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Revision tags: release/14.0.0
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix

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Revision tags: release/13.2.0, release/12.4.0, release/13.1.0, release/12.3.0, release/13.0.0, release/12.2.0, release/11.4.0, release/12.1.0, release/11.3.0, release/12.0.0, release/11.2.0
# c49761dd 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/amd64: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - err

sys/amd64: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

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Revision tags: release/10.4.0, release/11.1.0, release/11.0.1, release/11.0.0, release/10.3.0, release/10.2.0, release/10.1.0, release/9.3.0
# 6cec9cad 03-Jun-2014 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

MFC @ r266724

An SVM update will follow this.


# 3b8f0845 28-Apr-2014 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head


# 84e51a1b 23-Apr-2014 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @264767


# 5748b897 19-Feb-2014 Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head up to r262222 (last merge was incomplete).


Revision tags: release/10.0.0
# e01ff621 09-Jan-2014 Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>

MFH: tracking commit (head@r260486)

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# add611fd 09-Jan-2014 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

Don't expose 'vmm_ipinum' as a global.


# d8ced945 18-Dec-2013 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

MFC @ r256071

This is the change where the bhyve_npt_pmap branch was
merged in to head.

The SVM changes to work with this will be in a follow-on
submit.


# 0bfd163f 18-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head r233826 through r256722.


# 3caf0790 13-Oct-2013 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head@256284


# 1ccca3b5 10-Oct-2013 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @256277

Approved by: ken (mentor)


# 12babbf2 06-Oct-2013 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

MFC - tracking commit


# 318224bb 05-Oct-2013 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.

Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal wi

Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.

Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.

Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.

pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.

The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.

Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.

An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)

The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).

The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.

TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.

Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.

PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.

Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.

Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.

Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.

Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.

Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho

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Revision tags: release/9.2.0
# cfe30d02 19-Jun-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Merge fresh head.


Revision tags: release/8.4.0
# d241a0e6 26-Feb-2013 Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @247348.


# d9a44755 08-Feb-2013 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Sync with HEAD.


# c458fc1e 19-Jan-2013 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

Merge projects/bhyve to head.

'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).

Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.

Merge projects/bhyve to head.

'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).

Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.

Obtained from: NetApp

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Revision tags: release/9.1.0
# bda273f2 03-Oct-2012 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

Get rid of assumptions in the hypervisor that the host physical memory
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.

Rewrite vm_gpa2hpa() to get the GPA to HPA mapping by querying the nested

Get rid of assumptions in the hypervisor that the host physical memory
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.

Rewrite vm_gpa2hpa() to get the GPA to HPA mapping by querying the nested
page tables.

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Revision tags: release/8.3.0_cvs, release/8.3.0, release/9.0.0
# 34a6b2d6 14-May-2011 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

First cut at porting the kernel portions of 221828 and 221905 from the
BHyVe reference branch to HEAD.


# 366f6083 13-May-2011 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1.
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor regist

Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1.
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface

bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.

Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski

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