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* xen: Remove trailing semicolon from xenbus_register_frontend() definitionYuval Shaia2015-03-021-2/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preemptedDavid Vrabel2015-02-231-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hypercalls submitted by user space tools via the privcmd driver can take a long time (potentially many 10s of seconds) if the hypercall has many sub-operations. A fully preemptible kernel may deschedule such as task in any upcall called from a hypercall continuation. However, in a kernel with voluntary or no preemption, hypercall continuations in Xen allow event handlers to be run but the task issuing the hypercall will not be descheduled until the hypercall is complete and the ioctl returns to user space. These long running tasks may also trigger the kernel's soft lockup detection. Add xen_preemptible_hcall_begin() and xen_preemptible_hcall_end() to bracket hypercalls that may be preempted. Use these in the privcmd driver. When returning from an upcall, call xen_maybe_preempt_hcall() which adds a schedule point if if the current task was within a preemptible hypercall. Since _cond_resched() can move the task to a different CPU, clear and set xen_in_preemptible_hcall around the call. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2015-02-101-0/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro. [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is ok. - Linus ] 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie lookup implementation. From Alexander Duyck. 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig. 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics. From Daniel Borkmann. 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet. 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet. 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers. From Florian Westphal. 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross. 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko. 10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer. 11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman Kwok. 12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in serious ACK storms. From Neal Cardwell. 13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu, Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf. 14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla. 15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf. 16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert. 17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets. From Vlad Yasevich. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits) crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches. bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap" cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach() IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events tipc: remove tipc_snprintf tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat ...
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2015-01-151-0/+51
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/net/xen-netfront.c Minor overlapping changes in xen-netfront.c, mostly to do with some buffer management changes alongside the split of stats into TX and RX. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | xen: add page_to_mfn()David Vrabel2015-01-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(p)) is a common use case so add a generic helper for it. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | xen/gntdev: mark userspace PTEs as special on x86 PV guestsDavid Vrabel2015-01-282-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In an x86 PV guest, get_user_pages_fast() on a userspace address range containing foreign mappings does not work correctly because the M2P lookup of the MFN from a userspace PTE may return the wrong page. Force get_user_pages_fast() to fail on such addresses by marking the PTEs as special. If Xen has XENFEAT_gnttab_map_avail_bits (available since at least 4.0), we can do so efficiently in the grant map hypercall. Otherwise, it needs to be done afterwards. This is both inefficient and racy (the mapping is visible to the task before we fixup the PTEs), but will be fine for well-behaved applications that do not use the mapping until after the mmap() system call returns. Guests with XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap (ARM and x86 HVM or PVH) do not need this since get_user_pages() has always worked correctly for them. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
* | | xen/grant-table: add a mechanism to safely unmap pages that are in useJennifer Herbert2015-01-281-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce gnttab_unmap_refs_async() that can be used to safely unmap pages that may be in use (ref count > 1). If the pages are in use the unmap is deferred and retried later. This polling is not very clever but it should be good enough if the cases where the delay is necessary are rare. The initial delay is 5 ms and is increased linearly on each subsequent retry (to reduce load if the page is in use for a long time). This is needed to allow block backends using grant mapping to safely use network storage (block or filesystem based such as iSCSI or NFS). The network storage driver may complete a block request whilst there is a queued network packet retry (because the ack from the remote end races with deciding to queue the retry). The pages for the retried packet would be grant unmapped and the network driver (or hardware) would access the unmapped page. Signed-off-by: Jennifer Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* | | xen: mark grant mapped pages as foreignJennifer Herbert2015-01-281-0/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the "foreign" page flag to mark pages that have a grant map. Use page->private to store information of the grant (the granting domain and the grant reference). Signed-off-by: Jennifer Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* | | xen/grant-table: add helpers for allocating pagesDavid Vrabel2015-01-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add gnttab_alloc_pages() and gnttab_free_pages() to allocate/free pages suitable to for granted maps. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
