- 23 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest implementation: 1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements). 2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element. 3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?) 4) They no longer place used[] on a separate page, just a separate cacheline. 5) We do a modulo on a variable. We could be tricky if we cared. 6) Interrupts and notifies are suppressed using flags within the rings. Users need only get the ring pages and provide a notify hook (KVM wants the guest to allocate the rings, lguest does it sanely). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
This adds the logic to convert the virtio ids into module aliases, and includes a modalias entry in sysfs and the env var to make probing work. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
This is an hvc-based virtio console driver. It's suboptimal becuase hvc expects to have raw access to interrupts and virtio doesn't assume that, so it currently polls. There are two solutions: expose hvc's "kick" interface, or wean off hvc. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
The block driver uses scatter-gather lists with sg[0] being the request information (struct virtio_blk_outhdr) with the type, sector and inbuf id. The next N sg entries are the bio itself, then the last sg is the status byte. Whether the N entries are in or out depends on whether it's a read or a write. We accept the normal (SCSI) ioctls: they get handed through to the other side which can then handle it or reply that it's unsupported. It's not clear that this actually works in general, since I don't know if blk_pc_request() requests have an accurate rq_data_dir(). Although we try to reply -ENOTTY on unsupported commands, ioctl(fd, CDROMEJECT) returns success to userspace. This needs a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
The network driver uses two virtqueues: one for input packets and one for output packets. This has nice locking properties (ie. we don't do any for recv vs send). TODO: 1) Big packets. 2) Multi-client devices (maybe separate driver?). 3) Resolve freeing of old xmit skbs (Christian Borntraeger) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Rusty Russell authored
This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O mechanisms. It will no-doubt need further enhancement. The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked. There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query to get setup information from the host. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
(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>
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Rusty Russell authored
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Matias Zabaljauregui authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Ronald G. Minnich authored
Plan9 kernel binaries don't neatly align their ELF sections to our page boundaries. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Jes Sorensen authored
Move architecture specific portion of lg_hcall code to asm-i386/lg_hcall.h and have it included from linux/lguest.h. [Changed to asm-i386/lguest_hcall.h so documentation finds it -RR] Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
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Tony Breeds authored
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>
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Rusty Russell authored
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
lguest_launcher.h uses "u32" not "__u32", which sets a bad example. Fix that, and include <linux/types.h>. This means we need to use -I on the Launcher build line so types.h is found. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
o Describe the new split configurations o Highlight code documentation in drivers/lguest/README o Point out necessity of having a getty on /dev/hvc0 o Remove gratuitous "m" in example o Don't discuss I/O model here, stick to user documentation. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jes Sorensen authored
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>
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
These two callsites should really be errx instead of err, since there is no errno associated with them in the moment they are issued. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
It wasn't needed since a very early prototype of lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
To actually write a bootloader (or, say, the lguest launcher) currently requires duplication of these structures. Making them includable from userspace is much nicer. We merge the common userspace-required definitions of e820_32/64.h into e820.h for export. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell authored
Move lguest under the virtualization menu. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix mnt_flush_task() misplaced kernel-doc. Fix typos in some of the doc text. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'mnt' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'pid' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'tgid' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix kernel-doc for auditsc parameter changes. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//kernel/auditsc.c:1623): No description found for parameter 'dentry' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//kernel/auditsc.c:1666): No description found for parameter 'dentry' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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