2 * A hypervisor allows multiple Operating Systems to run on a single machine.
3 * To quote David Wheeler: "Any problem in computer science can be solved with
4 * another layer of indirection."
6 * We keep things simple in two ways. First, we start with a normal Linux
7 * kernel and insert a module (lg.ko) which allows us to run other Linux
8 * kernels the same way we'd run processes. We call the first kernel the Host,
9 * and the others the Guests. The program which sets up and configures Guests
10 * (such as the example in Documentation/lguest/lguest.c) is called the
13 * Secondly, we only run specially modified Guests, not normal kernels: setting
14 * CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST to "y" compiles this file into the kernel so it knows
15 * how to be a Guest at boot time. This means that you can use the same kernel
16 * you boot normally (ie. as a Host) as a Guest.
18 * These Guests know that they cannot do privileged operations, such as disable
19 * interrupts, and that they have to ask the Host to do such things explicitly.
20 * This file consists of all the replacements for such low-level native
21 * hardware operations: these special Guest versions call the Host.
23 * So how does the kernel know it's a Guest? We'll see that later, but let's
24 * just say that we end up here where we replace the native functions various
25 * "paravirt" structures with our Guest versions, then boot like normal. :*/
28 * Copyright (C) 2006, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> IBM Corporation.
30 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
31 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
32 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
33 * (at your option) any later version.
35 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
36 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
37 * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
38 * NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
41 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
42 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
43 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
45 #include <linux/kernel.h>
46 #include <linux/start_kernel.h>
47 #include <linux/string.h>
48 #include <linux/console.h>
49 #include <linux/screen_info.h>
50 #include <linux/irq.h>
51 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
52 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
53 #include <linux/clockchips.h>
54 #include <linux/lguest.h>
55 #include <linux/lguest_launcher.h>
56 #include <linux/virtio_console.h>
58 #include <asm/lguest.h>
59 #include <asm/paravirt.h>
60 #include <asm/param.h>
62 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
64 #include <asm/setup.h>
69 #include <asm/reboot.h> /* for struct machine_ops */
71 /*G:010 Welcome to the Guest!
73 * The Guest in our tale is a simple creature: identical to the Host but
74 * behaving in simplified but equivalent ways. In particular, the Guest is the
75 * same kernel as the Host (or at least, built from the same source code). :*/
77 struct lguest_data lguest_data
= {
78 .hcall_status
= { [0 ... LHCALL_RING_SIZE
-1] = 0xFF },
79 .noirq_start
= (u32
)lguest_noirq_start
,
80 .noirq_end
= (u32
)lguest_noirq_end
,
81 .kernel_address
= PAGE_OFFSET
,
82 .blocked_interrupts
= { 1 }, /* Block timer interrupts */
83 .syscall_vec
= SYSCALL_VECTOR
,
86 /*G:037 async_hcall() is pretty simple: I'm quite proud of it really. We have a
87 * ring buffer of stored hypercalls which the Host will run though next time we
88 * do a normal hypercall. Each entry in the ring has 4 slots for the hypercall
89 * arguments, and a "hcall_status" word which is 0 if the call is ready to go,
90 * and 255 once the Host has finished with it.
92 * If we come around to a slot which hasn't been finished, then the table is
93 * full and we just make the hypercall directly. This has the nice side
94 * effect of causing the Host to run all the stored calls in the ring buffer
95 * which empties it for next time! */
96 static void async_hcall(unsigned long call
, unsigned long arg1
,
97 unsigned long arg2
, unsigned long arg3
)
99 /* Note: This code assumes we're uniprocessor. */
100 static unsigned int next_call
;
103 /* Disable interrupts if not already disabled: we don't want an
104 * interrupt handler making a hypercall while we're already doing
106 local_irq_save(flags
);
107 if (lguest_data
.hcall_status
[next_call
] != 0xFF) {
108 /* Table full, so do normal hcall which will flush table. */
109 hcall(call
, arg1
, arg2
, arg3
);
111 lguest_data
.hcalls
[next_call
].arg0
= call
;
112 lguest_data
.hcalls
[next_call
].arg1
= arg1
;
113 lguest_data
.hcalls
[next_call
].arg2
= arg2
;
114 lguest_data
.hcalls
[next_call
].arg3
= arg3
;
115 /* Arguments must all be written before we mark it to go */
117 lguest_data
.hcall_status
[next_call
] = 0;
118 if (++next_call
== LHCALL_RING_SIZE
)
121 local_irq_restore(flags
);
124 /*G:035 Notice the lazy_hcall() above, rather than hcall(). This is our first
125 * real optimization trick!
127 * When lazy_mode is set, it means we're allowed to defer all hypercalls and do
128 * them as a batch when lazy_mode is eventually turned off. Because hypercalls
129 * are reasonably expensive, batching them up makes sense. For example, a
130 * large munmap might update dozens of page table entries: that code calls
131 * paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(), does the dozen updates, then calls
132 * lguest_leave_lazy_mode().
