similar to: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops);

At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

Enhance adjust_managed_page_count() to adjust totalhigh_pages for highmem pages. And change code which directly adjusts totalram_pages to use adjust_managed_page_count() because it adjusts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages altogether in a safe way. Remove inc_totalhigh_pages() and dec_totalhigh_pages() from xen/balloon driver bacause adjust_managed_page_count() has

Enhance adjust_managed_page_count() to adjust totalhigh_pages for highmem pages. And change code which directly adjusts totalram_pages to use adjust_managed_page_count() because it adjusts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages altogether in a safe way. Remove inc_totalhigh_pages() and dec_totalhigh_pages() from xen/balloon driver bacause adjust_managed_page_count() has

Enhance adjust_managed_page_count() to adjust totalhigh_pages for highmem pages. And change code which directly adjusts totalram_pages to use adjust_managed_page_count() because it adjusts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages altogether in a safe way. Remove inc_totalhigh_pages() and dec_totalhigh_pages() from xen/balloon driver bacause adjust_managed_page_count() has

Hey folks, Here's a new spin of the pvops64 patch series. We didn't get that many comments from the last time, so it should be probably almost ready to get in. Heya! >From the last version, the most notable changes are: * consolidation of system.h, merging jeremy's comments about ordering concerns * consolidation of smp functions that goes through smp_ops. They're sharing

Hey folks, Here's a new spin of the pvops64 patch series. We didn't get that many comments from the last time, so it should be probably almost ready to get in. Heya! >From the last version, the most notable changes are: * consolidation of system.h, merging jeremy's comments about ordering concerns * consolidation of smp functions that goes through smp_ops. They're sharing

Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

What's paravirt_ops.halt for? Is it the non-safe equivalent to safe_halt, or is it intended for shutting down the machine? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere. J

What's paravirt_ops.halt for? Is it the non-safe equivalent to safe_halt, or is it intended for shutting down the machine? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere. J

Please consider this patch to allow x2apic without IR support when running on VMware platform. Tested on top of 3.8-rc3. Thanks, Alok -- Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform. From: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support. The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook

Please consider this patch to allow x2apic without IR support when running on VMware platform. Tested on top of 3.8-rc3. Thanks, Alok -- Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform. From: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> This patch updates x2apic initializaition code to allow x2apic on VMware platform even without interrupt remapping support. The hypervisor_x2apic_available hook

I'm implementing a more efficient version of the Xen iret paravirt_op, so that it can use the real iret instruction where possible. I really need to get access to per-cpu variables, so I can set the event mask state in the vcpu_info structure, but unfortunately at the point where INTERRUPT_RETURN is used in entry.S, the usermode %fs has already been restored. How would you feel if we changed

I'm implementing a more efficient version of the Xen iret paravirt_op, so that it can use the real iret instruction where possible. I really need to get access to per-cpu variables, so I can set the event mask state in the vcpu_info structure, but unfortunately at the point where INTERRUPT_RETURN is used in entry.S, the usermode %fs has already been restored. How would you feel if we changed

Well, it seems to be about time to have this conversation again. A rough overview of the previous thread and requirements is: 1. bzImage would not be a bare ELF file, but it would contain an ELF header+file within it 2. We need some way to add extra ELF notes into that ELF file 3. We use a "paravirtualized" bootloader type, with some other field to determine which

Well, it seems to be about time to have this conversation again. A rough overview of the previous thread and requirements is: 1. bzImage would not be a bare ELF file, but it would contain an ELF header+file within it 2. We need some way to add extra ELF notes into that ELF file 3. We use a "paravirtualized" bootloader type, with some other field to determine which

Hi folks, After some time away from it, and a big rebase as a consequence, here is the updated version of paravirt_ops for x86_64, heading to inclusion. Your criticism is of course, very welcome. Have fun -- arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 11 arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c | 2 arch/x86_64/kernel/Makefile | 1 arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 2

Hi folks, After some time away from it, and a big rebase as a consequence, here is the updated version of paravirt_ops for x86_64, heading to inclusion. Your criticism is of course, very welcome. Have fun -- arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 11 arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c | 2 arch/x86_64/kernel/Makefile | 1 arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 2