similar to: [PATCH 1/2] lguest: handle dodgy/non-existent TSC. Host code.

The following patches are the latest update of the TSC and hrtimer patches I posted on 29/03. Rusty's original TSC patch has been resynced to the latest lguest repo, as has the hrtimer patch, which also incorporates feedback from Jeremy & Rusty: - Change clock event hrtimer to absolute time. 'now' is captured in the host during the hypercall. - Propagate -ETIME back to the

The following patches are the latest update of the TSC and hrtimer patches I posted on 29/03. Rusty's original TSC patch has been resynced to the latest lguest repo, as has the hrtimer patch, which also incorporates feedback from Jeremy & Rusty: - Change clock event hrtimer to absolute time. 'now' is captured in the host during the hypercall. - Propagate -ETIME back to the

[ Ingo, Thomas cc'd in case this issue effects normal jiffies clock too? ] When the Host TSC is unreliable or can change, lguest guests use the jiffies clock. However, the clock value seems to creep upwards in sub-jiffies increments, and then tick_handle_periodic() goes into an infinite loop. Instead, the host writes the current time into the lguest page on every interrupt. This

[ Ingo, Thomas cc'd in case this issue effects normal jiffies clock too? ] When the Host TSC is unreliable or can change, lguest guests use the jiffies clock. However, the clock value seems to creep upwards in sub-jiffies increments, and then tick_handle_periodic() goes into an infinite loop. Instead, the host writes the current time into the lguest page on every interrupt. This

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9 +++-- drivers/lguest/Makefile

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9 +++-- drivers/lguest/Makefile

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Start with drivers/lguest/README. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Start with drivers/lguest/README. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9

Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the way. Well, the lguest64 port is still not ready to display, but before Rusty makes too many changes I would like this in upstream so I don't have to keep repeating my changes :-) So this patch series moves lguest32 out of the way for other archs. -- Steve

Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the way. Well, the lguest64 port is still not ready to display, but before Rusty makes too many changes I would like this in upstream so I don't have to keep repeating my changes :-) So this patch series moves lguest32 out of the way for other archs. -- Steve

[ Changes since last version. - Move lg.h to include/asm instead (suggested by Rusty Russel) - All steps of the series compiles (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Better ifdef header naming (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Added Andi Kleen to CC (forgot to on V1) ] Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the

[ Changes since last version. - Move lg.h to include/asm instead (suggested by Rusty Russel) - All steps of the series compiles (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Better ifdef header naming (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Added Andi Kleen to CC (forgot to on V1) ] Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the

Hi all, These are the patches I'm planning to submit for 2.6.24. Comments gratefully accepted. Along with the usual cleanups and improvements are Jes' de-i386-ification patches, and a new "virtio" mechanism designed to be shared with KVM (and hopefully other hypervisors). Cheers, Rusty. Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 30 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c

Hi all, These are the patches I'm planning to submit for 2.6.24. Comments gratefully accepted. Along with the usual cleanups and improvements are Jes' de-i386-ification patches, and a new "virtio" mechanism designed to be shared with KVM (and hopefully other hypervisors). Cheers, Rusty. Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 30 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c

After aa297292d708, there are separate native calibrations for cpu_khz and tsc_khz. The code sets x86_platform.calibrate_cpu to native_calibrate_cpu() which looks in cpuid leaf 0x16 or msrs for the cpu frequency. Since we keep the tsc_khz constant (even after vmotion), the cpu_khz and tsc_khz may start diverging. tsc_init() now does cpu_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_cpu(); tsc_khz =

After aa297292d708, there are separate native calibrations for cpu_khz and tsc_khz. The code sets x86_platform.calibrate_cpu to native_calibrate_cpu() which looks in cpuid leaf 0x16 or msrs for the cpu frequency. Since we keep the tsc_khz constant (even after vmotion), the cpu_khz and tsc_khz may start diverging. tsc_init() now does cpu_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_cpu(); tsc_khz =

This patchset includes several VMware guest improvements: Alexey Makhalov (3): x86/vmware: Use tsc_khz value for calibrate_cpu() x86/vmware: Add basic paravirt ops support x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) -- 2.10.1

This patchset includes several VMware guest improvements: Alexey Makhalov (3): x86/vmware: Use tsc_khz value for calibrate_cpu() x86/vmware: Add basic paravirt ops support x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) -- 2.10.1

As promised to Andrew, and with much thanks to Andi Kleen for feedback, this is the new series of lguest patches. Main change is the move to drivers/lguest (for future non-i386 expansion), but lots of cleanups driven by Andi's feedback and the documentation effort (which made me examine every line of code). It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful. Cheers, Rusty. List of

As promised to Andrew, and with much thanks to Andi Kleen for feedback, this is the new series of lguest patches. Main change is the move to drivers/lguest (for future non-i386 expansion), but lots of cleanups driven by Andi's feedback and the documentation effort (which made me examine every line of code). It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful. Cheers, Rusty. List of