134 * So, when we're in lazy mode, we call async_hcall() to store the call for
135 * future processing: */
136 static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call
,
141 if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE
)
142 hcall(call
, arg1
, arg2
, arg3
);
144 async_hcall(call
, arg1
, arg2
, arg3
);
147 /* When lazy mode is turned off reset the per-cpu lazy mode variable and then
148 * issue the do-nothing hypercall to flush any stored calls. */
149 static void lguest_leave_lazy_mode(void)
151 paravirt_leave_lazy(paravirt_get_lazy_mode());
152 hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC
, 0, 0, 0);
156 * After that diversion we return to our first native-instruction
157 * replacements: four functions for interrupt control.
159 * The simplest way of implementing these would be to have "turn interrupts
160 * off" and "turn interrupts on" hypercalls. Unfortunately, this is too slow:
161 * these are by far the most commonly called functions of those we override.
163 * So instead we keep an "irq_enabled" field inside our "struct lguest_data",
164 * which the Guest can update with a single instruction. The Host knows to
165 * check there before it tries to deliver an interrupt.
168 /* save_flags() is expected to return the processor state (ie. "flags"). The
169 * flags word contains all kind of stuff, but in practice Linux only cares
170 * about the interrupt flag. Our "save_flags()" just returns that. */
171 static unsigned long save_fl(void)
173 return lguest_data
.irq_enabled
;
176 /* restore_flags() just sets the flags back to the value given. */
177 static void restore_fl(unsigned long flags
)
179 lguest_data
.irq_enabled
= flags
;
182 /* Interrupts go off... */
183 static void irq_disable(void)
185 lguest_data
.irq_enabled
= 0;
188 /* Interrupts go on... */
189 static void irq_enable(void)
191 lguest_data
.irq_enabled
= X86_EFLAGS_IF
;
194 /*M:003 Note that we don't check for outstanding interrupts when we re-enable
195 * them (or when we unmask an interrupt). This seems to work for the moment,
196 * since interrupts are rare and we'll just get the interrupt on the next timer
197 * tick, but now we can run with CONFIG_NO_HZ, we should revisit this. One way
198 * would be to put the "irq_enabled" field in a page by itself, and have the
199 * Host write-protect it when an interrupt comes in when irqs are disabled.
200 * There will then be a page fault as soon as interrupts are re-enabled.
202 * A better method is to implement soft interrupt disable generally for x86:
203 * instead of disabling interrupts, we set a flag. If an interrupt does come
204 * in, we then disable them for real. This is uncommon, so we could simply use
205 * a hypercall for interrupt control and not worry about efficiency. :*/
208 * The Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT).
210 * The IDT tells the processor what to do when an interrupt comes in. Each
211 * entry in the table is a 64-bit descriptor: this holds the privilege level,
212 * address of the handler, and... well, who cares? The Guest just asks the
213 * Host to make the change anyway, because the Host controls the real IDT.
215 static void lguest_write_idt_entry(gate_desc
*dt
,
216 int entrynum
, const gate_desc
*g
)
218 /* The gate_desc structure is 8 bytes long: we hand it to the Host in
219 * two 32-bit chunks. The whole 32-bit kernel used to hand descriptors
220 * around like this; typesafety wasn't a big concern in Linux's early
222 u32
*desc
= (u32
*)g
;
223 /* Keep the local copy up to date. */
224 native_write_idt_entry(dt
, entrynum
, g
);
225 /* Tell Host about this new entry. */
226 hcall(LHCALL_LOAD_IDT_ENTRY
, entrynum
, desc
[0], desc
[1]);
229 /* Changing to a different IDT is very rare: we keep the IDT up-to-date every
230 * time it is written, so we can simply loop through all entries and tell the
231 * Host about them. */
232 static void lguest_load_idt(const struct desc_ptr
*desc
)
235 struct desc_struct
*idt
= (void *)desc
->address
;
237 for (i
= 0; i
< (desc
->size
+1)/8; i
++)
238 hcall(LHCALL_LOAD_IDT_ENTRY
, i
, idt
[i
].a
, idt
[i
].b
);
242 * The Global Descriptor Table.
244 * The Intel architecture defines another table, called the Global Descriptor
245 * Table (GDT). You tell the CPU where it is (and its size) using the "lgdt"
246 * instruction, and then several other instructions refer to entries in the
247 * table. There are three entries which the Switcher needs, so the Host simply
248 * controls the entire thing and the Guest asks it to make changes using the
249 * LOAD_GDT hypercall.
251 * This is the opposite of the IDT code where we have a LOAD_IDT_ENTRY
252 * hypercall and use that repeatedly to load a new IDT. I don't think it
253 * really matters, but wouldn't it be nice if they were the same? Wouldn't
254 * it be even better if you were the one to send the patch to fix it?
256 static void lguest_load_gdt(const struct desc_ptr
*desc
)
258 BUG_ON((desc
->size
+1)/8 != GDT_ENTRIES
);
259 hcall(LHCALL_LOAD_GDT
, __pa(desc
->address
), GDT_ENTRIES
, 0);
262 /* For a single GDT entry which changes, we do the lazy thing: alter our GDT,
263 * then tell the Host to reload the entire thing. This operation is so rare
264 * that this naive implementation is reasonable. */
265 static void lguest_write_gdt_entry(struct desc_struct
*dt
, int entrynum
,
266 const void *desc
, int type
)
268 native_write_gdt_entry(dt
, entrynum
, desc
, type
);
269 hcall(LHCALL_LOAD_GDT
, __pa(dt
), GDT_ENTRIES
, 0);
272 /* OK, I lied. There are three "thread local storage" GDT entries which change
273 * on every context switch (these three entries are how glibc implements
274 * __thread variables). So we have a hypercall specifically for this case. */
275 static void lguest_load_tls(struct thread_struct
*t
, unsigned int cpu
)
277 /* There's one problem which normal hardware doesn't have: the Host
278 * can't handle us removing entries we're currently using. So we clear
279 * the GS register here: if it's needed it'll be reloaded anyway. */
281 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_LOAD_TLS
, __pa(&t
->tls_array
), cpu
, 0);
284 /*G:038 That's enough excitement for now, back to ploughing through each of
285 * the different pv_ops structures (we're about 1/3 of the way through).
