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Christian Borntraeger 611e097d77 hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.

In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)

The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).

I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.

Changes since last version:
o remove ifdef
o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
o cleanups, sparse..

I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
size constraints.

I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
the irq_requested element.

Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 6b9b732d0e xen-console: add save/restore
Add code to:

 1. Deal with the console page being canonicalized.  During save, the
    console's mfn in the start_info structure is canonicalized to a pfn.
    In order to deal with that, we always use a copy of the pfn and
    indirect off that all the time.  However, we fall back to using the
    mfn if the pfn hasn't been initialized yet.

 2. Restore the console event channel, and rebind it to the existing irq.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-27 10:11:37 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 83abc70a4c xen: make earlyprintk=xen work again
For some perverse reason, if you call add_preferred_console() it prevents
setup_early_printk() from successfully enabling the boot console -
unless you make it a preferred console too...

Also, make xenboot console output distinct from normal console output,
since it gets repeated when the console handover happens, and the
duplicated output is confusing without disambiguation.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2008-05-27 10:11:36 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 0922abdc39 xen: make early console also write to debug console
When using "earlyprintk=xen", also write the console output to the raw
debug console.  This will appear on dom0's console if the hypervisor
has been compiled to allow it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-27 10:11:35 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 0acf10d8fb xen: add raw console write functions for debug
Add a couple of functions which can write directly to the Xen console
for debugging.  This output ends up on the host's dom0 console
(assuming it allows the domain to write there).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-27 10:11:35 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge b536b4b962 xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console
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>
2007-07-18 08:47:44 -07:00