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Rusty Russell
19f1537b7b Lguest support for Virtio
This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices.

We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable
length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and
implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data.

We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host
virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the
host when it changes.

We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early
console output.  We could have another hypercall, but this hack works
quite well.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:56 +10:00
Rusty Russell
15045275c3 Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure.
This patch gets rid of the old lguest host I/O infrastructure and
replaces it with a single hypercall "LHCALL_NOTIFY" which takes an
address.

The main change is the removal of io.c: that mainly did inter-guest
I/O, which virtio doesn't yet support.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00
Rusty Russell
0ca49ca946 Remove old lguest bus and drivers.
This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make
way for a generic virtio mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00
Jes Sorensen
625efab1cd Move i386 part of core.c to x86/core.c.
Separate i386 architecture specific from core.c and move it to
x86/core.c and add x86/lguest.h header file to match.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:51 +10:00
Rusty Russell
1f4e1de4f2 Rename switcher.S to x86/switcher_32.S
lguest uses a "switcher" shim mapped high to bounce between host and
guest.  As lguest becomes less i386-centric, we separate this code
into a subdir.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell
34b8867a03 Move lguest guest support to arch/x86.
Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest
support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops).  This moves the
guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
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
709e89266b lguest: the Makefile and Kconfig
This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be
compiled.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.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