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  KVM: kill file->f_count abuse in kvm
  KVM: MMU: kvm_pv_mmu_op should not take mmap_sem
  KVM: SVM: remove selective CR0 comment
  KVM: SVM: remove now obsolete FIXME comment
  KVM: SVM: disable CR8 intercept when tpr is not masking interrupts
  KVM: SVM: sync V_TPR with LAPIC.TPR if CR8 write intercept is disabled
  KVM: export kvm_lapic_set_tpr() to modules
  KVM: SVM: sync TPR value to V_TPR field in the VMCB
  KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM implementation
  KVM: Add MAINTAINERS entry for PowerPC KVM
  KVM: ppc: Add DCR access information to struct kvm_run
  ppc: Export tlb_44x_hwater for KVM
  KVM: Rename debugfs_dir to kvm_debugfs_dir
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix lea to really get the effective address
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix smsw and lmsw with a memory operand
  KVM: x86 emulator: initialize src.val and dst.val for register operands
  KVM: SVM: force a new asid when initializing the vmcb
  KVM: fix kvm_vcpu_kick vs __vcpu_run race
  KVM: add ioctls to save/store mpstate
  KVM: Rename VCPU_MP_STATE_* to KVM_MP_STATE_*
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82 changes: 82 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt
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Currently, kvm module in EXPERIMENTAL stage on IA64. This means that
interfaces are not stable enough to use. So, plase had better don't run
critical applications in virtual machine. We will try our best to make it
strong in future versions!
Guide: How to boot up guests on kvm/ia64

This guide is to describe how to enable kvm support for IA-64 systems.

1. Get the kvm source from git.kernel.org.
Userspace source:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-userspace.git
Kernel Source:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiantao/kvm-ia64.git

2. Compile the source code.
2.1 Compile userspace code:
(1)cd ./kvm-userspace
(2)./configure
(3)cd kernel
(4)make sync LINUX= $kernel_dir (kernel_dir is the directory of kernel source.)
(5)cd ..
(6)make qemu
(7)cd qemu; make install

2.2 Compile kernel source code:
(1) cd ./$kernel_dir
(2) Make menuconfig
(3) Enter into virtualization option, and choose kvm.
(4) make
(5) Once (4) done, make modules_install
(6) Make initrd, and use new kernel to reboot up host machine.
(7) Once (6) done, cd $kernel_dir/arch/ia64/kvm
(8) insmod kvm.ko; insmod kvm-intel.ko

Note: For step 2, please make sure that host page size == TARGET_PAGE_SIZE of qemu, otherwise, may fail.

3. Get Guest Firmware named as Flash.fd, and put it under right place:
(1) If you have the guest firmware (binary) released by Intel Corp for Xen, use it directly.

(2) If you have no firmware at hand, Please download its source from
hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg
you can get the firmware's binary in the directory of efi-vfirmware.hg/binaries.

(3) Rename the firware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu

4. Boot up Linux or Windows guests:
4.1 Create or install a image for guest boot. If you have xen experience, it should be easy.

4.2 Boot up guests use the following command.
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ia64 -smp xx -m 512 -hda $your_image
(xx is the number of virtual processors for the guest, now the maximum value is 4)

5. Known possibile issue on some platforms with old Firmware.

If meet strange host crashe issues, try to solve it through either of the following ways:

(1): Upgrade your Firmware to the latest one.

(2): Applying the below patch to kernel source.
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
index 0b53344..f02b0f7 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ GLOBAL_ENTRY(ia64_pal_call_static)
mov ar.pfs = loc1
mov rp = loc0
;;
- srlz.d // seralize restoration of psr.l
+ srlz.i // seralize restoration of psr.l
+ ;;
br.ret.sptk.many b0
END(ia64_pal_call_static)

6. Bug report:
If you found any issues when use kvm/ia64, Please post the bug info to kvm-ia64-devel mailing list.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-ia64-devel/

Thanks for your interest! Let's work together, and make kvm/ia64 stronger and stronger!


Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
2008.3.10
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0xAC 00-1F linux/raw.h
0xAD 00 Netfilter device in development:
<mailto:rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
0xAE all linux/kvm.h Kernel-based Virtual Machine
<mailto:kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
0xB0 all RATIO devices in development:
<mailto:vgo@ratio.de>
0xB1 00-1F PPPoX <mailto:mostrows@styx.uwaterloo.ca>
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Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
15 Apr 2008

Various notes on the implementation of KVM for PowerPC 440:

To enforce isolation, host userspace, guest kernel, and guest userspace all
run at user privilege level. Only the host kernel runs in supervisor mode.
Executing privileged instructions in the guest traps into KVM (in the host
kernel), where we decode and emulate them. Through this technique, unmodified
440 Linux kernels can be run (slowly) as guests. Future performance work will
focus on reducing the overhead and frequency of these traps.

The usual code flow is started from userspace invoking an "run" ioctl, which
causes KVM to switch into guest context. We use IVPR to hijack the host
interrupt vectors while running the guest, which allows us to direct all
interrupts to kvmppc_handle_interrupt(). At this point, we could either
- handle the interrupt completely (e.g. emulate "mtspr SPRG0"), or
- let the host interrupt handler run (e.g. when the decrementer fires), or
- return to host userspace (e.g. when the guest performs device MMIO)

Address spaces: We take advantage of the fact that Linux doesn't use the AS=1
address space (in host or guest), which gives us virtual address space to use
for guest mappings. While the guest is running, the host kernel remains mapped
in AS=0, but the guest can only use AS=1 mappings.

TLB entries: The TLB entries covering the host linear mapping remain
present while running the guest. This reduces the overhead of lightweight
exits, which are handled by KVM running in the host kernel. We keep three
copies of the TLB:
- guest TLB: contents of the TLB as the guest sees it
- shadow TLB: the TLB that is actually in hardware while guest is running
- host TLB: to restore TLB state when context switching guest -> host
When a TLB miss occurs because a mapping was not present in the shadow TLB,
but was present in the guest TLB, KVM handles the fault without invoking the
guest. Large guest pages are backed by multiple 4KB shadow pages through this
mechanism.

IO: MMIO and DCR accesses are emulated by userspace. We use virtio for network
and block IO, so those drivers must be enabled in the guest. It's possible
that some qemu device emulation (e.g. e1000 or rtl8139) may also work with
little effort.
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*** BIG FAT WARNING ***
The kvm module is currently in EXPERIMENTAL state for s390. This means that
the interface to the module is not yet considered to remain stable. Thus, be
prepared that we keep breaking your userspace application and guest
compatibility over and over again until we feel happy with the result. Make sure
your guest kernel, your host kernel, and your userspace launcher are in a
consistent state.

This Documentation describes the unique ioctl calls to /dev/kvm, the resulting
kvm-vm file descriptors, and the kvm-vcpu file descriptors that differ from x86.

1. ioctl calls to /dev/kvm
KVM does support the following ioctls on s390 that are common with other
architectures and do behave the same:
KVM_GET_API_VERSION
KVM_CREATE_VM (*) see note
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE

Notes:
* KVM_CREATE_VM may fail on s390, if the calling process has multiple
threads and has not called KVM_S390_ENABLE_SIE before.

In addition, on s390 the following architecture specific ioctls are supported:
ioctl: KVM_S390_ENABLE_SIE
args: none
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This call causes the kernel to switch on PGSTE in the user page table. This
operation is needed in order to run a virtual machine, and it requires the
calling process to be single-threaded. Note that the first call to KVM_CREATE_VM
will implicitly try to switch on PGSTE if the user process has not called
KVM_S390_ENABLE_SIE before. User processes that want to launch multiple threads
before creating a virtual machine have to call KVM_S390_ENABLE_SIE, or will
observe an error calling KVM_CREATE_VM. Switching on PGSTE is a one-time
operation, is not reversible, and will persist over the entire lifetime of
the calling process. It does not have any user-visible effect other than a small
performance penalty.

2. ioctl calls to the kvm-vm file descriptor
KVM does support the following ioctls on s390 that are common with other
architectures and do behave the same:
KVM_CREATE_VCPU
KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION (*) see note
KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (**) see note

Notes:
* kvm does only allow exactly one memory slot on s390, which has to start
at guest absolute address zero and at a user address that is aligned on any
page boundary. This hardware "limitation" allows us to have a few unique
optimizations. The memory slot doesn't have to be filled
with memory actually, it may contain sparse holes. That said, with different
user memory layout this does still allow a large flexibility when
doing the guest memory setup.
** KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG doesn't work properly yet. The user will receive an empty
log. This ioctl call is only needed for guest migration, and we intend to
implement this one in the future.

In addition, on s390 the following architecture specific ioctls for the kvm-vm
file descriptor are supported:
ioctl: KVM_S390_INTERRUPT
args: struct kvm_s390_interrupt *
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl is used to submit a floating interrupt for a virtual machine.
Floating interrupts may be delivered to any virtual cpu in the configuration.
Only some interrupt types defined in include/linux/kvm.h make sense when
submitted as floating interrupts. The following interrupts are not considered
to be useful as floating interrupts, and a call to inject them will result in
-EINVAL error code: program interrupts and interprocessor signals. Valid
floating interrupts are:
KVM_S390_INT_VIRTIO
KVM_S390_INT_SERVICE

3. ioctl calls to the kvm-vcpu file descriptor
KVM does support the following ioctls on s390 that are common with other
architectures and do behave the same:
KVM_RUN
KVM_GET_REGS
KVM_SET_REGS
KVM_GET_SREGS
KVM_SET_SREGS
KVM_GET_FPU
KVM_SET_FPU

In addition, on s390 the following architecture specific ioctls for the
kvm-vcpu file descriptor are supported:
ioctl: KVM_S390_INTERRUPT
args: struct kvm_s390_interrupt *
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl is used to submit an interrupt for a specific virtual cpu.
Only some interrupt types defined in include/linux/kvm.h make sense when
submitted for a specific cpu. The following interrupts are not considered
to be useful, and a call to inject them will result in -EINVAL error code:
service processor calls and virtio interrupts. Valid interrupt types are:
KVM_S390_PROGRAM_INT
KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP
KVM_S390_RESTART
KVM_S390_SIGP_SET_PREFIX
KVM_S390_INT_EMERGENCY

ioctl: KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS
args: unsigned long
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl stores the state of the cpu at the guest real address given as
argument, unless one of the following values defined in include/linux/kvm.h
is given as arguement:
KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_NOADDR - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
absolute lowcore as defined by the principles of operation
KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_PREFIXED - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
its prefix page just like the dump tool that comes with zipl. This is useful
to create a system dump for use with lkcdutils or crash.

ioctl: KVM_S390_SET_INITIAL_PSW
args: struct kvm_s390_psw *
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl can be used to set the processor status word (psw) of a stopped cpu
prior to running it with KVM_RUN. Note that this call is not required to modify
the psw during sie intercepts that fall back to userspace because struct kvm_run
does contain the psw, and this value is evaluated during reentry of KVM_RUN
after the intercept exit was recognized.

ioctl: KVM_S390_INITIAL_RESET
args: none
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl can be used to perform an initial cpu reset as defined by the
principles of operation. The target cpu has to be in stopped state.
17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions MAINTAINERS
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W: kvm.sourceforge.net
S: Supported

KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE (KVM) FOR POWERPC
P: Hollis Blanchard
M: hollisb@us.ibm.com
L: kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
W: kvm.sourceforge.net
S: Supported

KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE For Itanium(KVM/IA64)
P: Anthony Xu
M: anthony.xu@intel.com
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W: kvm.sourceforge.net
S: Supported

KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390)
P: Carsten Otte
M: cotte@de.ibm.com
P: Christian Borntraeger
M: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
M: linux390@de.ibm.com
L: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
W: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/
S: Supported

KEXEC
P: Eric Biederman
M: ebiederm@xmission.com
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select HAVE_OPROFILE
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_KVM
default y
help
The Itanium Processor Family is Intel's 64-bit successor to
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source "fs/Kconfig"

source "arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig"

source "lib/Kconfig"

#
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core-$(CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1) += arch/ia64/dig/
core-$(CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1_SWIOTLB) += arch/ia64/dig/
core-$(CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2) += arch/ia64/sn/
core-$(CONFIG_KVM) += arch/ia64/kvm/

drivers-$(CONFIG_PCI) += arch/ia64/pci/
drivers-$(CONFIG_IA64_HP_SIM) += arch/ia64/hp/sim/
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#
# KVM configuration
#
config HAVE_KVM
bool

menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
depends on HAVE_KVM || IA64
default y
---help---
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.

If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.

if VIRTUALIZATION

config KVM
tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
depends on HAVE_KVM && EXPERIMENTAL
select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
select ANON_INODES
---help---
Support hosting fully virtualized guest machines using hardware
virtualization extensions. You will need a fairly recent
processor equipped with virtualization extensions. You will also
need to select one or more of the processor modules below.

This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.

To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called kvm.

If unsure, say N.

config KVM_INTEL
tristate "KVM for Intel Itanium 2 processors support"
depends on KVM && m
---help---
Provides support for KVM on Itanium 2 processors equipped with the VT
extensions.

config KVM_TRACE
bool

endif # VIRTUALIZATION
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