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Ahmed S. Darwish 31f4b46ec6 lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries
Beginning from commit 4138cc3418, ioremap_nocache() sets the _PAGE_PWT
flag.

Lguest doesn't accept a guest pte with a _PWT flag and reports a "bad
page table entry" in that case.

Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 25478445c4 Fix container_of() usage
Using "attr" twice is not OK, because it effectively prohibits such
container_of() on variables not named "attr".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Rusty Russell 6e5aa7efb2 virtio: reset function
A reset function solves three problems:

1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
   guest driver without rebooting the guest.

2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
   we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and

3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.

So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
feature bits is via reset.

We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
remove function.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:03 +11:00
Rusty Russell 18445c4d50 virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return.
It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.

Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
now returns void, rather than a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:58 +11:00
Rusty Russell a586d4f601 virtio: simplify config mechanism.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:57 +11:00
Rusty Russell e95035c61a lguest: fix mis-merge against hpa's TSS renaming
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c: In function ‘copy_in_guest_info’:
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c:97: error: ‘struct x86_hw_tss’ has no member named ‘esp1’

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-31 19:59:44 +11:00
Linus Torvalds d145c7253c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (27 commits)
  lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL
  lguest: Use explicit includes rateher than indirect
  lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments
  lguest: change gpte_addr header
  lguest: move changed bitmap to lg_cpu
  lguest: move last_pages to lg_cpu
  lguest: change last_guest to last_cpu
  lguest: change spte_addr header
  lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management
  lguest: make pending notifications per-vcpu
  lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu
  lguest: per-vcpu lguest task management
  lguest: replace lguest_arch with lg_cpu_arch.
  lguest: make registers per-vcpu
  lguest: make emulate_insn receive a vcpu struct.
  lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu
  lguest: per-vcpu interrupt processing.
  lguest: per-vcpu lguest timers
  lguest: make hypercalls use the vcpu struct
  lguest: make write() operation smp aware
  ...

Manual conflict resolved (maybe even correctly, who knows) in
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
2008-01-31 09:35:32 +11:00
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 84f12e39c8 lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL
x86_64 don't expose the intermediate representation with one underline,
_PAGE_KERNEL, just the double-underlined one.

Use it, to get a common ground between 32 and 64-bit

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:19 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa ca94f2bdd1 lguest: Use explicit includes rateher than indirect
explicitly use ktime.h include
explicitly use hrtimer.h include
explicitly use sched.h include

This patch adds headers explicitly to lguest sources file,
to avoid depending on them being included somewhere else.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:19 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 382ac6b3fb lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments
We can save some lines of code by getting rid of
*lg = cpu... lines of code spread everywhere by now.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:18 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 934faab464 lguest: change gpte_addr header
gpte_addr() does not depend on any guest information. So we wipe out
the lg parameter from it completely.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:18 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa ae3749dcd8 lguest: move changed bitmap to lg_cpu
events represented in the 'changed' bitmap are per-cpu, not per-guest.
move it to the lg_cpu structure

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:17 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa f34f8c5fea lguest: move last_pages to lg_cpu
in our new model, pages are assigned to a virtual cpu, not to a guest.
We move it to the lg_cpu structure.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:16 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa c40a9f4719 lguest: change last_guest to last_cpu
in our model, a guest does not run in a cpu anymore: a virtual cpu
does. So we change last_guest to last_cpu

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:15 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 2092aa277b lguest: change spte_addr header
spte_addr does not depend on any guest information, so we
wipe out the lg parameter completely.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:15 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 1713608f28 lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management
this patch makes the pgdir management per-vcpu. The pgdirs pool
is still guest-wide (although it'll probably need to grow when we
are really executing more vcpus), but the pgdidx index is gone,
since it makes no sense anymore. Instead, we use a per-vcpu
index.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:14 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 5e232f4f42 lguest: make pending notifications per-vcpu
this patch makes the pending_notify field, used to control
pending notifications, per-vcpu, instead of per-guest

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:13 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 4665ac8e28 lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu
lguest struct have room for some fields, namely, cr2, ts, esp1
and ss1, that are not really guest-wide, but rather, vcpu-wide.

