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Hi Andi, Here's a repost of the paravirt_ops update series I posted the other day. Since then, I found a few potential bugs with patching clobbering, cleaned up and documented paravirt.h and the patching machinery. Overview: add-MAINTAINERS.patch obvious remove-CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.patch No longer meaningful or needed. paravirt-nop.patch Clean up nop paravirt_ops functions, mainly to

Hi Andi, Here's a repost of the paravirt_ops update series I posted the other day. Since then, I found a few potential bugs with patching clobbering, cleaned up and documented paravirt.h and the patching machinery. Overview: add-MAINTAINERS.patch obvious remove-CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.patch No longer meaningful or needed. paravirt-nop.patch Clean up nop paravirt_ops functions, mainly to

Hi all, I've been looking at the next steps to try to get Xen running fully on top of pv_ops. To that end, I've (just) started looking at one of the next major jobs --- i686 dom0 on pv_ops. There are still a number of things needing done to reach parity with xen-unstable: x86_64 xen on pv_ops Paravirt framebuffer/keyboard CPU hotplug Balloon kexec driver domains but it

Hi all, I've been looking at the next steps to try to get Xen running fully on top of pv_ops. To that end, I've (just) started looking at one of the next major jobs --- i686 dom0 on pv_ops. There are still a number of things needing done to reach parity with xen-unstable: x86_64 xen on pv_ops Paravirt framebuffer/keyboard CPU hotplug Balloon kexec driver domains but it

Hi all, I've been looking at the next steps to try to get Xen running fully on top of pv_ops. To that end, I've (just) started looking at one of the next major jobs --- i686 dom0 on pv_ops. There are still a number of things needing done to reach parity with xen-unstable: x86_64 xen on pv_ops Paravirt framebuffer/keyboard CPU hotplug Balloon kexec driver domains but it

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

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

From: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de> paravirt_patch_ignore() is completely unused and paravirt_patch_nop() doesn't do a whole lot. Remove them both. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw at sous-sol.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"

From: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de> paravirt_patch_ignore() is completely unused and paravirt_patch_nop() doesn't do a whole lot. Remove them both. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw at sous-sol.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at suse.com> The general documentation we have for pv_ops is currenty present on the IA64 docs, but since this documentation covers IA64 xen enablement and IA64 Xen support got ripped out a while ago through commit d52eefb47 present since v3.14-rc1 lets just simplify, generalize and move the pv_ops documentation to a shared place. Cc: Isaku

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at suse.com> The general documentation we have for pv_ops is currenty present on the IA64 docs, but since this documentation covers IA64 xen enablement and IA64 Xen support got ripped out a while ago through commit d52eefb47 present since v3.14-rc1 lets just simplify, generalize and move the pv_ops documentation to a shared place. Cc: Isaku

Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires 100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs have not yet been delivered.

Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires 100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs have not yet been delivered.

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

Given all the discussion, let's just require NO_HZ when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. Anyone object? Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> --- --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Mar 12 11:07:45 2007 -0700 +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Mar 12 16:53:14 2007 -0700 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ endchoice config PARAVIRT bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL

Given all the discussion, let's just require NO_HZ when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. Anyone object? Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> --- --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Mar 12 11:07:45 2007 -0700 +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Mar 12 16:53:14 2007 -0700 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ endchoice config PARAVIRT bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL

Hi Andi, This series of patches updates paravirt_ops in various ways. Some of the changes are plain cleanups and improvements, and some add some interfaces necessary for Xen. The brief overview: add-MAINTAINERS.patch - obvious remove-CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.patch - no longer needed paravirt-nop.patch - mark nop operations consistently paravirt-pte-accessors.patch - operations to pack/unpack