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2007-07-18Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6: UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver UIO: Documentation UIO: Add the User IO core code
2007-07-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: locks: fix vfs_test_lock() comment locks: make posix_test_lock() interface more consistent nfs: disable leases over NFS gfs2: stop giving out non-cluster-coherent leases locks: export setlease to filesystems locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventions locks: share more common lease code locks: clean up lease_alloc() locks: convert an -EINVAL return to a BUG leases: minor break_lease() comment clarification
2007-07-18locks: make posix_test_lock() interface more consistentJ. Bruce Fields
Since posix_test_lock(), like fcntl() and ->lock(), indicates absence or presence of a conflict lock by setting fl_type to, respectively, F_UNLCK or something other than F_UNLCK, the return value is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18locks: export setlease to filesystemsJ. Bruce Fields
Export setlease so it can used by filesystems to implement their lease methods. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leasesJ. Bruce Fields
Currently leases are only kept locally, so there's no way for a distributed filesystem to enforce them against multiple clients. We're particularly interested in the case of nfsd exporting a cluster filesystem, in which case nfsd needs cluster-coherent leases in order to implement delegations correctly. Also add some documentation. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventionsJ. Bruce Fields
We've been using the convention that vfs_foo is the function that calls a filesystem-specific foo method if it exists, or falls back on a generic method if it doesn't; thus vfs_foo is what is called when some other part of the kernel (normally lockd or nfsd) wants to get a lock, whereas foo is what filesystems call to use the underlying local functionality as part of their lock implementation. So rename setlease to vfs_setlease (which will call a filesystem-specific setlease after a later patch) and __setlease to setlease. Also, vfs_setlease need only be GPL-exported as long as it's only needed by lockd and nfsd. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18UIO: Add the User IO core codeHans J. Koch
This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses. See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this interface. From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUGDavid Brownell
This defines a dev_vdbg() call, which is enabled with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG. When enabled, dev_vdbg() acts just like dev_dbg(). When disabled, it is a NOP ... just like dev_dbg() without -DDEBUG. The specific code was moved out of a USB patch, but lots of drivers have similar support. That is, code can now be written to use an additional level of debug output, selected at compile time. Many driver authors have found this idiom to be very useful. A typical usage model is for "normal" debug messages to focus on fault paths and not be very "chatty", so that those messages can be left on during normal operation without much of a performance or syslog load. On the other hand "verbose" messages would be noisy enough that they wouldn't normally be enabled; they might even affect timings enough to change system or driver behavior. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routinesAlan Stern
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-triggerKay Sievers
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfarAndy Fleming
The TSEC/eTSEC can detect the interface to the PHY automatically, but it isn't able to detect whether the RGMII connection needs internal delay. So we need to detect that change in the device tree, propagate it to the platform data, and then check it if we're in RGMII. This fixes a bug on the 8641D HPCN board where the Vitesse PHY doesn't use the delay for RGMII. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
2007-07-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6: [AVR32] Initialize phy_mask for both macb devices [AVR32] Fix atomic_add_unless() and atomic_sub_unless() [AVR32] Correct misspelled CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD variable. [AVR32] Fix build error in parse_tag_rdimg() [AVR32] Don't wire up macb0 unless SW6 is in default position [AVR32] Wire up SSC platform device 0 as TX on ATSTK1000 board [AVR32] Add Atmel SSC driver platform device to AT32AP architecture [AVR32] Remove optimization of unaligned word loads [AVR32] Make STK1000 mux settings configurable [AVR32] CPU frequency scaling for AT32AP [AVR32] Split SM device into PM, RTC, WDT and EIC [AVR32] faster avr32 unaligned access
2007-07-18[AVR32] Fix atomic_add_unless() and atomic_sub_unless()Haavard Skinnemoen
These functions depend on "result" being initalized to 0, but "result" is not included as an input constraint to the inline assembly block following its initialization, only as an output constraint. Thus gcc thinks it doesn't need to initialize it, so result ends up undefined if the "unless" condition is true. This fixes an oops in sunrpc where the faulty atomics caused rpciod_up() to not start the workqueue as it should. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18[AVR32] Add Atmel SSC driver platform device to AT32AP architectureHans-Christian Egtvedt
This patch adds register definitions, clocks and IRQs to the platform devices. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18[AVR32] Remove optimization of unaligned word loadsHaavard Skinnemoen
If we let unaligned word loads bypass the generic unaligned handling, gcc may combine it with a swap.b instruction and turn it into a ldwsp instruction, which does not work with unaligned addresses. Revert the optimization to prevent the RNDIS driver from crashing. Hopefully we'll figure something out later (it may be better to do the optimization in gcc.) Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18[AVR32] Split SM device into PM, RTC, WDT and EICHaavard Skinnemoen
Split the SM platform device into separate platform devices for PM, RTC, WDT and EIC. This is more correct according to the documentation and allows us to simplify the code a little. Also turn the EIC driver into a real platform driver. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
2007-07-18[AVR32] faster avr32 unaligned accessDavid Brownell
Use a more conventional implementation for unaligned access, and include an AT32AP-specific optimization: the CPU will handle unaligned words. The result is always faster and smaller for 8, 16, and 32 bit values. For 64 bit quantities, it's presumably larger. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb * 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (126 commits) V4L/DVB (5847): Clean up schedule_timeout calls in cpia2 and ivtv code V4L/DVB (5846): Clean up setting state and scheduling timeouts V4L/DVB (5844): ivtv: add high volume debugging flag V4L/DVB (5843): ivtv: fix missing signal_pending check. V4L/DVB (5842): ivtv: Add locking to ensure stream setup is atomic. V4L/DVB (5841): tveeprom: add support for Philips FQ1216LME MK3 tuner. V4L/DVB (5840): fix dst and cx24123: tune() callback changed signess for delay V4L/DVB (5838): dvb-core: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22) V4L/DVB (5837): stv0299: Fix signedness warning (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22) V4L/DVB (5836): dvb-ttpci: re-initialize aspect ratio and pan scan after arm crash V4L/DVB (5835): saa7146/dvb-ttpci: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22) V4L/DVB (5834): dvb-core: fix signedness warnings and const stripping V4L/DVB (5832): ir-common: optimize bit extract function V4L/DVB (5831): stradis: use ARRAY_SIZE V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb update V4L/DVB (5828): Kconfig: Added GemTek USB radio and removed experimental dependency. V4L/DVB (5826): Usbvision: video mux cleanup V4L/DVB (5825): Alter the tuner type for the WinTV USB UK PAL model. V4L/DVB (5824): Usbvision: Hauppauge WinTV USB SECAM_L fix V4L/DVB (5821): Saa7134: add remote control support for LifeView FlyDVB-S LR300 ...
2007-07-18Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: extent macros cleanup Fix compilation with EXT_DEBUG, also fix leXX_to_cpu conversions. ext4: remove extra IS_RDONLY() check ext4: Use is_power_of_2() Use zero_user_page() in ext4 where possible ext4: Remove 65000 subdirectory limit ext4: Expand extra_inodes space per the s_{want,min}_extra_isize fields ext4: Add nanosecond timestamps jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs jbd2: Fix CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG ifdef to be CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG ext4: Set the journal JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT on large devices ext4: Make extents code sanely handle on-disk corruption ext4: copy i_flags to inode flags on write ext4: Enable extents by default Change on-disk format to support 2^15 uninitialized extents write support for preallocated blocks fallocate support in ext4 sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc
2007-07-18Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6: (28 commits) UBI: fix compile warning UBI: fix error handling in erase worker UBI: fix comments UBI: remove unneeded error checks UBI: cleanup usage of try_module_get UBI: fix overflow bug UBI: bugfix in max_sqnum calculation UBI: bugfix in sqnum calculation UBI: fix signed-unsigned multiplication UBI: fix bug in atomic_leb_change() UBI: fix message UBI: fix debugging stuff UBI: bugfix in error path UBI: use is_power_of_2() UBI: fix freeing ubi->vtbl while unloading UBI: fix MAINTAINERS UBI: bugfix in ubi_leb_change() UBI: kill homegrown endian macros UBI: cleanup ioctl handling UBI: error path bugfix ...