This patch puts it in the vcpu struct

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:13 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 66686c2ab0 lguest: per-vcpu lguest task management
lguest uses tasks to control its running behaviour (like sending
breaks, controlling halted state, etc). In a per-vcpu environment,
each vcpu will have its own underlying task. So this patch
makes the infrastructure for that possible

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:12 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa fc708b3e40 lguest: replace lguest_arch with lg_cpu_arch.
The fields found in lguest_arch are not really per-guest,
but per-cpu (gdt, idt, etc). So this patch turns lguest_arch
into lg_cpu_arch.

It makes sense to have a per-guest per-arch struct, but this
can be addressed later, when the need arrives.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:11 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa a53a35a8b4 lguest: make registers per-vcpu
This is the most obvious per-vcpu field: registers.

So this patch moves it from struct lguest to struct vcpu,
and patch the places in which they are used, accordingly

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:11 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa a3863f68b0 lguest: make emulate_insn receive a vcpu struct.
emulate_insn() needs to know about current eip, which will be,
in the future, a per-vcpu thing. So in this patch, the function
prototype is modified to receive a vcpu struct

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:10 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 0c78441cf4 lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu
The switcher needs to be mapped per-vcpu, because different vcpus
will potentially have different page tables (they don't have to,
because threads will share the same).

So our first step is the make the function receive a vcpu struct

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:09 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 177e449dc5 lguest: per-vcpu interrupt processing.
This patch adapts interrupt processing for using the vcpu struct.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:09 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa ad8d8f3bc6 lguest: per-vcpu lguest timers
Here, I introduce per-vcpu timers. With this, we can have
local expiries, needed for accounting time in smp guests

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:08 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 73044f05a4 lguest: make hypercalls use the vcpu struct
this patch changes do_hcall() and do_async_hcall() interfaces (and obviously their
callers) to get a vcpu struct. Again, a vcpu services the hypercall, not the whole
guest

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:08 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 7ea07a1500 lguest: make write() operation smp aware
This patch makes the write() file operation smp aware. Which means, receiving
the vcpu_id value through the offset parameter, and being well aware to which
vcpu we're talking to.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:07 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa d0953d42c3 lguest: per-cpu run guest
This patch makes the run_guest() routine use the lg_cpu struct.
This is required since in a smp guest environment, there's no
more the notion of "running the guest", but rather, it is "running the vcpu"

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:06 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 4dcc53da49 lguest: initialize vcpu
this patch initializes the first vcpu in the initialize() routing,
which is responsible for starting the process of putting the guest up.
right now, as much of the fields are still not per-vcpu, it does not
do much.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:06 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa badb1e0402 lguest: introduce vcpu struct
this patch introduces a vcpu struct for lguest. In upcoming patches,
more and more fields will be moved from the lguest struct to the vcpu

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:04 +11:00
Balaji Rao ec04b13f67 lguest: Reboot support
Reboot Implemented

(Prevent fd leak, fix style and fix documentation --RR)

Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:04 +11:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa 5c55841d16 lguest: remove pv_info dependency
Currently, lguest module can't be compiled without the PARAVIRT flag being
on. This is a fake dependency, since the module itself shouldn't need any
paravirt override. Reason for that is the reference to pv_info structure
in initial loading tests.

This patch removes it in favour of a more generic error message.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30 22:50:03 +11:00
Gautham R Shenoy 86ef5c9a8e cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()
Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Rusty Russell a7da60f415 Remove bogus duplicate CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST entry.
It was moved to arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig, but I lost the deletion part in a
patch suffle.  My confused one-liner "fix" to turn it on is also reverted:
84f7466ee2

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Rusty Russell 84f7466ee2 Selecting LGUEST should turn on Guest support, as in 2.6.23.
There's currently no way to turn on Lguest guest support; the planned
Kconfig virtualization reorg didn't get into 2.6.25.

This was unnoticed because if you already had CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y in
your config, it worked.  Too bad about new users...

Also, the Kconfig help was wrong now the virtio drivers are merged.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-18 14:05:48 -08:00
Rusty Russell 74b2553f1d virtio: fix module/device unloading
The virtio code never hooked through the ->remove callback.  Although
noone supports device removal at the moment, this code is already
needed for module unloading.

