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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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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 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 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 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
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