v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827f (x86-32, mm: Add an initial page table
for core bootstrapping) made x86 boot using initial_page_table
and broke lguest.
For 2.6.37 we simply cut & paste the initialization code into
lguest (da32dac101 "lguest: populate initial_page_table"), now
we fix it properly by doing that initialization before the
paravirt jump.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: lguest <lguest@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <201101041720.54535.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Two x86 patches broke lguest:
1) v2.6.35-492-g72d7c3b, which changed x86 to use the memblock allocator.
In lguest, the host places linear page tables at the top of mem, which
used to be enough to get us up to the swapper_pg_dir page tables. With
the first patch, the direct mapping tables used that memory:
Before: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 7000-1a000
After: kernel direct mapping tables up to 4000000 @ 3fed000-4000000
I initially fixed this by lying about the amount of memory we had, so
the kernel wouldn't blatt the lguest boot pagetables (yuk!), but then...
2) v2.6.36-rc8-54-gb40827f, which made x86 boot use initial_page_table.
This was initialized in a part of head_32.S which isn't executed by
lguest; it is then copied into swapper_pg_dir. So we have to initialize
it; and anyway we switch to it before we blatt the old tables, so that
fixes the previous damage as well.
For the moment, I cut & pasted the code into lguest's boot code, but
next merge window I will merge them.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: x86@kernel.org
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2a1 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls";
we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for
hypercalls. I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the
same calling convention as kvm.
KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest
tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm
fails to make hypercalls. It was nice to share code with our KVM
cousins, but this was overreach.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Every so often, after code shuffles, I need to go through and unbitrot
the Lguest Journey (see drivers/lguest/README). Since we now use RCU in
a simple form in one place I took the opportunity to expand that explanation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
I don't really notice it (except to begrudge the extra vertical
space), but Ingo does. And he pointed out that one excuse of lguest
is as a teaching tool, it should set a good example.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: cleanup
This patch allow us to use KVM hypercalls
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host,
so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.
Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard
boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.
The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
and commandline for us, saving more code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.
2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.
3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.
4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.
5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).
6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
hypercall give us that, too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest
support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops). This moves the
guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Rusty Russell