linux.git/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c, branch master

x86/lguest: Remove lguest support

2017-08-24T07:57:28+00:00

Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches
ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is
"Odd Fixes".

Remove it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173157.8633-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/fpu, lguest: Remove CR0.TS support

2016-11-01T06:47:54+00:00

Now that Linux never sets CR0.TS, lguest doesn't need to support it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: kvm list 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a7bf2c11231c082258fd67705d0f275639b8475.1477951965.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

lguest: suppress interrupts for single insn, not range.

2015-03-24T01:22:08+00:00

The last patch reduced our interrupt-suppression region to one address,
so simplify the code somewhat.

Also, remove the obsolete undefined instruction ranges and the comment
which refers to lguest_guest.S instead of head_32.S.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

lguest: remove NOTIFY call and eventfd facility.

2015-02-11T06:17:46+00:00

Disappointing, as this was kind of neat (especially getting to use RCU
to manage the address -> eventfd mapping).  But now the devices are PCI
handled in userspace, we get rid of both the NOTIFY hypercall and
the interface to connect an eventfd.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

lguest: write more information to userspace about pending traps.

2015-02-11T06:17:30+00:00

This is preparation for userspace handling MMIO and ioport accesses.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

lguest: update commentry

2009-07-30T06:33:46+00:00

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 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul McKenney

lguest: fix comment style

2009-07-30T06:33:45+00:00

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 
Cc: Ingo Molnar

lguest: PAE support

2009-06-12T12:57:08+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD

2009-06-12T12:57:07+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking

2009-06-12T12:57:03+00:00

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