1. 05 3月, 2007 7 次提交
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      [PATCH] vmi: fix nohz compile · a9eddc95
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      More goo from hrtimers integration.  We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ
      enabled.  There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but
      that was since fixed.
      
      And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that
      fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure.  This
      actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no
      longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of
      on_each_cpu().
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a9eddc95
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      [PATCH] vmi: pit override · e30fab3a
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      The time_init_hook in paravirt-ops no longer functions in the correct manner
      after the integration of the hrtimers code.  The problem is that now the call
      path for time initialization is:
      
        time_init :
             late_time_init = hpet_time_init;
      
        late_time_init -> hpet_time_init:
             setup_pit_timer (BAD)
             do_time_init --> (via paravirt.h)
                time_init_hook --> (via arch_hooks.h)
                    time_init_hook (in SUBARCH/setup.c)
      
      If this isn't confusing enough, the paravirt case goes through an indirect
      function pointer in the paravirt-ops table.  The problem is, by the time the
      paravirt hook is called, the pit timer is already enabled.
      
      But paravirt guests have their own timer, and don't want to use the PIT.
      Rather than intensify the struggle for power going on here, just make it all
      nice and simple and just unconditionally do all timer setup in the
      late_time_init hook.  This also has the advantage of enabling timers in the
      same place in all code paths, so everyone has the same bugs and we don't have
      outliers who break other code because they turn on timer too early or too
      late.
      
      So the paravirt-ops time init function is now by default hpet_time_init, which
      is the time init function used for native hardware.  Paravirt guests have the
      chance to override this when they setup the paravirt-ops table, and should
      need no change.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e30fab3a
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      [PATCH] vmi: paravirt drop udelay op · eda08b1b
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Not respecting udelay causes problems with any virtual hardware that is passed
      through to real hardware.  This can be noticed by any device that interacts
      with the real world in real time - like AP startup, which takes real time.  Or
      keyboard LEDs, which should blink in real-time.  Or floppy drives, but only
      when passed through to a real floppy controller on OSes which can't
      sufficiently buffer the floppy commands to emulate a zero latency floppy.  Or
      IDE drives, when connecting to a physical CDROM.
      
      This was mostly a hack to get the kernel to boot faster, but it introduced a
      number of misvirtualization bugs, and Alan and Pavel argued pretty strongly
      against it.  We were the only client, and now want to clean up this cruft.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      eda08b1b
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      [PATCH] vmi: fix highpte · 9a1c13e9
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping
      page tables.  This information is required so the physical address of PTE
      updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the
      physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even
      more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks.
      
      So lets not mess up arch neutral code to achieve this, but keep the horror in
      an #ifdef HIGHPTE in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h.  I had to use macros here
      because some types are not yet defined in all the include paths for this
      header.
      
      This patch is absolutely required for HIGHPTE kernels to operate properly with
      VMI.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9a1c13e9
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      [PATCH] vmi: cpu cycles fix · 1182d852
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we
      need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code.  This
      value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with
      real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can
      make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1182d852
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      [PATCH] vmi: sched clock paravirt op fix · 6cb9a835
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      The custom_sched_clock hook is broken.  The result from sched_clock needs to
      be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles.  The TSC is insufficient for this
      purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly
      represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be
      interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled).
      
      To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time,
      that is scheduled time.  So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it
      into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along.  This allows the tsc.c
      code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops
      backends.
      
      It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct
      abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine
      implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I
      ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even
      got in the wrong units.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6cb9a835
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      [PATCH] vmi: timer fixes round two · 7507ba34
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code.
      
      1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm
         armed.  Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate
         than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately.  This
         fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate
         than the non-idle case.
      
      2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock
         acquisition.  Drop this.  We don't need to check for wallclock time at
         every tick, it can be done in userspace instead.
      
      3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation.  This is useful as a last
         minute workaround, or testing measure.
      
      4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be
         conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured
         in as well.
      Signed-off-by: NDan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7507ba34
  2. 02 3月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 01 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86_64/i386 irq: Fix !CONFIG_SMP compilation · 2ff7354f
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      When removing set_native_irq I missed the fact that it was
      called in a couple of places that were compiled even when
      SMP support is disabled.  And since the irq_desc[].affinity
      field only exists in SMP things broke.
      
      Thanks to Simon Arlott <simon@arlott.org> for spotting this.
      
      There are a couple of ways to fix this but the simplest one
      is to just remove the assignments.  The affinity field is only
      used to display a value to the user, and nothing on either i386
      or x86_64 reads it or depends on it being any particlua value,
      so skipping the assignment is safe.  The assignment that
      is being removed is just for the initial affinity value before
      the user explicitly sets it.  The irq_desc array initializes
      this field to CPU_MASK_ALL so the field is initialized to
      a reasonable value in the SMP case without being set.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2ff7354f
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