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neel
e972917c13 Emulate instructions emitted by OpenBSD/i386 version 5.5:
- CMP REG, r/m
- MOV AX/EAX/RAX, moffset
- MOV moffset, AX/EAX/RAX
- PUSH r/m
2014-07-23 04:28:51 +00:00
neel
1f15eea2e0 Handle nested exceptions in bhyve.
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.
2014-07-19 20:59:08 +00:00
neel
eb07e4ed55 Add support for operand size and address size override prefixes in bhyve's
instruction emulation [1].

Fix bug in emulation of opcode 0x8A where the destination is a legacy high
byte register and the guest vcpu is in 32-bit mode. Prior to this change
instead of modifying %ah, %bh, %ch or %dh the emulation would end up
modifying %spl, %bpl, %sil or %dil instead.

Add support for moffsets by treating it as a 2, 4 or 8 byte immediate value
during instruction decoding.

Fix bug in verify_gla() where the linear address computed after decoding
the instruction was not being truncated to the effective address size [2].

Tested by:	Leon Dang [1]
Reported by:	Peter Grehan [2]
Sponsored by:	Nahanni Systems
2014-07-15 17:37:17 +00:00
hselasky
35b126e324 Pull in r267961 and r267973 again. Fix for issues reported will follow. 2014-06-28 03:56:17 +00:00
gjb
fc21f40567 Revert r267961, r267973:
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:

 1) no output from sysctl(8)
 2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
    or uname(1)
 truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
2014-06-27 22:05:21 +00:00
hselasky
bd1ed65f0f Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag to automatically check if
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.

Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.

MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2014-06-27 16:33:43 +00:00
grehan
54db9f3822 Expose the amount of resident and wired memory from the guest's vmspace.
This is different than the amount shown for the process e.g. by
/usr/bin/top - that is the mappings faulted in by the mmap'd region
of guest memory.

The values can be fetched with bhyvectl

 # bhyvectl --get-stats --vm=myvm
 ...
 Resident memory                         	413749248
 Wired memory                            	0
 ...

vmm_stat.[ch] -
 Modify the counter code in bhyve to allow direct setting of a counter
as opposed to incrementing, and providing a callback to fetch a
counter's value.

Reviewed by:	neel
2014-06-25 22:13:35 +00:00
neel
e48c89801a Add helper functions to populate VM exit information for rendezvous and
astpending exits. This is to reduce code duplication between VT-x and
SVM implementations.
2014-06-10 16:45:58 +00:00
neel
80a67d54c4 Add ioctl(VM_REINIT) to reinitialize the virtual machine state maintained
by vmm.ko. This allows the virtual machine to be restarted without having
to destroy it first.

Reviewed by:	grehan
2014-06-07 21:36:52 +00:00
neel
9c2a942387 Activate vcpus from bhyve(8) using the ioctl VM_ACTIVATE_CPU instead of doing
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.
2014-05-31 23:37:34 +00:00
neel
6a6e13c407 Consolidate all the information needed by the guest page table walker into
'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.
2014-05-24 20:26:57 +00:00
neel
52a4f11861 When injecting a page fault into the guest also update the guest's %cr2 to
indicate the faulting linear address.

If the guest PML4 entry has the PG_PS bit set then inject a page fault into
the guest with the PGEX_RSV bit set in the error_code.

Get rid of redundant checks for the PG_RW violations when walking the page
tables.
2014-05-24 19:13:25 +00:00
neel
8f99933d82 Add emulation of the "outsb" instruction. NetBSD guests use this to write to
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)
2014-05-23 05:15:17 +00:00
neel
645d479a58 Inject page fault into the guest if the page table walker detects an invalid
translation for the guest linear address.
2014-05-22 03:14:54 +00:00
neel
b0752c3683 Add PG_U (user/supervisor) checks when translating a guest linear address
to a guest physical address.

