1. 30 7月, 2009 2 次提交
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      lguest: update commentry · a91d74a3
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Every so often, after code shuffles, I need to go through and unbitrot
      the Lguest Journey (see drivers/lguest/README).  Since we now use RCU in
      a simple form in one place I took the opportunity to expand that explanation.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      a91d74a3
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      lguest: fix comment style · 2e04ef76
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      I don't really notice it (except to begrudge the extra vertical
      space), but Ingo does.  And he pointed out that one excuse of lguest
      is as a teaching tool, it should set a good example.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      2e04ef76
  2. 12 6月, 2009 5 次提交
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      lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call · 5dac051b
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
      host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
      Guest process (aka. the Launcher).
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      5dac051b
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      lguest: use eventfds for device notification · df60aeef
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with
      an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures
      out what device to run.
      
      A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we
      find one, we simply signal the eventfd.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      df60aeef
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      lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries · ed1dc778
      Matias Zabaljauregui 提交于
      Map switcher with executable page table entries.
      (This bug didn't matter before PAE and hence NX support -- RR)
      Signed-off-by: NMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      ed1dc778
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      lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking · a32a8813
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
      things still worked.  However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
      performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
      and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.
      
      These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
      patch space, so we drop that code.
      
      Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
      effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
      faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
      hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!
      
      Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
      measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.
      
      Before:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		30.7 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	76.0 seconds
      
      After:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		6.8 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	27.8 seconds
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a32a8813
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      lguest: fix race in halt code · abd41f03
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      When the Guest does the LHCALL_HALT hypercall, we go to sleep, expecting
      that a timer or the Waker will wake_up_process() us.
      
      But we do it in a stupid way, leaving a classic missing wakeup race.
      
      So split maybe_do_interrupt() into interrupt_pending() and
      try_deliver_interrupt(), and check maybe_do_interrupt() and the
      "break_out" flag before calling schedule.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      abd41f03
  3. 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 30 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 29 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 28 3月, 2008 1 次提交
  7. 11 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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      lguest: fix __get_vm_area usage. · f14ae652
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Robert Bragg's 5dc33185 tightened
      (ie. fixed) the checking in __get_vm_area, and it broke lguest.
      
      lguest should pass the exact "end" it wants, not some random constant
      (it was possible previously that it would actually get an address
      different from SWITCHER_ADDR).
      
      Also, Fabio Checconi pointed out that we should make sure we're not
      hitting the fixmap area.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Robert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org>
      f14ae652
  8. 30 1月, 2008 8 次提交
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  10. 23 10月, 2007 7 次提交
  11. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      paravirt: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops · 93b1eab3
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of
      functionally related ops:
      
      pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints
      pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too)
      pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else
      pv_time_ops - time-related functions
      pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops
      pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state
      pv_apic_ops - APIC operations
      pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables
      
      There are several motivations for this:
      
      1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be
         i386/x86-64 specific.  This makes it easier to share common stuff
         while allowing separate implementations where needed.
      
      2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only
         need selected parts of it.  This allows us to export on a case by case
         basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply).
      
      3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable.
      
      Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate
      patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting
      into jmp/calls when patching.  It is only instantiated when needed.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
      Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
      93b1eab3
  12. 09 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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      lguest: Fix Malicious Guest GDT Host Crash · 0d027c01
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      If a Guest makes hypercall which sets a GDT entry to not present, we
      currently set any segment registers using that GDT entry to 0.
      Unfortunately, this is not sufficient: there are other ways of
      altering GDT entries which will cause a fault.
      
      The correct solution to do what Linux does: let them set any GDT value
      they want and handle the #GP when popping causes a fault.  This has
      the added benefit of making our Switcher slightly more robust in the
      case of any other bugs which cause it to fault.
      
      We kill the Guest if it causes a fault in the Switcher: it's the
      Guest's responsibility to make sure it's not using segments when it
      changes them.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0d027c01
  13. 27 7月, 2007 4 次提交
  14. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交