- 18 Oct, 2021 10 commits
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Oliver Upton authored
Add a selftest for the new KVM clock UAPI that was introduced. Ensure that the KVM clock is consistent between userspace and the guest, and that the difference in realtime will only ever cause the KVM clock to advance forward. Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Message-Id: <20210916181555.973085-3-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Oliver Upton authored
Copy over approximately clean versions of the pvclock headers into tools. Reconcile headers/symbols missing in tools that are unneeded. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Message-Id: <20210916181555.973085-2-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Oliver Upton authored
To date, VMM-directed TSC synchronization and migration has been a bit messy. KVM has some baked-in heuristics around TSC writes to infer if the VMM is attempting to synchronize. This is problematic, as it depends on host userspace writing to the guest's TSC within 1 second of the last write. A much cleaner approach to configuring the guest's views of the TSC is to simply migrate the TSC offset for every vCPU. Offsets are idempotent, and thus not subject to change depending on when the VMM actually reads/writes values from/to KVM. The VMM can then read the TSC once with KVM_GET_CLOCK to capture a (realtime, host_tsc) pair at the instant when the guest is paused. Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210916181538.968978-8-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Oliver Upton authored
Refactor kvm_synchronize_tsc to make a new function that allows callers to specify TSC parameters (offset, value, nanoseconds, etc.) explicitly for the sake of participating in TSC synchronization. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Message-Id: <20210916181538.968978-7-oupton@google.com> [Make sure kvm->arch.cur_tsc_generation and vcpu->arch.this_tsc_generation are equal at the end of __kvm_synchronize_tsc, if matched is false. Reported by Maxim Levitsky. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Protect the reference point for kvmclock with a seqcount, so that kvmclock updates for all vCPUs can proceed in parallel. Xen runstate updates will also run in parallel and not bounce the kvmclock cacheline. Of the variables that were protected by pvclock_gtod_sync_lock, nr_vcpus_matched_tsc is different because it is updated outside pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy and read inside it. Therefore, we need to keep it protected by a spinlock. In fact it must now be a raw spinlock, because pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy, being the write-side of a seqcount, is non-preemptible. Since we already have tsc_write_lock which is a raw spinlock, we can just use tsc_write_lock as the lock that protects the write-side of the seqcount. Co-developed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Message-Id: <20210916181538.968978-6-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Oliver Upton authored
Handling the migration of TSCs correctly is difficult, in part because Linux does not provide userspace with the ability to retrieve a (TSC, realtime) clock pair for a single instant in time. In lieu of a more convenient facility, KVM can report similar information in the kvm_clock structure. Provide userspace with a host TSC & realtime pair iff the realtime clock is based on the TSC. If userspace provides KVM_SET_CLOCK with a valid realtime value, advance the KVM clock by the amount of elapsed time. Do not step the KVM clock backwards, though, as it is a monotonic oscillator. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210916181538.968978-5-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
This is a new warning in clang top-of-tree (will be clang 14): In file included from arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:27: arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.h:318:9: error: use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands [-Werror,-Wbitwise-instead-of-logical] return __is_bad_mt_xwr(rsvd_check, spte) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.h:318:9: note: cast one or both operands to int to silence this warning The code is fine, but change it anyway to shut up this clever clogs of a compiler. Reported-by: torvic9@mailbox.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
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Paolo Bonzini authored
If allocation of rmaps fails, but some of the pointers have already been written, those pointers can be cleaned up when the memslot is freed, or even reused later for another attempt at allocating the rmaps. Therefore there is no need to WARN, as done for example in memslot_rmap_alloc, but the allocation *must* be skipped lest KVM will overwrite the previous pointer and will indeed leak memory. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Andrei Vagin authored
This looks like a typo in 8f32d5e5. This change didn't intend to do any functional changes. The problem was caught by gVisor tests. Fixes: 8f32d5e5 ("KVM: x86/mmu: allow kvm_faultin_pfn to return page fault handling code") Cc: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20211015163221.472508-1-avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- 15 Oct, 2021 2 commits
