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Glauber de Oliveira Costa 72fe485854 x86: replace privileged instructions with paravirt macros
The assembly code in entry_64.S issues a bunch of privileged instructions,
like cli, sti, swapgs, and others. Paravirt guests are forbidden to do so,
and we then replace them with macros that will do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:08 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.

The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.

The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Andrey Mirkin 1c5b5cfd29 x86: return correct error code from child_rip in x86_64 entry.S
Right now register edi is just cleared before calling do_exit.
That is wrong because correct return value will be ignored.
Value from rax should be copied to rdi instead of clearing edi.

AK: changed to 32bit move because it's strictly an int

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17 20:15:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 10cd706d18 lockdep: x86_64: connect the sysexit hook
Run the lockdep_sys_exit hook after all other C code on the syscall
return path.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 250c22777f x86_64: move kernel
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:24 +02:00