similar to: [PATCH 3/3] Gdt hotplug

Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by:

Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by:

Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by:

Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by:

OK, here it is. Benchmarks still coming. This is against Andi's 2.6.18-rc7-git3 tree, and replaces the patches between (and not including) i386-pda-asm-offsets and i386-early-fault. One patch is identical, one is mildly modified, the rest are re-implemented but inspired by Jeremy's PDA work. Thanks, Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law

OK, here it is. Benchmarks still coming. This is against Andi's 2.6.18-rc7-git3 tree, and replaces the patches between (and not including) i386-pda-asm-offsets and i386-early-fault. One patch is identical, one is mildly modified, the rest are re-implemented but inspired by Jeremy's PDA work. Thanks, Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law

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

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally broken and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.14-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c

The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally broken and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.14-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c

This is hopefully the last iteration of the pvops64 patch. >From the last version, we have only one change, which is include/asm-x86_64/processor.h: There were still one survivor in raw asm. Also, git screwed me up for some reason, and the 25th patch was missing the new files, paravirt.{c,h}. (although I do remember having git-add'ed it, but who knows...) Andrew, could you please push it

This is hopefully the last iteration of the pvops64 patch. >From the last version, we have only one change, which is include/asm-x86_64/processor.h: There were still one survivor in raw asm. Also, git screwed me up for some reason, and the 25th patch was missing the new files, paravirt.{c,h}. (although I do remember having git-add'ed it, but who knows...) Andrew, could you please push it

Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-08 17:15:56.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-08 17:16:07.000000000 -0700 @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ extern struct desc_struct cpu_gdt_table[GDT_ENTRIES]; DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct desc_struct,

Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-08 17:15:56.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-08 17:16:07.000000000 -0700 @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ extern struct desc_struct cpu_gdt_table[GDT_ENTRIES]; DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct desc_struct,

Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already have the CPU. Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc xen Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 20:17:21.000000000 -0700 +++

Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already have the CPU. Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc xen Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 20:17:21.000000000 -0700 +++