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Jes Sorensen
042b26edf0 KVM: ia64: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs()
Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_[gs]et_regs() to do something meaningful on
ia64. Old versions could never have worked since they required
pointers to be set in the ioctl payload which were never being set by
the ioctl handler for get_regs.

In addition reserve extra space for future extensions.

The change of layout of struct kvm_regs doesn't require adding a new
CAP since get/set regs never worked on ia64 until now.

This version doesn't support copying the KVM kernel stack in/out of
the kernel. This should be implemented in a seperate ioctl call if
ever needed.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Acked-by : Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
4531220b71 KVM: x86: Rework user space NMI injection as KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
There is no point in doing the ready_for_nmi_injection/
request_nmi_window dance with user space. First, we don't do this for
in-kernel irqchip anyway, while the code path is the same as for user
space irqchip mode. And second, there is nothing to loose if a pending
NMI is overwritten by another one (in contrast to IRQs where we have to
save the number). Actually, there is even the risk of raising spurious
NMIs this way because the reason for the held-back NMI might already be
handled while processing the first one.

Therefore this patch creates a simplified user space NMI injection
interface, exporting it under KVM_CAP_USER_NMI and dropping the old
KVM_CAP_NMI capability. And this time we also take care to provide the
interface only on archs supporting NMIs via KVM (right now only x86).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Jan Kiszka
264ff01d55 KVM: VMX: Fix pending NMI-vs.-IRQ race for user space irqchip
As with the kernel irqchip, don't allow an NMI to stomp over an already
injected IRQ; instead wait for the IRQ injection to be completed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
defaf1587c KVM: fix handling of ACK from shared guest IRQ
If an assigned device shares a guest irq with an emulated
device then we currently interpret an ack generated by the
emulated device as originating from the assigned device
leading to e.g. "Unbalanced enable for IRQ 4347" from the
enable_irq() in kvm_assigned_dev_ack_irq().

The fix is fairly simple - don't enable the physical device
irq unless it was previously disabled.

Of course, this can still lead to a situation where a
non-assigned device ACK can cause the physical device irq to
be reenabled before the device was serviced. However, being
level sensitive, the interrupt will merely be regenerated.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:47 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
eb64f1e8cd KVM: MMU: check for present pdptr shadow page in walk_shadow
walk_shadow assumes the caller verified validity of the pdptr pointer in
question, which is not the case for the invlpg handler.

Fixes oops during Solaris 10 install.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Avi Kivity
ca9edaee1a KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Avi Kivity
1a811b6167 KVM: Advertise the bug in memory region destruction as fixed
Userspace might need to act differently.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Rusty Russell
7f59f492da KVM: use cpumask_var_t for cpus_hardware_enabled
This changes cpus_hardware_enabled from a cpumask_t to a cpumask_var_t:
equivalent for CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK=n, otherwise dynamically allocated.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:45 +02:00
Rusty Russell
6ef7a1bc45 KVM: use modern cpumask primitives, no cpumask_t on stack
We're getting rid on on-stack cpumasks for large NR_CPUS.

1) Use cpumask_var_t/alloc_cpumask_var.
2) smp_call_function_mask -> smp_call_function_many
3) cpus_clear, cpus_empty, cpu_set -> cpumask_clear, cpumask_empty,
   cpumask_set_cpu.

This actually generates slightly smaller code than the old one with
CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK=n.  (gcc knows that cpus cannot be NULL in
that case, where cpumask_var_t is cpumask_t[1]).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:45 +02:00
Rusty Russell
498468961e KVM: Extract core of kvm_flush_remote_tlbs/kvm_reload_remote_mmus
Avi said:
> Wow, code duplication from Rusty. Things must be bad.

Something about glass houses comes to mind.  But instead, a patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:45 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
3d3aab1b97 KVM: set owner of cpu and vm file operations
There is a race between a "close of the file descriptors" and module
unload in the kvm module.

You can easily trigger this problem by applying this debug patch:
>--- kvm.orig/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>+++ kvm/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>@@ -648,10 +648,14 @@ void kvm_free_physmem(struct kvm *kvm)
>                kvm_free_physmem_slot(&kvm->memslots[i], NULL);
> }
>
>+#include <linux/delay.h>
> static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
>        struct mm_struct *mm = kvm->mm;
>
>+       printk("off1\n");
>+       msleep(5000);
>+       printk("off2\n");
>        spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
>        list_del(&kvm->vm_list);
>        spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);

and killing the userspace, followed by an rmmod.

The problem is that kvm_destroy_vm can run while the module count
is 0. That means, you can remove the module while kvm_destroy_vm
is running. But kvm_destroy_vm is part of the module text. This
causes a kerneloops. The race exists without the msleep but is much
harder to trigger.

