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Julien Grall
0df4f266b3 xen: Use correctly the Xen memory terminologies
Based on include/xen/mm.h [1], Linux is mistakenly using MFN when GFN
is meant, I suspect this is because the first support for Xen was for
PV. This resulted in some misimplementation of helpers on ARM and
confused developers about the expected behavior.

For instance, with pfn_to_mfn, we expect to get an MFN based on the name.
Although, if we look at the implementation on x86, it's returning a GFN.

For clarity and avoid new confusion, replace any reference to mfn with
gfn in any helpers used by PV drivers. The x86 code will still keep some
reference of pfn_to_mfn which may be used by all kind of guests
No changes as been made in the hypercall field, even
though they may be invalid, in order to keep the same as the defintion
in xen repo.

Note that page_to_mfn has been renamed to xen_page_to_gfn to avoid a
name to close to the KVM function gfn_to_page.

Take also the opportunity to simplify simple construction such
as pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(page)) into xen_page_to_gfn. More complex clean up
will come in follow-up patches.

[1] http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=e758ed14f390342513405dd766e874934573e6cb

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-09-08 18:03:49 +01:00
Jan Beulich
c4ace5daf4 hvc_xen: avoid uninitialized variable warning
Older compilers don't recognize that "v" can't be used uninitialized;
other code using hvm_get_parameter() zeros the value too, so follow
suit here.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-05-28 12:23:12 +01:00
David Vrabel
77bb3dfdc0 xen/events: don't bind non-percpu VIRQs with percpu chip
A non-percpu VIRQ (e.g., VIRQ_CONSOLE) may be freed on a different
VCPU than it is bound to.  This can result in a race between
handle_percpu_irq() and removing the action in __free_irq() because
handle_percpu_irq() does not take desc->lock.  The interrupt handler
sees a NULL action and oopses.

Only use the percpu chip/handler for per-CPU VIRQs (like VIRQ_TIMER).

  # cat /proc/interrupts | grep virq
   40:      87246          0  xen-percpu-virq      timer0
   44:          0          0  xen-percpu-virq      debug0
   47:          0      20995  xen-percpu-virq      timer1
   51:          0          0  xen-percpu-virq      debug1
   69:          0          0   xen-dyn-virq      xen-pcpu
   74:          0          0   xen-dyn-virq      mce
   75:         29          0   xen-dyn-virq      hvc_console

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2015-05-19 19:55:36 +01:00
Boris Ostrovsky
b9d934f27c xen/console: Update console event channel on resume
After a resume the hypervisor/tools may change console event
channel number. We should re-query it.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-05-05 18:27:14 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
81ae31d782 xen: features and fixes for 3.18-rc0
- Add pvscsi frontend and backend drivers.
 - Remove _PAGE_IOMAP PTE flag, freeing it for alternate uses.
 - Try and keep memory contiguous during PV memory setup (reduces
   SWIOTLB usage).
 - Allow front/back drivers to use threaded irqs.
 - Support large initrds in PV guests.
 - Fix PVH guests in preparation for Xen 4.5
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.18-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

Pull Xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Features and fixes:

   - Add pvscsi frontend and backend drivers.
   - Remove _PAGE_IOMAP PTE flag, freeing it for alternate uses.
   - Try and keep memory contiguous during PV memory setup (reduces
     SWIOTLB usage).
   - Allow front/back drivers to use threaded irqs.
   - Support large initrds in PV guests.
   - Fix PVH guests in preparation for Xen 4.5"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.18-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (22 commits)
  xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro
  xen/xenbus: Remove BUG_ON() when error string trucated
  xen/xenbus: Correct the comments for xenbus_grant_ring()
  x86/xen: Set EFER.NX and EFER.SCE in PVH guests
  xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling
  xen: sync some headers with xen tree
  xen: make pvscsi frontend dependant on xenbus frontend
  arm{,64}/xen: Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" in the description of the Xen options
  xen-scsifront: don't deadlock if the ring becomes full
  x86: remove the Xen-specific _PAGE_IOMAP PTE flag
  x86/xen: do not use _PAGE_IOMAP PTE flag for I/O mappings
  x86: skip check for spurious faults for non-present faults
  xen/efi: Directly include needed headers
  xen-scsiback: clean up a type issue in scsiback_make_tpg()
  xen-scsifront: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock
  MAINTAINERS: Add xen pvscsi maintainer
  xen-scsiback: Add Xen PV SCSI backend driver
  xen-scsifront: Add Xen PV SCSI frontend driver
  xen: Add Xen pvSCSI protocol description
  xen/events: support threaded irqs for interdomain event channels
  ...
2014-10-11 20:29:01 -04:00
David Vrabel
95afae4814 xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro
The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.

Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead.  This is
similar to pci and usb device registration.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2014-10-06 10:27:57 +01:00
Stefano Stabellini
fb498df078 xen_hvc: no reason to write the type key on xenstore
The backend type is chosen by the toolstack. Regardless, the frontend
should not care, especially given that it cannot have an effect as the
backend is started before this code is run.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-28 21:23:45 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
4fedd0bf47 drivers/tty/hvc: don't use module_init in non-modular hyp. console code
The HVC_OPAL/RTAS/UDBG/XEN options are all bool, and hence their support
is either present or absent.  It will never be modular, so using
module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather misleading.

Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
would be a worse thing.

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
of the priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets
mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall
directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.

Also the __exitcall functions have been outright deleted since
they are only ever of interest to UML, and UML will never be
using any of this code.

Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07 08:40:54 -08:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
bad97817de Linux 3.12-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.12-rc5' into stable/for-linus-3.13

Linux 3.12-rc5

Because the Stefano branch (for SWIOTLB ARM changes) is based on that.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

* tag 'v3.12-rc5': (550 commits)
  Linux 3.12-rc5
  watchdog: sunxi: Fix section mismatch
  watchdog: kempld_wdt: Fix bit mask definition
  watchdog: ts72xx_wdt: locking bug in ioctl
  ARM: exynos: dts: Update 5250 arch timer node with clock frequency
  parisc: let probe_kernel_read() capture access to page zero
  parisc: optimize variable initialization in do_page_fault
  parisc: fix interruption handler to respect pagefault_disable()
  parisc: mark parisc_terminate() noreturn and cold.
  parisc: remove unused syscall_ipi() function.
  parisc: kill SMP single function call interrupt
  parisc: Export flush_cache_page() (needed by lustre)
  vfs: allow O_PATH file descriptors for fstatfs()
  ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
  ARC: Ignore ptrace SETREGSET request for synthetic register "stop_pc"
  ALSA: hda - Sony VAIO Pro 13 (haswell) now has a working headset jack
  ALSA: hda - Add a headset mic model for ALC269 and friends
  ALSA: hda - Fix microphone for Sony VAIO Pro 13 (Haswell model)
  compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug
  Revert "i915: Update VGA arbiter support for newer devices"
  ...
2013-11-08 15:28:05 -05:00
David Vrabel
a9fbf4d591 xen/hvc: allow xenboot console to be used again
Commit d0380e6c3c (early_printk:
consolidate random copies of identical code) added in 3.10 introduced
a check for con->index == -1 in early_console_register().

Initialize index to -1 for the xenboot console so earlyprintk=xen
works again.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03 16:12:58 -07:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
04b772d2b8 xen/hvc: If we use xen_raw_printk let it also work on HVM guests.
The xen_raw_printk works great for debugging purposes. We use
for PV guests and we can also use it for HVM guests.

However, for HVM guests we have a fallback of using the 0xe9
port in case the hypervisor does not support an HVM guest of
using the console_io hypercall. As such lets use 0xe9 during
early bootup, and once the hyper-page is setup and if the
console_io hypercall is supported - use that. Otherwise we
will fallback to using the 0xe9 after early bootup.

We also alter the return value for dom0_write_console to return
an error value instead of zero. The HVC API has been supporting
returning error values for quite some time.