This of course also revealed bugs in virtio_blk, virtio_net and lguest
unloading paths.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-19 11:20:42 +11:00
Adrian Bunk 43054412db lguest_user.c: fix memory leak
This patch fixes a memory leak spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
Rusty Russell 42b36cc0ce virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:40 +11:00
Rusty Russell e1e72965ec lguest: documentation update
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>
2007-10-25 15:02:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell 197bff630a lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-25 14:10:30 +10:00
Rusty Russell 25c47bb353 lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-25 14:09:53 +10:00
Rusty Russell 2d37f94a28 generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32.
Jes complains that page table code still uses lgread_u32 even though
it now uses general kernel pte types.  The best thing to do is to
generalize lgread_u32 and lgwrite_u32.

This means we lose the efficiency of getuser().  We could potentially
regain it if we used __copy_from_user instead of copy_from_user, but
I'm not certain that our range check is equivalent to access_ok() on
all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
2007-10-23 15:49:56 +10:00
Rusty Russell 19f1537b7b Lguest support for Virtio
This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices.

We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable
length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and
implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data.

We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host
virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the
host when it changes.

We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early
console output.  We could have another hypercall, but this hack works
quite well.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:56 +10:00
Rusty Russell 15045275c3 Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure.
This patch gets rid of the old lguest host I/O infrastructure and
replaces it with a single hypercall "LHCALL_NOTIFY" which takes an
address.

The main change is the removal of io.c: that mainly did inter-guest
I/O, which virtio doesn't yet support.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00
Rusty Russell 0ca49ca946 Remove old lguest bus and drivers.
This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make
way for a generic virtio mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00
Rusty Russell 47436aa4ad Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.
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>
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00
Rusty Russell c18acd73ff Allow guest to specify syscall vector to use.
(Based on Ron Minnich's LGUEST_PLAN9_SYSCALL patch).

This patch allows Guests to specify what system call vector they want,
and we try to reserve it.  We only allow one non-Linux system call
vector, to try to avoid DoS on the Host.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:53 +10:00
Rusty Russell ee3db0f2b6 Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:53 +10:00
Matias Zabaljauregui df29f43e65 Pagetables to use normal kernel types
This is my first step in the migration of page_tables.c to the kernel
types and functions/macros (2.6.23-rc3).  Seems to be working OK.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <matias.zabaljauregui@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:53 +10:00
Jes Sorensen d612cde060 Move register setup into i386_core.c
Move setup_regs() to lguest_arch_setup_regs() in i386_core.c given
that this is very architecture specific.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:52 +10:00
Jes Sorensen 511801dc31 Change example launcher to use unsigned long not u32
Apply Clue 2x4 to lguest userland<->kernel handling code and the
lguest launcher. Pointers are not to be passed in u32's!

Basic rule of thumb: Anything passing u32's back and forth should be
passing unsigned longs to be portable to 64 bit archs.

For those who forgotten already, I repeat: NO POINTERS IN u32!

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:52 +10:00
Jes Sorensen b410e7b149 Make hypercalls arch-independent.
Clean up the hypercall code to make the code in hypercalls.c
architecture independent. First process the common hypercalls and
then call lguest_arch_do_hcall() if the call hasn't been handled.
Rename struct hcall_ring to hcall_args.

This patch requires the previous patch which reorganize the layout of
struct lguest_regs on i386 so they match the layout of struct
hcall_args.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:52 +10:00
Rusty Russell cc6d4fbcef Introduce "hcall" pointer to indicate pending hypercall.
Currently we look at the "trapnum" to see if the Guest wants a
hypercall.  But once the hypercall is done we have to reset trapnum to
a bogus value, otherwise if we exit to userspace and return, we'd run
the same hypercall twice (that was a nasty bug to find!).

This has two main effects:

1) When Jes's patch changes the hypercall args to be a generic "struct
   hcall_args" we simply change the type of "lg->hcall".  It's set by
   arch code, so if it has to copy args or something it can do so, and
   point "hcall" into lg->arch somewhere.

2) Async hypercalls only get run when an actual hypercall is pending.
   This simplfies the code a little and is a more logical semantic.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:52 +10:00
Jes Sorensen 4614a3a3b6 Reorder guest saved regs to match hyperall order
Move eax next to ebx/ecx/edx in struct lguest_regs on i386, so they
will be located together and allow it to map directly to a struct
hcall_ring entry (which will be renamed struct hcall_args as in a
subsequent patch).

This is in preparation for making the code hcall code architecture
independent.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:51 +10:00
Jes Sorensen 625efab1cd Move i386 part of core.c to x86/core.c.
Separate i386 architecture specific from core.c and move it to
x86/core.c and add x86/lguest.h header file to match.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:51 +10:00
Rusty Russell 56adbe9ddc Make shadow IDT a complete IDT with 256 entries.
This simplifies the code a little, in preparation for allowing
alternate system call vectors in guests (Plan 9 uses 0x40).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:51 +10:00
Rusty Russell 48245cc070 Remove fixed limit on number of guests, and lguests array.
Back when we had all the Guest state in the switcher, we had a fixed
array of them.  This is no longer necessary.

If we switch the network code to using random_ether_addr (46 bits is
enough to avoid clashes), we can get rid of the concept of "guest id"
altogether.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:51 +10:00
Rusty Russell 3c6b5bfa3c Introduce guest mem offset, static link example launcher
In order to avoid problematic special linking of the Launcher, we give
the Host an offset: this means we can use any memory region in the
Launcher as Guest memory rather than insisting on mmap() at 0.

The result is quite pleasing: a number of casts are replaced with
simple additions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell 1f4e1de4f2 Rename switcher.S to x86/switcher_32.S
lguest uses a "switcher" shim mapped high to bounce between host and
guest.  As lguest becomes less i386-centric, we separate this code
into a subdir.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell 34b8867a03 Move lguest guest support to arch/x86.
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>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00
Tony Breeds 05aa026a62 Clocksource is continuous regardless of the state of the host's TSC.
Currently lguest will spend a lot of of time waking up the host, as it
cannot go tickless (if the [host] TSC has been marked unstable). On my
laptop I was getting ~40% of wakeups from lguest.

With this patch applied, my laptop is much happier!

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:49 +10:00
Rusty Russell ebac52524d lguest_devices belongs in lguest_bus.c: it's not i386-specific.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:49 +10:00
Rusty Russell 141341cdae Lguest currently depends on 32-bit x86, not just x86.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:48 +10:00
Jes Sorensen 891ff65ff5 Use copy_to_user() not put_user for struct timespec
Use copy_to_user() when copying a struct timespec to the guest -
put_user() cannot handle two long's in one go on a 64bit arch.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-23 15:49:48 +10:00
Rusty Russell 25e82eba3a Remove binfmts.h include from lg.h
It wasn't needed since a very early prototype of lguest.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:47 +10:00
Rusty Russell d3d1c4bdf1 Normalize config options for guest support
1) Group all the "guest OS" support options together, under a PARAVIRT_GUEST
   menu.
2) Make those options select CONFIG_PARAVIRT, as suggested by Andi.
3) Make kconfig help titles consistent.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-10-23 15:49:47 +10:00
Linus Torvalds fb9fc39517 Merge branch 'xen-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'xen-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen
  xen: add some debug output for failed multicalls
  xen: fix incorrect vcpu_register_vcpu_info hypercall argument
  xen: ask the hypervisor how much space it needs reserved
  xen: lock pte pages while pinning/unpinning
  xen: deal with stale cr3 values when unpinning pagetables
  xen: add batch completion callbacks
  xen: yield to IPI target if necessary
  Clean up duplicate includes in arch/i386/xen/
  remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init
  paravirt: clean up lazy mode handling
  paravirt: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops
2007-10-17 11:10:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 30c826451d [x86] remove uses of magic macros for boot_params access
Instead of using magic macros for boot_params access, simply use the
boot_params structure.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-10-16 17:38:31 -07:00
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
Rusty Russell bbbd2bf00b fix modules oopsing in lguest guests
The assembly templates for lguest guest patching are in the .init.text
section.  This means that modules get patched with "cc cc cc cc" or similar
junk.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-25 08:51:04 -07:00
Rusty Russell c413fecc76 lguest: Fix guest crash when CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y
One of the very first things lguest_init() does is a memcpy.  On
Athlon/Duron/K7 or CyrixIII/VIA-C3 or Geode GX/LX, this tries to use
MMX.

memcpy -> _mmx_memcpy -> kernel_fpu_begin -> clts -> paravirt_ops.clts

But we haven't set paravirt_ops.clts yet, so we do the native version
and crash.  The simplest solution is to use __memcpy.

