illumos

2021-03-05

04:41 PM illumos gate Feature #13602: cpuset funcs could be more const

Considering the nature of the change, I tested it with @wsdiff(1)@ against a vanilla build.
Here are the results:
<... Patrick Mooney

2021-03-04

09:27 PM illumos gate Bug #13256: bhyve should shadow %cr0 on AMD

I've booted the typical battery of guest OSes (Linux, OpenBSD, Windows, NetBSD, illumos) on an AMD machine featuring ... Patrick Mooney

08:57 PM illumos gate Bug #13338: bhyve should be able to emulate CLTS

Finding a good test case for this can be a bit of a challenge. With well-behaving bootroms and guests, the bits in @... Patrick Mooney

07:59 PM illumos gate Feature #13602 (Closed): cpuset funcs could be more const

The @cpuset_or@, @cpuset_xor@, and @cpuset_and@ functions could specify that their respective @src@ arguments are con... Patrick Mooney

2021-02-08

11:18 PM illumos gate Bug #13375: bhyve should expose invariant TSC

This also behaved normally in the typical guest OS smoke test battery on AMD and Intel. Patrick Mooney

11:12 PM illumos gate Bug #13375: bhyve should expose invariant TSC

With this in place, an OpenBSD guest detected the invariant TSC and, for the first time I can remember, opted to use ... Patrick Mooney

10:30 PM illumos gate Bug #13375: bhyve should expose invariant TSC

Despite the fact that illumos disables power features that should make it safe to expose an invariant TSC to guests o... Patrick Mooney

11:18 PM illumos gate Bug #13381: support TSC offsets on AMD bhyve

I also ran this through the typical guest OS smoke test on AMD and intel. Patrick Mooney

11:17 PM illumos gate Bug #13381: support TSC offsets on AMD bhyve

One avenue I used for testing this was a custom illumos guest which was configured to unconditionally reset its TSCs ... Patrick Mooney

10:22 PM illumos gate Feature #13382: consolidate MSR emulation in bhyve

While this was primarily code reorganization, it's important to verify that the new logic properly matches the old be... Patrick Mooney