27 Dec, 2011
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When syncing KVM headers with QEMU I (or whoever applies the
diff) end up automatically fixing whitespaces. One of them
is in kvm_para.h.It's a lot more consistent for people who don't do the whitespace
fixups automatically to already have fixed headers in Linux. So
remove the sparse empty line at the end of kvm_para.h and everyone's
happy.Reported-by: Blue Swirl
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf
24 Oct, 2010
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Currently x86 is the only architecture that uses kvm_guest_init(). With
PowerPC we're getting a second user, but the signature is different there
and we don't need to export it, as it uses the normal kernel init framework.So let's move the x86 specific definition of that function over to the x86
specfic header file.Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf
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We will be introducing a method to project the shared page in guest context.
As soon as we're talking about this coupling, the shared page is colled magic
page.This patch introduces simple defines, so the follow-up patches are easier to
read.Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf
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To communicate with KVM directly we need to plumb some sort of interface
between the guest and KVM. Usually those interfaces use hypercalls.This hypercall implementation is described in the last patch of the series
in a special documentation file. Please read that for further information.This patch implements stubs to handle KVM PPC hypercalls on the host and
guest side alike.Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
10 Sep, 2009
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So far unprivileged guest callers running in ring 3 can issue, e.g., MMU
hypercalls. Normally, such callers cannot provide any hand-crafted MMU
command structure as it has to be passed by its physical address, but
they can still crash the guest kernel by passing random addresses.To close the hole, this patch considers hypercalls valid only if issued
from guest ring 0. This may still be relaxed on a per-hypercall base in
the future once required.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
27 Apr, 2008
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Hypercall based pte updates are faster than faults, and also allow use
of the lazy MMU mode to batch operations.Don't report the feature if two dimensional paging is enabled.
[avi:
- one mmu_op hypercall instead of one per op
- allow 64-bit gpa on hypercall
- don't pass host errors (-ENOMEM) to guest][akpm: warning fix on i386]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Add basic KVM paravirt support. Avoid vm-exits on IO delays.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
31 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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kvm_para.h potentially contains definitions that are to be used by userspace,
so it should not be included inside the __KERNEL__ block. To protect its own
data structures, kvm_para.h already includes its own __KERNEL__ block.Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Acked-by: Amit Shah
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This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a
protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if
conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority
than the new tpr).Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
30 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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Currently kvm provides hypercalls only for x86* architectures. To
provide hypercall infrastructure for other kvm architectures I split
kvm_para.h into a generic header file and architecture specific
definitions.Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
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This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better
support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by
trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall
instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right
one lazily.A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to
userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to
communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code
in tree that uses userspace hypercalls.[avi: fix #ud injection on vmx]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
04 Mar, 2007
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
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This adds a special MSR based hypercall API to KVM. This is to be
used by paravirtual kernels and virtual drivers.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
