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# 351753 03-Sep-2019 emaste

MFC r350492: vmx: use C99 bool, not boolean_t

Bhyve's vmm is a self-contained modern component and thus a good
candidate for use of C99 types.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 348271 25-May-2019 rgrimes

MFC: r346714: Add accessor function for vm->maxcpus

Replace most VM_MAXCPU constant useses with an accessor function to
vm->maxcpus which for now is initialized and kept at the value of
VM_MAXCPUS.

This is a rework of Fabian Freyer (fabian.freyer_physik.tu-berlin.de)
work from D10070 to adjust it for the cpu topology changes that
occured in r332298

Approved by: re (kib)


# 348201 23-May-2019 rgrimes

MFC: r332298,333712,334199,334216,334219 bhyve cpu topology

Approved by: re (gjb), bde/phk (mentor, implicit)


# 347435 10-May-2019 jhb

MFC 338957:
Handle a guest executing a vm instruction by trapping and raising an
undefined instruction exception. Previously we would exit the guest,
however an unprivileged user could execute these.


# 347416 10-May-2019 jhb

MFC 332479: Add SDT probes to vmexit on Intel.


# 347409 09-May-2019 jhb

MFC 333639:
vmmdev: return EFAULT when trying to read beyond VM system memory max address

Currently, when using dd(1) to take a VM memory image, the capture never ends,
reading zeroes when it's beyond VM system memory max address.
Return EFAULT when trying to read beyond VM system memory max address.


# 331722 29-Mar-2018 eadler

Revert r330897:

This was intended to be a non-functional change. It wasn't. The commit
message was thus wrong. In addition it broke arm, and merged crypto
related code.

Revert with prejudice.

This revert skips files touched in r316370 since that commit was since
MFCed. This revert also skips files that require $FreeBSD$ property
changes.

Thank you to those who helped me get out of this mess including but not
limited to gonzo, kevans, rgrimes.

Requested by: gjb (re)


# 330897 14-Mar-2018 eadler

Partial merge of the SPDX changes

These changes are incomplete but are making it difficult
to determine what other changes can/should be merged.

No objections from: pfg


# 329462 17-Feb-2018 kib

MFC r328083,328096,328116,328119,328120,328128,328135,328153,328157,
328166,328177,328199,328202,328205,328468,328470,328624,328625,328627,
328628,329214,329297,329365:

Meltdown mitigation by PTI, PCID optimization of PTI, and kernel use of IBRS
for some mitigations of Spectre.

Tested by: emaste, Arshan Khanifar <arshankhanifar@gmail.com>
Discussed with: jkim
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 306471 29-Sep-2016 jhb

MFC 304858,305485,305497: Fix various issues with PCI pass through and VT-d.

304858:
Enable I/O MMU when PCI pass through is first used.

Rather than enabling the I/O MMU when the vmm module is loaded,
defer initialization until the first attempt to pass a PCI device
through to a guest. If the I/O MMU fails to initialize or is not
present, than fail the attempt to pass a PCI device through to a
guest.

The hw.vmm.force_iommu tunable has been removed since the I/O MMU is
no longer enabled during boot. However, the I/O MMU support can be
disabled by setting the hw.vmm.iommu.enable tunable to 0 to prevent
use of the I/O MMU on any systems where it is buggy.

305485:
Leave ppt devices in the host domain when they are not attached to a VM.

This allows a pass through device to be reset to a normal device driver
on the host and reused on the host. ppt devices are now always active in
some I/O MMU domain when the I/O MMU is active, either the host domain
or the domain of a VM they are attached to.

305497:
Update the I/O MMU in bhyve when PCI devices are added and removed.

When the I/O MMU is active in bhyve, all PCI devices need valid entries
in the DMAR context tables. The I/O MMU code does a single enumeration
of the available PCI devices during initialization to add all existing
devices to a domain representing the host. The ppt(4) driver then moves
pass through devices in and out of domains for virtual machines as needed.
However, when new PCI devices were added at runtime either via SR-IOV or
HotPlug, the I/O MMU tables were not updated.

This change adds a new set of EVENTHANDLERS that are invoked when PCI
devices are added and deleted. The I/O MMU driver in bhyve installs
handlers for these events which it uses to add and remove devices to
the "host" domain.

Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications


# 305673 09-Sep-2016 jhb

MFC 303713: Correct assertion on vcpuid argument to vm_gpa_hold().

PR: 208168


# 302408 07-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


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# 296103 26-Feb-2016 marcel

Bump VM_MAX_MEMSEGS from 2 to 3 to match the number of VM segment
identifiers present in vmmapi.h. In particular, it's now possible
to create a VM_FRAMEBUFFER segment.


# 295883 22-Feb-2016 skra

As <machine/vm.h> is included from <vm/vm.h>, there is no need to
include it explicitly when <vm/vm.h> is already included.

Reviewed by: alc, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5380


# 295882 22-Feb-2016 skra

As <machine/vmparam.h> is included from <vm/vm_param.h>, there is no
need to include it explicitly when <vm/vm_param.h> is already included.

Suggested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5379


# 284539 18-Jun-2015 neel

Restructure memory allocation in bhyve to support "devmem".

devmem is used to represent MMIO devices like the boot ROM or a VESA framebuffer
where doing a trap-and-emulate for every access is impractical. devmem is a
hybrid of system memory (sysmem) and emulated device models.

devmem is mapped in the guest address space via nested page tables similar
to sysmem. However the address range where devmem is mapped may be changed
by the guest at runtime (e.g. by reprogramming a PCI BAR). Also devmem is
usually mapped RO or RW as compared to RWX mappings for sysmem.

Each devmem segment is named (e.g. "bootrom") and this name is used to
create a device node for the devmem segment (e.g. /dev/vmm/testvm.bootrom).
The device node supports mmap(2) and this decouples the host mapping of
devmem from its mapping in the guest address space (which can change).

Reviewed by: tychon
Discussed with: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2762
MFC after: 4 weeks


# 283657 28-May-2015 neel

Fix non-deterministic delays when accessing a vcpu that was in "running" or
"sleeping" state. This is done by forcing the vcpu to transition to "idle"
by returning to userspace with an exit code of VM_EXITCODE_REQIDLE.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 283308 22-May-2015 neel

Exceptions don't deliver an error code in real mode.

MFC after: 1 week


# 283293 22-May-2015 neel

Don't rely on the 'VM-exit instruction length' field in the VMCS to always
have an accurate length on an EPT violation. This is not needed by the
instruction decoding code because it also has to work with AMD/SVM that
does not provide a valid instruction length on a Nested Page Fault.

In collaboration with: Leon Dang (ldang@nahannisys.com)
Discussed with: grehan
MFC after: 1 week


# 282558 06-May-2015 neel

Deprecate the 3-way return values from vm_gla2gpa() and vm_copy_setup().

Prior to this change both functions returned 0 for success, -1 for failure
and +1 to indicate that an exception was injected into the guest.

The numerical value of ERESTART also happens to be -1 so when these functions
returned -1 it had to be translated to a positive errno value to prevent the
VM_RUN ioctl from being inadvertently restarted. This made it easy to introduce
bugs when writing emulation code.

Fix this by adding an 'int *guest_fault' parameter and setting it to '1' if
an exception was delivered to the guest. The return value is 0 or EFAULT so
no additional translation is needed.

Reviewed by: tychon
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2428


# 282284 30-Apr-2015 neel

When an instruction cannot be decoded just return to userspace so bhyve(8)
can dump the instruction bytes.

Requested by: grehan
MFC after: 1 week


# 280929 31-Mar-2015 tychon

Fix "MOVS" instruction memory to MMIO emulation. Currently updates to
%rdi, %rsi, etc are inadvertently bypassed along with the check to
see if the instruction needs to be repeated per the 'rep' prefix.

Add "MOVS" instruction support for the 'MMIO to MMIO' case.

Reviewed by: neel


# 280447 24-Mar-2015 tychon

When fetching an instruction in non-64bit mode, consider the value of the
code segment base address.

Also if an instruction doesn't support a mod R/M (modRM) byte, don't
be concerned if the CPU is in real mode.

Reviewed by: neel


# 279971 14-Mar-2015 neel

Use lapic_ipi_alloc() to dynamically allocate IPI slots needed by bhyve when
vmm.ko is loaded.

Also relocate the 'justreturn' IPI handler to be alongside all other handlers.

Requested by: kib


# 279444 28-Feb-2015 rstone

Allow passthrough devices to be hinted.

Allow the ppt driver to attach to devices that were hinted to be
passthrough devices by the PCI code creating them with a driver
name of "ppt".

Add a tunable that allows the IOMMU to be forced to be used. With
SR-IOV passthrough devices the VFs may be created after vmm.ko is
loaded. The current code will not initialize the IOMMU in that
case, meaning that the passthrough devices can't actually be used.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D73
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Sandvine Inc.


# 277310 18-Jan-2015 neel

Simplify instruction restart logic in bhyve.

Keep track of the next instruction to be executed by the vcpu as 'nextrip'.
As a result the VM_RUN ioctl no longer takes the %rip where a vcpu should
start execution.

Also, instruction restart happens implicitly via 'vm_inject_exception()' or
explicitly via 'vm_restart_instruction()'. The APIs behave identically in
both kernel and userspace contexts. The main beneficiary is the instruction
emulation code that executes in both contexts.

bhyve(8) VM exit handlers now treat 'vmexit->rip' and 'vmexit->inst_length'
as readonly:
- Restarting an instruction is now done by calling 'vm_restart_instruction()'
as opposed to setting 'vmexit->inst_length' to 0 (e.g. emulate_inout())
- Resuming vcpu at an arbitrary %rip is now done by setting VM_REG_GUEST_RIP
as opposed to changing 'vmexit->rip' (e.g. vmexit_task_switch())

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1526
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 277149 13-Jan-2015 neel

'struct vm_exception' was intended to be used only as the collateral for the
VM_INJECT_EXCEPTION ioctl. However it morphed into other uses like keeping
track pending exceptions for a vcpu. This in turn causes confusion because
some fields in 'struct vm_exception' like 'vcpuid' make sense only in the
ioctl context. It also makes it harder to add or remove structure fields.

Fix this by using 'struct vm_exception' only to communicate information
from userspace to vmm.ko when injecting an exception.

Also, add a field 'restart_instruction' to 'struct vm_exception'. This
field is set to '1' for exceptions where the faulting instruction is
restarted after the exception is handled.

MFC after: 1 week


# 276763 06-Jan-2015 neel

Clear blocking due to STI or MOV SS in the hypervisor when an instruction is
emulated or when the vcpu incurs an exception. This matches the CPU behavior.

Remove special case code in HLT processing that was clearing the interrupt
shadow. This is now redundant because the interrupt shadow is always cleared
when the vcpu is resumed after an instruction is emulated.

Reported by: David Reed (david.reed@tidalscale.com)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 276428 30-Dec-2014 neel

Replace bhyve's minimal RTC emulation with a fully featured one in vmm.ko.

