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<title>Merge branch '2.6.37-rc4-pvhvm-fixes' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm</title>
<updated>2010-12-03T19:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-12-03T19:30:57+00:00</published>
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* '2.6.37-rc4-pvhvm-fixes' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm:
  xen: unplug the emulated devices at resume time
  xen: fix save/restore for PV on HVM guests with pirq remapping
  xen: resume the pv console for hvm guests too
  xen: fix MSI setup and teardown for PV on HVM guests
  xen: use PHYSDEVOP_get_free_pirq to implement find_unbound_pirq
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* '2.6.37-rc4-pvhvm-fixes' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm:
  xen: unplug the emulated devices at resume time
  xen: fix save/restore for PV on HVM guests with pirq remapping
  xen: resume the pv console for hvm guests too
  xen: fix MSI setup and teardown for PV on HVM guests
  xen: use PHYSDEVOP_get_free_pirq to implement find_unbound_pirq
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'upstream/core' and 'upstream/bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen</title>
<updated>2010-12-03T18:08:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-03T18:08:52+00:00</published>
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* 'upstream/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen: allocate irq descs on any NUMA node
  xen: prevent crashes with non-HIGHMEM 32-bit kernels with largeish memory
  xen: use default_idle
  xen: clean up "extra" memory handling some more

* 'upstream/bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen: x86/32: perform initial startup on initial_page_table
  xen: don't bother to stop other cpus on shutdown/reboot
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* 'upstream/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen: allocate irq descs on any NUMA node
  xen: prevent crashes with non-HIGHMEM 32-bit kernels with largeish memory
  xen: use default_idle
  xen: clean up "extra" memory handling some more

* 'upstream/bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen: x86/32: perform initial startup on initial_page_table
  xen: don't bother to stop other cpus on shutdown/reboot
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<entry>
<title>vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap</title>
<updated>2010-12-02T22:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@goop.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-02T22:31:18+00:00</published>
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On stock 2.6.37-rc4, running:

  # mount lilith:/export /mnt/lilith
  # find  /mnt/lilith/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file

crashes the machine fairly quickly under Xen.  Often it results in oops
messages, but the couple of times I tried just now, it just hung quietly
and made Xen print some rude messages:

    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp
    3000000000000000) for mfn 1d7058 (pfn 18fa7)
    (XEN) mm.c:964:d80 Attempt to create linear p.t. with write perms
    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000010 != exp
    1000000000000000) for mfn 1d2e04 (pfn 1d1fb)
    (XEN) mm.c:2965:d80 Error while pinning mfn 1d2e04

Which means the domain tried to map a pagetable page RW, which would
allow it to map arbitrary memory, so Xen stopped it.  This is because
vm_unmap_ram() left some pages mapped in the vmalloc area after NFS had
finished with them, and those pages got recycled as pagetable pages
while still having these RW aliases.

Removing those mappings immediately removes the Xen-visible aliases, and
so it has no problem with those pages being reused as pagetable pages.
Deferring the TLB flush doesn't upset Xen because it can flush the TLB
itself as needed to maintain its invariants.

When unmapping a region in the vmalloc space, clear the ptes
immediately.  There's no point in deferring this because there's no
amortization benefit.

The TLBs are left dirty, and they are flushed lazily to amortize the
cost of the IPIs.

This specific motivation for this patch is an oops-causing regression
since 2.6.36 when using NFS under Xen, triggered by the NFS client's use
of vm_map_ram() introduced in 56e4ebf877b60 ("NFS: readdir with vmapped
pages") .  XFS also uses vm_map_ram() and could cause similar problems.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Schumaker &lt;bjschuma@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On stock 2.6.37-rc4, running:

  # mount lilith:/export /mnt/lilith
  # find  /mnt/lilith/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file

crashes the machine fairly quickly under Xen.  Often it results in oops
messages, but the couple of times I tried just now, it just hung quietly
and made Xen print some rude messages:

