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# 1.5 05-Aug-2020 maxv

Upgrade NVMM to WARNS=5.


Revision tags: bouyer-xenpvh-base2 phil-wifi-20200421 bouyer-xenpvh-base1 phil-wifi-20200411 bouyer-xenpvh-base is-mlppp-base phil-wifi-20200406 ad-namecache-base3 netbsd-9-0-RELEASE netbsd-9-0-RC2 ad-namecache-base2 ad-namecache-base1 ad-namecache-base netbsd-9-0-RC1 phil-wifi-20191119 netbsd-9-base phil-wifi-20190609 isaki-audio2-base
# 1.4 23-Feb-2019 maxv

branches: 1.4.4;
Install the x86 RESET state at VCPU creation time, for convenience, so
that the libnvmm users can expect a functional VCPU right away.


# 1.3 17-Feb-2019 rin

Bump default value of WARNS for modules from 3 to 5, and
explicitly set WARNS for modules that fail with WARNS=5.

Also, turn on -Wno-missing-noreturn for clang for some files.

At the moment, among ~ 360 modules,
- 2 (lua and zfs) need WARNS=0
- 1 (solaris) needs WARNS=1
- 136 need WARNS=3 (mostly due to sign-compare)
- 4 need WARNS=4
- others can be compiled with WARNS=5

Discussed on tech-kern.


# 1.2 13-Feb-2019 maxv

Add Intel-VMX support in NVMM. This allows us to run hardware-accelerated
VMs on Intel CPUs. Overall this implementation is fast and reliable, I am
able to run NetBSD VMs with many VCPUs on a quad-core Intel i5.

NVMM-Intel applies several optimizations already present in NVMM-AMD, and
has a code structure similar to it. No change was needed in the NVMM MI
frontend, or in libnvmm.

Some differences exist against AMD:

- On Intel the ASID space is big, so we don't fall back to a shared ASID
when there are more VCPUs executing than available ASIDs in the host,
contrary to AMD. There are enough ASIDs for the maximum number of VCPUs
supported by NVMM.

- On Intel there are two TLBs we need to take care of, one for the host
(EPT) and one for the guest (VPID). Changes in EPT paging flush the
host TLB, changes to the guest mode flush the guest TLB.

- On Intel there is no easy way to set/fetch the VTPR, so we intercept
reads/writes to CR8 and maintain a software TPR, that we give to the
virtualizer as if it was the effective TPR in the guest.

- On Intel, because of SVS, the host CR4 and LSTAR are not static, so
we're forced to save them on each VMENTRY.

- There is extra Intel weirdness we need to take care of, for example the
reserved bits in CR0 and CR4 when accesses trap.

While this implementation is functional and can already run many OSes, we
likely have a problem on 32bit-PAE guests, because they require special
care on Intel CPUs, and currently we don't handle that correctly; such
guests may misbehave for now (without altering the host stability). I
expect to fix that soon.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126
# 1.1 07-Nov-2018 maxv

branches: 1.1.2;
Add NVMM - for NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor -, a kernel driver that
provides support for hardware-accelerated virtualization on NetBSD.

It is made of an MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged. One
MD backend is implemented, x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs.

We install

/usr/include/dev/nvmm/nvmm.h
/usr/include/dev/nvmm/nvmm_ioctl.h
/usr/include/dev/nvmm/{arch}/nvmm_{arch}.h

And the kernel module. For now, the only architecture where we do that
is amd64 (arch=x86).

NVMM is not enabled by default in amd64-GENERIC, but is instead easily
modloadable.

Sent to tech-kern@ a month ago. Validated with kASan, and optimized
with tprof.


Revision tags: isaki-audio2-base
# 1.4 23-Feb-2019 maxv

Install the x86 RESET state at VCPU creation time, for convenience, so
that the libnvmm users can expect a functional VCPU right away.


# 1.3 17-Feb-2019 rin

Bump default value of WARNS for modules from 3 to 5, and
explicitly set WARNS for modules that fail with WARNS=5.

Also, turn on -Wno-missing-noreturn for clang for some files.

At the moment, among ~ 360 modules,
- 2 (lua and zfs) need WARNS=0
- 1 (solaris) needs WARNS=1
- 136 need WARNS=3 (mostly due to sign-compare)
- 4 need WARNS=4
- others can be compiled with WARNS=5

Discussed on tech-kern.


# 1.2 13-Feb-2019 maxv

Add Intel-VMX support in NVMM. This allows us to run hardware-accelerated
VMs on Intel CPUs. Overall this implementation is fast and reliable, I am
able to run NetBSD VMs with many VCPUs on a quad-core Intel i5.

NVMM-Intel applies several optimizations already present in NVMM-AMD, and
has a code structure similar to it. No change was needed in the NVMM MI
frontend, or in libnvmm.

Some differences exist against AMD:

- On Intel the ASID space is big, so we don't fall back to a shared ASID
when there are more VCPUs executing than available ASIDs in the host,
contrary to AMD. There are enough ASIDs for the maximum number of VCPUs
supported by NVMM.

- On Intel there are two TLBs we need to take care of, one for the host
(EPT) and one for the guest (VPID). Changes in EPT paging flush the
host TLB, changes to the guest mode flush the guest TLB.

- On Intel there is no easy way to set/fetch the VTPR, so we intercept
reads/writes to CR8 and maintain a software TPR, that we give to the
virtualizer as if it was the effective TPR in the guest.

- On Intel, because of SVS, the host CR4 and LSTAR are not static, so
we're forced to save them on each VMENTRY.

- There is extra Intel weirdness we need to take care of, for example the
reserved bits in CR0 and CR4 when accesses trap.

While this implementation is functional and can already run many OSes, we
likely have a problem on 32bit-PAE guests, because they require special
care on Intel CPUs, and currently we don't handle that correctly; such
guests may misbehave for now (without altering the host stability). I
expect to fix that soon.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126
# 1.1 07-Nov-2018 maxv

branches: 1.1.2;
Add NVMM - for NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor -, a kernel driver that
provides support for hardware-accelerated virtualization on NetBSD.

It is made of an MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged. One
MD backend is implemented, x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs.

We install

/usr/include/dev/nvmm/nvmm.h
/usr/include/dev/nvmm/nvmm_ioctl.h
/usr/include/dev/nvmm/{arch}/nvmm_{arch}.h

And the kernel module. For now, the only architecture where we do that
is amd64 (arch=x86).

NVMM is not enabled by default in amd64-GENERIC, but is instead easily
modloadable.

Sent to tech-kern@ a month ago. Validated with kASan, and optimized
with tprof.