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16 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rusty Russell
1dc3e3bcbf lguest: update commentry
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-26 00:19:28 +10:00
Rusty Russell
e34f872567 virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring.
To prepare for virtio_ring transport feature bits, hook in a call in
all the users to manipulate them.  This currently just clears all the
bits, since it doesn't understand any features.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:14 +10:00
Rusty Russell
c624896e48 virtio: Rename set_features to finalize_features
Rather than explicitly handing the features to the lower-level, we just
hand the virtio_device and have it set the features.  This make it clear
that it has the chance to manipulate the features of the device at this
point (and that all feature negotiation is already done).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:12 +10:00
Rusty Russell
b769f57908 virtio: set device index in common code.
Anthony Liguori points out that three different transports use the virtio code,
but each one keeps its own counter to set the virtio_device's index field.  In
theory (though not in current practice) this means that names could be
duplicated, and that risk grows as more transports are created.

So we move the selection of the unique virtio_device.index into the common code
in virtio.c, which has the side-benefit of removing duplicate code.

The only complexity is that lguest and S/390 use the index to uniquely identify
the device in case of catastrophic failure before register_virtio_device() is
called: now we use the offset within the descriptor page as a unique identifier
for the printks.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
2008-05-30 15:09:42 +10:00
Rusty Russell
e27810f113 lguest: use ioremap_cache, not ioremap
Thanks to Jon Corbet & LWN.  Only took me a day to join the dots.

Host->Guest netcat before (with unnecessily large receive buffers):
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 24.7528 seconds, 43.4 MB/s

After:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 17.6369 seconds, 60.9 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-30 15:09:41 +10:00
Rusty Russell
a007a751d9 lguest: make Launcher see device status updates
This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:54 +10:00
Rusty Russell
c45a6816c1 virtio: explicit advertisement of driver features
A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature
negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns.

There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I
didn't notice when it was violated.

So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports
in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio
core.  The intersection of device and driver features are presented in
a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device.

Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long
bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a
straight-forward little-endian array of bytes.

Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they
really have to.

API changes:
- dev->config->feature() no longer gets and acks a feature.
- drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field
- use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell
a6bd8e1303 lguest: comment documentation update.
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.

Only comments change.  No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28 11:05:54 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan
25478445c4 Fix container_of() usage
Using "attr" twice is not OK, because it effectively prohibits such
container_of() on variables not named "attr".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Rusty Russell
6e5aa7efb2 virtio: reset function
A reset function solves three problems:

1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
   guest driver without rebooting the guest.

2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
   we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and

3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.

So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
feature bits is via reset.

We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
remove function.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:03 +11:00
Rusty Russell
18445c4d50 virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return.
It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.

Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
now returns void, rather than a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:58 +11:00
Rusty Russell
a586d4f601 virtio: simplify config mechanism.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:57 +11:00
Rusty Russell
74b2553f1d virtio: fix module/device unloading
The virtio code never hooked through the ->remove callback.  Although
noone supports device removal at the moment, this code is already
needed for module unloading.

This of course also revealed bugs in virtio_blk, virtio_net and lguest
unloading paths.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-19 11:20:42 +11:00
Rusty Russell
42b36cc0ce virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:40 +11:00
Rusty Russell
e1e72965ec lguest: documentation update
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes.  This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-25 15:02:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell
19f1537b7b Lguest support for Virtio
This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices.

We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable
length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and
implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data.

We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host
virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the
host when it changes.

We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early
console output.  We could have another hypercall, but this hack works
quite well.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:56 +10:00