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# 285830 23-Jul-2015 gjb

- Copy stable/10@285827 to releng/10.2 in preparation for 10.2-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.2.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.[1]

Discussed with: re, portmgr [1]
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 284894 27-Jun-2015 neel

MFC r276428:
Replace bhyve's minimal RTC emulation with a fully featured one in vmm.ko.

MFC r276432:
Initialize all fields of 'struct vm_exception exception' before passing it
to vm_inject_exception().

MFC r276763:
Clear blocking due to STI or MOV SS in the hypervisor when an instruction is
emulated or when the vcpu incurs an exception.

MFC r277149:
Clean up usage of 'struct vm_exception' to only to communicate information
from userspace to vmm.ko when injecting an exception.

MFC r277168:
Fix typo (missing comma).

MFC r277309:
Make the error message explicit instead of just printing the usage if the
virtual machine name is not specified.

MFC r277310:
Simplify instruction restart logic in bhyve.

MFC r277359:
Fix a bug in libvmmapi 'vm_copy_setup()' where it would return success even
if the 'gpa' was in the guest MMIO region.

MFC r277360:
MOVS instruction emulation.

MFC r277626:
Add macro to identify AVIC capability (advanced virtual interrupt controller)
in AMD processors.

MFC r279220:
Don't close a block context if it couldn't be opened avoiding a null deref.

MFC r279225:
Add "-u" option to bhyve(8) to indicate that the RTC should maintain UTC time.

MFC r279227:
Emulate MSR 0xC0011024 when running on AMD processors.

MFC r279228:
Always emulate MSR_PAT on Intel processors and don't rely on PAT save/restore
capability of VT-x. This lets bhyve run nested in older VMware versions that
don't support the PAT save/restore capability.

MFC r279540:
Fix warnings/errors when building vmm.ko with gcc.


# 276403 30-Dec-2014 neel

MFC r273375
Add support AMD processors with the SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions.

MFC r273749
Remove bhyve SVM feature printf's now that they are available in the general
CPU feature detection code.

MFC r273766
Add missing 'break' pointed out by Coverity CID 1249760.

MFC r276098
Allow ktr(4) tracing of all guest exceptions via the tunable "hw.vmm.trace_guest_exceptions"

MFC r276392
Inject #UD into the guest when it executes either 'MONITOR' or 'MWAIT' on an
AMD/SVM host.

MFC r276402
Remove "svn:mergeinfo" property that was dragged along when these files were
svn copied in r273375.


# 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


# 268953 21-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 264353,264509,264768,264770,264825,264846,264988,265114,265165,265365,
265941,265951,266390,266550,266910:
Various bhyve fixes:
- Don't save host's return address in 'struct vmxctx'.
- Permit non-32-bit accesses to local APIC registers.
- Factor out common ioport handler code.
- Use calloc() in favor of malloc + memset.
- Change the vlapic timer frequency to be in the ballpark of contemporary
hardware.
- Allow the guest to read the TSC via MSR 0x10.
- A VMCS is always inactive when it exits the vmx_run() loop. Remove
redundant code and the misleading comment that suggest otherwise.
- Ignore writes to microcode update MSR. This MSR is accessed by RHEL7
guest.
Add KTR tracepoints to annotate wrmsr and rdmsr VM exits.
- Provide an alias for the userboot console and name it 'comconsole'.
- Use EV_ADD to create an mevent and EV_ENABLE to enable it.
- abort(3) the process in response to a VMEXIT_ABORT.
- Don't include the guest memory segments in the bhyve(8) process core dump.
- Make the vmx asm code dtrace-fbt-friendly.
- Allow vmx_getdesc() and vmx_setdesc() to be called for a vcpu that is in
the VCPU_RUNNING state.
- Enable VMX in the IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR if it not enabled and the MSR
isn't locked.


# 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


# 262352 23-Feb-2014 jhb

MFC 259542:
Use vmcs_read() and vmcs_write() in preference to vmread() and vmwrite()
respectively. The vmcs_xxx() functions provide inline error checking of
all accesses to the VMCS.


# 262349 22-Feb-2014 jhb

MFC 257297:
Remove unnecessary includes of <machine/pmap.h>


# 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


# 249879 25-Apr-2013 grehan

Add RIP-relative addressing to the instruction decoder.
Rework the guest register fetch code to allow the RIP to
be extracted from the VMCS while the kernel decoder is
functioning.

Hit by the OpenBSD local-apic code.

Submitted by: neel
Reviewed by: grehan
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


# 242275 29-Oct-2012 neel

Corral all the host state associated with the virtual machine into its own file.

This state is independent of the type of hardware assist used so there is
really no need for it to be in Intel-specific code.

Obtained from: NetApp


# 242122 26-Oct-2012 neel

Unconditionally enable fpu emulation by setting CR0.TS in the host after the
guest does a vm exit.

This allows us to trap any fpu access in the host context while the fpu still
has "dirty" state belonging to the guest.

Reported by: "s vas" on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp


# 222605 02-Jun-2011 jhb

Add a 'show vmcs' DDB command to dump state about the current CPU's
current VMCS.


# 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