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Glauber de Oliveira Costa
75b8bb3e56 x86: change write_ldt_entry signature
this patch changes the signature of write_ldt_entry.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:13 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
014b15be30 x86: change write_gdt_entry signature.
This patch changes the write_gdt_entry function signature.
Instead of the old "a" and "b" parameters, it now receives
a pointer to a desc_struct, and the size of the entry being
handled. This is because x86_64 can have some 16-byte entries
as well as 8-byte ones.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:13 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
8d947344c4 x86: change write_idt_entry signature
this patch changes write_idt_entry signature. It now takes a gate_desc
instead of the a and b parameters. It will allow it to be later unified
between i386 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:12 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
faca62273b x86: use generic register name in the thread and tss structures
This changes size-specific register names (eip/rip, esp/rsp, etc.) to
generic names in the thread and tss structures.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:02 +01:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
6abcd98ffa x86: irqflags consolidation
This patch consolidates the irqflags include files containing common
paravirt definitions. The native definition for interrupt handling, halt,
and such, are the same for 32 and 64 bit, and they are kept in irqflags.h.
the differences are split in the arch-specific files.

The syscall function, irq_enable_sysexit, has a very specific i386 naming,
and its name is then changed to a more general one.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:33 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f97b895495 x86/paravirt: revert exports to restore old behaviour
Subdividing the paravirt_ops structure caused a regression in certain
non-GPL modules which try to use mmu_ops and cpu_ops.  This restores the
old behaviour, and makes it consistent with the non-CONFIG_PARAVIRT case.

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> adds:
> I took at this problem (as I have an nvidia card on one of my
> workstations), and found out that the following suffer from
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL changes:
>
> * local_disable_irq(), local_irq_save*(), etc.
> * MSR-related macros like rdmsr(), wrmsr(), read_cr0(), etc.
>   wbinvd(), too.
> * pmd_val(), pgd_val(), etc are all involved with pv_mm_ops.
>   pmd_large() and pmd_bad() is also indirectly involved.
>   __flush_tlb() and friends suffer, too.

Christoph Hellwig objects to this patch on the grounds that modules
shouldn't be using these operations anyway.  I don't think this is a
particularly good reason to reject the patch, for several reasons:

1. These operations are still available to modules when not using
   CONFIG_PARAVIRT, since they are implicitly exported as inline
   functions via the kernel headers.  Exporting the same functionality as
   GPL-only symbols just adds a gratuitious difference between
   CONFIG_PARAVIRT and non-CONFIG_PARAVIRT configurations.  If we really
   think these operations are not for module use (or non-GPL module use),
   then we should solve the problem in a general way.

2. It's a regression from previous kernels, which would work these
   modules even with CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled.

3. The operations in question seem pretty reasonable for modules to
   use.  The control registers/MSRs can be accessed directly anyway, so there's
   no benefit in preventing modules from using standard interfaces.  And it seems
   reasonable to allow a graphics driver to create its own mappings if it wants.

Therefore, I think this patch should go in for 2.6.24.  If people
really think that these operations should not be available to modules,
then we can address that separately.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:55 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
8965c1c095 paravirt: clean up lazy mode handling
Currently, the set_lazy_mode pv_op is overloaded with 5 functions:
 1. enter lazy cpu mode
 2. leave lazy cpu mode
 3. enter lazy mmu mode
 4. leave lazy mmu mode
 5. flush pending batched operations

This complicates each paravirt backend, since it needs to deal with
all the possible state transitions, handling flushing, etc. In
particular, flushing is quite distinct from the other 4 functions, and
seems to just cause complication.

This patch removes the set_lazy_mode operation, and adds "enter" and
"leave" lazy mode operations on mmu_ops and cpu_ops.  All the logic
associated with enter and leaving lazy states is now in common code
(basically BUG_ONs to make sure that no mode is current when entering
a lazy mode, and make sure that the mode is current when leaving).
Also, flush is handled in a common way, by simply leaving and
re-entering the lazy mode.

The result is that the Xen, lguest and VMI lazy mode implementations
are much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
2007-10-16 11:51:29 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
93b1eab3d2 paravirt: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops
This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of
functionally related ops:

pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints
pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too)
pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit well anywhere else
pv_time_ops - time-related functions
pv_cpu_ops - various privileged instruction ops
pv_irq_ops - operations for managing interrupt state
pv_apic_ops - APIC operations
pv_mmu_ops - operations for managing pagetables

There are several motivations for this:

1. Some of these ops will be general to all x86, and some will be
   i386/x86-64 specific.  This makes it easier to share common stuff
   while allowing separate implementations where needed.

2. At the moment we must export all of paravirt_ops, but modules only
   need selected parts of it.  This allows us to export on a case by case
   basis (and also choose which export license we want to apply).

3. Functional groupings make things a bit more readable.

Struct paravirt_ops is now only used as a template to generate
patch-site identifiers, and to extract function pointers for inserting
into jmp/calls when patching.  It is only instantiated when needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguory <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
2007-10-16 11:51:29 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
9a163ed8e0 i386: move kernel
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:01 +02:00