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:

>From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:Tristan.Gingold@bull.net] >Sent: 2006年4月21日 15:26 >> > >> >See how we solve this on x86 near the top of do_boot_cpu() in >> >arch/x86/smpboot.c. Essentially we allocate extra idle domains on >> >demand to give us enough idle vcpus for one per physical cpu. >> > >> > -- Keir >> >> Yes,

>From: Keir Fraser >Sent: 2006年4月21日 14:41 > > >On 21 Apr 2006, at 02:31, Atsushi SAKAI wrote: > >> But the logical limit of the IA64 Max CPU is larger than 64. >> If someone change these values, some possibility make this error >again. >> >> To avoid this problem, I believe this check code should be exists. > >See how we solve this on x86 near

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 +++

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

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 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

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-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h

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-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h

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) -