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Rusty Russell 9f155a9b3d lguest: allow any process to send interrupts
We currently only allow the Launcher process to send interrupts, but it
as we already send interrupts from the hrtimer, it's a simple matter of
extracting that code into a common set_interrupt routine.

As we switch to a thread per virtqueue, this avoids a bottleneck through the
main Launcher process.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:09 +09:30
Rusty Russell 92b4d8df84 lguest: PAE fixes
1) j wasn't initialized in setup_pagetables, so they weren't set up for me
   causing immediate guest crashes.

2) gpte_addr should not re-read the pmd from the Guest.  Especially
   not BUG_ON() based on the value.  If we ever supported SMP guests,
   they could trigger that.  And the Launcher could also trigger it
   (tho currently root-only).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:08 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui acdd0b6292 lguest: PAE support
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:08 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui cefcad1773 lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4()
Add support for kvm_hypercall4(); PAE wants it.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:07 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui ebe0ba84f5 lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD
replace LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD hypercall name
(That's really what it is, and the confusion gets worse with PAE support)

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
2009-06-12 22:27:07 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui 90603d15fa lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
Some cleanups and replace direct assignment with native_set_* macros which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:06 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui ed1dc77810 lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries
Map switcher with executable page table entries.
(This bug didn't matter before PAE and hence NX support -- RR)

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:06 +09:30
Rusty Russell 7b5c806c35 lguest: fix writev returning short on console output
I've never seen it here, but I can't find anywhere that says writev
will write everything.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell e606490c44 lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher
The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of
bytes *written* to the buffer.  This means the guest doesn't have to
zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length.

Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length
*read* into that field.  The guest ignores it, but it's wrong.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:05 +09:30
Matias Zabaljauregui f086122bb6 lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition.
If GDT_ENTRIES were every > 256, this could become a problem.

Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:04 +09:30
Roel Kluin 81b79b01d0 lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt
Do not go beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:04 +09:30
Rusty Russell 2644f17d6c lguest: clean up example launcher compile flags.
18 months ago 5bbf89fc26 changed to loading
bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer
need libz.

Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on
32-bit).

Reported-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:03 +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
Rusty Russell abd41f037e lguest: fix race in halt code
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>
2009-06-12 22:27:02 +09:30
Rusty Russell ebf9a5a99c lguest: remove invalid interrupt forcing logic.
2088761152 (lguest: notify on empty) introduced
lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on
interrupts all the time.

Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0
when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from
the Guest.

It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue:
if it's empty, then we force an interrupt.

This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but
that's the subject of another patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:02 +09:30
Rusty Russell a6c372de6e lguest: fix lguest wake on guest clock tick, or fd activity
The Launcher could be inside the Guest on another CPU; wake_up_process
will do nothing because it is "running".  kick_process will knock it
back into our kernel in this case, otherwise we'll miss it until the
next guest exit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:01 +09:30
Rusty Russell b43e352139 sched: export kick_process
lguest needs kick_process: wake_up_process() does nothing if a process
is running, which isn't sufficient (we need it in the kernel).

And lguest support is usually modular.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 22:27:01 +09:30
Rusty Russell f7027c6387 lguest: get more serious about wmb() in example Launcher code
Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very
serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest
is UP).

Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:00 +09:30
Rusty Russell 1028375e93 lguest: clean up lguest_init_IRQ
Copy from arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c: we don't use the vectors beyond
LGUEST_IRQS (if any), but we might as well set them all.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:00 +09:30
Rusty Russell 56739c802c lguest: cleanup passing of /dev/lguest fd around example launcher.
We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it
a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:26:59 +09:30
Rusty Russell 713b15b378 lguest: be paranoid about guest playing with device descriptors.
We can't trust the values in the device descriptor table once the
guest has booted, so keep local copies.  They could set them to
strange values then cause us to segv (they're 8 bit values, so they
can't make our pointers go too wild).

This becomes more important with the following patches which read them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:26:59 +09:30
Christian Borntraeger e335385373 virtio: enhance id_matching for virtio drivers
This patch allows a virtio driver to use VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the
device id. This will be used by a test module that can be bound to
any virtio device.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:40 +09:30
Christian Borntraeger c89e80168b virtio: fix id_matching for virtio drivers
This bug never appeared, since all current virtio drivers use
VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the vendor field. If a real vendor would be used,
the check in virtio_id_match is wrong - it returns 0 if
id->vendor == dev->id.vendor.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:40 +09:30
Rusty Russell 594de1dd64 virtio: handle short buffers in virtio_rng.
If the device fills less than 4 bytes of our random buffer, we'll
BUG_ON.  It's nicer to handle the case where it partially fills the
buffer (the protocol doesn't explicitly bad that).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:40 +09:30
Mike Frysinger 98e9444474 virtio_blk: add missing __dev{init,exit} markings
The remove member of the virtio_driver structure uses __devexit_p(), so
the remove function itself should be marked with __devexit.  And where
there be __devexit on the remove, so is there __devinit on the probe.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:39 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin 9fa29b9df3 virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
Add a new feature flag for indirect ring entries. These are ring
entries which point to a table of buffer descriptors.

The idea here is to increase the ring capacity by allowing a larger
effective ring size whereby the ring size dictates the number of
requests that may be outstanding, rather than the size of those
requests.

