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* Enforce the virtual time stamp counter monotonicity even when a vcpu is migrated to another physical cpu. (in progress, Leonard Norrgård) | * Enforce the virtual time stamp counter monotonicity even when a vcpu is migrated to another physical cpu. (in progress, Leonard Norrgård) | ||
* Trap #UD and emulate sysenter/syscall/sysret/sysexit. These instructions don't exist on all cpus in all modes, so they hinder cross-vendor migration | |||
* Consolidate the various functions that read and write guest memory. There is some duplication there. | * Consolidate the various functions that read and write guest memory. There is some duplication there. | ||
* Consolidate the inb/outb emulation helpers into x86_emulate.c | * Consolidate the inb/outb emulation helpers into x86_emulate.c |
Revision as of 03:07, 28 April 2007
TODO
The following items need some love. Please post to the list if you are interested in helping out:
- Real mode support: VT support for real mode is terrible, so we need to do it in software. This means extending the x86 emulator (x86_emulate.c) to handle more instructions, and changing the execution loop to call the emulator for real mode.
- Move the apic/ioapic/pic/pit emulation into the kernel. This will simplify in-kernel paravirtualized devices (as there is no need to exit to userspace to inject an interrupt) and guest SMP. Some bitrotted code already exists.
- Drop the preemption counter while doing mmu stuff, and turn kvm->lock into a mutex.
- Emulate the architectural performance monitor counters/msrs, for Linux nmi watchdog support.
The following smaller scale tasks can be a nice entry point to someone wishing to get involved:
- Enforce the virtual time stamp counter monotonicity even when a vcpu is migrated to another physical cpu. (in progress, Leonard Norrgård)
- Trap #UD and emulate sysenter/syscall/sysret/sysexit. These instructions don't exist on all cpus in all modes, so they hinder cross-vendor migration
- Consolidate the various functions that read and write guest memory. There is some duplication there.
- Consolidate the inb/outb emulation helpers into x86_emulate.c
struct kvm_vcpu
has many vmx specific fields. Move them into a new membervmx
. Have each arch allocate the vcpu so its arch-specific members can be addressed without indirection.
MMU related:
- Attach kvm memory to a Linux address_space so that guest memory can be paged out.
- Support large pages (in conjunction with the item above) so that if the guest uses a large page mapping and the guest memory is backed by hugetlbfs, a large-page pte is created.
- Improve mmu page eviction algorithm (currently FIFO, change to approximate LRU).
- Implement kvm_mmu_post_write() so that page table updates don't take an immediate page fault after the write.
- Add a read-only memory type. This can be used to speed up APIC reads, which is fairly important for Windows guests.
- Implement AM20 for dos and the like.
For the adventurous:
- Emulate the VT and SVM instructions, so that kvm can run in a virtual machine. Test by running a VM in a VT guest in an SVM guest on VT hardware, as well as running a VM in an SVM guest in a VT guest on SVM hardware.