287 * This is the Local Descriptor Table, another weird Intel thingy. Linux only
288 * uses this for some strange applications like Wine. We don't do anything
289 * here, so they'll get an informative and friendly Segmentation Fault. */
290 static void lguest_set_ldt(const void *addr
, unsigned entries
)
294 /* This loads a GDT entry into the "Task Register": that entry points to a
295 * structure called the Task State Segment. Some comments scattered though the
296 * kernel code indicate that this used for task switching in ages past, along
297 * with blood sacrifice and astrology.
299 * Now there's nothing interesting in here that we don't get told elsewhere.
300 * But the native version uses the "ltr" instruction, which makes the Host
301 * complain to the Guest about a Segmentation Fault and it'll oops. So we
302 * override the native version with a do-nothing version. */
303 static void lguest_load_tr_desc(void)
307 /* The "cpuid" instruction is a way of querying both the CPU identity
308 * (manufacturer, model, etc) and its features. It was introduced before the
309 * Pentium in 1993 and keeps getting extended by both Intel, AMD and others.
310 * As you might imagine, after a decade and a half this treatment, it is now a
311 * giant ball of hair. Its entry in the current Intel manual runs to 28 pages.
313 * This instruction even it has its own Wikipedia entry. The Wikipedia entry
314 * has been translated into 4 languages. I am not making this up!
316 * We could get funky here and identify ourselves as "GenuineLguest", but
317 * instead we just use the real "cpuid" instruction. Then I pretty much turned
318 * off feature bits until the Guest booted. (Don't say that: you'll damage
319 * lguest sales!) Shut up, inner voice! (Hey, just pointing out that this is
320 * hardly future proof.) Noone's listening! They don't like you anyway,
321 * parenthetic weirdo!
323 * Replacing the cpuid so we can turn features off is great for the kernel, but
324 * anyone (including userspace) can just use the raw "cpuid" instruction and
325 * the Host won't even notice since it isn't privileged. So we try not to get
326 * too worked up about it. */
327 static void lguest_cpuid(unsigned int *ax
, unsigned int *bx
,
328 unsigned int *cx
, unsigned int *dx
)
332 native_cpuid(ax
, bx
, cx
, dx
);
334 case 1: /* Basic feature request. */
335 /* We only allow kernel to see SSE3, CMPXCHG16B and SSSE3 */
337 /* SSE, SSE2, FXSR, MMX, CMOV, CMPXCHG8B, TSC, FPU. */
339 /* The Host can do a nice optimization if it knows that the
340 * kernel mappings (addresses above 0xC0000000 or whatever
341 * PAGE_OFFSET is set to) haven't changed. But Linux calls
342 * flush_tlb_user() for both user and kernel mappings unless
343 * the Page Global Enable (PGE) feature bit is set. */
347 /* Futureproof this a little: if they ask how much extended
348 * processor information there is, limit it to known fields. */
349 if (*ax
> 0x80000008)
355 /* Intel has four control registers, imaginatively named cr0, cr2, cr3 and cr4.
356 * I assume there's a cr1, but it hasn't bothered us yet, so we'll not bother
357 * it. The Host needs to know when the Guest wants to change them, so we have
358 * a whole series of functions like read_cr0() and write_cr0().
360 * We start with cr0. cr0 allows you to turn on and off all kinds of basic
361 * features, but Linux only really cares about one: the horrifically-named Task
362 * Switched (TS) bit at bit 3 (ie. 8)
364 * What does the TS bit do? Well, it causes the CPU to trap (interrupt 7) if
365 * the floating point unit is used. Which allows us to restore FPU state
366 * lazily after a task switch, and Linux uses that gratefully, but wouldn't a
367 * name like "FPUTRAP bit" be a little less cryptic?
369 * We store cr0 (and cr3) locally, because the Host never changes it. The
370 * Guest sometimes wants to read it and we'd prefer not to bother the Host
372 static unsigned long current_cr0
, current_cr3
;
373 static void lguest_write_cr0(unsigned long val
)
375 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_TS
, val
& X86_CR0_TS
, 0, 0);
379 static unsigned long lguest_read_cr0(void)
384 /* Intel provided a special instruction to clear the TS bit for people too cool
385 * to use write_cr0() to do it. This "clts" instruction is faster, because all
386 * the vowels have been optimized out. */
387 static void lguest_clts(void)
389 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_TS
, 0, 0, 0);
390 current_cr0
&= ~X86_CR0_TS
;
393 /* cr2 is the virtual address of the last page fault, which the Guest only ever
394 * reads. The Host kindly writes this into our "struct lguest_data", so we
395 * just read it out of there. */
396 static unsigned long lguest_read_cr2(void)
398 return lguest_data
.cr2
;
401 /* cr3 is the current toplevel pagetable page: the principle is the same as
402 * cr0. Keep a local copy, and tell the Host when it changes. */
403 static void lguest_write_cr3(unsigned long cr3
)
405 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE
, cr3
, 0, 0);
409 static unsigned long lguest_read_cr3(void)
414 /* cr4 is used to enable and disable PGE, but we don't care. */
415 static unsigned long lguest_read_cr4(void)
420 static void lguest_write_cr4(unsigned long val
)
425 * Page Table Handling.
427 * Now would be a good time to take a rest and grab a coffee or similarly
428 * relaxing stimulant. The easy parts are behind us, and the trek gradually
429 * winds uphill from here.
431 * Quick refresher: memory is divided into "pages" of 4096 bytes each. The CPU
432 * maps virtual addresses to physical addresses using "page tables". We could
433 * use one huge index of 1 million entries: each address is 4 bytes, so that's
434 * 1024 pages just to hold the page tables. But since most virtual addresses
435 * are unused, we use a two level index which saves space. The cr3 register
436 * contains the physical address of the top level "page directory" page, which
437 * contains physical addresses of up to 1024 second-level pages. Each of these
438 * second level pages contains up to 1024 physical addresses of actual pages,
439 * or Page Table Entries (PTEs).
441 * Here's a diagram, where arrows indicate physical addresses:
443 * cr3 ---> +---------+
444 * | --------->+---------+
446 * Top-level | | PADDR2 |
453 * So to convert a virtual address to a physical address, we look up the top
454 * level, which points us to the second level, which gives us the physical
455 * address of that page. If the top level entry was not present, or the second
456 * level entry was not present, then the virtual address is invalid (we
457 * say "the page was not mapped").
459 * Put another way, a 32-bit virtual address is divided up like so:
461 * 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
462 * |<---- 10 bits ---->|<---- 10 bits ---->|<------ 12 bits ------>|
463 * Index into top Index into second Offset within page
464 * page directory page pagetable page
466 * The kernel spends a lot of time changing both the top-level page directory
467 * and lower-level pagetable pages. The Guest doesn't know physical addresses,
468 * so while it maintains these page tables exactly like normal, it also needs
469 * to keep the Host informed whenever it makes a change: the Host will create
470 * the real page tables based on the Guests'.
473 /* The Guest calls this to set a second-level entry (pte), ie. to map a page
474 * into a process' address space. We set the entry then tell the Host the
475 * toplevel and address this corresponds to. The Guest uses one pagetable per
476 * process, so we need to tell the Host which one we're changing (mm->pgd). */
477 static void lguest_set_pte_at(struct mm_struct
*mm
, unsigned long addr
,
478 pte_t
*ptep
, pte_t pteval
)
481 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PTE
, __pa(mm
->pgd
), addr
, pteval
.pte_low
);
484 /* The Guest calls this to set a top-level entry. Again, we set the entry then
485 * tell the Host which top-level page we changed, and the index of the entry we
487 static void lguest_set_pmd(pmd_t
*pmdp
, pmd_t pmdval
)
490 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PMD
, __pa(pmdp
)&PAGE_MASK
,
491 (__pa(pmdp
)&(PAGE_SIZE
-1))/4, 0);
494 /* There are a couple of legacy places where the kernel sets a PTE, but we
495 * don't know the top level any more. This is useless for us, since we don't
496 * know which pagetable is changing or what address, so we just tell the Host
497 * to forget all of them. Fortunately, this is very rare.
499 * ... except in early boot when the kernel sets up the initial pagetables,
500 * which makes booting astonishingly slow. So we don't even tell the Host
501 * anything changed until we've done the first page table switch. */
502 static void lguest_set_pte(pte_t
*ptep
, pte_t pteval
)
505 /* Don't bother with hypercall before initial setup. */
507 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_TLB
, 1, 0, 0);
510 /* Unfortunately for Lguest, the pv_mmu_ops for page tables were based on
511 * native page table operations. On native hardware you can set a new page
512 * table entry whenever you want, but if you want to remove one you have to do
513 * a TLB flush (a TLB is a little cache of page table entries kept by the CPU).
515 * So the lguest_set_pte_at() and lguest_set_pmd() functions above are only
516 * called when a valid entry is written, not when it's removed (ie. marked not
517 * present). Instead, this is where we come when the Guest wants to remove a
518 * page table entry: we tell the Host to set that entry to 0 (ie. the present
520 static void lguest_flush_tlb_single(unsigned long addr
)
522 /* Simply set it to zero: if it was not, it will fault back in. */
523 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PTE
, current_cr3
, addr
, 0);
526 /* This is what happens after the Guest has removed a large number of entries.
527 * This tells the Host that any of the page table entries for userspace might
528 * have changed, ie. virtual addresses below PAGE_OFFSET. */
529 static void lguest_flush_tlb_user(void)
531 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_TLB
, 0, 0, 0);
534 /* This is called when the kernel page tables have changed. That's not very
535 * common (unless the Guest is using highmem, which makes the Guest extremely
536 * slow), so it's worth separating this from the user flushing above. */
537 static void lguest_flush_tlb_kernel(void)
539 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_TLB
, 1, 0, 0);
543 * The Unadvanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.
545 * This is an attempt to implement the simplest possible interrupt controller.
546 * I spent some time looking though routines like set_irq_chip_and_handler,
547 * set_irq_chip_and_handler_name, set_irq_chip_data and set_phasers_to_stun and
548 * I *think* this is as simple as it gets.
550 * We can tell the Host what interrupts we want blocked ready for using the
551 * lguest_data.interrupts bitmap, so disabling (aka "masking") them is as
552 * simple as setting a bit. We don't actually "ack" interrupts as such, we
553 * just mask and unmask them. I wonder if we should be cleverer?
555 static void disable_lguest_irq(unsigned int irq
)
557 set_bit(irq
, lguest_data
.blocked_interrupts
);
560 static void enable_lguest_irq(unsigned int irq
)
562 clear_bit(irq
, lguest_data
.blocked_interrupts
);
565 /* This structure describes the lguest IRQ controller. */
566 static struct irq_chip lguest_irq_controller
= {
568 .mask
= disable_lguest_irq
,
569 .mask_ack
= disable_lguest_irq
,
570 .unmask
= enable_lguest_irq
,
573 /* This sets up the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) entry for each hardware
574 * interrupt (except 128, which is used for system calls), and then tells the
575 * Linux infrastructure that each interrupt is controlled by our level-based
576 * lguest interrupt controller. */
577 static void __init
lguest_init_IRQ(void)
581 for (i
= 0; i
< LGUEST_IRQS
; i
++) {
582 int vector
= FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR
+ i
;
583 if (vector
!= SYSCALL_VECTOR
) {
584 set_intr_gate(vector
, interrupt
[i
]);
585 set_irq_chip_and_handler(i
, &lguest_irq_controller
,
589 /* This call is required to set up for 4k stacks, where we have
590 * separate stacks for hard and soft interrupts. */
591 irq_ctx_init(smp_processor_id());
597 * It would be far better for everyone if the Guest had its own clock, but
598 * until then the Host gives us the time on every interrupt.
600 static unsigned long lguest_get_wallclock(void)
602 return lguest_data
.time
.tv_sec
;
605 /* The TSC is an Intel thing called the Time Stamp Counter. The Host tells us
606 * what speed it runs at, or 0 if it's unusable as a reliable clock source.
607 * This matches what we want here: if we return 0 from this function, the x86
608 * TSC clock will give up and not register itself. */
609 static unsigned long lguest_cpu_khz(void)
611 return lguest_data
.tsc_khz
;
614 /* If we can't use the TSC, the kernel falls back to our lower-priority
615 * "lguest_clock", where we read the time value given to us by the Host. */
616 static cycle_t
lguest_clock_read(void)
618 unsigned long sec
, nsec
;
620 /* Since the time is in two parts (seconds and nanoseconds), we risk
621 * reading it just as it's changing from 99 & 0.999999999 to 100 and 0,
622 * and getting 99 and 0. As Linux tends to come apart under the stress
623 * of time travel, we must be careful: */
625 /* First we read the seconds part. */
626 sec
= lguest_data
.time
.tv_sec
;
627 /* This read memory barrier tells the compiler and the CPU that
628 * this can't be reordered: we have to complete the above
629 * before going on. */
631 /* Now we read the nanoseconds part. */
632 nsec
= lguest_data
.time
.tv_nsec
;
633 /* Make sure we've done that. */
635 /* Now if the seconds part has changed, try again. */
636 } while (unlikely(lguest_data
.time
.tv_sec
!= sec
));
638 /* Our lguest clock is in real nanoseconds. */
639 return sec
*1000000000ULL + nsec
;
642 /* This is the fallback clocksource: lower priority than the TSC clocksource. */
643 static struct clocksource lguest_clock
= {
646 .read
= lguest_clock_read
,
647 .mask
= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
650 .flags
= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS
,
653 /* We also need a "struct clock_event_device": Linux asks us to set it to go
654 * off some time in the future. Actually, James Morris figured all this out, I
655 * just applied the patch. */
656 static int lguest_clockevent_set_next_event(unsigned long delta
,
657 struct clock_event_device
*evt
)
659 /* FIXME: I don't think this can ever happen, but James tells me he had
660 * to put this code in. Maybe we should remove it now. Anyone? */
661 if (delta
< LG_CLOCK_MIN_DELTA
) {
662 if (printk_ratelimit())
663 printk(KERN_DEBUG
"%s: small delta %lu ns\n",
668 /* Please wake us this far in the future. */
669 hcall(LHCALL_SET_CLOCKEVENT
, delta
, 0, 0);
673 static void lguest_clockevent_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode
,
674 struct clock_event_device
*evt
)
677 case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED
:
678 case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN
:
679 /* A 0 argument shuts the clock down. */
680 hcall(LHCALL_SET_CLOCKEVENT
, 0, 0, 0);
682 case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT
:
683 /* This is what we expect. */
685 case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC
:
687 case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_RESUME
:
692 /* This describes our primitive timer chip. */
693 static struct clock_event_device lguest_clockevent
= {
695 .features
= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT
,
696 .set_next_event
= lguest_clockevent_set_next_event
,
697 .set_mode
= lguest_clockevent_set_mode
,
701 .min_delta_ns
= LG_CLOCK_MIN_DELTA
,
702 .max_delta_ns
= LG_CLOCK_MAX_DELTA
,
705 /* This is the Guest timer interrupt handler (hardware interrupt 0). We just
706 * call the clockevent infrastructure and it does whatever needs doing. */
707 static void lguest_time_irq(unsigned int irq
, struct irq_desc
*desc
)
711 /* Don't interrupt us while this is running. */
712 local_irq_save(flags
);
713 lguest_clockevent
.event_handler(&lguest_clockevent
);
714 local_irq_restore(flags
);
717 /* At some point in the boot process, we get asked to set up our timing
718 * infrastructure. The kernel doesn't expect timer interrupts before this, but
719 * we cleverly initialized the "blocked_interrupts" field of "struct
720 * lguest_data" so that timer interrupts were blocked until now. */
721 static void lguest_time_init(void)
723 /* Set up the timer interrupt (0) to go to our simple timer routine */
724 set_irq_handler(0, lguest_time_irq
);
726 clocksource_register(&lguest_clock
);
728 /* We can't set cpumask in the initializer: damn C limitations! Set it
729 * here and register our timer device. */
730 lguest_clockevent
.cpumask
= cpumask_of_cpu(0);
731 clockevents_register_device(&lguest_clockevent
);
733 /* Finally, we unblock the timer interrupt. */
734 enable_lguest_irq(0);
738 * Miscellaneous bits and pieces.
