similar to: pgd_alloc and [cd]tors

Hooks are provided for the mach-XXX subarchitecture at the time prior to a page being used as a page table at all levels, for PAE and non-PAE kernels. Note that in PAE mode, multiple PDP roots may exist on the same page with other data, so the root must be shadowed instead. This is not a performance issue, since PAE only uses 4 top level PDPEs. The hooks are: SetPagePTE(ppn) - indicates that a

Hooks are provided for the mach-XXX subarchitecture at the time prior to a page being used as a page table at all levels, for PAE and non-PAE kernels. Note that in PAE mode, multiple PDP roots may exist on the same page with other data, so the root must be shadowed instead. This is not a performance issue, since PAE only uses 4 top level PDPEs. The hooks are: SetPagePTE(ppn) - indicates that a

I''m sure everyone has seen the drop of VMI patches for Linux at this point, but just in case, the link is included below. I''ve read this version of the VMI spec and have made my way through most of the patches. While I wasn''t really that impressed with the first spec wrt Xen, the second version seems to be much more palatable. Specifically, the code inlining and

Btw., another question that made me wonder already when doing the original patch: why is it that x86-64 properly uses locking for mm_pin_all(), yet i386 doesn''t need to? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Ok, the use of "1 + " and subtraction of one for PAE PDPEs has confused many people now. Make it explicit what is going on and why anding with PAGE_MASK is a better idea to strip these bits. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Depends-on: add-pgtable-allocation-notifiers Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c

Ok, the use of "1 + " and subtraction of one for PAE PDPEs has confused many people now. Make it explicit what is going on and why anding with PAGE_MASK is a better idea to strip these bits. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Depends-on: add-pgtable-allocation-notifiers Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c

I believe eigen(), svd() and qr() can all do it. Andy > From: Jonathan Baron > > On 06/17/04 19:04, Fred wrote: > >Dear R-listers: > > > >I am trying to test an algorithm on a set of linearly > independent vectors > >{x1,x2,...,xn}. > > Well, here's an idea, for 10 vectors of length 10, > as columns of a matrix m1. The 11th seems to be needed.

The VMI backend uses explicit page type notification to track shadow page tables. The allocation of page table roots is especially tricky. We want to clone the root for non-PAE mode while it is protected under the pgd lock. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> =================================================================== --- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c +++

The VMI backend uses explicit page type notification to track shadow page tables. The allocation of page table roots is especially tricky. We want to clone the root for non-PAE mode while it is protected under the pgd lock. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> =================================================================== --- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c +++

The VMI backend uses explicit page type notification to track shadow page tables. The allocation of page table roots is especially tricky. We need to clone the root for non-PAE mode while it is protected under the pgd lock to correctly copy the shadow. We don't need to allocate pgds in PAE mode, (PDPs in Intel terminology) as they only have 4 entries, and are cached entirely by the

The VMI backend uses explicit page type notification to track shadow page tables. The allocation of page table roots is especially tricky. We need to clone the root for non-PAE mode while it is protected under the pgd lock to correctly copy the shadow. We don't need to allocate pgds in PAE mode, (PDPs in Intel terminology) as they only have 4 entries, and are cached entirely by the

The two paravirt callbacks .mmu.activate_mm and .mmu.dup_mmap are sharing the same implementations in all cases: for Xen PV guests they are pinning the PGD of the new mm_struct, and for all other cases they are a NOP. In the end both callbacks are meant to register an address space with the underlying hypervisor, so there needs to be only a single callback for that purpose. So merge them to a

This is my current set of updates to Xen for 2.6.24. This is largely a bugfix set, and a couple of them are also relevent to 2.6.23. These are in the pre-x86 merge form; I'll update them once the merge goes into git. Quick overview: - remove some dead code in arch/i386/mm/init.c - clean up some duplicate includes - when sending an IPI, yield the vcpu if the destination doesn't have

This is my current set of updates to Xen for 2.6.24. This is largely a bugfix set, and a couple of them are also relevent to 2.6.23. These are in the pre-x86 merge form; I'll update them once the merge goes into git. Quick overview: - remove some dead code in arch/i386/mm/init.c - clean up some duplicate includes - when sending an IPI, yield the vcpu if the destination doesn't have

This is my current set of updates to Xen for 2.6.24. This is largely a bugfix set, and a couple of them are also relevent to 2.6.23. These are in the pre-x86 merge form; I'll update them once the merge goes into git. Quick overview: - remove some dead code in arch/i386/mm/init.c - clean up some duplicate includes - when sending an IPI, yield the vcpu if the destination doesn't have

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

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

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

Hi, For some days I have been looking for the bug that causes an easily reproducible oops in the guest when I apply my PAE support _draft_ patch (appended at the end of this mail) to lguest. This is the oops: Setting kernel variables...done. Will now mount local filesystems:. Will now activate swapfile swap:done. Cleaning /tmp... [ 84.749676] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Hi, For some days I have been looking for the bug that causes an easily reproducible oops in the guest when I apply my PAE support _draft_ patch (appended at the end of this mail) to lguest. This is the oops: Setting kernel variables...done. Will now mount local filesystems:. Will now activate swapfile swap:done. Cleaning /tmp... [ 84.749676] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer