Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH 09/10] xen/hybrid: Make event channel work with QEmu emulated devices

From: Sheng Yang
Date: Thu Sep 17 2009 - 01:58:56 EST


On Thursday 17 September 2009 04:35:06 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 09/16/09 01:42, Sheng Yang wrote:
> > We mapped each IOAPIC pin to a VIRQ, so that we can deliver interrupt
> > through these VIRQs.
> >
> > We also use GENERIC_INTERRUPT_VECTOR as the noficiation vector for
> > hypervisor to notify guest about the event.
> >
> > Then we don't need IOAPIC/LAPIC now...
>
> I commented a bit more below, but this patch is pretty unpleasant. It
> certainly can't be used in this form.

Thanks for the comments. I would try to limit the modification into Xen
specific files as much as possible.

> > Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 14 ++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 49
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/xen/irq.c |
> > 15 +++++++++++-
> > drivers/xen/events.c | 47
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/xen/events.h |
> > 1 +
> > include/xen/hvm.h | 5 ++++
> > include/xen/interface/xen.h | 6 ++++-
> > 7 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > index 58d24ef..39c1890 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > @@ -67,6 +67,10 @@
> >
> > #include <asm/smpboot_hooks.h>
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
> > +#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
> > +#endif
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > u8 apicid_2_node[MAX_APICID];
> > static int low_mappings;
> > @@ -1062,6 +1066,11 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int
> > max_cpus) }
> > set_cpu_sibling_map(0);
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
> > + if (xen_hybrid_evtchn_enabled())
> > + goto out;
> > +#endif
> > +
> > enable_IR_x2apic();
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > default_setup_apic_routing();
> > @@ -1131,6 +1140,11 @@ void __init native_smp_cpus_done(unsigned int
> > max_cpus) {
> > pr_debug("Boot done.\n");
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
> > + if (xen_hybrid_evtchn_enabled())
> > + return;
> > +#endif
>
> These changes will never fly. I'm aggressively moving away from making
> any Xen-specific changes in core files for dom0; I don't want to add any
> more for a hybrid mode. (I'd really prefer not to have a hybrid mode at
> all.)

Yes... I would add a pv_ops func for this, though would duplicate the code.
>
> > +
> > impress_friends();
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
> > setup_ioapic_dest();
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> > index 18aba22..f515584 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> > @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@
> > #include <asm/reboot.h>
> >
> > #include <xen/hvm.h>
> > +#include <xen/events.h>
> > +#include <asm/acpi.h>
> > +#include <asm/irq_vectors.h>
> > +#include <asm/irq.h>
> >
> > #include "xen-ops.h"
> > #include "mmu.h"
> > @@ -1055,6 +1059,8 @@ static void __init xen_hybrid_banner(void)
> >
> > if (xen_hybrid_timer_enabled())
> > printk(KERN_INFO "Hybrid feature: PV Timer enabled\n");
> > + if (xen_hybrid_evtchn_enabled())
> > + printk(KERN_INFO "Hybrid feature: Event channel enabled\n");
> > }
> >
> > static int xen_para_available(void)
> > @@ -1102,6 +1108,10 @@ static int init_hybrid_info(void)
> > xen_hybrid_status |= XEN_HYBRID_TIMER_ENABLED;
> > flags |= HVM_HYBRID_TIMER;
> > }
> > + if (edx & XEN_CPUID_FEAT2_HYBRID_EVTCHN) {
> > + xen_hybrid_status |= XEN_HYBRID_EVTCHN_ENABLED;
> > + flags |= HVM_HYBRID_EVTCHN;
> > + }
> >
> > /* We only support 1 page of hypercall for now */
> > if (pages != 1)
> > @@ -1144,9 +1154,27 @@ static int __init init_shared_info(void)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +static int set_callback_via(uint64_t via)
> > +{
> > + struct xen_hvm_param a;
> > +
> > + a.domid = DOMID_SELF;
> > + a.index = HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ;
> > + a.value = via;
> > + return HYPERVISOR_hvm_op(HVMOP_set_param, &a);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void do_hybrid_intr(void)
> > +{
> > + per_cpu(irq_count, smp_processor_id())++;
> > + xen_evtchn_do_upcall(get_irq_regs());
> > + per_cpu(irq_count, smp_processor_id())--;
> > +}
> > +
> > void __init xen_start_hybrid(void)
> > {
> > int r;
> > + uint64_t callback_via;
> >
> > if (!xen_para_available())
> > return;
> > @@ -1163,5 +1191,26 @@ void __init xen_start_hybrid(void)
> > pv_time_ops = xen_time_ops;
> > pv_apic_ops = xen_apic_ops;
> > }
> > +
> > + if (xen_hybrid_evtchn_enabled()) {
> > + pv_apic_ops = xen_apic_ops;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> > + /*
> > + * set up the basic apic ops.
> > + */
> > + set_xen_basic_apic_ops();
> > +#endif
> > +
> > + callback_via = HVM_CALLBACK_VECTOR(GENERIC_INTERRUPT_VECTOR);
> > + set_callback_via(callback_via);
> > +
> > + generic_interrupt_extension = do_hybrid_intr;
> > +
> > + disable_acpi();
> > + disable_apic = 1;
> > +
> > + machine_ops = xen_machine_ops;
> > + smp_ops.smp_send_stop = paravirt_nop;
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/irq.c b/arch/x86/xen/irq.c
> > index 52885c1..edca1c4 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/irq.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/irq.c
> > @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_restore_fl);
> >
> > static void xen_irq_disable(void)
> > {
> > + if (xen_hybrid_evtchn_enabled())
> > + asm volatile("cli" : : : "memory");
>
> !!! We have pvops for a reason. If you want to override irq_disable,
> define a new pvop function.

OK. (I just think it's inside Xen file, and code is somehow duplicated...)

--
regards
Yang, Sheng

>
> J


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