can be initiated in the context of a vcpu thread or from the bhyve(8) control
process.
The first use of this functionality is to update the vlapic trigger-mode
register when the IOAPIC pin configuration is changed.
Prior to this change we would update the TMR in the virtual-APIC page at
the time of interrupt delivery. But this doesn't work with Posted Interrupts
because there is no way to program the EOI_exit_bitmap[] in the VMCS of
the target at the time of interrupt delivery.
Discussed with: grehan@
hardware. It is possible to turn this feature off and fall back to software
emulation of the APIC by setting the tunable hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid to 0.
We now start handling two new types of VM-exits:
APIC-access: This is a fault-like VM-exit and is triggered when the APIC
register access is not accelerated (e.g. apic timer CCR). In response to
this we do emulate the instruction that triggered the APIC-access exit.
APIC-write: This is a trap-like VM-exit which does not require any instruction
emulation but it does require the hypervisor to emulate the access to the
specified register (e.g. icrlo register).
Introduce 'vlapic_ops' which are function pointers to vector the various
vlapic operations into processor-dependent code. The 'Virtual Interrupt
Delivery' feature installs 'ops' for setting the IRR bits in the virtual
APIC page and to return whether any interrupts are pending for this vcpu.
Tested on an "Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2" courtesy of Allan Jude at ScaleEngine.
the vcpu should be kicked to process a pending interrupt. This will be useful
in the implementation of the Posted Interrupt APICv feature.
Change the return value of 'vlapic_pending_intr()' to indicate whether or not
an interrupt is available to be delivered to the vcpu depending on the value
of the PPR.
Add KTR tracepoints to debug guest IPI delivery.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
This also implies that we need to keep a snapshot of the last value written
to a LVT register. We can no longer rely on the LVT registers in the APIC
page to be "clean" because the guest can write anything to it before the
hypervisor has had a chance to sanitize it.
registers.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
We can no longer rely on the value of 'icr_timer' on the APIC page
in the callout handler. With APIC register virtualization the value of
'icr_timer' will be updated by the processor in guest-context before an
APIC-write VM-exit.
Clear the 'delivery status' bit in the ICRLO register in the write handler.
With APIC register virtualization the write happens in guest-context and
we cannot prevent a (buggy) guest from setting this bit.
The handler is now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
Additionally, mask all the LVT entries when the vlapic is software-disabled.
The handlers are now called after the register value is updated in the virtual
APIC page. This will make it easier to handle APIC-write VM-exits with APIC
register virtualization turned on.
Additionally, we need to ensure that the value of these registers is always
correctly reflected in the virtual APIC page, because there is no VM exit
when the guest reads these registers with APIC register virtualization.
emulation.
The vlapic initialization and cleanup is done via processor specific vmm_ops.
This will allow the VT-x/SVM modules to layer any hardware-assist for APIC
emulation or virtual interrupt delivery on top of the vlapic device model.
Add a parameter to 'vcpu_notify_event()' to distinguish between vlapic
interrupts versus other events (e.g. NMI). This provides an opportunity to
use hardware-assists like Posted Interrupts (VT-x) or doorbell MSR (SVM)
to deliver an interrupt to a guest without causing a VM-exit.
Get rid of lapic_pending_intr() and lapic_intr_accepted() and use the
vlapic_xxx() counterparts directly.
Associate an 'Apic Page' with each vcpu and reference it from the 'vlapic'.
The 'Apic Page' is intended to be referenced from the Intel VMCS as the
'virtual APIC page' or from the AMD VMCB as the 'vAPIC backing page'.
- 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)
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@
When the guest is bringing up the APs in the x2APIC mode a write to the
ICR register will now trigger a return to userspace with an exitcode of
VM_EXITCODE_SPINUP_AP. This gets SMP guests working again with x2APIC.
Change the vlapic timer lock to be a spinlock because the vlapic can be
accessed from within a critical section (vm run loop) when guest is using
x2apic mode.
Reviewed by: grehan@
This decouples the guest's 'hz' from the host's 'hz' setting. For e.g. it is
now possible to have a guest run at 'hz=1000' while the host is at 'hz=100'.
Discussed with: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
vcpu and destroy its thread context. Also modify the 'HLT' processing to ignore
pending interrupts in the IRR if interrupts have been disabled by the guest.
The interrupt cannot be injected into the guest in any case so resuming it
is futile.
With this change "halt" from a Linux guest works correctly.
Reviewed by: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
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@
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
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
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
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
Includes instruction emulation for memory r/w access. This
opens the door for io-apic, local apic, hpet timer, and
legacy device emulation.
Submitted by: ryan dot berryhill at sandvine dot com
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: Sandvine
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
