- 16 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Two x86 patches broke lguest: 1) v2.6.35-492-g72d7c3b3, which changed x86 to use the memblock allocator. In lguest, the host places linear page tables at the top of mem, which used to be enough to get us up to the swapper_pg_dir page tables. With the first patch, the direct mapping tables used that memory: Before: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 7000-1a000 After: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 3fed000-4000000 I initially fixed this by lying about the amount of memory we had, so the kernel wouldn't blatt the lguest boot pagetables (yuk!), but then... 2) v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827fa, which made x86 boot use initial_page_table. This was initialized in a part of head_32.S which isn't executed by lguest; it is then copied into swapper_pg_dir. So we have to initialize it; and anyway we switch to it before we blatt the old tables, so that fixes the previous damage as well. For the moment, I cut & pasted the code into lguest's boot code, but next merge window I will merge them. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> To: x86@kernel.org
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- 14 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls"; we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for hypercalls. I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the same calling convention as kvm. KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm fails to make hypercalls. It was nice to share code with our KVM cousins, but this was overreach. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 30 7月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 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>
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由 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>
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- 12 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly into the callsites, so the C versions are always used. But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all the registers. In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path, so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler. The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of code, it's worth applying. 1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed) Before: Seconds: 0:16.53 Packets: 377268,753673 Interrupts: 22461,24297 Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370) Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095) After: Seconds: 0:16.48 Packets: 377289,753673 Interrupts: 22281,24465 Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377) Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109) Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 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>
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- 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Matias Zabaljauregui 提交于
Impact: cleanup This patch allow us to use KVM hypercalls Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 30 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Matias Zabaljauregui 提交于
This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host, so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs. Signed-off-by: NMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 28 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 25 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This patch contains only comment and whitespace changes. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 23 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack. The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters and commandline for us, saving more code. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages. 2) It means we don't have to know page_offset. 3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code. 4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset. 5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular). 6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial hypercall give us that, too. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops). This moves the guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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- 25 9月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
The assembly templates for lguest guest patching are in the .init.text section. This means that modules get patched with "cc cc cc cc" or similar junk. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 27 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Documentation: The FIXMEs Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Documentation: The Guest Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
This is the code for the "lg.ko" module, which allows lguest guests to be launched. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for futex-new-private-futexes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [jmorris@namei.org: lguest: use hrtimers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix] Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux. Unlike kvm it doesn't need VT/SVM hardware. Unlike Xen it's simply "modprobe and go". Unlike both, it's 5000 lines and self-contained. Performance is ok, but not great (-30% on kernel compile). But given its hackability, I expect this to improve, along with the paravirt_ops code which it supplies a complete example for. There's also a 64-bit version being worked on and other craziness. But most of all, lguest is awesome fun! Too much of the kernel is a big ball of hair. lguest is simple enough to dive into and hack, plus has some warts which scream "fork me!". This patch: This is the code and headers required to make an i386 kernel an lguest guest. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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