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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T17:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T17:33:40+00:00</published>
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Pull ia64 Xen removal from Tony Luck:
 "Nobody has been maintaining xen in ia64 for a long time.  Rip it all
  out so people do not waste time making updates to broken/dead code"

* tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64
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Pull ia64 Xen removal from Tony Luck:
 "Nobody has been maintaining xen in ia64 for a long time.  Rip it all
  out so people do not waste time making updates to broken/dead code"

* tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T15:44:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Rathor</name>
<email>mukesh.rathor@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-31T16:16:25+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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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 &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/events: Add the hypervisor interface for the FIFO-based event channels</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T15:07:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T10:55:41+00:00</published>
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Add the hypercall sub-ops and the structures for the shared data used
in the FIFO-based event channel ABI.

The design document for this new ABI is available here:

    http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-H.pdf

In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array
of event words.  Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits
and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue.

There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU.

Key advantages of this new ABI include:

- Support for over 100,000 events (2^17).
- 16 different event priorities.
- Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs.

The ABI is available in Xen 4.4 and later.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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Add the hypercall sub-ops and the structures for the shared data used
in the FIFO-based event channel ABI.

The design document for this new ABI is available here:

    http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-H.pdf

In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array
of event words.  Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits
and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue.

There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU.

Key advantages of this new ABI include:

- Support for over 100,000 events (2^17).
- 16 different event priorities.
- Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs.

The ABI is available in Xen 4.4 and later.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T17:34:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T17:34:54+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix balloon driver for auto-translate guests (PVHVM, ARM) to not use
   scratch pages.
 - Fix block API header for ARM32 and ARM64 to have proper layout
 - On ARM when mapping guests, stick on PTE_SPECIAL
 - When using SWIOTLB under ARM, don't call swiotlb functions twice
 - When unmapping guests memory and if we fail, don't return pages which
   failed to be unmapped.
 - Grant driver was using the wrong address on ARM.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/balloon: Seperate the auto-translate logic properly (v2)
  xen/block: Correctly define structures in public headers on ARM32 and ARM64
  arm: xen: foreign mapping PTEs are special.
  xen/arm64: do not call the swiotlb functions twice
  xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to unmap
  XEN: Grant table address, xen_hvm_resume_frames, is a phys_addr not a pfn
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix balloon driver for auto-translate guests (PVHVM, ARM) to not use
   scratch pages.
 - Fix block API header for ARM32 and ARM64 to have proper layout
 - On ARM when mapping guests, stick on PTE_SPECIAL
 - When using SWIOTLB under ARM, don't call swiotlb functions twice
 - When unmapping guests memory and if we fail, don't return pages which
   failed to be unmapped.
 - Grant driver was using the wrong address on ARM.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/balloon: Seperate the auto-translate logic properly (v2)
  xen/block: Correctly define structures in public headers on ARM32 and ARM64
  arm: xen: foreign mapping PTEs are special.
  xen/arm64: do not call the swiotlb functions twice
  xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to unmap
  XEN: Grant table address, xen_hvm_resume_frames, is a phys_addr not a pfn
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/block: Correctly define structures in public headers on ARM32 and ARM64</title>
<updated>2013-12-13T15:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-03T15:40:37+00:00</published>
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On ARM (32 bits and 64 bits), the double-word is 8-bytes aligned. This will
result on different structure from Xen and Linux repositories.

As Linux is using __packed__ attribute, it must have a 4-bytes padding before
each "id" field.

This change breaks guest block support with older kernel. IMHO, it's acceptable
because Xen on ARM is still on Tech Preview and the hypercall ABI is not yet
freezed.

Only one architecture (x86_32) doesn't have 64-bit ABI for the block interface.
Don't add padding if Linux is compiled for this architecture.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monne &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
[I had asked for confirmation that it did not break x86 and Ian went
beyound the call of duty to confirm it. Also a internal regression
bucket with 32/64 dom0 with 32/64 domU (PV and HVM) confirmed no
regressions. ABI changes are a drag..]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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On ARM (32 bits and 64 bits), the double-word is 8-bytes aligned. This will
result on different structure from Xen and Linux repositories.

As Linux is using __packed__ attribute, it must have a 4-bytes padding before
each "id" field.

This change breaks guest block support with older kernel. IMHO, it's acceptable
because Xen on ARM is still on Tech Preview and the hypercall ABI is not yet
freezed.