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.15, take #2 - Properly refcount pages used as a concatenated stage-2 PGD - Fix missing unlock when detecting the use of MTE+VM_SHARED
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Paolo Bonzini authored
The size of the data in the scratch buffer is not divided by the size of each port I/O operation, so vcpu->arch.pio.count ends up being larger than it should be by a factor of size. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 7ed9abfe ("KVM: SVM: Support string IO operations for an SEV-ES guest") Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- 05 Oct, 2021 4 commits
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Quentin Perret authored
VM_SHARED mappings are currently forbidden in a memslot with MTE to prevent two VMs racing to sanitise the same page. However, this check is performed while holding current->mm's mmap_lock, but fails to release it. Fix this by releasing the lock when needed. Fixes: ea7fc1bb ("KVM: arm64: Introduce MTE VM feature") Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211005122031.809857-1-qperret@google.com
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Quentin Perret authored
Some of the refcount manipulation helpers used at EL2 are instrumented to catch a corrupted state, but not all of them are treated equally. Let's make things more consistent by instrumenting hyp_page_ref_dec_and_test() as well. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211005090155.734578-6-qperret@google.com
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Quentin Perret authored
The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 as a single high-order compound page, which can cause the refcount of the tail pages to reach 0 when they shouldn't, hence corrupting the page-table. Fix this by introducing a new hyp_split_page() helper in the EL2 page allocator (matching the kernel's split_page() function), and make use of it from host_s2_zalloc_pages_exact(). Fixes: 1025c8c0 ("KVM: arm64: Wrap the host with a stage 2") Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211005090155.734578-5-qperret@google.com
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git://github.com/kvm-riscv/linuxPaolo Bonzini authored
Initial KVM RISC-V support Following features are supported by the initial KVM RISC-V support: 1. No RISC-V specific KVM IOCTL 2. Loadable KVM RISC-V module 3. Minimal possible KVM world-switch which touches only GPRs and few CSRs 4. Works on both RV64 and RV32 host 5. Full Guest/VM switch via vcpu_get/vcpu_put infrastructure 6. KVM ONE_REG interface for VCPU register access from KVM user-space 7. Interrupt controller emulation in KVM user-space 8. Timer and IPI emuation in kernel 9. Both Sv39x4 and Sv48x4 supported for RV64 host 10. MMU notifiers supported 11. Generic dirty log supported 12. FP lazy save/restore supported 13. SBI v0.1 emulation for Guest/VM 14. Forward unhandled SBI calls to KVM user-space 15. Hugepage support for Guest/VM 16. IOEVENTFD support for Vhost
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- 04 Oct, 2021 18 commits
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Anup Patel authored
Add myself as maintainer for KVM RISC-V and Atish as designated reviewer. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
Document RISC-V specific parts of the KVM API, such as: - The interrupt numbers passed to the KVM_INTERRUPT ioctl. - The states supported by the KVM_{GET,SET}_MP_STATE ioctls. - The registers supported by the KVM_{GET,SET}_ONE_REG interface and the encoding of those register ids. - The exit reason KVM_EXIT_RISCV_SBI for SBI calls forwarded to userspace tool. CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Atish Patra authored
The KVM host kernel is running in HS-mode needs so we need to handle the SBI calls coming from guest kernel running in VS-mode. This patch adds SBI v0.1 support in KVM RISC-V. Almost all SBI v0.1 calls are implemented in KVM kernel module except GETCHAR and PUTCHART calls which are forwarded to user space because these calls cannot be implemented in kernel space. In future, when we implement SBI v0.2 for Guest, we will forward SBI v0.2 experimental and vendor extension calls to user space. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Atish Patra authored
Add a KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctl interface for floating point registers such as F0-F31 and FCSR. This support is added for both 'F' and 'D' extensions. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Atish Patra authored
This patch adds floating point (F and D extension) context save/restore for guest VCPUs. The FP context is saved and restored lazily only when kernel enter/exits the in-kernel run loop and not during the KVM world switch. This way FP save/restore has minimal impact on KVM performance. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Atish Patra authored
The RISC-V hypervisor specification doesn't have any virtual timer feature. Due to this, the guest VCPU timer will be programmed via SBI calls. The host will use a separate hrtimer event for each guest VCPU to provide timer functionality. We inject a virtual timer interrupt to the guest VCPU whenever the guest VCPU hrtimer event expires. This patch adds guest VCPU timer implementation along with ONE_REG interface to access VCPU timer state from user space. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch implements MMU notifiers for KVM RISC-V so that Guest physical address space is in-sync with Host physical address space. This will allow swapping, page migration, etc to work transparently with KVM RISC-V. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch implements all required functions for programming the stage2 page table for each Guest/VM. At high-level, the flow of stage2 related functions is similar from KVM ARM/ARM64 implementation but the stage2 page table format is quite different for KVM RISC-V. [jiangyifei: stage2 dirty log support] Signed-off-by: Yifei Jiang <jiangyifei@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
