Issues were noted by Bruce Evans and are present on all architectures.
On i386, a counter fetch should use atomic read of 64bit value,
otherwise carry from the increment on other CPU could be lost for the
given fetch, making error of 2^32. If 64bit read (cmpxchg8b) is not
available on the machine, it cannot be SMP and it is enough to disable
preemption around read to avoid the split read.
On x86 the counter increment is not atomic on purpose, which makes it
possible for the store of the incremented result to override just
zeroed per-cpu slot. The effect would be a counter going off by
arbitrary value after zeroing. Perform the counter zeroing on the
same processor which does the increments, making the operations
mutually exclusive. On i386, same as for the fetching, if the
cmpxchg8b is not available, machine is not SMP and we disable
preemption for zeroing.
PowerPC64 is treated the same as amd64.
For other architectures, the changes made to allow the compilation to
succeed, without fixing the issues with zeroing or fetching. It
should be possible to handle them by using the 64bit loads and stores
atomic WRT preemption (assuming the architectures also converted from
using critical sections to proper asm). If architecture does not
provide the facility, using global (spin) mutex would be non-optimal
but working solution.
Noted by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Move FreeBSD from interface version 0x00030204 to 0x00030208.
Updates are required to our grant table implementation before we
can bump this further.
sys/xen/hvm.h:
Replace the implementation of hvm_get_parameter(), formerly located
in sys/xen/interface/hvm/params.h. Linux has a similar file which
primarily stores this function.
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
Include new xen/hvm.h header file to get hvm_get_parameter().
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
Correctly protect function definition and variables from being
included into assembly files in xen-os.h
Xen memory barriers are now prefixed with "xen_" to avoid conflicts
with OS native primatives. Define Xen memory barriers in terms of
the native FreeBSD primatives.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
Reviewed by: Roger Pau Monné
Tested by: Roger Pau Monné
Obtained from: Roger Pau Monné (bug fixes)
registers also on other CPUs, besides the CPU which happens to execute
the ddb. The debugging registers are stored in the pcpu area,
together with the command which is executed by the IPI stop handler
upon resume.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
1. Common headers for fdt.h and ofw_machdep.h under x86/include
with indirections under i386/include and amd64/include.
2. New modinfo for loader provided FDT blob.
3. Common x86_init_fdt() called from hammer_time() on amd64 and
init386() on i386.
4. Split-off FDT specific low-level console functions from FDT
bus methods for the uart(4) driver. The low-level console
logic has been moved to uart_cpu_fdt.c and is used for arm,
mips & powerpc only. The FDT bus methods are shared across
all architectures.
5. Add dev/fdt/fdt_x86.c to hold the fdt_fixup_table[] and the
fdt_pic_table[] arrays. Both are empty right now.
FDT addresses are I/O ports on x86. Since the core FDT code does
not handle different address spaces, adding support for both I/O
ports and memory addresses requires some thought and discussion.
It may be better to use a compile-time option that controls this.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
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
- use clock_gettime(2) as the time base for the emulated ACPI timer instead
of directly using rdtsc().
- don't advertise the invariant TSC capability to the guest to discourage it
from using the TSC as its time base.
Discussed with: jhb@ (about making 'smp_tsc' a global)
Reported by: Dan Mack on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp
Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
decode. This is to accomodate hardware assist implementations that do not
provide the 'guest linear address' as part of nested page fault collateral.
Submitted by: Anish Gupta (akgupt3 at gmail dot com)
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
Rename the pv_entry_t iterator from pv_list to pv_next.
Besides being more correct technically (as the name seems to suggest
this is a list while it is an iterator), it will also be needed by
vm_radix work to avoid a nameclash on macro expansions.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
machine/signal.h and machine/ucontext.h into common x86 includes,
copying from amd64 and merging with i386.
Kernel-only compat definitions are kept in the i386/include/sigframe.h
and i386/include/signal.h, to reduce amd64 kernel namespace pollution.
The amd64 compat uses its own definitions so far.
The _MACHINE_ELF_WANT_32BIT definition is to allow the
sys/boot/userboot/userboot/elf32_freebsd.c to use i386 ELF definitions
on the amd64 compile host. The same hack could be usefully abused by
other code too.
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
This eliminates the need to recompile the kernel when the default value
of NKPT is not big enough - for e.g. when loading large kernel modules
or memory disk images from the loader.
If NKPT is defined in the kernel configuration file then it overrides the
dynamic calculation.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
- change 'pics' from STAILQ to TAILQ
- ensure that Local APIC is always first in 'pics'
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Sergey V. Dyatko <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>,
KAHO Toshikazu <kaho@elam.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
MFC after: 12 days
During the early days of bhyve it did not support instruction emulation
which necessitated the use of x2apic to access the local apic. This is no
longer the case and the dependency on x2apic has gone away.
The x2apic patches can be considered independently of bhyve and will be
merged into head via projects/x2apic.
Discussed with: grehan
Provide a tunable 'machdep.x2apic_desired' to let the administrator override
the default behavior.
Provide a read-only sysctl 'machdep.x2apic' to let the administrator know
whether the kernel is using x2apic or legacy mmio to access local apic.
Tested with Parallels Desktop 8 and bhyve hypervisors.
Also tested running on bare metal Intel Xeon E5-2658.
Obtained from: NetApp
Discussed with: jhb, attilio, avg, grehan
On a nested page table fault the hypervisor will:
- fetch the instruction using the guest %rip and %cr3
- decode the instruction in 'struct vie'
- emulate the instruction in host kernel context for local apic accesses
- any other type of mmio access is punted up to user-space (e.g. ioapic)
The decoded instruction is passed as collateral to the user-space process
that is handling the PAGING exit.
The emulation code is fleshed out to include more addressing modes (e.g. SIB)
and more types of operands (e.g. imm8). The source code is unified into a
single file (vmm_instruction_emul.c) that is compiled into vmm.ko as well
as /usr/sbin/bhyve.
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
introduced with the IvyBridge CPUs. Provide the definitions for new
bits in CR3 and CR4 registers.
Tested by: avg, Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
MFC after: 2 weeks
instruction loads/stores at its will.
The macro __compiler_membar() is currently supported for both gcc and
clang, but kernel compilation will fail otherwise.
Reviewed by: bde, kib
Discussed with: dim, theraven
MFC after: 2 weeks
r234247.
Use, instead, the static intializer introduced in r239923 for x86 and
sparc64 intr_cpus, unwinding the code to the initial version.
Reviewed by: marius
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.
This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.
In this case vm_malloc() was using vm_gpa2hpa() to indirectly infer whether
or not the address range had already been allocated.
Replace this instead with an explicit API 'vm_gpa_available()' that returns
TRUE if a page is available for allocation in guest physical address space.
bits under #ifdef _KERNEL but leave definitions for various structures
defined by standards ($PIR table, SMAP entries, etc.) available to
userland.
- Consolidate duplicate SMBIOS table structure definitions in ipmi(4)
and smbios(4) in <machine/pc/bios.h> and make them available to
userland.
MFC after: 2 weeks
AP needs to be activated by spinning up an execution context for it.
The local apic emulation is now completely done in the hypervisor and it will
detect writes to the ICR_LO register that try to bring up the AP. In response
to such writes it will return to userspace with an exit code of SPINUP_AP.
Reviewed by: grehan