Only one architecture (x86_32) doesn't have 64-bit ABI for the block interface.
Don't add padding if Linux is compiled for this architecture.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monne &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
[I had asked for confirmation that it did not break x86 and Ian went
beyound the call of duty to confirm it. Also a internal regression
bucket with 32/64 dom0 with 32/64 domU (PV and HVM) confirmed no
regressions. ABI changes are a drag..]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64</title>
<updated>2013-12-11T00:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-05T18:47:27+00:00</published>
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ia64 has not been supported by Xen since 4.2 so it's time to drop
Xen/ia64 from Linux as well.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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ia64 has not been supported by Xen since 4.2 so it's time to drop
Xen/ia64 from Linux as well.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2013-11-15T04:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T04:34:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=eda670c626a4f53eb8ac5f20d8c10d3f0b54c583'/>
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has tons of fixes and two major features which are concentrated
  around the Xen SWIOTLB library.

  The short &lt;blurb&gt; is that the tracing facility (just one function) has
  been added to SWIOTLB to make it easier to track I/O progress.
  Additionally under Xen and ARM (32 &amp; 64) the Xen-SWIOTLB driver
  "is used to translate physical to machine and machine to physical
  addresses of foreign[guest] pages for DMA operations" (Stefano) when
  booting under hardware without proper IOMMU.

  There are also bug-fixes, cleanups, compile warning fixes, etc.

  The commit times for some of the commits is a bit fresh - that is b/c
  we wanted to make sure we have the Ack's from the ARM folks - which
  with the string of back-to-back conferences took a bit of time.  Rest
  assured - the code has been stewing in #linux-next for some time.

  Features:
   - SWIOTLB has tracing added when doing bounce buffer.
   - Xen ARM/ARM64 can use Xen-SWIOTLB.  This work allows Linux to
     safely program real devices for DMA operations when running as a
     guest on Xen on ARM, without IOMMU support. [*1]
   - xen_raw_printk works with PVHVM guests if needed.

  Bug-fixes:
   - Make memory ballooning work under HVM with large MMIO region.
   - Inform hypervisor of MCFG regions found in ACPI DSDT.
   - Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED.
   - Remove deprecated __cpuinit.

  [*1]:
  "On arm and arm64 all Xen guests, including dom0, run with second
   stage translation enabled.  As a consequence when dom0 programs a
   device for a DMA operation is going to use (pseudo) physical
   addresses instead machine addresses.  This work introduces two trees
   to track physical to machine and machine to physical mappings of
   foreign pages.  Local pages are assumed mapped 1:1 (physical address
   == machine address).  It enables the SWIOTLB-Xen driver on ARM and
   ARM64, so that Linux can translate physical addresses to machine
   addresses for dma operations when necessary.  " (Stefano)"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (32 commits)
  xen/arm: pfn_to_mfn and mfn_to_pfn return the argument if nothing is in the p2m
  arm,arm64/include/asm/io.h: define struct bio_vec
  swiotlb-xen: missing include dma-direction.h
  pci-swiotlb-xen: call pci_request_acs only ifdef CONFIG_PCI
  arm: make SWIOTLB available
  xen: delete new instances of added __cpuinit
  xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number of existing RAM pages
  xen/mcfg: Call PHYSDEVOP_pci_mmcfg_reserved for MCFG areas.
  xen: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  x86/xen: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  swiotlb-xen: fix error code returned by xen_swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
  swiotlb-xen: static inline xen_phys_to_bus, xen_bus_to_phys, xen_virt_to_bus and range_straddles_page_boundary
  grant-table: call set_phys_to_machine after mapping grant refs
  arm,arm64: do not always merge biovec if we are running on Xen
  swiotlb: print a warning when the swiotlb is full
  swiotlb-xen: use xen_dma_map/unmap_page, xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device
  xen: introduce xen_dma_map/unmap_page and xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device
  tracing/events: Fix swiotlb tracepoint creation
  swiotlb-xen: use xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages
  xen: introduce xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages
  ...
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has tons of fixes and two major features which are concentrated
  around the Xen SWIOTLB library.

  The short &lt;blurb&gt; is that the tracing facility (just one function) has
  been added to SWIOTLB to make it easier to track I/O progress.
  Additionally under Xen and ARM (32 &amp; 64) the Xen-SWIOTLB driver
  "is used to translate physical to machine and machine to physical
  addresses of foreign[guest] pages for DMA operations" (Stefano) when
  booting under hardware without proper IOMMU.

  There are also bug-fixes, cleanups, compile warning fixes, etc.

  The commit times for some of the commits is a bit fresh - that is b/c
  we wanted to make sure we have the Ack's from the ARM folks - which
  with the string of back-to-back conferences took a bit of time.  Rest
  assured - the code has been stewing in #linux-next for some time.