PG_PS (page size) field is valid only in a PDE or a PDPTE so it is now
checked only in non-terminal paging entries.

Ignore the upper 32-bits of the CR3 for PAE paging.
2014-05-19 03:50:07 +00:00
neel
5fd692c3b5 Virtual machine halt detection is turned on by default. Allow it to be
disabled via the tunable 'hw.vmm.halt_detection'.
2014-05-05 16:19:24 +00:00
neel
b735ae5b9a Add logic in the HLT exit handler to detect if the guest has put all vcpus
to sleep permanently by executing a HLT with interrupts disabled.

When this condition is detected the guest with be suspended with a reason of
VM_SUSPEND_HALT and the bhyve(8) process will exit.

Tested by executing "halt" inside a RHEL7-beta guest.

Discussed with:	grehan@
Reviewed by:	jhb@, tychon@
2014-05-02 00:33:56 +00:00
neel
9c85092013 Some Linux guests will implement a 'halt' by disabling the APIC and executing
the 'HLT' instruction. This condition was detected by 'vm_handle_hlt()' and
converted into the SPINDOWN_CPU exitcode . The bhyve(8) process would exit
the vcpu thread in response to a SPINDOWN_CPU and when the last vcpu was
spun down it would reset the virtual machine via vm_suspend(VM_SUSPEND_RESET).

This functionality was broken in r263780 in a way that made it impossible
to kill the bhyve(8) process because it would loop forever in
vm_handle_suspend().

Unbreak this by removing the code to spindown vcpus. Thus a 'halt' from
a Linux guest will appear to be hung but this is consistent with the
behavior on bare metal. The guest can be rebooted by using the bhyvectl
options '--force-reset' or '--force-poweroff'.

Reviewed by:	grehan@
2014-04-29 18:42:56 +00:00
neel
b616a9a2e4 Allow a virtual machine to be forcibly reset or powered off. This is done
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@
2014-04-28 22:06:40 +00:00
jhb
03a8cfa7d9 Don't spindown the BSP if it executes hlt with the APIC disabled. A
guest that doesn't use the APIC at all can trigger this, plus the BSP
always needs to execute as it should trigger a reset, etc.

Reviewed by:	tychon
2014-04-15 20:53:53 +00:00
neel
3e49998fdf Add an ioctl to suspend a virtual machine (VM_SUSPEND). The ioctl can be called
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
2014-03-26 23:34:27 +00:00
tychon
58699bc5fc Move the atpit device model from userspace into vmm.ko for better
precision and lower latency.

Approved by:	grehan (co-mentor)
2014-03-25 19:20:34 +00:00
neel
3818d66305 When a vcpu is deactivated it must also unblock any rendezvous that may be
blocked on it.

This is done by issuing a wakeup after clearing the 'vcpuid' from 'active_cpus'.
Also, use CPU_CLR_ATOMIC() to guarantee visibility of the updated 'active_cpus'
across all host cpus.
2014-03-18 02:49:28 +00:00
neel
9e498dc116 Notify vcpus participating in the rendezvous of the pending event to ensure
that they execute the rendezvous function as soon as possible.
2014-03-17 23:30:38 +00:00
tychon
5460439295 Fix a race wherein the source of an interrupt vector is wrongly
attributed if an ExtINT arrives during interrupt injection.

Also, fix a spurious interrupt if the PIC tries to raise an interrupt
before the outstanding one is accepted.

Finally, improve the PIC interrupt latency when another interrupt is
raised immediately after the outstanding one is accepted by creating a
vmexit rather than waiting for one to occur by happenstance.

Approved by:	neel (co-mentor)
2014-03-15 23:09:34 +00:00
tychon
25c8b61cfd Replace the userspace atpic stub with a more functional vmm.ko model.
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)
2014-03-11 16:56:00 +00:00
neel
4e6374765e Fix a race between VMRUN() and vcpu_notify_event() due to 'vcpu->hostcpu'
being updated outside of the vcpu_lock(). The race is benign and could
potentially result in a missed notification about a pending interrupt to
a vcpu. The interrupt would not be lost but rather delayed until the next
VM exit.

