Re: Re: Where to get FreeBSD port for Xen

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@FreeBSD.org>]

Thank you very much for your work, Kip.

I successfully booted xenofreebsd from your source.
The following patch(obtained from NetBSD) seems to
fix the scheduling problem.

/\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa
\/  simokawa@FreeBSD.org

diff -u -r /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/i386-xeno/clock.c i386-xeno/i386-xeno/clock.c
--- /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/i386-xeno/clock.c	Mon Jan 24 10:36:19 2005
+++ i386-xeno/i386-xeno/clock.c	Mon Jan 24 16:58:31 2005
@@ -502,3 +502,10 @@
 	/* our adjusted time offset in microseconds */
 	return edx;
 }
+
+void
+idle_block(void)
+{
+	if (HYPERVISOR_set_timer_op(processed_system_time + NS_PER_TICK) == 0)
+		HYPERVISOR_block();
+}
diff -u -r /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/i386-xeno/machdep.c i386-xeno/i386-xeno/machdep.c
--- /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/i386-xeno/machdep.c	Mon Jan 24 10:36:19 2005
+++ i386-xeno/i386-xeno/machdep.c	Mon Jan 24 17:50:25 2005
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
 #include <machine/hypervisor.h>
 #include <machine/xenfunc.h>
 #include <machine/xenvar.h>
+#include <machine/xen_intr.h>
 
 void Xhypervisor_callback(void);
 void failsafe_callback(void);
@@ -903,8 +904,13 @@
 	 */
 	__asm __volatile("sti; hlt");
 #endif
+#if 0
 	enable_intr();
 	HYPERVISOR_yield();
+#else
+	idle_block();
+	enable_intr();
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
diff -u -r /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/include/xen_intr.h i386-xeno/include/xen_intr.h
--- /home/simokawa/xen/i386-xeno/include/xen_intr.h	Mon Jan 24 10:36:19 2005
+++ i386-xeno/include/xen_intr.h	Mon Jan 24 17:48:55 2005
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 extern void irq_suspend(void);
 extern void irq_resume(void);
 
+extern void idle_block(void);
 
 
 #endif /* _XEN_INTR_H_ */


At Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:25:25 -0800 (PST),
Kip Macy wrote:
> 
> For those interested I've uploaded a source tarball and copied in
> updated directions.
> 
> 
> 					-Kip
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Derrik Pates wrote:
> 
> > Kip Macy wrote:
> > > It looks like apache had gone out to lunch. I just restarted it and it
> > > is accessible again. If you wait a day I'll have 5.3 up. 5.2.1 is what
> > > is there right now.
> >
> > Kip:
> >
> > Any luck with that FreeBSD 5.3 kernel? Our network engineer wants to set
> > up a Xen box for internal use with Debian and FreeBSD on it, and I'm
> > hoping to get FreeBSD 5.3 on there. Also, were you able to figure out
> > the blocking stuff in the scheduling code?
> >
> > --
> > Derrik Pates
> > demon@devrandom.net
> >
> 
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