similar to: [PATCH 2/2] linux/x86: Disable all accesses to the IO-APIC pages

Ever since 3.0.2 we''ve been carrying this patch in our products. Since there was no indication that there would be anything wrong with the ''new'' IO-APIC ack method added back then, we finally decided to drop this patch recently from SLE11, to find that the subsequent release candidate failed to work on at least on system without using "ioapic_ack=old". With

The IRQ handling code requires pcidevs_lock to be held only for MSI interrupts. As the handling of which was now fully moved into msi.c (i.e. while applying fine without, the patch needs to be applied after the one titled "x86: split MSI IRQ chip"), io_apic.c now also doesn''t need to include PCI headers anymore. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> ---

Other than for the legacy APIC, the x2APIC MADT entries have valid ranges possibly extending beyond what our internal arrays can handle, and hence we need to guard ourselves against corrupting memory here. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/acpi/boot.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/acpi/boot.c @@ -97,7 +97,20 @@ acpi_parse_x2apic(struct acpi_subtable_h

While other aspects of the system configuration may still be controlled by the outcome of the table scan, if apic= was given on the command line its effect should not be overridden here. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

There are BIOSes that want to map the IO-APIC MMIO region from some ACPI method(s), and there is at least one BIOS flavor that wants to use this mapping to clear an RTE''s mask bit. While we can''t allow the latter, we can permit reads and simply drop write attempts, leveraging the already existing infrastructure introduced for dealing with AMD IOMMUs'' representation as

The DMI checks that force the use of the bigsmp APIC driver are for systems that are no longer supported by Xen (32-bit x86). Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> --- xen/arch/x86/genapic/bigsmp.c | 30 +----------------------------- 1 files changed, 1

While shuffling quite a few things around, this gets us closer to native, which clearly had a reason to do the DMI scan early. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Index: head-2007-02-08/arch/i386/mm/ioremap-xen.c =================================================================== --- head-2007-02-08.orig/arch/i386/mm/ioremap-xen.c 2007-02-08 17:07:13.000000000 +0100 +++

On x86 ioremap() is not suitable here, set_fixmap() must be used instead. Also replace some literal numbers by their proper symbolic constants, making the code easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/drivers/char/ns16550.c +++ b/xen/drivers/char/ns16550.c @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ #include <xen/pci.h> #include <xen/pci_regs.h> #include

flight 9061 xen-unstable real [real] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/9061/ Regressions :-( Tests which did not succeed and are blocking: test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-amd 5 xen-boot fail REGR. vs. 8995 Tests which are failing intermittently (not blocking): test-amd64-i386-pv 5 xen-boot fail pass in 9054 test-i386-i386-pv

For one we shouldn''t accept IVHD tables specifying IO-APIC IDs beyond the limit we support (MAX_IO_APICS, currently 128). And then we shouldn''t memset() a pointer allocation of which failed. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_acpi.c +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_acpi.c @@ -674,6 +674,13 @@ static u16 __init

flight 6714 xen-unstable real [real] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/6714/ Regressions :-( Tests which did not succeed and are blocking: build-amd64-oldkern 4 xen-build fail REGR. vs. 6658 build-amd64 4 xen-build fail REGR. vs. 6658 build-i386-oldkern 4 xen-build fail REGR. vs. 6658

While looking at the origin of very frequently executed hypercalls I realized that the high page accessor functions in Linux would be good candidates to handle in the hypervisor - clearing or copying to/from a high page is a pretty frequent operation (provided there''s enough memory in the domain). While prior to the first submission I only measured kernel builds (where the results are not

While looking at the origin of very frequently executed hypercalls (as usual, kernel builds are what''s being measured), I realized that the high page accessor functions in Linux would be good candidates to handle in the hypervisor - clearing or copying to/from a high page is a pretty frequent operation (provided there''s enough memory). However, the measured results

Irrespective of the IO-APIC vector sharing suppression patch just sent the logic in this function needs to iterate over all RTEs, since multiple pins within an IO-APIC may still use the same vector. This is due to the irq_2_pin[] mapping not necessarily being 1:1. Consequently we should remove the commented out code as well as the respective comments provisioned for the point in time when vector

flight 8111 xen-4.1-testing real [real] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/8111/ Regressions :-( Tests which did not succeed and are blocking: test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-amd 12 guest-localmigrate/x10 fail in 8104 REGR. vs. 8020 Tests which are failing intermittently (not blocking): test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-amd 11 guest-localmigrate.2 fail pass in 8104

The iommu is enabled by default when xen is booting and later disabled in iommu_setup() when no iommu is present. But under some circumstances iommu code can be called before iommu_setup() is processed. If there is no iommu available xen crashes. This can happen for example when panic(...) is called as introduced with the patch "x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum #121 and

Jan, I was given a machine to diagnose a boot problem on xen 4.3, that used to work on 4.2, and have bisected to the following changeset: commit d0d4635d034f202bb401a6efa3ba61530f3854ab Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Date: Thu Nov 22 10:47:58 2012 +0100 implement vmap() ... and use it as basis for a proper ioremap() on x86. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich

Hello, The email (thread) below from xen-devel mailinglist indicates the changesets that should fix the bug that causes the lenny 2.6.26 xen kernel to crash on newer xen hypervisors. The workaround for this bug has been to use pci=nomsi on the dom0 kernel cmdline, but it would be better to apply the actual fix to the xen kernel in lenny. More information on xen-devel (archives). -- Pasi

This patch syncs up the microcode driver with linux 2.6.17 and adds on top of this enhancements (yet to be submitted to lkml) to prevent the driver from disabling interrupts for long periods of time. This is done by IPI-ing all remote CPUs sequentially rather than at once so they don''t all race for the same spin lock(s). Additionally, redundant updates on multiple siblings of the same

Add a note to the public headers regarding how to get the VCPU ID for HVM guests (on x86). Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> --- This is what Linux PVHVM