Re: [PATCH 06/25] xen: Core Xen implementation

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-25T02:03:49Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007 23:56:44 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> Core Xen Implementation
>>
>> This patch is a rollup of all the core pieces of the Xen
>> implementation, including booting, memory management, interrupts, time
>> and so on.
>>
>
> The patch is definitely too big.
>

Yes. It was originally smaller patches, which I tried to keep in a
state where everything was incrementally buildable, but it got too hard
to keep it all together.

I guess I can break it down into functional groups, and put the config
stuff at the end.

>> +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
>> +/* Xen only supports sysenter/sysexit in ring0 guests,
>> + and only if it the guest asks for it. So for now,
>> + this should never be used. */
>> +ENTRY(xen_sti_sysexit)
>> + CFI_STARTPROC
>> + ud2
>> + CFI_ENDPROC
>> +ENDPROC(xen_sti_sysexit)
>>
>
> Put that elsewhere? It doesn't need to be here.
>

Yes, I can drop it. It's not needed in this kernel.

>> +++ b/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,727 @@
>>
>
> Comments describing what all the files do?
>

OK.

>> + unsigned maskedx = ~0;
>> + if (*eax == 1)
>> + maskedx = ~((1 << X86_FEATURE_APIC) |
>> + (1 << X86_FEATURE_ACPI) |
>> + (1 << X86_FEATURE_ACC));
>>
>
> Why ACC?
>
> And why doesn't Xen mask those by itself?
>

Because it doesn't care whether they're set or not. I'm suppressing
them here to prevent the kernel from trying to use these features. I
suppress ACC in particular to stop the P4 thermal interrupt code from
trying to do anything.

I'll comment it.

> And you got apic functions later which would be never called?
> Why are the hooks needed then?
>

They aren't. They're only for VMI. I've only got them to make sure
that there are no stray APIC usages.

>> +
>> +static unsigned long xen_save_fl(void)
>> +{
>> + struct vcpu_info *vcpu;
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> + preempt_disable();
>> + vcpu = x86_read_percpu(xen_vcpu);
>> + /* flag has opposite sense of mask */
>> + flags = !vcpu->evtchn_upcall_mask;
>> + preempt_enable();
>>
>
> If you use get_cpu/put_cpu it will be optimized away on PREEMPT && !SMP
> (more occurrences)
>

Won't preempt_disable disappear as well? I don't need the CPU number.

>> +static void xen_restore_fl(unsigned long flags)
>> +{
>> + struct vcpu_info *vcpu;
>> +
>> + preempt_disable();
>> +
>> + /* convert from IF type flag */
>> + flags = !(flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF);
>> + vcpu = x86_read_percpu(xen_vcpu);
>> + vcpu->evtchn_upcall_mask = flags;
>> + if (flags == 0) {
>> + barrier(); /* unmask then check (avoid races) */
>>
>
> Don't you need a rmb() here then? The CPU could speculate reads
> (more occurrences)
>

OK.

>> + if (unlikely(vcpu->evtchn_upcall_pending))
>> + force_evtchn_callback();
>> + preempt_enable();
>> + } else
>> + preempt_enable_no_resched();
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void xen_irq_disable(void)
>> +{
>> + struct vcpu_info *vcpu;
>> + preempt_disable();
>> + vcpu = x86_read_percpu(xen_vcpu);
>> + vcpu->evtchn_upcall_mask = 1;
>> + preempt_enable_no_resched();
>>
>
> First with the new per cpu the preempt disable shouldn't be needed
> anymore because the thing is atomic. In the worst case you do
> the change on the previous CPU, but that can happen anyways after
> preempt_enable
>

No, there's a one instruction preempt window there. If I do:

mov %fs:xen_vcpu, %eax
movb $1,1(%eax)

and a preempt happens in between, then the interrupt will be disabled on
the wrong cpu.

Once we can put the vcpu structure into the percpu area directly, then I
can do:

movb $1,%fs:xen_vcpu+1

which is preempt-safe, of course.

> And then when you have enabled who transfers the irq off state to the
> new CPU?
>

I don't follow you.

>> +static void xen_halt(void)
>> +{
>> +#if 0
>> + if (irqs_disabled())
>> + HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_down, smp_processor_id(), NULL);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>>
>
> Who halts then?
>

I fix this up in the xen-machine-ops.patch.

>> +static void xen_load_gdt(const struct Xgt_desc_struct *dtr)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long *frames;
>> + unsigned long va = dtr->address;
>> + unsigned int size = dtr->size + 1;
>> + int f;
>> + struct multicall_space mcs;
>> +
>> + BUG_ON(size > 16*PAGE_SIZE);
>>
>
> Why 16?
>

I'll make it more explicit. It's 64k of GDT entries == 16 pages.

>> + count = desc->size / 8;
>> + BUG_ON(count > 256);
>>
>
> should be >= ?
>

I think 256 idt entries is OK, but it should be (desc->size+1) / 8.

>> +static void xen_set_iopl_mask(unsigned mask)
>> +{
>> +#if 0
>> + struct physdev_set_iopl set_iopl;
>> +
>> + /* Force the change at ring 0. */
>> + set_iopl.iopl = (mask == 0) ? 1 : (mask >> 12) & 3;
>> + HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_set_iopl, &set_iopl);
>> +#endif
>>
>
> And who does iopl then?
>

Nobody at the moment. I don't think there's much need for it in an
unprivileged Xen domU. I could just nop it out for now.

>> + * Page-directory addresses above 4GB do not fit into architectural %cr3.
>> + * When accessing %cr3, or equivalent field in vcpu_guest_context, guests
>> + * must use the following accessor macros to pack/unpack valid MFNs.
>> + */
>> +#define xen_pfn_to_cr3(pfn) (((unsigned)(pfn) << 12) | ((unsigned)(pfn) >> 20))
>> +#define xen_cr3_to_pfn(cr3) (((unsigned)(cr3) >> 12) | ((unsigned)(cr3) << 20))
>>
>
> Don't you lose bits >4GB here due to the casts before shift?
>

Erm, good point.

>> + BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3.0", 7) != 0);
>>
>
> Hopefully Xen 4.0 can handle this then.
>

It would probably present xen-3 guests a xen-3 signature.

>> +
>> + /* Poke various useful things into boot_params */
>> + LOADER_TYPE = (9 << 4) | 0;
>>
>
> | 0 ? Probably should be something symbolic
>

0 is the version number. I don't think there are symbols for the
bootloader types.

>> +unsigned long xen_pmd_val(pmd_t pmd)
>> +{
>> + BUG();
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>>
>
> Why do we have pmd_val hooks then?
>
>
>> +pmd_t xen_make_pmd(unsigned long pmd)
>> +{
>> + BUG();
>> + return __pmd(0);
>> +}
>>
>
> and make_pmd hooks?
>

That's the !PAE case, so we expect to never have any PMD calls. The
hooks exist for !PAE because I didn't want to have more ifdefs.

>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/i386/xen/time.c
>>
>
> ... will review the rest later.
>
> Can you please split it up a bit?
>

OK.

J