All the architectures properly set NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE now so we can safely
add linux/pci-dma.h to linux/pci.h and remove the linux/pci-dma.h
inclusion in arch's asm/pci.h
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

While in theory user_enable_single_step/user_disable_single_step/
user_enable_blockstep could also be provided as an inline or macro there's
no good reason to do so, and having the prototype in one places keeps code
size and confusion down.

Roland said:

  The original thought there was that user_enable_single_step() et al
  might well be only an instruction or three on a sane machine (as if we
  have any of those!), and since there is only one call site inlining
  would be beneficial.  But I agree that there is no strong reason to care
  about inlining it.

  As to the arch changes, there is only one thought I'd add to the
  record.  It was always my thinking that for an arch where
  PTRACE_SINGLESTEP does text-modifying breakpoint insertion,
  user_enable_single_step() should not be provided.  That is,
  arch_has_single_step()=>true means that there is an arch facility with
  "pure" semantics that does not have any unexpected side effects.
  Inserting a breakpoint might do very unexpected strange things in
  multi-threaded situations.  Aside from that, it is a peculiar side
  effect that user_{enable,disable}_single_step() should cause COW
  de-sharing of text pages and so forth.  For PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, all these
  peculiarities are the status quo ante for that arch, so having
  arch_ptrace() itself do those is one thing.  But for building other
  things in the future, it is nicer to have a uniform "pure" semantics
  that arch-independent code can expect.

  OTOH, all such arch issues are really up to the arch maintainer.  As
  of today, there is nothing but ptrace using user_enable_single_step() et
  al so it's a distinction without a practical difference.  If/when there
  are other facilities that use user_enable_single_step() and might care,
  the affected arch's can revisit the question when someone cares about
  the quality of the arch support for said new facility.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On an architecture that supports 32-bit compat we need to override the
reported machine in uname with the 32-bit value.  Instead of doing this
separately in every architecture introduce a COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE define in
<asm/compat.h> and apply it directly in sys_newuname().
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if
program headers exceed 65535.  This number is determined by the number of
vmas which the process have.  In particular, some extreme programs may use
more than 65535 vmas.  (If you google max_map_count, you can find some
users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate
correct coredumps.

This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of
the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent
upto 4294967295 vmas.

This is supported by
AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and
Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/).
Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils.
Signed-off-by: NDaisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

elf_core_dump() and elf_fdpic_core_dump() use #ifdef and the corresponding
macro for hiding _multiline_ logics in functions.  This patch removes
#ifdef and replaces ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* by corresponding functions.  For
architectures not implemeonting ELF_CORE_EXTRA_*, we use weak functions in
order to reduce a range of modification.

This cleanup is for my next patches, but I think this cleanup itself is
worth doing regardless of my firnal purpose.
Signed-off-by: NDaisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
workloads.  Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
process and all its child processes.

In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
of the 1000 processes.  However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.

This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
the anon_vma lock.  This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
thousands.  Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
than AIM7, but they are catching up.

This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA.  At fork time, each child
process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
instantiated.  The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.

This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
 This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
O(N) to 2.

The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations.  This means vma_adjust
can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures.  This in
turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.

A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
"the" anon_vma lock.  To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag.  This bit
flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
values for the same bitflag.

Some test results:

Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
>99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
pageout code.

With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
system time.  The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP fail due to kvm_setup_default_irq_routing(),
ioapic device is not destroyed and kvm->arch.vioapic is not set to
NULL, this may cause KVM_GET_IRQCHIP and KVM_SET_IRQCHIP access to
unexcepted memory.
Signed-off-by: NWei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \
are not good.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

cleanup_srcu_struct on VM destruction remains broken:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
IP: [<ffffffff802533d2>] srcu_read_lock+0x16/0x21
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802533d2>]  [<ffffffff802533d2>] srcu_read_lock+0x16/0x21
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa05354c4>] kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit+0x1b/0x48 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa05339c6>] kvm_vcpu_uninit+0x9/0x15 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa0569f7d>] vmx_free_vcpu+0x7f/0x8f [kvm_intel]
 [<ffffffffa05357b5>] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x111 [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa053315b>] kvm_put_kvm+0xd4/0xfe [kvm]

Move it to kvm_arch_destroy_vm.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reported-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

kvm_get_exit_data() cannot return a NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops
instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction),
then instantiate the new empty slot.

Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Required for SRCU convertion later.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Have a pointer to an allocated region inside struct kvm.

[alex: fix ppc book 3s]
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

s390 doesn't have mmio, this will simplify ifdefing it out.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

n_val should be assigned to n_val attribute of HUB chip.
Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

ia64 parts of system wide cleanup to drop trailing whitespace
from lines in message strings.
Signed-off-by: NFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

IA64's scatterlist structure is identical to the generic one.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Simplify the makefile slightly by always building acpi-ext.o when
CONFIG_ACPI is turned on.

Yes, this adds a little bloat to the other configs, but not much:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
    839	     41	      0	    880	    370	arch/ia64/kernel/acpi-ext.o

Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec		    hex	filename
10952753	1299212	1334241	13586206	 cf4f1e	vmlinux

After:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec		    hex	filename
10953739	1299084	1334241	13587064	 cf5278	vmlinux

(gdb) p 13587064 - 13586206
$2 = 858

Seems like a small price to pay for the benefit of not having to think
so hard about the multitude of ia64 configs when reading code/Makefiles.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The following commit broke the ia64 sim_defconfig build:
	3b2b84c0b81108a9a869a88bf2beeb5a95d81dd1
	ACPI: processor: driver doesn't need to evaluate _PDC

This is because it added:
	+#include <acpi/processor.h>

To arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c. Unfortunately, the ia64_simdefconfig does
not turn on CONFIG_ACPI, and we get build errors.

The fix described in $subject seems to be the most sensible way to
untangle the mess.

The other issue is that acpi_get_sysname() is required for all configs,
most of which define CONFIG_ACPI, but are not CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC. Turn
it into an inline to cover the "non generic" ia64 configs; to prevent
a duplicate definition build error, we need to wrap the definition in
acpi.o inside an #ifdef.

Finally, move the pm_idle and pm_power_off exports into process.c (which
is always built), similar to other architectures, and allow the sim
defconfig to link.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Revert the change made to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c by commit
204fba4a as it breaks the build.

Fixing the build the b94b0808 way
breaks xpc because genksyms then fails to generate an CRC for
per_cpu____sn_cnodeid_to_nasid because of limitations in the
generic genksyms code.
Signed-off-by: NHedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that
we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges,
e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183

Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge,
e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681

Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on
"pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Previously we used a table of size PCI_BUS_NUM_RESOURCES (16) for resources
forwarded to a bus by its upstream bridge.  We've increased this size
several times when the table overflowed.

But there's no good limit on the number of resources because host bridges
and subtractive decode bridges can forward any number of ranges to their
secondary buses.

This patch reduces the table to only PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCE_NUM (4) entries,
which corresponds to the number of windows a PCI-to-PCI (3) or CardBus (4)
bridge can positively decode.  Any additional resources, e.g., PCI host
bridge windows or subtractively-decoded regions, are kept in a list.

I'd prefer a single list rather than this split table/list approach, but
that requires simultaneous changes to every architecture.  This approach
only requires immediate changes where we set up (a) host bridges with more
than four windows and (b) subtractive-decode P2P bridges, and we can
incrementally change other architectures to use the list.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

No functional change; this converts loops that iterate from 0 to
PCI_BUS_NUM_RESOURCES through pci_bus resource[] table to use the
pci_bus_for_each_resource() iterator instead.

This doesn't change the way resources are stored; it merely removes
dependencies on the fact that they're in a table.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Now that we return the new resource start position, there is no
need to update "struct resource" inside the align function.
Therefore, mark the struct resource as const.

Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

As suggested by Linus, align functions should return the start
of a resource, not void. An update of "res->start" is no longer
necessary.

Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

On VIVT ARM, when we have multiple shared mappings of the same file
in the same MM, we need to ensure that we have coherency across all
copies.  We do this via make_coherent() by making the pages
uncacheable.

This used to work fine, until we allowed highmem with highpte - we
now have a page table which is mapped as required, and is not available
for modification via update_mmu_cache().

Ralf Beache suggested getting rid of the PTE value passed to
update_mmu_cache():

  On MIPS update_mmu_cache() calls __update_tlb() which walks pagetables
  to construct a pointer to the pte again.  Passing a pte_t * is much
  more elegant.  Maybe we might even replace the pte argument with the
  pte_t?

Ben Herrenschmidt would also like the pte pointer for PowerPC:

  Passing the ptep in there is exactly what I want.  I want that
  -instead- of the PTE value, because I have issue on some ppc cases,
  for I$/D$ coherency, where set_pte_at() may decide to mask out the
  _PAGE_EXEC.

So, pass in the mapped page table pointer into update_mmu_cache(), and
remove the PTE value, updating all implementations and call sites to
suit.

Includes a fix from Stephen Rothwell:

  sparc: fix fallout from update_mmu_cache API change
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Right now xen's use of the x86 and ia64 handle_irq is just bizarre and very
fragile as it is very non-obvious the function exists and is is used by
code out in drivers/....  Luckily using handle_irq is completely unnecessary,
and we can just use the generic irq apis instead.

This still leaves drivers/xen/events.c as a problematic user of the generic
irq apis it has "static struct irq_info irq_info[NR_IRQS]" but that can be
fixed some other time.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B7CAAD2.10803@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

We broke "acpi=ht" in 2.6.32 by disabling MADT parsing
for acpi=disabled.  e5b8fc6a
This also broke systems which invoked acpi=ht via DMI blacklist.

acpi=ht is a really ugly hack,
but restore it for those that still use it.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14886Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka
CONFIG_NR_CPUS.

Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on
normal config.

-v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of
     NR_CPUS.
-v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

In its <asm/elf.h> ia64 defines SET_PERSONALITY in a way that unconditionally
sets the personality of the current process to PER_LINUX, losing any flag bits
from the upper 3 bytes of current->personality.  This is wrong. Those bits are
intended to be inherited across exec (other code takes care of ensuring that
security sensitive bits like ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE are not passed to unsuspecting
setuid/setgid applications).
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
to use the IA32-EL software emulation).
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Pass the clocksource as an argument to the clocksource resume callback. 
Needed so we can point out which CMT channel the sh_cmt.c driver shall
resume.
Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time,
because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on
kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using
freeze_processes().

The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if
synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

acpi_integer is now obsolete and removed from the ACPICA code base,
replaced by u64.
Signed-off-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>