I've been doing this for years, and akpm picked me up on it about 12
months ago.  lguest partly serves as example code, so let's do it Right.

Also, remove two unused fields in struct vblk_info in the example launcher.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>

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>

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>

"new" was freed and then dereferenced.  Also the return value wasn't being
used so I modified the caller as well.

Compile tested only.  Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

regards,
dan carpenter

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

While fixing lg.h to drop the fwd declaration, I noticed
there's another one ;)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Change the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd memory context, from
the file pointer instance.

Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the
POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away.  Also,
now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead of the
file*.

This patch is required by KVM's IRQfd code, which is still under
development.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (31 commits)
  lguest: add support for indirect ring entries
  lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher
  lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive
  lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.
  lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher
  lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call
  lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads
  lguest: use eventfds for device notification
  eventfd: export eventfd_signal and eventfd_fget for lguest
  lguest: allow any process to send interrupts
  lguest: PAE fixes
  lguest: PAE support
  lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4()
  lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD
  lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
  lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries
  lguest: fix writev returning short on console output
  lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher
  lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition.
  lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt
  ...

We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
Guest process (aka. the Launcher).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with
an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures
out what device to run.

A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we
find one, we simply signal the eventfd.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>

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>