Impact: Optimization
One of the problems with inserting a pile of C calls where previously
there were none is that the register pressure is greatly increased.
The C calling convention says that the caller must expect a certain
set of registers may be trashed by the callee, and that the callee can
use those registers without restriction. This includes the function
argument registers, and several others.
This patch seeks to alleviate this pressure by introducing wrapper
thunks that will do the register saving/restoring, so that the
callsite doesn't need to worry about it, but the callee function can
be conventional compiler-generated code. In many cases (particularly
performance-sensitive cases) the callee will be in assembler anyway,
and need not use the compiler's calling convention.
Standard calling convention is:
arguments return scratch
x86-32 eax edx ecx eax ?
x86-64 rdi rsi rdx rcx rax r8 r9 r10 r11
The thunk preserves all argument and scratch registers. The return
register is not preserved, and is available as a scratch register for
unwrapped callee code (and of course the return value).
Wrapped function pointers are themselves wrapped in a struct
paravirt_callee_save structure, in order to get some warning from the
compiler when functions with mismatched calling conventions are used.
The most common paravirt ops, both statically and dynamically, are
interrupt enable/disable/save/restore, so handle them first. This is
particularly easy since their calls are handled specially anyway.
XXX Deal with VMI. What's their calling convention?
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules.
Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the
pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out
to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3).
vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however,
apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to
freed memory location.
Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sparse mutters:
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:126:5: warning: symbol 'is_vsmp_box' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:145:13: warning: symbol 'vsmp_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
Include the appropriate headers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The function detect_vsmp_box is a void function in the PCI case.
Change the !PCI stub to void too.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
vSMP detection: access pci config space early in boot to detect if the
system is a vSMPowered box, and cache the result in a flag, so that
is_vsmp_box() retrieves the value of the flag always.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Re-arrange set_vsmp_pv_ops so that pv_ops are set only if
the platform has capability to support paravirtualized irq ops
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Fix the the build breakage when PARAVIRT is defined
but PCI is not
This fixes problem reported at:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120525966600698&w=2
- Make is_vsmp_box() available even when PARAVIRT is not defined.
This is needed to determine if tsc's are reliable as a time source
even when PARAVIRT is not defined.
- split vsmp_init to use is_vsmp_box() and set_vsmp_pv_ops()
set_vsmp_pv_ops will do nothing if PCI is not enabled in the config.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
is_vsmp_box() currently does not work on vSMPowered systems, as pci cfg
space is not read correctly -- This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
quad core 8 socket system will have apic id lifting.the apic id range could
be [4, 0x23]. and apic_is_clustered_box will think that need to three clusters
and that is larger than 2. So it is treated as a clustered_box.
and will get:
Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
even if the CPUs have X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC set.
this quick fix will check if the cpu is from AMD.
but vsmp still needs that checking...
this patch is fix to make sure that vsmp not to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It becomes to early for ioremap, so we use early_ioremap
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalemp.com>
Acked-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
