1. 12 Jun, 2009 40 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw · 6cb8a911
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
        GFS2: Remove lock_kernel from gfs2_put_super()
        GFS2: Add tracepoints
      6cb8a911
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest · 7f3591cf
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (31 commits)
        lguest: add support for indirect ring entries
        lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher
        lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive
        lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.
        lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher
        lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call
        lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads
        lguest: use eventfds for device notification
        eventfd: export eventfd_signal and eventfd_fget for lguest
        lguest: allow any process to send interrupts
        lguest: PAE fixes
        lguest: PAE support
        lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4()
        lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD
        lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
        lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries
        lguest: fix writev returning short on console output
        lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher
        lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition.
        lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt
        ...
      7f3591cf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-virtio · 16ffc3ee
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-virtio:
        virtio: enhance id_matching for virtio drivers
        virtio: fix id_matching for virtio drivers
        virtio: handle short buffers in virtio_rng.
        virtio_blk: add missing __dev{init,exit} markings
        virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
        virtio: teach virtio_has_feature() about transport features
        virtio: expose features in sysfs
        virtio_pci: optional MSI-X support
        virtio_pci: split up vp_interrupt
        virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations
        virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
        virtio: meet virtio spec by finalizing features before using device
        virtio: fix obsolete documentation on probe function
      16ffc3ee
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'cuse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse · c34752bc
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'cuse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
        CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace
        fuse: export symbols to be used by CUSE
        fuse: update fuse_conn_init() and separate out fuse_conn_kill()
        fuse: don't use inode in fuse_file_poll
        fuse: don't use inode in fuse_do_ioctl() helper
        fuse: don't use inode in fuse_sync_release()
        fuse: create fuse_do_open() helper for CUSE
        fuse: clean up args in fuse_finish_open() and fuse_release_fill()
        fuse: don't use inode in helpers called by fuse_direct_io()
        fuse: add members to struct fuse_file
        fuse: prepare fuse_direct_io() for CUSE
        fuse: clean up fuse_write_fill()
        fuse: use struct path in release structure
        fuse: misc cleanups
      c34752bc
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param · 65d52cc9
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param:
        module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries.
        module: trim exception table on init free.
        module: merge module_alloc() finally
        uml module: fix uml build process due to this merge
        x86 module: merge the rest functions with macros
        x86 module: merge the same functions in module_32.c and module_64.c
        uvesafb: improve parameter handling.
        module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.
        module_param: add __same_type convenience wrapper for __builtin_types_compatible_p
        module_param: split perm field into flags and perm
        module_param: invbool should take a 'bool', not an 'int'
        cyber2000fb.c: use proper method for stopping unload if CONFIG_ARCH_SHARK
      65d52cc9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 · d614aec4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits)
        ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two()
        ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode()
        ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
        ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)
        sl82c105: add printk() logging facility
        ide-tape: fix proc warning
        ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag
        ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers
        hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list
        hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c
        ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile()
        ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update()
        icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method
        ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses
        ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically
        pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method
        pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout
        pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq()
        ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
        ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2)
        ...
      d614aec4
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of... · db8e7f10
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file
        x86: handle initrd that extends into unusable memory
      db8e7f10
    • Mark McLoughlin's avatar
      lguest: add support for indirect ring entries · d1f0132e
      Mark McLoughlin authored
      Support the VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC feature.
      
      This is a simple matter of changing the descriptor walking
      code to operate on a struct vring_desc* and supplying it
      with an indirect table if detected.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      d1f0132e
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher · b60da13f
      Rusty Russell authored
      The Guest only really needs to tell us about activity when we're going
      to listen to the eventfd: normally, we don't want to know.
      
      So if there are no available buffers, turn on notifications, re-check,
      then wait for the Guest to notify us via the eventfd, then turn
      notifications off again.
      
      There's enough else going on that the differences are in the noise.
      
      Before:				Secs	RxKicks	TxKicks
       1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.94	  4686	  32815
       1M normal pings:		104	142862	1000010
       1M 1k pings (-l 120):		57	142026	1000007
      
      After:
       1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.76	  4691	  32811
       1M normal pings:		111	142859	 997467
       1M 1k pings (-l 120):		55	 19648	 501549
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      b60da13f
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      lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive · 4a8962e2
      Rusty Russell authored
      Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an
      interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue
      is full).
      
      However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is
      measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host
      TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds.  It's close to the noise though.
      
      I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of
      pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest ->
      Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate).
      
      // time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null
      
      Timeout		Guest->Host	Pkts/irq	Host->Guest	Pkts/irq
      Before		11.3s		1.0		6.3s		1.0
      0		11.7s		1.0		6.6s		23.5
      1		17.1s		8.8		8.6s		26.0
      1/pending	13.4s		1.9		6.6s		23.8
      2/pending	13.6s		2.8		6.6s		24.1
      5/pending	14.1s		5.0		6.6s		24.4
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      4a8962e2
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs. · 95c517c0
      Rusty Russell authored
      If we track how many buffers we've used, we can tell whether we really
      need to interrupt the Guest.  This happens as a side effect of
      spurious notifications.
      
