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Linus Torvalds
31bdc5dc76 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Set vio->desc_buf to NULL after freeing.
  [SPARC]: Mark sparc and sparc64 as not having virt_to_bus
  [SPARC64]: Fix reset handling in VNET driver.
  [SPARC64]: Handle reset events in vio_link_state_change().
  [SPARC64]: Handle LDC resets properly in domain-services driver.
  [SPARC64]: Massively simplify VIO device layer and support hot add/remove.
  [SPARC64]: Simplify VNET probing.
  [SPARC64]: Simplify VDC device probing.
  [SPARC64]: Add basic infrastructure for MD add/remove notification.
2007-07-18 10:23:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5cc97bf2d8 Merge branch 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: (44 commits)
  xen: disable all non-virtual drivers
  xen: use iret directly when possible
  xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
  xen: Attempt to patch inline versions of common operations
  xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memory
  xen: handle external requests for shutdown, reboot and sysrq
  xen: machine operations
  xen: add virtual network device driver
  xen: add virtual block device driver.
  xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver
  xen: Add grant table support
  xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console
  xen: hack to prevent bad segment register reload
  xen: lazy-mmu operations
  xen: Add support for preemption
  xen: SMP guest support
  xen: Implement sched_clock
  xen: Account for stolen time
  xen: ignore RW mapping of RO pages in pagetable_init
  xen: Complete pagetable pinning
  ...
2007-07-18 10:18:39 -07:00
Tony Breeds
826ea8f22c Revert "[POWERPC] Do firmware feature fixups after features are initialised"
This reverts commit 5a26f6bbb7.

The original patch causes boot failures when built with ppc64_defconfig.  The
quickest fix is to revert it while alterates are investigated.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18 10:17:39 -07:00
Tony Breeds
4f3731da16 Fix compile failure in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
This fixes the fallout from the recent powerpc merge (commit
489de30259):

   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.o
  arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c:160: error: conflicting types for 'pcibios_add_platform_entries'
  include/linux/pci.h:889: error: previous declaration of 'pcibios_add_platform_entries' was here

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Tested-by: Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18 10:17:39 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
dfdcdd42fd xen: disable all non-virtual drivers
A domU Xen environment has no non-virtual drivers, so make sure
they're all disabled at once.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-07-18 08:47:46 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9ec2b804e0 xen: use iret directly when possible
Most of the time we can simply use the iret instruction to exit the
kernel, rather than having to use the iret hypercall - the only
exception is if we're returning into vm86 mode, or from delivering an
NMI (which we don't support yet).

When running native, iret has the behaviour of testing for a pending
interrupt atomically with re-enabling interrupts.  Unfortunately
there's no way to do this with Xen, so there's a window in which we
could get a recursive exception after enabling events but before
actually returning to userspace.

This causes a problem: if the nested interrupt causes one of the
task's TIF_WORK_MASK flags to be set, they will not be checked again
before returning to userspace.  This means that pending work may be
left pending indefinitely, until the process enters and leaves the
kernel again.  The net effect is that a pending signal or reschedule
event could be delayed for an unbounded amount of time.

To deal with this, the xen event upcall handler checks to see if the
EIP is within the critical section of the iret code, after events
are (potentially) enabled up to the iret itself.  If its within this
range, it calls the iret critical section fixup, which adjusts the
stack to deal with any unrestored registers, and then shifts the
stack frame up to replace the previous invocation.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:46 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
600b2fc242 xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
arch/i386/xen/xen-asm.S defines some small pieces of code which are
used to implement a few paravirt_ops.  They're designed so they can be
used either in-place, or be inline patched into their callsites if
there's enough space.

Some of those operations need to make calls out (specifically, if you
re-enable events [interrupts], and there's a pending event at that
time).  These calls need the call instruction to be relocated if the
code is patched inline.  In this case xen_foo_reloc is a
section-relative symbol which points to xen_foo's required relocation.

Other operations have no need of a relocation, and so their
corresponding xen_bar_reloc is absolute 0.  These are the cases which
are triggering the warning.

This patch adds those symbols to the list of safe abs symbols.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6487673b8a xen: Attempt to patch inline versions of common operations
This patchs adds the mechanism to allow us to patch inline versions of
common operations.

The implementations of the direct-access versions save_fl, restore_fl,
irq_enable and irq_disable are now in assembler, and the same code is
used for both out of line and inline uses.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
60223a326f xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memory
An experimental patch for Xen allows guests to place their vcpu_info
structs anywhere.  We try to use this to place the vcpu_info into the
PDA, which allows direct access.

If this works, then switch to using direct access operations for
irq_enable, disable, save_fl and restore_fl.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
3e2b8fbeec xen: handle external requests for shutdown, reboot and sysrq
The guest domain can be asked to shutdown or reboot itself, or have a
sysrq key injected, via xenbus.  This patch adds a watcher for those
events, and does the appropriate action.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
fefa629abe xen: machine operations
Make the appropriate hypercalls to halt and reboot the virtual machine.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
0d16021196 xen: add virtual network device driver
The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to access network
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
network device driver.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Cc: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9f27ee5950 xen: add virtual block device driver.
The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
block device driver.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
4bac07c993 xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver
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: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ad9a86121f xen: Add grant table support
Add Xen 'grant table' driver which allows granting of access to
selected local memory pages by other virtual machines and,
symmetrically, the mapping of remote memory pages which other virtual
machines have granted access to.

This driver is a prerequisite for many of the Xen virtual device
drivers, which grant the 'device driver domain' restricted and
temporary access to only those memory pages that are currently
involved in I/O operations.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b536b4b962 xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console
Implement a Xen back-end for hvc console.

* * *
Add early printk support via hvc console, enable using
"earlyprintk=xen" on the kernel command line.

From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
8b84ad942b xen: hack to prevent bad segment register reload
The hypervisor saves and restores the segment registers as part of the
state is saves while context switching.  If, during a context switch,
the next process doesn't use the TLS segments, it invalidates the GDT
entry, causing the segment register reload to fault.  This fault
effectively doubles the cost of a context switch.

This patch is a band-aid workaround which clears the usermode %gs
after it has been saved for the previous process, but before it gets
reloaded for the next, and it avoids having the hypervisor attempt to
erroneously reload it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d66bf8fcf3 xen: lazy-mmu operations
This patch uses the lazy-mmu hooks to batch mmu operations where
possible.  This is primarily useful for batching operations applied to
active pagetables, which happens during mprotect, munmap, mremap and
the like (mmap does not do bulk pagetable operations, so it isn't
helped).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f120f13ea0 xen: Add support for preemption
Add Xen support for preemption.  This is mostly a cleanup of existing
preempt_enable/disable calls, or just comments to explain the current
usage.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f87e4cac4f xen: SMP guest support
This is a fairly straightforward Xen implementation of smp_ops.

Xen has its own IPI mechanisms, and has no dependency on any
APIC-based IPI.  The smp_ops hooks and the flush_tlb_others pv_op
allow a Xen guest to avoid all APIC code in arch/i386 (the only apic
operation is a single apic_read for the apic version number).

One subtle point which needs to be addressed is unpinning pagetables
when another cpu may have a lazy tlb reference to the pagetable. Xen
will not allow an in-use pagetable to be unpinned, so we must find any
other cpus with a reference to the pagetable and get them to shoot
down their references.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ab55028886 xen: Implement sched_clock
Implement xen_sched_clock, which returns the number of ns the current
vcpu has been actually in an unstolen state (ie, running or blocked,
vs runnable-but-not-running, or offline) since boot.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f91a8b447b xen: Account for stolen time
This patch accounts for the time stolen from our VCPUs.  Stolen time is
time where a vcpu is runnable and could be running, but all available
physical CPUs are being used for something else.

This accounting gets run on each timer interrupt, just as a way to get
it run relatively often, and when interesting things are going on.
Stolen time is not really used by much in the kernel; it is reported
in /proc/stats, and that's about it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9a4029fd34 xen: ignore RW mapping of RO pages in pagetable_init
When setting up the initial pagetable, which includes mappings of all
low physical memory, ignore a mapping which tries to set the RW bit on
an RO pte.  An RO pte indicates a page which is part of the current
pagetable, and so it cannot be allowed to become RW.

Once xen_pagetable_setup_done is called, set_pte reverts to its normal
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f4f97b3ea9 xen: Complete pagetable pinning
Xen requires all active pagetables to be marked read-only.  When the
base of the pagetable is loaded into %cr3, the hypervisor validates
the entire pagetable and only allows the load to proceed if it all
checks out.

This is pretty slow, so to mitigate this cost Xen has a notion of
pinned pagetables.  Pinned pagetables are pagetables which are
considered to be active even if no processor's cr3 is pointing to is.
This means that it must remain read-only and all updates are validated
by the hypervisor.  This makes context switches much cheaper, because
the hypervisor doesn't need to revalidate the pagetable each time.

This also adds a new paravirt hook which is called during setup once
the zones and memory allocator have been initialized.  When the
init_mm pagetable is first built, the struct page array does not yet
exist, and so there's nowhere to put he init_mm pagetable's PG_pinned
flags.  Once the zones are initialized and the struct page array
exists, we can set the PG_pinned flags for those pages.

This patch also adds the Xen support for pte pages allocated out of
highmem (highpte) by implementing xen_kmap_atomic_pte.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c85b04c374 xen: add pinned page flag
Add a new definition for PG_owner_priv_1 to define PG_pinned on Xen
pagetable pages.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e738fca8d7 xen: configuration
Put config options for Xen after the core pieces are in place.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
15c84731d6 xen: time implementation
Xen maintains a base clock which measures nanoseconds since system
boot.  This is provided to guests via a shared page which contains a
base time in ns, a tsc timestamp at that point and tsc frequency
parameters.  Guests can compute the current time by reading the tsc
and using it to extrapolate the current time from the basetime.  The
hypervisor makes sure that the frequency parameters are updated
regularly, paricularly if the tsc changes rate or stops.

This is implemented as a clocksource, so the interface to the rest of
the kernel is a simple clocksource which simply returns the current
time directly in nanoseconds.

Xen also provides a simple timer mechanism, which allows a timeout to
be set in the future.  When that time arrives, a timer event is sent
to the guest.  There are two timer interfaces:
 - An old one which also delivers a stream of (unused) ticks at 100Hz,
   and on the same event, the actual timer events.  The 100Hz ticks
   cause a lot of spurious wakeups, but are basically harmless.
 - The new timer interface doesn't have the 100Hz ticks, and can also
   fail if the specified time is in the past.

This code presents the Xen timer as a clockevent driver, and uses the
new interface by preference.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-07-18 08:47:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
e46cdb66c8 xen: event channels
Xen implements interrupts in terms of event channels.  Each guest
domain gets 1024 event channels which can be used for a variety of
purposes, such as Xen timer events, inter-domain events,
inter-processor events (IPI) or for real hardware IRQs.

Within the kernel, we map the event channels to IRQs, and implement
the whole interrupt handling using a Xen irq_chip.

Rather than setting NR_IRQ to 1024 under PARAVIRT in order to
accomodate Xen, we create a dynamic mapping between event channels and
IRQs.  Ideally, Linux will eventually move towards dynamically
allocating per-irq structures, and we can use a 1:1 mapping between
event channels and irqs.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
3b827c1b3a xen: virtual mmu
Xen pagetable handling, including the machinery to implement direct
pagetables.

Xen presents the real CPU's pagetables directly to guests, with no
added shadowing or other layer of abstraction.  Naturally this means
the hypervisor must maintain close control over what the guest can put
into the pagetable.

When the guest modifies the pte/pmd/pgd, it must convert its
domain-specific notion of a "physical" pfn into a global machine frame
number (mfn) before inserting the entry into the pagetable.  Xen will
check to make sure the domain is allowed to create a mapping of the
given mfn.

Xen also requires that all mappings the guest has of its own active
pagetable are read-only.  This is relatively easy to implement in
Linux because all pagetables share the same pte pages for kernel
mappings, so updating the pte in one pagetable will implicitly update
the mapping in all pagetables.

Normally a pagetable becomes active when you point to it with cr3 (or
the Xen equivalent), but when you do so, Xen must check the whole
pagetable for correctness, which is clearly a performance problem.

Xen solves this with pinning which keeps a pagetable effectively
active even if its currently unused, which means that all the normal
update rules are enforced.  This means that it need not revalidate the
pagetable when loading cr3.

This patch has a first-cut implementation of pinning, but it is more
fully implemented in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5ead97c84f xen: Core Xen implementation
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris 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>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
a42089dd35 xen: Add Xen interface header files
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
24037a8b69 Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes
Add the "nosegneg" fake capabilty to the vsyscall page notes. This is
used by the runtime linker to select a glibc version which then
disables negative-offset accesses to the thread-local segment via
%gs. These accesses require emulation in Xen (because segments are
truncated to protect the hypervisor address space) and avoiding them
provides a measurable performance boost.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
688340ea34 Add a sched_clock paravirt_op
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d572929cdd paravirt: helper to disable all IO space
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-07-18 08:47:42 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5f4352fbff Allocate and free vmalloc areas
Allocate/release a chunk of vmalloc address space:
 alloc_vm_area reserves a chunk of address space, and makes sure all
 the pagetables are constructed for that address range - but no pages.

 free_vm_area releases the address space range.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
bdef40a6af paravirt: export __supported_pte_mask
__supported_pte_mask is needed when constructing pte values.  Xen
device drivers need to do this to make mappings of foreign pages (ie,
pages granted to us by other domains).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c70df74376 paravirt: make siblingmap functions visible
Paravirt implementations need to set the sibling map on new cpus.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
724faa89cc paravirt: unstatic smp_store_cpu_info
Paravirt implementations need to store cpu info when bringing up cpus.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5378701324 paravirt: unstatic leave_mm
Make globally leave_mm visible, specifically so that Xen can use it to
shoot-down lazy uses of cr3.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
03f0c2f950 paravirt: increase IRQ limit
When running with CONFIG_PARAVIRT, we may want lots of IRQs even if
there's no IO APIC.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6996d3b63f paravirt: add a hook for once the allocator is ready
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
fdb4c338c8 paravirt: add an "mm" argument to alloc_pt
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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
810bab448e use elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes.
Use existing elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes, rather than doing
it locally.  Changes elfnote.h a bit to suit, since this is the first
asm user, and it wasn't quite right.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
86313c488a usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
10a0a8d4e3 Add common orderly_poweroff()
Various pieces of code around the kernel want to be able to trigger an
orderly poweroff.  This pulls them together into a single
implementation.

By default the poweroff command is /sbin/poweroff, but it can be set
via sysctl: kernel/poweroff_cmd.  This is split at whitespace, so it
can include command-line arguments.

This patch replaces four other instances of invoking either "poweroff"
or "shutdown -h now": two sbus drivers, and acpi thermal
management.

sparc64 has its own "powerd"; still need to determine whether it should
be replaced by orderly_poweroff().

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
0ab4dc9227 usermodehelper: split setup from execution
Rather than having hundreds of variations of call_usermodehelper for
various pieces of usermode state which could be set up, split the
info allocation and initialization from the actual process execution.

This means the general pattern becomes:
 info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp); /* basic state */
 call_usermodehelper_<SET EXTRA STATE>(info, stuff...);	/* extra state */
 call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);	/* run process and free info */

This patch introduces wrappers for all the existing calling styles for
call_usermodehelper_*, but folds their implementations into one.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d84d1cc764 add argv_split()
argv_split() is a helper function which takes a string, splits it at
whitespace, and returns a NULL-terminated argv vector.  This is
deliberately simple - it does no quote processing of any kind.

[ Seems to me that this is something which is already being done in
  the kernel, but I couldn't find any other implementations, either to
  steal or replace.  Keep an eye out. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1e66df3ee3 add kstrndup
Add a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup.  Like strndup this
returns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies
no more than the specified number of bytes from the source.

Remove private strndup() from irda code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
2007-07-18 08:47:39 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
8b4a40809e zs: move to the serial subsystem
This is a reimplementation of the zs driver for the serial subsystem.  Any
resemblance to the old driver is purely coincidential.  ;-) I do hope I got
the handling of modem lines right -- better do not tackle me about the
issue unless you feel too good...

Any users of the old driver: please note the numbers of the serial lines
have now been swapped, i.e.  ttyS0 <-> ttyS1 and ttyS2 <-> ttyS3.  It has
to do with the modem lines mentioned above; basically the port A in a given
chip has to be initialised before the port B if you want to use the latter
as the serial console (which is usually the case), as operations on modem
lines of the serial line associated with the port B access both ports (see
the comment at the top of the driver for the details of wiring used).
Please update your scripts.

This is also the reason each SCC now requests an IRQ once only (as seen in
"/proc/interrupts") -- the handler takes care of both ports at once as the
line associated with the port B has to take status update interrupts from
both ports (and yet the line of the port A takes its own for itself too).
The old driver never got it right...

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
b187f180cc serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header file
early_serial_setup was removed from serial.h, but forgot to put in
serial_8250.h

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00