KVM: VMX: Enable io bitmaps to avoid IO port 0x80 VMEXITs
authorHe, Qing <qing.he@intel.com>
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:45:24 +0000 (09:45 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:05:37 +0000 (12:05 +0300)
This patch enables IO bitmaps control on vmx and unmask the 0x80 port to
avoid VMEXITs caused by accessing port 0x80. 0x80 is used as delays (see
include/asm/io.h), and handling VMEXITs on its access is unnecessary but
slows things down. This patch improves kernel build test at around
3%~5%.
Because every VM uses the same io bitmap, it is shared between
all VMs rather than a per-VM data structure.

Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
drivers/kvm/vmx.c

index c1ac106..52bd5f0 100644 (file)
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, vmxarea);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, current_vmcs);
 
+static struct page *vmx_io_bitmap_a;
+static struct page *vmx_io_bitmap_b;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 #define HOST_IS_64 1
 #else
@@ -1129,8 +1132,8 @@ static int vmx_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        vmcs_write32(GUEST_PENDING_DBG_EXCEPTIONS, 0);
 
        /* I/O */
-       vmcs_write64(IO_BITMAP_A, 0);
-       vmcs_write64(IO_BITMAP_B, 0);
+       vmcs_write64(IO_BITMAP_A, page_to_phys(vmx_io_bitmap_a));
+       vmcs_write64(IO_BITMAP_B, page_to_phys(vmx_io_bitmap_b));
 
        guest_write_tsc(0);
 
@@ -1150,7 +1153,7 @@ static int vmx_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
                               CPU_BASED_HLT_EXITING         /* 20.6.2 */
                               | CPU_BASED_CR8_LOAD_EXITING    /* 20.6.2 */
                               | CPU_BASED_CR8_STORE_EXITING   /* 20.6.2 */
-                              | CPU_BASED_UNCOND_IO_EXITING   /* 20.6.2 */
+                              | CPU_BASED_ACTIVATE_IO_BITMAP  /* 20.6.2 */
                               | CPU_BASED_MOV_DR_EXITING
                               | CPU_BASED_USE_TSC_OFFSETING   /* 21.3 */
                        );
@@ -2188,11 +2191,50 @@ static struct kvm_arch_ops vmx_arch_ops = {
 
 static int __init vmx_init(void)
 {
-       return kvm_init_arch(&vmx_arch_ops, THIS_MODULE);
+       void *iova;
+       int r;
+
+       vmx_io_bitmap_a = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+       if (!vmx_io_bitmap_a)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       vmx_io_bitmap_b = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+       if (!vmx_io_bitmap_b) {
+               r = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Allow direct access to the PC debug port (it is often used for I/O
+        * delays, but the vmexits simply slow things down).
+        */
+       iova = kmap(vmx_io_bitmap_a);
+       memset(iova, 0xff, PAGE_SIZE);
+       clear_bit(0x80, iova);
+       kunmap(iova);
+
+       iova = kmap(vmx_io_bitmap_b);
+       memset(iova, 0xff, PAGE_SIZE);
+       kunmap(iova);
+
+       r = kvm_init_arch(&vmx_arch_ops, THIS_MODULE);
+       if (r)
+               goto out1;
+
+       return 0;
+
+out1:
+       __free_page(vmx_io_bitmap_b);
+out:
+       __free_page(vmx_io_bitmap_a);
+       return r;
 }
 
 static void __exit vmx_exit(void)
 {
+       __free_page(vmx_io_bitmap_b);
+       __free_page(vmx_io_bitmap_a);
+
        kvm_exit_arch();
 }