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Subject: Add a sched_clock paravirt_op The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds. This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which matches both Xen and VMI's requirements. In order to do this, we: 1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock 2. hoist cycles_2_ns

Subject: Add a sched_clock paravirt_op The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds. This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which matches both Xen and VMI's requirements. In order to do this, we: 1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock 2. hoist cycles_2_ns

I just rebased my paravirt_ops patch queue to current git. Looks like almost all the pre-req patches are now in, which is nice. The only missing thing from your patches was you sched_clock patches and the sched_clock paravirt-op. Are there still problems with either your sched_clock patch or the paravirt patch? Should I resubmit the paravirt-sched_clock patch based on git? The only other

I just rebased my paravirt_ops patch queue to current git. Looks like almost all the pre-req patches are now in, which is nice. The only missing thing from your patches was you sched_clock patches and the sched_clock paravirt-op. Are there still problems with either your sched_clock patch or the paravirt patch? Should I resubmit the paravirt-sched_clock patch based on git? The only other

This series contain fixes to make the paravirt_ops code compile and boot on x86_64. This is a follow-up for the previous series from Glauber.

This series contain fixes to make the paravirt_ops code compile and boot on x86_64. This is a follow-up for the previous series from Glauber.

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 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

Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping page tables. This information is required so the physical address of PTE updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks. So lets not mess up arch

Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping page tables. This information is required so the physical address of PTE updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks. So lets not mess up arch

Why are these APIC clock init hooks dependent on CONFIG_X86_PAE ? include/asm/paravirt.h: static inline void setup_boot_clock(void) { paravirt_ops.setup_boot_clock(); } static inline void setup_secondary_clock(void) { paravirt_ops.setup_secondary_clock(); } (via the vmi timer patch). - James -- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Why are these APIC clock init hooks dependent on CONFIG_X86_PAE ? include/asm/paravirt.h: static inline void setup_boot_clock(void) { paravirt_ops.setup_boot_clock(); } static inline void setup_secondary_clock(void) { paravirt_ops.setup_secondary_clock(); } (via the vmi timer patch). - James -- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

i386 allmodconfig arch/i386/power/cpu.c: In function '__save_processor_state': arch/i386/power/cpu.c:29: warning: passing argument 1 of 'paravirt_ops.store_gdt' from incompatible pointer type arch/i386/power/cpu.c:30: warning: passing argument 1 of 'paravirt_ops.store_idt' from incompatible pointer type arch/i386/power/cpu.c: In function

i386 allmodconfig arch/i386/power/cpu.c: In function '__save_processor_state': arch/i386/power/cpu.c:29: warning: passing argument 1 of 'paravirt_ops.store_gdt' from incompatible pointer type arch/i386/power/cpu.c:30: warning: passing argument 1 of 'paravirt_ops.store_idt' from incompatible pointer type arch/i386/power/cpu.c: In function

OK, this is the revised paravirt.h (Andi has seen this before), then the second is the binary patching stuff. More things get added to the paravirt struct in future patches, but this basic stuff hasn't changed for some time. ==== This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function

The current paravirt startup_ipi hook for vmware commit: ae5da273fe3352febd38658d8d34484cbcfb3423 is quite frankly ridiculous. In the middle of wake_up_secondary_cpu: We have: /* * Paravirt / VMI wants a startup IPI hook here to set up the * target processor state. */ startup_ipi_hook(phys_apicid, (unsigned long) start_secondary, (unsigned