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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/time.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/trampoline_64.S | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c | 2 |
8 files changed, 67 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89a47b5aff07..04e6c819b28a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -451,3 +451,33 @@ Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be + dropped. +When: 2.6.37 or earlier. +Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies + from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these + techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. + These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the + performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware + expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of + years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this + feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the + Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if + technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) + arise. + + Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels + still work fine on VMware's platform. + Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, + Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence + releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. + + For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, + http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html + +Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> + +---------------------------- diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c876bace8fdc..07e01149e3bf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" config VMI - bool "VMI Guest support" + bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)" select PARAVIRT depends on X86_32 ---help--- @@ -500,6 +500,15 @@ config VMI at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module provided by the hypervisor. + As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement + of this feature from VMware's products. Please see + feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are + planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot + live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product, + which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to + seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this + disabled. + config KVM_CLOCK bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" select PARAVIRT diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h index 8aebcc41041d..efb38994859c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h @@ -840,42 +840,22 @@ static __always_inline void __raw_spin_unlock(struct raw_spinlock *lock) static inline unsigned long __raw_local_save_flags(void) { - unsigned long f; - - asm volatile(paravirt_alt(PARAVIRT_CALL) - : "=a"(f) - : paravirt_type(pv_irq_ops.save_fl), - paravirt_clobber(CLBR_EAX) - : "memory", "cc"); - return f; + return PVOP_CALLEE0(unsigned long, pv_irq_ops.save_fl); } static inline void raw_local_irq_restore(unsigned long f) { - asm volatile(paravirt_alt(PARAVIRT_CALL) - : "=a"(f) - : PV_FLAGS_ARG(f), - paravirt_type(pv_irq_ops.restore_fl), - paravirt_clobber(CLBR_EAX) - : "memory", "cc"); + PVOP_VCALLEE1(pv_irq_ops.restore_fl, f); } static inline void raw_local_irq_disable(void) { - asm volatile(paravirt_alt(PARAVIRT_CALL) - : - : paravirt_type(pv_irq_ops.irq_disable), - paravirt_clobber(CLBR_EAX) - : "memory", "eax", "cc"); + PVOP_VCALLEE0(pv_irq_ops.irq_disable); } static inline void raw_local_irq_enable(void) { - asm volatile(paravirt_alt(PARAVIRT_CALL) - : - : paravirt_type(pv_irq_ops.irq_enable), - paravirt_clobber(CLBR_EAX) - : "memory", "eax", "cc"); + PVOP_VCALLEE0(pv_irq_ops.irq_enable); } static inline unsigned long __raw_local_irq_save(void) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h index dd0f5b32489d..9357473c8da0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h @@ -494,10 +494,11 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void); #define EXTRA_CLOBBERS #define VEXTRA_CLOBBERS #else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */ +/* [re]ax isn't an arg, but the return val */ #define PVOP_VCALL_ARGS \ unsigned long __edi = __edi, __esi = __esi, \ - __edx = __edx, __ecx = __ecx -#define PVOP_CALL_ARGS PVOP_VCALL_ARGS, __eax + __edx = __edx, __ecx = __ecx, __eax = __eax +#define PVOP_CALL_ARGS PVOP_VCALL_ARGS #define PVOP_CALL_ARG1(x) "D" ((unsigned long)(x)) #define PVOP_CALL_ARG2(x) "S" ((unsigned long)(x)) @@ -509,6 +510,7 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void); "=c" (__ecx) #define PVOP_CALL_CLOBBERS PVOP_VCALL_CLOBBERS, "=a" (__eax) +/* void functions are still allowed [re]ax for scratch */ #define PVOP_VCALLEE_CLOBBERS "=a" (__eax) #define PVOP_CALLEE_CLOBBERS PVOP_VCALLEE_CLOBBERS @@ -583,8 +585,8 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void); VEXTRA_CLOBBERS, \ pre, post, ##__VA_ARGS__) -#define __PVOP_VCALLEESAVE(rettype, op, pre, post, ...) \ - ____PVOP_CALL(rettype, op.func, CLBR_RET_REG, \ +#define __PVOP_VCALLEESAVE(op, pre, post, ...) \ + ____PVOP_VCALL(op.func, CLBR_RET_REG, \ PVOP_VCALLEE_CLOBBERS, , \ pre, post, ##__VA_ARGS__) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86/kernel/time.c index dcb00d278512..be2573448ed9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/time.c @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs) #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER return *(unsigned long *)(regs->bp + sizeof(long)); #else - unsigned long *sp = (unsigned long *)regs->sp; + unsigned long *sp = + (unsigned long *)kernel_stack_pointer(regs); /* * Return address is either directly at stack pointer * or above a saved flags. Eflags has bits 22-31 zero, diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c b/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c index 699f7eeb896a..cd022121cab6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c @@ -3,8 +3,16 @@ #include <asm/trampoline.h> #include <asm/e820.h> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) +#define __trampinit +#define __trampinitdata +#else +#define __trampinit __cpuinit +#define __trampinitdata __cpuinitdata +#endif + /* ready for x86_64 and x86 */ -unsigned char *__cpuinitdata trampoline_base = __va(TRAMPOLINE_BASE); +unsigned char *__trampinitdata trampoline_base = __va(TRAMPOLINE_BASE); void __init reserve_trampoline_memory(void) { @@ -26,7 +34,7 @@ void __init reserve_trampoline_memory(void) * bootstrap into the page concerned. The caller * has made sure it's suitably aligned. */ -unsigned long __cpuinit setup_trampoline(void) +unsigned long __trampinit setup_trampoline(void) { memcpy(trampoline_base, trampoline_data, TRAMPOLINE_SIZE); return virt_to_phys(trampoline_base); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline_64.S index 596d54c660a5..3af2dff58b21 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/trampoline_64.S @@ -32,8 +32,12 @@ #include <asm/segment.h> #include <asm/processor-flags.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP +.section .rodata, "a", @progbits +#else /* We can free up the trampoline after bootup if cpu hotplug is not supported. */ __CPUINITRODATA +#endif .code16 ENTRY(trampoline_data) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c index 31e6f6cfe53e..d430e4c30193 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void) pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1; pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK; - pv_info.name = "vmi"; + pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]"; pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch; |