user/sven/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h, branch v4.13.6

kvm: x86: hyperv: make VP_INDEX managed by userspace

2017-07-14T14:28:18Z

Hyper-V identifies vCPUs by Virtual Processor Index, which can be queried via HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX msr. It is defined by the spec as a sequential number which can't exceed the maximum number of vCPUs per VM. APIC ids can be sparse and thus aren't a valid replacement for VP indices. Current KVM uses its internal vcpu index as VP_INDEX. However, to make it predictable and persistent across VM migrations, the userspace has to control the value of VP_INDEX. This patch achieves that, by storing vp_index explicitly on vcpu, and allowing HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX to be set from the host side. For compatibility it's initialized to KVM vcpu index. Also a few variables are renamed to make clear distinction betweed this Hyper-V vp_index and KVM vcpu_id (== APIC id). Besides, a new capability, KVM_CAP_HYPERV_VP_INDEX, is added to allow the userspace to skip attempting msr writes where unsupported, to avoid spamming error logs. Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

kvm: x86: hyperv: add KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2

2017-07-13T15:41:04Z

There is a flaw in the Hyper-V SynIC implementation in KVM: when message page or event flags page is enabled by setting the corresponding msr, KVM zeroes it out. This is problematic because on migration the corresponding MSRs are loaded on the destination, so the content of those pages is lost. This went unnoticed so far because the only user of those pages was in-KVM hyperv synic timers, which could continue working despite that zeroing. Newer QEMU uses those pages for Hyper-V VMBus implementation, and zeroing them breaks the migration. Besides, in newer QEMU the content of those pages is fully managed by QEMU, so zeroing them is undesirable even when writing the MSRs from the guest side. To support this new scheme, introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2, which, when enabled, makes sure that the synic pages aren't zeroed out in KVM. Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: s390: Fix KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS ioctl definition

2017-07-12T20:38:26Z

In case of KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS, the kernel does not only read struct kvm_s390_cmma_log passed from userspace (which constitutes _IOC_WRITE), it also writes back a return value (which constitutes _IOC_READ) making this an _IOWR ioctl instead of _IOW. Fixes: 4036e387 ("KVM: s390: ioctls to get and set guest storage attributes") Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

Merge branch 'kvm-ppc-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into HEAD

2017-07-03T08:41:59Z

- Better machine check handling for HV KVM - Ability to support guests with threads=2, 4 or 8 on POWER9 - Fix for a race that could cause delayed recognition of signals - Fix for a bug where POWER9 guests could sleep with interrupts pending.

KVM: s390: ioctls to get and set guest storage attributes

2017-06-22T10:41:06Z

* Add the struct used in the ioctls to get and set CMMA attributes. * Add the two functions needed to get and set the CMMA attributes for guest pages. * Add the two ioctls that use the aforementioned functions. Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda Acked-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add capability to report possible virtual SMT modes

2017-06-22T01:25:31Z

Now that userspace can set the virtual SMT mode by enabling the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability, it is useful for userspace to be able to query the set of possible virtual SMT modes. This provides a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE, to provide this information. The return value is a bitmap of possible modes, with bit N set if virtual SMT mode 2^N is available. That is, 1 indicates SMT1 is available, 2 indicates that SMT2 is available, 3 indicates that both SMT1 and SMT2 are available, and so on. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new capability to control MCE behaviour

2017-06-21T03:37:08Z

This introduces a new KVM capability to control how KVM behaves on machine check exception (MCE) in HV KVM guests. If this capability has not been enabled, KVM redirects machine check exceptions to guest's 0x200 vector, if the address in error belongs to the guest. With this capability enabled, KVM will cause a guest exit with the exit reason indicating an NMI. The new capability is required to avoid problems if a new kernel/KVM is used with an old QEMU, running a guest that doesn't issue "ibm,nmi-register". As old QEMU does not understand the NMI exit type, it treats it as a fatal error. However, the guest could have handled the machine check error if the exception was delivered to guest's 0x200 interrupt vector instead of NMI exit in case of old QEMU. [paulus@ozlabs.org - Reworded the commit message to be clearer, enable only on HV KVM.] Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad Reviewed-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2017-04-27T15:33:14Z