740 * Here is an oddball collection of functions which the Guest needs for things
741 * to work. They're pretty simple.
744 /* The Guest needs to tell the Host what stack it expects traps to use. For
745 * native hardware, this is part of the Task State Segment mentioned above in
746 * lguest_load_tr_desc(), but to help hypervisors there's this special call.
748 * We tell the Host the segment we want to use (__KERNEL_DS is the kernel data
749 * segment), the privilege level (we're privilege level 1, the Host is 0 and
750 * will not tolerate us trying to use that), the stack pointer, and the number
751 * of pages in the stack. */
752 static void lguest_load_sp0(struct tss_struct
*tss
,
753 struct thread_struct
*thread
)
755 lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_STACK
, __KERNEL_DS
|0x1, thread
->sp0
,
756 THREAD_SIZE
/PAGE_SIZE
);
759 /* Let's just say, I wouldn't do debugging under a Guest. */
760 static void lguest_set_debugreg(int regno
, unsigned long value
)
762 /* FIXME: Implement */
765 /* There are times when the kernel wants to make sure that no memory writes are
766 * caught in the cache (that they've all reached real hardware devices). This
767 * doesn't matter for the Guest which has virtual hardware.
769 * On the Pentium 4 and above, cpuid() indicates that the Cache Line Flush
770 * (clflush) instruction is available and the kernel uses that. Otherwise, it
771 * uses the older "Write Back and Invalidate Cache" (wbinvd) instruction.
772 * Unlike clflush, wbinvd can only be run at privilege level 0. So we can
773 * ignore clflush, but replace wbinvd.
775 static void lguest_wbinvd(void)
779 /* If the Guest expects to have an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller,
780 * we play dumb by ignoring writes and returning 0 for reads. So it's no
781 * longer Programmable nor Controlling anything, and I don't think 8 lines of
782 * code qualifies for Advanced. It will also never interrupt anything. It
783 * does, however, allow us to get through the Linux boot code. */
784 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
785 static void lguest_apic_write(unsigned long reg
, u32 v
)
789 static u32
lguest_apic_read(unsigned long reg
)
795 /* STOP! Until an interrupt comes in. */
796 static void lguest_safe_halt(void)
798 hcall(LHCALL_HALT
, 0, 0, 0);
801 /* The SHUTDOWN hypercall takes a string to describe what's happening, and
802 * an argument which says whether this to restart (reboot) the Guest or not.
804 * Note that the Host always prefers that the Guest speak in physical addresses
805 * rather than virtual addresses, so we use __pa() here. */
806 static void lguest_power_off(void)
808 hcall(LHCALL_SHUTDOWN
, __pa("Power down"), LGUEST_SHUTDOWN_POWEROFF
, 0);
814 * Don't. But if you did, this is what happens.
816 static int lguest_panic(struct notifier_block
*nb
, unsigned long l
, void *p
)
818 hcall(LHCALL_SHUTDOWN
, __pa(p
), LGUEST_SHUTDOWN_POWEROFF
, 0);
819 /* The hcall won't return, but to keep gcc happy, we're "done". */
823 static struct notifier_block paniced
= {
824 .notifier_call
= lguest_panic
827 /* Setting up memory is fairly easy. */
828 static __init
char *lguest_memory_setup(void)
830 /* We do this here and not earlier because lockcheck used to barf if we
831 * did it before start_kernel(). I think we fixed that, so it'd be
832 * nice to move it back to lguest_init. Patch welcome... */
833 atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list
, &paniced
);
835 /* The Linux bootloader header contains an "e820" memory map: the
836 * Launcher populated the first entry with our memory limit. */
837 add_memory_region(boot_params
.e820_map
[0].addr
,
838 boot_params
.e820_map
[0].size
,
839 boot_params
.e820_map
[0].type
);
841 /* This string is for the boot messages. */
845 /* We will eventually use the virtio console device to produce console output,
846 * but before that is set up we use LHCALL_NOTIFY on normal memory to produce
848 static __init
int early_put_chars(u32 vtermno
, const char *buf
, int count
)
851 unsigned int len
= count
;
853 /* We use a nul-terminated string, so we have to make a copy. Icky,
855 if (len
> sizeof(scratch
) - 1)
856 len
= sizeof(scratch
) - 1;
858 memcpy(scratch
, buf
, len
);
859 hcall(LHCALL_NOTIFY
, __pa(scratch
), 0, 0);
861 /* This routine returns the number of bytes actually written. */
865 /* Rebooting also tells the Host we're finished, but the RESTART flag tells the
866 * Launcher to reboot us. */
867 static void lguest_restart(char *reason
)
869 hcall(LHCALL_SHUTDOWN
, __pa(reason
), LGUEST_SHUTDOWN_RESTART
, 0);
873 * Patching (Powerfully Placating Performance Pedants)
875 * We have already seen that pv_ops structures let us replace simple native
876 * instructions with calls to the appropriate back end all throughout the
877 * kernel. This allows the same kernel to run as a Guest and as a native
878 * kernel, but it's slow because of all the indirect branches.
