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2018-10-26Merge tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-6/+129
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář: "ARM: - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits) - RAS event delivery for 32bit - PMU fixes - Guest entry hardening - Various cleanups - Port of dirty_log_test selftest PPC: - Nested HV KVM support for radix guests on POWER9. The performance is much better than with PR KVM. Migration and arbitrary level of nesting is supported. - Disable nested HV-KVM on early POWER9 chips that need a particular hardware bug workaround - One VM per core mode to prevent potential data leaks - PCI pass-through optimization - merge ppc-kvm topic branch and kvm-ppc-fixes to get a better base s390: - Initial version of AP crypto virtualization via vfio-mdev - Improvement for vfio-ap - Set the host program identifier - Optimize page table locking x86: - Enable nested virtualization by default - Implement Hyper-V IPI hypercalls - Improve #PF and #DB handling - Allow guests to use Enlightened VMCS - Add migration selftests for VMCS and Enlightened VMCS - Allow coalesced PIO accesses - Add an option to perform nested VMCS host state consistency check through hardware - Automatic tuning of lapic_timer_advance_ns - Many fixes, minor improvements, and cleanups" * tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits) KVM/nVMX: Do not validate that posted_intr_desc_addr is page aligned Revert "kvm: x86: optimize dr6 restore" KVM: PPC: Optimize clearing TCEs for sparse tables x86/kvm/nVMX: tweak shadow fields selftests/kvm: add missing executables to .gitignore KVM: arm64: Safety check PSTATE when entering guest and handle IL KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't use streamlined entry path on early POWER9 chips arm/arm64: KVM: Enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events support arm/arm64: KVM: Rename function kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension() KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value KVM: VMX: enable nested virtualization by default KVM/x86: Use 32bit xor to clear registers in svm.c kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD kvm: vmx: Defer setting of DR6 until #DB delivery kvm: x86: Defer setting of CR2 until #PF delivery kvm: x86: Add payload operands to kvm_multiple_exception kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events kvm: x86: Add has_payload and payload to kvm_queued_exception KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_events KVM: selftests: add Enlightened VMCS test ...
2018-10-24Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-46/+0
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...
2018-10-19Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v4.20' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+31
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm updates for 4.20 - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits) - RAS event delivery for 32bit - PMU fixes - Guest entry hardening - Various cleanups
2018-10-17kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOADJim Mattson1-1/+26
This is a per-VM capability which can be enabled by userspace so that the faulting linear address will be included with the information about a pending #PF in L2, and the "new DR6 bits" will be included with the information about a pending #DB in L2. With this capability enabled, the L1 hypervisor can now intercept #PF before CR2 is modified. Under VMX, the L1 hypervisor can now intercept #DB before DR6 and DR7 are modified. When userspace has enabled KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, it should generally provide an appropriate payload when injecting a #PF or #DB exception via KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS. However, to support restoring old checkpoints, this payload is not required. Note that bit 16 of the "new DR6 bits" is set to indicate that a debug exception (#DB) or a breakpoint exception (#BP) occurred inside an RTM region while advanced debugging of RTM transactional regions was enabled. This is the reverse of DR6.RTM, which is cleared in this scenario. This capability also enables exception.pending in struct kvm_vcpu_events, which allows userspace to distinguish between pending and injected exceptions. Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_eventsJim Mattson1-6/+18
The per-VM capability KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD (to be introduced in a later commit) adds the following fields to struct kvm_vcpu_events: exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending. With this capability set, all of the details of vcpu->arch.exception, including the payload for a pending exception, are reported to userspace in response to KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS. With this capability clear, the original ABI is preserved, and the exception.injected field is set for either pending or injected exceptions. When userspace calls KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD clear, exception.injected is no longer translated to exception.pending. KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS can now only establish a pending exception when KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is set. Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_eventsJim Mattson1-0/+1
The header file indicates that there are 36 reserved bytes at the end of this structure. Adjust the documentation to agree with the header file. Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17kvm/x86 : add coalesced pio supportPeng Hao1-6/+10