The new RTC emulation supports all interrupt modes: periodic, update ended
and alarm. It is also capable of maintaining the date/time and NVRAM contents
across virtual machine reset. Also, the date/time fields can now be modified
by the guest.

Since bhyve now emulates both the PIT and the RTC there is no need for
"Legacy Replacement Routing" in the HPET so get rid of it.

The RTC device state can be inspected via bhyvectl as follows:
bhyvectl --vm=vm --get-rtc-time
bhyvectl --vm=vm --set-rtc-time=<unix_time_secs>
bhyvectl --vm=vm --rtc-nvram-offset=<offset> --get-rtc-nvram
bhyvectl --vm=vm --rtc-nvram-offset=<offset> --set-rtc-nvram=<value>

Reviewed by: tychon
Discussed with: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1385
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 276098 23-Dec-2014 neel

Allow ktr(4) tracing of all guest exceptions via the tunable
"hw.vmm.trace_guest_exceptions". To enable this feature set the tunable
to "1" before loading vmm.ko.

Tracing the guest exceptions can be useful when debugging guest triple faults.

Note that there is a performance impact when exception tracing is enabled
since every exception will now trigger a VM-exit.

Also, handle machine check exceptions that happen during guest execution
by vectoring to the host's machine check handler via "int $18".

Discussed with: grehan
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 274931 23-Nov-2014 grehan

Change the lower bound for guest vmspace allocation to 0 instead of
using the VM_MIN_ADDRESS constant.

HardenedBSD redefines VM_MIN_ADDRESS to be 64K, which results in
bhyve VM startup failing. Guest memory is always assumed to start
at 0 so use the absolute value instead.

Reported by: Shawn Webb, lattera at gmail com
Reviewed by: neel, grehan
Obtained from: Oliver Pinter via HardenedBSD
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/commit/23bd719ce1e3a8cc42fc8317b1c7c6d9e74dcba0
MFC after: 1 week


# 273683 26-Oct-2014 neel

Move the ACPI PM timer emulation into vmm.ko.

This reduces variability during timer calibration by keeping the emulation
"close" to the guest. Additionally having all timer emulations in the kernel
will ease the transition to a per-VM clock source (as opposed to using the
host's uptime keep track of time).

Discussed with: grehan


# 273375 21-Oct-2014 neel

Merge projects/bhyve_svm into HEAD.

After this change bhyve supports AMD processors with the SVM/AMD-V hardware
extensions.

More details available here:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014-October/002905.html

Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
Tested by: Benjamin Perrault (ben.perrault@gmail.com)
Tested by: Willem Jan Withagen (wjw@digiware.nl)


# 273174 16-Oct-2014 davide

Follow up to r225617. In order to maximize the re-usability of kernel code
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.

Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe


# 272670 06-Oct-2014 neel

Inject #UD into the guest when it executes either 'MONITOR' or 'MWAIT'.

The hypervisor hides the MONITOR/MWAIT capability by unconditionally setting
CPUID.01H:ECX[3] to 0 so the guest should not expect these instructions to
be present anyways.

Discussed with: grehan


# 271891 20-Sep-2014 neel

Add some more KTR events to help debugging.


# 271888 20-Sep-2014 neel

Restructure the MSR handling so it is entirely handled by processor-specific
code. There are only a handful of MSRs common between the two so there isn't
too much duplicate functionality.

The VT-x code has the following types of MSRs:

- MSRs that are unconditionally saved/restored on every guest/host context
switch (e.g., MSR_GSBASE).

- MSRs that are restored to guest values on entry to vmx_run() and saved
before returning. This is an optimization for MSRs that are not used in
host kernel context (e.g., MSR_KGSBASE).

- MSRs that are emulated and every access by the guest causes a trap into
the hypervisor (e.g., MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE).

Reviewed by: grehan


# 271451 12-Sep-2014 neel

Optimize the common case of injecting an interrupt into a vcpu after a HLT
by explicitly moving it out of the interrupt shadow. The hypervisor is done
"executing" the HLT and by definition this moves the vcpu out of the
1-instruction interrupt shadow.

Prior to this change the interrupt would be held pending because the VMCS
guest-interruptibility-state would indicate that "blocking by STI" was in
effect. This resulted in an unnecessary round trip into the guest before
the pending interrupt could be injected.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 269962 14-Aug-2014 neel

Use the max guest memory address when creating its iommu domain.

Also, assert that the GPA being mapped in the domain is less than its maxaddr.

Reviewed by: grehan
Pointed out by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)


# 269109 26-Jul-2014 neel

If a vcpu has issued a HLT instruction with interrupts disabled then it sleeps
forever in vm_handle_hlt().

This is usually not an issue as long as one of the other vcpus properly resets
or powers off the virtual machine. However, if the bhyve(8) process is killed
with a signal the halted vcpu cannot be woken up because it's sleep cannot be
interrupted.

Fix this by waking up periodically and returning from vm_handle_hlt() if
TDF_ASTPENDING is set.

Reported by: Leon Dang
Sponsored by: Nahanni Systems


# 269042 23-Jul-2014 neel

Fix fault injection in bhyve.

The faulting instruction needs to be restarted when the exception handler
is done handling the fault. bhyve now does this correctly by setting
'vmexit[vcpu].inst_length' to zero so the %rip is not advanced.

A minor complication is that the fault injection APIs are used by instruction
emulation code that is shared by vmm.ko and bhyve. Thus the argument that
refers to 'struct vm *' in kernel or 'struct vmctx *' in userspace needs to
be loosely typed as a 'void *'.