* | | xen/grant-table: pre-populate kernel unmap ops for xen_gnttab_unmap_refs()David Vrabel2015-01-281-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When unmapping grants, instead of converting the kernel map ops to unmap ops on the fly, pre-populate the set of unmap ops. This allows the grant unmap for the kernel mappings to be trivially batched in the future. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
* | x86/xen: properly retrieve NMI reasonJan Beulich2015-01-131-0/+51
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the native code here can't work properly, as the hypervisor would normally have cleared the two reason bits by the time Dom0 gets to see the NMI (if passed to it at all). There's a shared info field for this, and there's an existing hook to use - just fit the two together. This is particularly relevant so that NMIs intended to be handled by APEI / GHES actually make it to the respective handler. Note that the hook can (and should) be used irrespective of whether being in Dom0, as accessing port 0x61 in a DomU would be even worse, while the shared info field would just hold zero all the time. Note further that hardware NMI handling for PVH doesn't currently work anyway due to missing code in the hypervisor (but it is expected to work the native rather than the PV way). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen/arm: introduce GNTTABOP_cache_flushStefano Stabellini2014-12-041-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce support for new hypercall GNTTABOP_cache_flush. Use it to perform cache flashing on pages used for dma when necessary. If GNTTABOP_cache_flush is supported by the hypervisor, we don't need to bounce dma map operations that involve foreign grants and non-coherent devices. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
* xen/arm: remove handling of XENFEAT_grant_map_identityStefano Stabellini2014-12-041-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | The feature has been removed from Xen. Also Linux cannot use it on ARM32 without CONFIG_ARM_LPAE. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macroDavid Vrabel2014-10-061-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse errors. Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead. This is similar to pci and usb device registration. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen: sync some headers with xen treeJuergen Gross2014-10-032-26/+294
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | To be able to use an initially unmapped initrd with xen the following header files must be synced to a newer version from the xen tree: include/xen/interface/elfnote.h include/xen/interface/xen.h As the KEXEC and DUMPCORE related ELFNOTES are not relevant for the kernel they are omitted from elfnote.h. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen: Add Xen pvSCSI protocol descriptionJuergen Gross2014-09-231-0/+229
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the definition of pvSCSI protocol used between the pvSCSI frontend in a XEN domU and the pvSCSI backend in a XEN driver domain (usually Dom0). This header was originally provided by Fujitsu for Xen based on Linux 2.6.18. Changes are: - Added comments. - Adapt to Linux style guide. - Add support for larger SG-lists by putting them in an own granted page. - Remove stale definitions. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen/events: support threaded irqs for interdomain event channelsJuergen Gross2014-09-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Export bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irq() so drivers can use threaded interrupt handlers with: irq = bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irq(remote_dom, remote_port); if (irq < 0) /* error */ ret = request_threaded_irq(...); Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen/arm: introduce XENFEAT_grant_map_identityStefano Stabellini2014-09-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | The flag tells us that the hypervisor maps a grant page to guest physical address == machine address of the page in addition to the normal grant mapping address. It is needed to properly issue cache maintenance operation at the completion of a DMA operation involving a foreign grant. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Tested-by: Denis Schneider <v1ne2go@gmail.com>
* Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-rc0-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-08-071-29/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen updates from David Vrabel: - remove unused V2 grant table support - note that Konrad is xen-blkkback/front maintainer - add 'xen_nopv' option to disable PV extentions for x86 HVM guests - misc minor cleanups * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen-pciback: Document the 'quirks' sysfs file xen/pciback: Fix error return code in xen_pcibk_attach() xen/events: drop negativity check of unsigned parameter xen/setup: Remove Identity Map Debug Message xen/events/fifo: remove a unecessary use of BM() xen/events/fifo: ensure all bitops are properly aligned even on x86 xen/events/fifo: reset control block and local HEADs on resume xen/arm: use BUG_ON xen/grant-table: remove support for V2 tables x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic context MAINTAINERS: Make me the Xen block subsystem (front and back) maintainer xen: Introduce 'xen_nopv' to disable PV extensions for HVM guests.
