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/******************************************************************************
* xenbus_xs.c
*
* This is the kernel equivalent of the "xs" library. We don't need everything
* and we use xenbus_comms for communication.
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; or, when distributed
* separately from the Linux kernel or incorporated into other
* software packages, subject to the following license:
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
* of this source file (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
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* merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
* and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
* the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
* all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
* AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
* FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
* IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
#include <xen/xenbus.h>
#include <xen/xen.h>
#include "xenbus.h"
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/*
* Framework to protect suspend/resume handling against normal Xenstore
* message handling:
* During suspend/resume there must be no open transaction and no pending
* Xenstore request.
* New watch events happening in this time can be ignored by firing all watches
* after resume.
*/
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/* Lock protecting enter/exit critical region. */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xs_state_lock);
/* Number of users in critical region (protected by xs_state_lock). */
static unsigned int xs_state_users;
/* Suspend handler waiting or already active (protected by xs_state_lock)? */
static int xs_suspend_active;
/* Unique Xenstore request id (protected by xs_state_lock). */
static uint32_t xs_request_id;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/* Wait queue for all callers waiting for critical region to become usable. */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(xs_state_enter_wq);
/* Wait queue for suspend handling waiting for critical region being empty. */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(xs_state_exit_wq);
/* List of registered watches, and a lock to protect it. */
static LIST_HEAD(watches);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(watches_lock);
/* List of pending watch callback events, and a lock to protect it. */
static LIST_HEAD(watch_events);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(watch_events_lock);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/* Protect watch (de)register against save/restore. */
static DECLARE_RWSEM(xs_watch_rwsem);
/*
* Details of the xenwatch callback kernel thread. The thread waits on the
* watch_events_waitq for work to do (queued on watch_events list). When it
* wakes up it acquires the xenwatch_mutex before reading the list and
* carrying out work.
*/
static pid_t xenwatch_pid;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(xenwatch_mutex);
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(watch_events_waitq);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
static void xs_suspend_enter(void)
{
spin_lock(&xs_state_lock);
xs_suspend_active++;
spin_unlock(&xs_state_lock);
wait_event(xs_state_exit_wq, xs_state_users == 0);
}
static void xs_suspend_exit(void)
{
spin_lock(&xs_state_lock);
xs_suspend_active--;
spin_unlock(&xs_state_lock);
wake_up_all(&xs_state_enter_wq);
}
static uint32_t xs_request_enter(struct xb_req_data *req)
{
uint32_t rq_id;
req->type = req->msg.type;
spin_lock(&xs_state_lock);
while (!xs_state_users && xs_suspend_active) {
spin_unlock(&xs_state_lock);
wait_event(xs_state_enter_wq, xs_suspend_active == 0);
spin_lock(&xs_state_lock);
}
if (req->type == XS_TRANSACTION_START)
xs_state_users++;
xs_state_users++;
rq_id = xs_request_id++;
spin_unlock(&xs_state_lock);
return rq_id;
}
void xs_request_exit(struct xb_req_data *req)
{
spin_lock(&xs_state_lock);
xs_state_users--;
if ((req->type == XS_TRANSACTION_START && req->msg.type == XS_ERROR) ||
(req->type == XS_TRANSACTION_END &&
!WARN_ON_ONCE(req->msg.type == XS_ERROR &&
!strcmp(req->body, "ENOENT"))))
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
xs_state_users--;
spin_unlock(&xs_state_lock);
if (xs_suspend_active && !xs_state_users)
wake_up(&xs_state_exit_wq);
}
static int get_error(const char *errorstring)
{
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; strcmp(errorstring, xsd_errors[i].errstring) != 0; i++) {
if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(xsd_errors) - 1) {
pr_warn("xen store gave: unknown error %s\n",
errorstring);
return EINVAL;
}
}
return xsd_errors[i].errnum;
}
static bool xenbus_ok(void)
{
switch (xen_store_domain_type) {
case XS_LOCAL:
switch (system_state) {
case SYSTEM_POWER_OFF:
case SYSTEM_RESTART:
case SYSTEM_HALT:
return false;
default:
break;
}
return true;
case XS_PV:
case XS_HVM:
/* FIXME: Could check that the remote domain is alive,
* but it is normally initial domain. */
return true;
default:
break;
}
return false;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
static bool test_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
if (req->state == xb_req_state_got_reply || !xenbus_ok())
return true;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/* Make sure to reread req->state each time. */
barrier();
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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return false;
}
static void *read_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
{
while (req->state != xb_req_state_got_reply) {
wait_event(req->wq, test_reply(req));
if (!xenbus_ok())
/*
* If we are in the process of being shut-down there is
* no point of trying to contact XenBus - it is either
* killed (xenstored application) or the other domain
* has been killed or is unreachable.
