similar to: MMU operations in paravirt_ops

Is pte_offset_map allowed to happen within lazy mmu? I presume not, because you definitely don't want the mapping pte update to be deferred. Or, more specifically, is kunmap_atomic ever allowed within lazy mmu? I'm looking at kpte_clear_flush; I've already got a patch which turns this into a pv_op, along with a Xen implementation. But I think its probably an excess pv_op for a

Is pte_offset_map allowed to happen within lazy mmu? I presume not, because you definitely don't want the mapping pte update to be deferred. Or, more specifically, is kunmap_atomic ever allowed within lazy mmu? I'm looking at kpte_clear_flush; I've already got a patch which turns this into a pv_op, along with a Xen implementation. But I think its probably an excess pv_op for a

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 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 Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

Hi Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

Hi Linus, Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 A quick overview of the patchset: paravirt_ops: Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code Xen: - remove duplicate includes -

The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent instructions. This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided. The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch multicall. To

The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent instructions. This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided. The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch multicall. To

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

I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under = paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a = bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new call to = flush the MMU update queue is called from the page fault handler, it can = be pre-empted. Both VMI and Xen use per-cpu variables to track lazy = mode state, as all previous

I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under = paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a = bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new call to = flush the MMU update queue is called from the page fault handler, it can = be pre-empted. Both VMI and Xen use per-cpu variables to track lazy = mode state, as all previous

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> > > --- > > diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c Maintainers are apparently those under "PARAVIRT_OPS INTERFACE". CCs added. > index c12720d..e3ce5c8 100644 > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c > @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> > > --- > > diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c Maintainers are apparently those under "PARAVIRT_OPS INTERFACE". CCs added. > index c12720d..e3ce5c8 100644 > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c > @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static

Currently, the set_lazy_mode pv_op is overloaded with 5 functions: 1. enter lazy cpu mode 2. leave lazy cpu mode 3. enter lazy mmu mode 4. leave lazy mmu mode 5. flush pending batched operations This complicates each paravirt backend, since it needs to deal with all the possible state transitions, handling flushing, etc. In particular, flushing is quite distinct from the other 4 functions,

Currently, the set_lazy_mode pv_op is overloaded with 5 functions: 1. enter lazy cpu mode 2. leave lazy cpu mode 3. enter lazy mmu mode 4. leave lazy mmu mode 5. flush pending batched operations This complicates each paravirt backend, since it needs to deal with all the possible state transitions, handling flushing, etc. In particular, flushing is quite distinct from the other 4 functions,

At OLS I gave a talk on some of the Xen scalability inhibitors, and one of these was writable page tables. We went over why the feature does not scale, but just as important, we found that the uniprocessor case does not provide any advantage either. These tests were done on x86_64, so I wanted to run the 1-way test on 32 bit to show the same problem. So, I have run with writable PTs and