# 269008 23-Jul-2014 neel

Emulate instructions emitted by OpenBSD/i386 version 5.5:
- CMP REG, r/m
- MOV AX/EAX/RAX, moffset
- MOV moffset, AX/EAX/RAX
- PUSH r/m


# 268889 19-Jul-2014 neel

Handle nested exceptions in bhyve.

A nested exception condition arises when a second exception is triggered while
delivering the first exception. Most nested exceptions can be handled serially
but some are converted into a double fault. If an exception is generated during
delivery of a double fault then the virtual machine shuts down as a result of
a triple fault.

vm_exit_intinfo() is used to record that a VM-exit happened while an event was
being delivered through the IDT. If an exception is triggered while handling
the VM-exit it will be treated like a nested exception.

vm_entry_intinfo() is used by processor-specific code to get the event to be
injected into the guest on the next VM-entry. This function is responsible for
deciding the disposition of nested exceptions.


# 268701 15-Jul-2014 neel

Add support for operand size and address size override prefixes in bhyve's
instruction emulation [1].

Fix bug in emulation of opcode 0x8A where the destination is a legacy high
byte register and the guest vcpu is in 32-bit mode. Prior to this change
instead of modifying %ah, %bh, %ch or %dh the emulation would end up
modifying %spl, %bpl, %sil or %dil instead.

Add support for moffsets by treating it as a 2, 4 or 8 byte immediate value
during instruction decoding.

Fix bug in verify_gla() where the linear address computed after decoding
the instruction was not being truncated to the effective address size [2].

Tested by: Leon Dang [1]
Reported by: Peter Grehan [2]
Sponsored by: Nahanni Systems


# 267992 28-Jun-2014 hselasky

Pull in r267961 and r267973 again. Fix for issues reported will follow.


# 267985 27-Jun-2014 gjb

Revert r267961, r267973:

These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:

1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory


# 267961 27-Jun-2014 hselasky

Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag to automatically check if
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.

Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies


# 267884 25-Jun-2014 grehan

Expose the amount of resident and wired memory from the guest's vmspace.

This is different than the amount shown for the process e.g. by
/usr/bin/top - that is the mappings faulted in by the mmap'd region
of guest memory.

The values can be fetched with bhyvectl

# bhyvectl --get-stats --vm=myvm
...
Resident memory 413749248
Wired memory 0
...

vmm_stat.[ch] -
Modify the counter code in bhyve to allow direct setting of a counter
as opposed to incrementing, and providing a callback to fetch a
counter's value.

Reviewed by: neel


# 267330 10-Jun-2014 neel

Add helper functions to populate VM exit information for rendezvous and
astpending exits. This is to reduce code duplication between VT-x and
SVM implementations.


# 267216 07-Jun-2014 neel

Add ioctl(VM_REINIT) to reinitialize the virtual machine state maintained
by vmm.ko. This allows the virtual machine to be restarted without having
to destroy it first.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 266933 31-May-2014 neel

Activate vcpus from bhyve(8) using the ioctl VM_ACTIVATE_CPU instead of doing
it implicitly in vmm.ko.

Add ioctl VM_GET_CPUS to get the current set of 'active' and 'suspended' cpus
and display them via /usr/sbin/bhyvectl using the "--get-active-cpus" and
"--get-suspended-cpus" options.

This is in preparation for being able to reset virtual machine state without
having to destroy and recreate it.


# 266627 24-May-2014 neel

Consolidate all the information needed by the guest page table walker into
'struct vm_guest_paging'.

Check for canonical addressing in vmm_gla2gpa() and inject a protection
fault into the guest if a violation is detected.

If the page table walk is restarted in vmm_gla2gpa() then reset 'ptpphys' to
point to the root of the page tables.


# 266626 24-May-2014 neel

When injecting a page fault into the guest also update the guest's %cr2 to
indicate the faulting linear address.

If the guest PML4 entry has the PG_PS bit set then inject a page fault into
the guest with the PGEX_RSV bit set in the error_code.

Get rid of redundant checks for the PG_RW violations when walking the page
tables.


# 266573 23-May-2014 neel

Add emulation of the "outsb" instruction. NetBSD guests use this to write to
the UART FIFO.

The emulation is constrained in a number of ways: 64-bit only, doesn't check
for all exception conditions, limited to i/o ports emulated in userspace.

Some of these constraints will be relaxed in followup commits.

Requested by: grehan
Reviewed by: tychon (partially and a much earlier version)


# 266524 22-May-2014 neel

Inject page fault into the guest if the page table walker detects an invalid
translation for the guest linear address.


# 266424 19-May-2014 neel

Add PG_U (user/supervisor) checks when translating a guest linear address
to a guest physical address.

PG_PS (page size) field is valid only in a PDE or a PDPTE so it is now
checked only in non-terminal paging entries.

Ignore the upper 32-bits of the CR3 for PAE paging.


# 265364 05-May-2014 neel

Virtual machine halt detection is turned on by default. Allow it to be
disabled via the tunable 'hw.vmm.halt_detection'.


# 265203 01-May-2014 neel

Add logic in the HLT exit handler to detect if the guest has put all vcpus
to sleep permanently by executing a HLT with interrupts disabled.

When this condition is detected the guest with be suspended with a reason of
VM_SUSPEND_HALT and the bhyve(8) process will exit.

Tested by executing "halt" inside a RHEL7-beta guest.

Discussed with: grehan@
Reviewed by: jhb@, tychon@


# 265101 29-Apr-2014 neel

Some Linux guests will implement a 'halt' by disabling the APIC and executing
the 'HLT' instruction. This condition was detected by 'vm_handle_hlt()' and
converted into the SPINDOWN_CPU exitcode . The bhyve(8) process would exit
the vcpu thread in response to a SPINDOWN_CPU and when the last vcpu was
spun down it would reset the virtual machine via vm_suspend(VM_SUSPEND_RESET).

This functionality was broken in r263780 in a way that made it impossible
to kill the bhyve(8) process because it would loop forever in
vm_handle_suspend().

Unbreak this by removing the code to spindown vcpus. Thus a 'halt' from
a Linux guest will appear to be hung but this is consistent with the
behavior on bare metal. The guest can be rebooted by using the bhyvectl
options '--force-reset' or '--force-poweroff'.

Reviewed by: grehan@


# 265062 28-Apr-2014 neel

Allow a virtual machine to be forcibly reset or powered off. This is done
by adding an argument to the VM_SUSPEND ioctl that specifies how the virtual
machine should be suspended, viz. VM_SUSPEND_RESET or VM_SUSPEND_POWEROFF.

The disposition of VM_SUSPEND is also made available to the exit handler
via the 'u.suspended' member of 'struct vm_exit'.

This capability is exposed via the '--force-reset' and '--force-poweroff'
arguments to /usr/sbin/bhyvectl.

Discussed with: grehan@


# 264516 15-Apr-2014 jhb

Don't spindown the BSP if it executes hlt with the APIC disabled. A
guest that doesn't use the APIC at all can trigger this, plus the BSP
always needs to execute as it should trigger a reset, etc.

Reviewed by: tychon


# 263780 26-Mar-2014 neel

Add an ioctl to suspend a virtual machine (VM_SUSPEND). The ioctl can be called
from any context i.e., it is not required to be called from a vcpu thread. The
ioctl simply sets a state variable 'vm->suspend' to '1' and returns.

The vcpus inspect 'vm->suspend' in the run loop and if it is set to '1' the
vcpu breaks out of the loop with a reason of 'VM_EXITCODE_SUSPENDED'. The
suspend handler waits until all 'vm->active_cpus' have transitioned to
'vm->suspended_cpus' before returning to userspace.

Discussed with: grehan


# 263744 25-Mar-2014 tychon

Move the atpit device model from userspace into vmm.ko for better
precision and lower latency.

Approved by: grehan (co-mentor)


# 263290 18-Mar-2014 neel

When a vcpu is deactivated it must also unblock any rendezvous that may be
blocked on it.

This is done by issuing a wakeup after clearing the 'vcpuid' from 'active_cpus'.
Also, use CPU_CLR_ATOMIC() to guarantee visibility of the updated 'active_cpus'
across all host cpus.


# 263280 17-Mar-2014 neel

Notify vcpus participating in the rendezvous of the pending event to ensure
that they execute the rendezvous function as soon as possible.


# 263211 15-Mar-2014 tychon

Fix a race wherein the source of an interrupt vector is wrongly
attributed if an ExtINT arrives during interrupt injection.

Also, fix a spurious interrupt if the PIC tries to raise an interrupt
before the outstanding one is accepted.

Finally, improve the PIC interrupt latency when another interrupt is
raised immediately after the outstanding one is accepted by creating a
vmexit rather than waiting for one to occur by happenstance.

Approved by: neel (co-mentor)


# 263035 11-Mar-2014 tychon

Replace the userspace atpic stub with a more functional vmm.ko model.

New ioctls VM_ISA_ASSERT_IRQ, VM_ISA_DEASSERT_IRQ and VM_ISA_PULSE_IRQ
can be used to manipulate the pic, and optionally the ioapic, pin state.

Reviewed by: jhb, neel
Approved by: neel (co-mentor)


# 262646 01-Mar-2014 neel

Fix a race between VMRUN() and vcpu_notify_event() due to 'vcpu->hostcpu'
being updated outside of the vcpu_lock(). The race is benign and could
potentially result in a missed notification about a pending interrupt to
a vcpu. The interrupt would not be lost but rather delayed until the next
VM exit.

The vcpu's hostcpu is now updated concurrently with the vcpu state change.
When the vcpu transitions to the RUNNING state the hostcpu is set to 'curcpu'.
It is set to 'NOCPU' in all other cases.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 262506 25-Feb-2014 neel

Queue pending exceptions in the 'struct vcpu' instead of directly updating the
processor-specific VMCS or VMCB. The pending exception will be delivered right
before entering the guest.

The order of event injection into the guest is:
- hardware exception
- NMI
- maskable interrupt

In the Intel VT-x case, a pending NMI or interrupt will enable the interrupt
window-exiting and inject it as soon as possible after the hardware exception
is injected. Also since interrupts are inherently asynchronous, injecting
them after the hardware exception should not affect correctness from the
guest perspective.

Rename the unused ioctl VM_INJECT_EVENT to VM_INJECT_EXCEPTION and restrict
it to only deliver x86 hardware exceptions. This new ioctl is now used to
inject a protection fault when the guest accesses an unimplemented MSR.

Discussed with: grehan, jhb
Reviewed by: jhb


# 262236 19-Feb-2014 neel

Simplify APIC mode switching from MMIO to x2APIC. In part this is done to
simplify the implementation of the x2APIC virtualization assist in VT-x.

Prior to this change the vlapic allowed the guest to change its mode from
xAPIC to x2APIC. We don't allow that any more and the vlapic mode is locked
when the virtual machine is created. This is not very constraining because
operating systems already have to deal with BIOS setting up the APIC in
x2APIC mode at boot.

Fix a bug in the CPUID emulation where the x2APIC capability was leaking
from the host to the guest.

Ignore MMIO reads and writes to the vlapic in x2APIC mode. Similarly, ignore
MSR accesses to the vlapic when it is in xAPIC mode.

