similar to: [PATCH v3 0/4] Nested VMX: APIC-v related bug fixing

From: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> With virtual EPT support, L1 hyerpvisor can use EPT hardware for L2 guest''s memory virtualization. In this way, L2 guest''s performance can be improved sharply. According to our testing, some benchmarks can show > 5x performance gain. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Zhang Xiantao (11):

Changes from v1 to v2: - Use a macro to replace the hardcode in patch 1/3. This patchset fixes issues about IA32_VMX_MISC MSR emulation, VMCS guest area synchronization about PAGE_FAULT_ERROR_CODE_MASK/PAGE_FAULT_ERROR_CODE_MATCH, and CR0/CR4 emulation. Please help to review and pull. Thanks, Dongxiao Dongxiao Xu (3): nested vmx: emulate IA32_VMX_MISC MSR nested vmx: synchronize page

The previous order of relinquish resource is: relinquish_domain_resources() -> vcpu_destroy() -> nvmx_vcpu_destroy(). However some L1 resources like nv_vvmcx and io_bitmaps are free in nvmx_vcpu_destroy(), therefore the relinquish_domain_resources() will not reduce the refcnt of the domain to 0, therefore the latter vcpu release functions will not be called. To fix this issue, we need to

Changes from v2 to v3: - Use pfn_to_paddr() to get the address from frame number instead of doing shift directly. - Remove some unnecessary initialization code and add "static" to vmentry_fields and gpdptr_fields. - Enable the VMREAD/VMWRITE bitmap only if nested hvm is enabled. - Use clear_page() to set all 0 to the page instead of memset(). - Use domheap to allocate the

From: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com> With virtual unrestricted guest feature, L2 guest is allowed to run with PG cleared. Also, allow PAE not set during virtual vmexit emulation. Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com> --- xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c | 3 ++- xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vvmx.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Changes from v1: - Define new struct hvm_trap to represent information of trap, include instruction length. - Renames hvm_inject_exception to hvm_inject_trap. Then define a couple of wrappers around that function for existing callers, so that their parameter lists actually *shrink*. This series of patches fix the mistake for debug exception(#DB), overflow exception(#OF) and INT3(#BP),

Change from v2: re-written code in ''vmx_intr_assist'' into if()/else if() sequence to make code change easy to review. Virtual interrupt delivery avoids Xen to inject vAPIC interrupts manually, which is fully taken care of by the hardware. This needs some special awareness into existing interrupr injection path: For pending interrupt from vLAPIC, instead of direct injection, we

TPR shadow/threshold feature is important to speedup the boot time for Windows guest. Besides, it is a must feature for certain VMM. We map virtual APIC page address and TPR threshold from L1 VMCS, and synch it into shadow VMCS in virtual vmentry. If TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD VM exit is triggered by L2 guest, we inject it into L1 VMM for handling. Besides, this commit fixes an issue for apic access

SVI should be restored in case guest is processing virtual interrupt while saveing a domain state. Otherwise SVI would be missed when virtual interrupt delivery is enabled. Signed-off-by: Jiongxi Li <jiongxi.li@intel.com> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c index ee2294c..38ff216 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c @@

This series of patches fix the mistake for debug exception(#DB), overflow exception(#OF) and INT3(#BP), INTn instruction emulation. Introduce new function vmx_inject_sw_exception() which deliver the software excetion, software interrupt and privileged software exception. Split hardware exception as a seperate function(old function vmx_inject_hw_exception()). Also Passed down intruction length

From: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com> The follwoing patches are adding the Posted Interrupt supporting to Xen: Posted Interrupt allows vAPIC interrupts to inject into guest directly without any vmexit. - When delivering a interrupt to guest, if target vcpu is running, update Posted-interrupt requests bitmap and send a notification event to the vcpu. Then the vcpu will handle this

while doing "while xm migrate --live domU localhost;do sleep 1;done" I just got the crash shown below. And it can be reproduced. The guest has 2 vcpus and 512mb, it runs pvops 3.7.9 (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.3.26579-20130219.172714 x86_64 debug=n Not tainted ]---- (XEN) CPU: 14 (XEN) RIP: e008:[<ffff82c4c01dd197>] nvmx_vcpu_destroy+0xb7/0x150 (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000010282

In hvm enviroment, acpi failed. why? centos5.1 =================================================== [root@hvm001 ~]# xm dmesg __ __ _____ _ ____ ___ ____ _ ____ \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / | |___ \ / _ \___ \ ___| | ___| \ // _ \ \047_ \ |_ \ | | __) |_| (_) |__) | / _ \ |___ \ / \ __/ | | | ___) || |_ / __/|__\__, / __/ | __/ |___) | /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)_(_)_____| /_/_____(_)___|_|____/

Hi, After c/s 18694 changed vHPET to vpt, for single HVM RHEL 5u1 guest idle case, our box will consume ~0.8W more power than before. The reason is two periodical vpts'' expires are hard to be aligned in the 50us soft timer SLOP. So we are considering a vpt specific enhancement which could try to just align periodical timers within vpt. A generic enhancement is to add a new interface

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The first and third patches are cleaned up versions of an earlier v3 submission by Yang. 1: Nested VMX: check VMX capability before read VMX related MSRs 2: VMX: clean up capability checks 3: Nested VMX: fix IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 msr emulation 4: x86: make hvm_cpuid() tolerate NULL pointers Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

This patch adds CR8 virtualization. It''s the initial patch for booting HVM x64 Windows guest, and just let every CR8 access issues vmexit. And later we will do acceleration to it. Signed-off-by: Xiaohui Xin <xiaohui.xin@intel.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

The "APIC-register virtualization" and "virtual-interrupt deliver" VM-execution control has no effect on the behavior of RDMSR/WRMSR if the "virtualize x2APIC mode" VM-execution control is 0. When guest uses x2APIC mode, we should enable "virtualize x2APIC mode" for APICV first. Signed-off-by: Jiongxi Li <jiongxi.li@intel.com> diff --git

Hi, if socketpair support has been compiled in but the host where rsync is run doesn't support it, you get error pipe failed in do_recv This patch makes rsync use pipe if socketpair fails. Yours, Harri J?rvi CC me if you reply to this thread since I'm not on the mailing list -------------- next part -------------- --- rsync-2.5.5/util.c Wed Mar 20 03:09:49 2002 +++ util.c Thu Jul 24

I have a model class, say, model.rb, and in the normal course of things it creates an instance of another class, say utility.rb (also in the models directory). class Utility def initialize(obj) # do stuff... end def do_something_expensive # lots of stuff here end end During testing, I want to mock out do_something_expensive because it''s not important for the tests,