From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Victor M." <vvm@tut.by>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
olaf@aepfle.de, bp@alien8.de, apw@canonical.com, x86@kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
jasowang@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: KVM "Hyper-V emulation" -- this can be related "Linux on Hyper-V" ? Or "KVM emulates Hyper-V" as "Hyper-V emulates Hyper-V" ? Re: [PATCH 2/3] X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:43:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130417124352.GC6801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2xkNqGgbYz1gdS85xjA8gwROGY89fAsiaRiGSE90xnzjJ4Xw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:03:08PM +0300, Victor M. wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2013/4/17 Jan Beulich
>
> >>> On 17.04.13 at 12:16, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote:
> > If the hypervisor says it's Hyper-V, that's because it wants
> > guests to use Hyper-V. I don't see why is guest second-guessing
> > this a good idea.
>
> There are two reasons here: For one, when the hypervisor is not
> Hyper-V, but is providing some Hyper-V emulation, that's intended
> for Windows guests to use, not e.g. Linux ones, especially when
> such guests could use the native hypervisor interface with much
> greater benefit.
>
> And second, there reportedly are features of (newer?) Hyper-V
> that some emulation may not provide, but that are also not easily
> detectable.
>
>
>
>
> Yes
>
> +
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:10:01PM +0300, Victor Miasnikov wrote:
>
>
>
> >>
> >> Question is very simple: Hyper-V users/sysadmins need wait patch a-la this:
> >> Or
> "KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> emulates Hyper-V" as "Hyper-V emulates
> >> Hyper-V" ?
> >>
> >
> > No. You are using Hyper-V, not the
> KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> > emulation of it.
> > No patches dealing with this emulation should have any effect on you.
>
>
> This is _positive_ variant of possible future,
> but on _practic_ very often we need prevent _negative_ variant of possible
> future
I don't really know what this means.
>
> >> ==
> >> + /*
> >> + *
> KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> emulates Hyper-V to support
> >> enlightened Windows.
> >> + * Check to see first if we are on a
> KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> >> Hypervisor.
> >> + */
> >> +
> >> + if
> (KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V_cpuid_base
> ())
> >> + return false;
>
> >
> > If the hypervisor says it's Hyper-V, that's because it wants guests to use
> Hyper-V.
> >
>
>
> Even if guest ( i.e. Virtual Computer) contain Linux OS ?
Why not? If you don't want the hypervisor to emulate hyper-v, just
don't tell it to emulate hyper-v.
>
> >> ==
> >> KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> emulates Hyper-V to host enlightened
> >> Windows.
> >>
> >> . . .
> >>
> >> [ hpa: the problem here is that
> >> KVM_and_or_XEN_or_other_Hypervisor_what_has_non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V
> doesn't emulate Hyper-V well enough, .
> >> . ]
> >
> > What's emulated not well enough?
> >
>
> In case of XEN variant non-full-emulation_of_Hyper-V , IMHO :
>
> {{
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Miasnikov"
> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:41 PM
> Subject: IMHO, XEN emulation of Hyper-V not contain needed clocksource for
> Lunux guest Re: [PATCH 2/3] X86: Add a check
> to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V
>
> Hi!
>
> > It seems that one might want to use hyper-v emulation e.g. to test
> > hyper-v code without using windows, so the functionality
> > that this patch disables is not completely useless,
> > so there should be a good reason for disabling it.
>
> As I undestand, XEN emulation of Hyper-V not contain needed clocksource for
> Lunux guest ( virtual computers)
>
> I.e. Linux VM "think" what is running on Hyper-V host call
> clocksource_register_hz(&hyperv_cs, NSEC_PER_SEC/100)
> and a-la BSOD or vica verse . . .
>
>
> > I went over the original discussion in
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2064331/
> > and that's still not clear to me. Is there a configuration
> > that is broken without this patch but starts working with
> > this patch?
>
>
> IMHO, this related to:
>
> - clocksource_register_hz(&hyperv_cs, NSEC_PER_SEC/100);
> + if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT_AVAILABLE)
> + clocksource_register_hz(&hyperv_cs, NSEC_PER_SEC/100);
>
>
> See
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/12/623
> ==
> Date Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:56:07 -0800
> From tip-bot for Olaf Hering
> Subject [tip:x86/hyperv] x86: Hyper-V: register clocksource only if
> its advertised
>
> . . .
>
> ==
>
>
>
> Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
> }}
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
> Blog: http://vvm.blog.tut.by/
Looks like a counter-example to me.
Apparently a Linux guest bug was found and fixed exactly because we
trust the hypervisor. If it wasn't, and if in the future hyper-v hosts
clear this feature bit, Linux will be broken.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-17 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-04 1:21 [PATCH 0/3] X86: Deliver Hyper-V interrupts on a seperate IDT vector K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-02-04 1:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Hyper-V: register clocksource only if its advertised K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-02-04 1:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-02-13 0:57 ` [tip:x86/hyperv] " tip-bot for K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-04-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 9:10 ` KVM "Hyper-V emulation" -- this can be related "Linux on Hyper-V" ? Or "KVM emulates Hyper-V" as "Hyper-V emulates Hyper-V" ? " Victor Miasnikov
2013-04-17 10:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 12:12 ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-17 12:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <CAP2xkNqGgbYz1gdS85xjA8gwROGY89fAsiaRiGSE90xnzjJ4Xw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-17 12:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-04-17 14:08 ` Victor Miasnikov
2013-04-17 13:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 12:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 14:12 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 13:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 14:34 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 13:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 15:31 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 15:50 ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-17 16:28 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-18 7:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-18 13:23 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-18 13:30 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 13:52 ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-17 13:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 13:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-17 14:09 ` Jan Beulich
2013-04-17 15:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-04 1:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as special hypervisor interrupts K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-02-13 0:58 ` [tip:x86/hyperv] " tip-bot for K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-02-13 1:58 ` [tip:x86/hyperv] x86, hyperv: HYPERV depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 2:05 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-02-13 2:56 ` [tip:x86/hyperv] X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as special hypervisor interrupts Yinghai Lu
2013-02-13 3:32 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-02-13 3:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 3:49 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-02-13 3:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 3:58 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-02-13 4:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-02-13 12:47 ` KY Srinivasan
2013-02-13 0:56 ` [tip:x86/hyperv] x86: Hyper-V: register clocksource only if its advertised tip-bot for Olaf Hering
2013-02-05 11:16 ` [PATCH 0/3] X86: Deliver Hyper-V interrupts on a seperate IDT vector KY Srinivasan
2013-04-17 13:49 KVM "Hyper-V emulation" -- this can be related "Linux on Hyper-V" ? Or "KVM emulates Hyper-V" as "Hyper-V emulates Hyper-V" ? Re: [PATCH 2/3] X86: Add a check to catch Xen emulation of Hyper-V Victor Miasnikov
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