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5835): saa7146/dvb-ttpci: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, ↵Oliver Endriss
kernel 2.6.22) Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22). Signed-off-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits) [NETFILTER]: xt_connlimit needs to depend on nf_conntrack [NETFILTER]: ipt_iprange.h must #include <linux/types.h> [IrDA]: Fix IrDA build failure [ATM]: nicstar needs virt_to_bus [NET]: move __dev_addr_discard adjacent to dev_addr_discard for readability [NET]: merge dev_unicast_discard and dev_mc_discard into one [NET]: move dev_mc_discard from dev_mcast.c to dev.c [NETLINK]: negative groups in netlink_setsockopt [PPPOL2TP]: Reset meta-data in xmit function [PPPOL2TP]: Fix use-after-free [PKT_SCHED]: Some typo fixes in net/sched/Kconfig [XFRM]: Fix crash introduced by struct dst_entry reordering [TCP]: remove unused argument to cong_avoid op [ATM]: [idt77252] Rename CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_SEND_IDLE to not resemble a Kconfig variable [ATM]: [drivers] ioremap balanced with iounmap [ATM]: [lanai] sram_test_word() must be __devinit [ATM]: [nicstar] Replace C code with call to ARRAY_SIZE() macro. [ATM]: Eliminate dead config variable CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS. [ATM]: Replacing kmalloc/memset combination with kzalloc. [NET]: gen_estimator deadlock fix ...
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5793): Tuner: remove hardware-specific info from public headerMichael Krufky
Move internal structures and debug macros to drivers/media/video/tuner-driver.h Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5753): Tuner: create struct tuner_operationsMichael Krufky
Move tuner callback function pointers out of struct tuner, into struct tuner_operations. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5741): Tuner: add release callbackMichael Krufky
Individual tuner drivers are now allocating memory themselves for their own private data structures. This changeset adds a release callback to the tuner operations, so that newer drivers that may require more complex data structures may release this private data themselves. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5719): Tuner: Move device-specific private data out of tuner structMichael Krufky
Create private data struct for device specific private data. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Set vio->desc_buf to NULL after freeing. [SPARC]: Mark sparc and sparc64 as not having virt_to_bus [SPARC64]: Fix reset handling in VNET driver. [SPARC64]: Handle reset events in vio_link_state_change(). [SPARC64]: Handle LDC resets properly in domain-services driver. [SPARC64]: Massively simplify VIO device layer and support hot add/remove. [SPARC64]: Simplify VNET probing. [SPARC64]: Simplify VDC device probing. [SPARC64]: Add basic infrastructure for MD add/remove notification.
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tunerMauro Carvalho Chehab
This driver were made based on tea5761 specs. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memoryJeremy Fitzhardinge
An experimental patch for Xen allows guests to place their vcpu_info structs anywhere. We try to use this to place the vcpu_info into the PDA, which allows direct access. If this works, then switch to using direct access operations for irq_enable, disable, save_fl and restore_fl. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
2007-07-18xen: add virtual block device driver.Jeremy Fitzhardinge
The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical block device driver. Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2007-07-18xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driverJeremy Fitzhardinge
This communicates with the machine control software via a registry residing in a controlling virtual machine. This allows dynamic creation, destruction and modification of virtual device configurations (network devices, block devices and CPUS, to name some examples). [ Greg, would you mind giving this a review? Thanks -J ] Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
2007-07-18xen: Add grant table supportJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add Xen 'grant table' driver which allows granting of access to selected local memory pages by other virtual machines and, symmetrically, the mapping of remote memory pages which other virtual machines have granted access to. This driver is a prerequisite for many of the Xen virtual device drivers, which grant the 'device driver domain' restricted and temporary access to only those memory pages that are currently involved in I/O operations. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen consoleJeremy Fitzhardinge
Implement a Xen back-end for hvc console. * * * Add early printk support via hvc console, enable using "earlyprintk=xen" on the kernel command line. From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2007-07-18xen: SMP guest supportJeremy Fitzhardinge
This is a fairly straightforward Xen implementation of smp_ops. Xen has its own IPI mechanisms, and has no dependency on any APIC-based IPI. The smp_ops hooks and the flush_tlb_others pv_op allow a Xen guest to avoid all APIC code in arch/i386 (the only apic operation is a single apic_read for the apic version number). One subtle point which needs to be addressed is unpinning pagetables when another cpu may have a lazy tlb reference to the pagetable. Xen will not allow an in-use pagetable to be unpinned, so we must find any other cpus with a reference to the pagetable and get them to shoot down their references. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-07-18xen: add pinned page flagJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a new definition for PG_owner_priv_1 to define PG_pinned on Xen pagetable pages. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18xen: event channelsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Xen implements interrupts in terms of event channels. Each guest domain gets 1024 event channels which can be used for a variety of purposes, such as Xen timer events, inter-domain events, inter-processor events (IPI) or for real hardware IRQs. Within the kernel, we map the event channels to IRQs, and implement the whole interrupt handling using a Xen irq_chip. Rather than setting NR_IRQ to 1024 under PARAVIRT in order to accomodate Xen, we create a dynamic mapping between event channels and IRQs. Ideally, Linux will eventually move towards dynamically allocating per-irq structures, and we can use a 1:1 mapping between event channels and irqs. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2007-07-18xen: Core Xen implementationJeremy Fitzhardinge
This patch is a rollup of all the core pieces of the Xen implementation, including: - booting and setup - pagetable setup - privileged instructions - segmentation - interrupt flags - upcalls - multicall batching BOOTING AND SETUP The vmlinux image is decorated with ELF notes which tell the Xen domain builder what the kernel's requirements are; the domain builder then constructs the address space accordingly and starts the kernel. Xen has its own entrypoint for the kernel (contained in an ELF note). The ELF notes are set up by xen-head.S, which is included into head.S. In principle it could be linked separately, but it seems to provoke lots of binutils bugs. Because the domain builder starts the kernel in a fairly sane state (32-bit protected mode, paging enabled, flat segments set up), there's not a lot of setup needed before starting the kernel proper. The main steps are: 1. Install the Xen paravirt_ops, which is simply a matter of a structure assignment. 2. Set init_mm to use the Xen-supplied pagetables (analogous to the head.S generated pagetables in a native boot). 3. Reserve address space for Xen, since it takes a chunk at the top of the address space for its own use. 4. Call start_kernel() PAGETABLE SETUP Once we hit the main kernel boot sequence, it will end up calling back via paravirt_ops to set up various pieces of Xen specific state. One of the critical things which requires a bit of extra care is the construction of the initial init_mm pagetable. Because Xen places tight constraints on pagetables (an active pagetable must always be valid, and must always be mapped read-only to the guest domain), we need to be careful when constructing the new pagetable to keep these constraints in mind. It turns out that the easiest way to do this is use the initial Xen-provided pagetable as a template, and then just insert new mappings for memory where a mapping doesn't already exist. This means that during pagetable setup, it uses a special version of xen_set_pte which ignores any attempt to remap a read-only page as read-write (since Xen will map its own initial pagetable as RO), but lets other changes to the ptes happen, so that things like NX are set properly. PRIVILEGED INSTRUCTIONS AND SEGMENTATION When the kernel runs under Xen, it runs in ring 1 rather than ring 0. This means that it is more privileged than user-mode in ring 3, but it still can't run privileged instructions directly. Non-performance critical instructions are dealt with by taking a privilege exception and trapping into the hypervisor and emulating the instruction, but more performance-critical instructions have their own specific paravirt_ops. In many cases we can avoid having to do any hypercalls for these instructions, or the Xen implementation is quite different from the normal native version. The privileged instructions fall into the broad classes of: Segmentation: setting up the GDT and the GDT entries, LDT, TLS and so on. Xen doesn't allow the GDT to be directly modified; all GDT updates are done via hypercalls where the new entries can be validated. This is important because Xen uses segment limits to prevent the guest kernel from damaging the hypervisor itself. Traps and exceptions: Xen uses a special format for trap entrypoints, so when the kernel wants to set an IDT entry, it needs to be converted to the form Xen expects. Xen sets int 0x80 up specially so that the trap goes straight from userspace into the guest kernel without going via the hypervisor. sysenter isn't supported. Kernel stack: The esp0 entry is extracted from the tss and provided to Xen. TLB operations: the various TLB calls are mapped into corresponding Xen hypercalls. Control registers: all the control registers are privileged. The most important is cr3, which points to the base of the current pagetable, and we handle it specially. Another instruction we treat specially is CPUID, even though its not privileged. We want to control what CPU features are visible to the rest of the kernel, and so CPUID ends up going into a paravirt_op. Xen implements this mainly to disable the ACPI and APIC subsystems. INTERRUPT FLAGS Xen maintains its own separate flag for masking events, which is contained within the per-cpu vcpu_info structure. Because the guest kernel runs in ring 1 and not 0, the IF flag in EFLAGS is completely ignored (and must be, because even if a guest domain disables interrupts for itself, it can't disable them overall). (A note on terminology: "events" and interrupts are effectively synonymous. However, rather than using an "enable flag", Xen uses a "mask flag", which blocks event delivery when it is