We implement a simple VMID allocator for Guests/VMs which: 1. Detects number of VMID bits at boot-time 2. Uses atomic number to track VMID version and increments VMID version whenever we run-out of VMIDs 3. Flushes Guest TLBs on all host CPUs whenever we run-out of VMIDs 4. Force updates HW Stage2 VMID for each Guest VCPU whenever VMID changes using VCPU request KVM_REQ_UPDATE_HGATP Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
We get illegal instruction trap whenever Guest/VM executes WFI instruction. This patch handles WFI trap by blocking the trapped VCPU using kvm_vcpu_block() API. The blocked VCPU will be automatically resumed whenever a VCPU interrupt is injected from user-space or from in-kernel IRQCHIP emulation. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
We will get stage2 page faults whenever Guest/VM access SW emulated MMIO device or unmapped Guest RAM. This patch implements MMIO read/write emulation by extracting MMIO details from the trapped load/store instruction and forwarding the MMIO read/write to user-space. The actual MMIO emulation will happen in user-space and KVM kernel module will only take care of register updates before resuming the trapped VCPU. The handling for stage2 page faults for unmapped Guest RAM will be implemeted by a separate patch later. [jiangyifei: ioeventfd and in-kernel mmio device support] Signed-off-by: Yifei Jiang <jiangyifei@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch implements the VCPU world-switch for KVM RISC-V. The KVM RISC-V world-switch (i.e. __kvm_riscv_switch_to()) mostly switches general purpose registers, SSTATUS, STVEC, SSCRATCH and HSTATUS CSRs. Other CSRs are switched via vcpu_load() and vcpu_put() interface in kvm_arch_vcpu_load() and kvm_arch_vcpu_put() functions respectively. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
For KVM RISC-V, we use KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls to access VCPU config and registers from user-space. We have three types of VCPU registers: 1. CONFIG - these are VCPU config and capabilities 2. CORE - these are VCPU general purpose registers 3. CSR - these are VCPU control and status registers The CONFIG register available to user-space is ISA. The ISA register is a read and write register where user-space can only write the desired VCPU ISA capabilities before running the VCPU. The CORE registers available to user-space are PC, RA, SP, GP, TP, A0-A7, T0-T6, S0-S11 and MODE. Most of these are RISC-V general registers except PC and MODE. The PC register represents program counter whereas the MODE register represent VCPU privilege mode (i.e. S/U-mode). The CSRs available to user-space are SSTATUS, SIE, STVEC, SSCRATCH, SEPC, SCAUSE, STVAL, SIP, and SATP. All of these are read/write registers. In future, more VCPU register types will be added (such as FP) for the KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch implements VCPU interrupts and requests which are both asynchronous events. The VCPU interrupts can be set/unset using KVM_INTERRUPT ioctl from user-space. In future, the in-kernel IRQCHIP emulation will use kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt() and kvm_riscv_vcpu_unset_interrupt() functions to set/unset VCPU interrupts. Important VCPU requests implemented by this patch are: KVM_REQ_SLEEP - set whenever VCPU itself goes to sleep state KVM_REQ_VCPU_RESET - set whenever VCPU reset is requested The WFI trap-n-emulate (added later) will use KVM_REQ_SLEEP request and kvm_riscv_vcpu_has_interrupt() function. The KVM_REQ_VCPU_RESET request will be used by SBI emulation (added later) to power-up a VCPU in power-off state. The user-space can use the GET_MPSTATE/SET_MPSTATE ioctls to get/set power state of a VCPU. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch implements VCPU create, init and destroy functions required by generic KVM module. We don't have much dynamic resources in struct kvm_vcpu_arch so these functions are quite simple for KVM RISC-V. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch adds initial skeletal KVM RISC-V support which has: 1. A simple implementation of arch specific VM functions except kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() which will implemeted in-future as part of stage2 page loging. 2. Stubs of required arch specific VCPU functions except kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() which is semi-complete and extended by subsequent patches. 3. Stubs for required arch specific stage2 MMU functions. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Anup Patel authored
This patch adds asm/kvm_csr.h for RISC-V hypervisor extension related defines. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Message-Id: <20210927114016.1089328-2-anup.patel@wdc.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Merge tag 'kvm-s390-master-5.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into kvm-master KVM: s390: allow to compile without warning with W=1
