The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which
might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the
console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver
can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or
other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at
runtime from userspace.
This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows
users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0.
The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl
call - this just allows to conditionally change the default.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
list_add() lost a parameter in sample code.
Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix compilation warning:
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function `main':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:249: warning: `cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function
This is in fact a false positive.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A bug was brought to my attention against a distro kernel but it affects
mainline and I believe problems like this have been reported in various
guises on the mailing lists although I don't have specific examples at the
moment.
The reported problem was that malloc() stalled for a long time (minutes in
some cases) if a large tmpfs mount was occupying a large percentage of
memory overall. The pages did not get cleaned or reclaimed by
zone_reclaim() because the zone_reclaim_mode was unsuitable, but the lists
are uselessly scanned frequencly making the CPU spin at near 100%.
This patchset intends to address that bug and bring the behaviour of
zone_reclaim() more in line with expectations which were noticed during
investigation. It is based on top of mmotm and takes advantage of
Kosaki's work with respect to zone_reclaim().
Patch 1 fixes the heuristics that zone_reclaim() uses to determine if the
scan should go ahead. The broken heuristic is what was causing the
malloc() stall as it uselessly scanned the LRU constantly. Currently,
zone_reclaim is assuming zone_reclaim_mode is 1 and historically it
could not deal with tmpfs pages at all. This fixes up the heuristic so
that an unnecessary scan is more likely to be correctly avoided.
Patch 2 notes that zone_reclaim() returning a failure automatically means
the zone is marked full. This is not always true. It could have
failed because the GFP mask or zone_reclaim_mode were unsuitable.
Patch 3 introduces a counter zreclaim_failed that will increment each
time the zone_reclaim scan-avoidance heuristics fail. If that
counter is rapidly increasing, then zone_reclaim_mode should be
set to 0 as a temporarily resolution and a bug reported because
the scan-avoidance heuristic is still broken.
This patch:
On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that
is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA
distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that
clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not
being met.
There is a heuristic that determines if the scan is worthwhile but the
problem is that the heuristic is not being properly applied and is
basically assuming zone_reclaim_mode is 1 if it is enabled. The lack of
proper detection can manfiest as high CPU usage as the LRU list is scanned
uselessly.
Historically, once enabled it was depending on NR_FILE_PAGES which may
include swapcache pages that the reclaim_mode cannot deal with. Patch
vmscan-change-the-number-of-the-unmapped-files-in-zone-reclaim.patch by
Kosaki Motohiro noted that zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) included
pages that were not file-backed such as swapcache and made a calculation
based on the inactive, active and mapped files. This is far superior when
zone_reclaim==1 but if RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then NR_FILE_PAGES is a
reasonable starting figure.
This patch alters how zone_reclaim() works out how many pages it might be
able to reclaim given the current reclaim_mode. If RECLAIM_SWAP is set in
the reclaim_mode it will either consider NR_FILE_PAGES as potential
candidates or else use NR_{IN}ACTIVE}_PAGES-NR_FILE_MAPPED to discount
swapcache and other non-file-backed pages. If RECLAIM_WRITE is not set,
then NR_FILE_DIRTY number of pages are not candidates. If RECLAIM_SWAP is
not set, then NR_FILE_MAPPED are not.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Estimate unmapped pages minus tmpfs pages]
[fengguang.wu@intel.com: Fix underflow problem in Kosaki's estimate]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the
task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the
mm. If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be
freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have
needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory
freeing.
This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct mm_struct. This requires task_lock() on a
task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already
necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM
size for the badness heuristic.
This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread
sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE. This occurs
because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the
chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same
task during the next retry.
Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in
oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be
removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be
necessary.
Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since
these threads are immune from oom killing already. They simply report an
oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE.
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some bit ranges were inclusive and some not. Fix them to be consistently
inclusive.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether
pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when
allocating the pages. Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine
which watermark to use.
