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authorgibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>2013-08-29 23:11:58 +0000
committergibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>2013-08-29 23:11:58 +0000
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Introduce a new, HVM compatible, paravirtualized timer driver for Xen.
Use this new driver for both PV and HVM instances. This driver requires a Xen hypervisor that supports vector callbacks, VCPUOP hypercalls, and reports that it has a "safe PV clock". New timer driver: Submitted by: will Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation PV port to new driver, and bug fixes: Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D sys/dev/xen/timer/timer.c: - Register a PV timer device driver which (currently) implements device_{identify,probe,attach} and stubs device_detach. The detach routine requires functionality not provided by timecounters(4). The suspend and resume routines need additional work (due to Xen requiring that the hypercalls be executed on the target VCPU), and aren't needed for our purposes. - Make sure there can only be one device instance of this driver, and that it only registers one eventtimers(4) and one timecounters(4) device interface. Make both interfaces use PCPU data as needed. - Match, with a few style cleanups & API differences, the Xen versions of the "fetch time" functions. - Document the magic scale_delta() better for the i386 version. - When registering the event timer, bind a separate event channel for the timer VIRQ to the device's event timer interrupt handler for each active VCPU. Describe each interrupt as "xen_et:c%d", so they can be identified per CPU in "vmstat -i" or "show intrcnt" in KDB. - When scheduling a timer into the hypervisor, try up to 60 times if the hypervisor rejects the time as being in the past. In the common case, this retry shouldn't happen, and if it does, it should only happen once. This is because the event timer advertises a minimum period of 100usec, which is only less than the usual hypercall round trip time about 1 out of every 100 tries. (Unlike other similar drivers, this one actually checks whether the hypervisor accepted the singleshot timer set hypercall.) - Implement a RTC PV clock based on the hypervisor wallclock. sys/conf/files: - Add dev/xen/timer/timer.c if the kernel configuration includes either the XEN or XENHVM options. sys/conf/files.i386: sys/i386/include/xen/xen_clock_util.h: sys/i386/xen/clock.c: sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c: sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c: sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c: - Remove previous PV timer used in i386 XEN PV kernels, the new timer introduced in this change is used instead (so we share the same code between PVHVM and PV). MFC after: 2 weeks
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@@ -2499,6 +2499,7 @@ dev/xen/control/control.c optional xen | xenhvm
dev/xen/netback/netback.c optional xen | xenhvm
dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c optional xen | xenhvm
dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c optional xenpci
+dev/xen/timer/timer.c optional xen | xenhvm
dev/xl/if_xl.c optional xl pci
dev/xl/xlphy.c optional xl pci
fs/deadfs/dead_vnops.c standard
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