similar to: [RFC, PATCH 9/24] i386 Vmi smp support

Add VMI SMP boot hook. We emulate a regular boot sequence and use the same APIC IPI initiation, we just poke magic values to load into the CPU state when the startup IPI is received, rather than having to jump through a real mode trampoline. This is all that was needed to get SMP to work. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Subject: SMP boot hook for paravirt diff -r

Add VMI SMP boot hook. We emulate a regular boot sequence and use the same APIC IPI initiation, we just poke magic values to load into the CPU state when the startup IPI is received, rather than having to jump through a real mode trampoline. This is all that was needed to get SMP to work. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Subject: SMP boot hook for paravirt diff -r

The only member of that structure is startup_ipi_hook which is always set to paravirt_nop. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 10 ---------- arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 3 --- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 8 -------- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

The only member of that structure is startup_ipi_hook which is always set to paravirt_nop. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 10 ---------- arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 3 --- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 8 -------- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Some of these boot hooks do not need to be patched, in fact, it is better not to patch them at all and thus keep them totally private. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> diff -r dba7b8b8e43d include/asm-i386/paravirt.h --- a/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h Thu Apr 19 16:12:02 2007 -0700 +++ b/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h Thu Apr 19 16:16:19 2007 -0700 @@ -686,12 +686,12 @@ static

Add a /proc node for the VMI sub-arch, which gives information on the VMI ROM detected using /proc/vmi/info and a list of kernel annotations in /proc/vmi/annotations. The timing information is VMware specific, and should probably be put into a separate /proc node (and a separate patch for our internal use). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index:

Add a /proc node for the VMI sub-arch, which gives information on the VMI ROM detected using /proc/vmi/info and a list of kernel annotations in /proc/vmi/annotations. The timing information is VMware specific, and should probably be put into a separate /proc node (and a separate patch for our internal use). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index:

MMU code movement. Unfortunately, this one is a little bit more complicated than the rest. We have to override the default accessors that directly write to page table entries. Because of the 2/3-level PAE split in Linux, this turned out to be really ugly at first, but by allowing the sub-arch layer to override the definitions and keeping the native definitions in place, the code becomes much

MMU code movement. Unfortunately, this one is a little bit more complicated than the rest. We have to override the default accessors that directly write to page table entries. Because of the 2/3-level PAE split in Linux, this turned out to be really ugly at first, but by allowing the sub-arch layer to override the definitions and keeping the native definitions in place, the code becomes much

VMI backend for paravirt-ops; fairly straightforward drop-in to paravirt-ops. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> diff -r d8711b11c1eb arch/i386/Kconfig --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Tue Dec 12 13:51:06 2006 -0800 +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Tue Dec 12 13:51:13 2006 -0800 @@ -192,6 +192,15 @@ config PARAVIRT under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly. However, when

VMI backend for paravirt-ops; fairly straightforward drop-in to paravirt-ops. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> diff -r d8711b11c1eb arch/i386/Kconfig --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Tue Dec 12 13:51:06 2006 -0800 +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Tue Dec 12 13:51:13 2006 -0800 @@ -192,6 +192,15 @@ config PARAVIRT under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly. However, when