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Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> writes: > Lguest and Xen pv-guests are the only users of pv_mmu_ops (with the > one exception of the .exit_mmap member, which is being used by Xen > HVM-guests, too). > > As it is possible now to build a kernel without Xen pv-guest support > while keeping PVH and PVHVM support, I thought about putting most > pv_mmu_ops functions in

Today paravirtualization is a all-or-nothing game: either a kernel is compiled with no paravirtualization support at all, or it is supporting paravirtualized environments like Xen pv-guests or lguest additionally to some paravirtualized tuning for KVM, Hyperv, VMWare or Xen HVM-guests. As support of pv-guests requires quite intrusive pv-hooks (e.g. all access functions to page table entries,

Today paravirtualization is a all-or-nothing game: either a kernel is compiled with no paravirtualization support at all, or it is supporting paravirtualized environments like Xen pv-guests or lguest additionally to some paravirtualized tuning for KVM, Hyperv, VMWare or Xen HVM-guests. As support of pv-guests requires quite intrusive pv-hooks (e.g. all access functions to page table entries,

This series removes some no longer needed stuff from paravirt infrastructure and puts large quantities of paravirt ops under a new config option PARAVIRT_XXL which is selected by XEN_PV only. A pvops kernel without XEN_PV being configured is about 2.5% smaller with this series applied. tip commit 5800dc5c19f34e6e03b5adab1282535cb102fafd ("x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for

This series removes some no longer needed stuff from paravirt infrastructure and puts large quantities of paravirt ops under a new config option PARAVIRT_XXL which is selected by XEN_PV only. A pvops kernel without XEN_PV being configured is about 2.5% smaller with this series applied. tip commit 5800dc5c19f34e6e03b5adab1282535cb102fafd ("x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for

The trailing semicolon is an empty statement that does no operation. Removing it since it doesn't do anything. Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg at kernel.org> --- Hi, After fixing the same thing in drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/, Joe Perches suggested I fix it treewide [0]. Best regards Luis [0]

Paravirt ops is currently only capable of either replacing a lot of Linux internal code or none at all. The are users that don't need all of the possibilities pv-ops delivers though. On KVM for example we're perfectly fine not using the PV MMU, thus not touching any MMU code. That way we don't have to improve pv-ops to become fast, we just don't compile the MMU parts in! This

Paravirt ops is currently only capable of either replacing a lot of Linux internal code or none at all. The are users that don't need all of the possibilities pv-ops delivers though. On KVM for example we're perfectly fine not using the PV MMU, thus not touching any MMU code. That way we don't have to improve pv-ops to become fast, we just don't compile the MMU parts in! This

Hi Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

Hi Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

Hi Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

Hi folks, With this series, the bulk of the work of pvops64 is done. Here, I integrate most of the paravirt.c and paravirt.h files, making them applicable to both architectures. CONFIG_PARAVIRT is _not_ present yet. Basically, this code is missing page table integration (patches currently being worked on by Jeremy). Enjoy

Hi folks, With this series, the bulk of the work of pvops64 is done. Here, I integrate most of the paravirt.c and paravirt.h files, making them applicable to both architectures. CONFIG_PARAVIRT is _not_ present yet. Basically, this code is missing page table integration (patches currently being worked on by Jeremy). Enjoy

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > > #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > > +/* > > + * Paravirt alternatives are applied much earlier than normal alternatives. > > + * They are only applied when running on a hypervisor. They replace some > > + * native instructions with calls to pv ops. > > + */ > > +void __init

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > > #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > > +/* > > + * Paravirt alternatives are applied much earlier than normal alternatives. > > + * They are only applied when running on a hypervisor. They replace some > > + * native instructions with calls to pv ops. > > + */ > > +void __init

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 10:54:50AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 25/05/2019 10:22, Nadav Amit wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > index 946f8f1f1efc..3a156e63c57d 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 10:54:50AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 25/05/2019 10:22, Nadav Amit wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > index 946f8f1f1efc..3a156e63c57d 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h > > @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@

To improve TLB shootdown performance, flush the remote and local TLBs concurrently. Introduce flush_tlb_multi() that does so. The current flush_tlb_others() interface is kept, since paravirtual interfaces need to be adapted first before it can be removed. This is left for future work. In such PV environments, TLB flushes are not performed, at this time, concurrently. Add a static key to tell

To improve TLB shootdown performance, flush the remote and local TLBs concurrently. Introduce flush_tlb_multi() that does so. The current flush_tlb_others() interface is kept, since paravirtual interfaces need to be adapted first before it can be removed. This is left for future work. In such PV environments, TLB flushes are not performed, at this time, concurrently. Add a static key to tell

To improve TLB shootdown performance, flush the remote and local TLBs concurrently. Introduce flush_tlb_multi() that does so. The current flush_tlb_others() interface is kept, since paravirtual interfaces need to be adapted first before it can be removed. This is left for future work. In such PV environments, TLB flushes are not performed, at this time, concurrently. Add a static key to tell