The default configuration of the vlapic is xAPIC. The "-x" option to bhyve(8)
can be used to change the mode to x2APIC instead.

Discussed with: grehan@


# 261638 08-Feb-2014 jhb

Add virtualized XSAVE support to bhyve which permits guests to use XSAVE and
XSAVE-enabled features like AVX.
- Store a per-cpu guest xcr0 register. When switching to the guest FPU
state, switch to the guest xcr0 value. Note that the guest FPU state is
saved and restored using the host's xcr0 value and xcr0 is saved/restored
"inside" of saving/restoring the guest FPU state.
- Handle VM exits for the xsetbv instruction by updating the guest xcr0.
- Expose the XSAVE feature to the guest only if the host has enabled XSAVE,
and only advertise XSAVE features enabled by the host to the guest.
This ensures that the guest will only adjust FPU state that is a subset
of the guest FPU state saved and restored by the host.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 261504 05-Feb-2014 jhb

Add support for FreeBSD/i386 guests under bhyve.
- Similar to the hack for bootinfo32.c in userboot, define
_MACHINE_ELF_WANT_32BIT in the load_elf32 file handlers in userboot.
This allows userboot to load 32-bit kernels and modules.
- Copy the SMAP generation code out of bootinfo64.c and into its own
file so it can be shared with bootinfo32.c to pass an SMAP to the i386
kernel.
- Use uint32_t instead of u_long when aligning module metadata in
bootinfo32.c in userboot, as otherwise the metadata used 64-bit
alignment which corrupted the layout.
- Populate the basemem and extmem members of the bootinfo struct passed
to 32-bit kernels.
- Fix the 32-bit stack in userboot to start at the top of the stack
instead of the bottom so that there is room to grow before the
kernel switches to its own stack.
- Push a fake return address onto the 32-bit stack in addition to the
arguments normally passed to exec() in the loader. This return
address is needed to convince recover_bootinfo() in the 32-bit
locore code that it is being invoked from a "new" boot block.
- Add a routine to libvmmapi to setup a 32-bit flat mode register state
including a GDT and TSS that is able to start the i386 kernel and
update bhyveload to use it when booting an i386 kernel.
- Use the guest register state to determine the CPU's current instruction
mode (32-bit vs 64-bit) and paging mode (flat, 32-bit, PAE, or long
mode) in the instruction emulation code. Update the gla2gpa() routine
used when fetching instructions to handle flat mode, 32-bit paging, and
PAE paging in addition to long mode paging. Don't look for a REX
prefix when the CPU is in 32-bit mode, and use the detected mode to
enable the existing 32-bit mode code when decoding the mod r/m byte.

Reviewed by: grehan, neel
MFC after: 1 month


# 261170 25-Jan-2014 neel

Support level triggered interrupts with VT-x virtual interrupt delivery.

The VMCS field EOI_bitmap[] is an array of 256 bits - one for each vector.
If a bit is set to '1' in the EOI_bitmap[] then the processor will trigger
an EOI-induced VM-exit when it is doing EOI virtualization.

The EOI-induced VM-exit results in the EOI being forwarded to the vioapic
so that level triggered interrupts can be properly handled.

Tested by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)


# 260972 21-Jan-2014 neel

There is no need to initialize the IOMMU if no passthru devices have been
configured for bhyve to use.

Suggested by: grehan@


# 260619 13-Jan-2014 neel

Add an API to rendezvous all active vcpus in a virtual machine. The rendezvous
can be initiated in the context of a vcpu thread or from the bhyve(8) control
process.

The first use of this functionality is to update the vlapic trigger-mode
register when the IOAPIC pin configuration is changed.

Prior to this change we would update the TMR in the virtual-APIC page at
the time of interrupt delivery. But this doesn't work with Posted Interrupts
because there is no way to program the EOI_exit_bitmap[] in the VMCS of
the target at the time of interrupt delivery.

Discussed with: grehan@


# 260466 09-Jan-2014 neel

Don't expose 'vmm_ipinum' as a global.


# 260410 07-Jan-2014 neel

Use the 'Virtual Interrupt Delivery' feature of Intel VT-x if supported by
hardware. It is possible to turn this feature off and fall back to software
emulation of the APIC by setting the tunable hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid to 0.

We now start handling two new types of VM-exits:

APIC-access: This is a fault-like VM-exit and is triggered when the APIC
register access is not accelerated (e.g. apic timer CCR). In response to
this we do emulate the instruction that triggered the APIC-access exit.

APIC-write: This is a trap-like VM-exit which does not require any instruction
emulation but it does require the hypervisor to emulate the access to the
specified register (e.g. icrlo register).

Introduce 'vlapic_ops' which are function pointers to vector the various
vlapic operations into processor-dependent code. The 'Virtual Interrupt
Delivery' feature installs 'ops' for setting the IRR bits in the virtual
APIC page and to return whether any interrupts are pending for this vcpu.

Tested on an "Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2" courtesy of Allan Jude at ScaleEngine.


# 260383 06-Jan-2014 neel

Allow vlapic_set_intr_ready() to return a value that indicates whether or not
the vcpu should be kicked to process a pending interrupt. This will be useful
in the implementation of the Posted Interrupt APICv feature.

Change the return value of 'vlapic_pending_intr()' to indicate whether or not
an interrupt is available to be delivered to the vcpu depending on the value
of the PPR.

Add KTR tracepoints to debug guest IPI delivery.


# 259863 25-Dec-2013 neel

vlapic code restructuring to make it easy to support hardware-assist for APIC
emulation.

The vlapic initialization and cleanup is done via processor specific vmm_ops.
This will allow the VT-x/SVM modules to layer any hardware-assist for APIC
emulation or virtual interrupt delivery on top of the vlapic device model.

Add a parameter to 'vcpu_notify_event()' to distinguish between vlapic
interrupts versus other events (e.g. NMI). This provides an opportunity to
use hardware-assists like Posted Interrupts (VT-x) or doorbell MSR (SVM)
to deliver an interrupt to a guest without causing a VM-exit.

Get rid of lapic_pending_intr() and lapic_intr_accepted() and use the
vlapic_xxx() counterparts directly.

Associate an 'Apic Page' with each vcpu and reference it from the 'vlapic'.
The 'Apic Page' is intended to be referenced from the Intel VMCS as the
'virtual APIC page' or from the AMD VMCB as the 'vAPIC backing page'.


# 259782 23-Dec-2013 jhb

Add a resume hook for bhyve that runs a function on all CPUs during
resume. For Intel CPUs, invoke vmxon for CPUs that were in VMX mode
at the time of suspend.

Reviewed by: neel


# 259737 22-Dec-2013 neel

Add a parameter to 'vcpu_set_state()' to enforce that the vcpu is in the IDLE
state before the requested state transition. This guarantees that there is
exactly one ioctl() operating on a vcpu at any point in time and prevents
unintended state transitions.

More details available here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2013-December/001825.html

Reviewed by: grehan
Reported by: Markiyan Kushnir (markiyan.kushnir at gmail.com)
MFC after: 3 days


# 259205 10-Dec-2013 neel

Fix x2apic support in bhyve.

When the guest is bringing up the APs in the x2APIC mode a write to the
ICR register will now trigger a return to userspace with an exitcode of
VM_EXITCODE_SPINUP_AP. This gets SMP guests working again with x2APIC.

Change the vlapic timer lock to be a spinlock because the vlapic can be
accessed from within a critical section (vm run loop) when guest is using
x2apic mode.

Reviewed by: grehan@


# 259085 07-Dec-2013 neel

Use callout(9) to drive the vlapic timer instead of clocking it on each VM exit.

This decouples the guest's 'hz' from the host's 'hz' setting. For e.g. it is
now possible to have a guest run at 'hz=1000' while the host is at 'hz=100'.

Discussed with: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)


# 259081 07-Dec-2013 neel

If a vcpu disables its local apic and then executes a 'HLT' then spin down the
vcpu and destroy its thread context. Also modify the 'HLT' processing to ignore
pending interrupts in the IRR if interrupts have been disabled by the guest.
The interrupt cannot be injected into the guest in any case so resuming it
is futile.

With this change "halt" from a Linux guest works correctly.

Reviewed by: grehan@
Tested by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)


# 258859 02-Dec-2013 neel

Rename 'vm_interrupt_hostcpu()' to 'vcpu_notify_event()' because the function
has outgrown its original name. Originally this function simply sent an IPI
to the host cpu that a vcpu was executing on but now it does a lot more than
just that.

Reviewed by: grehan@


# 258579 25-Nov-2013 neel

Add HPET device emulation to bhyve.

bhyve supports a single timer block with 8 timers. The timers are all 32-bit
and capable of being operated in periodic mode. All timers support interrupt
delivery using MSI. Timers 0 and 1 also support legacy interrupt routing.

At the moment the timers are not connected to any ioapic pins but that will
be addressed in a subsequent commit.

This change is based on a patch from Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com).


# 258075 12-Nov-2013 neel

Move the ioapic device model from userspace into vmm.ko. This is needed for
upcoming in-kernel device emulations like the HPET.

The ioctls VM_IOAPIC_ASSERT_IRQ and VM_IOAPIC_DEASSERT_IRQ are used to
manipulate the ioapic pin state.

Discussed with: grehan@
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)


# 257422 31-Oct-2013 neel

Rename the VMM_CTRx() family of macros to VCPU_CTRx() to highlight that these
tracepoints are vcpu-specific.

Add support for tracepoints that are global to the virtual machine - these
tracepoints are called VM_CTRx().


# 257297 29-Oct-2013 neel

Remove unnecessary includes of <machine/pmap.h>

Requested by: alc@


# 256072 05-Oct-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.

Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.

Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.

pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.

The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.

Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.

An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)

The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).

The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.

TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.

Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.

PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.

Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.

Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.

Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.

Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.

Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho


# 255469 11-Sep-2013 neel

Fix a limitation in bhyve that would limit the number of virtual machines to
the maximum number of VT-d domains (256 on a Sandybridge). We now allocate a
VT-d domain for a guest only if the administrator has explicitly configured
one or more PCI passthru device(s).

If there are no PCI passthru devices configured (the common case) then the
number of virtual machines is no longer limited by the maximum number of
VT-d domains.

Reviewed by: grehan@
Approved by: re@


# 253854 01-Aug-2013 grehan

Moved clearing of vmm_initialized to avoid the case
of unloading the module while VMs existed. This would
result in EBUSY, but would prevent further operations
on VMs resulting in the module being impossible to
unload.

Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale <at> plurisbusnetworks.com)
Reviewed by: grehan, neel


# 249879 25-Apr-2013 grehan

Add RIP-relative addressing to the instruction decoder.
Rework the guest register fetch code to allow the RIP to
be extracted from the VMCS while the kernel decoder is
functioning.

Hit by the OpenBSD local-apic code.

Submitted by: neel
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp


# 249396 11-Apr-2013 neel

If vmm.ko could not be initialized correctly then prevent the creation of
virtual machines subsequently.

