Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Ok, I'll just post what I have now (compiles and boots cleanly)...  and then
we can discuss these more extensively.

Thanks,
Mike

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Mike Travis wrote:
>> Is this for the boot cpu (0), or for all cpus?  For the boot cpu, I have
>> this now in arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c:
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ZERO_BASED_PER_CPU
>> +
>> +/* Initialize percpu offset for boot cpu (0) */
>> +unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = {
>> +       [0] = (unsigned long)__per_cpu_load
>> +};
>> +#else
>>  unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
>> +#endif
>>
>> So this should apply as well to the xen startup?
>>   
> 
> If it's just a static initialization, then it should be fine.  But some
> equivalent of your head_64.S changes are needed to actually set things up?
> 
> 
>>> xen_cpu_up() needs to do whatever initialization needed for a new cpu's
>>> percpu area (presumably whatever do_boot_cpu() does).
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Does the startup include executing
>> arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:startup_64() ?
>> I see arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S:startup_xen() so I'm guessing not?
>>   
> 
> No, it doesn't.  It bypasses all that startup code.  Aside from the few
> instructions in xen-head.S, xen_start_kernel() is the first thing to get
> run.
> 
> But when bringing up a secondary cpu, where does the new percpu memory
> actually get allocated?
> 
>> For the real startup, I do the following two things.  But I'm not
>> comfortable
>> enough with xen to think I'll get it right putting this in xen-head.S.
>>   
> 
> Yes, it needn't be in the asm code.  I'll work out what to do.  Looks
> like I just need to do an appropriate wrmsr(MSR_GS_BASE, ).
> 
>    J