      Spurious notifications happen because it can take a while before the
      Host thread wakes up and sets the VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY flag, and
      meanwhile the Guest can more notifications.
      
      A real fix would be to use wake counts, rather than a suppression
      flag, but the practical difference is generally in the noise: the
      interrupt is usually coalesced into a pending one anyway so we just
      save a system call which isn't clearly measurable.
      
      				Secs	Spurious IRQS
      1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.93	58
      1M normal pings:		100	72
      1M 1k pings (-l 120):		57	492904
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      95c517c0
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher · 38bc2b8c
      Rusty Russell authored
      Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt
      when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one.  The console
      input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device,
      network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send
      interrupts to the Guest at the right time.
      
      The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code.
      
      In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting:
      (1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking,
      (2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway.
      
      Before:				Secs	RxIRQS	TxIRQs
       1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.72	32784	32771
       1M normal pings:		99	1000004	995541
       100,000 1k pings (-l 120):	5	49510	49058
      
      After:
       1G TCP Guest->Host:		3.69	32809	32769
       1M normal pings:		99	1000004	996196
       100,000 1k pings (-l 120):	5	52435	52361
      
      (Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      38bc2b8c
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      lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call · 5dac051b
      Rusty Russell authored
      We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
      host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
      Guest process (aka. the Launcher).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      5dac051b
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads · 659a0e66
      Rusty Russell authored
      Currently lguest has three threads: the main Launcher thread, a Waker
      thread, and a thread for the block device (because synchronous block
      was simply too painful to bear).
      
      The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net
      devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls
      into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which
      repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to
      release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest.
      
      Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher
      would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that
      signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker
      which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network
      device again.
      
      Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has
      a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger
      interrupts in the Guest directly.
      
      The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it
      home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before:
      
      * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher
      * Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring
      * Launcher writes packet to TUN device
      	writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
      * Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
      	write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
      * Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation
      	setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0
      * Launcher re-runs guest
      	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ...
      * Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select)
      	select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
      * Waker kicks Launcher out of guest:
      	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
      * Launcher returns from running guest:
      	... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
      * Launcher looks at input fds:
      	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0})
      * Launcher reads pong from tun device:
      	readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
      * Launcher injects guest notification:
      	write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
      * Launcher rechecks fds:
      	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
      * Launcher clears Waker:
      	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
      * Launcher reruns Guest:
      	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
      * Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher:
      	--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
      	write(8, "\0", 1)       = 1
      	sigreturn()             = ? (mask now [])
      * Waker sees write on pipe:
      	select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6])
      * Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest:
      	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
      * Launcher exits from kernel:
      	pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
      * Launcher looks to see what fd woke it:
      	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0})
      * Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring
      	read(6, "\0", 32)       = 1
      * Launcher rechecks fds:
      	select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
      * Launcher clears Waker:
      	pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
      * Launcher resumes Guest:
      	pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) ....
      
      strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after:
      
      * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd.
      * Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd:
      	read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)          = 8
      * Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device
      	writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
      * Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd:
      	readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
      * Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest
      	write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
      * Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd
      	13:39:42.460285 readv(4,  <unfinished ...>
      * Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
      	write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
      * Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd
      	read(7, <unfinished ...>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      659a0e66
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: use eventfds for device notification · df60aeef
      Rusty Russell authored
      Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with
      an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures
      out what device to run.
      
      A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we
      find one, we simply signal the eventfd.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      df60aeef
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      eventfd: export eventfd_signal and eventfd_fget for lguest · 5718607b
      Rusty Russell authored
      lguest wants to attach eventfds to guest notifications, and lguest is
      usually a module.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      5718607b
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: allow any process to send interrupts · 9f155a9b
      Rusty Russell authored
      We currently only allow the Launcher process to send interrupts, but it
      as we already send interrupts from the hrtimer, it's a simple matter of
      extracting that code into a common set_interrupt routine.
      
      As we switch to a thread per virtqueue, this avoids a bottleneck through the
      main Launcher process.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      9f155a9b
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: PAE fixes · 92b4d8df
      Rusty Russell authored
      1) j wasn't initialized in setup_pagetables, so they weren't set up for me
         causing immediate guest crashes.
      
      2) gpte_addr should not re-read the pmd from the Guest.  Especially
         not BUG_ON() based on the value.  If we ever supported SMP guests,
         they could trigger that.  And the Launcher could also trigger it
         (tho currently root-only).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      92b4d8df
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: PAE support · acdd0b62
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
      NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      acdd0b62
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4() · cefcad17
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      Add support for kvm_hypercall4(); PAE wants it.
      
      Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      cefcad17
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD · ebe0ba84
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      replace LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD hypercall name
      (That's really what it is, and the confusion gets worse with PAE support)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Reported-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      ebe0ba84
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated · 90603d15
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      Some cleanups and replace direct assignment with native_set_* macros which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      90603d15
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries · ed1dc778
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      Map switcher with executable page table entries.
      (This bug didn't matter before PAE and hence NX support -- RR)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      ed1dc778
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: fix writev returning short on console output · 7b5c806c
      Rusty Russell authored
      I've never seen it here, but I can't find anywhere that says writev
      will write everything.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      7b5c806c
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      lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher · e606490c
      Rusty Russell authored
      The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of
      bytes *written* to the buffer.  This means the guest doesn't have to
      zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length.
      
      Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length
      *read* into that field.  The guest ignores it, but it's wrong.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      e606490c
    • Matias Zabaljauregui's avatar
      lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition. · f086122b
      Matias Zabaljauregui authored
      If GDT_ENTRIES were every > 256, this could become a problem.
      
      Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      f086122b
    • Roel Kluin's avatar
      lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt · 81b79b01
      Roel Kluin authored
      Do not go beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      81b79b01
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: clean up example launcher compile flags. · 2644f17d
      Rusty Russell authored
      18 months ago 5bbf89fc changed to loading
      bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer
      need libz.
      
      Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on
      32-bit).
      Reported-by: default avatarRon Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      2644f17d
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      lguest: optimize by coding restore_flags and irq_enable in assembler. · 61f4bc83
      Rusty Russell authored
      The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable
      check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly
      into the callsites, so the C versions are always used.
      
      But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all
      the registers.  In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path,
      so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler.
      
      The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of
      code, it's worth applying.
      
      1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed)
      Before:
      	Seconds: 0:16.53
      	Packets: 377268,753673
      	Interrupts: 22461,24297
      	Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370)
      	Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095)
      
      After:
      	Seconds: 0:16.48
      	Packets: 377289,753673
      	Interrupts: 22281,24465
      	Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377)
      	Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      61f4bc83
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking · a32a8813
      Rusty Russell authored
      lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
      things still worked.  However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
      performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
      and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.
      
      These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
      patch space, so we drop that code.
      
      Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
      effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
      faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
      hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!
      
      Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
      measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.
      
      Before:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		30.7 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	76.0 seconds
      
      After:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		6.8 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	27.8 seconds
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a32a8813
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      lguest: fix race in halt code · abd41f03
      Rusty Russell authored
      When the Guest does the LHCALL_HALT hypercall, we go to sleep, expecting
      that a timer or the Waker will wake_up_process() us.
      
      But we do it in a stupid way, leaving a classic missing wakeup race.
      
      So split maybe_do_interrupt() into interrupt_pending() and
      try_deliver_interrupt(), and check maybe_do_interrupt() and the
      "break_out" flag before calling schedule.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      abd41f03
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      lguest: remove invalid interrupt forcing logic. · ebf9a5a9
      Rusty Russell authored
      20887611 (lguest: notify on empty) introduced
      lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on
      interrupts all the time.
      
      Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0
      when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from
      the Guest.
      
      It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue:
      if it's empty, then we force an interrupt.
      
      This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but
      that's the subject of another patch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      ebf9a5a9
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      lguest: fix lguest wake on guest clock tick, or fd activity · a6c372de
      Rusty Russell authored
      The Launcher could be inside the Guest on another CPU; wake_up_process
      will do nothing because it is "running".  kick_process will knock it
      back into our kernel in this case, otherwise we'll miss it until the
      next guest exit.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a6c372de
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      sched: export kick_process · b43e3521
      Rusty Russell authored
      lguest needs kick_process: wake_up_process() does nothing if a process
      is running, which isn't sufficient (we need it in the kernel).
      
      And lguest support is usually modular.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b43e3521
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      lguest: get more serious about wmb() in example Launcher code · f7027c63
      Rusty Russell authored
      Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very
      serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest
      is UP).
      
      Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      f7027c63
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      lguest: clean up lguest_init_IRQ · 1028375e
      Rusty Russell authored
      Copy from arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c: we don't use the vectors beyond
      LGUEST_IRQS (if any), but we might as well set them all.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      1028375e
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      lguest: cleanup passing of /dev/lguest fd around example launcher. · 56739c80
      Rusty Russell authored
      We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it
      a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      56739c80
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      lguest: be paranoid about guest playing with device descriptors. · 713b15b3
      Rusty Russell authored
      We can't trust the values in the device descriptor table once the
      guest has booted, so keep local copies.  They could set them to
      strange values then cause us to segv (they're 8 bit values, so they
      can't make our pointers go too wild).
      
      This becomes more important with the following patches which read them.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      713b15b3
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      virtio: enhance id_matching for virtio drivers · e3353853
      Christian Borntraeger authored
      This patch allows a virtio driver to use VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the
      device id. This will be used by a test module that can be bound to
      any virtio device.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      e3353853
    • Christian Borntraeger's avatar
      virtio: fix id_matching for virtio drivers · c89e8016
      Christian Borntraeger authored
      This bug never appeared, since all current virtio drivers use
      VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the vendor field. If a real vendor would be used,
      the check in virtio_id_match is wrong - it returns 0 if
      id->vendor == dev->id.vendor.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      c89e8016