  Features:
   - SWIOTLB has tracing added when doing bounce buffer.
   - Xen ARM/ARM64 can use Xen-SWIOTLB.  This work allows Linux to
     safely program real devices for DMA operations when running as a
     guest on Xen on ARM, without IOMMU support. [*1]
   - xen_raw_printk works with PVHVM guests if needed.

  Bug-fixes:
   - Make memory ballooning work under HVM with large MMIO region.
   - Inform hypervisor of MCFG regions found in ACPI DSDT.
   - Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED.
   - Remove deprecated __cpuinit.

  [*1]:
  "On arm and arm64 all Xen guests, including dom0, run with second
   stage translation enabled.  As a consequence when dom0 programs a
   device for a DMA operation is going to use (pseudo) physical
   addresses instead machine addresses.  This work introduces two trees
   to track physical to machine and machine to physical mappings of
   foreign pages.  Local pages are assumed mapped 1:1 (physical address
   == machine address).  It enables the SWIOTLB-Xen driver on ARM and
   ARM64, so that Linux can translate physical addresses to machine
   addresses for dma operations when necessary.  " (Stefano)"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (32 commits)
  xen/arm: pfn_to_mfn and mfn_to_pfn return the argument if nothing is in the p2m
  arm,arm64/include/asm/io.h: define struct bio_vec
  swiotlb-xen: missing include dma-direction.h
  pci-swiotlb-xen: call pci_request_acs only ifdef CONFIG_PCI
  arm: make SWIOTLB available
  xen: delete new instances of added __cpuinit
  xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number of existing RAM pages
  xen/mcfg: Call PHYSDEVOP_pci_mmcfg_reserved for MCFG areas.
  xen: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  x86/xen: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  swiotlb-xen: fix error code returned by xen_swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
  swiotlb-xen: static inline xen_phys_to_bus, xen_bus_to_phys, xen_virt_to_bus and range_straddles_page_boundary
  grant-table: call set_phys_to_machine after mapping grant refs
  arm,arm64: do not always merge biovec if we are running on Xen
  swiotlb: print a warning when the swiotlb is full
  swiotlb-xen: use xen_dma_map/unmap_page, xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device
  xen: introduce xen_dma_map/unmap_page and xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device
  tracing/events: Fix swiotlb tracepoint creation
  swiotlb-xen: use xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages
  xen: introduce xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages
  ...
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<title>xen/mcfg: Call PHYSDEVOP_pci_mmcfg_reserved for MCFG areas.</title>
<updated>2013-11-08T20:12:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-25T20:26:02+00:00</published>
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The PCI MMCONFIG area is usually reserved via the E820 so the Xen hypervisor
is aware of these regions. But they can also be enumerated in the ACPI
DSDT which means the hypervisor won't know of them until the initial
domain informs it of via PHYSDEVOP_pci_mmcfg_reserved.

This is what this patch does for all of the MCFG regions that the
initial domain is aware of (E820 enumerated and ACPI).

Reported-by:  Santosh Jodh &lt;Santosh.Jodh@citrix.com&gt;
CC: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
CC: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
CC: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[v1: Redid it a bit]
[v2: Dropped the P2M 1-1 setting]
[v3: Check for Xen in-case we are running under baremetal]
[v4: Wrap with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG]
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The PCI MMCONFIG area is usually reserved via the E820 so the Xen hypervisor
is aware of these regions. But they can also be enumerated in the ACPI
DSDT which means the hypervisor won't know of them until the initial
domain informs it of via PHYSDEVOP_pci_mmcfg_reserved.

This is what this patch does for all of the MCFG regions that the
initial domain is aware of (E820 enumerated and ACPI).

Reported-by:  Santosh Jodh &lt;Santosh.Jodh@citrix.com&gt;
CC: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
CC: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
CC: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[v1: Redid it a bit]
[v2: Dropped the P2M 1-1 setting]
[v3: Check for Xen in-case we are running under baremetal]
[v4: Wrap with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen-netback: enable IPv6 TCP GSO to the guest</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T19:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Durrant</name>
<email>Paul.Durrant@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T16:50:32+00:00</published>
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This patch adds code to handle SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs and construct appropriate
extra or prefix segments to pass the large packet to the frontend. New
xenstore flags, feature-gso-tcpv6 and feature-gso-tcpv6-prefix, are sampled
to determine if the frontend is capable of handling such packets.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds code to handle SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs and construct appropriate
extra or prefix segments to pass the large packet to the frontend. New
xenstore flags, feature-gso-tcpv6 and feature-gso-tcpv6-prefix, are sampled
to determine if the frontend is capable of handling such packets.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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