Coalesced pio is based on coalesced mmio and can be used for some port like rtc port, pci-host config port and so on. Specially in case of rtc as coalesced pio, some versions of windows guest access rtc frequently because of rtc as system tick. guest access rtc like this: write register index to 0x70, then write or read data from 0x71. writing 0x70 port is just as index and do nothing else. So we can use coalesced pio to handle this scene to reduce VM-EXIT time. When starting and closing a virtual machine, it will access pci-host config port frequently. So setting these port as coalesced pio can reduce startup and shutdown time. without my patch, get the vm-exit time of accessing rtc 0x70 and piix 0xcf8 using perf tools: (guest OS : windows 7 64bit) IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time 0x70:POUT 86 30.99% 74.59% 9us 29us 10.75us (+- 3.41%) 0xcf8:POUT 1119 2.60% 2.12% 2.79us 56.83us 3.41us (+- 2.23%) with my patch IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time 0x70:POUT 106 32.02% 29.47% 0us 10us 1.57us (+- 7.38%) 0xcf8:POUT 1065 1.67% 0.28% 0.41us 65.44us 0.66us (+- 10.55%) Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17kvm/x86 : add document for coalesced mmioPeng Hao1-0/+24
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-17KVM: x86: hyperv: implement PV IPI send hypercallsVitaly Kuznetsov1-0/+7
Using hypercall for sending IPIs is faster because this allows to specify any number of vCPUs (even > 64 with sparse CPU set), the whole procedure will take only one VMEXIT. Current Hyper-V TLFS (v5.0b) claims that HvCallSendSyntheticClusterIpi hypercall can't be 'fast' (passing parameters through registers) but apparently this is not true, Windows always uses it as 'fast' so we need to support that. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-09KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add NO_HASH flag to GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl resultPaul Mackerras1-0/+4
This adds a KVM_PPC_NO_HASH flag to the flags field of the kvm_ppc_smmu_info struct, and arranges for it to be set when running as a nested hypervisor, as an unambiguous indication to userspace that HPT guests are not supported. Reporting the KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_HASH_V3 capability as false could be taken as indicating only that the new HPT features in ISA V3.0 are not supported, leaving it ambiguous whether pre-V3.0 HPT features are supported. Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2018-10-09KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a VM capability to enable nested virtualizationPaul Mackerras1-0/+14
With this, userspace can enable a KVM-HV guest to run nested guests under it. The administrator can control whether any nested guests can be run; setting the "nested" module parameter to false prevents any guests becoming nested hypervisors (that is, any attempt to enable the nested capability on a guest will fail). Guests which are already nested hypervisors will continue to be so. Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2018-10-09Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm' into kvm-ppc-nextPaul Mackerras1-0/+1
This merges in the "ppc-kvm" topic branch of the powerpc tree to get a series of commits that touch both general arch/powerpc code and KVM code. These commits will be merged both via the KVM tree and the powerpc tree. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2018-10-09KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add one-reg interface to virtual PTCR registerPaul Mackerras1-0/+1
This adds a one-reg register identifier which can be used to read and set the virtual PTCR for the guest. This register identifies the address and size of the virtual partition table for the guest, which contains information about the nested guests under this guest. Migrating this value is the only extra requirement for migrating a guest which has nested guests (assuming of course that the destination host supports nested virtualization in the kvm-hv module). Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-10-03kvm: arm64: Allow tuning the physical address size for VMSuzuki K Poulose1-0/+31
Allow specifying the physical address size limit for a new VM via the kvm_type argument for the KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl. This allows us to finalise the stage2 page table as early as possible and hence perform the right checks on the memory slots without complication. The size is encoded as Log2(PA_Size) in bits[7:0] of the type field. For backward compatibility the value 0 is reserved and implies 40bits. Also, lift the limit of the IPA to host limit and allow lower IPA sizes (e.g, 32). The userspace could check the extension KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE for the availability of this feature. The cap check returns the maximum limit for the physical address shift supported by the host. Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-09-20KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFODrew Schmitt1-0/+9
Add KVM_CAP_MSR_PLATFORM_INFO so that userspace can disable guest access to reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO. Disabling access to reads of this MSR gives userspace the control to "expose" this platform-dependent information to guests in a clear way. As it exists today, guests that read this MSR would get unpopulated information if userspace hadn't already set it (and prior to this patch series, only the CPUID faulting information could have been populated). This existing interface could be confusing if guests don't handle the potential for incorrect/incomplete information gracefully (e.g. zero reported for base frequency). Signed-off-by: Drew Schmitt <dasch@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-09-12KVM: s390: Make huge pages unavailable in ucontrol VMsJanosch Frank1-1/+2
We currently do not notify all gmaps when using gmap_pmdp_xchg(), due to locking constraints. This makes ucontrol VMs, which is the only VM type that creates multiple gmaps, incompatible with huge pages. Also we would need to hold the guest_table_lock of all gmaps that have this vmaddr maped to synchronize access to the pmd. ucontrol VMs are rather exotic and creating a new locking concept is no easy task. Hence we return EINVAL when trying to active KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M and report it as being not available when checking for it. Fixes: a4499382 ("KVM: s390: Add huge page enablement control") Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20180801112508.138159-1-frankja@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