This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is
indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers. All call sites that
use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values
and the array offsets for setting.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (103 commits)
powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S
powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit
powerpc/spufs: Remove unused error path
powerpc: Fix warning when printing a resource_size_t
powerpc/xmon: Remove unused variable in xmon.c
powerpc/pseries: Fix warnings when printing resource_size_t
powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processors
powerpc: Separate PACA fields for server CPUs
powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.S
powerpc: Introduce CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S
powerpc: Set init_bootmem_done on NUMA platforms as well
powerpc/mm: Fix a AB->BA deadlock scenario with nohash MMU context lock
powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling
powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK support
fbdev: Add PLB support and cleanup DCR in xilinxfb driver.
powerpc/virtex: Add ml510 reference design device tree
powerpc/virtex: Add Xilinx ML510 reference design support
powerpc/virtex: refactor intc driver and add support for i8259 cascading
powerpc/virtex: Add support for Xilinx PCI host bridge
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (22 commits)
nilfs2: support contiguous lookup of blocks
nilfs2: add sync_page method to page caches of meta data
nilfs2: use device's backing_dev_info for btree node caches
nilfs2: return EBUSY against delete request on snapshot
nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
nilfs2: enable sync_page method
nilfs2: set bio unplug flag for the last bio in segment
nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
NILFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on NILFS2
nilfs2: remove nilfs_btree_operations from btree mapping
nilfs2: remove nilfs_direct_operations from direct mapping
nilfs2: remove bmap pointer operations
nilfs2: remove useless b_low and b_high fields from nilfs_bmap struct
nilfs2: remove pointless NULL check of bpop_commit_alloc_ptr function
nilfs2: move get block functions in bmap.c into btree codes
nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_delete_block
nilfs2: remove nilfs_bmap_put_block
nilfs2: remove header file for segment list operations
nilfs2: eliminate removal list of segments
nilfs2: add sufile function that can modify multiple segment usages
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* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
.gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
kallsyms: generalize text region handling
kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
documentation: make version fix
kbuild: fix a compile warning
gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
vmlinux.lds.h update
kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
ignore *.patch files
Remove bashisms from scripts
menu: fix embedded menu presentation
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (417 commits)
MAINTAINERS: EB110ATX is not ebsa110
MAINTAINERS: update Eric Miao's email address and status
fb: add support of LCD display controller on pxa168/910 (base layer)
[ARM] 5552/1: ep93xx get_uart_rate(): use EP93XX_SYSCON_PWRCNT and EP93XX_SYSCON_PWRCN
[ARM] pxa/sharpsl_pm: zaurus needs generic pxa suspend/resume routines
[ARM] 5544/1: Trust PrimeCell resource sizes
[ARM] pxa/sharpsl_pm: cleanup of gpio-related code.
[ARM] pxa/sharpsl_pm: drop set_irq_type calls
[ARM] pxa/sharpsl_pm: merge pxa-specific code into generic one
[ARM] pxa/sharpsl_pm: merge the two sharpsl_pm.c since it's now pxa specific
[ARM] sa1100: remove unused collie_pm.c
[ARM] pxa: fix the conflicting non-static declarations of global_gpios[]
[ARM] 5550/1: Add default configure file for w90p910 platform
[ARM] 5549/1: Add clock api for w90p910 platform.
[ARM] 5548/1: Add gpio api for w90p910 platform
[ARM] 5551/1: Add multi-function pin api for w90p910 platform.
[ARM] Make ARM_VIC_NR depend on ARM_VIC
[ARM] 5546/1: ARM PL022 SSP/SPI driver v3
ARM: OMAP4: SMP: Update defconfig for OMAP4430
ARM: OMAP4: SMP: Enable SMP support for OMAP4430
...
The Makefiles in the build directories use the internal make variable
MAKEFILE_LIST which is available from make 3.80 only. (The patch would be
valid back to 2.6.25)
Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* 'next-i2c' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux:
i2c-ocores: Can add I2C devices to the bus
i2c-s3c2410: move to using platform idtable to match devices
i2c: OMAP3: Better noise suppression for fast/standard modes
i2c: OMAP2/3: Fix scll/sclh calculations
i2c: Blackfin TWI: implement I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK functionality
i2c: Blackfin TWI: fix transfer errors with repeat start
i2c: Blackfin TWI: fix REPEAT START mode doesn't repeat
i2c: Blackfin TWI: make sure we don't end up with a CLKDIV=0
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Document the debugfs API
Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
SubmittingPatches: fix typo
docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
There is sometimes a need for the ocores driver to add devices to the
bus when installed.
i2c_register_board_info can not always be used, because the I2C devices
are not known at an early state, they could for instance be connected
on a I2C bus on a PCI device which has the Open Cores IP.
i2c_new_device can not be used in all cases either since the resulting
bus nummer might be unknown.
The solution is the pass a list of I2C devices in the platform data to
the Open Cores driver. This is useful for MFD drivers.
Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors.ext@mocean-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Remove the ->suspend_late() and ->resume_early() callbacks
from struct bus_type V2. These callbacks are legacy stuff
at this point and since there seem to be no in-tree users
we may as well remove them. New users should use dev_pm_ops.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (290 commits)
ALSA: pcm - Update document about xrun_debug proc file
ALSA: lx6464es - support standard alsa module parameters
ALSA: snd_usb_caiaq: set mixername
ALSA: hda - add quirk for STAC92xx (SigmaTel STAC9205)
ALSA: use card device as parent for jack input-devices
ALSA: sound/ps3: Correct existing and add missing annotations
ALSA: sound/ps3: Restructure driver source
ALSA: sound/ps3: Fix checkpatch issues
ASoC: Fix lm4857 control
ALSA: ctxfi - Clear PCM resources at hw_params and hw_free
ALSA: ctxfi - Check the presence of SRC instance in PCM pointer callbacks
ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing start check in atc_pcm_playback_start()
ALSA: ctxfi - Add use_system_timer module option
ALSA: usb - Add boot quirk for C-Media 6206 USB Audio
ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model id for UAA
ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe routines
ALSA: hda - Fix the previous tagra-8ch patch
ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620
ALSA: pcm - A helper function to compose PCM stream name for debug prints
ALSA: emu10k1 - Fix minimum periods for efx playback
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (31 commits)
lguest: add support for indirect ring entries
lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher
lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive
lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.
lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher
lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call
lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads
lguest: use eventfds for device notification
eventfd: export eventfd_signal and eventfd_fget for lguest
lguest: allow any process to send interrupts
lguest: PAE fixes
lguest: PAE support
lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4()
lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD
lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated
lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries
lguest: fix writev returning short on console output
lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher
lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition.
lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits)
ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two()
ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode()
ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)
sl82c105: add printk() logging facility
ide-tape: fix proc warning
ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag
ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers
hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list
hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile()
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update()
icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method
ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses
ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically
pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method
pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout
pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq()
ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2)
...
It is outdated here and can be found in the MAINTAINERS file. Also
remove the URL of the previous maintainer, similar content can be found
in the SubmittingPatches file.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Remove a period from end of command-line and fix misplaced comma.
Signed-off-by: Masanori Kobayasi <zap03216@nifty.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The first formal parameter of the rb_link_node() is a pointer, and the
"node" is define a data struct (pls see line 67 and line 73 in the
doc), so the actual parameter should use "&data->node".
Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo.zhang@kolorific.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Support the VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC feature.
This is a simple matter of changing the descriptor walking
code to operate on a struct vring_desc* and supplying it
with an indirect table if detected.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The Guest only really needs to tell us about activity when we're going
to listen to the eventfd: normally, we don't want to know.