    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp
    3000000000000000) for mfn 1d7058 (pfn 18fa7)
    (XEN) mm.c:964:d80 Attempt to create linear p.t. with write perms
    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000010 != exp
    1000000000000000) for mfn 1d2e04 (pfn 1d1fb)
    (XEN) mm.c:2965:d80 Error while pinning mfn 1d2e04

Which means the domain tried to map a pagetable page RW, which would
allow it to map arbitrary memory, so Xen stopped it.  This is because
vm_unmap_ram() left some pages mapped in the vmalloc area after NFS had
finished with them, and those pages got recycled as pagetable pages
while still having these RW aliases.

Removing those mappings immediately removes the Xen-visible aliases, and
so it has no problem with those pages being reused as pagetable pages.
Deferring the TLB flush doesn't upset Xen because it can flush the TLB
itself as needed to maintain its invariants.

When unmapping a region in the vmalloc space, clear the ptes
immediately.  There's no point in deferring this because there's no
amortization benefit.

The TLBs are left dirty, and they are flushed lazily to amortize the
cost of the IPIs.

This specific motivation for this patch is an oops-causing regression
since 2.6.36 when using NFS under Xen, triggered by the NFS client's use
of vm_map_ram() introduced in 56e4ebf877b60 ("NFS: readdir with vmapped
pages") .  XFS also uses vm_map_ram() and could cause similar problems.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Schumaker &lt;bjschuma@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;aelder@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: unplug the emulated devices at resume time</title>
<updated>2010-12-02T14:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Stabellini</name>
<email>stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-01T14:51:44+00:00</published>
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Early after being resumed we need to unplug again the emulated devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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Early after being resumed we need to unplug again the emulated devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: fix MSI setup and teardown for PV on HVM guests</title>
<updated>2010-12-02T14:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Stabellini</name>
<email>stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-01T14:51:44+00:00</published>
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When remapping MSIs into pirqs for PV on HVM guests, qemu is responsible
for doing the actual mapping and unmapping.
We only give qemu the desired pirq number when we ask to do the mapping
the first time, after that we should be reading back the pirq number
from qemu every time we want to re-enable the MSI.

This fixes a bug in xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs that manifests itself when
trying to enable the same MSI for the second time: the old MSI to pirq
mapping is still valid at this point but xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs would
try to assign a new pirq anyway.
A simple way to reproduce this bug is to assign an MSI capable network
card to a PV on HVM guest, if the user brings down the corresponding
ethernet interface and up again, Linux would fail to enable MSIs on the
device.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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When remapping MSIs into pirqs for PV on HVM guests, qemu is responsible
for doing the actual mapping and unmapping.
We only give qemu the desired pirq number when we ask to do the mapping
the first time, after that we should be reading back the pirq number
from qemu every time we want to re-enable the MSI.

This fixes a bug in xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs that manifests itself when
trying to enable the same MSI for the second time: the old MSI to pirq
mapping is still valid at this point but xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs would
try to assign a new pirq anyway.
A simple way to reproduce this bug is to assign an MSI capable network
card to a PV on HVM guest, if the user brings down the corresponding
ethernet interface and up again, Linux would fail to enable MSIs on the
device.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: x86/32: perform initial startup on initial_page_table</title>
<updated>2010-11-30T01:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>ian.campbell@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-03T15:32:21+00:00</published>
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Only make swapper_pg_dir readonly and pinned when generic x86 architecture code
(which also starts on initial_page_table) switches to it.  This helps ensure
that the generic setup paths work on Xen unmodified. In particular
clone_pgd_range writes directly to the destination pgd entries and is used to
initialise swapper_pg_dir so we need to ensure that it remains writeable until
the last possible moment during bring up.

