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Matias Zabaljauregui
58a2456644 lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the host
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>
2008-12-30 09:26:11 +10:30
Rusty Russell
71a3f4edc1 lguest: use get_user_pages_fast() instead of get_user_pages()
Using a simple page table thrashing program I measure a slight
improvement.  The program creates five processes.  Each touches 1000
pages then schedules the next process.  We repeat this 1000 times.  As
lguest only caches 4 cr3 values, this rebuilds a lot of shadow page
tables requiring virt->phys mappings.

	Before: 5.93 seconds
	After: 5.40 seconds

(Counts of slow vs fastpath in this usage are 6092 and 2852462 respectively.)

And more importantly for lguest, the code is simpler.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
Rusty Russell
a6bd8e1303 lguest: comment documentation update.
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.

Only comments change.  No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28 11:05:54 +11:00
Rusty Russell
4357bd9453 lguest: Revert 1ce70c4fac, fix real problem.
Ahmed managed to crash the Host in release_pgd(), which cannot be a Guest
bug, and indeed it wasn't.

The bug was that handing a 0 as the address of the toplevel page table
being manipulated can cause the lookup code in find_pgdir() to return
an uninitialized cache entry (we shadow up to 4 top level page tables
for each Guest).

Commit 37cc8d7f96 introduced this
behaviour in the Guest, uncovering the bug.

The patch which he submitted (which removed the /4 from the index
calculation) simply ensured that these high-indexed entries hit the
early exit path of guest_set_pmd().  But you get lots of segfaults in
guest userspace as the PMDs aren't being updated.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-11 09:35:58 +11:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
31f4b46ec6 lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries
Beginning from commit 4138cc3418, ioremap_nocache() sets the _PAGE_PWT
flag.

Lguest doesn't accept a guest pte with a _PWT flag and reports a "bad
page table entry" in that case.

Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
84f12e39c8 lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL
x86_64 don't expose the intermediate representation with one underline,
_PAGE_KERNEL, just the double-underlined one.

Use it, to get a common ground between 32 and 64-bit

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:19 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
382ac6b3fb lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments
We can save some lines of code by getting rid of
*lg = cpu... lines of code spread everywhere by now.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:18 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
934faab464 lguest: change gpte_addr header
gpte_addr() does not depend on any guest information. So we wipe out
the lg parameter from it completely.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:18 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2092aa277b lguest: change spte_addr header
spte_addr does not depend on any guest information, so we
wipe out the lg parameter completely.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:15 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
1713608f28 lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management
this patch makes the pgdir management per-vcpu. The pgdirs pool
is still guest-wide (although it'll probably need to grow when we
are really executing more vcpus), but the pgdidx index is gone,
since it makes no sense anymore. Instead, we use a per-vcpu
index.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:14 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
4665ac8e28 lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu
lguest struct have room for some fields, namely, cr2, ts, esp1
and ss1, that are not really guest-wide, but rather, vcpu-wide.

This patch puts it in the vcpu struct

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:13 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
a53a35a8b4 lguest: make registers per-vcpu
This is the most obvious per-vcpu field: registers.

So this patch moves it from struct lguest to struct vcpu,
and patch the places in which they are used, accordingly

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:11 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
0c78441cf4 lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu
The switcher needs to be mapped per-vcpu, because different vcpus
will potentially have different page tables (they don't have to,
because threads will share the same).

So our first step is the make the function receive a vcpu struct

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:09 +11:00
Rusty Russell
e1e72965ec lguest: documentation update
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes.  This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-25 15:02:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell
2d37f94a28 generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32.
Jes complains that page table code still uses lgread_u32 even though
it now uses general kernel pte types.  The best thing to do is to
generalize lgread_u32 and lgwrite_u32.

This means we lose the efficiency of getuser().  We could potentially
regain it if we used __copy_from_user instead of copy_from_user, but
I'm not certain that our range check is equivalent to access_ok() on
all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
2007-10-23 15:49:56 +10:00
Rusty Russell
47436aa4ad Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.

2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.

3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
   PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.

4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.

5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
   always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
   before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).

6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
   hypercall give us that, too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00
Rusty Russell
ee3db0f2b6 Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:53 +10:00
Matias Zabaljauregui
df29f43e65 Pagetables to use normal kernel types
This is my first step in the migration of page_tables.c to the kernel
types and functions/macros (2.6.23-rc3).  Seems to be working OK.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <matias.zabaljauregui@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:53 +10:00
Rusty Russell
3c6b5bfa3c Introduce guest mem offset, static link example launcher
In order to avoid problematic special linking of the Launcher, we give
the Host an offset: this means we can use any memory region in the
Launcher as Guest memory rather than insisting on mmap() at 0.

The result is quite pleasing: a number of casts are replaced with
simple additions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell
f56a384e98 lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEs
Documentation: The FIXMEs

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell
bff672e630 lguest: documentation V: Host
Documentation: The Host

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell
f938d2c892 lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.

So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:16 -07:00
Rusty Russell
d7e28ffe6c lguest: the host code
This is the code for the "lg.ko" module, which allows lguest guests to
be launched.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for futex-new-private-futexes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[jmorris@namei.org: lguest: use hrtimers]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:52 -07:00