2018-09-10Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/Henrik Austad2-46/+0
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-22KVM: Documentation: rename the capability of KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_SERROR_ESRDongjiu Geng1-3/+3
In the documentation description, this capability's name is KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_SERROR_ESR, but in the header file this capability's name is KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR, so change the documentation description to make it same. Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Reported-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-08-22Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v4.19' of ↵Paolo Bonzini3-10/+93
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm updates for 4.19 - Support for Group0 interrupts in guests - Cache management optimizations for ARMv8.4 systems - Userspace interface for RAS, allowing error retrival and injection - Fault path optimization - Emulated physical timer fixes - Random cleanups
2018-08-06KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercallWanpeng Li2-0/+24
Using hypercall to send IPIs by one vmexit instead of one by one for xAPIC/x2APIC physical mode and one vmexit per-cluster for x2APIC cluster mode. Intel guest can enter x2apic cluster mode when interrupt remmaping is enabled in qemu, however, latest AMD EPYC still just supports xapic mode which can get great improvement by Exit-less IPIs. This patchset lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per hypercall in 32-bit mode. Hardware: Xeon Skylake 2.5GHz, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads, the VM is 80 vCPUs, IPI microbenchmark(https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/141): x2apic cluster mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 2392199 ns Self-IPI: 6907514, 15027589 ns Normal IPI: 223910476, 251301666 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 9282161150 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 8812934104 ns x2apic cluster mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2449341 ns Self-IPI: 6720360, 15028732 ns Normal IPI: 228643307, 255708477 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7572293590 ns => 22% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 8316124651 ns x2apic physical mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 3135933 ns Self-IPI: 8572670, 17901757 ns Normal IPI: 226444334, 255421709 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 19845070887 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 19827383656 ns x2apic physical mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2446381 ns Self-IPI: 6788217, 15021056 ns Normal IPI: 219454441, 249583458 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7806540019 ns => 154% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 9143618799 ns Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-08-06kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATEJim Mattson1-0/+56
For nested virtualization L0 KVM is managing a bit of state for L2 guests, this state can not be captured through the currently available IOCTLs. In fact the state captured through all of these IOCTLs is usually a mix of L1 and L2 state. It is also dependent on whether the L2 guest was running at the moment when the process was interrupted to save its state. With this capability, there are two new vcpu ioctls: KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. These can be used for saving and restoring a VM that is in VMX operation. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> [karahmed@ - rename structs and functions and make them ready for AMD and address previous comments. - handle nested.smm state. - rebase & a bit of refactoring. - Merge 7/8 and 8/8 into one patch. ] Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-07-31KVM: s390: Add huge page enablement controlJanosch Frank1-0/+16
General KVM huge page support on s390 has to be enabled via the kvm.hpage module parameter. Either nested or hpage can be enabled, as we currently do not support vSIE for huge backed guests. Once the vSIE support is added we will either drop the parameter or enable it as default. For a guest the feature has to be enabled through the new KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M capability and the hpage module parameter. Enabling it means that cmm can't be enabled for the vm and disables pfmf and storage key interpretation. This is due to the fact that in some cases, in upcoming patches, we have to split huge pages in the guest mapping to be able to set more granular memory protection on 4k pages. These split pages have fake page tables that are not visible to the Linux memory management which subsequently will not manage its PGSTEs, while the SIE will. Disabling these features lets us manage PGSTE data in a consistent matter and solve that problem. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
2018-07-21KVM: arm: Add 32bit get/set events supportJames Morse1-4/+4
arm64's new use of KVMs get_events/set_events API calls isn't just or RAS, it allows an SError that has been made pending by KVM as part of its device emulation to be migrated. Wire this up for 32bit too. We only need to read/write the HCR_VA bit, and check that no esr has been provided, as we don't yet support VDFSR. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-07-21arm64: KVM: export the capability to set guest SError syndromeDongjiu Geng1-0/+26
For the arm64 RAS Extension, user space can inject a virtual-SError with specified ESR. So user space needs to know whether KVM support to inject such SError, this interface adds this query for this capability. KVM will check whether system support RAS Extension, if supported, KVM returns true to user space, otherwise returns false. Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [expanded documentation wording] Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-07-21arm/arm64: KVM: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTSDongjiu Geng1-4/+50
For the migrating VMs, user space may need to know the exception state. For example, in the machine A, KVM make an SError pending, when migrate to B, KVM also needs to pend an SError. This new IOCTL exports user-invisible states related to SError. Together with appropriate user space changes, user space can get/set the SError exception state to do migrate/snapshot/suspend. Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [expanded documentation wording] Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-07-21KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Update documentation of the GIC devices wrt IIDRChristoffer Dall2-6/+17
Update the documentation to reflect the ordering requirements of restoring the GICD_IIDR register before any other registers and the effects this has on restoring the interrupt groups for an emulated GICv2 instance. Also remove some outdated limitations in the documentation while we're at it. Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-06-22KVM: fix KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH paragraph numberVitaly Kuznetsov1-1/+1
KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH collided with KVM_CAP_S390_PSW-BPB, its paragraph number should now be 8.18. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-06-01KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist nowLiran Alon1-11/+0
We can document other "Known Limitations" but the ones currently referenced don't hold anymore... Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-06-01KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guestsLiran Alon1-2/+2
Fix outdated statement that KVM is not able to expose SLAT (Second-Layer-Address-Translation) to guests. This was implemented a long time ago... Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-06-01Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v4.18' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-2/+28
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/ARM updates for 4.18 - Lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64 - Allow virtual redistributors to be part of two or more MMIO ranges
2018-05-26KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008Liran Alon1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-05-26kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentationJim Mattson1-6/+12
Document the subtle nuances that KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS induces in the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API. Fixes: 4d5422cea3b6 ("KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT intercepts") Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-05-26KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capabilityVitaly Kuznetsov1-0/+9
We need a new capability to indicate support for the newly added HvFlushVirtualAddress{List,Space}{,Ex} hypercalls. Upon seeing this capability, userspace is supposed to announce PV TLB flush features by setting the appropriate CPUID bits (if needed). Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-05-25KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGIONEric Auger1-2/+28
We introduce a new KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION attribute in KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR group. It allows userspace to provide the base address and size of a redistributor region Compared to KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST, this new attribute allows to declare several separate redistributor regions. So the whole redist space does not need to be contiguous anymore. Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-05-17kvm: rename KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED to KVM_HINTS_REALTIMEMichael S. Tsirkin1-3/+3
KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED seems to be somewhat confusing: Guest doesn't really care whether it's the only task running on a host CPU as long as it's not preempted. And there are more reasons for Guest to be preempted than host CPU sharing, for example, with memory overcommit it can get preempted on a memory access, post copy migration can cause preemption, etc. Let's call it KVM_HINTS_REALTIME which seems to better match what guests expect. Also, the flag most be set on all vCPUs - current guests assume this. Note so in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-04-20arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection APIMarc Zyngier2-1/+38
Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1 or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM. But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2, let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular version of the API. This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to any supported version if the guest requires it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16 Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-03-28KVM: trivial documentation cleanupsAndrew Jones2-4/+8
Add missing entries to the index and ensure the entries are in alphabetical order. Also amd-memory-encryption.rst is an .rst not a .txt. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-03-17KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable HLT interceptsWanpeng Li1-0/+2
If host CPUs are dedicated to a VM, we can avoid VM exits on HLT. This patch adds the per-VM capability to disable them. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-17KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT interceptsWanpeng Li1-9/+18
Allowing a guest to execute MWAIT without interception enables a guest to put a (physical) CPU into a power saving state, where it takes longer to return from than what may be desired by the host. Don't give a guest that power over a host by default. (Especially, since nothing prevents a guest from using MWAIT even when it is not advertised via CPUID.) Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-17Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.17-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+30
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD KVM: s390: fixes and features - more kvm stat counters - virtio gpu plumbing. The 3 non-KVM/s390 patches have Acks from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Heiko Carstens and Greg Kroah-Hartman but all belong together to make virtio-gpu work as a tty. So I carried them in the KVM/s390 tree. - document some KVM_CAPs - cpu-model only facilities - cleanups
2018-03-14KVM: document KVM_CAP_S390_[BPB|PSW|GMAP|COW]Christian Borntraeger1-0/+30
commit 35b3fde6203b ("KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature") has no documentation for KVM_CAP_S390_BPB. While adding this let's also add other missing capabilities like KVM_CAP_S390_PSW, KVM_CAP_S390_GMAP and KVM_CAP_S390_COW. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2018-03-06KVM: Introduce paravirtualization hints and KVM_HINTS_DEDICATEDWanpeng Li1-2/+13
This patch introduces kvm_para_has_hint() to query for hints about the configuration of the guests. The first hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED, is set if the guest has dedicated physical CPUs for each vCPU (i.e. pinning and no over-commitment). This allows optimizing spinlocks and tells the guest to avoid PV TLB flush. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-03-06KVM: x86: KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGSKen Hofsass1-0/+40
This commit implements an enhanced x86 version of S390 KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS functionality. KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS "allow[s] userspace to access certain guest registers without having to call SET/GET_*REGS”. This reduces ioctl overhead which is particularly important when userspace is making synchronous guest state modifications (e.g. when emulating and/or intercepting instructions). Originally implemented upstream for the S390, the x86 differences follow: - userspace can select the register sets to be synchronized with kvm_run using bit-flags in the kvm_valid_registers and kvm_dirty_registers fields. - vcpu_events is available in addition to the regs and sregs register sets. Signed-off-by: Ken Hofsass <hofsass@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> [Removed wrapper around check for reserved kvm_valid_regs. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-03-06KVM: x86: add SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES #define.Ken Hofsass1-1/+1
Replace hardcoded padding size value for struct kvm_sync_regs with #define SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES. Also update the value specified in api.txt from outdated hardcoded value to SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES. Signed-off-by: Ken Hofsass <hofsass@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-03-06kvm: x86: hyperv: guest->host event signaling via eventfdRoman Kagan1-0/+32
In Hyper-V, the fast guest->host notification mechanism is the SIGNAL_EVENT hypercall, with a single parameter of the connection ID to signal. Currently this hypercall incurs a user exit and requires the userspace to decode the parameters and trigger the notification of the potentially different I/O context. To avoid the costly user exit, process this hypercall and signal the corresponding eventfd in KVM, similar to ioeventfd. The association between the connection id and the eventfd is established via the newly introduced KVM_HYPERV_EVENTFD ioctl, and maintained in an (srcu-protected) IDR. Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> [asm/hyperv.h changes approved by KY Srinivasan. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-03-01KVM: x86: Add a framework for supporting MSR-based featuresTom Lendacky1-12/+28
Provide a new KVM capability that allows bits within MSRs to be recognized as features. Two new ioctls are added to the /dev/kvm ioctl routine to retrieve the list of these MSRs and then retrieve their values. A kvm_x86_ops callback is used to determine support for the listed MSR-based features. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [Tweaked documentation. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-02-24KVM: x86: fix backward migration with async_PFRadim Krčmář2-1/+6
Guests on new hypersiors might set KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT bit when enabling async_PF, but this bit is reserved on old hypervisors, which results in a failure upon migration. To avoid breaking different cases, we are checking for CPUID feature bit before enabling the feature and nothing else. Fixes: 52a5c155cf79 ("KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-02-01Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-4.16-1' of ↵Radim Krčmář1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc PPC KVM update for 4.16 - Allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without requiring the complex thread synchronization that earlier CPU versions required. - A series from Ben Herrenschmidt to improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE interrupt controller. - Provide for the decrementer register to be copied across on migration. - Various minor cleanups and bugfixes.
2018-02-01Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of ↵Radim Krčmář1-3/+50
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V. Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
2018-01-31Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-v4.16' of ↵Radim Krčmář1-187/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.16 The changes for this version include icache invalidation optimizations (improving VM startup time), support for forwarded level-triggered interrupts (improved performance for timers and passthrough platform devices), a small fix for power-management notifiers, and some cosmetic changes.
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