The vcpu's hostcpu is now updated concurrently with the vcpu state change.
When the vcpu transitions to the RUNNING state the hostcpu is set to 'curcpu'.
It is set to 'NOCPU' in all other cases.

Reviewed by:	grehan
2014-03-01 03:17:58 +00:00
neel
e01c440dae Queue pending exceptions in the 'struct vcpu' instead of directly updating the
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
2014-02-26 00:52:05 +00:00
neel
4626d164b8 Simplify APIC mode switching from MMIO to x2APIC. In part this is done to
simplify the implementation of the x2APIC virtualization assist in VT-x.

Prior to this change the vlapic allowed the guest to change its mode from
xAPIC to x2APIC. We don't allow that any more and the vlapic mode is locked
when the virtual machine is created. This is not very constraining because
operating systems already have to deal with BIOS setting up the APIC in
x2APIC mode at boot.

Fix a bug in the CPUID emulation where the x2APIC capability was leaking
from the host to the guest.

Ignore MMIO reads and writes to the vlapic in x2APIC mode. Similarly, ignore
MSR accesses to the vlapic when it is in xAPIC mode.

The default configuration of the vlapic is xAPIC. The "-x" option to bhyve(8)
can be used to change the mode to x2APIC instead.

Discussed with:	grehan@
2014-02-20 01:48:25 +00:00
jhb
0cdfc370bf Add virtualized XSAVE support to bhyve which permits guests to use XSAVE and
XSAVE-enabled features like AVX.
- Store a per-cpu guest xcr0 register.  When switching to the guest FPU
  state, switch to the guest xcr0 value.  Note that the guest FPU state is
  saved and restored using the host's xcr0 value and xcr0 is saved/restored
  "inside" of saving/restoring the guest FPU state.
- Handle VM exits for the xsetbv instruction by updating the guest xcr0.
- Expose the XSAVE feature to the guest only if the host has enabled XSAVE,
  and only advertise XSAVE features enabled by the host to the guest.
  This ensures that the guest will only adjust FPU state that is a subset
  of the guest FPU state saved and restored by the host.

Reviewed by:	grehan
2014-02-08 16:37:54 +00:00
jhb
f4e46bef98 Add support for FreeBSD/i386 guests under bhyve.
- Similar to the hack for bootinfo32.c in userboot, define
  _MACHINE_ELF_WANT_32BIT in the load_elf32 file handlers in userboot.
  This allows userboot to load 32-bit kernels and modules.
- Copy the SMAP generation code out of bootinfo64.c and into its own
  file so it can be shared with bootinfo32.c to pass an SMAP to the i386
  kernel.
- Use uint32_t instead of u_long when aligning module metadata in
  bootinfo32.c in userboot, as otherwise the metadata used 64-bit
  alignment which corrupted the layout.
- Populate the basemem and extmem members of the bootinfo struct passed
  to 32-bit kernels.
- Fix the 32-bit stack in userboot to start at the top of the stack
  instead of the bottom so that there is room to grow before the
  kernel switches to its own stack.
- Push a fake return address onto the 32-bit stack in addition to the
  arguments normally passed to exec() in the loader.  This return
  address is needed to convince recover_bootinfo() in the 32-bit
  locore code that it is being invoked from a "new" boot block.
- Add a routine to libvmmapi to setup a 32-bit flat mode register state
  including a GDT and TSS that is able to start the i386 kernel and
  update bhyveload to use it when booting an i386 kernel.
- Use the guest register state to determine the CPU's current instruction
  mode (32-bit vs 64-bit) and paging mode (flat, 32-bit, PAE, or long
  mode) in the instruction emulation code.  Update the gla2gpa() routine
  used when fetching instructions to handle flat mode, 32-bit paging, and
  PAE paging in addition to long mode paging.  Don't look for a REX
  prefix when the CPU is in 32-bit mode, and use the detected mode to
  enable the existing 32-bit mode code when decoding the mod r/m byte.