| * xen/grant-table: remove support for V2 tablesDavid Vrabel2014-07-141-29/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 11c7ff17c9b6dbf3a4e4f36be30ad531a6cf0ec9 (xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.) the code for V2 grant tables is not used. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
| * x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic contextDavid Vrabel2014-07-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | arch_gnttab_map_frames() and arch_gnttab_unmap_frames() are called in atomic context but were calling alloc_vm_area() which might sleep. Also, if a driver attempts to allocate a grant ref from an interrupt and the table needs expanding, then the CPU may already by in lazy MMU mode and apply_to_page_range() will BUG when it tries to re-enable lazy MMU mode. These two functions are only used in PV guests. Introduce arch_gnttab_init() to allocates the virtual address space in advance. Avoid the use of apply_to_page_range() by using saving and using the array of PTE addresses from the alloc_vm_area() call. N.B. 'alloc_vm_area' pre-allocates the pagetable so there is no need to worry about having to do a PGD/PUD/PMD walk (like apply_to_page_range does) and we can instead do set_pte. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> ---- [v2: Add comment about alloc_vm_area] [v3: Fix compile error found by 0-day bot]
* | Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-08-042-0/+134
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes in this cycle are: - arm64 efi stub fixes, preservation of FP/SIMD registers across firmware calls, and conversion of the EFI stub code into a static library - Ard Biesheuvel - Xen EFI support - Daniel Kiper - Support for autoloading the efivars driver - Lee, Chun-Yi - Use the PE/COFF headers in the x86 EFI boot stub to request that the stub be loaded with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN alignment - Michael Brown - Consolidate all the x86 EFI quirks into one file - Saurabh Tangri - Additional error logging in x86 EFI boot stub - Ulf Winkelvos - Support loading initrd above 4G in EFI boot stub - Yinghai Lu - EFI reboot patches for ACPI hardware reduced platforms" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) efi/arm64: Handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table arch/x86/xen: Silence compiler warnings xen: Silence compiler warnings x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers x86/efi: Add better error logging to EFI boot stub efi: Autoload efivars efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars arch/x86: Remove efi_set_rtc_mmss() arch/x86: Replace plain strings with constants xen: Put EFI machinery in place xen: Define EFI related stuff arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_MEMMAP) call arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES) call efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag arch/x86: Do not access EFI memory map if it is not available efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*() arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap() x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem() ...
| * | xen: Silence compiler warningsDaniel Kiper2014-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add inline keyword to silence the following compiler warnings if xen_efi_probe() is not used: CC arch/x86/xen/setup.o In file included from arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h:7:0, from arch/x86/xen/setup.c:31: include/xen/xen-ops.h:43:35: warning: ‘xen_efi_probe’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
| * | xen: Put EFI machinery in placeDaniel Kiper2014-07-181-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables EFI usage under Xen dom0. Standard EFI Linux Kernel infrastructure cannot be used because it requires direct access to EFI data and code. However, in dom0 case it is not possible because above mentioned EFI stuff is fully owned and controlled by Xen hypervisor. In this case all calls from dom0 to EFI must be requested via special hypercall which in turn executes relevant EFI code in behalf of dom0. When dom0 kernel boots it checks for EFI availability on a machine. If it is detected then artificial EFI system table is filled. Native EFI callas are replaced by functions which mimics them by calling relevant hypercall. Later pointer to EFI system table is passed to standard EFI machinery and it continues EFI subsystem initialization taking into account that there is no direct access to EFI boot services, runtime, tables, structures, etc. After that system runs as usual. This patch is based on Jan Beulich and Tang Liang work. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tang Liang <liang.tang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
| * | xen: Define EFI related stuffDaniel Kiper2014-07-181-0/+123
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define constants and structures which are needed to properly execute EFI related hypercall in Xen dom0. This patch is based on Jan Beulich and Tang Liang work. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tang Liang <liang.tang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.16-rc7-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-07-301-0/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen fix from David Vrabel: "Fix BUG when trying to expand the grant table. This seems to occur often during boot with Ubuntu 14.04 PV guests" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.16-rc7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic context
| * x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic contextDavid Vrabel2014-07-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | arch_gnttab_map_frames() and arch_gnttab_unmap_frames() are called in atomic context but were calling alloc_vm_area() which might sleep. Also, if a driver attempts to allocate a grant ref from an interrupt and the table needs expanding, then the CPU may already by in lazy MMU mode and apply_to_page_range() will BUG when it tries to re-enable lazy MMU mode. These two functions are only used in PV guests. Introduce arch_gnttab_init() to allocates the virtual address space in advance. Avoid the use of apply_to_page_range() by using saving and using the array of PTE addresses from the alloc_vm_area() call (which ensures that the required page tables are pre-allocated). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2014-06-121-0/+53
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J Benniston. 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn Mork. 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez. 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee. 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia. 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy. 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli. 10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu. 11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses, from Lorenzo Colitti. 12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal Cardwell. 13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman. 14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru. 15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich. 16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits) rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery net: fec: Add software TSO support net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number net: fec: Factorize feature setting net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem net/core: Add VF link state control policy net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving ...