KVM/ARM Changes for v4.12. Changes include: - Using the common sysreg definitions between KVM and arm64 - Improved hyp-stub implementation with support for kexec and kdump on the 32-bit side - Proper PMU exception handling - Performance improvements of our GIC handling - Support for irqchip in userspace with in-kernel arch-timers and PMU support - A fix for a race condition in our PSCI code Conflicts: Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests

2017-04-21T10:50:28Z

Guests that are heavy on futexes end up IPI'ing each other a lot. That can lead to significant slowdowns and latency increase for those guests when running within KVM. If only a single guest is needed on a host, we have a lot of spare host CPU time we can throw at the problem. Modern CPUs implement a feature called "MWAIT" which allows guests to wake up sleeping remote CPUs without an IPI - thus without an exit - at the expense of never going out of guest context. The decision whether this is something sensible to use should be up to the VM admin, so to user space. We can however allow MWAIT execution on systems that support it properly hardware wise. This patch adds a CAP to user space and a KVM cpuid leaf to indicate availability of native MWAIT execution. With that enabled, the worst a guest can do is waste as many cycles as a "jmp ." would do, so it's not a privilege problem. We consciously do *not* expose the feature in our CPUID bitmap, as most people will want to benefit from sleeping vCPUs to allow for over commit. Reported-by: "Gabriel L. Somlo" Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [agraf: fix amd, change commit message] Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: PPC: VFIO: Add in-kernel acceleration for VFIO

2017-04-20T01:39:26Z

This allows the host kernel to handle H_PUT_TCE, H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT and H_STUFF_TCE requests targeted an IOMMU TCE table used for VFIO without passing them to user space which saves time on switching to user space and back. This adds H_PUT_TCE/H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT/H_STUFF_TCE handlers to KVM. KVM tries to handle a TCE request in the real mode, if failed it passes the request to the virtual mode to complete the operation. If it a virtual mode handler fails, the request is passed to the user space; this is not expected to happen though. To avoid dealing with page use counters (which is tricky in real mode), this only accelerates SPAPR TCE IOMMU v2 clients which are required to pre-register the userspace memory. The very first TCE request will be handled in the VFIO SPAPR TCE driver anyway as the userspace view of the TCE table (iommu_table::it_userspace) is not allocated till the very first mapping happens and we cannot call vmalloc in real mode. If we fail to update a hardware IOMMU table unexpected reason, we just clear it and move on as there is nothing really we can do about it - for example, if we hot plug a VFIO device to a guest, existing TCE tables will be mirrored automatically to the hardware and there is no interface to report to the guest about possible failures. This adds new attribute - KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_SET_SPAPR_TCE - to the VFIO KVM device. It takes a VFIO group fd and SPAPR TCE table fd and associates a physical IOMMU table with the SPAPR TCE table (which is a guest view of the hardware IOMMU table). The iommu_table object is cached and referenced so we do not have to look up for it in real mode. This does not implement the UNSET counterpart as there is no use for it - once the acceleration is enabled, the existing userspace won't disable it unless a VFIO container is destroyed; this adds necessary cleanup to the KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL handler. This advertises the new KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO capability to the user space. This adds real mode version of WARN_ON_ONCE() as the generic version causes problems with rcu_sched. Since we testing what vmalloc_to_phys() returns in the code, this also adds a check for already existing vmalloc_to_phys() call in kvmppc_rm_h_put_tce_indirect(). This finally makes use of vfio_external_user_iommu_id() which was introduced quite some time ago and was considered for removal. Tests show that this patch increases transmission speed from 220MB/s to 750..1020MB/s on 10Gb network (Chelsea CXGB3 10Gb ethernet card). Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy Acked-by: Alex Williamson Reviewed-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras