linux.git/include/xen, branch v4.1-rc2

xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring

2015-04-15T09:56:47+00:00

Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along
information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and
backend.

The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in
general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to
various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also
included.

Affected Xen drivers:
* blkfront/back
* netfront/back
* pcifront/back
* scsifront/back
* vtpmfront

The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant 
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Konrad Wilk 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

xen/privcmd: improve performance of MMAPBATCH_V2

2015-03-16T14:49:15+00:00

Make the IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_V2 (and older V1 version) map
multiple frames at a time rather than one at a time, despite the pages
being non-consecutive GFNs.

xen_remap_foreign_mfn_array() is added which maps an array of GFNs
(instead of a consecutive range of GFNs).

Since per-frame errors are returned in an array, privcmd must set the
MMAPBATCH_V1 error bits as part of the "report errors" phase, after
all the frames are mapped.

Migrate times are significantly improved (when using a PV toolstack
domain).  For example, for an idle 12 GiB PV guest:

        Before     After
  real  0m38.179s  0m26.868s
  user  0m15.096s  0m13.652s
  sys   0m28.988s  0m18.732s

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini

xen: unify foreign GFN map/unmap for auto-xlated physmap guests

2015-03-16T14:49:15+00:00

Auto-translated physmap guests (arm, arm64 and x86 PVHVM/PVH) map and
unmap foreign GFNs using the same method (updating the physmap).
Unify the two arm and x86 implementations into one commont one.

Note that on arm and arm64, the correct error code will be returned
(instead of always -EFAULT) and map/unmap failure warnings are no
longer printed.  These changes are required if the foreign domain is
paging (-ENOENT failures are expected and must be propagated up to the
caller).

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini

xen: synchronize include/xen/interface/xen.h with xen

2015-03-16T14:49:13+00:00

The header include/xen/interface/xen.h doesn't contain all definitions
from Xen's version of that header. Update it accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

xen: Remove trailing semicolon from xenbus_register_frontend() definition

2015-03-02T10:38:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted

2015-02-23T16:30:24+00:00

Hypercalls submitted by user space tools via the privcmd driver can
take a long time (potentially many 10s of seconds) if the hypercall
has many sub-operations.

A fully preemptible kernel may deschedule such as task in any upcall
called from a hypercall continuation.

However, in a kernel with voluntary or no preemption, hypercall
continuations in Xen allow event handlers to be run but the task
issuing the hypercall will not be descheduled until the hypercall is
complete and the ioctl returns to user space.  These long running
tasks may also trigger the kernel's soft lockup detection.

Add xen_preemptible_hcall_begin() and xen_preemptible_hcall_end() to
bracket hypercalls that may be preempted.  Use these in the privcmd
driver.

When returning from an upcall, call xen_maybe_preempt_hcall() which
adds a schedule point if if the current task was within a preemptible
hypercall.

Since _cond_resched() can move the task to a different CPU, clear and
set xen_in_preemptible_hcall around the call.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2015-02-11T04:01:30+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro.

    [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was
      wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the
      branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is
      ok.   - Linus ]

 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie
    lookup implementation.  From Alexander Duyck.

 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig.

 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics.
    From Daniel Borkmann.

 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet.

 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers.  From
    Florian Westphal.

 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross.

 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko.

10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman
    Kwok.

12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in
    serious ACK storms.  From Neal Cardwell.

13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu,
    Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf.

14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla.

15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf.

16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert.

17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets.  From
    Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits)
  crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter
  ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism
  i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup
  tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data
  openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set
  ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static
  ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches.
  bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry
  net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap"
  cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool
  ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version
  net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach()
  IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs
  IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments
  net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events
  tipc: remove tipc_snprintf
  tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework
  tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat
  ...

xen/gntdev: mark userspace PTEs as special on x86 PV guests

2015-01-28T14:04:21+00:00

In an x86 PV guest, get_user_pages_fast() on a userspace address range
containing foreign mappings does not work correctly because the M2P
lookup of the MFN from a userspace PTE may return the wrong page.

Force get_user_pages_fast() to fail on such addresses by marking the PTEs
as special.

If Xen has XENFEAT_gnttab_map_avail_bits (available since at least
4.0), we can do so efficiently in the grant map hypercall.  Otherwise,
it needs to be done afterwards.  This is both inefficient and racy
(the mapping is visible to the task before we fixup the PTEs), but
will be fine for well-behaved applications that do not use the mapping
until after the mmap() system call returns.

Guests with XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap (ARM and x86 HVM or PVH)
do not need this since get_user_pages() has always worked correctly
for them.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini

xen/grant-table: add a mechanism to safely unmap pages that are in use

2015-01-28T14:03:14+00:00

Introduce gnttab_unmap_refs_async() that can be used to safely unmap
pages that may be in use (ref count > 1).  If the pages are in use the
unmap is deferred and retried later.  This polling is not very clever
but it should be good enough if the cases where the delay is necessary
are rare.

The initial delay is 5 ms and is increased linearly on each subsequent
retry (to reduce load if the page is in use for a long time).

This is needed to allow block backends using grant mapping to safely
use network storage (block or filesystem based such as iSCSI or NFS).

The network storage driver may complete a block request whilst there
is a queued network packet retry (because the ack from the remote end
races with deciding to queue the retry).  The pages for the retried
packet would be grant unmapped and the network driver (or hardware)
would access the unmapped page.

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Herbert 
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

xen: mark grant mapped pages as foreign

2015-01-28T14:03:12+00:00

Use the "foreign" page flag to mark pages that have a grant map.  Use
page->private to store information of the grant (the granting domain
and the grant reference).

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Herbert 
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel