1. 20 7月, 2007 6 次提交
  2. 18 7月, 2007 17 次提交
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      xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver · 4bac07c9
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      This communicates with the machine control software via a registry
      residing in a controlling virtual machine. This allows dynamic
      creation, destruction and modification of virtual device
      configurations (network devices, block devices and CPUS, to name some
      examples).
      
      [ Greg, would you mind giving this a review?  Thanks -J ]
      Signed-off-by: NIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
      4bac07c9
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      xen: Core Xen implementation · 5ead97c8
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      This patch is a rollup of all the core pieces of the Xen
      implementation, including:
       - booting and setup
       - pagetable setup
       - privileged instructions
       - segmentation
       - interrupt flags
       - upcalls
       - multicall batching
      
      BOOTING AND SETUP
      
      The vmlinux image is decorated with ELF notes which tell the Xen
      domain builder what the kernel's requirements are; the domain builder
      then constructs the address space accordingly and starts the kernel.
      
      Xen has its own entrypoint for the kernel (contained in an ELF note).
      The ELF notes are set up by xen-head.S, which is included into head.S.
      In principle it could be linked separately, but it seems to provoke
      lots of binutils bugs.
      
      Because the domain builder starts the kernel in a fairly sane state
      (32-bit protected mode, paging enabled, flat segments set up), there's
      not a lot of setup needed before starting the kernel proper.  The main
      steps are:
        1. Install the Xen paravirt_ops, which is simply a matter of a
           structure assignment.
        2. Set init_mm to use the Xen-supplied pagetables (analogous to the
           head.S generated pagetables in a native boot).
        3. Reserve address space for Xen, since it takes a chunk at the top
           of the address space for its own use.
        4. Call start_kernel()
      
      PAGETABLE SETUP
      
      Once we hit the main kernel boot sequence, it will end up calling back
      via paravirt_ops to set up various pieces of Xen specific state.  One
      of the critical things which requires a bit of extra care is the
      construction of the initial init_mm pagetable.  Because Xen places
      tight constraints on pagetables (an active pagetable must always be
      valid, and must always be mapped read-only to the guest domain), we
      need to be careful when constructing the new pagetable to keep these
      constraints in mind.  It turns out that the easiest way to do this is
      use the initial Xen-provided pagetable as a template, and then just
      insert new mappings for memory where a mapping doesn't already exist.
      
      This means that during pagetable setup, it uses a special version of
      xen_set_pte which ignores any attempt to remap a read-only page as
      read-write (since Xen will map its own initial pagetable as RO), but
      lets other changes to the ptes happen, so that things like NX are set
      properly.
      
      PRIVILEGED INSTRUCTIONS AND SEGMENTATION
      
      When the kernel runs under Xen, it runs in ring 1 rather than ring 0.
      This means that it is more privileged than user-mode in ring 3, but it
      still can't run privileged instructions directly.  Non-performance
      critical instructions are dealt with by taking a privilege exception
      and trapping into the hypervisor and emulating the instruction, but
      more performance-critical instructions have their own specific
      paravirt_ops.  In many cases we can avoid having to do any hypercalls
      for these instructions, or the Xen implementation is quite different
      from the normal native version.
      
      The privileged instructions fall into the broad classes of:
        Segmentation: setting up the GDT and the GDT entries, LDT,
           TLS and so on.  Xen doesn't allow the GDT to be directly
           modified; all GDT updates are done via hypercalls where the new
           entries can be validated.  This is important because Xen uses
           segment limits to prevent the guest kernel from damaging the
           hypervisor itself.
        Traps and exceptions: Xen uses a special format for trap entrypoints,
           so when the kernel wants to set an IDT entry, it needs to be
           converted to the form Xen expects.  Xen sets int 0x80 up specially
           so that the trap goes straight from userspace into the guest kernel
           without going via the hypervisor.  sysenter isn't supported.
        Kernel stack: The esp0 entry is extracted from the tss and provided to
           Xen.
        TLB operations: the various TLB calls are mapped into corresponding
           Xen hypercalls.
        Control registers: all the control registers are privileged.  The most
           important is cr3, which points to the base of the current pagetable,
           and we handle it specially.
      
      Another instruction we treat specially is CPUID, even though its not
      privileged.  We want to control what CPU features are visible to the
      rest of the kernel, and so CPUID ends up going into a paravirt_op.
      Xen implements this mainly to disable the ACPI and APIC subsystems.
      
      INTERRUPT FLAGS
      
      Xen maintains its own separate flag for masking events, which is
      contained within the per-cpu vcpu_info structure.  Because the guest
      kernel runs in ring 1 and not 0, the IF flag in EFLAGS is completely
      ignored (and must be, because even if a guest domain disables
      interrupts for itself, it can't disable them overall).
      
      (A note on terminology: "events" and interrupts are effectively
      synonymous.  However, rather than using an "enable flag", Xen uses a
      "mask flag", which blocks event delivery when it is non-zero.)
      
      There are paravirt_ops for each of cli/sti/save_fl/restore_fl, which
      are implemented to manage the Xen event mask state.  The only thing
      worth noting is that when events are unmasked, we need to explicitly
      see if there's a pending event and call into the hypervisor to make
      sure it gets delivered.
      
      UPCALLS
      
      Xen needs a couple of upcall (or callback) functions to be implemented
      by each guest.  One is the event upcalls, which is how events
      (interrupts, effectively) are delivered to the guests.  The other is
      the failsafe callback, which is used to report errors in either
      reloading a segment register, or caused by iret.  These are
      implemented in i386/kernel/entry.S so they can jump into the normal
      iret_exc path when necessary.
      
      MULTICALL BATCHING
      
      Xen provides a multicall mechanism, which allows multiple hypercalls
      to be issued at once in order to mitigate the cost of trapping into
      the hypervisor.  This is particularly useful for context switches,
      since the 4-5 hypercalls they would normally need (reload cr3, update
      TLS, maybe update LDT) can be reduced to one.  This patch implements a
      generic batching mechanism for hypercalls, which gets used in many
      places in the Xen code.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
      Cc: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
      Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      5ead97c8
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      xen: Add Xen interface header files · a42089dd
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
      the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions.
      
      Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the
      hypervisor.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      a42089dd
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      Add a sched_clock paravirt_op · 688340ea
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for
      Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds.
      
      This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which
      matches both Xen and VMI's requirements.
      
      In order to do this, we:
         1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock
         2. hoist cycles_2_ns into a common header
         3. update vmi accordingly
      
      One thing to note: because sched_clock is implemented as a weak
      function in kernel/sched.c, we must define a real function in order to
      override this weak binding.  This means the usual paravirt_ops
      technique of using an inline function won't work in this case.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
      Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      688340ea
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      paravirt: helper to disable all IO space · d572929c
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      In a virtual environment, device drivers such as legacy IDE will waste
      quite a lot of time probing for their devices which will never appear.
      This helper function allows a paravirt implementation to lay claim to
      the whole iomem and ioport space, thereby disabling all device drivers
      trying to claim IO resources.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      d572929c
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      paravirt: make siblingmap functions visible · c70df743
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Paravirt implementations need to set the sibling map on new cpus.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      c70df743
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      paravirt: unstatic smp_store_cpu_info · 724faa89
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Paravirt implementations need to store cpu info when bringing up cpus.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      724faa89
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      paravirt: unstatic leave_mm · 53787013
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Make globally leave_mm visible, specifically so that Xen can use it to
      shoot-down lazy uses of cr3.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      53787013
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      paravirt: increase IRQ limit · 03f0c2f9
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      When running with CONFIG_PARAVIRT, we may want lots of IRQs even if
      there's no IO APIC.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      03f0c2f9
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      paravirt: add a hook for once the allocator is ready · 6996d3b6
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Add a hook so that the paravirt backend knows when the allocator is
      ready.  This is useful for the obvious reason that the allocator is
      available, but the other side-effect of having the bootmem allocator
      available is that each page now has an associated "struct page".
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      6996d3b6
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      paravirt: add an "mm" argument to alloc_pt · fdb4c338
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      It's useful to know which mm is allocating a pagetable.  Xen uses this
      to determine whether the pagetable being added to is pinned or not.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      fdb4c338
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      sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc · 97ac7350
      Amit Arora 提交于
      fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
      applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
      Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need
      to support an inode operation called ->fallocate().
      Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain
      level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications
      also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the
      the system becomes full.
      
      Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which
      can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working
      on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to
      each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems
      can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing
      the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that
      posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first
      and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall
      back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks.
      ToDos:
      1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64,
         and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from
         previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later
         once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches
         in this take.
      2. Changes to glibc,
         a) to support fallocate() system call
         b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate()
      Signed-off-by: NAmit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
      97ac7350
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      fbdev: detect primary display device · 317b3c21
      Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
      Add function helper, fb_is_primary_device().  Given struct fb_info, it will
      return a nonzero value if the device is the primary display.
      
      Currently, only the i386 is supported where the function checks for the
      IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag.
      Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      317b3c21
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      fbdev: move arch-specific bits to their respective subdirectories · 10eb2659
      Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
      Move arch-specific bits of fb_mmap() to their respective subdirectories
      
      [bob.picco@hp.com: efi_range_is_wc is referenced but not declared]
      [bunk@stusta.de: fix include/asm-m68k/fb.h]
      Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      10eb2659
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      Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated · 769848c0
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not.
      This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called
      GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE.  Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated
      using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing
      storage and discarding.
      
      An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for
      __GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable().  The
      flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would
      change the semantics of an existing API.  After this patch is applied there
      are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should
      be marked deprecated if this patch is merged.
      
      Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in
      shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the
      shmem_dir_alloc() helper function.  This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of
      Hugh Dickens.
      
      Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the
      concept.  Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector
      and ramfs allocations.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      769848c0
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      mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty · e21ea246
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Nobody is using ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty.  Remove
      the functions from all architectures.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e21ea246
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      mm: remove ptep_establish() · f0e47c22
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      The last user of ptep_establish in mm/ is long gone.  Remove the architecture
      primitive as well.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0e47c22
  3. 17 7月, 2007 5 次提交
  4. 13 7月, 2007 5 次提交
  5. 12 7月, 2007 2 次提交
  6. 07 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      i386: es7000 build breakage fix · 071922c0
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      o Commit 1833d6bc broke the build if
        compiled with CONFIG_ES7000=y and CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=n
      
      arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x4fa9): In function `acpi_parse_madt':
      : undefined reference to `acpi_madt_oem_check'
      arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x7406): In function `smp_read_mpc':
      : undefined reference to `mps_oem_check'
      arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8990): In function
      `connect_bsp_APIC':
      : undefined reference to `enable_apic_mode'
      make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
      
      o Fix the build issue. Provided the definitions of missing functions.
      
      o Don't have ES7000 machine. Only compile tested.
      
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
      Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      071922c0
  7. 26 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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  9. 17 6月, 2007 2 次提交