P.S.
To use (and to see the output in the Xen ring buffer) one has to build
the hypervisor with 'debug=y'.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: ifdef xen_cpuid_base as it is X86 specific]
2013-09-30 09:05:45 -04:00
Joe Perches
2d1d3f3ae9 hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc
kzalloc already adds this __GFP_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-30 14:11:28 -07:00
Stefano Stabellini
3216dceb31 xen: introduce xen_remap, use it instead of ioremap
ioremap can't be used to map ring pages on ARM because it uses device
memory caching attributes (MT_DEVICE*).

Introduce a Xen specific abstraction to map ring pages, called
xen_remap, that is defined as ioremap on x86 (no behavioral changes).
On ARM it explicitly calls __arm_ioremap with the right caching
attributes: MT_MEMORY.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-02-19 22:02:34 -05:00
Bill Pemberton
9671f09921 tty: remove use of __devinit
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option so __devinit is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lucas Tavares <lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Acked-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-21 15:22:52 -08:00
David Vrabel
9b6934a3b4 xen/hvc: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
Backend drivers shouldn't transistion to CLOSED unless the frontend is
CLOSED.  If a backend does transition to CLOSED too soon then the
frontend may not see the CLOSING state and will not properly shutdown.

So, treat an unexpected backend CLOSED state the same as CLOSING.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-04 11:30:29 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
25a765b7f0 Merge branch 'x86/platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into stable/for-linus-3.7
* 'x86/platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (9690 commits)
  x86: Document x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: xen: Cleanup and remove x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done()
  x86: Move paging_init() call to x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: Rename pagetable_setup_start() to pagetable_init()
  x86: Remove base argument from x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start
  Linux 3.6-rc5
  HID: tpkbd: work even if the new Lenovo Keyboard driver is not configured
  Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
  xen/pciback: Fix proper FLR steps.
  uml: fix compile error in deliver_alarm()
  dj: memory scribble in logi_dj
  Fix order of arguments to compat_put_time[spec|val]
  xen: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent.
  xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
  xen/p2m: Fix one-off error in checking the P2M tree directory.
  powerpc: Don't use __put_user() in patch_instruction
  powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders
  powerpc: Restore correct DSCR in context switch
  powerpc: Fix DSCR inheritance in copy_thread()
  powerpc: Keep thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit in sync
  ...
2012-09-12 11:14:33 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini
4d9310e397 xen: missing includes
Changes in v2:
- remove pvclock hack;
- remove include linux/types.h from xen/interface/xen.h.
v3:
- Compile under IA64
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-08-21 14:49:21 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
37a80bf560 xen/hvc: Fix up checks when the info is allocated.
Coverity would complain about this - even thought it looks OK.

CID 401957
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-07-19 15:51:42 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
5842f57685 xen/hvc: Check HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_[EVTCHN|PFN] for correctness.
We need to make sure that those parameters are setup to be correct.
As such the value of 0 is deemed invalid and we find that we
bail out. The hypervisor sets by default all of them to be zero
and when the hypercall is done does a simple:

 a.value = d->arch.hvm_domain.params[a.index];

Which means that if the Xen toolstack forgot to setup the proper
HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_EVTCHN (or the PFN one), we would get the
default value of 0 and use that.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14091238
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-24 14:23:01 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
a32c88b938 xen/hvc: Fix error cases around HVM_PARAM_CONSOLE_PFN
We weren't resetting the parameter to be passed in to a
known default. Nor were we checking the return value of
hvm_get_parameter.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-24 14:15:35 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2e5ad6b9c4 xen/hvc: Collapse error logic.
All of the error paths are doing the same logic. In which
case we might as well collapse them in one path.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-24 14:15:29 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
201a52bea9 hvc_xen: NULL dereference on allocation failure
If kzalloc() returns a NULL here, we pass a NULL to
xencons_disconnect_backend() which will cause an Oops.

Also I removed the __GFP_ZERO while I was at it since kzalloc() implies
__GFP_ZERO.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-21 11:03:29 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini
cf8e019b52 hvc_xen: introduce HVC_XEN_FRONTEND
Introduce a new config option HVC_XEN_FRONTEND to enable/disable the
xenbus based pv console frontend.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-13 19:24:31 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini
02e19f9c7c hvc_xen: implement multiconsole support
This patch implements support for multiple consoles:
consoles other than the first one are setup using the traditional xenbus
and grant-table based mechanism.
We use a list to keep track of the allocated consoles, we don't
expect too many of them anyway.

Changes in v3:

- call hvc_remove before removing the console from xenconsoles;
- do not lock xencons_lock twice in the destruction path;
- use the DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER macro.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-13 19:23:41 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini
eb5ef07151 hvc_xen: support PV on HVM consoles
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-13 19:23:32 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
dced35aeb0 drivers: Final irq namespace conversion
Scripted with coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-29 14:48:19 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
bbd5a762b4 xen/hvc: Disable probe_irq_on/off from poking the hvc-console IRQ line.
This fixes a particular nasty racing problem found when using
Xen hypervisor with the console (hvc) output being routed to the
serial port and the serial port receiving data when
probe_irq_off(probe_irq_on) is running.

Specifically the bug manifests itself with:

[    4.470693] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[    4.470693] IP: [<ffffffff810a8c65>] handle_IRQ_event+0xe/0xc9
..snip..
[    4.470693] Call Trace:
[    4.470693]  <IRQ>
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff810aa645>] handle_percpu_irq+0x3c/0x69
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff8123cda7>] __xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xfd/0x195
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff810308cf>] ? xen_restore_fl_direct_end+0x0/0x1
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff8123d873>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x32/0x47
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff81034dfe>] xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x30
[    4.470693]  <EOI>
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff8100922a>] ? hypercall_page+0x22a/0x1000
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff8100922a>] ? hypercall_page+0x22a/0x1000
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff810301c5>] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0xd/0xf
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff810308e2>] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff81030889>] ? xen_irq_enable_direct_end+0x0/0x7
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff810ab0a0>] ? probe_irq_on+0x8f/0x1d7
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff812b105e>] ? serial8250_config_port+0x7b7/0x9e6
[    4.470693]  [<ffffffff812ad66c>] ? uart_add_one_port+0x11b/0x305

The bug is trigged by three actors working together:
 A). serial_8250_config_port calling
	probe_irq_off(probe_irq_on())
     wherein all of the IRQ handlers are being started and shut off.
     The functions utilize the sleep functions so the minimum time
     they are run is 120 msec.
 B). Xen hypervisor receiving on the serial line any character and
     setting the bits in the event channel - during this 120 msec timeframe.
 C). The hvc API makes a call to 'request_irq' (and hence setting desc->action
     to a valid value), much much later - when user space opens
     /dev/console (hvc_open). To make the console usable during bootup,
     the Xen HVC implementation sets the IRQ chip (and correspondingly
     the event channel) much earlier. The IRQ chip handler that is used
     is the handle_percpu_irq (aaca49642b)

Back to the issue. When A) is being called it ends up calling the
xen_percpu_chip's chip->startup twice and chip->shutdown once. Those
are set to the default_startup and mask_irq (events.c) respectivly.
If (and this seems to depend on what serial concentrator you use), B)
gets data from the serial port it sets in the event channel a pending bit.
When A) calls chip->startup(), the masking of the pending bit, and
unmasking of the event channel mask, and also setting of the upcall_pending
flag is done (since there is data present on the event channel).
If before the 120 msec has elapsed, any IRQ handler (Xen IRQ has one
IRQ handler, which checks the event channels bitmap to figure which one
to call) is called we end up calling the handle_percpu_irq. The
handle_percpu_irq calls desc->action (which is NULL) and we blow up.

Caveats: I could only reproduce this on 2.6.32 pvops. I am not sure
why this is not showing up on 2.6.38 kernel.

The probe_irq_on/off has code to disable poking specific IRQ lines. This is
done by using the set_irq_noprobe() and then we do not have to
worry about the handle_percpu_irq being called before the IRQ action
handler has been installed.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 00:57:59 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
728674a7e4 tty: move hvc drivers to drivers/tty/hvc/
As requested by Arnd Bergmann, the hvc drivers are now
moved to the drivers/tty/hvc/ directory.  The virtio_console.c driver
was also moved, as it required the hvc_console.h file to be able to be
built, and it really is a hvc driver.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-13 12:03:00 -08:00