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Rusty Russell 091ebf07a2 lguest: stop using KVM hypercall mechanism
This is a partial revert of 4cd8b5e2a1 "lguest: use KVM hypercalls";
we revert to using (just as questionable but more reliable) int $15 for
hypercalls.  I didn't revert the register mapping, so we still use the
same calling convention as kvm.

KVM in more recent incarnations stopped injecting a fault when a guest
tried to use the VMCALL instruction from ring 1, so lguest under kvm
fails to make hypercalls.  It was nice to share code with our KVM
cousins, but this was overreach.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-14 21:43:56 +09:30
Rusty Russell a91d74a3c4 lguest: update commentry
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>
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
Rusty Russell 2e04ef7691 lguest: fix comment style
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>
2009-07-30 16:03:45 +09:30
Rusty Russell 61f4bc83fe lguest: optimize by coding restore_flags and irq_enable in assembler.
The downside of the last patch which made restore_flags and irq_enable
check interrupts is that they are now too big to be patched directly
into the callsites, so the C versions are always used.

But the C versions go via PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK which saves all
the registers.  In fact, we don't need any registers in the fast path,
so we can do better than this if we actually code them in assembler.

The results are in the noise, but since it's about the same amount of
code, it's worth applying.

1GB Guest->Host: input(suppressed),output(suppressed)
Before:
	Seconds: 0:16.53
	Packets: 377268,753673
	Interrupts: 22461,24297
	Notifications: 1(5245),21303(732370)
	Net IRQs triggered: 377023(245),42578(711095)

After:
	Seconds: 0:16.48
	Packets: 377289,753673
	Interrupts: 22281,24465
	Notifications: 1(5245),21296(732377)
	Net IRQs triggered: 377060(229),42564(711109)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:03 +09:30
Rusty Russell a32a8813d0 lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking
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>
2009-06-12 22:27:03 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui 4cd8b5e2a1 lguest: use KVM hypercalls
Impact: cleanup

This patch allow us to use KVM hypercalls

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30 21:55:24 +10:30
Matias Zabaljauregui 58a2456644 lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the host
This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host,
so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30 09:26:11 +10:30
Rusty Russell a6bd8e1303 lguest: comment documentation update.
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>
2008-03-28 11:05:54 +11:00
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 814a0e5cdf Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
field, that for lguest is "1".  This allows us to use the standard
boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.

The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
and commandline for us, saving more code.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:57 +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
Rusty Russell 34b8867a03 Move lguest guest support to arch/x86.
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>
2007-10-23 15:49:50 +10:00