*/
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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if (req->err)
return ERR_PTR(req->err);
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
return req->body;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
static void xs_send(struct xb_req_data *req, struct xsd_sockmsg *msg)
{
bool notify;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
req->msg = *msg;
req->err = 0;
req->state = xb_req_state_queued;
init_waitqueue_head(&req->wq);
xenbus: track caller request id Commit fd8aa9095a95 ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses") optimized xenbus concurrent accesses but in doing so broke UABI of /dev/xen/xenbus. Through /dev/xen/xenbus applications are in charge of xenbus message exchange with the correct header and body. Now, after the mentioned commit the replies received by application will no longer have the header req_id echoed back as it was on request (see specification below for reference), because that particular field is being overwritten by kernel. struct xsd_sockmsg { uint32_t type; /* XS_??? */ uint32_t req_id;/* Request identifier, echoed in daemon's response. */ uint32_t tx_id; /* Transaction id (0 if not related to a transaction). */ uint32_t len; /* Length of data following this. */ /* Generally followed by nul-terminated string(s). */ }; Before there was only one request at a time so req_id could simply be forwarded back and forth. To allow simultaneous requests we need a different req_id for each message thus kernel keeps a monotonic increasing counter for this field and is written on every request irrespective of userspace value. Forwarding again the req_id on userspace requests is not a solution because we would open the possibility of userspace-generated req_id colliding with kernel ones. So this patch instead takes another route which is to artificially keep user req_id while keeping the xenbus logic as is. We do that by saving the original req_id before xs_send(), use the private kernel counter as req_id and then once reply comes and was validated, we restore back the original req_id. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11 Fixes: fd8aa9095a ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses") Reported-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh.davda@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2018-02-02 17:42:33 +00:00
/* Save the caller req_id and restore it later in the reply */
req->caller_req_id = req->msg.req_id;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
req->msg.req_id = xs_request_enter(req);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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mutex_lock(&xb_write_mutex);
list_add_tail(&req->list, &xb_write_list);
notify = list_is_singular(&xb_write_list);
mutex_unlock(&xb_write_mutex);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
if (notify)
wake_up(&xb_waitq);
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
static void *xs_wait_for_reply(struct xb_req_data *req, struct xsd_sockmsg *msg)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
void *ret;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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ret = read_reply(req);
xs_request_exit(req);
msg->type = req->msg.type;
msg->len = req->msg.len;
mutex_lock(&xb_write_mutex);
if (req->state == xb_req_state_queued ||
req->state == xb_req_state_wait_reply)
req->state = xb_req_state_aborted;
else
kfree(req);
mutex_unlock(&xb_write_mutex);
return ret;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
static void xs_wake_up(struct xb_req_data *req)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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wake_up(&req->wq);
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
int xenbus_dev_request_and_reply(struct xsd_sockmsg *msg, void *par)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
struct xb_req_data *req;
struct kvec *vec;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
req = kmalloc(sizeof(*req) + sizeof(*vec), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!req)
return -ENOMEM;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
vec = (struct kvec *)(req + 1);
vec->iov_len = msg->len;
vec->iov_base = msg + 1;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
req->vec = vec;
req->num_vecs = 1;
req->cb = xenbus_dev_queue_reply;
req->par = par;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
xs_send(req, msg);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(xenbus_dev_request_and_reply);
/* Send message to xs, get kmalloc'ed reply. ERR_PTR() on error. */
static void *xs_talkv(struct xenbus_transaction t,
enum xsd_sockmsg_type type,
const struct kvec *iovec,
unsigned int num_vecs,
unsigned int *len)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
struct xb_req_data *req;
struct xsd_sockmsg msg;
void *ret = NULL;
unsigned int i;
int err;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
req = kmalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);
if (!req)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
req->vec = iovec;
req->num_vecs = num_vecs;
req->cb = xs_wake_up;
xenbus: track caller request id Commit fd8aa9095a95 ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses") optimized xenbus concurrent accesses but in doing so broke UABI of /dev/xen/xenbus. Through /dev/xen/xenbus applications are in charge of xenbus message exchange with the correct header and body. Now, after the mentioned commit the replies received by application will no longer have the header req_id echoed back as it was on request (see specification below for reference), because that particular field is being overwritten by kernel. struct xsd_sockmsg { uint32_t type; /* XS_??? */ uint32_t req_id;/* Request identifier, echoed in daemon's response. */ uint32_t tx_id; /* Transaction id (0 if not related to a transaction). */ uint32_t len; /* Length of data following this. */ /* Generally followed by nul-terminated string(s). */ }; Before there was only one request at a time so req_id could simply be forwarded back and forth. To allow simultaneous requests we need a different req_id for each message thus kernel keeps a monotonic increasing counter for this field and is written on every request irrespective of userspace value. Forwarding again the req_id on userspace requests is not a solution because we would open the possibility of userspace-generated req_id colliding with kernel ones. So this patch instead takes another route which is to artificially keep user req_id while keeping the xenbus logic as is. We do that by saving the original req_id before xs_send(), use the private kernel counter as req_id and then once reply comes and was validated, we restore back the original req_id. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11 Fixes: fd8aa9095a ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses") Reported-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh.davda@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2018-02-02 17:42:33 +00:00
msg.req_id = 0;
msg.tx_id = t.id;
msg.type = type;
msg.len = 0;
for (i = 0; i < num_vecs; i++)
msg.len += iovec[i].iov_len;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
xs_send(req, &msg);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
ret = xs_wait_for_reply(req, &msg);
if (len)
*len = msg.len;
if (IS_ERR(ret))
return ret;
if (msg.type == XS_ERROR) {
err = get_error(ret);
kfree(ret);
return ERR_PTR(-err);
}
if (msg.type != type) {
pr_warn_ratelimited("unexpected type [%d], expected [%d]\n",
msg.type, type);
kfree(ret);
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
return ret;
}
/* Simplified version of xs_talkv: single message. */
static void *xs_single(struct xenbus_transaction t,
enum xsd_sockmsg_type type,
const char *string,
unsigned int *len)
{
struct kvec iovec;
iovec.iov_base = (void *)string;
iovec.iov_len = strlen(string) + 1;
return xs_talkv(t, type, &iovec, 1, len);
}
/* Many commands only need an ack, don't care what it says. */
static int xs_error(char *reply)
{
if (IS_ERR(reply))
return PTR_ERR(reply);
kfree(reply);
return 0;
}
static unsigned int count_strings(const char *strings, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned int num;
const char *p;
for (p = strings, num = 0; p < strings + len; p += strlen(p) + 1)
num++;
return num;
}
/* Return the path to dir with /name appended. Buffer must be kfree()'ed. */
static char *join(const char *dir, const char *name)
{
char *buffer;
if (strlen(name) == 0)
buffer = kasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, "%s", dir);
else
buffer = kasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, "%s/%s", dir, name);
return (!buffer) ? ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) : buffer;
}
static char **split(char *strings, unsigned int len, unsigned int *num)
{
char *p, **ret;
/* Count the strings. */
*num = count_strings(strings, len);
/* Transfer to one big alloc for easy freeing. */
ret = kmalloc(*num * sizeof(char *) + len, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);
if (!ret) {
kfree(strings);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
memcpy(&ret[*num], strings, len);
kfree(strings);
strings = (char *)&ret[*num];
for (p = strings, *num = 0; p < strings + len; p += strlen(p) + 1)
ret[(*num)++] = p;
return ret;
}
char **xenbus_directory(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node, unsigned int *num)
{
char *strings, *path;
unsigned int len;
path = join(dir, node);
if (IS_ERR(path))
return (char **)path;
strings = xs_single(t, XS_DIRECTORY, path, &len);
kfree(path);
if (IS_ERR(strings))
return (char **)strings;
return split(strings, len, num);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_directory);
/* Check if a path exists. Return 1 if it does. */
int xenbus_exists(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node)
{
char **d;
int dir_n;
d = xenbus_directory(t, dir, node, &dir_n);
if (IS_ERR(d))
return 0;
kfree(d);
return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_exists);
/* Get the value of a single file.
* Returns a kmalloced value: call free() on it after use.
* len indicates length in bytes.
*/
void *xenbus_read(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node, unsigned int *len)
{
char *path;
void *ret;
path = join(dir, node);
if (IS_ERR(path))
return (void *)path;
ret = xs_single(t, XS_READ, path, len);
kfree(path);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_read);
/* Write the value of a single file.
* Returns -err on failure.
*/
int xenbus_write(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node, const char *string)
{
const char *path;
struct kvec iovec[2];
int ret;
path = join(dir, node);
if (IS_ERR(path))
return PTR_ERR(path);
iovec[0].iov_base = (void *)path;
iovec[0].iov_len = strlen(path) + 1;
iovec[1].iov_base = (void *)string;
iovec[1].iov_len = strlen(string);
ret = xs_error(xs_talkv(t, XS_WRITE, iovec, ARRAY_SIZE(iovec), NULL));
kfree(path);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_write);
/* Create a new directory. */
int xenbus_mkdir(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node)
{
char *path;
int ret;
path = join(dir, node);
if (IS_ERR(path))
return PTR_ERR(path);
ret = xs_error(xs_single(t, XS_MKDIR, path, NULL));
kfree(path);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_mkdir);
/* Destroy a file or directory (directories must be empty). */
int xenbus_rm(struct xenbus_transaction t, const char *dir, const char *node)
{
char *path;
int ret;
path = join(dir, node);
if (IS_ERR(path))
return PTR_ERR(path);
ret = xs_error(xs_single(t, XS_RM, path, NULL));
kfree(path);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_rm);
/* Start a transaction: changes by others will not be seen during this
* transaction, and changes will not be visible to others until end.
*/
int xenbus_transaction_start(struct xenbus_transaction *t)
{
char *id_str;
id_str = xs_single(XBT_NIL, XS_TRANSACTION_START, "", NULL);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
if (IS_ERR(id_str))
return PTR_ERR(id_str);
t->id = simple_strtoul(id_str, NULL, 0);
kfree(id_str);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_transaction_start);
/* End a transaction.
* If abandon is true, transaction is discarded instead of committed.
*/
int xenbus_transaction_end(struct xenbus_transaction t, int abort)
{
char abortstr[2];
if (abort)
strcpy(abortstr, "F");
else
strcpy(abortstr, "T");
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
return xs_error(xs_single(t, XS_TRANSACTION_END, abortstr, NULL));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_transaction_end);
/* Single read and scanf: returns -errno or num scanned. */
int xenbus_scanf(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list ap;
int ret;
char *val;
val = xenbus_read(t, dir, node, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(val))
return PTR_ERR(val);
va_start(ap, fmt);
ret = vsscanf(val, fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);
kfree(val);
/* Distinctive errno. */
if (ret == 0)
return -ERANGE;
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_scanf);
/* Read an (optional) unsigned value. */
unsigned int xenbus_read_unsigned(const char *dir, const char *node,
unsigned int default_val)
{
unsigned int val;
int ret;
ret = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dir, node, "%u", &val);
if (ret <= 0)
val = default_val;
return val;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_read_unsigned);
/* Single printf and write: returns -errno or 0. */
int xenbus_printf(struct xenbus_transaction t,
const char *dir, const char *node, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list ap;
int ret;
char *buf;
va_start(ap, fmt);
buf = kvasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = xenbus_write(t, dir, node, buf);
kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_printf);
/* Takes tuples of names, scanf-style args, and void **, NULL terminated. */
int xenbus_gather(struct xenbus_transaction t, const char *dir, ...)
{
va_list ap;
const char *name;
int ret = 0;
va_start(ap, dir);
while (ret == 0 && (name = va_arg(ap, char *)) != NULL) {
const char *fmt = va_arg(ap, char *);
void *result = va_arg(ap, void *);
char *p;
p = xenbus_read(t, dir, name, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(p)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(p);
break;
}
if (fmt) {
if (sscanf(p, fmt, result) == 0)
ret = -EINVAL;
kfree(p);
} else
*(char **)result = p;
}
va_end(ap);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xenbus_gather);
static int xs_watch(const char *path, const char *token)
{
struct kvec iov[2];
iov[0].iov_base = (void *)path;
iov[0].iov_len = strlen(path) + 1;
iov[1].iov_base = (void *)token;
iov[1].iov_len = strlen(token) + 1;
return xs_error(xs_talkv(XBT_NIL, XS_WATCH, iov,
ARRAY_SIZE(iov), NULL));
}
static int xs_unwatch(const char *path, const char *token)
{
struct kvec iov[2];
iov[0].iov_base = (char *)path;
iov[0].iov_len = strlen(path) + 1;
iov[1].iov_base = (char *)token;
iov[1].iov_len = strlen(token) + 1;
return xs_error(xs_talkv(XBT_NIL, XS_UNWATCH, iov,
ARRAY_SIZE(iov), NULL));
}
static struct xenbus_watch *find_watch(const char *token)
{
struct xenbus_watch *i, *cmp;
cmp = (void *)simple_strtoul(token, NULL, 16);
list_for_each_entry(i, &watches, list)
if (i == cmp)
return i;
return NULL;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
int xs_watch_msg(struct xs_watch_event *event)
{
if (count_strings(event->body, event->len) != 2) {
kfree(event);
return -EINVAL;
}
event->path = (const char *)event->body;
event->token = (const char *)strchr(event->body, '\0') + 1;
spin_lock(&watches_lock);
event->handle = find_watch(event->token);
if (event->handle != NULL) {
spin_lock(&watch_events_lock);
list_add_tail(&event->list, &watch_events);
wake_up(&watch_events_waitq);
spin_unlock(&watch_events_lock);
} else
kfree(event);
spin_unlock(&watches_lock);
return 0;
}
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
/*
* Certain older XenBus toolstack cannot handle reading values that are
* not populated. Some Xen 3.4 installation are incapable of doing this
* so if we are running on anything older than 4 do not attempt to read
* control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches.
*/
static bool xen_strict_xenbus_quirk(void)
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
uint32_t eax, ebx, ecx, edx, base;
base = xen_cpuid_base();
cpuid(base + 1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
if ((eax >> 16) < 4)
return true;
#endif
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
return false;
}
static void xs_reset_watches(void)
{
int err;
if (!xen_hvm_domain() || xen_initial_domain())
return;
xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-10 17:23:36 +00:00
if (xen_strict_xenbus_quirk())
return;
if (!xenbus_read_unsigned("control",
"platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", 0))
return;
err = xs_error(xs_single(XBT_NIL, XS_RESET_WATCHES, "", NULL));
if (err && err != -EEXIST)
pr_warn("xs_reset_watches failed: %d\n", err);
}
/* Register callback to watch this node. */
int register_xenbus_watch(struct xenbus_watch *watch)
{
/* Pointer in ascii is the token. */
char token[sizeof(watch) * 2 + 1];
int err;
sprintf(token, "%lX", (long)watch);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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down_read(&xs_watch_rwsem);
spin_lock(&watches_lock);
BUG_ON(find_watch(token));
list_add(&watch->list, &watches);
spin_unlock(&watches_lock);
err = xs_watch(watch->node, token);
if (err) {
spin_lock(&watches_lock);
list_del(&watch->list);
spin_unlock(&watches_lock);
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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up_read(&xs_watch_rwsem);
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_xenbus_watch);
void unregister_xenbus_watch(struct xenbus_watch *watch)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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struct xs_watch_event *event, *tmp;
char token[sizeof(watch) * 2 + 1];
int err;
sprintf(token, "%lX", (long)watch);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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down_read(&xs_watch_rwsem);
spin_lock(&watches_lock);
BUG_ON(!find_watch(token));
list_del(&watch->list);
spin_unlock(&watches_lock);
err = xs_unwatch(watch->node, token);
if (err)
pr_warn("Failed to release watch %s: %i\n", watch->node, err);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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up_read(&xs_watch_rwsem);
/* Make sure there are no callbacks running currently (unless
its us) */
if (current->pid != xenwatch_pid)
mutex_lock(&xenwatch_mutex);
/* Cancel pending watch events. */
spin_lock(&watch_events_lock);
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &watch_events, list) {
if (event->handle != watch)
continue;
