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Tianyu Zhou fc1afc9de5 platform: add SlimVM platform
SlimVM is a lightweight VMX-based platform for gVisor that accelerates
sentry system calls by eliminating unnecessary user/kernel context
switches.

In a traditional gVisor + KVM setup, every guest syscall triggers a
full VM exit to userspace, then re-enters the kernel via a regular
syscall:

  gr0 -> hr0 (vm_exit) -> hr3 (ioctl return) -> hr0 (re-invoke syscall)

SlimVM eliminates this overhead. When the guest executes a VMCALL, the
VM exits into VMX root mode where SlimVM directly invokes the host
kernel's syscall handler, then immediately resumes the guest:

  gr0 -> hr0 (vmcall + direct function call)

SlimVM requires a companion kernel module that provides the /dev/slimvm
device interface. See https://github.com/antgroup/slimvm for the
kernel module and full documentation.

A sentry->host getpid microbenchmark (Xeon 6982P-C, host kernel 5.10.134)
shows the effect:

            │  ns/op  │ vs base │
  base          82.5       1.0x
  slimvm       420.9       5.1x
  kvm         3566.1      43.2x

slimvm is ~8.5x faster than the kvm platform on this path. See the issue
for details.

Updates: https://github.com/google/gvisor/issues/13330

Co-developed-by: Chenggang <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Robin Luk <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Tiwei Bie <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Jianfeng Tan <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: liushi.ls <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Yong He <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Aaron Lu <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: chris.zn <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Lingfu <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Min Le <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Quan Xu <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Zhang Haoyu <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Dawei Shen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tianyu Zhou <[email protected]>
2026-06-25 10:27:28 +08:00

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load("//tools:defs.bzl", "go_library", "go_test")
load("//tools/go_generics:defs.bzl", "go_template", "go_template_instance")
package(
default_applicable_licenses = ["//:license"],
licenses = ["notice"],
)
[
# These files are tagged with relevant build architectures. We can always
# build all the input files, which will be included only in the relevant
# architecture builds.
go_template(
name = "generic_walker_%s" % arch,
srcs = [
"walker_generic.go",
"walker_%s.go" % arch,
],
opt_types = [
"Visitor",
],
visibility = [":__pkg__"],
)
for arch in ("amd64", "arm64", "arm64_64k")
]
[
# See above.
go_template_instance(
name = "walker_%s_%s" % (op, arch),
out = "walker_%s_%s.go" % (op, arch),
package = "pagetables",
prefix = op,
template = ":generic_walker_%s" % arch,
types = {
"Visitor": "%sVisitor" % op,
},
)
for op in ("map", "unmap", "lookup", "empty", "check")
for arch in ("amd64", "arm64", "arm64_64k")
]
go_library(
name = "pagetables",
srcs = [
"allocator.go",
"allocator_unsafe.go",
"pagetables.go",
"pagetables_aarch64.go",
"pagetables_amd64.go",
"pagetables_arm64.go",
"pagetables_arm64_4k.go",
"pagetables_arm64_64k.go",
"pagetables_x86.go",
"pcids.go",
"pcids_aarch64.go",
"pcids_aarch64.s",
"pcids_x86.go",
"walker_amd64.go",
"walker_arm64.go",
"walker_arm64_64k.go",
"walker_generic.go",
":walker_empty_amd64",
":walker_empty_arm64",
":walker_empty_arm64_64k",
":walker_lookup_amd64",
":walker_lookup_arm64",
":walker_lookup_arm64_64k",
":walker_map_amd64",
":walker_map_arm64",
":walker_map_arm64_64k",
":walker_unmap_amd64",
":walker_unmap_arm64",
":walker_unmap_arm64_64k",
],
visibility = [
"//pkg/ring0:__subpackages__",
"//pkg/sentry/platform/kvm:__subpackages__",
"//pkg/sentry/platform/slimvm:__subpackages__",
],
deps = [
"//pkg/cpuid",
"//pkg/hostarch",
"//pkg/sync",
],
)
go_test(
name = "pagetables_test",
size = "small",
srcs = [
"pagetables_amd64_test.go",
"pagetables_arm64_64k_test.go",
"pagetables_arm64_test.go",
"pagetables_common_test.go",
"pagetables_test.go",
":walker_check_amd64",
":walker_check_arm64",
":walker_check_arm64_64k",
],
library = ":pagetables",
deps = [
"//pkg/cpuid",
"//pkg/hostarch",
],
)