This is complicated slightly by the need to avoid sharing kernel PMD entries
when running under Xen, therefore the Xen implementation must make a copy of
the kernel PMD (which is otherwise referred to by both intial_page_table and
swapper_pg_dir) before switching to swapper_pg_dir.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
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Only make swapper_pg_dir readonly and pinned when generic x86 architecture code
(which also starts on initial_page_table) switches to it.  This helps ensure
that the generic setup paths work on Xen unmodified. In particular
clone_pgd_range writes directly to the destination pgd entries and is used to
initialise swapper_pg_dir so we need to ensure that it remains writeable until
the last possible moment during bring up.

This is complicated slightly by the need to avoid sharing kernel PMD entries
when running under Xen, therefore the Xen implementation must make a copy of
the kernel PMD (which is otherwise referred to by both intial_page_table and
swapper_pg_dir) before switching to swapper_pg_dir.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: don't bother to stop other cpus on shutdown/reboot</title>
<updated>2010-11-29T22:16:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-29T22:16:53+00:00</published>
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Xen will shoot all the VCPUs when we do a shutdown hypercall, so there's
no need to do it manually.

In any case it will fail because all the IPI irqs have been pulled
down by this point, so the cross-CPU calls will simply hang forever.

Until change 76fac077db6b34e2c6383a7b4f3f4f7b7d06d8ce the function calls
were not synchronously waited for, so this wasn't apparent.  However after
that change the calls became synchronous leading to a hang on shutdown
on multi-VCPU guests.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Stable Kernel &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
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Xen will shoot all the VCPUs when we do a shutdown hypercall, so there's
no need to do it manually.

In any case it will fail because all the IPI irqs have been pulled
down by this point, so the cross-CPU calls will simply hang forever.

Until change 76fac077db6b34e2c6383a7b4f3f4f7b7d06d8ce the function calls
were not synchronously waited for, so this wasn't apparent.  However after
that change the calls became synchronous leading to a hang on shutdown
on multi-VCPU guests.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Stable Kernel &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-11-28T20:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-28T20:25:02+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix the software context switch counter
  perf, x86: Fixup Kconfig deps
  x86, perf, nmi: Disable perf if counters are not accessible
  perf: Fix inherit vs. context rotation bug
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix the software context switch counter
  perf, x86: Fixup Kconfig deps
  x86, perf, nmi: Disable perf if counters are not accessible
  perf: Fix inherit vs. context rotation bug
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-11-26T22:28:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-26T22:28:47+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  dmar, x86: Use function stubs when CONFIG_INTR_REMAP is disabled
  x86-64: Fix and clean up AMD Fam10 MMCONF enabling
  x86: UV: Address interrupt/IO port operation conflict
  x86: Use online node real index in calulate_tbl_offset()
  x86, asm: Fix binutils 2.15 build failure
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* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  dmar, x86: Use function stubs when CONFIG_INTR_REMAP is disabled
  x86-64: Fix and clean up AMD Fam10 MMCONF enabling
  x86: UV: Address interrupt/IO port operation conflict
  x86: Use online node real index in calulate_tbl_offset()
  x86, asm: Fix binutils 2.15 build failure
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-11-26T22:28:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-26T22:28:17+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf symbols: Remove incorrect open-coded container_of()
  perf record: Handle restrictive permissions in /proc/{kallsyms,modules}
  x86/kprobes: Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args()
  irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result
  perf: Fix owner-list vs exit
  x86, hw_nmi: Move backtrace_mask declaration under ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
  tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace
  perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier
  x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions
  tracing: Force arch_local_irq_* notrace for paravirt
  tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk()
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf symbols: Remove incorrect open-coded container_of()
  perf record: Handle restrictive permissions in /proc/{kallsyms,modules}
  x86/kprobes: Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args()
  irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result
  perf: Fix owner-list vs exit
  x86, hw_nmi: Move backtrace_mask declaration under ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
  tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace
  perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier
  x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions
  tracing: Force arch_local_irq_* notrace for paravirt
  tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk()
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