All the virtualized platforms (KVM, lguest and Xen) have persistent
wallclocks that have more than one second of precision.
read_persistent_wallclock() and update_persistent_wallclock() allow
for nanosecond precision but their implementation on x86 with
x86_platform.get/set_wallclock() only allows for one second precision.
This means guests may see a wallclock time that is off by up to 1
second.
Make set_wallclock() and get_wallclock() take a struct timespec
parameter (which allows for nanosecond precision) so KVM and Xen
guests may start with a more accurate wallclock time and a Xen dom0
can maintain a more accurate wallclock for guests.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Invoking arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() results in calls to
preempt_enable()/disable() which may have performance impact.
Since lazy MMU is not used on bare metal we can patch away
arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() so that it is never called in such
environment.
[ hpa: the previous patch "Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU
updates" may cause a minor performance regression on
bare metal. This patch resolves that performance regression. It is
somewhat unclear to me if this is a good -stable candidate. ]
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364045796-10720-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> SEE NOTE ABOVE
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Merge tag 'v3.8-rc5' into x86/mm
The __pa() fixup series that follows touches KVM code that is not
present in the existing branch based on v3.7-rc5, so merge in the
current upstream from Linus.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The function lguest_write_cr3 is using __pa to convert swapper_pg_dir and
initial_page_table from virtual addresses to physical. The correct function
to use for these values is __pa_symbol since they are C visible symbols.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215748.8521.83556.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
mce_ser, mce_bios_cmci_threshold and mce_disabled are the last three
bools which need conversion. Move them to the mca_config struct and
adjust usage sites accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Make sure the interrupt is allocated correctly by lguest_setup_irq (check the
return value of irq_alloc_desc_at for -ENOMEM)
Signed-off-by: Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleanups and commentry)
We need this in advance of the module.h cleanup, or we'll
get compile errors like this:
CC drivers/lguest/lguest_device.o
drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c: In function ‘lguest_devices_init’:
drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c:490: error: ‘THIS_MODULE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Host might be running under KVM, but we shouldn't allow Guest to think it
can use KVM hypercalls (it can't, and it will embarrass itself if it tries).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The comment is outdated, wikipedia now has six translations of the cpuid
page.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch fixes three typos I've accidentally spotted.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (one was already fixed)
The Host used to create some page tables for the Guest to use at the
top of Guest memory; it would then tell the Guest where this was. In
particular, it created linear mappings for 0 and 0xC0000000 addresses
because lguest used to switch to its real page tables quite late in
boot.
However, since d50d8fe19 Linux initialized boot page tables in
head_32.S even before the "are we lguest?" boot jump. So, now we can
simplify things: the Host pagetable code assumes 1:1 linear mapping
until it first calls the LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE hypercall, which we now do
before we reach C code.
This also means that the Host doesn't need to know anything about the
Guest's PAGE_OFFSET. (Non-Linux guests might not even have such a
thing).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Without an IRQ chip set, we now get a WARN_ON and no timer interrupt. This
prevents booting.
Fortunately, the fix is a one-liner: set up the timer IRQ like everything
else.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
* 'timers-clocksource-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: convert mips to generic i8253 clocksource
clocksource: convert x86 to generic i8253 clocksource
clocksource: convert footbridge to generic i8253 clocksource
clocksource: add common i8253 PIT clocksource
blackfin: convert to clocksource_register_hz
mips: convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
sparc: convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
alpha: convert to clocksource_register_hz
microblaze: convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
ia64: convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
x86: Convert remaining x86 clocksources to clocksource_register_hz/khz
Make clocksource name const
Conflicts:
arch/ia64/kernel/cyclone.c
arch/mips/kernel/i8253.c
arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c
Reason: Resolve conflicts so further cleanups do not conflict further
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
- Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm
- Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml
- Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest
throughout the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
genirq is switching to a consistent name space for the irq related
functions. Convert x86. Conversion was done with coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This converts the remaining x86 clocksources to use
clocksource_register_hz/khz.
CC: jacob.jun.pan@intel.com
CC: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
CC: Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> [xen]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c: In function ‘lguest_init_IRQ’:
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: macro "__this_cpu_write" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: ‘__this_cpu_write’ undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c: In function ‘copy_in_guest_info’:
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c:94: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Two x86 patches broke lguest:
1) v2.6.35-492-g72d7c3b, which changed x86 to use the memblock allocator.
In lguest, the host places linear page tables at the top of mem, which
used to be enough to get us up to the swapper_pg_dir page tables. With
the first patch, the direct mapping tables used that memory:
Before: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 7000-1a000
After: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 3fed000-4000000
I initially fixed this by lying about the amount of memory we had, so
the kernel wouldn't blatt the lguest boot pagetables (yuk!), but then...
2) v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827f, which made x86 boot use initial_page_table.
This was initialized in a part of head_32.S which isn't executed by
lguest; it is then copied into swapper_pg_dir. So we have to initialize
it; and anyway we switch to it before we blatt the old tables, so that
fixes the previous damage as well.
For the moment, I cut & pasted the code into lguest's boot code, but
next merge window I will merge them.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: x86@kernel.org
lguest is dumb and drops *all* the pagetables for set_pte (which is
only used for kernel mapping manipulation, so it's OK without highmem).
But it's used a lot in boot, too. As a guest optimization, we
suppressed this flushing until the first page switch. Now we have
initial_page_table, that happens much earlier, so extend the heuristic
to wait until we switch to something other than the swapper_pg_dir or
initial_page_table.
As measured on my laptop under kvm, this dropped the time-to-mount-root
from 48 seconds to 4.3 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
fe25c7fc2e "x86: lguest: Convert to new irq chip functions" converted
enable_lguest_irq() to take a struct irq_data *, but didn't fix the one
internal caller.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: x86@kernel.org
We used to have a hypercall which reloaded the entire GDT, then we
switched to one which loaded a single entry (to match the IDT code).
Some comments were not updated, so fix them.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reported by: Eviatar Khen <eviatarkhen@gmail.com>
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2a1 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls";
we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for
hypercalls. I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the
same calling convention as kvm.
KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest
tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm
fails to make hypercalls. It was nice to share code with our KVM
cousins, but this was overreach.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.
At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.
Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.
In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
We used to defer it, so lockdep was happy. We now init lockdep early
anyway, so just do it after that.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
get/set_wallclock() have already a set of platform dependent
implementations (default, EFI, paravirt). MRST will add another
variant.
Moving them to platform ops simplifies the existing code and minimizes
the effort to integrate new variants.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
TSC calibration is modified by the vmware hypervisor and paravirt by
separate means. Moorestown wants to add its own calibration routine as
well. So make calibrate_tsc a proper x86_init_ops function and
override it by paravirt or by the early setup of the vmware
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The timer init code is convoluted with several quirks and the paravirt
timer chooser. Figuring out which code path is actually taken is not
for the faint hearted.
Move the numaq TSC quirk to tsc_pre_init x86_init_ops function and
replace the paravirt time chooser and the remaining x86 quirk with a
simple x86_init_ops function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
irq_init is overridden by x86_quirks and by paravirts. Unify the whole
mess and make it an unconditional x86_init_ops function which defaults
to the standard function and can be overridden by the early platform
code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
memory_setup is overridden by x86_quirks and by paravirts with weak
functions and quirks. Unify the whole mess and make it an
unconditional x86_init_ops function which defaults to the standard
function and can be overridden by the early platform code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Every so often, after code shuffles, I need to go through and unbitrot
the Lguest Journey (see drivers/lguest/README). Since we now use RCU in
a simple form in one place I took the opportunity to expand that explanation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
I don't really notice it (except to begrudge the extra vertical
space), but Ingo does. And he pointed out that one excuse of lguest
is as a teaching tool, it should set a good example.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Avoid the following:
[ 0.012093] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:249 native_apic_write_dummy+0x2f/0x40()
Rather than chase each new cpuid-detected feature, just lie about the highest
valid CPUID so this code is never run.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Add support for kvm_hypercall4(); PAE wants it.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
replace LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD hypercall name
(That's really what it is, and the confusion gets worse with PAE support)
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Some cleanups and replace direct assignment with native_set_* macros which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable
check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly
into the callsites, so the C versions are always used.
But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all
the registers. In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path,
so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler.
The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of
code, it's worth applying.
1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed)
Before:
Seconds: 0:16.53
Packets: 377268,753673
Interrupts: 22461,24297
Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370)
Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095)
After:
Seconds: 0:16.48
Packets: 377289,753673
Interrupts: 22281,24465
Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377)
Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
things still worked. However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.
These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
patch space, so we drop that code.
Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!
Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.
Before:
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 30.7 seconds
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 76.0 seconds
After:
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host: 6.8 seconds
1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO): 27.8 seconds
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Copy from arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c: we don't use the vectors beyond
LGUEST_IRQS (if any), but we might as well set them all.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
xen: add "capabilities" file
xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
xen: add irq_from_evtchn
xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
...
* 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (76 commits)
x86, apic: Fix dummy apic read operation together with broken MP handling
x86, apic: Restore irqs on fail paths
x86: Print real IOAPIC version for x86-64
x86: enable_update_mptable should be a macro
sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocation
x86, io-apic: Don't mark pin_programmed early
x86, irq: don't call mp_config_acpi_gsi() if update_mptable is not enabled
x86, irq: update_mptable needs pci_routeirq
x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic
x86, apic: introduce io_apic_irq_attr
x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector(), fix
x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case
x86: apic: Fixmap apic address even if apic disabled
x86: display extended apic registers with print_local_APIC and cpu_debug code
x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case
x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling
x86: apic: Check rev 3 fadt correctly for physical_apic bit
x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing
x86/acpi: move setup io apic routing out of CONFIG_ACPI scope
x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector()
...
We don't set up the canary; let's disable stack protector on boot.c so
we can get into lguest_init, then set it up. As a side effect,
switch_to_new_gdt() sets up %fs for us properly too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>