This patch requires the fix for anon_inodes (anon_inodes: use fops->owner
for module refcount).
With this patch, we can set the owner of all anonymous KVM inodes file
operations. The VFS will then control the KVM module refcount as long as there
is an open file. kvm_destroy_vm will be called by the release function of the
last closed file - before the VFS drops the module refcount.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:45 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
e3a2a0d4e5 anon_inodes: use fops->owner for module refcount
There is an imbalance for anonymous inodes. If the fops->owner field is set,
the module reference count of owner is decreases on release.
("filp_close" --> "__fput" ---> "fops_put")

On the other hand, anon_inode_getfd does not increase the module reference
count of owner. This causes two problems:

- if owner is set, the module refcount goes negative
- if owner is not set, the module can be unloaded while code is running

This patch changes anon_inode_getfd to be symmetric regarding fops->owner
handling.

I have checked all existing users of anon_inode_getfd. Noone sets fops->owner,
thats why nobody has seen the module refcount negative. The refcounting was
tested with a patched and unpatched KVM module.(see patch 2/2) I also did an
epoll_open/close test.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Eduardo Habkost
e93353c93a x86: KVM guest: kvm_get_tsc_khz: return khz, not lpj
kvm_get_tsc_khz() currently returns the previously-calculated preset_lpj
value, but it is in loops-per-jiffy, not kHz. The current code works
correctly only when HZ=1000.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
ad218f85e3 KVM: MMU: prepopulate the shadow on invlpg
If the guest executes invlpg, peek into the pagetable and attempt to
prepopulate the shadow entry.

Also stop dirty fault updates from interfering with the fork detector.

2% improvement on RHEL3/AIM7.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
6cffe8ca4a KVM: MMU: skip global pgtables on sync due to cr3 switch
Skip syncing global pages on cr3 switch (but not on cr4/cr0). This is
important for Linux 32-bit guests with PAE, where the kmap page is
marked as global.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:44 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
b1a368218a KVM: MMU: collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync
Collapse remote TLB flushes on root sync.

kernbench is 2.7% faster on 4-way guest. Improvements have been seen
with other loads such as AIM7.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
60c8aec6e2 KVM: MMU: use page array in unsync walk
Instead of invoking the handler directly collect pages into
an array so the caller can work with it.

Simplifies TLB flush collapsing.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Amit Shah
fbce554e94 KVM: x86 emulator: Fix handling of VMMCALL instruction
The VMMCALL instruction doesn't get recognised and isn't processed
by the emulator.

This is seen on an Intel host that tries to execute the VMMCALL
instruction after a guest live migrates from an AMD host.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
9bf8ea42fe KVM: x86 emulator: add the emulation of shld and shrd instructions
Add emulation of shld and shrd instructions

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:43 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
d175226a5f KVM: x86 emulator: add the assembler code for three operands
Add the assembler code for instruction with three operands and one
operand is stored in ECX register

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
bfcadf83ec KVM: x86 emulator: add a new "implied 1" Src decode type
Add SrcOne operand type when we need to decode an implied '1' like with
regular shift instruction

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
0dc8d10f7d KVM: x86 emulator: add Src2 decode set
Instruction like shld has three operands, so we need to add a Src2
decode set. We start with Src2None, Src2CL, and Src2ImmByte, Src2One to
support shld/shrd and we will expand it later.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
45ed60b371 KVM: x86 emulator: Extend the opcode descriptor
Extend the opcode descriptor to 32 bits. This is needed by the
introduction of a new Src2 operand type.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Glauber Costa
6f89724829 KVM: Really remove a slot when a user ask us so
Right now, KVM does not remove a slot when we do a
register ioctl for size 0 (would be the expected behaviour).

Instead, we only mark it as empty, but keep all bitmaps
and allocated data structures present. It completely
nullifies our chances of reusing that same slot again
for mapping a different piece of memory.

In this patch, we destroy rmaps, and vfree() the
pointers that used to hold the dirty bitmap, rmap
and lpage_info structures.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7b7015914b KVM: ppc: mostly cosmetic updates to the exit timing accounting code
The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
73e75b416f KVM: ppc: Implement in-kernel exit timing statistics
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.

Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.

Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c5fbdffbda KVM: ppc: save and restore guest mappings on context switch
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7924bd4109 KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.

Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.

These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).

In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c0ca609c5f powerpc/44x: declare tlb_44x_index for use in C code
KVM currently ignores the host's round robin TLB eviction selection, instead
maintaining its own TLB state and its own round robin index. However, by
participating in the normal 44x TLB selection, we can drop the alternate TLB
processing in KVM. This results in a significant performance improvement,
since that processing currently must be done on *every* guest exit.

Accordingly, KVM needs to be able to access and increment tlb_44x_index.
(KVM on 440 cannot be a module, so there is no need to export this symbol.)

