Rather than overloading vectors for event channels, take full
responsibility for mapping an event channel to irq directly. With
this patch Xen has its own irq allocator.
When the kernel gets an event channel upcall, it maps the event
channel number to an irq and injects it into the normal interrupt
path.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Optimization
One of the problems with inserting a pile of C calls where previously
there were none is that the register pressure is greatly increased.
The C calling convention says that the caller must expect a certain
set of registers may be trashed by the callee, and that the callee can
use those registers without restriction. This includes the function
argument registers, and several others.
This patch seeks to alleviate this pressure by introducing wrapper
thunks that will do the register saving/restoring, so that the
callsite doesn't need to worry about it, but the callee function can
be conventional compiler-generated code. In many cases (particularly
performance-sensitive cases) the callee will be in assembler anyway,
and need not use the compiler's calling convention.
Standard calling convention is:
arguments return scratch
x86-32 eax edx ecx eax ?
x86-64 rdi rsi rdx rcx rax r8 r9 r10 r11
The thunk preserves all argument and scratch registers. The return
register is not preserved, and is available as a scratch register for
unwrapped callee code (and of course the return value).
Wrapped function pointers are themselves wrapped in a struct
paravirt_callee_save structure, in order to get some warning from the
compiler when functions with mismatched calling conventions are used.
The most common paravirt ops, both statically and dynamically, are
interrupt enable/disable/save/restore, so handle them first. This is
particularly easy since their calls are handled specially anyway.
XXX Deal with VMI. What's their calling convention?
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
generic percpu methods:
percpu_read()
percpu_write()
percpu_add()
percpu_sub()
percpu_and()
percpu_or()
percpu_xor()
and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
back to a default implementation)
The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
instead of this sequence:
return __get_cpu_var(var);
ffffffff8102ca2b: 48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 mov -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
ffffffff8102ca32: 81
ffffffff8102ca33: 48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 mov $0x59d8,%rax
ffffffff8102ca3a: 48 8b 04 10 mov (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax
We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:
return percpu_read(var);
ffffffff8102ca3f: 65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd mov %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax
I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
these new generic percpu primitives.
tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
* added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
* made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Following commit 9c3f2468d8339866d9ef6a25aae31a8909c6be0d, do_IRQ()
looks up the IRQ number in the per-cpu variable vector_irq.
This commit makes Xen initialise an identity vector_irq map for both X86_32 and X86_64.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some reason I managed to miss a bunch of irq-related functions
which also need to be compiled without -pg when using ftrace. This
patch moves them into their own file, and starts a cleanup process
I've been meaning to do anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "Alex Nixon (Intern)" <Alex.Nixon@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge