This should not matter much when running on bare metal but it makes the guest
more friendly when running inside a virtual machine.
Discussed with: jhb
Obtained from: NetApp
During the early days of bhyve it did not support instruction emulation
which necessitated the use of x2apic to access the local apic. This is no
longer the case and the dependency on x2apic has gone away.
The x2apic patches can be considered independently of bhyve and will be
merged into head via projects/x2apic.
Discussed with: grehan
the guest to execute real or unpaged protected mode code - bhyve relies on
this feature to execute the AP bootstrap code.
Get rid of the hack that allowed bhyve to support SMP guests on processors
that do not have the "unrestricted guest" capability. This hack was entirely
FreeBSD-specific and would not work with any other guest OS.
Instead, limit the number of vcpus to 1 when executing on processors without
"unrestricted guest" capability.
Suggested 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
Provide a tunable 'machdep.x2apic_desired' to let the administrator override
the default behavior.
Provide a read-only sysctl 'machdep.x2apic' to let the administrator know
whether the kernel is using x2apic or legacy mmio to access local apic.
Tested with Parallels Desktop 8 and bhyve hypervisors.
Also tested running on bare metal Intel Xeon E5-2658.
Obtained from: NetApp
Discussed with: jhb, attilio, avg, grehan
guest floating point state without having to know the
size of floating-point state.
Unstaticize fpurestore to allow the hypervisor to
save/restore guest state using fpusave/fpurestore
on the allocated FPU state area.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: NetApp/bhyve
MFC after: 1 week
hierarchy of the page table entries which map the specified address.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
by clang in the local APIC code.
0x81 is a read-modify-write instruction - the EPT check
that only allowed read or write and not both has been
relaxed to allow read and write.
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
On a nested page table fault the hypervisor will:
- fetch the instruction using the guest %rip and %cr3
- decode the instruction in 'struct vie'
- emulate the instruction in host kernel context for local apic accesses
- any other type of mmio access is punted up to user-space (e.g. ioapic)
The decoded instruction is passed as collateral to the user-space process
that is handling the PAGING exit.
The emulation code is fleshed out to include more addressing modes (e.g. SIB)
and more types of operands (e.g. imm8). The source code is unified into a
single file (vmm_instruction_emul.c) that is compiled into vmm.ko as well
as /usr/sbin/bhyve.
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
In the case where the underlying host had disabled MSI-X via the
"hw.pci.enable_msix" tunable, the ppt_setup_msix() function would fail
and return an error without properly cleaning up. This in turn would
cause a page fault on the next boot of the guest.
Fix this by calling ppt_teardown_msix() in all the error return paths.
Obtained from: NetApp
sleep, and perform the page allocations with VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM
class. Previously, the allocation was also allowed to completely drain
the reserve of the free pages, being translated to VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT
request class for vm_page_alloc() and similar functions.
Allow the caller of malloc* to request the 'deep drain' semantic by
providing M_USE_RESERVE flag, now translated to VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT
class. Previously, it resulted in less aggressive VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM
allocation class.
Centralize the translation of the M_* malloc(9) flags in the single
inline function malloc2vm_flags().
Discussion started by: "Sears, Steven" <Steven.Sears@netapp.com>
Reviewed by: alc, mdf (previous version)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
hypervisor. Apparently, hypervisors failed to filter out 'Standard
Extended Features' report from CPUID, but deliver #gp when
corresponding bit in %cr4 is toggled.
This shall be reconsidered later, after hypervisors correct the bug.
Reported and tested by: joel
Reviewed by: avg
MFC after: 2 weeks
between inline asm statements that would in turn modify the flags
value set by the first asm, and used by the second.
Solve by making the common error block a string that can be pulled
into the first inline asm, and using symbolic labels for asm variables.
bhyve can now build/run fine when compiled with clang.
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
%gs, when supported. Note that WRFSBASE and WRGSBASE are not very
useful on FreeBSD right now, because a return from the kernel mode to
userspace reloads the bases specified by the sysarch(2) syscall, most
likely.
Enable the Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) when
supported. Since the loader(8) performs hand-off to the kernel with
the page tables which contradict the SMEP, postpone enabling the SMEP
on BSP until pmap switched for the proper kernel tables.
Debugged with the help from: avg
Tested by: avg, Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
MFC after: 1 month
introduced with the IvyBridge CPUs. Provide the definitions for new
bits in CR3 and CR4 registers.
Tested by: avg, Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
MFC after: 2 weeks
to vmcs_getreg(). Without this conversion vmcs_getreg() will return EINVAL.
In particular this prevented injection of the breakpoint exception into the
guest via the "-B" option to /usr/sbin/bhyve which is hugely useful when
debugging guest hangs.
This was broken in r241921.
Pointy hat: me
Obtained from: NetApp
vm page allocators do. This fixes a panic when a virtio block
device is mounted as root, with the host system dying in
vm_page_dirty with invalid bits.
Reviewed by: neel
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
