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2011-09-25KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memoryAvi Kivity
Architecturally, PDPTEs are cached in the PDPTRs when CR3 is reloaded. On SVM, it is not possible to implement this, but on VMX this is possible and was indeed implemented until nested SVM changed this to unconditionally read PDPTEs dynamically. This has noticable impact when running PAE guests. Fix by changing the MMU to read PDPTRs from the cache, falling back to reading from memory for the nested MMU. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-12KVM: Fetch guest cr3 from hardware on demandAvi Kivity
Instead of syncing the guest cr3 every exit, which is expensince on vmx with ept enabled, sync it only on demand. [sheng: fix incorrect cr3 seen by Windows XP] Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12KVM: Replace reads of vcpu->arch.cr3 by an accessorAvi Kivity
This allows us to keep cr3 in the VMCS, later on. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-01-12KVM: X86: Introduce generic guest-mode representationJoerg Roedel
This patch introduces a generic representation of guest-mode fpr a vcpu. This currently only exists in the SVM code. Having this representation generic will help making the non-svm code aware of nesting when this is necessary. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24KVM: MMU: Introduce kvm_pdptr_read_mmuJoerg Roedel
This function is implemented to load the pdptr pointers of the currently running guest (l1 or l2 guest). Therefore it takes care about the current paging mode and can read pdptrs out of l2 guest physical memory. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24KVM: MMU: Add kvm_mmu parameter to load_pdptrs functionJoerg Roedel
This function need to be able to load the pdptrs from any mmu context currently in use. So change this function to take an kvm_mmu parameter to fit these needs. As a side effect this patch also moves the cached pdptrs from vcpu_arch into the kvm_mmu struct. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01KVM: VMX: Enable XSAVE/XRSTOR for guestDexuan Cui
This patch enable guest to use XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions. We assume that host_xcr0 would use all possible bits that OS supported. And we loaded xcr0 in the same way we handled fpu - do it as late as we can. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01KVM: kvm_pdptr_read() may sleepAvi Kivity
Annotate it thusly. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: Optimize kvm_read_cr[04]_bits()Avi Kivity
'mask' is always a constant, so we can check whether it includes a bit that might be owned by the guest very cheaply, and avoid the decache call. Saves a few hundred bytes of module text. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: VMX: Allow the guest to own some cr0 bitsAvi Kivity
We will use this later to give the guest ownership of cr0.ts. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: Replace read accesses of vcpu->arch.cr0 by an accessorAvi Kivity
Since we'd like to allow the guest to own a few bits of cr0 at times, we need to know when we access those bits. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01KVM: Add accessor for reading cr4 (or some bits of cr4)Avi Kivity
Some bits of cr4 can be owned by the guest on vmx, so when we read them, we copy them to the vcpu structure. In preparation for making the set of guest-owned bits dynamic, use helpers to access these bits so we don't need to know where the bit resides. No changes to svm since all bits are host-owned there. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10KVM: Cache pdptrsAvi Kivity
Instead of reloading the pdptrs on every entry and exit (vmcs writes on vmx, guest memory access on svm) extract them on demand. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15KVM: x86: accessors for guest registersMarcelo Tosatti
As suggested by Avi, introduce accessors to read/write guest registers. This simplifies the ->cache_regs/->decache_regs interface, and improves register caching which is important for VMX, where the cost of vmcs_read/vmcs_write is significant. [avi: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>