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2009-05-20kvm: Add support for querying supported cpu featuresAvi Kivity1-0/+2
kvm does not support all cpu features; add support for dunamically querying the supported feature set. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-20Introduce kvm_check_extension to check if KVM extensions are supportedAnthony Liguori1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-05-01kvm: Avoid COW if KVM MMU is asynchronousJan Kiszka1-0/+2
Avi Kivity wrote: > Suggest wrapping in a function and hiding it deep inside kvm-all.c. > Done in v2: ----------> If the KVM MMU is asynchronous (kernel does not support MMU_NOTIFIER), we have to avoid COW for the guest memory. Otherwise we risk serious breakage when guest pages change there physical locations due to COW after fork. Seen when forking smbd during runtime via -smb. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-15kvm: sync vcpu state during initialization (Hollis Blanchard)aliguori1-0/+1
Currently on x86, qemu initializes CPUState but KVM ignores it and does its own vcpu initialization. However, PowerPC KVM needs to be able to set the initial register state to support the -kernel and -append options. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6060 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-12-09KVM: Coalesced MMIO supportaliguori1-0/+3
MMIO exits are more expensive in KVM or Xen than in QEMU because they involve, at least, privilege transitions. However, MMIO write operations can be effectively batched if those writes do not have side effects. Good examples of this include VGA pixel operations when in a planar mode. As it turns out, we can get a nice boost in other areas too. Laurent mentioned a 9.7% performance boost in iperf with the coalesced MMIO changes for the e1000 when he originally posted this work for KVM. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5961 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-12-04Add virtio-balloon supportaliguori1-0/+3
This adds a VirtIO based balloon driver. It uses madvise() to actually balloon the memory when possible. Until 2.6.27, KVM forced memory pinning so we must disable ballooning unless the kernel actually supports it when using KVM. It's always safe when using TCG. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5874 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-11-24kvm: Introduce kvm logging interface (Glauber Costa)aliguori1-0/+4
Introduce functions to control logging of memory regions. We select regions based on its start address, a guest_physical_addr (target_phys_addr_t, in qemu nomenclature). The main user of this interface right now is VGA optimization (a way of reducing the number of mmio exits). Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5792 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-11-13Define kvm_ioctl in the same way as ioctlaliguori1-3/+3
The third argument to ioctl is a ... which allows any value to be passed. In practice, glibc always treats the argument as a void *. Do the same thing for the kvm ioctls to keep things consistent with a traditional ioctl. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5715 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-11-05Add missing files to KVM commit.aliguori1-0/+68
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5629 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162