This is based on a patch that Zhenzhong Duan had sent - which
was missing some of the remaining pieces. The kernel has the
logic to handle Xen-type-exceptions using the paravirt interface
in the assembler code (see PARAVIRT_ADJUST_EXCEPTION_FRAME -
pv_irq_ops.adjust_exception_frame and and INTERRUPT_RETURN -
pv_cpu_ops.iret).
That means the nmi handler (and other exception handlers) use
the hypervisor iret.
The other changes that would be neccessary for this would
be to translate the NMI_VECTOR to one of the entries on the
ipi_vector and make xen_send_IPI_mask_allbutself use different
events.
Fortunately for us commit 1db01b4903
(xen: Clean up apic ipi interface) implemented this and we piggyback
on the cleanup such that the apic IPI interface will pass the right
vector value for NMI.
With this patch we can trigger NMIs within a PV guest (only tested
x86_64).
For this to work with normal PV guests (not initial domain)
we need the domain to be able to use the APIC ops - they are
already implemented to use the Xen event channels. For that
to be turned on in a PV domU we need to remove the masking
of X86_FEATURE_APIC.
Incidentally that means kgdb will also now work within
a PV guest without using the 'nokgdbroundup' workaround.
Note that the 32-bit version is different and this patch
does not enable that.
CC: Lisa Nguyen <lisa@xenapiadmin.com>
CC: Ben Guthro <benjamin.guthro@citrix.com>
CC: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Fixed up per David Vrabel comments]
Reviewed-by: Ben Guthro <benjamin.guthro@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
We check the TSS descriptor before we try to dereference it.
Also we document what the value '9' actually means using the
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2, pg 90:
"Hex value 9: Available 64-bit TSS" and pg 91:
"The available 32-bit TSS (09h), which is redefined as the
available 64-bit TSS."
Without this, on Xen, where the GDT is available as R/O (to
protect the hypervisor from the guest modifying it), we end up
with a pagetable fault.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365194544-14648-5-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Two of them (zcache DebugFS cleanup) and the module loading
capability are now in linux-next for v3.10.
Also Bob Liu is full-time going to help on knocking these items
off the list.
CC: bob.liu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We seperate the bio allocation (bio_alloc) from the bio submission so
that the error paths are much easier, and also so that the bio
submission can be done in one tight loop. It also makes the
plug/unplug calls much much easier.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We failed to check to see if actually allocated structures
to contain the iBFT structure and went ahead to dereference it.
This patch fixes the OOPS.
Reported-by: "Jayamohan Kalickal" <jayamohank@serverengines.com>
Tested-by: "Jayamohan Kalickal" <jayamohank@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
For machines with IBFT 1.03 do scan the ACPI table for 'iBFT'
or for 'IBFT'. If the machine is in UEFI mode, only do the ACPI
table scan. For all other machines (pre IBFT 1.03) do
a memory scan if not found in the ACPI tables.
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk