History log of /freebsd-10.1-release/usr.sbin/bhyvectl/
Revision Date Author Comments
272461 03-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


270159 19-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r267921, r267934, r267949, r267959, r267966, r268202, r268276,
r268427, r268428, r268521, r268638, r268639, r268701, r268777,
r268889, r268922, r269008, r269042, r269043, r269080, r269094,
r269108, r269109, r269281, r269317, r269700, r269896, r269962,
r269989.

Catch bhyve up to CURRENT.

Lightly tested with FreeBSD i386/amd64, Linux i386/amd64, and
OpenBSD/amd64. Still resolving an issue with OpenBSD/i386.

Many thanks to jhb@ for all the hard work on the prior MFCs !

r267921 - support the "mov r/m8, imm8" instruction
r267934 - document options
r267949 - set DMI vers/date to fixed values
r267959 - doc: sort cmd flags
r267966 - EPT misconf post-mortem info
r268202 - use correct flag for event index
r268276 - 64-bit virtio capability api
r268427 - invalidate guest TLB when cr3 is updated, needed for TSS
r268428 - identify vcpu's operating mode
r268521 - use correct offset in guest logical-to-linear translation
r268638 - chs value
r268639 - chs fake values
r268701 - instr emul operand/address size override prefix support
r268777 - emulation for legacy x86 task switching
r268889 - nested exception support
r268922 - fix INVARIANTS build
r269008 - emulate instructions found in the OpenBSD/i386 5.5 kernel
r269042 - fix fault injection
r269043 - Reduce VMEXIT_RESTARTs in task_switch.c
r269080 - fix issues in PUSH emulation
r269094 - simplify return values from the inout handlers
r269108 - don't return -1 from the push emulation handler
r269109 - avoid permanent sleep in vm_handle_hlt()
r269281 - list VT-x features in base kernel dmesg
r269317 - Mark AHCI fatal errors as not completed
r269700 - Support PCI extended config space in bhyve
r269896 - Minor cleanup
r269962 - use max guest memory when creating IOMMU domain
r269989 - fix interrupt mode names


270070 17-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r266933
Activate vcpus from bhyve(8) using the ioctl VM_ACTIVATE_CPU instead of doing
it implicitly in vmm.ko.


268951 21-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 264275:
Explicitly initialize 'vmname' to NULL.


268935 21-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 263780,264516,265062,265101,265203,265364:
Add an ioctl to suspend a virtual machine (VM_SUSPEND).

Add logic in the HLT exit handler to detect if the guest has put all vcpus
to sleep permanently by executing a HLT with interrupts disabled.

When this condition is detected the guest with be suspended with a reason of
VM_SUSPEND_HALT and the bhyve(8) process will exit.

This logic can be disabled via the tunable 'hw.vmm.halt_detection'.


266339 17-May-2014 jhb

MFC 259641,259863,259924,259937,259961,259978,260380,260383,260410,260466,
260531,260532,260550,260619,261170,261453,261621,263280,263290,264516:
Add support for local APIC hardware-assist.
- Restructure vlapic access and register handling to support hardware-assist
for the local APIC.
- Use the 'Virtual Interrupt Delivery' and 'Posted Interrupt Processing'
feature of Intel VT-x if supported by hardware.
- Add an API to rendezvous all active vcpus in a virtual machine and use
it to support level triggered interrupts with VT-x 'Virtual Interrupt
Delivery'.
- Use a cheaper IPI handler than IPI_AST for nested page table shootdowns
and avoid doing unnecessary nested TLB invalidations.

Reviewed by: neel


264619 17-Apr-2014 jhb

MFC 258860,260167,260238,260397:
- Restructure the VMX code to enter and exit the guest. In large part this
change hides the setjmp/longjmp semantics of VM enter/exit.
vmx_enter_guest() is used to enter guest context and vmx_exit_guest() is
used to transition back into host context.

Fix a longstanding race where a vcpu interrupt notification might be
ignored if it happens after vmx_inject_interrupts() but before host
interrupts are disabled in vmx_resume/vmx_launch. We now call
vmx_inject_interrupts() with host interrupts disabled to prevent this.
- The 'protection' field in the VM exit collateral for the PAGING exit is
not used - get rid of it.

Reviewed by: grehan


262350 23-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.


259073 07-Dec-2013 peter

Hoist all the mergeinfo up to the root in preparation for enforcing merges
to the root only. All MFC's were rerecorded to the root.

Going forward, if an MFC includes mergeinfo, it will need to be made to
the root and committed from the root. Merges with --ignore-ancestry
or diff | patch can go anywhere.

The mergeinfo in HEAD is in a bad state from years of neglect and manual
tampering and this was branched into 10.x. This confuses the coalescing
code and prevents it from doing its job.

Approved by: re (gjb, implicit)


256869 22-Oct-2013 neel

MFC r256645.

Add a new capability, VM_CAP_ENABLE_INVPCID, that can be enabled to expose
'invpcid' instruction to the guest. Currently bhyve will try to enable this
capability unconditionally if it is available.

Consolidate code in bhyve to set the capabilities so it is no longer
duplicated in BSP and AP bringup.

Add a sysctl 'vm.pmap.invpcid_works' to display whether the 'invpcid'
instruction is available.

Approved by: re (hrs)


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


256176 09-Oct-2013 neel

Parse the memory size parameter using expand_number() to allow specifying
the memory size more intuitively (e.g. 512M, 4G etc).

Submitted by: rodrigc
Reviewed by: grehan
Approved by: re (blanket)


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


248935 30-Mar-2013 neel

Add some more stats to keep track of all the reasons that a vcpu is exiting.


248477 18-Mar-2013 neel

Simplify the assignment of memory to virtual machines by requiring a single
command line option "-m <memsize in MB>" to specify the memory size.

Prior to this change the user needed to explicitly specify the amount of
memory allocated below 4G (-m <lowmem>) and the amount above 4G (-M <highmem>).

The "-M" option is no longer supported by 'bhyveload' and 'bhyve'.

The start of the PCI hole is fixed at 3GB and cannot be directly changed
using command line options. However it is still possible to change this in
special circumstances via the 'vm_set_lowmem_limit()' API provided by
libvmmapi.

Submitted by: Dinakar Medavaram (initial version)
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp


246800 14-Feb-2013 neel

Add option "--unassign-pptdev=<bus/slot/func>" to allow 'bhyvectl' to detach
passthru devices from the guest.

Obtained from: NetApp


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


245685 20-Jan-2013 joel

Fix minor nit in usage output.

Reviewed by: neel


245679 20-Jan-2013 neel

Use <vmname> in a consistent manner in usage messages output by 'bhyve',
'bhyveload' and 'bhyvectl'.

Pointed out by: joel@


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


245213 09-Jan-2013 neel

Get rid of 'sample.sh' from here - it belongs in the /usr/share/examples
directory.

Obtained from: NetApp


242169 27-Oct-2012 grehan

Rename vmmctl to bhyvectl. 'vmmctl' came from a pre-bhyve
internal codebase at NetApp. No need for it to have an
unrelated name to the other userspace utils.

Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp


242059 25-Oct-2012 neel

Fix typo: host_rip -> host_rsp

Obtained from: NetApp


241487 12-Oct-2012 neel

Output the value of all capabilities when the "--getcap" option is used without
a "--capname=<capname>". Do the same for the "--get-all" option.


241179 04-Oct-2012 neel

The ioctl VM_GET_MEMORY_SEG is no longer able to return the host physical
address associated with the guest memory segment. This is because there is
no longer a 1:1 mapping between GPA and HPA.

As a result 'vmmctl' can only display the guest physical address and the
length of the lowmem and highmem segments.


240922 25-Sep-2012 neel

Add ioctls to control the X2APIC capability exposed by the virtual machine to
the guest.

At the moment this simply sets the state in the 'vcpu' instance but there is
no code that acts upon these settings.


238386 12-Jul-2012 grehan

Add --get-all option to dump all readable parameters.

Submitted by: Takuya Asada syuu at dokukino dot com
Reviewed by: grehan, neel
Obtained from: GSoC 12 bhyve project


221942 15-May-2011 jhb

First cut to port bhyve, vmmctl, and libvmmapi 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