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With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.
Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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Now that both Xen and VMI disable allocations of PTE pages from high
memory this paravirt op serves no further purpose.
This effectively reverts ce6234b5 "add kmap_atomic_pte for mapping
highpte pages".
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267204562-11844-3-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Preventing HIGHPTE allocations under VMI will allow us to remove the
kmap_atomic_pte paravirt op.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267204562-11844-2-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Add text in feature-removal.txt indicating that VMI will be removed in
the 2.6.37 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
[ removed a bogus Kconfig change, marked (DEPRECATED) in Kconfig ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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get/set_wallclock() have already a set of platform dependent
implementations (default, EFI, paravirt). MRST will add another
variant.
Moving them to platform ops simplifies the existing code and minimizes
the effort to integrate new variants.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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TSC calibration is modified by the vmware hypervisor and paravirt by
separate means. Moorestown wants to add its own calibration routine as
well. So make calibrate_tsc a proper x86_init_ops function and
override it by paravirt or by the early setup of the vmware
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The timer init code is convoluted with several quirks and the paravirt
timer chooser. Figuring out which code path is actually taken is not
for the faint hearted.
Move the numaq TSC quirk to tsc_pre_init x86_init_ops function and
replace the paravirt time chooser and the remaining x86 quirk with a
simple x86_init_ops function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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paravirt overrides the setup of the default apic timers as per cpu
timers. Moorestown needs to override that as well.
Move it to x86_init_ops setup and create a separate x86_cpuinit struct
which holds the function for the secondary evtl. hotplugabble CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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With CONFIG_STACK_PROTECTOR turned on, VMI doesn't boot with
more than one processor. The problem is with the gs value not
being initialized correctly when registering the secondary
processor for VMI's case.
The patch below initializes the gs value for the AP to
__KERNEL_STACK_CANARY. Without this the secondary processor
keeps on taking a GP on every gs access.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for v2.6.30.x
LKML-Reference: <1249425262.18955.40.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* commit 'origin/master': (4825 commits)
Fix build errors due to CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
parport: Use the PCI IRQ if offered
tty: jsm cleanups
Adjust path to gpio headers
KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module
Change KCONFIG name
tty: Blackin CTS/RTS
Change hardware flow control from poll to interrupt driven
Add support for the MAX3100 SPI UART.
lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100
serqt: initial clean up pass for tty side
tty: Use the generic RS485 ioctl on CRIS
tty: Correct inline types for tty_driver_kref_get()
splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp
nilfs2: introduce secondary super block
nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments
nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation
nilfs2: clean up sketch file
nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug
...
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
drivers/xen/manage.c
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Impact: fix lazy context switch API
Pass the previous and next tasks into the context switch start
end calls, so that the called functions can properly access the
task state (esp in end_context_switch, in which the next task
is not yet completely current).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Impact: allow preemption during lazy mmu updates
If we're in lazy mmu mode when context switching, leave
lazy mmu mode, but remember the task's state in
TIF_LAZY_MMU_UPDATES. When we resume the task, check this
flag and re-enter lazy mmu mode if its set.
This sets things up for allowing lazy mmu mode while preemptible,
though that won't actually be active until the next change.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Impact: cleanup
set_pte_present() is no longer used, directly or indirectly,
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237406613-2929-2-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
Remove genapic.h and remove all references to it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
make it simpler, don't need have one extra struct.
v2: fix the sgi_uv build
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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Commit 6194ba6ff6ccf8d5c54c857600843c67aa82c407 ("x86: don't special-case
pmd allocations as much") made changes to the way we handle pmd allocations,
and while doing that it dropped a call to paravirt_release_pd on the
pgd page from the pgd_dtor code path.
As a result of this missing release, the hypervisor is now unaware of the
pgd page being freed, and as a result it ends up tracking this page as a
page table page.
After this the guest may start using the same page for other purposes, and
depending on what use the page is put to, it may result in various performance
and/or functional issues ( hangs, reboots).
Since this release is only required for VMI, I now release the pgd page from
the (vmi)_pgd_free hook.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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Zach says:
> Enable/Disable have no clobbers at all.
> Save clobbers only return value, %eax
> Restore also clobbers nothing.
This is precisely compatible with the calling convention, so we can
just call them directly without wrapping.
(Compile tested only.)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Here function vmi_activate calls a init function activate_vmi , which
causes the following section mismatch warnings:
LD arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x13ba9): Section mismatch
in reference from the function vmi_activate() to the function
.init.text:vmi_time_init()
The function vmi_activate() references
the function __init vmi_time_init().
This is often because vmi_activate lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of vmi_time_init is wrong.
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x13bd1): Section mismatch
in reference from the function vmi_activate() to the function
.devinit.text:vmi_time_bsp_init()
The function vmi_activate() references
the function __devinit vmi_time_bsp_init().
This is often because vmi_activate lacks a __devinit
annotation or the annotation of vmi_time_bsp_init is wrong.
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x13bdb): Section mismatch
in reference from the function vmi_activate() to the function
.devinit.text:vmi_time_ap_init()
The function vmi_activate() references
the function __devinit vmi_time_ap_init().
This is often because vmi_activate lacks a __devinit
annotation or the annotation of vmi_time_ap_init is wrong.
Fix it by marking vmi_activate() as __init too.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup, remove dead debug code
I ran across some old debugging code in vmi paravirt-ops code that was
already dead, but still potentially useful. After reviewing recent
changes to the way kernel page tables are allocated and initialized, and
the lack of bugs caught by this debugging code, I've concluded it is now
totally useless to have around, and it's already been #if 0'd for quite
some time.
There's no rush to get this in mainline, but it's also totally harmless,
so I'll let the x86 maintainers decide where it should be tucked. I've
been out of the mainstream dev loop for a couple months, so apologies if
I haven't got any protocol changes in order.
Remove mummified remains found in vmi_32.c
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap to
malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation. To fix this,
VMI activation is split into two phases; the detection, which must
happen before setting up ioremap, and the activation, which must happen
after parsing early boot parameters.
This fixes a crash on boot when VMI is enabled under VMware.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
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'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
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After investigating a JRE failure, I found this bug was introduced a
long time ago, and had already managed to survive another bugfix which
occurred on the same line. The result is a total failure of the JRE due
to LDT selectors not working properly.
This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56ca09a467fbbe5229bc68627f7445be
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch changes the pfn args from 'u32' to 'unsigned long'
on alloc_p*() functions on paravirt_ops, and the corresponding
implementations for Xen and VMI. The prototypes for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
are already using unsigned long, so paravirt.h now matches the prototypes
on asm-x86/pgalloc.h.
It shouldn't result in any changes on generated code on 32-bit, with
or without CONFIG_PARAVIRT. On both cases, 'codiff -f' didn't show any
change after applying this patch.
On 64-bit, there are (expected) binary changes only when CONFIG_PARAVIRT
is enabled, as the patch is really supposed to change the size of the
pfn args.
[ v2: KVM_GUEST: use the right parameter type on kvm_release_pt() ]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The lowmem mapping table created by VMI need not depend on max_low_pfn
at all. Instead we now create an extra large mapping which covers all
possible lowmem instead of the physical ram that is actually available.
This allows the vmi initialization to be done before max_low_pfn could
be computed. We also move the vmi_init code very early in the boot process
so that nobody accidentally breaks the fixmap dependancy.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
include/asm-x86/apic.h
include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix VMI apic_ops.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum
for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time. Remove the
X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to
apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the
ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum. Remove
apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed.
Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends. The use of
ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have
used it for readability's sake.
I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead
and here it is. Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested
with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP
"feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as
expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days).
Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs
it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I
have disregarded it.
I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated
and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I
have left changes to them out. The option will get removed from them at
the next run.
Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some
stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that
intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will
everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix for pv - clean up the namespace there too.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Rename the paravirtualized calculate_cpu_khz to calibrate_tsc.
In all cases, we actually calibrate_tsc and use that as the cpu_khz value.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with
different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least
within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD
system).
sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of
any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts.
sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable
interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make KERNEL_PGD_PTRS common, as previously it was only being defined
for 32-bit.
There are a couple of follow-on changes from this:
- KERNEL_PGD_PTRS was being defined in terms of USER_PGD_PTRS. The
definition of USER_PGD_PTRS doesn't really make much sense on x86-64,
since it can have two different user address-space configurations.
I renamed USER_PGD_PTRS to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, which is meaningful
for all of 32/32, 32/64 and 64/64 process configurations.
- USER_PTRS_PER_PGD was also defined and was being used for similar
purposes. Converting its users to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY left it
completely unused, and so I removed it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Rename (alloc|release)_(pt|pd) to pte/pmd to explicitly match the name
of the appropriate pagetable level structure.
[ x86.git merge work by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Jeff Chua bisected down a vmware guest boot breakage (hang) to
this paravirt change:
commit 8d947344c47a40626730bb80d136d8daac9f2060
Author: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:31:12 2008 +0100
x86: change write_idt_entry signature
fix the off-by-one indexing bug ...
Bisected-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add mm to paravirt_alloc_pd, partly to make it consistent with
paravirt_alloc_pt, and because later changes will make use of it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fix various compilation problems as a result of changing pte_t.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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this patch changes the signature of write_ldt_entry.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch changes the write_gdt_entry function signature.
Instead of the old "a" and "b" parameters, it now receives
a pointer to a desc_struct, and the size of the entry being
handled. This is because x86_64 can have some 16-byte entries
as well as 8-byte ones.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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this patch changes write_idt_entry signature. It now takes a gate_desc
instead of the a and b parameters. It will allow it to be later unified
between i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This changes size-specific register names (eip/rip, esp/rsp, etc.) to
generic names in the thread and tss structures.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.
This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The patch to suppress bitops-related warnings added a pile of ugly
casts. Many of these were related to the management of x86 CPU
capabilities. Clean these up by adding specific set/clear_cpu_cap
macros, and use them consistently.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch consolidates the irqflags include files containing common
paravirt definitions. The native definition for interrupt handling, halt,
and such, are the same for 32 and 64 bit, and they are kept in irqflags.h.
the differences are split in the arch-specific files.
The syscall function, irq_enable_sysexit, has a very specific i386 naming,
and its name is then changed to a more general one.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Currently, the set_lazy_mode pv_op is overloaded with 5 functions:
1. enter lazy cpu mode
2. leave lazy cpu mode
3. enter lazy mmu mode
4. leave lazy mmu mode
5. flush pending batched operations
This complicates each paravirt backend, since it needs to deal with
all the possible state transitions, handling flushing, etc. In
particular, flushing is quite distinct from the other 4 functions, and
seems to just cause complication.
This patch removes the set_lazy_mode operation, and adds "enter" and
"leave" lazy mode operations on mmu_ops and cpu_ops. All the logic
associated with enter and leaving lazy states is now in common code
(basically BUG_ONs to make sure that no mode is current when entering
a lazy mode, and make sure that the mode is current when leaving).
Also, flush is handled in a common way, by simply leaving and
re-entering the lazy mode.
The result is that the Xen, lguest and VMI lazy mode implementations
are much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
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This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of
functionally related ops:
pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints
pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too)
pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else
pv_time_ops - time-related functions
pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops
pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state
pv_apic_ops - APIC operations
pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables
There are several motivations for this:
1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be
i386/x86-64 specific. This makes it easier to share common stuff
while allowing separate implementations where needed.
2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only
need selected parts of it. This allows us to export on a case by case
basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply).
3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable.
Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate
patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting
into jmp/calls when patching. It is only instantiated when needed.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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