880 * Remember that David Wheeler quote about "Any problem in computer science can
881 * be solved with another layer of indirection"? The rest of that quote is
882 * "... But that usually will create another problem." This is the first of
885 * Our current solution is to allow the paravirt back end to optionally patch
886 * over the indirect calls to replace them with something more efficient. We
887 * patch the four most commonly called functions: disable interrupts, enable
888 * interrupts, restore interrupts and save interrupts. We usually have 6 or 10
889 * bytes to patch into: the Guest versions of these operations are small enough
890 * that we can fit comfortably.
892 * First we need assembly templates of each of the patchable Guest operations,
893 * and these are in lguest_asm.S. */
895 /*G:060 We construct a table from the assembler templates: */
896 static const struct lguest_insns
898 const char *start
, *end
;
900 [PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_irq_ops
.irq_disable
)] = { lgstart_cli
, lgend_cli
},
901 [PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_irq_ops
.irq_enable
)] = { lgstart_sti
, lgend_sti
},
902 [PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_irq_ops
.restore_fl
)] = { lgstart_popf
, lgend_popf
},
903 [PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_irq_ops
.save_fl
)] = { lgstart_pushf
, lgend_pushf
},
906 /* Now our patch routine is fairly simple (based on the native one in
907 * paravirt.c). If we have a replacement, we copy it in and return how much of
908 * the available space we used. */
909 static unsigned lguest_patch(u8 type
, u16 clobber
, void *ibuf
,
910 unsigned long addr
, unsigned len
)
912 unsigned int insn_len
;
914 /* Don't do anything special if we don't have a replacement */
915 if (type
>= ARRAY_SIZE(lguest_insns
) || !lguest_insns
[type
].start
)
916 return paravirt_patch_default(type
, clobber
, ibuf
, addr
, len
);
918 insn_len
= lguest_insns
[type
].end
- lguest_insns
[type
].start
;
920 /* Similarly if we can't fit replacement (shouldn't happen, but let's
923 return paravirt_patch_default(type
, clobber
, ibuf
, addr
, len
);
925 /* Copy in our instructions. */
926 memcpy(ibuf
, lguest_insns
[type
].start
, insn_len
);
930 /*G:030 Once we get to lguest_init(), we know we're a Guest. The various
931 * pv_ops structures in the kernel provide points for (almost) every routine we
932 * have to override to avoid privileged instructions. */
933 __init
void lguest_init(void)
935 /* We're under lguest, paravirt is enabled, and we're running at
936 * privilege level 1, not 0 as normal. */
937 pv_info
.name
= "lguest";
938 pv_info
.paravirt_enabled
= 1;
939 pv_info
.kernel_rpl
= 1;
941 /* We set up all the lguest overrides for sensitive operations. These
942 * are detailed with the operations themselves. */
944 /* interrupt-related operations */
945 pv_irq_ops
.init_IRQ
= lguest_init_IRQ
;
946 pv_irq_ops
.save_fl
= save_fl
;
947 pv_irq_ops
.restore_fl
= restore_fl
;
948 pv_irq_ops
.irq_disable
= irq_disable
;
949 pv_irq_ops
.irq_enable
= irq_enable
;
950 pv_irq_ops
.safe_halt
= lguest_safe_halt
;
952 /* init-time operations */
953 pv_init_ops
.memory_setup
= lguest_memory_setup
;
954 pv_init_ops
.patch
= lguest_patch
;
956 /* Intercepts of various cpu instructions */
957 pv_cpu_ops
.load_gdt
= lguest_load_gdt
;
958 pv_cpu_ops
.cpuid
= lguest_cpuid
;
959 pv_cpu_ops
.load_idt
= lguest_load_idt
;
960 pv_cpu_ops
.iret
= lguest_iret
;
961 pv_cpu_ops
.load_sp0
= lguest_load_sp0
;
962 pv_cpu_ops
.load_tr_desc
= lguest_load_tr_desc
;
963 pv_cpu_ops
.set_ldt
= lguest_set_ldt
;
964 pv_cpu_ops
.load_tls
= lguest_load_tls
;
965 pv_cpu_ops
.set_debugreg
= lguest_set_debugreg
;
966 pv_cpu_ops
.clts
= lguest_clts
;
967 pv_cpu_ops
.read_cr0
= lguest_read_cr0
;
968 pv_cpu_ops
.write_cr0
= lguest_write_cr0
;
969 pv_cpu_ops
.read_cr4
= lguest_read_cr4
;
970 pv_cpu_ops
.write_cr4
= lguest_write_cr4
;
971 pv_cpu_ops
.write_gdt_entry
= lguest_write_gdt_entry
;
972 pv_cpu_ops
.write_idt_entry
= lguest_write_idt_entry
;
973 pv_cpu_ops
.wbinvd
= lguest_wbinvd
;
974 pv_cpu_ops
