KVM: nVMX: Add preemption timer support
Provided the host has this feature, it's straightforward to offer it to
the guest as well. We just need to load to timer value on L2 entry if
the feature was enabled by L1 and watch out for the corresponding exit
reason.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
index 056bda5..fc1c3134 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
#define PIN_BASED_EXT_INTR_MASK 0x00000001
#define PIN_BASED_NMI_EXITING 0x00000008
#define PIN_BASED_VIRTUAL_NMIS 0x00000020
+#define PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER 0x00000040
#define PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR 0x00000016
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@
#define VM_ENTRY_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR 0x000011ff
+#define VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_RATE_MASK 0x0000001f
#define VMX_MISC_SAVE_EFER_LMA 0x00000020
/* VMCS Encodings */
@@ -217,6 +219,7 @@
GUEST_INTERRUPTIBILITY_INFO = 0x00004824,
GUEST_ACTIVITY_STATE = 0X00004826,
GUEST_SYSENTER_CS = 0x0000482A,
+ VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER_VALUE = 0x0000482E,
HOST_IA32_SYSENTER_CS = 0x00004c00,
CR0_GUEST_HOST_MASK = 0x00006000,
CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK = 0x00006002,