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* lguest: fix comment styleRusty Russell2009-07-30
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK callRusty Russell2009-06-12
| | | | | | | | 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>
* lguest: use eventfds for device notificationRusty Russell2009-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the hostMatias Zabaljauregui2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host, so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: use LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN instead of relying on pagesizeRusty Russell2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | This doesn't really matter, since lguest is i386 only at the moment, but we could actually choose a different value. (lguest doesn't have a guarenteed ABI). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: comment documentation update.Rusty Russell2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: simplify config mechanism.Rusty Russell2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this seems overkill. We now simply define a structure which represents the layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended at the end. The main driver-visible changes: 1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit. 2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: documentation updateRusty Russell2007-10-25
| | | | | | | | Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This patch contains only comment and whitespace changes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.hRusty Russell2007-10-25
| | | | | | | | | Remove now-unused defines. Fix old idempotent #ifndef _ASM_LGUEST_USER name. Fix comment on use of lguest_req. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Lguest support for VirtioRusty Russell2007-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices. We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data. We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the host when it changes. We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early console output. We could have another hypercall, but this hack works quite well. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure.Rusty Russell2007-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch gets rid of the old lguest host I/O infrastructure and replaces it with a single hypercall "LHCALL_NOTIFY" which takes an address. The main change is the removal of io.c: that mainly did inter-guest I/O, which virtio doesn't yet support. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Remove old lguest bus and drivers.Rusty Russell2007-10-23
| | | | | | | This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make way for a generic virtio mechanism. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Make lguest_launcher.h types userspace-friendlyRusty Russell2007-10-23
| | | | | | | | | lguest_launcher.h uses "u32" not "__u32", which sets a bad example. Fix that, and include <linux/types.h>. This means we need to use -I on the Launcher build line so types.h is found. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: documentation III: DriversRusty Russell2007-07-26
| | | | | | | | Documentation: The Drivers Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lguest: the host codeRusty Russell2007-07-19
This is the code for the "lg.ko" module, which allows lguest guests to be launched. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for futex-new-private-futexes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [jmorris@namei.org: lguest: use hrtimers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>