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* [PATCH] i386: Convert VMI timer to use clock eventsZachary Amsden2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert VMI timer to use clock events, making it properly able to use the NO_HZ infrastructure. On UP systems, with no local APIC, we just continue to route these events through the PIT. On systems with a local APIC, or SMP, we provide a single source interrupt chip which creates the local timer IRQ. It actually gets delivered by the APIC hardware, but we don't want to use the same local APIC clocksource processing, so we create our own handler here. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* [PATCH] Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags fixups 3Thomas Gleixner2007-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | The obsolete SA_xxx interrupt flags have been used despite the scheduled removal. Fixup the remaining users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vmi: smp fixesZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | Critical fixes for SMP. Fix a couple functions which needed to be __devinit and fix a bogus parameter to AP startup that just so happened to work because the low virtual mapping of memory was still established. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vmi: fix nohz compileZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More goo from hrtimers integration. We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ enabled. There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but that was since fixed. And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure. This actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of on_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vmi: cpu cycles fixZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code. This value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vmi: sched clock paravirt op fixZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The custom_sched_clock hook is broken. The result from sched_clock needs to be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles. The TSC is insufficient for this purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled). To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time, that is scheduled time. So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along. This allows the tsc.c code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops backends. It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even got in the wrong units. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vmi: timer fixes round twoZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code. 1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm armed. Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately. This fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate than the non-idle case. 2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock acquisition. Drop this. We don't need to check for wallclock time at every tick, it can be done in userspace instead. 3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation. This is useful as a last minute workaround, or testing measure. 4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured in as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] clocksource: replace is_continuous by a flag fieldThomas Gleixner2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Using a flag filed allows to encode more than one information into a variable. Preparatory patch for the generic clocksource verification. [mingo@elte.hu: convert vmitime.c to the new clocksource flag] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Vmi timer raceZachary Amsden2007-02-13
| | | | | | | | | Because timer code moves around, and we might eventually move our init to a late_time_init hook, save and restore IRQs around this code because it is definitely not interrupt safe. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: vMI timer patchesZachary Amsden2007-02-13
VMI timer code. It works by taking over the local APIC clock when APIC is configured, which requires a couple hooks into the APIC code. The backend timer code could be commonized into the timer infrastructure, but there are some pieces missing (stolen time, in particular), and the exact semantics of when to do accounting for NO_IDLE need to be shared between different hypervisors as well. So for now, VMI timer is a separate module. [Adrian Bunk: cleanups] Subject: VMI timer patches Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>