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* [PATCH 00/12] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v7
@ 2008-11-25 19:17 Alexander Graf
  2008-11-25 19:17 ` [PATCH 01/12] Clean up VINTR setting v7 Alexander Graf
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From: Alexander Graf @ 2008-11-25 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm; +Cc: joro, anthony, avi, muli

The current generation of virtualization extensions only supports one VM layer.
While we can't change that, it is pretty easy to emulate the CPU's behavior
and implement the virtualization opcodes ourselves.

This patchset does exactly this for SVM. Using it, KVM can run within a VM.
Since we're emulating the real CPU's behavior, this should also enable other
VMMs to run within KVM.
So far I've only tested to run KVM inside the VM though.

As always, comments and suggestions are highly welcome.

v2 takes most comments from Avi into account.

v3 addresses Joergs comments, including

- V_INTR_MASKING support
- a generic permission checking helper

v4 addresses even more comments from Joerg, including

- don't use the guest's hsave to store the guest's vmcb in
- add nested=<int> flag for kvm-amd.ko, defaults to 0 (off)
- include Joerg's VM_CR MSR patch

v5 removes the IOPM merging code

v6 addresses comments from Joerg and Anthony:

- don't flood the host's log with printks
- export SVM capability to userspace (SVM CPUID capability)
- prettify nsvm_printk
- pass an error code on inject_gp (0)
- always close interrupt_window if GIF=0
- fix 32-bit l1 guests
- warn in syslog if nested=1 on module load
- huge speed improvements

v7 makes vmrun return 0 so the MSR stuff gets ORed (thanks muli!)

To be usable, this patchset requires simple changes in the userspace part.
For now you can easily use the patches I sent to the list when I sent the first
version if you comment out the new svm masking in qemu/target-i386/helper.c.

I will submit a newer version of the userspace patch once the kernel parts are OK.

Known issues:

- TODO: #VMEXIT on save/restore
- SMP l2 guests break with in-kernel-apic
- NPT=1 with an i386 l1 guest breaks the l2 guest
- MMU syncing with NPT=1 seems strange

Thanks for reviewing!

Alex


Alexander Graf (11):
  Clean up VINTR setting v7
  Move EFER and MSR constants to generic x86 code v7
  Add helper functions for nested SVM v7
  Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v7
  Implement hsave v7
  Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v7
  Add VMRUN handler v7
  Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts v7
  Allow setting the SVME bit v7
  Only allow setting of EFER_SVME when CPUID SVM is set v7
  Accelerate nested SVM by emulating parts of GIF=0 v7

Joerg Roedel (1):
  Allow read access to MSR_VM_VR v7

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h  |    6 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h |    7 +
 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_svm.h           |   10 +
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c               |  763 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.h               |    4 -
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c               |   60 +++-
 6 files changed, 811 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)


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2008-11-25 19:17 [PATCH 00/12] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17 ` [PATCH 01/12] Clean up VINTR setting v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17   ` [PATCH 02/12] Move EFER and MSR constants to generic x86 code v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17     ` [PATCH 03/12] Add helper functions for nested SVM v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17       ` [PATCH 04/12] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17         ` [PATCH 05/12] Implement hsave v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17           ` [PATCH 06/12] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17             ` [PATCH 07/12] Add VMRUN handler v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17               ` [PATCH 08/12] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17                 ` [PATCH 09/12] Allow read access to MSR_VM_VR v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17                   ` [PATCH 10/12] Allow setting the SVME bit v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17                     ` [PATCH 11/12] Only allow setting of EFER_SVME when CPUID SVM is set v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 19:17                       ` [PATCH 12/12] Accelerate nested SVM by emulating parts of GIF=0 v7 Alexander Graf
2008-11-27  9:48 ` [PATCH 00/12] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v7 Joerg Roedel
2008-12-15 12:51 ` Avi Kivity

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