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Linus Torvalds
be15f9d63b Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2009-06-10 16:16:27 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b4ecc12699 x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.

It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:

 | commit 8efcbab674
 | Date:   Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
 |
 |     paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation

The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test).  The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons).  This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions.  But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).

If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).

Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:

		nopv		Pv-nospin	Pv-spin
CPU cycles	100.00%		99.89%		102.18%
instructions	100.00%		100.10%		100.15%
CPI		100.00%		99.79%		102.03%
cache ref	100.00%		100.84%		100.28%
cache miss	100.00%		90.47%		88.56%
cache miss rate	100.00%		89.72%		88.31%
branches	100.00%		99.93%		100.04%
branch miss	100.00%		103.66%		107.72%
branch miss rt	100.00%		103.73%		107.67%
wallclock	100.00%		99.90%		102.20%

The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.

(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates.  Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined.  On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)

So, what's the fix?

Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls.  For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:

<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq  *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>:	nop; nop		/* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled).  That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case.  The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.

The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks.  Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin).  Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.

[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]

Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 20:07:42 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
44408ad736 xen: use header for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
mmu.c needs to #include module.h to prevent these warnings:

 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:239: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-13 15:43:55 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
a789ed5fb6 xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
stts() is implemented in terms of read_cr0/write_cr0 to update the
state of the TS bit.  This happens during context switch, and so
is fairly performance critical.  Rather than falling back to
a trap-and-emulate native read_cr0, implement our own by caching
the last-written value from write_cr0 (the TS bit is the only one
we really care about).

Impact: optimise Xen context switches
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-05-08 15:55:24 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b80119bb35 xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
Ignore known IST-using traps.  Aside from the debugger traps, they're
low-level faults which Xen will handle for us, so the kernel needn't
worry about them.  Keep warning in case unknown trap starts using IST.

Impact: suppress spurious warnings
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-05-08 15:55:10 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6cac5a9246 xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
Native x86-64 uses the IST mechanism to run int3 and debug traps on
an alternative stack.  Xen does not do this, and so the frames were
being misinterpreted by the ptrace code.  This change special-cases
these two exceptions by using Xen variants which run on the normal
kernel stack properly.

Impact: avoid crash or bad data when IST trap is invoked under Xen
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-05-08 15:51:03 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6b2e8523df xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
Use reserve_early rather than e820 reservations for Xen start info and mfn->pfn
table, so that the memory use is a bit more self-documenting.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A032EF1.6070708@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 10:51:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f066a15533 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xen
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>
2009-05-08 10:50:00 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
33df4db04a x86: xen, i386: reserve Xen pagetables
The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.

[ Impact: fix Xen guest crash ]

Also-Bisected-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A032EEC.30509@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 10:49:11 +02:00
Magnus Damm
8e19608e8b clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callback
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>
2009-04-21 13:41:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2e1c63b7ed Merge branch 'for-rc1/xen/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'for-rc1/xen/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
  xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
  xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
  xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
  xen: resume interrupts before system devices.
  xen/mmu: weaken flush_tlb_other test
  xen/mmu: some early pagetable cleanups
  Xen: Add virt_to_pfn helper function
  x86-64: remove PGE from must-have feature list
  xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid
  NULL noise: arch/x86/xen/smp.c
  xen: remove xen_load_gdt debug
  xen: make xen_load_gdt simpler
  xen: clean up xen_load_gdt
  xen: split construction of p2m mfn tables from registration
  xen: separate p2m allocation from setting
  xen: disable preempt for leave_lazy_mmu
2009-04-13 15:30:20 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3b3809ac53 x86: fix set_fixmap to use phys_addr_t
Use phys_addr_t for receiving a physical address argument instead of
unsigned long.  This allows fixmap to handle pages higher than 4GB on
x86-32.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 16:41:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e7c0648896 xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
FIX_TEXT_POKE[01] are used to map kernel addresses, so they're mapping
pfns, not mfns.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-09 15:44:58 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
3ecb1b7df9 xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
FIX_TEXT_POKE[01] are used to map kernel addresses, so they're mapping
pfns, not mfns.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 17:57:19 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2b2a733447 xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
Use GATE_INTERRUPT/TRAP rather than 0xe/f.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 14:25:50 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
bc6081ff98 xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
Some 64-bit machines don't support the NX flag in ptes.
Check for NX before constructing the kernel pagetables.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 14:25:49 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e3f8a74e3a xen/mmu: weaken flush_tlb_other test
Impact: fixes crashing bug

There's no particular problem with getting an empty cpu mask,
so just shortcut-return if we get one.

Avoids crash reported by Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 14:25:46 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b96229b50d xen/mmu: some early pagetable cleanups
1. make sure early-allocated ptes are pinned, so they can be later
   unpinned
2. don't pin pmd+pud, just make them RO
3. scatter some __inits around

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 14:25:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
191216b928 xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid
Xen leaves XSAVE set in cpuid, but doesn't allow cr4.OSXSAVE
to be set.  This confuses the kernel and it ends up crashing on
an xsetbv instruction.

At boot time, try to set cr4.OSXSAVE, and mask XSAVE out of
cpuid it we can't.  This will produce a spurious error from Xen,
but allows us to support XSAVE if/when Xen does.

This also factors out the cpuid mask decisions to boot time.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:46 -07:00
Hannes Eder
1207cf8eb9 NULL noise: arch/x86/xen/smp.c
Fix this sparse warnings:
  arch/x86/xen/smp.c:316:52: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/xen/smp.c:421:60: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c667d5d6a7 xen: remove xen_load_gdt debug
Don't need the noise.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
a957fac500 xen: make xen_load_gdt simpler
Remove use of multicall machinery which is unused (gdt loading
is never performance critical).  This removes the implicit use
of percpu variables, which simplifies understanding how
the percpu code's use of load_gdt interacts with this code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c7da8c829b xen: clean up xen_load_gdt
Makes the logic a bit clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
cdaead6b4e xen: split construction of p2m mfn tables from registration
Build the p2m_mfn_list_list early with the rest of the p2m table, but
register it later when the real shared_info structure is in place.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e791ca0fd7 xen: separate p2m allocation from setting
When doing very early p2m setting, we need to separate setting
from allocation, so split things up accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d6382bf77e xen: disable preempt for leave_lazy_mmu
xen_mc_flush() requires preemption to be disabled for its own sanity,
so disable it while we're flushing.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-04-08 11:51:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
38f4b8c0da Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/master
* 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
2009-04-07 13:34:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
65fb0d23fc Merge branch 'linus' into cpumask-for-linus
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
2009-03-30 23:53:32 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6d02c42698 xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
Use GATE_INTERRUPT/TRAP rather than 0xe/f.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:36 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
707ebbc81c xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
Some 64-bit machines don't support the NX flag in ptes.
Check for NX before constructing the kernel pagetables.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:36 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
8de07bbded xen/mmu: weaken flush_tlb_other test
Impact: fixes crashing bug

There's no particular problem with getting an empty cpu mask,
so just shortcut-return if we get one.

Avoids crash reported by Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:34 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
4185f35404 xen/mmu: some early pagetable cleanups
1. make sure early-allocated ptes are pinned, so they can be later
   unpinned
2. don't pin pmd+pud, just make them RO
3. scatter some __inits around

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:32 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e826fe1ba1 xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid
Xen leaves XSAVE set in cpuid, but doesn't allow cr4.OSXSAVE
to be set.  This confuses the kernel and it ends up crashing on
an xsetbv instruction.

At boot time, try to set cr4.OSXSAVE, and mask XSAVE out of
cpuid it we can't.  This will produce a spurious error from Xen,
but allows us to support XSAVE if/when Xen does.

This also factors out the cpuid mask decisions to boot time.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:28 -07:00
Hannes Eder
e9e2d1ffcf NULL noise: arch/x86/xen/smp.c
Fix this sparse warnings:
  arch/x86/xen/smp.c:316:52: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/xen/smp.c:421:60: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:27 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b4b7e58590 xen: remove xen_load_gdt debug
Don't need the noise.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:26 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
3ce5fa7ebf xen: make xen_load_gdt simpler
Remove use of multicall machinery which is unused (gdt loading
is never performance critical).  This removes the implicit use
of percpu variables, which simplifies understanding how
the percpu code's use of load_gdt interacts with this code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:25 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6ed6bf428a xen: clean up xen_load_gdt
Makes the logic a bit clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:24 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
7571a60446 xen: split construction of p2m mfn tables from registration
Build the p2m_mfn_list_list early with the rest of the p2m table, but
register it later when the real shared_info structure is in place.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-30 09:25:23 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
59d7187142 xen: separate p2m allocation from setting
When doing very early p2m setting, we need to separate setting
from allocation, so split things up accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-29 23:47:00 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5caecb9432 xen: disable preempt for leave_lazy_mmu
xen_mc_flush() requires preemption to be disabled for its own sanity,
so disable it while we're flushing.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-03-29 23:47:00 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2829b44927 x86/paravirt: allow preemption with lazy mmu mode
Impact: remove obsolete checks, simplification

Lift restrictions on preemption with lazy mmu mode, as it is now allowed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:36:02 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
224101ed69 x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/end
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>
2009-03-29 23:36:01 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b407fc57b8 x86/paravirt: flush pending mmu updates on context switch
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>
2009-03-29 23:36:00 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
7fd7d83d49 x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch
Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes

Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:35:59 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
71ff49d71b x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present
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>
2009-03-19 14:04:19 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
93dbda7cbc x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations
Impact: new interface

Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order
to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations.  This is better than
using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never
get used.

The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the
space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so
that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or
something into it.

The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area
(__brk_base to __brk_limit).  The kernel text, data and bss is reserved
up to __bss_stop.

Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel
pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces
in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory.
Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general
kernel memory pool.

Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger
than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code
to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large
with a big kernel image and no PSE support).  So long as the system
has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk,
there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-14 15:37:14 -07:00
Rusty Russell
4f0628963c cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
Impact: cleanup

1) &cpu_online_map -> cpu_online_mask
2) first_cpu/next_cpu_nr -> cpumask_first/cpumask_next
3) cpu_*_map manipulation -> init_cpu_* / set_cpu_*

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13 14:49:54 +10:30
Ingo Molnar
91d75e209b Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpu 2009-03-04 02:29:19 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9976b39b50 xen: deal with virtually mapped percpu data
The virtually mapped percpu space causes us two problems:

 - for hypercalls which take an mfn, we need to do a full pagetable
   walk to convert the percpu va into an mfn, and

 - when a hypercall requires a page to be mapped RO via all its aliases,
   we need to make sure its RO in both the percpu mapping and in the
   linear mapping

This primarily affects the gdt and the vcpu info structure.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:58:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
13b2eda64d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-26 06:30:42 +01:00