non-zero.) There are paravirt_ops for each of cli/sti/save_fl/restore_fl, which are implemented to manage the Xen event mask state. The only thing worth noting is that when events are unmasked, we need to explicitly see if there's a pending event and call into the hypervisor to make sure it gets delivered. UPCALLS Xen needs a couple of upcall (or callback) functions to be implemented by each guest. One is the event upcalls, which is how events (interrupts, effectively) are delivered to the guests. The other is the failsafe callback, which is used to report errors in either reloading a segment register, or caused by iret. These are implemented in i386/kernel/entry.S so they can jump into the normal iret_exc path when necessary. MULTICALL BATCHING Xen provides a multicall mechanism, which allows multiple hypercalls to be issued at once in order to mitigate the cost of trapping into the hypervisor. This is particularly useful for context switches, since the 4-5 hypercalls they would normally need (reload cr3, update TLS, maybe update LDT) can be reduced to one. This patch implements a generic batching mechanism for hypercalls, which gets used in many places in the Xen code. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Cc: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-07-18xen: Add Xen interface header filesJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions. Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18Add a sched_clock paravirt_opJeremy Fitzhardinge
The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds. This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which matches both Xen and VMI's requirements. In order to do this, we: 1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock 2. hoist cycles_2_ns into a common header 3. update vmi accordingly One thing to note: because sched_clock is implemented as a weak function in kernel/sched.c, we must define a real function in order to override this weak binding. This means the usual paravirt_ops technique of using an inline function won't work in this case. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-18paravirt: helper to disable all IO spaceJeremy Fitzhardinge
In a virtual environment, device drivers such as legacy IDE will waste quite a lot of time probing for their devices which will never appear. This helper function allows a paravirt implementation to lay claim to the whole iomem and ioport space, thereby disabling all device drivers trying to claim IO resources. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-07-18Allocate and free vmalloc areasJeremy Fitzhardinge
Allocate/release a chunk of vmalloc address space: alloc_vm_area reserves a chunk of address space, and makes sure all the pagetables are constructed for that address range - but no pages. free_vm_area releases the address space range. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de>
2007-07-18paravirt: make siblingmap functions visibleJeremy Fitzhardinge
Paravirt implementations need to set the sibling map on new cpus. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18paravirt: unstatic smp_store_cpu_infoJeremy Fitzhardinge
Paravirt implementations need to store cpu info when bringing up cpus. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18paravirt: unstatic leave_mmJeremy Fitzhardinge
Make globally leave_mm visible, specifically so that Xen can use it to shoot-down lazy uses of cr3. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-18paravirt: increase IRQ limitJeremy Fitzhardinge
When running with CONFIG_PARAVIRT, we may want lots of IRQs even if there's no IO APIC. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2007-07-18paravirt: add a hook for once the allocator is readyJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a hook so that the paravirt backend knows when the allocator is ready. This is useful for the obvious reason that the allocator is available, but the other side-effect of having the bootmem allocator available is that each page now has an associated "struct page". Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18paravirt: add an "mm" argument to alloc_ptJeremy Fitzhardinge
It's useful to know which mm is allocating a pagetable. Xen uses this to determine whether the pagetable being added to is pinned or not. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-07-18use elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes.Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Use existing elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes, rather than doing it locally. Changes elfnote.h a bit to suit, since this is the first asm user, and it wasn't quite right. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.com>
2007-07-18usermodehelper: Tidy up waitingJeremy Fitzhardinge
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that. I've preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should still work OK. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-07-18Add common orderly_poweroff()Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Various pieces of code around the kernel want to be able to trigger an orderly poweroff. This pulls them together into a single implementation. By default the poweroff command is /sbin/poweroff, but it can be set via sysctl: kernel/poweroff_cmd. This is split at whitespace, so it can include command-line arguments. This patch replaces four other instances of invoking either "poweroff" or "shutdown -h now": two sbus drivers, and acpi thermal management. sparc64 has its own "powerd"; still need to determine whether it should be replaced by orderly_poweroff(). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>