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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Remove interrupt stack table usage from x86_64 kernel (v2)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:22:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230301344-570-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)

The interrupt stack table (IST) mechanism is the only thing preventing
kvm from deferring saving and reloading of some significant state.  It
is also somewhat complicated.

Remove it by switching the special exceptions to use the normal irqstack.

Changes from v1:
- rebase on tip/master
- as a step, consolidate stack switching into a single macro

Jeremy, Xen is also affected; please review.

Avi Kivity (4):
  x86: drop the use of the tss interrupt stack table (IST)
  x86: Consolidate irq stack switching to a single macro
  x86: Make interrupt stack switching atomic
  x86: Move NMI back to interrupt stack

 arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h      |   12 -----
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h   |    7 ---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h       |    2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |   11 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c |    1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c     |   35 --------------
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c   |   96 --------------------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S       |   89 ++++++++++-------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c          |   12 ++--
 9 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 232 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-26 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 14:22 Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: drop the use of the tss interrupt stack table (IST) Avi Kivity
2008-12-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: Consolidate irq stack switching to a single macro Avi Kivity
2008-12-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: Make interrupt stack switching atomic Avi Kivity
2008-12-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: Move NMI back to interrupt stack Avi Kivity
2008-12-26 14:35 ` [PATCH 0/4] Remove interrupt stack table usage from x86_64 kernel (v2) Ingo Molnar
2008-12-26 14:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-27 21:42     ` Avi Kivity

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