similar to: minor patch for tracing VMEXIT/VMENTRY for 64 bit system

This patch enables tracing VMEXIT/ENTRY for 64-bit systems (are there any 32-bit VT enabled systems out there?) Signed-off by Himanshu Raj (rhim.list@nosuchaddr.com) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Himanshu Raj PhD Student, GaTech (www.cc.gatech.edu/~rhim) I prefer to receive attachments in an open, non-proprietary format.

Hi Folks, I need some large chunk of physical memory, so I allocate it early using alloc_bootmem_low_pages and use it later (akin to bigphysarea patch). The trouble I am having is the following. Suppose the virtual address for the memory area is 0xc14d6000. After xen_create_contiguous_region call, I do a virt_to_bus and the bus address comes out to be 0x18000000. So far so good. However,

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 1/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages. A very simple but already quite effective improvement in the handling of guest memory vs. host memory is to tell the host when pages are free. That allows the host to avoid the paging of

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 1/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages. A very simple but already quite effective improvement in the handling of guest memory vs. host memory is to tell the host when pages are free. That allows the host to avoid the paging of

Hi Fellas, When I connect to a domain''s console via xm console vmid I have to press an enter to get the console prompt. I am wondering if anyone else has seen this and if there is a remedy for this? Thanks, -Himanshu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Himanshu Raj PhD Student, GaTech (www.cc.gatech.edu/~rhim) I prefer to receive

Hi Folks, To build drivers externally using linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/util.c, I need the symbols get_vm_area and remove_vm_area exported (they were exported previously - not any more in the latest version). Am I missing something here? -Himanshu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Himanshu Raj PhD Student, GaTech (www.cc.gatech.edu/~rhim) I

This patch removes the ignored "Unconditional I/O exiting" setting in VMCS for the vmx guest since "Use I/O bitmaps" setting is being used. -Himanshu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Himanshu Raj PhD Student, GaTech (www.cc.gatech.edu/~rhim) I prefer to receive attachments in an open, non-proprietary format.

Hi Folks, I saw some references to the same problem in mailing list but no solution. I am running a DomU with PHYSDEV access. With fedora core 4, I just changed the inittab file to not start getty''s on tty1-6, and it worked (only ttyS0 is enabled). However, same trick didn''t do it for debian. I can boot into a shell if I put init=/bin/bash on kernel command line. However,

Hi Folks, I saw some references to the same problem in mailing list but no solution. I am running a DomU with PHYSDEV access. With fedora core 4, I just changed the inittab file to not start getty''s on tty1-6, and it worked (only ttyS0 is enabled). However, same trick didn''t do it for debian. I can boot into a shell if I put init=/bin/bash on kernel command line. However,

This patch removes the ignored "Unconditional I/O exiting" setting in VMCS for the vmx guest since "Use I/O bitmaps" setting is being used. Signed-off by Himanshu Raj (rhim@cc.gatech.edu) diff -r 19c55935580f xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.h --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.h Wed Apr 12 17:53:38 2006 +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.h Thu Apr 13 02:31:25 2006 @@

Hi All, I am trying to provide services to guest VMs where I wish to run guest VMs in a loop. I wish to use a core to schedule a guest VM, service it eg. execute an ISR etc and then return to the context of Xen on that core, so that I can then schedule the next VM on that core. In doing all this, the goal is to avoid the calls to VMEntry and VMExit. Is there a workaround for this to be done or

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 8/9] Guest page hinting: discarded page list. The discarded page list is used to postpone the freeing of discarded pages. The PG_discarded is set by either __remove_from_page_cache, __delete_from_swap_cache or the discard fault handler

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 8/9] Guest page hinting: discarded page list. The discarded page list is used to postpone the freeing of discarded pages. The PG_discarded is set by either __remove_from_page_cache, __delete_from_swap_cache or the discard fault handler

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 5/9] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages. Add code to get mlock() working with guest page hinting. The problem with mlock is that locked pages may not be removed from page cache. That means they need to be stable. page_make_volatile needs

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 5/9] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages. Add code to get mlock() working with guest page hinting. The problem with mlock is that locked pages may not be removed from page cache. That means they need to be stable. page_make_volatile needs

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 7/9] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization. On of the challenges of hva is the cost for the state transitions. If the cost gets too big the whole concept of page state information is in question. Therefore it is very important to

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 7/9] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization. On of the challenges of hva is the cost for the state transitions. If the cost gets too big the whole concept of page state information is in question. Therefore it is very important to

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 2/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages on s390. s390 uses the milli-coded ESSA instruction to set the page state. The page state is formed by four guest page states called block usage states and three host page states called block

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 2/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages on s390. s390 uses the milli-coded ESSA instruction to set the page state. The page state is formed by four guest page states called block usage states and three host page states called block

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 6/9] Guest page hinting: writable page table entries. The volatile state for page cache and swap cache pages requires that the host system needs to be able to determine if a volatile page is dirty before removing it. This excludes