Reviewed by:	grehan, neel
MFC after:	1 month
2014-02-05 04:39:03 +00:00
neel
872f585846 Support level triggered interrupts with VT-x virtual interrupt delivery.
The VMCS field EOI_bitmap[] is an array of 256 bits - one for each vector.
If a bit is set to '1' in the EOI_bitmap[] then the processor will trigger
an EOI-induced VM-exit when it is doing EOI virtualization.

The EOI-induced VM-exit results in the EOI being forwarded to the vioapic
so that level triggered interrupts can be properly handled.

Tested by:	Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
2014-01-25 20:58:05 +00:00
neel
daa658a5dd There is no need to initialize the IOMMU if no passthru devices have been
configured for bhyve to use.

Suggested by:	grehan@
2014-01-21 03:01:34 +00:00
neel
0bd53a85fb Add an API to rendezvous all active vcpus in a virtual machine. The rendezvous
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@
2014-01-14 01:55:58 +00:00
neel
00a86f71de Don't expose 'vmm_ipinum' as a global. 2014-01-09 03:25:54 +00:00
neel
ab2de99290 Use the 'Virtual Interrupt Delivery' feature of Intel VT-x if supported by
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.
2014-01-07 21:04:49 +00:00
neel
b47601c298 Allow vlapic_set_intr_ready() to return a value that indicates whether or not
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.
2014-01-07 00:38:22 +00:00
neel
0c91ef8145 vlapic code restructuring to make it easy to support hardware-assist for APIC
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'.
2013-12-25 06:46:31 +00:00
jhb
63c019063a Add a resume hook for bhyve that runs a function on all CPUs during
resume.  For Intel CPUs, invoke vmxon for CPUs that were in VMX mode
at the time of suspend.

Reviewed by:	neel
2013-12-23 19:48:22 +00:00
neel
e78d8c9833 Add a parameter to 'vcpu_set_state()' to enforce that the vcpu is in the IDLE
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
2013-12-22 20:29:59 +00:00
neel
3d4a180923 Fix x2apic support in bhyve.
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@
2013-12-10 22:56:51 +00:00
neel
e7ebb9541a Use callout(9) to drive the vlapic timer instead of clocking it on each VM exit.
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)
2013-12-07 23:11:12 +00:00
neel
127d791c3e If a vcpu disables its local apic and then executes a 'HLT' then spin down the
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)
2013-12-07 22:18:36 +00:00
neel
a581c446d6 Rename 'vm_interrupt_hostcpu()' to 'vcpu_notify_event()' because the function
has outgrown its original name. Originally this function simply sent an IPI
to the host cpu that a vcpu was executing on but now it does a lot more than
just that.

Reviewed by:	grehan@
2013-12-03 00:43:31 +00:00
neel
89dbc92028 Add HPET device emulation to bhyve.
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).
2013-11-25 19:04:51 +00:00
neel
384d86e888 Move the ioapic device model from userspace into vmm.ko. This is needed for
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)
2013-11-12 22:51:03 +00:00
neel
74368cc42d Rename the VMM_CTRx() family of macros to VCPU_CTRx() to highlight that these
tracepoints are vcpu-specific.

Add support for tracepoints that are global to the virtual machine - these
tracepoints are called VM_CTRx().
2013-10-31 05:20:11 +00:00
neel
7ec78b8068 Remove unnecessary includes of <machine/pmap.h>
Requested by:	alc@
2013-10-29 02:25:18 +00:00
neel
aed205d5cd Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.
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
2013-10-05 21:22:35 +00:00
neel
348fe8d4ce Fix a limitation in bhyve that would limit the number of virtual machines to
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@
2013-09-11 07:11:14 +00:00