similar to: RE: [PATCH 05/15] Nested Virtualization: core

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),

From e2d47e2f75bac6876b7c2eaecfe946966bf27516 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:53:17 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] VMX: wbinvd when vmentry under UC This patch flush cache when vmentry back to UC guest, to prevent cache polluted by hypervisor access guest memory during UC mode. However, wbinvd is a _very_ time consuming operation, so 1.

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

Hello, this patch introduces HVM tracing: one tracing class for both, SVM and VMX. It adds several new trace events. So we can differentiate between them in the xentrace formats file and format each event''s data items appropriately. With this patch the xentrace_format output is much more informative. The previous simple tracing in SVM and VMX is completely replaced. Unfortunately I

This patch series enables the Last Branch Recording feature for the guest. Instead of trapping each LBR stack MSR access, the MSRs are passthroughed to the guest. Those MSRs are switched (i.e. load and saved) on VMExit and VMEntry. Test: Try "perf record -b ./test_program" on guest. Wei Wang (4): KVM/vmx: re-write the msr auto switch feature KVM/vmx: auto switch

This patch series enables the Last Branch Recording feature for the guest. Instead of trapping each LBR stack MSR access, the MSRs are passthroughed to the guest. Those MSRs are switched (i.e. load and saved) on VMExit and VMEntry. Test: Try "perf record -b ./test_program" on guest. Wei Wang (4): KVM/vmx: re-write the msr auto switch feature KVM/vmx: auto switch

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

I recently realized that the original way of dealing with the DebugCtl MSR on VMX failed to make use of the dedicated guest VMCS field. This is being fixed with this patch. What is puzzling me to a certain degree is that while there is a guest VMCS field for this MSR, there''s no equivalent host load field, but there''s also no indication that the MSR would be cleared during a

From 159251a04afcdcd8ca08e9f2bdfae279b2aa5471 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:38:15 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] XSA-60 security hole: flush cache when vmentry back to UC guest This patch flush cache when vmentry back to UC guest, to prevent cache polluted by hypervisor access guest memory during UC mode. The elegant way to do this

The patch enables x86_32 PAE unmodified guests on 64-bit Xen when the hvm feature is present. We tested only Linux at this point, and we''ll improve the functionality as we test other guests. The SVM needs the equivalent changes to the vmc.c to get this functionality working, but this patch does not break the build. Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>

I am having problems with save/restore under 3.3.1 in the GPLPV drivers. I call hvm_shutdown(xpdd, SHUTDOWN_suspend), but as soon as I lower IRQL (enabling interrupts), qemu goes to 100% CPU and the DomU load goes right up too. Xentrace is showing a whole lot of this going on: CPU0 200130258143212 (+ 770) hypercall [ rip = 0x000000008020632a, eax = 0xffffffff ] CPU0 200130258151107 (+

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):

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Currently, Xen does not support injecting an NMI to HVM guest OS. Adding this feature is necessary for those softwares which depend on NMI to function correctly, such as KDB and oprofile. The attached patch allows NMI to be injected to guest OS in NMIP capable platforms. It also enables to queue an NMI and then inject it as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Haitao Shan

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

Hi All, I am trying to provide services to guest VMs where I wish to run guest VMs in a loop. I wish to use a core to schedule a guest VM, service it eg. execute an ISR etc and then return to the context of Xen on that core, so that I can then schedule the next VM on that core. In doing all this, the goal is to avoid the calls to VMEntry and VMExit. Is there a workaround for this to be done or

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

This patch implements a new mechanism to buffer the MMIO_WRITE and PIO_WRITE packet in a queue, and then submit them to qemu-dm in batch. This could save a lot of domain switch time. We implement this as a generic one to do ioreq in batch. However, we only use it to batch the MMIO_WIRTE request for stdvga(0xA0000-0xC0000) in order to solve the win2k boot issue for hvm domain. Without this patch,

Fix the mistake for debug exception(#DB), overflow exception(#OF; generated by INTO) and int 3(#BP) instruction emulation. For INTn (CD ib), it should use type 4 (software interrupt). For INT3 (CC; NOT CD ib with ib=3) and INTO (CE; NOT CD ib with ib=4), it should use type 6 (software exception). For other exceptions (#DE, #DB, #BR, #UD, #NM, #TS, #NP, #SS, #GP, #PF, #MF, #AC, #MC, and #XM), it