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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 267070 04-Jun-2014 jhb

MFC 260972:
There is no need to initialize the IOMMU if no passthru devices have been
configured for bhyve to use.


# 262350 22-Feb-2014 jhb

MFC 258859,259081,259085,259205,259213,259275,259482,259537,259702,259779:
Several changes to the local APIC support in bhyve:
- Rename 'vm_interrupt_hostcpu()' to 'vcpu_notify_event()'.
- If a vcpu disables its local apic and then executes a 'HLT' then spin
down the vcpu and destroy its thread context. Also modify the 'HLT'
processing to ignore pending interrupts in the IRR if interrupts have
been disabled by the guest. The interrupt cannot be injected into the
guest in any case so resuming it is futile.
- Use callout(9) to drive the vlapic timer instead of clocking it on each
VM exit.
- When the guest is bringing up the APs in the x2APIC mode a write to the
ICR register will now trigger a return to userspace with an exitcode of
VM_EXITCODE_SPINUP_AP.
- Change the vlapic timer lock to be a spinlock because the vlapic can be
accessed from within a critical section (vm run loop) when guest is using
x2apic mode.
- Fix the vlapic version register.
- Add a command to bhyvectl to inject an NMI on a specific vcpu.
- Add an API to deliver message signalled interrupts to vcpus. This allows
callers to treat the MSI 'addr' and 'data' fields as opaque and also lets
bhyve implement multiple destination modes: physical, flat and clustered.
- Rename the ambiguously named 'vm_setup_msi()' and 'vm_setup_msix()' to
'vm_setup_pptdev_msi()' and 'vm_setup_pptdev_msix()' respectively.
- Consolidate the virtual apic initialization in a single function:
vlapic_reset()
- Add a generic routine to trigger an LVT interrupt that supports both
fixed and NMI delivery modes.
- Add an ioctl and bhyvectl command to trigger local interrupts inside a
guest. In particular, a global NMI similar to that raised by SERR# or
PERR# can be simulated by asserting LINT1 on all vCPUs.
- Extend the LVT table in the vCPU local APIC to support CMCI.
- Flesh out the local APIC error reporting a bit to cache errors and
report them via ESR when ESR is written to. Add support for asserting
the error LVT when an error occurs. Raise illegal vector errors when
attempting to signal an invalid vector for an interrupt or when sending
an IPI.
- Export table entries in the MADT and MP Table advertising the stock x86
config of LINT0 set to ExtInt and LINT1 wired to NMI.


# 261088 23-Jan-2014 jhb

MFC 257422,257661,258075,258476,258494,258579,258609,258699:
Several enhancements to the I/O APIC support in bhyve including:
- Move the I/O APIC device model from userspace into vmm.ko and add
ioctls to assert and deassert I/O APIC pins.
- Add HPET device emulation including a single timer block with 8 timers.
- Remove the 'vdev' abstraction.

Approved by: neel


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 256072 05-Oct-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.

Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.

Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.

pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.

The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.

Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.

An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)

The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).

The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.

TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.

Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.

PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.

Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.

Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.

Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.

Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.

Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho


# 255469 11-Sep-2013 neel

Fix a limitation in bhyve that would limit the number of virtual machines to
the maximum number of VT-d domains (256 on a Sandybridge). We now allocate a
VT-d domain for a guest only if the administrator has explicitly configured
one or more PCI passthru device(s).

If there are no PCI passthru devices configured (the common case) then the
number of virtual machines is no longer limited by the maximum number of
VT-d domains.

Reviewed by: grehan@
Approved by: re@


# 255342 07-Sep-2013 grehan

Mask off the vector from the MSI-x data word.
Some o/s's set the trigger-mode level bit which
results in an invalid vector and pass-thru interrupts
not being delivered.


# 246686 11-Feb-2013 neel

Implement guest vcpu pinning using 'pthread_setaffinity_np(3)'.

Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.

The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().

Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.

Discussed with: grehan


# 246191 01-Feb-2013 neel

Fix a broken assumption in the passthru implementation that the MSI-X table
can only be located at the beginning or the end of the BAR.

If the MSI-table is located in the middle of a BAR then we will split the
BAR into two and create two mappings - one before the table and one after
the table - leaving a hole in place of the table so accesses to it can be
trapped and emulated.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 246188 31-Jan-2013 neel

Increase the number of passthru devices supported by bhyve.

The maximum length of an environment variable puts a limitation on the
number of passthru devices that can be specified via a single variable.
The workaround is to allow user to specify passthru devices via multiple
environment variables instead of a single one.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 245678 20-Jan-2013 neel

Add svn properties to the recently merged bhyve source files.

The pre-commit hook will not allow any commits without the svn:keywords
property in head.


# 245652 19-Jan-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve to head.

'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).

Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 243390 22-Nov-2012 neel

Fix a bug in the MSI-X resource allocation for PCI passthrough devices.

In the case where the underlying host had disabled MSI-X via the
"hw.pci.enable_msix" tunable, the ppt_setup_msix() function would fail
and return an error without properly cleaning up. This in turn would
cause a page fault on the next boot of the guest.

Fix this by calling ppt_teardown_msix() in all the error return paths.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 241489 12-Oct-2012 neel

Provide per-vcpu locks instead of relying on a single big lock.

This also gets rid of all the witness.watch warnings related to calling
malloc(M_WAITOK) while holding a mutex.

Reviewed by: grehan


# 241452 11-Oct-2012 neel

Deliver the MSI to the correct guest virtual cpu.

Prior to this change the MSI was being delivered unconditionally to vcpu 0
regardless of how the guest programmed the MSI delivery.


# 241178 04-Oct-2012 neel

Change vm_malloc() to map pages in the guest physical address space in 4KB
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.

This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.


# 234761 28-Apr-2012 grehan

MSI-x interrupt support for PCI pass-thru devices.

Includes instruction emulation for memory r/w access. This
opens the door for io-apic, local apic, hpet timer, and
legacy device emulation.

Submitted by: ryan dot berryhill at sandvine dot com
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: Sandvine


# 223621 28-Jun-2011 grehan

IFC @ r222830


# 221914 14-May-2011 jhb

First cut at porting the kernel portions of 221828 and 221905 from the
BHyVe reference branch to HEAD.


# 221828 13-May-2011 grehan

Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1.
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface

bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.

Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski