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
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
Most I/O port handlers return -1 to signal an error. If this value is returned
without modification to vm_run() then it leads to incorrect behavior because
'-1' is interpreted as ERESTART at the system call level.
Fix this by always returning EIO to signal an error from an I/O port handler.
MFC after: 1 week
API function 'vie_calculate_gla()'.
While the current implementation is simplistic it forms the basis of doing
segmentation checks if the guest is in 32-bit protected mode.
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).
'struct vm_guest_paging'.
Check for canonical addressing in vmm_gla2gpa() and inject a protection
fault into the guest if a violation is detected.
If the page table walk is restarted in vmm_gla2gpa() then reset 'ptpphys' to
point to the root of the page tables.
the UART FIFO.
The emulation is constrained in a number of ways: 64-bit only, doesn't check
for all exception conditions, limited to i/o ports emulated in userspace.
Some of these constraints will be relaxed in followup commits.
Requested by: grehan
Reviewed by: tychon (partially and a much earlier version)
Status and Control register at port 0x61.
Be more conservative about "catching up" callouts that were supposed
to fire in the past by skipping an interrupt if it was
scheduled too far in the past.
Restore the PIT ACPI DSDT entries and add an entry for NMISC too.
Approved by: neel (co-mentor)
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)