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- 01 Oct, 2021 6 commits
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David Stevens authored
Avoid allocating the gfn_track arrays if nothing needs them. If there are no external to KVM users of the API (i.e. no GVT-g), then page tracking is only needed for shadow page tables. This means that when tdp is enabled and there are no external users, then the gfn_track arrays can be lazily allocated when the shadow MMU is actually used. This avoid allocations equal to .05% of guest memory when nested virtualization is not used, if the kernel is compiled without GVT-g. Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Message-Id: <20210922045859.2011227-3-stevensd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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David Stevens authored
Add a config option that allows kvm to determine whether or not there are any external users of page tracking. Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Message-Id: <20210922045859.2011227-2-stevensd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Krish Sadhukhan authored
According to section "TLB Flush" in APM vol 2, "Support for TLB_CONTROL commands other than the first two, is optional and is indicated by CPUID Fn8000_000A_EDX[FlushByAsid]. All encodings of TLB_CONTROL not defined in the APM are reserved." Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20210920235134.101970-3-krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Juergen Gross authored
By switching from kfree() to kvfree() in kvm_arch_free_vm() Arm64 can use the common variant. This can be accomplished by adding another macro __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_FREE, which will be used only by x86 for now. Further simplification can be achieved by adding __kvm_arch_free_vm() doing the common part. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Message-Id: <20210903130808.30142-5-jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Babu Moger authored
Predictive Store Forwarding: AMD Zen3 processors feature a new technology called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF). PSF is a hardware-based micro-architectural optimization designed to improve the performance of code execution by predicting address dependencies between loads and stores. How PSF works: It is very common for a CPU to execute a load instruction to an address that was recently written by a store. Modern CPUs implement a technique known as Store-To-Load-Forwarding (STLF) to improve performance in such cases. With STLF, data from the store is forwarded directly to the load without having to wait for it to be written to memory. In a typical CPU, STLF occurs after the address of both the load and store are calculated and determined to match. PSF expands on this by speculating on the relationship between loads and stores without waiting for the address calculation to complete. With PSF, the CPU learns over time the relationship between loads and stores. If STLF typically occurs between a particular store and load, the CPU will remember this. In typical code, PSF provides a performance benefit by speculating on the load result and allowing later instructions to begin execution sooner than they otherwise would be able to. The details of security analysis of AMD predictive store forwarding is documented here. https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-store-forwarding.pdf Predictive Store Forwarding controls: There are two hardware control bits which influence the PSF feature: - MSR 48h bit 2 – Speculative Store Bypass (SSBD) - MSR 48h bit 7 – Predictive Store Forwarding Disable (PSFD) The PSF feature is disabled if either of these bits are set. These bits are controllable on a per-thread basis in an SMT system. By default, both SSBD and PSFD are 0 meaning that the speculation features are enabled. While the SSBD bit disables PSF and speculative store bypass, PSFD only disables PSF. PSFD may be desirable for software which is concerned with the speculative behavior of PSF but desires a smaller performance impact than setting SSBD. Support for PSFD is indicated in CPUID Fn8000_0008 EBX[28]. All processors that support PSF will also support PSFD. Linux kernel does not have the interface to enable/disable PSFD yet. Plan here is to expose the PSFD technology to KVM so that the guest kernel can make use of it if they wish to. Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com> Message-Id: <163244601049.30292.5855870305350227855.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu> [Keep feature private to KVM, as requested by Borislav Petkov. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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David Matlack authored
mmu_try_to_unsync_pages checks if page tracking is active for the given gfn, which requires knowing the memslot. We can pass down the memslot via make_spte to avoid this lookup. The memslot is also handy for make_spte's marking of the gfn as dirty: we can test whether dirty page tracking is enabled, and if so ensure that pages are mapped as writable with 4K granularity. Apart from the warning, no functional change is intended. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20210813203504.2742757-7-dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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