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2008-05-30lguest: notify on emptyRusty Russell1-2/+10
This is the lguest implementation of the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature. It is currently only published for network devices, but it is turned on for everyone. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02lguest: make Launcher see device status updatesRusty Russell1-15/+35
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>
2008-05-02virtio: de-structify virtio_block status byteRusty Russell1-6/+6
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion. Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: comment documentation update.Rusty Russell1-31/+38
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>
2008-03-28lguest: Don't need comment terminator before disk section.Rusty Russell1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: lguest.txt documentation fixPaul Bolle1-4/+8
Mention the config options for the Virtio drivers and move the Virtualization menu to the toplevel. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: Add puppies which where previously missing.Tim Ansell1-3/+4
lguest doesn't have features, it has puppies! Signed-off-by: Timothy R Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-11lguest: Do not append space to guests kernel command linePaul Bolle1-2/+5
The lguest launcher appends a space to the kernel command line (if kernel arguments are specified on its command line). This space is unneeded. More importantly, this appended space will make Red Hat's nash script interpreter (used in a Fedora style initramfs) add an empty argument to init's command line. This empty argument will make kernel arguments like "init=/bin/bash" fail (because the shell will try to execute a script with an empty name). This could be considered a bug in nash, but is easily fixed in the lguest launcher too. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04virtio: reset functionRusty Russell1-10/+52
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>
2008-02-04virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usageRusty Russell1-4/+5
The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization, to say "no need to kick me when you add things". Make it clear that this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when the ring is full. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04virtio: simplify config mechanism.Rusty Russell1-71/+105
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>
2008-01-30lguest: adapt launcher to per-cpunessGlauber de Oliveira Costa1-4/+13
This patch makes uses of pread() and pwrite() in lguest launcher to communicate the vcpu id to the lguest driver. The id is kept in a thread variable, which means we'll span in the future, vcpus as threads. But right now, only the infrastructure is out there. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30lguest: Reboot supportBalaji Rao1-2/+30
Reboot Implemented (Prevent fd leak, fix style and fix documentation --RR) Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-12-18Fix lguest documentationSheela1-4/+0
Share net is not supported, Rusty is an "idiot" . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira <sheela.sequeira@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> 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>
2007-11-19lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcherRusty Russell1-3/+6
Thanks valgrind! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizesRusty Russell1-4/+5
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>
2007-11-12lguest: Fix lguest virtio-blk backend size computationAnthony Liguori1-4/+4
This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-25lguest: documentation updateRusty Russell1-60/+95
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>
2007-10-25lguest: example launcher header cleanup.Rusty Russell1-12/+11
Now the kernel headers are clean for userspace export, we don't need to typedef kernel types before including them. We also don't need pci_ids.h (that was from an earlier virtio draft). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Use "struct boot_params" in example launcherRusty Russell1-25/+22
Now that the "struct boot_params" is userspace accessible, we don't need magic numbers. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Loading bzImage directly.Rusty Russell1-64/+29
Now arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S understands the hardware_platform field, we can directly execute bzImages. No more horrific unpacking code. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.SRusty Russell1-29/+13
Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack. The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters and commandline for us, saving more code. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name.Chris Malley1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Example launcher handle guests not being ready for inputRusty Russell1-50/+57
We currently discard console and network input when the guest has no input buffers. This patch changes that, so that we simply stop listening to that fd until the guest refills its input buffers. This is particularly important because hvc_console without interrupts does backoff polling and so often lose characters if we discard. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Update example launcher for virtioRusty Russell1-462/+681
Implements virtio-based console, network and block servers. The block server uses a thread so it's async, which is an improvement over the old synchronous implementation (but a little more complex). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.Rusty Russell1-103/+31
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages. 2) It means we don't have to know page_offset. 3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code. 4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset. 5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular). 6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial hypercall give us that, too. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Change example launcher to use unsigned long not u32Jes Sorensen1-13/+14
Apply Clue 2x4 to lguest userland<->kernel handling code and the lguest launcher. Pointers are not to be passed in u32's! Basic rule of thumb: Anything passing u32's back and forth should be passing unsigned longs to be portable to 64 bit archs. For those who forgotten already, I repeat: NO POINTERS IN u32! Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Introduce guest mem offset, static link example launcherRusty Russell2-102/+113
In order to avoid problematic special linking of the Launcher, we give the Host an offset: this means we can use any memory region in the Launcher as Guest memory rather than insisting on mmap() at 0. The result is quite pleasing: a number of casts are replaced with simple additions. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Accept elf files that are valid but have sections that can not be mmap'ed ↵Ronald G. Minnich1-29/+32
for some reason. Plan9 kernel binaries don't neatly align their ELF sections to our page boundaries. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Make lguest_launcher.h types userspace-friendlyRusty Russell2-3/+3
lguest_launcher.h uses "u32" not "__u32", which sets a bad example. Fix that, and include <linux/types.h>. This means we need to use -I on the Launcher build line so types.h is found. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23lguest.txt updateRusty Russell1-39/+29
o Describe the new split configurations o Highlight code documentation in drivers/lguest/README o Point out necessity of having a getty on /dev/hvc0 o Remove gratuitous "m" in example o Don't discuss I/O model here, stick to user documentation. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23turn err into errx in lguest call sitesGlauber de Oliveira Costa1-2/+2
These two callsites should really be errx instead of err, since there is no errno associated with them in the moment they are issued. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
2007-10-23Make asm-x86/bootparam.h includable from userspace.Rusty Russell1-1/+1
To actually write a bootloader (or, say, the lguest launcher) currently requires duplication of these structures. Making them includable from userspace is much nicer. We merge the common userspace-required definitions of e820_32/64.h into e820.h for export. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-11i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86Thomas Gleixner1-1/+1
Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the header install make rules Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-09-26lguest example launcher truncates block device file to 0 length on problemsChris Malley1-1/+1
The function should also use ftruncate64() rather than ftruncate() to prevent files over 4GB (not uncommon for a root filesystem) being zeroed. Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09lguest: avoid shared libraries mapped over guest memoryRonald G. Minnich1-1/+3
Some versions of ld.so mmap the shared libraries right in over guest memory, so compile lguest statically by default. [ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's physical memory. Quick fix is to link Launcher static, real fix is for 2.6.24. ] -static is a simple fix. I expect this problem will be more common than we like, as different distro's make different "improvements" to ld.so Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEsRusty Russell1-0/+12
Documentation: The FIXMEs Signed-off-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>
2007-07-26lguest: documentation IV: LauncherRusty Russell1-44/+555
Documentation: The Launcher Signed-off-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>
2007-07-26lguest: documentation I: PreparationRusty Russell2-2/+65
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-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>
2007-07-24link lguest example launcher non-staticRusty Russell2-52/+35
S.Caglar Onur points out that many distributions don't ship a static zlib. Unfortunately the launcher currently maps virtual device memory where shared libraries want to go. The solution is to pre-scan the args to figure out how much memory we have, then allocate devices above that, rather than down from the top possible address. This also turns out to be simpler. Signed-off-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>
2007-07-19lguest: the documentation, example launcherRusty Russell3-0/+1168
A brief document describing how to use lguest. Because lguest doesn't have an ABI we also include an example launcher in the Documentation directory. [jmorris@namei.org: Fix up nat example in documentation] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <matias.zabaljauregui@cern.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>