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
891686188f KVM: ppc: support large host pages
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.

This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
4a643be8c9 KVM: split out kvm_free_assigned_irq()
Split out the logic corresponding to undoing assign_irq() and
clean it up a bit.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
61552367b2 KVM: add KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID assertions
Make sure kvm_request_irq_source_id() never returns
KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID.

Likewise, check that kvm_free_irq_source_id() never accepts
KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
f29b2673d3 KVM: don't free an unallocated irq source id
Set assigned_dev->irq_source_id to -1 so that we can avoid freeing
a source ID which we never allocated.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:06 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
fdd897e6b5 KVM: make kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier() safe
We never pass a NULL notifier pointer here, but we may well
pass a notifier struct which hasn't previously been
registered.

Guard against this by using hlist_del_init() which will
not do anything if the node hasn't been added to the list
and, when removing the node, will ensure that a subsequent
call to hlist_del_init() will be fine too.

Fixes an oops seen when an assigned device is freed before
and IRQ is assigned to it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:06 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
844c7a9ff4 KVM: remove the IRQ ACK notifier assertions
We will obviously never pass a NULL struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier* to
this functions. They are always embedded in the assigned device
structure, so the assertion add nothing.

The irqchip_in_kernel() assertion is very out of place - clearly
this little abstraction needs to know nothing about the upper
layer details.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:06 +02:00
Hannes Eder
efff9e538f KVM: VMX: fix sparse warning
Impact: make global function static

  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:134:3: warning: symbol 'vmx_capability' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:06 +02:00
Hannes Eder
e8ba5d311d KVM: fix sparse warning
Impact: make global function static

  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:85:6: warning: symbol 'kvm_rebooting' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
f3fd92fbdb KVM: Remove extraneous semicolon after do/while
Notices by Guillaume Thouvenin.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
2b48cc75b2 KVM: x86 emulator: fix popf emulation
Set operand type and size to get correct writeback behavior.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
cf5de4f886 KVM: x86 emulator: fix ret emulation
'ret' did not set the operand type or size for the destination, so
writeback ignored it.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:05 +02:00
Avi Kivity
8a09b6877f KVM: x86 emulator: switch 'pop reg' instruction to emulate_pop()
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:04 +02:00
Avi Kivity
781d0edc5f KVM: x86 emulator: allow pop from mmio
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:04 +02:00
Avi Kivity
faa5a3ae39 KVM: x86 emulator: Extract 'pop' sequence into a function
Switch 'pop r/m' instruction to use the new function.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:04 +02:00
Wu Fengguang
b82091824e KVM: Prevent trace call into unloaded module text
Add marker_synchronize_unregister() before module unloading.
This prevents possible trace calls into unloaded module text.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:04 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
6692cef30b KVM: s390: Fix memory leak of vcpu->run
The s390 backend of kvm never calls kvm_vcpu_uninit. This causes
a memory leak of vcpu->run pages.
Lets call kvm_vcpu_uninit in kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy to free
the vcpu->run.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:03 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
d329c035e7 KVM: s390: Fix refcounting and allow module unload
Currently it is impossible to unload the kvm module on s390.
This patch fixes kvm_arch_destroy_vm to release all cpus.
This make it possible to unload the module.

In addition we stop messing with the module refcount in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:03 +02:00
Avi Kivity
6b7ad61ffb KVM: x86 emulator: consolidate emulation of two operand instructions
No need to repeat the same assembly block over and over.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:03 +02:00
Avi Kivity
dda96d8f1b KVM: x86 emulator: reduce duplication in one operand emulation thunks
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:03 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
ecc5589f19 KVM: MMU: optimize set_spte for page sync
The write protect verification in set_spte is unnecessary for page sync.

Its guaranteed that, if the unsync spte was writable, the target page
does not have a write protected shadow (if it had, the spte would have
been write protected under mmu_lock by rmap_write_protect before).

Same reasoning applies to mark_page_dirty: the gfn has been marked as
dirty via the pagefault path.

The cost of hash table and memslot lookups are quite significant if the
workload is pagetable write intensive resulting in increased mmu_lock
contention.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:02 +02:00
Sheng Yang
5319c66252 KVM: MSI to INTx translate
Now we use MSI as default one, and translate MSI to INTx when guest need
INTx rather than MSI. For legacy device, we provide support for non-sharing
host IRQ.

Provide a parameter msi2intx for this method. The value is true by default in
x86 architecture.

We can't guarantee this mode can work on every device, but for most of us
tested, it works. If your device encounter some trouble with this mode, you can
try set msi2intx modules parameter to 0. If the device is OK with msi2intx=0,
then please report it to KVM mailing list or me. We may prepare a blacklist for
the device that can't work in this mode.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:02 +02:00