similar to: [PATCH] Nested VMX: Allow to set CR4.OSXSAVE if guest has xsave feature

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>

X86: implement PCID/INVPCID for hvm This patch handle PCID/INVPCID for hvm: For hap hvm, we enable PCID/INVPCID, since no need to intercept INVPCID, and we just set INVPCID non-root behavior as running natively; For shadow hvm, we disable PCID/INVPCID, otherwise we need to emulate INVPCID at vmm by setting INVPCID non-root behavior as vmexit. Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong

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

From eb20603913ff7350cd25b39d1eb37b8fddd16053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:11:08 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Nested: VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE shouldn''t be in default1 class for IA32_VM_ENTRY_CTLS_MSR. If set to 1, L2 guest''s paging mode maybe mis-judged and mis-set. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao

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

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

Direct calls perform better, so we should prefer them and use indirect ones only when there indeed is a need for indirection. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/apic.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/apic.c @@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ void error_interrupt(struct cpu_user_reg void pmu_apic_interrupt(struct cpu_user_regs *regs) { ack_APIC_irq(); -

From: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com> The following patches fix the issue that fail to boot L2 guest on APIC-v available machine. The main problem is that with APIC-v, virtual interrupt inject L1 is totally through APIC-v. But if virtual interrupt is arrived when L2 is running, L1 will detect interrupt through vmexit with reason external interrupt. If this happens, we should update

Otherwise we may leak memory when setting up nHVM fails half way. This implies that the individual destroy functions will have to remain capable (in the VMX case they first need to be made so, following 26486:7648ef657fe7 and 26489:83a3fa9c8434) of being called for a vCPU that the corresponding init function was never run on. Once at it, also remove a redundant check from the corresponding

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):

From 291adaf4ad6174c5641a7239c1801373e92e9975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:26:06 +0800 Subject: [PATCH v4 3/7] X86: MPX IA32_BNDCFGS msr handle When MPX supported, a new guest-state field for IA32_BNDCFGS is added to the VMCS. In addition, two new controls are added: - a VM-exit control called "clear BNDCFGS" - a

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

1: correct LDT checks 2: add address validity check to guest_map_l1e() 3: use {rd,wr}{fs,gs}base when available 4: check for canonical address before doing page walks Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Hi, I have been trying to get Hyperthreading to work in a Windows HVM on Xen 4.1.2 as described in ''xmexample.hvm''. I think I have set it up correctly, but I can''t seem to get it to work. There is not much documentation on it and most topics are from years ago. I''m curious to know to whether this functionality is still supposed to work. I''m aware that

Add the new MEM_EVENT_REASON_MSR event type. Works similarly to the other register events, except event.gla always contains the MSR address (in addition to event.gfn, which holds the value). MEM_EVENT_REASON_MSR does not honour the HVMPME_onchangeonly bit, as doing so would complicate the hvm_msr_write_intercept() switch-based handling of writes for different MSR addresses, with little added

This patch supports xsave (CPUID:0x0000000D) enumeration for all sub-leaves. In specific, it fixes the following issues: 1. The sub-leaves of CPUID:0x0000000D aren''t contiguous. Hypervisor shouldn''t use register values to stop the enumeration. This patch moves checking on XSAVE sub-leaves out of if-else statement. It also bumps up sub-leaves to 63. 2. It creates a common

Is it intentional that - under SVM, 32-bit guests can freely set EFER.LME - under VMX, 32-bit guests can''t access EFER at all? Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Hi, Keir, The following patches refines Xen support for CPU Xsave/Xrestore support. There are four patches included. Patch 1/4: Cleaning up existing Xsave code in Xen. Replace xfeature_low and xfeature_high with a u64 variable xfeature_mask. In structure hvm_vcpu, rename xfeature_mask to xcr0 Provide EDX:EAX with all bits set to 1 for XSAVE and XRSTOR as spec recommends

XSAVE/XRSTOR manages the existing and future processor extended states on x86 architecture. The XSAVE/XRSTOR infrastructure is defined in Intel SDMs: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/ The patch uses the classical CR0.TS based algorithm to manage the states on context switch. At present, we know 3 bits in the XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK: FPU, SSE and YMM. YMM is defined in Intel AVX