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...CLI # make sure we don't miss an interrupt # setting need_resched or sigpending @@ -382,17 +384,14 @@ syscall_badsys: /* put ESP to the proper location */ \ movl %eax, %esp; #define UNWIND_ESPFIX_STACK \ - pushl %eax; \ - movl %ss, %eax; \ - /* see if on 16bit stack */ \ - cmpw $__ESPFIX_SS, %ax; \ + COMPARE_SEGMENT_REG(__ESPFIX_SS, %ss) \ jne 28f; \ - movl $__KERNEL_DS, %edx; \ + movl $__USER_DS, %edx; \ movl %edx, %ds; \ movl %edx, %es; \ /* switch to 32bit stack */ \ FIXUP_ESPFIX_STACK \ -28: popl %eax; +28:; /* * Build the entry stubs and pointer table with @@ -451,...

...CLI # make sure we don't miss an interrupt # setting need_resched or sigpending @@ -382,17 +384,14 @@ syscall_badsys: /* put ESP to the proper location */ \ movl %eax, %esp; #define UNWIND_ESPFIX_STACK \ - pushl %eax; \ - movl %ss, %eax; \ - /* see if on 16bit stack */ \ - cmpw $__ESPFIX_SS, %ax; \ + COMPARE_SEGMENT_REG(__ESPFIX_SS, %ss) \ jne 28f; \ - movl $__KERNEL_DS, %edx; \ + movl $__USER_DS, %edx; \ movl %edx, %ds; \ movl %edx, %es; \ /* switch to 32bit stack */ \ FIXUP_ESPFIX_STACK \ -28: popl %eax; +28:; /* * Build the entry stubs and pointer table with @@ -451,...

...nges required to low level fault / system call code for supporting transparent paravirtualization where the kernel may be running at non-zero CPL. The testing of VM_MASK and CS together uses a neat trick which is now extended to support CPL 0,1,2 kernels. Note that assembly code must test against __ESPFIX_SS, the 16-bit stack on interrupts and exceptions. To do so at non-zero CPL requires masking off the RPL of the selector (which is a nop for the mach-default implementation). Also, there is no reason to load __KERNEL_DS into %ds or %es. __KERNEL_DS is actually quite poorly named, and is in fact the...

...nges required to low level fault / system call code for supporting transparent paravirtualization where the kernel may be running at non-zero CPL. The testing of VM_MASK and CS together uses a neat trick which is now extended to support CPL 0,1,2 kernels. Note that assembly code must test against __ESPFIX_SS, the 16-bit stack on interrupts and exceptions. To do so at non-zero CPL requires masking off the RPL of the selector (which is a nop for the mach-default implementation). Also, there is no reason to load __KERNEL_DS into %ds or %es. __KERNEL_DS is actually quite poorly named, and is in fact the...

...cli # make sure we don't miss an interrupt # setting need_resched or sigpending @@ -386,17 +388,14 @@ syscall_badsys: /* put ESP to the proper location */ \ movl %eax, %esp; #define UNWIND_ESPFIX_STACK \ - pushl %eax; \ - movl %ss, %eax; \ - /* see if on 16bit stack */ \ - cmpw $__ESPFIX_SS, %ax; \ + COMPARE_SEGMENT_REG(__ESPFIX_SS, %ss); \ jne 28f; \ - movl $__KERNEL_DS, %edx; \ + movl $__USER_DS, %edx; \ movl %edx, %ds; \ movl %edx, %es; \ /* switch to 32bit stack */ \ FIXUP_ESPFIX_STACK \ -28: popl %eax; +28:; /* * Build the entry stubs and pointer table with @@ -455...

...cli # make sure we don't miss an interrupt # setting need_resched or sigpending @@ -386,17 +388,14 @@ syscall_badsys: /* put ESP to the proper location */ \ movl %eax, %esp; #define UNWIND_ESPFIX_STACK \ - pushl %eax; \ - movl %ss, %eax; \ - /* see if on 16bit stack */ \ - cmpw $__ESPFIX_SS, %ax; \ + COMPARE_SEGMENT_REG(__ESPFIX_SS, %ss); \ jne 28f; \ - movl $__KERNEL_DS, %edx; \ + movl $__USER_DS, %edx; \ movl %edx, %ds; \ movl %edx, %es; \ /* switch to 32bit stack */ \ FIXUP_ESPFIX_STACK \ -28: popl %eax; +28:; /* * Build the entry stubs and pointer table with @@ -455...

Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Thanks, J

Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Thanks, J

Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

Unlike full virtualization in which the virtual machine provides the same platform interface as running natively on the hardware, paravirtualization requires modification to the guest operating system to work with the platform interface provided by the hypervisor. Xen was designed with performance in mind. Calls to the hypervisor are minimized, batched if necessary, and non-critical codepaths