Submitted by: Chris Torek


# 248392 16-Mar-2013 neel

Fix the '-Wtautological-compare' warning emitted by clang for comparing the
unsigned enum type with a negative value.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 248389 16-Mar-2013 neel

Allow vmm stats to be specific to the underlying hardware assist technology.
This can be done by using the new macros VMM_STAT_INTEL() and VMM_STAT_AMD().
Statistic counters that are common across the two are defined using VMM_STAT().

Suggested by: Anish Gupta
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp


# 246686 11-Feb-2013 neel

Implement guest vcpu pinning using 'pthread_setaffinity_np(3)'.

Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.

The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().

Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.

Discussed with: grehan


# 246188 31-Jan-2013 neel

Increase the number of passthru devices supported by bhyve.

The maximum length of an environment variable puts a limitation on the
number of passthru devices that can be specified via a single variable.
The workaround is to allow user to specify passthru devices via multiple
environment variables instead of a single one.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 245704 20-Jan-2013 neel

Postpone vmm module initialization until after SMP is initialized - particularly
that 'smp_started != 0'.

This is required because the VT-x initialization calls smp_rendezvous()
to set the CR4_VMXE bit on all the cpus.

With this change we can preload vmm.ko from the loader.

Reported by: alfred@, sbruno@
Obtained from: NetApp


# 245678 20-Jan-2013 neel

Add svn properties to the recently merged bhyve source files.

The pre-commit hook will not allow any commits without the svn:keywords
property in head.


# 245652 19-Jan-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve to head.

'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).

Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 245021 04-Jan-2013 neel

There is no need for 'start_emulating()' and 'stop_emulating()' to be defined
in <machine/cpufunc.h> so remove them from there.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 242275 29-Oct-2012 neel

Corral all the host state associated with the virtual machine into its own file.

This state is independent of the type of hardware assist used so there is
really no need for it to be in Intel-specific code.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 242122 26-Oct-2012 neel

Unconditionally enable fpu emulation by setting CR0.TS in the host after the
guest does a vm exit.

This allows us to trap any fpu access in the host context while the fpu still
has "dirty" state belonging to the guest.

Reported by: "s vas" on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp


# 242065 25-Oct-2012 neel

If the guest vcpu wants to idle then use that opportunity to relinquish the
host cpu to the scheduler until the guest is ready to run again.

This implies that the host cpu utilization will now closely mirror the actual
load imposed by the guest vcpu.

Also, the vcpu mutex now needs to be of type MTX_SPIN since we need to acquire
it inside a critical section.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 241982 24-Oct-2012 neel

Maintain state regarding NMI delivery to guest vcpu in VT-x independent manner.
Also add a stats counter to count the number of NMIs delivered per vcpu.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 241489 12-Oct-2012 neel

Provide per-vcpu locks instead of relying on a single big lock.

This also gets rid of all the witness.watch warnings related to calling
malloc(M_WAITOK) while holding a mutex.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 241454 11-Oct-2012 neel

Fix warnings generated by 'debug.witness.watch' during VM creation and
destruction for calling malloc() with M_WAITOK while holding a mutex.

Do not allow vmm.ko to be unloaded until all virtual machines are destroyed.


# 241362 08-Oct-2012 neel

Allocate memory pages for the guest from the host's free page queue.

It is no longer necessary to hard-partition the memory between the host
and guests at boot time.


# 241178 04-Oct-2012 neel

Change vm_malloc() to map pages in the guest physical address space in 4KB
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.

This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.


# 241148 02-Oct-2012 neel

Get rid of assumptions in the hypervisor that the host physical memory
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.

Add check to vm_gpa2hpa() that the range indicated by [gpa,gpa+len) is all
contained within a single 4KB page.


# 241147 02-Oct-2012 neel

Get rid of assumptions in the hypervisor that the host physical memory
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.

Rewrite vm_gpa2hpa() to get the GPA to HPA mapping by querying the nested
page tables.


# 241041 28-Sep-2012 neel

Get rid of assumptions in the hypervisor that the host physical memory
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.

In this case vm_malloc() was using vm_gpa2hpa() to indirectly infer whether
or not the address range had already been allocated.

Replace this instead with an explicit API 'vm_gpa_available()' that returns
TRUE if a page is available for allocation in guest physical address space.


# 240943 25-Sep-2012 neel

Add an option "-a" to present the local apic in the XAPIC mode instead of the
default X2APIC mode to the guest.


# 240941 25-Sep-2012 neel

Add support for trapping MMIO writes to local apic registers and emulating them.

The default behavior is still to present the local apic to the guest in the
x2apic mode.


# 240922 25-Sep-2012 neel

Add ioctls to control the X2APIC capability exposed by the virtual machine to
the guest.

At the moment this simply sets the state in the 'vcpu' instance but there is
no code that acts upon these settings.


# 240894 24-Sep-2012 neel

Stash the 'vm_exit' information in each 'struct vcpu'.

There is no functional change at this time but this paves the way for vm exit
handler functions to easily modify the exit reason going forward.


# 234695 26-Apr-2012 grehan

IFC @ r234692

sys/amd64/include/cpufunc.h
sys/amd64/include/fpu.h
sys/amd64/amd64/fpu.c
sys/amd64/vmm/vmm.c

- Add API to allow vmm FPU state init/save/restore.

FP stuff discussed with: kib


# 223621 28-Jun-2011 grehan

IFC @ r222830


# 221914 14-May-2011 jhb

First cut at porting the kernel portions of 221828 and 221905 from the
BHyVe reference branch to HEAD.


# 221828 13-May-2011 grehan

Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1.
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface

bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.

Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski