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2010-10-12x86: lguest: Use new irq allocatorThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-10-12x86: lguest: Convert to new irq chip functionsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-09-21lguest: update comments to reflect LHCALL_LOAD_GDT_ENTRY.Rusty Russell
We used to have a hypercall which reloaded the entire GDT, then we switched to one which loaded a single entry (to match the IDT code). Some comments were not updated, so fix them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reported by: Eviatar Khen <eviatarkhen@gmail.com>
2010-05-28Merge branch 'ht-delete-2.6.35' into releaseLen Brown
2010-04-14lguest: stop using KVM hypercall mechanismRusty Russell
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2a159 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls"; we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for hypercalls. I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the same calling convention as kvm. KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm fails to make hypercalls. It was nice to share code with our KVM cousins, but this was overreach. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-14ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot optionLen Brown
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was universally deployed and enabled by default in the major Linux distributions. At that time, there were a fair number of people who or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off, yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading. Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht" are accidental, and thus is it possible that it is doing more harm than good. In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht. In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-23lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place.Rusty Russell
We used to defer it, so lockdep was happy. We now init lockdep early anyway, so just do it after that. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-16x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_opsFeng Tang
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>
2009-08-31x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_opsThomas Gleixner
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>
2009-08-31x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_opsThomas Gleixner
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>
2009-08-31x86: Move irq_init to x86_init_opsThomas Gleixner
irq_init is overridden by x86_quirks and by paravirts. Unify the whole mess and make it an unconditional x86_init_ops function which defaults to the standard function and can be overridden by the early platform code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-27x86: Move memory_setup to x86_init_opsThomas Gleixner
memory_setup is overridden by x86_quirks and by paravirts with weak functions and quirks. Unify the whole mess and make it an unconditional x86_init_ops function which defaults to the standard function and can be overridden by the early platform code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-30lguest: update commentryRusty Russell
Every so often, after code shuffles, I need to go through and unbitrot the Lguest Journey (see drivers/lguest/README). Since we now use RCU in a simple form in one place I took the opportunity to expand that explanation. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-07-30lguest: fix comment styleRusty Russell
I don't really notice it (except to begrudge the extra vertical space), but Ingo does. And he pointed out that one excuse of lguest is as a teaching tool, it should set a good example. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2009-07-17lguest: restrict CPUID to avoid perf counter wrmsrRusty Russell
Avoid the following: [ 0.012093] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:249 native_apic_write_dummy+0x2f/0x40() Rather than chase each new cpuid-detected feature, just lie about the highest valid CPUID so this code is never run. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-07-17lguest: fix journeyMatias Zabaljauregui
fix: "make Guest" was complaining about duplicated G:032 Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: PAE supportMatias Zabaljauregui
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status. NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4()Matias Zabaljauregui
Add support for kvm_hypercall4(); PAE wants it. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGDMatias Zabaljauregui
replace LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD hypercall name (That's really what it is, and the confusion gets worse with PAE support) Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
2009-06-12lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when ↵Matias Zabaljauregui
PAE is activated Some cleanups and replace direct assignment with native_set_* macros which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: optimize by coding restore_flags and irq_enable in assembler.Rusty Russell
The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly into the callsites, so the C versions are always used. But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all the registers. In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path, so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler. The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of code, it's worth applying. 1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed) Before: Seconds: 0:16.53 Packets: 377268,753673 Interrupts: 22461,24297 Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370) Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095) After: Seconds: 0:16.48 Packets: 377289,753673 Interrupts: 22281,24465 Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377) Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networkingRusty Russell
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and things still worked. However, it makes a significant difference to TCP performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable. These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes patch space, so we drop that code. Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest! Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment. Before: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 30.7 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 76.0 seconds After: 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 6.8 seconds 1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 27.8 seconds Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12lguest: clean up lguest_init_IRQRusty Russell
Copy from arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c: we don't use the vectors beyond LGUEST_IRQS (if any), but we might as well set them all. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-10Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits) xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0 xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls xen: honour VCPU availability on boot xen: add "capabilities" file xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features xen: add /sys/hypervisor support xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices xen: remove suspend_cancel hook xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn xen: export ioctl headers to userspace xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver xen: add irq_from_evtchn xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction ...
2009-06-10Merge branch 'irq-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (76 commits) x86, apic: Fix dummy apic read operation together with broken MP handling x86, apic: Restore irqs on fail paths x86: Print real IOAPIC version for x86-64 x86: enable_update_mptable should be a macro sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocation x86, io-apic: Don't mark pin_programmed early x86, irq: don't call mp_config_acpi_gsi() if update_mptable is not enabled x86, irq: update_mptable needs pci_routeirq x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic x86, apic: introduce io_apic_irq_attr x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector(), fix x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: apic: Fixmap apic address even if apic disabled x86: display extended apic registers with print_local_APIC and cpu_debug code x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling x86: apic: Check rev 3 fadt correctly for physical_apic bit x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing x86/acpi: move setup io apic routing out of CONFIG_ACPI scope x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector() ...
2009-06-04lguest: fix 'unhandled trap 13' with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTORRusty Russell
We don't set up the canary; let's disable stack protector on boot.c so we can get into lguest_init, then set it up. As a side effect, switch_to_new_gdt() sets up %fs for us properly too. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-08Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xenIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h arch/x86/xen/mmu.c Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve conflicts Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-28x86/irq: change irq_desc_alloc() to take node instead of cpuYinghai Lu
This simplifies the node awareness of the code. All our allocators only deal with a NUMA node ID locality not with CPU ids anyway - so there's no need to maintain (and transform) a CPU id all across the IRq layer. v2: keep move_irq_desc related [ Impact: cleanup, prepare IRQ code to be NUMA-aware ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> LKML-Reference: <49F65536.2020300@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callbackMagnus Damm
Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources. This allows us to share the callback between multiple instances. [hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-19lguest: fix guest crash on non-linear addresses in gdt pvopsRusty Russell
Fixes guest crash 'lguest: bad read address 0x4800000 len 256' The new per-cpu allocator ends up handing a non-linear address to write_gdt_entry. We do __pa() on it, and hand it to the host, which kills us. I've long wanted to make the hypercall "LOAD_GDT_ENTRY" to match the IDT code, but had no pressing reason until now. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
2009-04-07lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercallsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Duplicate hcall -> kvm_hypercall0 convertion from "lguest: use KVM hypercalls". Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-07Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/masterJeremy Fitzhardinge
* 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
2009-03-30Merge ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest-and-virtio: lguest: barrier me harder lguest: use bool instead of int lguest: use KVM hypercalls lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer lguest: fix spurious BUG_ON() on invalid guest stack. virtio: more neatening of virtio_ring macros. virtio: fix BAD_RING, START_US and END_USE macros
2009-03-30lguest: use KVM hypercallsMatias Zabaljauregui
Impact: cleanup This patch allow us to use KVM hypercalls Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_deferRusty Russell
Impact: intermittent guest segv/crash fix I've been seeing random guest bad address crashes and segmentation faults: bisect led to 4f98a2fee8 (vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets), but that's a red herring. It turns out that lguest never hooked up the pte_update/pte_update_defer calls, so our ptes were not always in sync. After the vmscan commit, the bug became reproducible; now a fsck in a 64MB guest causes reproducible pagetable corruption. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: jeremy@xensource.com Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-29x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/endJeremy Fitzhardinge
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>
2009-03-29x86/paravirt: flush pending mmu updates on context switchJeremy Fitzhardinge
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>
2009-03-27Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-14x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetableJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: use new interface instead of previous ad hoc implementation Rather than having special purpose init_pg_table_start/end variables to delimit the kernel pagetable built by head_32.S, just use the brk mechanism to extend the bss for the new pagetable. This patch removes init_pg_table_start/end and pg0, defines __brk_base (which is page-aligned and immediately follows _end), initializes the brk region to start there, and uses it for the 32-bit pagetable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-11Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/kexec', 'x86/mce2' and 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-09lguest: fix for CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=yRusty Russell
Impact: remove lots of lguest boot WARN_ON() when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y We now need to call irq_to_desc_alloc_cpu() before set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(), but we can't do that from init_IRQ (no kmalloc available). So do it as we use interrupts instead. Also means we only alloc for irqs we use, which was the intent of CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ anyway. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2009-03-09lguest: fix crash 'unhandled trap 13 at <native_read_msr_safe>'Rusty Russell
Impact: fix lguest boot crash on modern Intel machines The code in early_init_intel does: if (c->x86 > 6 || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >= 0xd)) { u64 misc_enable; rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable); And that rdmsr faults (not allowed from non-0 PL). We can get around this by mugging the family ID part of the cpuid. 5 seems like a good number. Of course, this is a hack (how very lguest!). We could just indicate that we don't support MSRs, or implement lguest_rdmst. Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-23x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarchIngo Molnar
Impact: remove unused/broken code The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27, v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels. No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage. Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken. In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the build problems already known, needs serious and significant changes and probably a rewrite to support it. CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it. While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme, voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable fashion. So remove this inactive code for now. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17x86, apic: remove genapic.hIngo Molnar
Impact: cleanup Remove genapic.h and remove all references to it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17x86: fold apic_ops into genapicYinghai Lu
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>
2009-02-10x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32Tejun Heo
Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily. pt_regs doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary. In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs handling optional by doing the followings. * Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs. * Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless LAZY_GS. Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL even when LAZY_GS. However, it adds no overhead to common exit path and simplifies entry path with error code. * Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS. The lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily. * Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly. xen and lguest changes need to be verified. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressureJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: Optimization One of the problems with inserting a pile of C calls where previously there were none is that the register pressure is greatly increased. The C calling convention says that the caller must expect a certain set of registers may be trashed by the callee, and that the callee can use those registers without restriction. This includes the function argument registers, and several others. This patch seeks to alleviate this pressure by introducing wrapper thunks that will do the register saving/restoring, so that the callsite doesn't need to worry about it, but the callee function can be conventional compiler-generated code. In many cases (particularly performance-sensitive cases) the callee will be in assembler anyway, and need not use the compiler's calling convention. Standard calling convention is: arguments return scratch x86-32 eax edx ecx eax ? x86-64 rdi rsi rdx rcx rax r8 r9 r10 r11 The thunk preserves all argument and scratch registers. The return register is not preserved, and is available as a scratch register for unwrapped callee code (and of course the return value). Wrapped function pointers are themselves wrapped in a struct paravirt_callee_save structure, in order to get some warning from the compiler when functions with mismatched calling conventions are used. The most common paravirt ops, both statically and dynamically, are interrupt enable/disable/save/restore, so handle them first. This is particularly easy since their calls are handled specially anyway. XXX Deal with VMI. What's their calling convention? Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30lguest: typos fixAtsushi SAKAI
3 points lguest_asm.S => i386_head.S LHCALL_BREAK => LHREQ_BREAK perferred => preferred Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-02Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits) x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2 x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0 sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many() x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c ... Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2008-12-30lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the hostMatias Zabaljauregui
This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host, so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>