.lazy_mode
.enter
= paravirt_enter_lazy_cpu
;
975 pv_cpu_ops
.lazy_mode
.leave
= lguest_leave_lazy_mode
;
977 /* pagetable management */
978 pv_mmu_ops
.write_cr3
= lguest_write_cr3
;
979 pv_mmu_ops
.flush_tlb_user
= lguest_flush_tlb_user
;
980 pv_mmu_ops
.flush_tlb_single
= lguest_flush_tlb_single
;
981 pv_mmu_ops
.flush_tlb_kernel
= lguest_flush_tlb_kernel
;
982 pv_mmu_ops
.set_pte
= lguest_set_pte
;
983 pv_mmu_ops
.set_pte_at
= lguest_set_pte_at
;
984 pv_mmu_ops
.set_pmd
= lguest_set_pmd
;
985 pv_mmu_ops
.read_cr2
= lguest_read_cr2
;
986 pv_mmu_ops
.read_cr3
= lguest_read_cr3
;
987 pv_mmu_ops
.lazy_mode
.enter
= paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu
;
988 pv_mmu_ops
.lazy_mode
.leave
= lguest_leave_lazy_mode
;
990 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
991 /* apic read/write intercepts */
992 pv_apic_ops
.apic_write
= lguest_apic_write
;
993 pv_apic_ops
.apic_write_atomic
= lguest_apic_write
;
994 pv_apic_ops
.apic_read
= lguest_apic_read
;
997 /* time operations */
998 pv_time_ops
.get_wallclock
= lguest_get_wallclock
;
999 pv_time_ops
.time_init
= lguest_time_init
;
1000 pv_time_ops
.get_cpu_khz
= lguest_cpu_khz
;
1002 /* Now is a good time to look at the implementations of these functions
1003 * before returning to the rest of lguest_init(). */
1005 /*G:070 Now we've seen all the paravirt_ops, we return to
1006 * lguest_init() where the rest of the fairly chaotic boot setup
1009 /* The native boot code sets up initial page tables immediately after
1010 * the kernel itself, and sets init_pg_tables_end so they're not
1011 * clobbered. The Launcher places our initial pagetables somewhere at
1012 * the top of our physical memory, so we don't need extra space: set
1013 * init_pg_tables_end to the end of the kernel. */
1014 init_pg_tables_end
= __pa(pg0
);
1016 /* Load the %fs segment register (the per-cpu segment register) with
1017 * the normal data segment to get through booting. */
1018 asm volatile ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "r" (__KERNEL_DS
) : "memory");
1020 /* The Host<->Guest Switcher lives at the top of our address space, and
1021 * the Host told us how big it is when we made LGUEST_INIT hypercall:
1022 * it put the answer in lguest_data.reserve_mem */
1023 reserve_top_address(lguest_data
.reserve_mem
);
1025 /* If we don't initialize the lock dependency checker now, it crashes
1026 * paravirt_disable_iospace. */
1029 /* The IDE code spends about 3 seconds probing for disks: if we reserve
1030 * all the I/O ports up front it can't get them and so doesn't probe.
1031 * Other device drivers are similar (but less severe). This cuts the
1032 * kernel boot time on my machine from 4.1 seconds to 0.45 seconds. */
1033 paravirt_disable_iospace();
1035 /* This is messy CPU setup stuff which the native boot code does before
1036 * start_kernel, so we have to do, too: */
1037 cpu_detect(&new_cpu_data
);
1038 /* head.S usually sets up the first capability word, so do it here. */
1039 new_cpu_data
.x86_capability
[0] = cpuid_edx(1);
1041 /* Math is always hard! */
1042 new_cpu_data
.hard_math
= 1;
1044 /* We don't have features. We have puppies! Puppies! */
1045 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
1053 /* We set the perferred console to "hvc". This is the "hypervisor
1054 * virtual console" driver written by the PowerPC people, which we also
1055 * adapted for lguest's use. */
1056 add_preferred_console("hvc", 0, NULL
);
1058 /* Register our very early console. */
1059 virtio_cons_early_init(early_put_chars
);
1061 /* Last of all, we set the power management poweroff hook to point to
1062 * the Guest routine to power off, and the reboot hook to our restart
1064 pm_power_off
= lguest_power_off
;
1065 machine_ops
.restart
= lguest_restart
;
1067 /* Now we're set up, call start_kernel() in init/main.c and we proceed
1068 * to boot as normal. It never returns. */
1072 * This marks the end of stage II of our journey, The Guest.
1074 * It is now time for us to explore the layer of virtual drivers and complete
1075 * our understanding of the Guest in "make Drivers".