Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757186Ab0LBG2T (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:28:19 -0500 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:59702 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753596Ab0LBG2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:28:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4CF73C80.4000101@goop.org> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:28:16 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Fedora/1.0-0.33.b2pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheng Yang CC: Keir Fraser , xen-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: HVM X2APIC support References: <1291258990-16080-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1291258990-16080-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3919 Lines: 123 On 12/01/2010 07:03 PM, Sheng Yang wrote: > This patch is similiar to Gleb Natapov's patch for KVM, which enable the > hypervisor to emulate x2apic feature for the guest. By this way, the emulation > of lapic would be simpler with x2apic interface(MSR), and faster. We have a set of patches to directly use event channels from within hvm domains, completely bypassing the apic altogether. Do we need this as well? > Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 +++- > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 19 ------------------- > 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h > index 396ff4c..e862874 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h > @@ -37,4 +37,37 @@ > extern struct shared_info *HYPERVISOR_shared_info; > extern struct start_info *xen_start_info; > > +#include > + > +static inline uint32_t xen_cpuid_base(void) > +{ > + uint32_t base, eax, ebx, ecx, edx; > + char signature[13]; > + > + for (base = 0x40000000; base < 0x40010000; base += 0x100) { > + cpuid(base, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); > + *(uint32_t *)(signature + 0) = ebx; > + *(uint32_t *)(signature + 4) = ecx; > + *(uint32_t *)(signature + 8) = edx; > + signature[12] = 0; > + > + if (!strcmp("XenVMMXenVMM", signature) && ((eax - base) >= 2)) > + return base; > + } > + > + return 0; > +} > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN > +static inline bool xen_para_available(void) > +{ > + return 0; > +} > +#else > +static inline bool xen_para_available(void) > +{ > + return (xen_cpuid_base() != 0); > +} > +#endif So this returns true if you're running a kernel without CONFIG_XEN under Xen? Does that assume that all versions of Xen implement x2apic emulation? Why wouldn't we also want this for CONFIG_XEN kernels? J > + > #endif /* _ASM_X86_XEN_HYPERVISOR_H */ > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c > index 3f838d5..1b68221 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c > @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > > unsigned int num_processors; > > @@ -1476,7 +1477,8 @@ void __init enable_IR_x2apic(void) > /* IR is required if there is APIC ID > 255 even when running > * under KVM > */ > - if (max_physical_apicid > 255 || !kvm_para_available()) > + if (max_physical_apicid > 255 || > + (!kvm_para_available() && !xen_para_available())) > goto nox2apic; > /* > * without IR all CPUs can be addressed by IOAPIC/MSI > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c > index 235c0f4..819c365 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c > @@ -1245,25 +1245,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init xen_start_kernel(void) > #endif > } > > -static uint32_t xen_cpuid_base(void) > -{ > - uint32_t base, eax, ebx, ecx, edx; > - char signature[13]; > - > - for (base = 0x40000000; base < 0x40010000; base += 0x100) { > - cpuid(base, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); > - *(uint32_t *)(signature + 0) = ebx; > - *(uint32_t *)(signature + 4) = ecx; > - *(uint32_t *)(signature + 8) = edx; > - signature[12] = 0; > - > - if (!strcmp("XenVMMXenVMM", signature) && ((eax - base) >= 2)) > - return base; > - } > - > - return 0; > -} > - > static int init_hvm_pv_info(int *major, int *minor) > { > uint32_t eax, ebx, ecx, edx, pages, msr, base; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/