| * | xen-net{back, front}: Document multi-queue feature in netif.hAndrew J. Bennieston2014-06-041-0/+53
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the multi-queue feature in terms of XenStore keys to be written by the backend and by the frontend. Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@citrix.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'for-3.16/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block into nextLinus Torvalds2014-06-021-1/+1
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe: "Now that the core bits are in, here's the pull request for the driver related changes for 3.16. Nothing out of the ordinary here, mostly business as usual. There are a few pulls of for-3.16/core into this branch, which were done when the blk-mq was modified after the mtip32xx conversion was put in. The pull request contains: - skd and cciss converted to use pci_enable_msix_exact(). From Alexander Gordeev. - A few mtip32xx fixes from Asai @ Micron. - The conversion of mtip32xx from make_request_fn to blk-mq, and a later small fix for that conversion on quiescing for non-queued IO. From me. - A fix for bsg to use an exported function to check whether this driver is request based or not. Needed updating for blk-mq, which is request based, but does not have a request_fn hook. From me. - Small floppy bug fix from Jiri. - A series of cleanups for the cdrom uniform layer from Joe Perches. Gets rid of various old ugly macros, making the code conform more to the modern coding style. - A series of patches for drbd from the drbd crew (Lars Ellenberg and Philipp Reisner). - A use-after-free fix for null_blk from Ming Lei. - Also from Ming Lei is a performance patch for virtio-blk, which can net us a 3x win on kvm platforms where world notification is expensive. - Ming Lei also fixed a stall issue in virtio-blk, due to a race between queue start/stop and resource limits. - A small batch of fixes for xen-blk{back,front} from Olaf Hering and Valentin Priescu" * 'for-3.16/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits) block: virtio_blk: don't hold spin lock during world switch xen-blkback: defer freeing blkif to avoid blocking xenwatch xen blkif.h: fix comment typo in discard-alignment xen/blkback: disable discard feature if requested by toolstack xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard floppy: do not corrupt bio.bi_flags when reading block 0 mtip32xx: move error handling to service thread virtio_blk: fix race between start and stop queue mtip32xx: stop block hardware queues before quiescing IO mtip32xx: blk_mq_init_queue() returns an ERR_PTR mtip32xx: convert to use blk-mq cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_get_disc_info cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_mrw_exit cdrom: Remove cdrom_count_tracks prototype cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_next_writeable prototype cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_last_written prototype cdrom: Move mmc_ioctls above cdrom_ioctl to remove unnecessary prototype cdrom: Remove unnecessary sanitize_format prototype cdrom: Remove unnecessary check_for_audio_disc prototype cdrom: Remove prototype for open_for_data ...
| * | xen blkif.h: fix comment typo in discard-alignmentOlaf Hering2014-05-281-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the missing 'n' to discard-alignment Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* | xen: refactor suspend pre/post hooksDavid Vrabel2014-05-121-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New architectures currently have to provide implementations of 5 different functions: xen_arch_pre_suspend(), xen_arch_post_suspend(), xen_arch_hvm_post_suspend(), xen_mm_pin_all(), and xen_mm_unpin_all(). Refactor the suspend code to only require xen_arch_pre_suspend() and xen_arch_post_suspend(). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
* | arm: xen: implement multicall hypercall support.Ian Campbell2014-04-241-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As part of this make the usual change to xen_ulong_t in place of unsigned long. This change has no impact on x86. The Linux definition of struct multicall_entry.result differs from the Xen definition, I think for good reasons, and used a long rather than an unsigned long. Therefore introduce a xen_long_t, which is a long on x86 architectures and a signed 64-bit integer on ARM. Use uint32_t nr_calls on x86 for consistency with the ARM definition. Build tested on amd64 and i386 builds. Runtime tested on ARM. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* xen/acpi-processor: fix enabling interrupts on syscore_resumeStanislaw Gruszka2014-03-181-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | syscore->resume() callback is expected to do not enable interrupts, it generates warning like below otherwise: [ 9386.365390] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6733 at drivers/base/syscore.c:104 syscore_resume+0x9a/0xe0() [ 9386.365403] Interrupts enabled after xen_acpi_processor_resume+0x0/0x34 [xen_acpi_processor] ... [ 9386.365429] Call Trace: [ 9386.365434] [<ffffffff81667a8b>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 [ 9386.365437] [<ffffffff8106921d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 [ 9386.365439] [<ffffffff8106928c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50 [ 9386.365442] [<ffffffffa0261bb0>] ? xen_upload_processor_pm_data+0x300/0x300 [xen_acpi_processor] [ 9386.365443] [<ffffffff814055fa>] syscore_resume+0x9a/0xe0 [ 9386.365445] [<ffffffff810aef42>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x402/0x470 [ 9386.365447] [<ffffffff810af128>] pm_suspend+0x178/0x260 On xen_acpi_processor_resume() we call various procedures, which are non atomic and can enable interrupts. To prevent the issue introduce separate resume notify called after we enable interrupts on resume and before we call other drivers resume callbacks. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* xen: add support for MSI message groupsRoger Pau Monne2014-03-182-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for MSI message groups for Xen Dom0 using the MAP_PIRQ_TYPE_MULTI_MSI pirq map type. In order to keep track of which pirq is the first one in the group all pirqs in the MSI group except for the first one have the newly introduced PIRQ_MSI_GROUP flag set. This prevents calling PHYSDEVOP_unmap_pirq on them, since the unmap must be done with the first pirq in the group. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
* xen/xenbus: remove unused xenbus_bind_evtchn()David Vrabel2014-02-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | xenbus_bind_evtchn() has no callers so remove it. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
* xen/events: remove the unused resend_irq_on_evtchn()David Vrabel2014-02-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | resend_irq_on_evtchn() was only used by ia64 (which no longer has Xen support). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2014-02-141-20/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe: "Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2. Most of this stuff has been queued up for a while. The notable exception is the blk-mq changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still. The pull request contains: - Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid or swap. From Kent. - Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph. A fix for integrity bio's from Nic. - A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong. - xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne. - Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin. - Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria. - Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests from Shlomo Pongratz. - Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun. - Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from me" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits) block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request blk-mq: dont assume rq->errors is set when returning an error from ->queue_rq block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request blk-mq: rework I/O completions fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq ...
| * Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.14' of ↵Jens Axboe2014-02-101-20/+14
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip into for-linus Konrad writes: Please git pull the following branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14 which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so. The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14. They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes. There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the __aligned__ unnecessarily.
| | * xen-blkif: drop struct blkif_request_segment_alignedRoger Pau Monne2014-02-071-20/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was wrongly introduced in commit 402b27f9, the only difference between blkif_request_segment_aligned and blkif_request_segment is that the former has a named padding, while both share the same memory layout. Also correct a few minor glitches in the description, including for it to no longer assume PAGE_SIZE == 4096. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> [Description fix by Jan Beulich] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* | | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc2-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-02-124-350/+0
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "This has an healthy amount of code being removed - which we do not use anymore (the only user of it was ia64 Xen which had been removed already). The other bug-fixes are to make Xen ARM be able to use the new event channel mechanism and proper export of header files to user-space. Summary: - Fix ARM and Xen FIFO not working. - Remove more Xen ia64 vestigates. - Fix UAPI missing Xen files" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 even more xen: install xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.h xen/events: bind all new interdomain events to VCPU0
| * | | ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 even morePaul Bolle2014-02-112-118/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit d52eefb47d4e ("ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64") removed the Kconfig symbol XEN_XENCOMM. But it didn't remove the code depending on that symbol. Remove that code now. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
| * | | xen: install xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.hDavid Vrabel2014-02-112-232/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.h both provide userspace ABIs so they should be installed. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* | | | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-02-051-6/+2
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Bug-fixes: - Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping" as it broke Xen ARM build. - Fix CR4 not being set on AP processors in Xen PVH mode" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/pvh: set CR4 flags for APs Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"
| * | | Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2014-02-031-6/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 08ece5bb2312b4510b161a6ef6682f37f4eac8a1. As it breaks ARM builds and needs more attention on the ARM side. Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* | | | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-311-3/+7
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / | | / / | |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Bug-fixes for the new features that were added during this cycle. There are also two fixes for long-standing issues for which we have a solution: grant-table operations extra work that was not needed causing performance issues and the self balloon code was too aggressive causing OOMs. Details: - Xen ARM couldn't use the new FIFO events - Xen ARM couldn't use the SWIOTLB if compiled as 32-bit with 64-bit PCIe devices. - Grant table were doing needless M2P operations. - Ratchet down the self-balloon code so it won't OOM. - Fix misplaced kfree in Xen PVH error code paths" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t) arm/xen: Initialize event channels earlier
| * | xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mappingZoltan Kiss2014-01-311-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it, for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following: - the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a new parameter m2p_override - based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or just set the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine - gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs with m2p_override false - a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old behaviour It also removes a stray space from page.h and change ret to 0 if XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap, as that is the only possible return value there. v2: - move the storing of the old mfn in page->index to gnttab_map_refs - move the function header update to a separate patch v3: - a new approach to retain old behaviour where it needed - squash the patches into one v4: - move out the common bits from m2p* functions, and pass pfn/mfn as parameter - clear page->private before doing anything with the page, so m2p_find_override won't race with this v5: - change return value handling in __gnttab_[un]map_refs - remove a stray space in page.h - add detail why ret = 0 now at some places v6: - don't pass pfn to m2p* functions, just get it locally Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com> Suggested-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
| * | xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base addressJulien Grall2014-01-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On ARM, address size can be 32 bits or 64 bits (if CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is enabled). We can't assume that the grant frame base address will always fits in an unsigned long. Use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long as argument for gnttab_setup_auto_xlat_frames. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
* | | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-227-9/+135
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Two major features that Xen community is excited about: The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO queue with priorities. This lets us be able to handle more events, have lower latency, and better scalability. Good stuff. The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor. In short, PV is a mode where the kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc. With EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the hypervisor doing it for us. In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment, syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done within the guest container. It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH' name - a PV guest within an HVM container. The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc. It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone. But it is pretty awesome and we are excited about it. Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next. In short, this pull has awesome features. Features: - FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000 events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs. - Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system calls and other privileged operations." (from "The Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum") Bug-fixes: - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM) - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests. - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly. - Refactors in event channels" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits) xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2) MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'. xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup() xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init() xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain() xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants. xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3). xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus. xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4) xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3). xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init. xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2) xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2) xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs) ...
| * | xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).Mukesh Rathor2014-01-061-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PVH allows PV linux guest to utilize hardware extended capabilities, such as running MMU updates in a HVM container. The Xen side defines PVH as (from docs/misc/pvh-readme.txt, with modifications): "* the guest uses auto translate: - p2m is managed by Xen - pagetables are owned by the guest - mmu_update hypercall not available * it uses event callback and not vlapic emulation, * IDT is native, so set_trap_table hcall is also N/A for a PVH guest. For a full list of hcalls supported for PVH, see pvh_hypercall64_table in arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in xen. From the ABI prespective, it's mostly a PV guest with auto translate, although it does use hvm_op for setting callback vector." Use .ascii and .asciz to define xen feature string. Note, the PVH string must be in a single line (not multiple lines with \) to keep the assembler from putting null char after each string before \. This patch allows it to be configured and enabled. We also use introduce the 'XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES' ELF note to tell the hypervisor that 'hvm_callback_vector' is what the kernel needs. We can not put it in 'XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES' as older hypervisor parse fields they don't understand as errors and refuse to load the kernel. This work-around fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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