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list_del(&event->list);
kfree(event);
}
spin_unlock(&watch_events_lock);
if (current->pid != xenwatch_pid)
mutex_unlock(&xenwatch_mutex);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_xenbus_watch);
void xs_suspend(void)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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xs_suspend_enter();
down_write(&xs_watch_rwsem);
mutex_lock(&xs_response_mutex);
}
void xs_resume(void)
{
struct xenbus_watch *watch;
char token[sizeof(watch) * 2 + 1];
xb_init_comms();
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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mutex_unlock(&xs_response_mutex);
xs_suspend_exit();
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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/* No need for watches_lock: the xs_watch_rwsem is sufficient. */
list_for_each_entry(watch, &watches, list) {
sprintf(token, "%lX", (long)watch);
xs_watch(watch->node, token);
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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up_write(&xs_watch_rwsem);
}
void xs_suspend_cancel(void)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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mutex_unlock(&xs_response_mutex);
up_write(&xs_watch_rwsem);
xs_suspend_exit();
}
static int xenwatch_thread(void *unused)
{
struct list_head *ent;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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struct xs_watch_event *event;
xenwatch_pid = current->pid;
for (;;) {
wait_event_interruptible(watch_events_waitq,
!list_empty(&watch_events));
if (kthread_should_stop())
break;
mutex_lock(&xenwatch_mutex);
spin_lock(&watch_events_lock);
ent = watch_events.next;
if (ent != &watch_events)
list_del(ent);
spin_unlock(&watch_events_lock);
if (ent != &watch_events) {
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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event = list_entry(ent, struct xs_watch_event, list);
event->handle->callback(event->handle, event->path,
event->token);
kfree(event);
}
mutex_unlock(&xenwatch_mutex);
}
return 0;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2017-02-09 13:39:58 +00:00
/*
* Wake up all threads waiting for a xenstore reply. In case of shutdown all
* pending replies will be marked as "aborted" in order to let the waiters
* return in spite of xenstore possibly no longer being able to reply. This
* will avoid blocking shutdown by a thread waiting for xenstore but being
* necessary for shutdown processing to proceed.
*/
static int xs_reboot_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long code, void *unused)
{
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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struct xb_req_data *req;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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mutex_lock(&xb_write_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(req, &xs_reply_list, list)
wake_up(&req->wq);
list_for_each_entry(req, &xb_write_list, list)
wake_up(&req->wq);
mutex_unlock(&xb_write_mutex);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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static struct notifier_block xs_reboot_nb = {
.notifier_call = xs_reboot_notify,
};
int xs_init(void)
{
int err;
struct task_struct *task;
xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is capable to have one access active only at one point of time. Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to: - Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of xenbus_thread(). - Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated xenbus thread. - Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will allow multiple outstanding requests. - Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being active in parallel. - Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to the caller and do the waiting in the read path. Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed entity is known to be running already. As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to a factor of 5 for large writes. In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed: - Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a warning in each loop. - In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but this was just a waste of kernel resources. - An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of synchronization with xenstore. - The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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register_reboot_notifier(&xs_reboot_nb);
/* Initialize the shared memory rings to talk to xenstored */
err = xb_init_comms();
if (err)
return err;
task = kthread_run(xenwatch_thread, NULL, "xenwatch");
if (IS_ERR(task))
return PTR_ERR(task);
/* shutdown watches for kexec boot */
xs_reset_watches();
return 0;
}