similar to: [RFC] Hypercalls from HVM guests

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

Could anyone summarize what the support status of cpu frequency changes is at present. I don''t seem to recall generic changes to the hpyervisor in that respect, but the linux tree has fairly extensive changes to the powernow-k8 driver (which would make sense to me only if all other cpufreq drivers are fully supported now, too). Thanks, Jan

Hi I need to use hypercalls from HVM domain (e.g. HYPERVISOR_add_to_physmap). However, it does not work when I am trying to invoke it from HVM Linux guest. Basically, I don''t see that anything happens on hypervisor''s side. I also grep''ed the guest code for ''vmmcall''/''vmcall'' and did not find anything. Is it possible to do it at all?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima at intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> wrote: > >> So, as a concrete straw-man: >> >> CPUID leaf 0x48000000 would return a maximum leaf number in EAX (e.g. >> 0x48000001) along with a signature value (e.g. "CrossHVPara\0") in

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima at intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> wrote: > >> So, as a concrete straw-man: >> >> CPUID leaf 0x48000000 would return a maximum leaf number in EAX (e.g. >> 0x48000001) along with a signature value (e.g. "CrossHVPara\0") in

The attached patch fixes the save/restore issue seen with 32bit Windows guest VMs. The root cause is that current Xen doesn''t intercept SYSENTER-related MSRs for 32bit guest VMs. As a result, the guest_sysenter_xxx fields contain incorrect values and shouldn''t be used for save/restore. This patch checks the LMA bit of EFER register in the save/restore code path. Please apply it

Hi, Keir, Currently, HVM guests do not have access to performance counters. So it is not possible to use performance analyzer software such as vtune in HVM guest to analyze programme performance. Other usage of performance counters , for example, the NMI watchdog, won''t function either. This patch will enable performance counters in HVM guest. Currently, only Core 2 Duo is implemented.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:36 AM, KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> wrote: > > I am copying other Hyper-V engineers to this discussion. > Thanks, K.Y. In terms of the address for the MSR, I suggest that you choose one from the range between 40000000H - 400000FFH. The SDM (35.1 ARCHITECTURAL MSRS) says "All existing and future processors will not implement any features using

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:36 AM, KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> wrote: > > I am copying other Hyper-V engineers to this discussion. > Thanks, K.Y. In terms of the address for the MSR, I suggest that you choose one from the range between 40000000H - 400000FFH. The SDM (35.1 ARCHITECTURAL MSRS) says "All existing and future processors will not implement any features using

> -----Original Message----- > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo > Bonzini > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:18 AM > To: Nakajima, Jun; KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mathew John; Theodore Ts'o; John Starks; kvm list; Gleb Natapov; Niels > Ferguson; Andy Lutomirski; David Hepkin; H. Peter Anvin; Jake Oshins; Linux > Virtualization

> -----Original Message----- > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo > Bonzini > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:18 AM > To: Nakajima, Jun; KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mathew John; Theodore Ts'o; John Starks; kvm list; Gleb Natapov; Niels > Ferguson; Andy Lutomirski; David Hepkin; H. Peter Anvin; Jake Oshins; Linux > Virtualization

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>

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima at intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo >>> Bonzini >>> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:18

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima at intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo >>> Bonzini >>> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:18

The 6-patch series to follow this email extends KVM-hypervisor and Linux guest running on KVM-hypervisor to support pv-ticket spinlocks, based on Xen's implementation. One hypercall is introduced in KVM hypervisor,that allows a vcpu to kick another vcpu out of halt state. The blocking of vcpu is done using halt() in (lock_spinning) slowpath. one MSR is added to aid live migration. Changes

The 6-patch series to follow this email extends KVM-hypervisor and Linux guest running on KVM-hypervisor to support pv-ticket spinlocks, based on Xen's implementation. One hypercall is introduced in KVM hypervisor,that allows a vcpu to kick another vcpu out of halt state. The blocking of vcpu is done using halt() in (lock_spinning) slowpath. one MSR is added to aid live migration. Changes

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:43 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 09/18/2014 07:40 AM, KY Srinivasan wrote: >>> >>> The main questions are what MSR index to use and how to detect the >>> presence of the MSR. I've played with two approaches: >>> >>> 1. Use CPUID to detect the presence of this feature. This is very easy for

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:43 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 09/18/2014 07:40 AM, KY Srinivasan wrote: >>> >>> The main questions are what MSR index to use and how to detect the >>> presence of the MSR. I've played with two approaches: >>> >>> 1. Use CPUID to detect the presence of this feature. This is very easy for

.. is out of sync on i386 and x86-64 - should it be allowed on i386, or should it be suppressed on x86-64? Since Xen fails ill accesses, I would assume enabling it on i386 is fine. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Hello, I recently tried Xen 3.0.3-testing on my 2x Opteron-244 SMP machine. Everything works well exept one detail, which is not unimportant to me: the powernow-k8 driver fails to switch frequencies. A closer look on the powernow-k8 source reveals, that some MSR write operations seem to be without any effect. A rdmsr() before and after the wrmsr() call reveals that no real change on the register