similar to: [PATCH 10/14] Nested Virtualization: svm specific implementation

Hi, Attached patch implements the VMCB cleanbits SVM feature. Upcoming AMD CPUs introduce them and they are basically hints for the CPU which vmcb values can be re-used from the previous VMRUN instruction. Each bit represents a certain set of fields in the VMCB. Setting a bit tells the cpu it can re-use the cached value from the previous VMRUN. Clearing a bit tells the cpu to reload the values

Running a heavily modified xen-unstable changset 19590:f80cf52a4fb6 with debugger_attached set, I was seeing the debug traps getting lost from the EXCEPTION_BITMAP in vmx_update_guest_cr() when transitioning from real to protected mode. In my codebase, I could fix this trivially by clearing the debug_state_latch and letting vmx_do_resume() reapply the setting. However, while it looks like a valid

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

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Nick Lewycky <nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote: > Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >>> >>> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making >>> them >>> local is to say that "I'm sure these callees won't modify that memory" >>> regardless of what functions actually get called,

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Uildriks wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Nick Lewycky<nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote: >> Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >>>> >>>> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making >>>> them >>>> local is to say that "I'm sure these callees won't modify that memory" >>>>

On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Kenneth Uildriks wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Nick Lewycky <nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote: >> Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >>>> >>>> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making >>>> them >>>> local is to say that "I'm sure these callees won't modify

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

Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making them >> local is to say that "I'm sure these callees won't modify that memory" >> regardless of what functions actually get called, even indirectly. We can't >> know that they won't modify the vptr in advance, so invariant doesn't work

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Nick Lewycky <nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote: > Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Nick Lewycky<nicholas at mxc.ca>  wrote: >>> >>> Kenneth Uildriks wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making >>>>>

> You're right, I hadn't thought this through. The whole point of making them > local is to say that "I'm sure these callees won't modify that memory" > regardless of what functions actually get called, even indirectly. We can't > know that they won't modify the vptr in advance, so invariant doesn't work > here. Making it non-local just means

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

This is a patch repairing a regression in code previously functional in 4.1.x. It appears that, during some refactoring work, calls to hvm_memory_event_cr3 and hvm_memory_event_cr4 were lost. These functions were originally called in mov_to_cr() of vmx.c, but the commit http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/1276926e3795 abstracted the original code into generic functions up a level in

On 12/02/2011 06:32 PM, Hal Finkel wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 17:07 +0100, Tobias Grosser wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 05:52 PM, Hal Finkel wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:22 -0600, Hal Finkel wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 11:55 -0600, Hal Finkel wrote: >>>>>> > Tobias, >>>>>> > >>>>>>

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.

These two patches affect the interrupt injection logic for AMD-V (only). These patches fix issues with Windows HVM guests during boot menu screen: 1) the timer countdown is no longer very slow 2) kbd response is now no longer slow or non-existent We have also seen an occasional "dma lost interrupt"/expiry errors, and these patches seem to help with these, especially with SUSE10 HVM

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:22 -0600, Hal Finkel wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 11:55 -0600, Hal Finkel wrote: > > Tobias, > > > > I've attached an updated patch. It contains a few bug fixes and many > > (refactoring and coding-convention) changes inspired by your comments. > > > > I'm currently trying to fix the bug responsible for causing a compile