Thanks to Michael Rasenberger for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-12 12:19:46 -07:00
Rusty Russell 8057d763ed Fix lguest page-pinning logic ("lguest: bad stack page 0xc057a000")
If the stack pointer is 0xc057a000, then the first stack page is at
0xc0579000 (the stack pointer is decremented before use).  Not
calculating this correctly caused guests with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
to be killed with a "bad stack page" message: the initial kernel stack
was just proceeding the .smp_locks section which
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC marks read-only when freeing.

Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt for the bug report!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-30 09:58:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan deec595047 lguest should depend on CONFIG_FUTEX
It uses get_futex_key().

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-23 21:23:33 -07:00
Andi Kleen ab144f5ec6 i386: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue
Commit 19d36ccdc3 "x86: Fix alternatives
and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text" uses code which is
being patched for patching.

In particular, paravirt_ops does patching in two stages: first it
calls paravirt_ops.patch, then it fills any remaining instructions
with nop_out().  nop_out calls text_poke() which calls
lookup_address() which calls pgd_val() (aka paravirt_ops.pgd_val):
that call site is one of the places we patch.

If we always do patching as one single call to text_poke(), we only
need make sure we're not patching the memcpy in text_poke itself.
This means the prototype to paravirt_ops.patch needs to change, to
marshal the new code into a buffer rather than patching in place as it
does now.  It also means all patching goes through text_poke(), which
is known to be safe (apply_alternatives is also changed to make a
single patch).

AK: fix compilation on x86-64 (bad rusty!)
AK: fix boot on x86-64 (sigh)
AK: merged with other patches

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:58:13 -07:00
Jes Sorensen b1a47190a6 lguest files should explicitly include asm/paravirt.h
Files using bits from paravirt.h should explicitly include it rather than
relying on it being pulled in by something else.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:42 -07:00
Rusty Russell 0d027c01cd lguest: Fix Malicious Guest GDT Host Crash
If a Guest makes hypercall which sets a GDT entry to not present, we
currently set any segment registers using that GDT entry to 0.
Unfortunately, this is not sufficient: there are other ways of
altering GDT entries which will cause a fault.

The correct solution to do what Linux does: let them set any GDT value
they want and handle the #GP when popping causes a fault.  This has
the added benefit of making our Switcher slightly more robust in the
case of any other bugs which cause it to fault.

We kill the Guest if it causes a fault in the Switcher: it's the
Guest's responsibility to make sure it's not using segments when it
changes them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09 08:14:56 -07:00
Rusty Russell 37250097e1 Fix non-TSC guest clocksource lockup
lguest uses a host-supplied wallclock-based clocksource when the TSC
is not reliable.  As this is already in nanoseconds, I naively used a
multiplier of 1 and a shift of 0.

But update_wall_time() in its infinite wisdom decides to adjust the
clock a little (where does it think it's getting a more accurate time
from?)

It will happily tweak the multiplier... to 0, then -1.

So the "fix" is to use a shift of 22 like everyone else, and a
multiplier of 1 << 22.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09 08:14:56 -07:00
Rusty Russell cc1ff43b70 Enable lguest drivers in Kconfig
Lguest drivers need to default to "Y" otherwise they're never selected
for new builds.  (We don't bother prompting, because they're less than
4k combined, and implied by selecting lguest support).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-06 18:21:15 -07:00
Rusty Russell 05ff09706b Make lguest compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n and CONFIG_NET=n
Gabriel C reports lguest doesn't compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n.  Fix this
by introducing a config var for the block device, which depends on
LGUEST && BLOCK.  Do the same for the net driver, rather then depending
gratuitously on CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29 17:37:45 -07:00
Rusty Russell 6c8dca5d53 Provide timespec to guests rather than jiffies clock.
A non-periodic clock_event_device and the "jiffies" clock don't mix well:
tick_handle_periodic() can go into an infinite loop.

