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>
We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
Guest process (aka. the Launcher).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with
an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures
out what device to run.
A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we
find one, we simply signal the eventfd.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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>
When the Guest does the LHCALL_HALT hypercall, we go to sleep, expecting
that a timer or the Waker will wake_up_process() us.
But we do it in a stupid way, leaving a classic missing wakeup race.
So split maybe_do_interrupt() into interrupt_pending() and
try_deliver_interrupt(), and check maybe_do_interrupt() and the
"break_out" flag before calling schedule.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: clean up
Rusty told me, some time ago, that he had become a fan of "bool".
So, here are some replacements.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
map_switcher allocates the array, unmap_switcher has to free it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
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>
Robert Bragg's 5dc3318528 tightened
(ie. fixed) the checking in __get_vm_area, and it broke lguest.
lguest should pass the exact "end" it wants, not some random constant
(it was possible previously that it would actually get an address
different from SWITCHER_ADDR).
Also, Fabio Checconi pointed out that we should make sure we're not
hitting the fixmap area.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Robert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
(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>
Xiao Guangrong
Rusty Russell
Matias Zabaljauregui
Atsushi SAKAI
Johannes Weiner
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Balaji Rao