similar to: [PATCH 0/5] lguest feedback tidyups

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

[ 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, 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

Christoph Hellwig said runs sparse: 1) page_tables.c unnecessary initialization 2) Change prototype of run_lguest and do cast in caller instead (when we add __user to cast, it runs over another line). Al Viro pointed out the ugly cast in push_lguest_stack(): 3) Stick with unsigned long for arg, removes 4 casts in total. Most importantly, I now realize that Christoph's incorrect ranting

Christoph Hellwig said runs sparse: 1) page_tables.c unnecessary initialization 2) Change prototype of run_lguest and do cast in caller instead (when we add __user to cast, it runs over another line). Al Viro pointed out the ugly cast in push_lguest_stack(): 3) Stick with unsigned long for arg, removes 4 casts in total. Most importantly, I now realize that Christoph's incorrect ranting

1) Example code: old libc headers don't have SIOCBRADDIF, and old zlibs don't have gzdirect() -- it's a sanity check anyway. 2) Some people don't build in their source directories, so .config isn't there (thanks to Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>). 3) Point out that guest and host kernel are usually the same. 4) Set the "no checksum" option on the

1) Example code: old libc headers don't have SIOCBRADDIF, and old zlibs don't have gzdirect() -- it's a sanity check anyway. 2) Some people don't build in their source directories, so .config isn't there (thanks to Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>). 3) Point out that guest and host kernel are usually the same. 4) Set the "no checksum" option on the

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> A simple console driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/char/Makefile | 1 drivers/char/hvc_lguest.c | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+) diff

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> A simple console driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/char/Makefile | 1 drivers/char/hvc_lguest.c | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+) diff

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be compiled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/lguest/Kconfig | 20

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Lguest net driver A simple net driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/net/Makefile | 1

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Lguest net driver A simple net driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/net/Makefile | 1

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

Hi Linus, First attempt at git, so please pull carefully. I've just put the three i386 boot changes in the repo for the moment. If this works I'll pile on the 44 lguest patches. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 15 ++++++++++-

Hi Linus, First attempt at git, so please pull carefully. I've just put the three i386 boot changes in the repo for the moment. If this works I'll pile on the 44 lguest patches. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 15 ++++++++++-

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