1. 03 Nov, 2013 1 commit
    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax" · daf72722
      Paolo Bonzini authored
      When I was looking at RHEL5.9's failure to start with
      unrestricted_guest=0/emulate_invalid_guest_state=1, I got it working with a
      slightly older tree than kvm.git.  I now debugged the remaining failure,
      which was introduced by commit 660696d1 (KVM: X86 emulator: fix
      source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x instructions, 2013-04-24)
      introduced a similar mis-emulation to the one in commit 8acb4207 (KVM:
      fix sil/dil/bpl/spl in the mod/rm fields, 2013-05-30).  The incorrect
      decoding occurs in 8-bit movzx/movsx instructions whose 8-bit operand
      is sil/dil/bpl/spl.
      
      Needless to say, "movzbl %bpl, %eax" does occur in RHEL5.9's decompression
      prolog, just a handful of instructions before finally giving control to
      the decompressed vmlinux and getting out of the invalid guest state.
      
      Because OpMem8 bypasses decode_modrm, the same handling of the REX prefix
      must be applied to OpMem8.
      Reported-by: default avatarMichele Baldessari <michele@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      daf72722
  2. 31 Oct, 2013 8 commits
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  5. 18 Oct, 2013 2 commits
  6. 17 Oct, 2013 3 commits
    • Christoffer Dall's avatar
      KVM: ARM: Update comments for kvm_handle_wfi · 86ed81aa
      Christoffer Dall authored
      Update comments to reflect what is really going on and add the TWE bit
      to the comments in kvm_arm.h.
      
      Also renames the function to kvm_handle_wfx like is done on arm64 for
      consistency and uber-correctness.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      86ed81aa
    • Marc Zyngier's avatar
      ARM: KVM: Yield CPU when vcpu executes a WFE · 58d5ec8f
      Marc Zyngier authored
      On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
      becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
      lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
      running at all.
      
      This creates contention, and the observed slowdown is 40x for
      hackbench. No, this isn't a typo.
      
      The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
      now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
      boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
      CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
      when the VM is severely overcommited.
      
      Quick test to estimate the performance: hackbench 1 process 1000
      
      2xA15 host (baseline):	1.843s
      
      2xA15 guest w/o patch:	2.083s
      4xA15 guest w/o patch:	80.212s
      8xA15 guest w/o patch:	Could not be bothered to find out
      
      2xA15 guest w/ patch:	2.102s
      4xA15 guest w/ patch:	3.205s
      8xA15 guest w/ patch:	6.887s
      
      So we go from a 40x degradation to 1.5x in the 2x overcommit case,
      which is vaguely more acceptable.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      58d5ec8f
    • Gleb Natapov's avatar
      Powerpc KVM work is based on a commit after rc4. · 13acfd57
      Gleb Natapov authored
      Merging master into next to satisfy the dependencies.
      
      Conflicts:
      	arch/arm/kvm/reset.c
      13acfd57
  7. 16 Oct, 2013 4 commits
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