In the context of VFIO, we use Vt-d, which means we rely on an IOMMU.
Depending on the IOMMU capability, and in particular if it is not able
to perform SC (Snooping Control), the memory will not be tagged as WB
by KVM, but instead the vCPU will rely on its MTRR/PAT MSRs to find the
appropriate way of interact with specific memory regions.
Because when Vt-d is not involved KVM sets the memory as WB (write-back)
the VMM should set the memory default as WB. That's why this patch sets
the MSR MTRRdefType with the default memory type being WB.
One thing that it is worth noting is that we might have to specifically
create some UC (uncacheable) regions if we see some issues with the
ranges corresponding to the MMIO ranges that should trap.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
We add a Reserved region type at the end of the memory hole to prevent
32-bit devices allocations to overlap with architectural address ranges
like IOAPIC, TSS or APIC ones.
Eventually we should remove that reserved range by allocating all the
architectural ranges before letting 32-bit devices use the memory hole.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
We want to be able to differentiate between memory regions that must be
managed separately from the main address space (e.g. the 32-bit memory
hole) and ones that are reserved (i.e. from which we don't want to allow
the VMM to allocate address ranges.
We are going to use a reserved memory region for restricting the 32-bit
memory hole from expanding beyond the IOAPIC and TSS addresses.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
With this new AddressAllocator as part of the SystemAllocator, the
VMM can now decide with finer granularity where to place memory.
By allocating the RAM and the hole into the MMIO address space, we
ensure that no memory will be allocated by accident where the RAM or
where the hole is.
And by creating the new MMIO hole address space, we create a subset
of the entire MMIO address space where we can place 32 bits BARs for
example.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
With the adoption for rust-vmm linux-loader crate some small changes
were needed to update the unit tests to reflect this change:
* configure_system now takes an extra parameter
* the e820 entry structure comes from the linux-loader crate
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
VMM may load different format kernel image to start guest, we currently
only have elf loader support, so add bzimage loader support in case
that VMM would like to load bzimage.
Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@intel.com>
In order to have access to the newly added signal_msi() function
from the kvm-ioctls crate, this commit updates the version of the
kvm-ioctls to the latest one.
Because set_user_memory_region() has been swtiched to "unsafe", we
also need to handle this small change in our cloud-hypervisor code
directly.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Add the BSD and Apache license.
Make all crosvm references point to the BSD license.
Add the right copyrights and identifier to our VMM code.
Add Intel copyright to the vm-virtio and pci crates.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Both crates are based on Firecracker commit 9cdb5b2.
They are ported to the new memory model and tests have been fixed
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
