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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-11-05 11:39:00 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-11-05 11:39:00 -0800 |
commit | 221d46841b931d0e6b11e6251e482f2afe3974dd (patch) | |
tree | feb33999f71a84003f4ac752300c81f47f9e272f /arch | |
parent | 4d20826ffb6fa80c71b85d2cb858ae400a59a4d5 (diff) | |
parent | 633872b980f55f40a5e7de374f26970e41e2137b (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest:
lguest: tidy up documentation
kernel/futex.c: make 3 functions static
unexport access_process_vm
lguest: make async_hcall() static
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 69 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c index a55b0902f9d..92c56117eae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c @@ -93,38 +93,7 @@ struct lguest_data lguest_data = { }; static cycle_t clock_base; -/*G:035 Notice the lazy_hcall() above, rather than hcall(). This is our first - * real optimization trick! - * - * When lazy_mode is set, it means we're allowed to defer all hypercalls and do - * them as a batch when lazy_mode is eventually turned off. Because hypercalls - * are reasonably expensive, batching them up makes sense. For example, a - * large munmap might update dozens of page table entries: that code calls - * paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(), does the dozen updates, then calls - * lguest_leave_lazy_mode(). - * - * So, when we're in lazy mode, we call async_hypercall() to store the call for - * future processing. When lazy mode is turned off we issue a hypercall to - * flush the stored calls. - */ -static void lguest_leave_lazy_mode(void) -{ - paravirt_leave_lazy(paravirt_get_lazy_mode()); - hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0); -} - -static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call, - unsigned long arg1, - unsigned long arg2, - unsigned long arg3) -{ - if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE) - hcall(call, arg1, arg2, arg3); - else - async_hcall(call, arg1, arg2, arg3); -} - -/* async_hcall() is pretty simple: I'm quite proud of it really. We have a +/*G:037 async_hcall() is pretty simple: I'm quite proud of it really. We have a * ring buffer of stored hypercalls which the Host will run though next time we * do a normal hypercall. Each entry in the ring has 4 slots for the hypercall * arguments, and a "hcall_status" word which is 0 if the call is ready to go, @@ -134,8 +103,8 @@ static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call, * full and we just make the hypercall directly. This has the nice side * effect of causing the Host to run all the stored calls in the ring buffer * which empties it for next time! */ -void async_hcall(unsigned long call, - unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3) +static void async_hcall(unsigned long call, unsigned long arg1, + unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3) { /* Note: This code assumes we're uniprocessor. */ static unsigned int next_call; @@ -161,7 +130,37 @@ void async_hcall(unsigned long call, } local_irq_restore(flags); } -/*:*/ + +/*G:035 Notice the lazy_hcall() above, rather than hcall(). This is our first + * real optimization trick! + * + * When lazy_mode is set, it means we're allowed to defer all hypercalls and do + * them as a batch when lazy_mode is eventually turned off. Because hypercalls + * are reasonably expensive, batching them up makes sense. For example, a + * large munmap might update dozens of page table entries: that code calls + * paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(), does the dozen updates, then calls + * lguest_leave_lazy_mode(). + * + * So, when we're in lazy mode, we call async_hcall() to store the call for + * future processing. */ +static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call, + unsigned long arg1, + unsigned long arg2, + unsigned long arg3) +{ + if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE) + hcall(call, arg1, arg2, arg3); + else + async_hcall(call, arg1, arg2, arg3); +} + +/* When lazy mode is turned off reset the per-cpu lazy mode variable and then + * issue a hypercall to flush any stored calls. */ +static void lguest_leave_lazy_mode(void) +{ + paravirt_leave_lazy(paravirt_get_lazy_mode()); + hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0); +} /*G:033 * After that diversion we return to our first native-instruction |