63 and 0x68-6b.
- For each configured PCI INTx interrupt, route it to both an I/O APIC
pin and a PCI interrupt router pin. When a PCI INTx interrupt is
asserted, ensure that both pins are asserted.
- Provide an initial routing of PCI interrupt router (PIRQ) pins to
8259A pins (ISA IRQs) and initialize the interrupt line config register
for the corresponding PCI function with the ISA IRQ as this matches
existing hardware.
- Add a global _PIC method for OSPM to select the desired interrupt routing
configuration.
- Update the _PRT methods for PCI bridges to provide both APIC and legacy
PRT tables and return the appropriate table based on the configured
routing configuration. Note that if the lpc device is not configured, no
routing information is provided.
- When the lpc device is enabled, provide ACPI PCI link devices corresponding
to each PIRQ pin.
- Add a VMM ioctl to adjust the trigger mode (edge vs level) for 8259A
pins via the ELCR.
- Mark the power management SCI as level triggered.
- Don't hardcode the number of elements in Packages in the source for
the DSDT. iasl(8) will fill in the actual number of elements, and
this makes it simpler to generate a Package with a variable number of
elements.
Reviewed by: tycho
by adding an argument to the VM_SUSPEND ioctl that specifies how the virtual
machine should be suspended, viz. VM_SUSPEND_RESET or VM_SUSPEND_POWEROFF.
The disposition of VM_SUSPEND is also made available to the exit handler
via the 'u.suspended' member of 'struct vm_exit'.
This capability is exposed via the '--force-reset' and '--force-poweroff'
arguments to /usr/sbin/bhyvectl.
Discussed with: grehan@
- remove redundant code
- remove erroneous setting of the error return
in vmmdev_ioctl()
- use style(9) initialization
- in vmx_inject_pir(), document the race condition
that the final conditional statement was detecting,
Tested with both gcc and clang builds.
Reviewed by: neel
correct for the pirbase test (since I'd have thought we'd need to do
something even when the offset is 0 and that test looks like a
misguided attempt to not use an uninitialized variable), but it is at
least the same as today.
from any context i.e., it is not required to be called from a vcpu thread. The
ioctl simply sets a state variable 'vm->suspend' to '1' and returns.
The vcpus inspect 'vm->suspend' in the run loop and if it is set to '1' the
vcpu breaks out of the loop with a reason of 'VM_EXITCODE_SUSPENDED'. The
suspend handler waits until all 'vm->active_cpus' have transitioned to
'vm->suspended_cpus' before returning to userspace.
Discussed with: 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)
processor-specific VMCS or VMCB. The pending exception will be delivered right
before entering the guest.
The order of event injection into the guest is:
- hardware exception
- NMI
- maskable interrupt
In the Intel VT-x case, a pending NMI or interrupt will enable the interrupt
window-exiting and inject it as soon as possible after the hardware exception
is injected. Also since interrupts are inherently asynchronous, injecting
them after the hardware exception should not affect correctness from the
guest perspective.
Rename the unused ioctl VM_INJECT_EVENT to VM_INJECT_EXCEPTION and restrict
it to only deliver x86 hardware exceptions. This new ioctl is now used to
inject a protection fault when the guest accesses an unimplemented MSR.
Discussed with: grehan, jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
the virtio backends.
- Add a new ioctl to export the count of pins on the I/O APIC from vmm
to the hypervisor.
- Use pins on the I/O APIC >= 16 for PCI interrupts leaving 0-15 for
ISA interrupts.
- Populate the MP Table with I/O interrupt entries for any PCI INTx
interrupts.
- Create a _PRT table under the PCI root bridge in ACPI to route any
PCI INTx interrupts appropriately.
- Track which INTx interrupts are in use per-slot so that functions
that share a slot attempt to distribute their INTx interrupts across
the four available pins.
- Implicitly mask INTx interrupts if either MSI or MSI-X is enabled
and when the INTx DIS bit is set in a function's PCI command register.
Either assert or deassert the associated I/O APIC pin when the
state of one of those conditions changes.
- Add INTx support to the virtio backends.
- Always advertise the MSI capability in the virtio backends.
Submitted by: neel (7)
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 2 weeks
- 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)
state before the requested state transition. This guarantees that there is
exactly one ioctl() operating on a vcpu at any point in time and prevents
unintended state transitions.
More details available here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2013-December/001825.html
Reviewed by: grehan
Reported by: Markiyan Kushnir (markiyan.kushnir at gmail.com)
MFC after: 3 days
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@
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)
the 'vmmdev_mtx' in vmmdev_rw().
Rely on the 'si_threadcount' accounting to ensure that we never destroy the
VM device node while it has operations in progress (e.g. ioctl, mmap etc).
Reported by: grehan
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
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