Currently lguest guests use the jiffies clock when the TSC is
unusable.  Instead, make the Host write the current time into the lguest
page on every interrupt.  This doesn't cost much but is more precise
and at least as accurate as the jiffies clock.  It also gets rid of
the GET_WALLCLOCK hypercall.

Also, delay setting sched_clock until our clock is set up, otherwise
the early printk timestamps can go backwards (not harmful, just ugly).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-28 19:54:33 -07:00
Rusty Russell a8a11f0697 Fix lguest bzImage loading with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
Jason Yeh sent his crashing .config: bzImages made with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y put the relocs where the BSS is expected, and we
crash with unusual results such as:

	lguest: unhandled trap 14 at 0xc0122ae1 (0xa9)

Relying on BSS being zero was merely laziness on my part, and
unfortunately, lguest doesn't go through the normal startup path (which
does this in asm).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-28 19:53:36 -07:00
Rusty Russell f56a384e98 lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEs
Documentation: The FIXMEs

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell f8f0fdcd40 lguest: documentation VI: Switcher
Documentation: The Switcher

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell bff672e630 lguest: documentation V: Host
Documentation: The Host

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell dde797899a lguest: documentation IV: Launcher
Documentation: The Launcher

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell e2c9784325 lguest: documentation III: Drivers
Documentation: The Drivers

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell b2b47c214f lguest: documentation II: Guest
Documentation: The Guest

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell f938d2c892 lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.

So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:16 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 18de5bc4c1 clockevents: fix resume logic
We need to make sure, that the clockevent devices are resumed, before
the tick is resumed. The current resume logic does not guarantee this.

Add CLOCK_EVT_MODE_RESUME and call the set mode functions of the clock
event devices before resuming the tick / oneshot functionality.

Fixup the existing users.

Thanks to Nigel Cunningham for tracking down a long standing thinko,
which affected the jinxed VAIO.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: xen build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 17:49:15 -07:00
Rusty Russell 9d1ca6f13c lguest: override sched_clock
Guests currently use the default scheduler clock: this means they
always use jiffies even if TSC is actually available.  It doesn't make
any noticeable difference here, but it's a better thing to do.

Also remove commented-out asm/sched-clock.h from -mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 09:05:16 -07:00
Rusty Russell 876be9d89e lguest: trivial: We now have asm/processor-flags.h, so use it.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 09:05:16 -07:00
Rusty Russell e5faff45b3 lguest: fix sense if IF flag on interrupt injection
The sense of the IF bit is backwards in the host interrupt handling.

This means we always save "IF=1" on the stack when injecting an
interrupt.  It turns out this is almost always correct (unless the
guest is taking a page fault in an interrupt due to an unpopulated
vmalloc mapping), so went unnoticed.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 09:05:16 -07:00
Al Viro 6d14bfe77b Fix lguest misannotation
It's void __user *, not void * __user...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 08:24:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell 709e89266b lguest: the Makefile and Kconfig
This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be
compiled.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:52 -07:00
Rusty Russell d7e28ffe6c lguest: the host code
This is the code for the "lg.ko" module, which allows lguest guests to
be launched.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for futex-new-private-futexes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[jmorris@namei.org: lguest: use hrtimers]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:52 -07:00
Rusty Russell 07ad157f6e lguest: the guest code
lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux.  Unlike kvm it doesn't need
VT/SVM hardware.  Unlike Xen it's simply "modprobe and go".  Unlike both, it's
5000 lines and self-contained.

Performance is ok, but not great (-30% on kernel compile).  But given its
hackability, I expect this to improve, along with the paravirt_ops code which
it supplies a complete example for.  There's also a 64-bit version being
worked on and other craziness.

But most of all, lguest is awesome fun!  Too much of the kernel is a big ball
of hair.  lguest is simple enough to dive into and hack, plus has some warts
which scream "fork me!".

This patch:

This is the code and headers required to make an i386 kernel an lguest guest.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:52 -07:00