linux/arch/x86
David Vrabel fdfd811ddd x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted
Hypercalls submitted by user space tools via the privcmd driver can
take a long time (potentially many 10s of seconds) if the hypercall
has many sub-operations.

A fully preemptible kernel may deschedule such as task in any upcall
called from a hypercall continuation.

However, in a kernel with voluntary or no preemption, hypercall
continuations in Xen allow event handlers to be run but the task
issuing the hypercall will not be descheduled until the hypercall is
complete and the ioctl returns to user space.  These long running
tasks may also trigger the kernel's soft lockup detection.

Add xen_preemptible_hcall_begin() and xen_preemptible_hcall_end() to
bracket hypercalls that may be preempted.  Use these in the privcmd
driver.

When returning from an upcall, call xen_maybe_preempt_hcall() which
adds a schedule point if if the current task was within a preemptible
hypercall.

Since _cond_resched() can move the task to a different CPU, clear and
set xen_in_preemptible_hcall around the call.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-02-23 16:30:24 +00:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 10:41:29 -08:00
configs x86/kconfig/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE=y 2014-12-08 12:04:17 +01:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
ia32 all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
include Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 11:12:07 -08:00
kernel x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted 2015-02-23 16:30:24 +00:00
kvm Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-16 14:58:12 -08:00
lguest lguest: don't look in console features to find emerg_wr. 2015-02-13 17:15:51 +10:30
lib x86_64: kasan: add interceptors for memset/memmove/memcpy functions 2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 10:41:29 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-10 15:48:20 -05:00
oprofile
pci ACPI and power management updates for v3.20-rc1 2015-02-10 15:09:41 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 11:12:07 -08:00
power x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 2015-02-04 12:10:42 +01:00
purgatory Merge branches 'x86-build-for-linus', 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' and 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 12:35:46 -08:00
realmode Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-16 14:58:12 -08:00
syscalls x86: hook up execveat system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
tools x86, build: replace Perl script with Shell script 2015-01-26 13:37:18 -08:00
um all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
vdso x86_64: add KASan support 2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
video
xen x86/xen: Make sure X2APIC_ENABLE bit of MSR_IA32_APICBASE is not set 2015-02-23 16:30:23 +00:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 11:12:07 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86/intel/quark: Add Isolated Memory Regions for Quark X1000 2015-02-18 23:22:47 +01:00
Makefile x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities 2015-02-04 08:35:51 +11:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion 2015-01-09 17:25:44 +01:00