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
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@
of unloading the module while VMs existed. This would
result in EBUSY, but would prevent further operations
on VMs resulting in the module being impossible to
unload.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale <at> plurisbusnetworks.com)
Reviewed by: grehan, neel
Rework the guest register fetch code to allow the RIP to
be extracted from the VMCS while the kernel decoder is
functioning.
Hit by the OpenBSD local-apic code.
Submitted by: neel
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
This can be done by using the new macros VMM_STAT_INTEL() and VMM_STAT_AMD().
Statistic counters that are common across the two are defined using VMM_STAT().
Suggested by: Anish Gupta
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
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
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
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
guest does a vm exit.
This allows us to trap any fpu access in the host context while the fpu still
has "dirty" state belonging to the guest.
Reported by: "s vas" on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp
host cpu to the scheduler until the guest is ready to run again.
This implies that the host cpu utilization will now closely mirror the actual
load imposed by the guest vcpu.
Also, the vcpu mutex now needs to be of type MTX_SPIN since we need to acquire
it inside a critical section.
Obtained from: NetApp
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.
This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.
Add check to vm_gpa2hpa() that the range indicated by [gpa,gpa+len) is all
contained within a single 4KB page.
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.
In this case vm_malloc() was using vm_gpa2hpa() to indirectly infer whether
or not the address range had already been allocated.
Replace this instead with an explicit API 'vm_gpa_available()' that returns
TRUE if a page is available for allocation in guest physical address space.
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