This should be most effective in the case of block I/O where we can
potentially benefit by concurrently dispatching a large number of
large requests. Even in the simple case of single segment block
requests, this results in a threefold increase in ring capacity.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:39 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin ee006b353f virtio: teach virtio_has_feature() about transport features
Drivers don't add transport features to their table, so we
shouldn't check these with virtio_check_driver_offered_feature().

We could perhaps add an ->offered_feature() virtio_config_op,
but that perhaps that would be overkill for a consitency check
like this.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:38 +09:30
Rusty Russell a92892825a virtio: expose features in sysfs
Each device negotiates feature bits; expose these in sysfs to help
diagnostics and debugging.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:38 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 82af8ce84e virtio_pci: optional MSI-X support
This implements optional MSI-X support in virtio_pci.
MSI-X is used whenever the host supports at least 2 MSI-X
vectors: 1 for configuration changes and 1 for virtqueues.
Per-virtqueue vectors are allocated if enough vectors
available.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ whitespace, style)
2009-06-12 22:16:37 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 77cf524654 virtio_pci: split up vp_interrupt
This reorganizes virtio-pci code in vp_interrupt slightly, so that
it's easier to add per-vq MSI support on top.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:37 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin d2a7ddda9f virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations
This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations,
and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI
needs to know the total number of vectors upfront.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ lguest/9p compile fixes)
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell 9499f5e7ed virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell ef688e151c virtio: meet virtio spec by finalizing features before using device
Virtio devices are supposed to negotiate features before they start using
the device, but the current code doesn't do this.  This is because the
driver's probe() function invariably has to add buffers to a virtqueue,
or probe the disk (virtio_blk).

This currently doesn't matter since no existing backend is strict about
the feature negotiation.  But it's possible to imagine a future feature
which completely changes how a device operates: in this case, we'd need
to acknowledge it before using the device.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:35 +09:30
Rusty Russell 20f77f5654 virtio: fix obsolete documentation on probe function
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:35 +09:30
Steven Whitehouse 3ea400581f GFS2: Remove lock_kernel from gfs2_put_super()
It is not required here.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat,com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2009-06-12 13:40:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 974802eaa1 perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.

We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
the full structure size inside it.

When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
consists of 0s, otherwise fail.

If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
native attribe size back into the provided structure.

Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
the __reserved fields).

(This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bbd36e5e6a perf record: Explicity program a default counter
Up until now record has worked on the assumption that type=0, config=0
was a suitable configuration - which it is. Lets make this a little more
explicit and more readable via the use of proper symbols.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 081fad8617 perf_counter: Remove PERF_TYPE_RAW special casing
The PERF_TYPE_RAW special case seems superfluous these days. Remove
it and add it to the switch() stmt like the others.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f1a3c97905 perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too
is_software_counter() was missing the new HW_CACHE category.

( This could have caused some counter scheduling artifacts
  with mixed sw and hw counters and counter groups. )

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:51 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 4c921126fe powerpc, perf_counter: Fix performance counter event types
Sachin Sant reported these compiler errors:

 CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/power7-pmu.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/power7-pmu.c:297: error: PERF_COUNT_CPU_CYCLES undeclared here (not in a function)

Which happened because a last-minute rename of symbols crossed with
the Power7 support patch.

Fix this by using the new symbol names.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <1244788494.5554.1.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:21:11 +02:00
Rusty Russell 5933048c69 module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries.
Everyone cut and paste this comment from my original one.  We now do
it generically, so cut the comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 21:47:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell ad6561dffa module: trim exception table on init free.
It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules.  These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup.  The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).

Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.

This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code.  Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.

Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.

Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
2009-06-12 21:47:04 +09:30
Amerigo Wang c398df30d5 module: merge module_alloc() finally
As Christoph Hellwig suggested, module_alloc() actually can be
unified for i386 and x86_64 (of course, also UML).

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:47:03 +09:30
Amerigo Wang c0e5e10bf3 uml module: fix uml build process due to this merge
Due to the previous merge, uml needs to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:47:02 +09:30
Amerigo Wang 0fdc83b950 x86 module: merge the rest functions with macros
Merge the rest functions together, with proper preprocessing directives.
Finally remove module_{32|64}.c.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:47:01 +09:30
Amerigo Wang 2d5bf28fb9 x86 module: merge the same functions in module_32.c and module_64.c
Merge the same functions both in module_32.c and module_64.c into
module.c.

This is the first step to merge both of them finally.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:47:00 +09:30
Rusty Russell 2ead9439f0 uvesafb: improve parameter handling.
1) Now module_param(..., invbool, ...) requires a bool, and similarly
   module_param(..., bool, ...) allows it, change pmi_setpal to a bool.
2) #define param_get_scroll to NULL, since it can never be called (perm
   argument to module_param_named is 0).
3) Return -EINVAL from param_set_scroll if the value is bad, so it's
   reported.

Note that I don't think the old fb_get_options() is required for new
drivers: the parameters automatically work as uvesafb.XXX=... anyway.

Acked-by: Michał Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:59 +09:30
Rusty Russell fddd520122 module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.
Impact: API cleanup

For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.

So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:58 +09:30
Rusty Russell d2c123c27d module_param: add __same_type convenience wrapper for __builtin_types_compatible_p
Impact: new API

__builtin_types_compatible_p() is a little awkward to use: it takes two
types rather than types or variables, and it's just damn long.

(typeof(type) == type, so this works on types as well as vars).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:57 +09:30