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2015-08-20xen: eliminate scalability issues from initial mapping setupJuergen Gross
Direct Xen to place the initial P->M table outside of the initial mapping, as otherwise the 1G (implementation) / 2G (theoretical) restriction on the size of the initial mapping limits the amount of memory a domain can be handed initially. As the initial P->M table is copied rather early during boot to domain private memory and it's initial virtual mapping is dropped, the easiest way to avoid virtual address conflicts with other addresses in the kernel is to use a user address area for the virtual address of the initial P->M table. This allows us to just throw away the page tables of the initial mapping after the copy without having to care about address invalidation. It should be noted that this patch won't enable a pv-domain to USE more than 512 GB of RAM. It just enables it to be started with a P->M table covering more memory. This is especially important for being able to boot a Dom0 on a system with more than 512 GB memory. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Based-on-patch-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-03-16xen: use generated hypercall symbols in arch/x86/xen/xen-head.SJuergen Gross
Instead of manually list each hypercall in arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S use the auto generated symbol list. This also corrects the wrong address of xen_hypercall_mca which was located 32 bytes higher than it should. Symbol addresses have been verified to match the correct ones via objdump output. Based-on-patch-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2014-10-06x86/xen: Set EFER.NX and EFER.SCE in PVH guestsMukesh Rathor
This fixes two bugs in PVH guests: - Not setting EFER.NX means the NX bit in page table entries is ignored on Intel processors and causes reserved bit page faults on AMD processors. - After the Xen commit 7645640d6ff1 ("x86/PVH: don't set EFER_SCE for pvh guest") PVH guests are required to set EFER.SCE to enable the SYSCALL instruction. Secondary VCPUs are started with pagetables with the NX bit set so EFER.NX must be set before using any stack or data segment. xen_pvh_cpu_early_init() is the new secondary VCPU entry point that sets EFER before jumping to cpu_bringup_and_idle(). Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2014-10-03xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handlingJuergen Gross
Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to avoid the mapping and hence the restriction. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2014-01-06xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).Mukesh Rathor
PVH allows PV linux guest to utilize hardware extended capabilities, such as running MMU updates in a HVM container. The Xen side defines PVH as (from docs/misc/pvh-readme.txt, with modifications): "* the guest uses auto translate: - p2m is managed by Xen - pagetables are owned by the guest - mmu_update hypercall not available * it uses event callback and not vlapic emulation, * IDT is native, so set_trap_table hcall is also N/A for a PVH guest. For a full list of hcalls supported for PVH, see pvh_hypercall64_table in arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in xen. From the ABI prespective, it's mostly a PV guest with auto translate, although it does use hvm_op for setting callback vector." Use .ascii and .asciz to define xen feature string. Note, the PVH string must be in a single line (not multiple lines with \) to keep the assembler from putting null char after each string before \. This patch allows it to be configured and enabled. We also use introduce the 'XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES' ELF note to tell the hypervisor that 'hvm_callback_vector' is what the kernel needs. We can not put it in 'XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES' as older hypervisor parse fields they don't understand as errors and refuse to load the kernel. This work-around fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2012-07-30xen/perf: Define .glob for the different hypercalls.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
This allows us in perf to have this: 99.67% [kernel] [k] xen_hypercall_sched_op 0.11% [kernel] [k] xen_hypercall_xen_version instead of the borring ever-encompassing: 99.13% [kernel] [k] hypercall_page [v2: Use a macro to define the name and skip] [v3: Use balign per Jan's suggestion] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-02-26x86, asm: Cleanup unnecssary macros in asm-offsets.cStratos Psomadakis
PAGE_SIZE_asm, PAGE_SHIFT_asm, THREAD_SIZE_asm can be safely removed from asm-offsets.c, and be replaced by their non-'_asm' counterparts in the code that uses them, since the _AC macro defined in include/linux/const.h makes PAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SHIFT/THREAD_SIZE work with as. Signed-off-by: Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> LKML-Reference: <1298666774-17646-2-git-send-email-psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-13x86: use _types.h headers in asm where availableJeremy Fitzhardinge
In general, the only definitions that assembly files can use are in _types.S headers (where available), so convert them. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2008-07-16xen64: add xen-head code to head_64.SJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add the Xen entrypoint and ELF notes to head_64.S. Adapts xen-head.S to compile either 32-bit or 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16xen: make ELF notes work for 32 and 64 bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20xen: don't drop NX bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page into the .text segment so that it is executable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-02xen: add new Xen elfnote types and use them appropriatelyJeremy Fitzhardinge
Define recently added XEN_ELFNOTEs, and use them appropriately. Most significantly, this enables domain checkpointing (xm save -c). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-22xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30xen: fix section usage in xen-head.S and setup.cSam Ravnborg
additional section for .init.text appending a number. A side effect of this was a section mismatch warning because modpost did not recognize a .init.text section named .init.text.1: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0x247): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87') Fix this by hardcoding the "ax" in the pushsection. Thanks to Torlaf for reporting this. Alan Modra provided the hint that made me able to locate the root cause of this warning. And Mike Frysinger told me how to properly fix it using __INIT/__FINIT. Fix following Section mismatch warning in addition: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14c8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:vsyscall_int80_start (between 'fiddle_vdso' and 'xen_setup_features') fiddle_vdso was only used from a __init function - so declare it __init. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-11i386: move xenThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>