Add a core_scheduling option to --cpus with three modes of operation.
This feature takes advantage of a kernel feature that restricts
scheduling of processes on the SMT threads on the same core. This is
useful for mitigating certain classes of side-channel attacks and has
better performance that disabling SMT on the CPU.
- vm (default): All vCPU threads share one core scheduling cookie.
They may be co-scheduled on SMT siblings while host threads are
excluded - this has minimal performance impact and can even
potentially improve performance from co-location.
- vcpu: Each vCPU gets a unique cookie preventing any two vCPUs from
sharing SMT siblings. This has the strongest isolation but at some
compromise of performance.
- off: No core scheduling applied (old behaviour).
This isolation is done by the kernel maintaining a "cookie" - threads
with the same cookie can share the same core.
In vCPU mode each vCPU thread the cookie is created when the thread
starts and each gets a unique cookie. For VM mode the first vCPU thread
(the leader) will create the cookie. All other vCPU threads started (via
hotplug or during boot) will have that cookie shared to it.
EINVAL/ENODEV from prctl is silently ignored so this works transparently
on kernels older than 5.14 that lack PR_SCHED_CORE or when SMT disabled.
Full details of this kernel feature can be found at:
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.html
This implementation was inspired by crosvm's implementation - in
particular the enable_core_scheduling() function.
This is challenging to test via integration testing but the logging of
the received cookie shows it working:
VM case:
cloud-hypervisor: 0.243102s: <vcpu1> INFO:vmm/src/cpu.rs:1247 -- vCPU 1: core scheduling cookie = 0x33e4c167
cloud-hypervisor: 0.243102s: <vcpu0> INFO:vmm/src/cpu.rs:1247 -- vCPU 0: core scheduling cookie = 0x33e4c167
vCPU case:
cloud-hypervisor: 0.089356s: <vcpu0> INFO:vmm/src/cpu.rs:1247 -- vCPU 0: core scheduling cookie = 0x13993ad6
cloud-hypervisor: 0.089380s: <vcpu1> INFO:vmm/src/cpu.rs:1247 -- vCPU 1: core scheduling cookie = 0xd48e86e
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
Add an image_type to DiskConfig to specify the image type. If none is
specified autodetect the image type but disable potentially unsafe
behaviour in the QCOW2 backend by disabling the backing file support.
If the image type is autodetected then fix it in the config so that it
will be persistant across reboots and migrations/snapshot & restores.
This also handles the case where the image type was not specified as
part of the disk configuration.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
Add an optional device_id string field to NumaConfig for identifying
PCI devices associated with a NUMA node. This is used by the Generic
Initiator support to map devices to their proximity domain.
Update OpenAPI spec (cloud-hypervisor.yaml) to include the
new device_id field in the NumaConfig schema.
The device_id is optional and parsed from the --numa parameter:
--numa "device_id=<device_id>,distances=[...],..."
The optional field is accepted but not used.
Signed-off-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@crusoe.ai>
This commit removes the SGX support from cloud hypervisor. SGX support
was deprecated in May as part of #7090.
Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakrawar <schakrawar@crusoe.ai>
Allow tap interfaces to be configured with an IPv6 address. The change
is fairly straightforward: we need to update the API types and CLI
parsing to accept either an IPv6 or IPv4 and then match on the IP
address type when the tap device is configured.
For IPv6 addresses, the netmask (prefix) must be provided at the same
time as the address itself (in the SIOCSIFADDR ioctl). They cannot be
configured separately. So we remove the separate "set_netmask" function
and convert "set_ip_addr" to also accept a netmask. For IPv4 addresses,
the IP address and netmask were already always set together, so this
should have no functional impact for users of IPv4 addresses.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Anders <ganders@cloudflare.com>
Although the CPU manager gives us a quite descriptive error, on the
application side (the part calling Cloud Hypervisor) we have absolutely
no way to distinguish such error from any other error that may happen
when resizing a VM.
With this in mind, let's be more specific and return a TooManyRequests
(429) error, allowing the caller to have a chance to decide whether they
want to retry the operation or not.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6585#section-4
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@northflank.com>
This aligns with our CLI syntax. The correctness of `DiskConfig` will be
ensured via `VmConfig::validate()`, e.g. `path` and `socket` are
mutually exclusive.
Fixes: #7016
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <bchen@crusoe.ai>
This is to resolve the inconsistencies from our openapi specification,
as default values do not make sense for required fields.
Reported-by: James O. D. Hunt <james.o.hunt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
When using multiple PCI segments, the 32-bit and 64-bit mmio
aperture is split equally between each segment. Add an option
to configure the 'weight'. For example, a PCI segment with a
`mmio32_aperture_weight` of 2 will be allocated twice as much
32-bit mmio space as a normal PCI segment.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Barrett <tbarrett@crusoeenergy.com>
On platforms where PCIe P2P is supported, inject a PCI capability into
NVIDIA GPU to indicate support.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Barrett <tbarrett@crusoeenergy.com>
Currently the only way to set the affinity for virtio block threads is
to boot the VM, search for the tid of each of the virtio block threads,
then set the affinity manually. This commit adds an option to pin virtio
block queues to specific host cpus (similar to pinning vcpus to host
cpus). A queue_affinity option has been added to the disk flag in
the cli to specify a mapping of queue indices to host cpus.
Signed-off-by: acarp <acarp@crusoeenergy.com>
This commit adds the debug-console (or debugcon) device to CHV. It is a
very simple device on I/O port 0xe9 supported by QEMU and BOCHS. It is
meant for printing information as easy as possible, without any
necessary configuration from the guest at all.
It is primarily interesting to OS/kernel and firmware developers as they
can produce output as soon as the guest starts without any configuration
of a serial device or similar. Furthermore, a kernel hacker might use
this device for information of type B whereas information of type A are
printed to the serial device.
This device is not used by default by Linux, Windows, or any other
"real" OS, but only by toy kernels and during firmware development.
In the CLI, it can be configured similar to --console or --serial with
the --debug-console parameter.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
Add a 'rate_limit_groups' field to VmConfig that defines a set of
named RateLimiterGroups.
When the 'rate_limit_group' field of DiskConfig is defined, all
virtio-blk queues will be rate-limited by a shared RateLimiterGroup.
The lifecycle of all RateLimiterGroups is tied to the Vm.
A RateLimiterGroup may exist even if no Disks are configured to use
the RateLimiterGroup. Disks may be hot-added or hot-removed from the
RateLimiterGroup.
When the 'rate_limiter' field of DiskConfig is defined, we construct
an anonymous RateLimiterGroup whose lifecycle is tied to the Disk.
This is primarily done for api backwards compatability. Importantly,
the behavior is not the same! This implementation rate_limits the
aggregate bandwidth / iops of an individual disk rather than the
bandwidth / iops of an individual queue of a disk.
When neither the 'rate_limit_group' or the 'rate_limiter' fields of
DiskConfig is defined, the Disk is not rate-limited.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Barrett <tbarrett@crusoeenergy.com>
Cloud-Hypervisor takes a path for Unix socket, where it will listen
on. Users can connect to the other end of the socket and access serial
port on the guest.
"--serial socket=/path/to/socket" is the cmdline option to pass to
cloud-hypervisor.
Users can use socat like below to access guest's serial port once the
guest starts to boot:
socat -,crnl UNIX-CONNECT:/path/to/socket
Signed-off-by: Praveen K Paladugu <prapal@linux.microsoft.com>
Remove from the documentation and API definition but continue support
using the field (with a deprecation warning.)
See: #4837
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
The add_device() function, from the device manager code, takes a
DeviceConfig as a parameter, instead of a VmAddDevice.
The change was originally done as part of 34412c9b41 and it didn't
break Kata Containers because the VmAddDevice and DeviceConfig structs
share most of their fields, besides the optional for serialization
`pci_segment`, which is not used by the client yet.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
This option is needed for the openapi consumer (e.g. Kata Containers) to
load firmware (e.g. td-shim) for booting.
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
Adjust MTU logic such that:
1. Apply an MTU to the TAP interface if the user supplies it
2. Always query the TAP interface for the MTU and expose that.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Add a new "mtu" parameter to the NetConfig structure and therefore to
the --net option. This allows Cloud Hypervisor's users to define the
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) they want to use for the network
interface that they create.
In details, there are two main aspects. On the one hand, the TAP
interface is created with the proper MTU if it is provided. And on the
other hand the guest is made aware of the MTU through the VIRTIO
configuration. That means the MTU is properly set on both the TAP on the
host and the network interface in the guest.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Removing the option --tdx to specify that we want to run a TD VM. Rely
on --platform option by adding the "tdx" boolean parameter. This is the
new way for enabling TDX with Cloud Hypervisor.
Along with this change, the way to retrieve the firmware path has been
updated to rely on the recently introduced PayloadConfig structure.
Fixes#4556
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The old API remains usable, and will remain usable for two releases but
we should only advertise the new API.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
The parameter "poll_queue" was useful at the time Cloud Hypervisor was
responsible for spawning vhost-user backends, as it was carrying the
information the vhost-user-block backend should have this option enabled
or not.
It's been quite some time that we walked away from this design, as we
now expect a management layer to be responsible for running vhost-user
backends.
That's the reason why we can remove "poll_queue" from the DiskConfig
structure.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>