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* Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-101-30/+26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/masterJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-04-071-1/+0
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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
| * | x86/paravirt: use percpu_ rather than __get_cpu_varJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: minor optimisation percpu_read/write is a slightly more direct way of getting to percpu data. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
| * | x86/paravirt: allow preemption with lazy mmu modeJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/endJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-8/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | x86/paravirt: flush pending mmu updates on context switchJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switchJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | x86/paravirt: remove lazy mode in interruptsJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: simplification, robustness Make paravirt_lazy_mode() always return PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE when in an interrupt. This prevents interrupt code from accidentally inheriting an outer lazy state, and instead does everything synchronously. Outer batched operations are left deferred. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | | x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernelsJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-05-151-0/+2
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 8efcbab674de2bee45a2e4cdf97de16b8e609ac8 | 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>
* | x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_presentJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-03-191-1/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86: refactor x86_quirks supportIngo Molnar2009-02-231-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Make x86_quirks support more transparent. The highlevel methods are now named: extern void x86_quirk_pre_intr_init(void); extern void x86_quirk_intr_init(void); extern void x86_quirk_trap_init(void); extern void x86_quirk_pre_time_init(void); extern void x86_quirk_time_init(void); This makes it clear that if some platform extension has to do something here that it is considered ... weird, and is discouraged. Also remove arch_hooks.h and move it into setup.h (and other header files where appropriate). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*-. Merge branches 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/pat', 'x86/setup-v2', 'x86/subarch', ↵Ingo Molnar2009-02-131-0/+26
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | 'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
| | * x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible contextThomas Gleixner2009-02-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Catch cases where lazy MMU state is active in a preemtible context arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu() has been changed to disable preemption so the checks in enter/leave will never trigger. Put the preemtible() check into arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu() to catch such cases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemptionJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-02-121-0/+24
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: avoid access to percpu vars in preempible context They are intended to be used whenever there's the possibility that there's some stale state which is going to be overwritten with a queued update, or to force a state change when we may be in lazy mode. Either way, we could end up calling it with preemption enabled, so wrap the functions in their own little preempt-disable section so they can be safely called in any context (though preemption should never be enabled if we're actually in a lazy state). (Move out of line to avoid #include dependencies.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etcJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-01-301-41/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Optimization In the native case, pte_val, make_pte, etc are all just identity functions, so there's no need to clobber a lot of registers over them. (This changes the 32-bit callee-save calling convention to return both EAX and EDX so functions can return 64-bit values.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressureJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-01-301-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patchingJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-01-301-9/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Optimization Several paravirt ops implementations simply return their arguments, the most obvious being the make_pte/pte_val class of operations on native. On 32-bit, the identity function is literally a no-op, as the calling convention uses the same registers for the first argument and return. On 64-bit, it can be implemented with a single "mov". This patch adds special identity functions for 32 and 64 bit argument, and machinery to recognize them and replace them with either nops or a mov as appropriate. At the moment, the only users for the identity functions are the pagetable entry conversion functions. The result is a measureable improvement on pagetable-heavy benchmarks (2-3%, reducing the pvops overhead from 5 to 2%). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | x86/pvops: remove pte_flags pvopJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-01-221-1/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | pte_flags() was introduced as a new pvop in order to extract just the flags portion of a pte, which is a potentially cheaper operation than extracting the page number as well. It turns out this operation is not needed, because simply using a mask to extract the flags from a pte is sufficient for all current users. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'linus' into x86/xenIngo Molnar2008-10-121-2/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
| * Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-BIngo Molnar2008-10-111-2/+0
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c arch/x86/kernel/setup.c drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
| | * Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apicIngo Molnar2008-07-251-1/+1
| | |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/pci/dmar.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * \ Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apicIngo Molnar2008-07-221-0/+28
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| | * | | x86: let 32bit use apic_ops too - fixYinghai Lu2008-07-141-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix for pv - clean up the namespace there too. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | x64, x2apic/intr-remap: Interrupt-remapping and x2apic supportSuresh Siddha2008-07-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:53:20PM -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Btw., i threw it at the -tip test-cluster and got back a quick build > bugreport: > > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c: In function 'xen_patch': > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1084: warning: label 'patch_site' defined but not used > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c: At top level: > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1272: error: expected identifier before '(' token > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1273: error: expected '}' before '.' token > arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:376:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive > #ifndedarch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:384:2: error: #endif without #if > > with this config: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul_10_21_43_28_CEST_2008.bad fix the typo. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Siddha Cc: Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "andi@firstfloor.org" <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: "steiner@sgi.com" <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: jeremy@goop.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | x64, x2apic/intr-remap: basic apic ops supportSuresh Siddha2008-07-121-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce basic apic operations which handle the apic programming. This will be used later to introduce another specific operations for x2apic. For the perfomance critial accesses like IPI's, EOI etc, we use the native operations as they are already referenced by different indirections like genapic, irq_chip etc. 64bit Paravirt ops can also define their apic operations accordingly. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org Cc: steiner@sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debugIngo Molnar2008-09-221-1/+1
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| | * | | | x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPLJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-08-211-1/+1
| | | |_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for pv_lock_ops to be. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
| * | | | x86_64: printout msr -v2Yinghai Lu2008-08-221-0/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commandline show_msr=1 for bsp, show_msr=32 for all 32 cpus. [ mingo@elte.hu: added documentation ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | Merge branch 'x86/spinlocks' into x86/xenIngo Molnar2008-07-311-23/+0
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| * | | | x86: split spinlock implementations out into their own filesJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-241-23/+0
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ftrace requires certain low-level code, like spinlocks and timestamps, to be compiled without -pg in order to avoid infinite recursion. This patch splits out the core paravirt spinlocks and the Xen spinlocks into separate files which can be compiled without -pg. Also do xen/time.c while we're about it. As a result, we can now use ftrace within a Xen domain. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | x86/paravirt/xen: properly fill out the ldt opsJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-241-0/+4
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LTP testing showed that Xen does not properly implement sys_modify_ldt(). This patch does the final little bits needed to make the ldt work properly. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated)Rusty Russell2008-07-221-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (Jeremy said: rusty: use PTE_MASK rusty: use PTE_MASK rusty: use PTE_MASK When I asked: jsgf: does that include the NX flag? He responded eloquently: rusty: use PTE_MASK rusty: use PTE_MASK yes, it's the official constant of masking flags out of ptes ) Change a15af1c9ea2750a9ff01e51615c45950bad8221b 'x86/paravirt: add pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags() in favor of a generic one. Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits: this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing up host memory. Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems safest to always do the filtering. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-and-morning-tea-spilled-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'x86/paravirt-spinlocks' into x86/for-linusIngo Molnar2008-07-211-0/+24
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| * | x86: paravirt spinlocks, modular build fixIngo Molnar2008-07-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix: MODPOST 408 modules ERROR: "pv_lock_ops" [net/dccp/dccp.ko] undefined! ERROR: "pv_lock_ops" [fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko] undefined! ERROR: "pv_lock_ops" [drivers/media/common/saa7146_vv.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: paravirt spinlocks, !CONFIG_SMP build fixesIngo Molnar2008-07-161-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementationJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-161-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement a version of the old spinlock algorithm, in which everyone spins waiting for a lock byte. In order to be compatible with the ticket-lock's use of a zero initializer, this uses the convention of '0' for unlocked and '1' for locked. This algorithm is much better than ticket locks in a virtual envionment, because it doesn't interact badly with the vcpu scheduler. If there are multiple vcpus spinning on a lock and the lock is released, the next vcpu to be scheduled will take the lock, rather than cycling around until the next ticketed vcpu gets it. To use this, you must call paravirt_use_bytelocks() very early, before any spinlocks have been taken. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86/paravirt: add hooks for spinlock operationsJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-161-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ticket spinlocks have absolutely ghastly worst-case performance characteristics in a virtual environment. If there is any contention for physical CPUs (ie, there are more runnable vcpus than cpus), then ticket locks can cause the system to end up spending 90+% of its time spinning. The problem is that (v)cpus waiting on a ticket spinlock will be granted access to the lock in strict order they got their tickets. If the hypervisor scheduler doesn't give the vcpus time in that order, they will burn timeslices waiting for the scheduler to give the right vcpu some time. In the worst case it could take O(n^2) vcpu scheduler timeslices for everyone waiting on the lock to get it, not counting new cpus trying to take the lock while the log-jam is sorted out. These hooks allow a paravirt backend to replace the spinlock implementation. At the very least, this could revert the implementation back to the old lock algorithm, which allows the next scheduled vcpu to take the lock, and has basically fairly good performance. It also allows the spinlocks to take advantages of the hypervisor features to make locks more efficient (spin and block, for example). The cost to native execution is an extra direct call when using a spinlock function. There's no overhead if CONFIG_PARAVIRT is turned off. The lock structure is fixed at a single "unsigned int", initialized to zero, but the spinlock implementation can use it as it wishes. Thanks to Thomas Friebel's Xen Summit talk "Preventing Guests from Spinning Around" for pointing out this problem. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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*---. \ \ Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-07-211-1/+4
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | |/ / | |_|_| / |/| | | 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus
| | | * x86/paravirt: call paravirt_pagetable_setup_{start, done}Eduardo Habkost2008-07-161-0/+4
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Call paravirt_pagetable_setup_{start,done} These paravirt_ops functions were not being called on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: APIC: remove apic_write_around(); use alternativesMaciej W. Rozycki2008-07-181-1/+0
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time. Remove the X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum. Remove apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed. Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends. The use of ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have used it for readability's sake. I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead and here it is. Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP "feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days). Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I have disregarded it. I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I have left changes to them out. The option will get removed from them at the next run. Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will everywhere. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: rename paravirtualized TSC functionsAlok Kataria2008-07-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename the paravirtualized calculate_cpu_khz to calibrate_tsc. In all cases, we actually calibrate_tsc and use that as the cpu_khz value. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86, paravirt, 64-bit: fix compile errors with IA32_EMULATION offJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt, 64-bit: make load_gs_index() a paravirt operationJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt, 64-bit: add adjust_exception_frameJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 64-bit Xen pushes a couple of extra words onto an exception frame. Add a hook to deal with them. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt: add sysret/sysexit pvops for returning to 32-bit compatibility ↵Jeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | userspace In a 64-bit system, we need separate sysret/sysexit operations to return to a 32-bit userspace. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt, 64-bit: don't restore user rsp within sysretJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no need to combine restoring the user rsp within the sysret pvop, so split it out. This makes the pvop's semantics closer to the machine instruction. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt: split sysret and sysexitJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD system). sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts. sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/paravirt: add a pgd_alloc/free hooksJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-07-081-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add hooks which are called at pgd_alloc/free time. The pgd_alloc hook may return an error code, which if non-zero, causes the pgd allocation to be failed. The hooks may be used to allocate/free auxillary per-pgd information. also fix: > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free': > include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from > arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free': > include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'x86/fixmap' into x86/develIngo Molnar2008-07-081-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/init_64.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86/paravirt/xen: add set_fixmap pv_mmu_opsJeremy Fitzhardinge2008-06-201-0/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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