similar to: [PATCH 1/4] x86 paravirt_ops: create no_paravirt.h for native ops

Hi all, I've been looking at finding common ground between the VMI, Xen and other paravirtualization approaches, and after some discussion, we're getting somewhere. These first two patches are the fundamentals, stolen mainly from the VMI patches: removing assumptions about the kernel running in ring 0, and macro-izing all the obvious para-virtualize-needing insns. The third patch is

Hi all, I've been looking at finding common ground between the VMI, Xen and other paravirtualization approaches, and after some discussion, we're getting somewhere. These first two patches are the fundamentals, stolen mainly from the VMI patches: removing assumptions about the kernel running in ring 0, and macro-izing all the obvious para-virtualize-needing insns. The third patch is

Hi, this is a series of patches that unify the struct desc_struct and friends across x86_64 and i386. As usual, it provides paravirt capabilities as a side-effect for x86_64. I consider the main goal, namely, of unifying the desc_struct, an ongoing effort, being this the beginning. A lot of old code has to be touched to accomplish that. I don't consider this patch ready for inclusion.

Hi, this is a series of patches that unify the struct desc_struct and friends across x86_64 and i386. As usual, it provides paravirt capabilities as a side-effect for x86_64. I consider the main goal, namely, of unifying the desc_struct, an ongoing effort, being this the beginning. A lot of old code has to be touched to accomplish that. I don't consider this patch ready for inclusion.

Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for

Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for

This version over last version: (1) Gets rid of the no_paravirt.h header and leaves native ops in place (with some reshuffling to keep then under one #ifdef). (2) Fixes the "X crashes with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y" bug. (3) Puts __ex_table entry in paravirt iret. Another followup patch implements binary patching... Rusty. === Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which

This version over last version: (1) Gets rid of the no_paravirt.h header and leaves native ops in place (with some reshuffling to keep then under one #ifdef). (2) Fixes the "X crashes with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y" bug. (3) Puts __ex_table entry in paravirt iret. Another followup patch implements binary patching... Rusty. === Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which

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

Chris Wright wrote: >* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote: > > >>Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this >> >> > >Yes. > > > >>patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other >>things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself >>must have live segments

Chris Wright wrote: >* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote: > > >>Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this >> >> > >Yes. > > > >>patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other >>things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself >>must have live segments

Unlike full virtualization in which the virtual machine provides the same platform interface as running natively on the hardware, paravirtualization requires modification to the guest operating system to work with the platform interface provided by the hypervisor. Xen was designed with performance in mind. Calls to the hypervisor are minimized, batched if necessary, and non-critical codepaths

Unlike full virtualization in which the virtual machine provides the same platform interface as running natively on the hardware, paravirtualization requires modification to the guest operating system to work with the platform interface provided by the hypervisor. Xen was designed with performance in mind. Calls to the hypervisor are minimized, batched if necessary, and non-critical codepaths

Fairly straightforward code motion in system.h into the sub-arch layer. Affected functionality include control register accessors, which are virtualizable but with great overhead due to the #GP cost; wbinvd, and most importantly, halt and interrupt control, which is non-virtualizable. Since read_cr4_safe can never fault on a VMI kernel (P5+ processor is required for VMI), we can omit the fault

Fairly straightforward code motion in system.h into the sub-arch layer. Affected functionality include control register accessors, which are virtualizable but with great overhead due to the #GP cost; wbinvd, and most importantly, halt and interrupt control, which is non-virtualizable. Since read_cr4_safe can never fault on a VMI kernel (P5+ processor is required for VMI), we can omit the fault

Unlike full virtualization in which the virtual machine provides the same platform interface as running natively on the hardware, paravirtualization requires modification to the guest operating system to work with the platform interface provided by the hypervisor. Xen was designed with performance in mind. Calls to the hypervisor are minimized, batched if necessary, and non-critical codepaths

plain text document attachment (xx-paravirt-desc-header.patch) Update the descriptors for an interface with paravirt ops Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Index: clean-start/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h =================================================================== ---

plain text document attachment (xx-paravirt-desc-header.patch) Update the descriptors for an interface with paravirt ops Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Index: clean-start/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h =================================================================== ---

Small change to remove difference between Xen and mainline deactivate_mm. While there, cleanup prepare_arch_switch as well. This generates identical code. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> --- diff -r ba46bd7f5cdf linux-2.6-xen-sparse/include/asm-xen/asm-i386/mmu_context.h --- a/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/include/asm-xen/asm-i386/mmu_context.h Fri Aug 12 15:59:34 2005 +++

Hi all, I've been working on a port of paravirt_ops for the x86_64 architectures for a couple of days. Here's the result so far. I'm posting it soon for early cooments. The more, the better. It's obviously based on the previous work for i386, with the needed modifications. By now, I'm able to boot a bare metal kernel, but there are still some known issues, that are in my TODO