So if there are no available buffers, turn on notifications, re-check,
then wait for the Guest to notify us via the eventfd, then turn
notifications off again.
There's enough else going on that the differences are in the noise.
Before: Secs RxKicks TxKicks
1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.94 4686 32815
1M normal pings: 104 142862 1000010
1M 1k pings (-l 120): 57 142026 1000007
After:
1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.76 4691 32811
1M normal pings: 111 142859 997467
1M 1k pings (-l 120): 55 19648 501549
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an
interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue
is full).
However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is
measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host
TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds. It's close to the noise though.
I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of
pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest ->
Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate).
// time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null
Timeout Guest->Host Pkts/irq Host->Guest Pkts/irq
Before 11.3s 1.0 6.3s 1.0
0 11.7s 1.0 6.6s 23.5
1 17.1s 8.8 8.6s 26.0
1/pending 13.4s 1.9 6.6s 23.8
2/pending 13.6s 2.8 6.6s 24.1
5/pending 14.1s 5.0 6.6s 24.4
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
If we track how many buffers we've used, we can tell whether we really
need to interrupt the Guest. This happens as a side effect of
spurious notifications.
Spurious notifications happen because it can take a while before the
Host thread wakes up and sets the VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY flag, and
meanwhile the Guest can more notifications.
A real fix would be to use wake counts, rather than a suppression
flag, but the practical difference is generally in the noise: the
interrupt is usually coalesced into a pending one anyway so we just
save a system call which isn't clearly measurable.
Secs Spurious IRQS
1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.93 58
1M normal pings: 100 72
1M 1k pings (-l 120): 57 492904
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt
when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one. The console
input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device,
network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send
interrupts to the Guest at the right time.
The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code.
In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting:
(1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking,
(2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway.
Before: Secs RxIRQS TxIRQs
1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.72 32784 32771
1M normal pings: 99 1000004 995541
100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 49510 49058
After:
1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.69 32809 32769
1M normal pings: 99 1000004 996196
100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 52435 52361
(Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Currently lguest has three threads: the main Launcher thread, a Waker
thread, and a thread for the block device (because synchronous block
was simply too painful to bear).
The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net
devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls
into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which
repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to
release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest.
Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher
would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that
signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker
which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network
device again.
Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has
a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger
interrupts in the Guest directly.
The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it
home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before:
* Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher
* Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring
* Launcher writes packet to TUN device
writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
* Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0
* Launcher re-runs guest
pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ...
* Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select)
select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
* Waker kicks Launcher out of guest:
pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher returns from running guest:
... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
* Launcher looks at input fds:
select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0})
* Launcher reads pong from tun device:
readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
* Launcher injects guest notification:
write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Launcher rechecks fds:
select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
* Launcher clears Waker:
pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher reruns Guest:
pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
* Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher:
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
write(8, "\0", 1) = 1
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
* Waker sees write on pipe:
select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6])
* Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest:
pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher exits from kernel:
pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
* Launcher looks to see what fd woke it:
select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0})
* Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring
read(6, "\0", 32) = 1
* Launcher rechecks fds:
select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
* Launcher clears Waker:
pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0
* Launcher resumes Guest:
pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) ....
strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after:
* Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd.
* Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd:
read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
* Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device
writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108
* Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd:
readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108
* Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest
write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd
13:39:42.460285 readv(4, <unfinished ...>
* Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty)
write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0
* Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd
read(7, <unfinished ...>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of
bytes *written* to the buffer. This means the guest doesn't have to
zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length.
Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length
*read* into that field. The guest ignores it, but it's wrong.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
18 months ago 5bbf89fc26 changed to loading
bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer
need libz.
Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on
32-bit).
Reported-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2088761152 (lguest: notify on empty) introduced
lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on
interrupts all the time.
Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0
when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from
the Guest.
It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue:
if it's empty, then we force an interrupt.
This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but
that's the subject of another patch.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very
serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest
is UP).
Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it
a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
