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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 76 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 91 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt | 4 |
5 files changed, 151 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 5f91eda9164..858aecf21db 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ incompatible change are allowed. However, there is an extension facility that allows backward-compatible extensions to the API to be queried and used. -The extension mechanism is not based on on the Linux version number. +The extension mechanism is not based on the Linux version number. Instead, kvm defines extension identifiers and a facility to query whether a particular extension identifier is available. If it is, a set of ioctls is available for application use. @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ kvm_run' (see below). 4.11 KVM_GET_REGS Capability: basic -Architectures: all except ARM +Architectures: all except ARM, arm64 Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_regs (out) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ struct kvm_regs { 4.12 KVM_SET_REGS Capability: basic -Architectures: all except ARM +Architectures: all except ARM, arm64 Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_regs (in) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ struct kvm_fpu { 4.24 KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP -Architectures: x86, ia64, ARM +Architectures: x86, ia64, ARM, arm64 Type: vm ioctl Parameters: none Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -595,14 +595,14 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 -only go to the IOAPIC. On ia64, a IOSAPIC is created. On ARM, a GIC is +only go to the IOAPIC. On ia64, a IOSAPIC is created. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is created. 4.25 KVM_IRQ_LINE Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP -Architectures: x86, ia64, arm +Architectures: x86, ia64, arm, arm64 Type: vm ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_irq_level Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -612,9 +612,10 @@ On some architectures it is required that an interrupt controller model has been previously created with KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Note that edge-triggered interrupts require the level to be set to 1 and then back to 0. -ARM can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the in-kernel irqchip -(GIC), and for in-kernel irqchip can tell the GIC to use PPIs designated for -specific cpus. The irq field is interpreted like this: +ARM/arm64 can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the +in-kernel irqchip (GIC), and for in-kernel irqchip can tell the GIC to +use PPIs designated for specific cpus. The irq field is interpreted +like this: bits: | 31 ... 24 | 23 ... 16 | 15 ... 0 | field: | irq_type | vcpu_index | irq_id | @@ -1683,7 +1684,7 @@ The parameter is defined like this: This ioctl maps the memory at "user_addr" with the length "length" to the vcpu's address space starting at "vcpu_addr". All parameters need to -be alligned by 1 megabyte. +be aligned by 1 megabyte. 4.66 KVM_S390_UCAS_UNMAP @@ -1703,7 +1704,7 @@ The parameter is defined like this: This ioctl unmaps the memory in the vcpu's address space starting at "vcpu_addr" with the length "length". The field "user_addr" is ignored. -All parameters need to be alligned by 1 megabyte. +All parameters need to be aligned by 1 megabyte. 4.67 KVM_S390_VCPU_FAULT @@ -1831,6 +1832,22 @@ ARM 32-bit VFP control registers have the following id bit patterns: ARM 64-bit FP registers have the following id bit patterns: 0x4030 0000 0012 0 <regno:12> + +arm64 registers are mapped using the lower 32 bits. The upper 16 of +that is the register group type, or coprocessor number: + +arm64 core/FP-SIMD registers have the following id bit patterns. Note +that the size of the access is variable, as the kvm_regs structure +contains elements ranging from 32 to 128 bits. The index is a 32bit +value in the kvm_regs structure seen as a 32bit array. + 0x60x0 0000 0010 <index into the kvm_regs struct:16> + +arm64 CCSIDR registers are demultiplexed by CSSELR value: + 0x6020 0000 0011 00 <csselr:8> + +arm64 system registers have the following id bit patterns: + 0x6030 0000 0013 <op0:2> <op1:3> <crn:4> <crm:4> <op2:3> + 4.69 KVM_GET_ONE_REG Capability: KVM_CAP_ONE_REG @@ -1972,7 +1989,7 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error This populates and returns a structure describing the features of the "Server" class MMU emulation supported by KVM. -This can in turn be used by userspace to generate the appropariate +This can in turn be used by userspace to generate the appropriate device-tree properties for the guest operating system. The structure contains some global informations, followed by an @@ -2019,7 +2036,7 @@ be OR'ed into the "vsid" argument of the slbmte instruction. The "enc" array is a list which for each of those segment base page size provides the list of supported actual page sizes (which can be only larger or equal to the base page size), along with the -corresponding encoding in the hash PTE. Similarily, the array is +corresponding encoding in the hash PTE. Similarly, the array is 8 entries sorted by increasing sizes and an entry with a "0" shift is an empty entry and a terminator: @@ -2261,10 +2278,10 @@ return indicates the attribute is implemented. It does not necessarily indicate that the attribute can be read or written in the device's current state. "addr" is ignored. -4.77 KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT +4.82 KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT Capability: basic -Architectures: arm +Architectures: arm, arm64 Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct struct kvm_vcpu_init (in) Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -2283,12 +2300,14 @@ should be created before this ioctl is invoked. Possible features: - KVM_ARM_VCPU_POWER_OFF: Starts the CPU in a power-off state. Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI. + - KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT: Starts the CPU in a 32bit mode. + Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT (arm64 only). -4.78 KVM_GET_REG_LIST +4.83 KVM_GET_REG_LIST Capability: basic -Architectures: arm +Architectures: arm, arm64 Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_reg_list (in/out) Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -2305,10 +2324,10 @@ This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls. -4.80 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR +4.84 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR -Architectures: arm +Architectures: arm, arm64 Type: vm ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_arm_device_address (in) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -2329,20 +2348,21 @@ can access emulated or directly exposed devices, which the host kernel needs to know about. The id field is an architecture specific identifier for a specific device. -ARM divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an address type id -specific to the individual device. +ARM/arm64 divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an +address type id specific to the individual device. bits: | 63 ... 32 | 31 ... 16 | 15 ... 0 | field: | 0x00000000 | device id | addr type id | -ARM currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC support for the -hardware VGIC features, using KVM_ARM_DEVICE_VGIC_V2 as the device id. When -setting the base address for the guest's mapping of the VGIC virtual CPU -and distributor interface, the ioctl must be called after calling -KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, but before calling KVM_RUN on any of the VCPUs. Calling -this ioctl twice for any of the base addresses will return -EEXIST. +ARM/arm64 currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC +support for the hardware VGIC features, using KVM_ARM_DEVICE_VGIC_V2 +as the device id. When setting the base address for the guest's +mapping of the VGIC virtual CPU and distributor interface, the ioctl +must be called after calling KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, but before calling +KVM_RUN on any of the VCPUs. Calling this ioctl twice for any of the +base addresses will return -EEXIST. -4.82 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN +4.85 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RTAS Architectures: ppc diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index 83afe65d496..22ff659bc0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by || || writing to msr 0x4b564d02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit + || || before enabling paravirtualized + || || spinlock support. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side || || per-cpu warps are expected in || || kvmclock. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt index ea113b5d87a..022198e389d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -64,3 +64,17 @@ Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state. The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through memory using this hypercall. + +5. KVM_HC_KICK_CPU +------------------------ +Architecture: x86 +Status: active +Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state +Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest +kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can +execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold +time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put +the vcpu to sleep until occurence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the +same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall, +specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0) +is used in the hypercall for future use. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 43fcb761ed1..29089417614 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -191,12 +191,12 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: A counter keeping track of how many hardware registers (guest cr3 or pdptrs) are now pointing at the page. While this counter is nonzero, the page cannot be destroyed. See role.invalid. - multimapped: - Whether there exist multiple sptes pointing at this page. - parent_pte/parent_ptes: - If multimapped is zero, parent_pte points at the single spte that points at - this page's spt. Otherwise, parent_ptes points at a data structure - with a list of parent_ptes. + parent_ptes: + The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If + parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this pages and + parent_ptes points at this single spte, otherwise, there exists multiple + sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data + structure with a list of parent_ptes. unsync: If true, then the translations in this page may not match the guest's translation. This is equivalent to the state of the tlb when a pte is @@ -210,6 +210,24 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized pages reachable from a given page. + mmu_valid_gen: + Generation number of the page. It is compared with kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen + during hash table lookup, and used to skip invalidated shadow pages (see + "Zapping all pages" below.) + clear_spte_count: + Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written + atomically. The reader uses this while running out of the MMU lock + to detect in-progress updates and retry them until the writer has + finished the write. + write_flooding_count: + A guest may write to a page table many times, causing a lot of + emulations if the page needs to be write-protected (see "Synchronized + and unsynchronized pages" below). Leaf pages can be unsynchronized + so that they do not trigger frequent emulation, but this is not + possible for non-leafs. This field counts the number of emulations + since the last time the page table was actually used; if emulation + is triggered too frequently on this page, KVM will unmap the page + to avoid emulation in the future. Reverse map =========== @@ -258,14 +276,26 @@ This is the most complicated event. The cause of a page fault can be: Handling a page fault is performed as follows: + - if the RSV bit of the error code is set, the page fault is caused by guest + accessing MMIO and cached MMIO information is available. + - walk shadow page table + - check for valid generation number in the spte (see "Fast invalidation of + MMIO sptes" below) + - cache the information to vcpu->arch.mmio_gva, vcpu->arch.access and + vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn, and call the emulator + - If both P bit and R/W bit of error code are set, this could possibly + be handled as a "fast page fault" (fixed without taking the MMU lock). See + the description in Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt. - if needed, walk the guest page tables to determine the guest translation (gva->gpa or ngpa->gpa) - if permissions are insufficient, reflect the fault back to the guest - determine the host page - - if this is an mmio request, there is no host page; call the emulator - to emulate the instruction instead + - if this is an mmio request, there is no host page; cache the info to + vcpu->arch.mmio_gva, vcpu->arch.access and vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn - walk the shadow page table to find the spte for the translation, instantiating missing intermediate page tables as necessary + - If this is an mmio request, cache the mmio info to the spte and set some + reserved bit on the spte (see callers of kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask) - try to unsynchronize the page - if successful, we can let the guest continue and modify the gpte - emulate the instruction @@ -351,6 +381,51 @@ causes its write_count to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have artificially inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated. +Zapping all pages (page generation count) +========================================= + +For the large memory guests, walking and zapping all pages is really slow +(because there are a lot of pages), and also blocks memory accesses of +all VCPUs because it needs to hold the MMU lock. + +To make it be more scalable, kvm maintains a global generation number +which is stored in kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen. Every shadow page stores +the current global generation-number into sp->mmu_valid_gen when it +is created. Pages with a mismatching generation number are "obsolete". + +When KVM need zap all shadow pages sptes, it just simply increases the global +generation-number then reload root shadow pages on all vcpus. As the VCPUs +create new shadow page tables, the old pages are not used because of the +mismatching generation number. + +KVM then walks through all pages and zaps obsolete pages. While the zap +operation needs to take the MMU lock, the lock can be released periodically +so that the VCPUs can make progress. + +Fast invalidation of MMIO sptes +=============================== + +As mentioned in "Reaction to events" above, kvm will cache MMIO +information in leaf sptes. When a new memslot is added or an existing +memslot is changed, this information may become stale and needs to be +invalidated. This also needs to hold the MMU lock while walking all +shadow pages, and is made more scalable with a similar technique. + +MMIO sptes have a few spare bits, which are used to store a +generation number. The global generation number is stored in +kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation, and increased whenever guest memory info +changes. This generation number is distinct from the one described in +the previous section. + +When KVM finds an MMIO spte, it checks the generation number of the spte. +If the generation number of the spte does not equal the global generation +number, it will ignore the cached MMIO information and handle the page +fault through the slow path. + +Since only 19 bits are used to store generation-number on mmio spte, all +pages are zapped when there is an overflow. + + Further reading =============== diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt index a5f8436753e..f4099ca6b48 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt @@ -3127,7 +3127,7 @@ at process_kern.c:156 #3 0x1006a052 in switch_to (prev=0x50072000, next=0x507e8000, last=0x50072000) at process_kern.c:161 - #4 0x10001d12 in schedule () at sched.c:777 + #4 0x10001d12 in schedule () at core.c:777 #5 0x1006a744 in __down (sem=0x507d241c) at semaphore.c:71 #6 0x1006aa10 in __down_failed () at semaphore.c:157 #7 0x1006c5d8 in segv_handler (sc=0x5006e940) at trap_user.c:174 @@ -3191,7 +3191,7 @@ at process_kern.c:161 161 _switch_to(prev, next); (gdb) - #4 0x10001d12 in schedule () at sched.c:777 + #4 0x10001d12 in schedule () at core.c:777 777 switch_to(prev, next, prev); (gdb) #5 0x1006a744 in __down (sem=0x507d241c) at semaphore.c:71 |