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<title>xen/setup: filter APERFMPERF cpuid feature out</title>
<updated>2012-06-19T22:18:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@amd.com</email>
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<published>2012-05-29T11:07:31+00:00</published>
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commit 5e626254206a709c6e937f3dda69bf26c7344f6f upstream.

Xen PV kernels allow access to the APERF/MPERF registers to read the
effective frequency. Access to the MSRs is however redirected to the
currently scheduled physical CPU, making consecutive read and
compares unreliable. In addition each rdmsr traps into the hypervisor.
So to avoid bogus readouts and expensive traps, disable the kernel
internal feature flag for APERF/MPERF if running under Xen.
This will
a) remove the aperfmperf flag from /proc/cpuinfo
b) not mislead the power scheduler (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sched.c) to
   use the feature to improve scheduling (by default disabled)
c) not mislead the cpufreq driver to use the MSRs

This does not cover userland programs which access the MSRs via the
device file interface, but this will be addressed separately.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5e626254206a709c6e937f3dda69bf26c7344f6f upstream.

Xen PV kernels allow access to the APERF/MPERF registers to read the
effective frequency. Access to the MSRs is however redirected to the
currently scheduled physical CPU, making consecutive read and
compares unreliable. In addition each rdmsr traps into the hypervisor.
So to avoid bogus readouts and expensive traps, disable the kernel
internal feature flag for APERF/MPERF if running under Xen.
This will
a) remove the aperfmperf flag from /proc/cpuinfo
b) not mislead the power scheduler (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sched.c) to
   use the feature to improve scheduling (by default disabled)
c) not mislead the cpufreq driver to use the MSRs

This does not cover userland programs which access the MSRs via the
device file interface, but this will be addressed separately.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, amd, xen: Avoid NULL pointer paravirt references</title>
<updated>2012-06-10T13:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad@darnok.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-30T22:23:56+00:00</published>
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commit 1ab46fd319bcf1fcd9fb6311727d532b580e4eba upstream.

Stub out MSR methods that aren't actually needed.  This fixes a crash
as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems.  A bigger patch should be added to
remove the paravirt machinery completely for the methods which
apparently have no users!

Reported-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120530222356.GA28417@andromeda.dapyr.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1ab46fd319bcf1fcd9fb6311727d532b580e4eba upstream.

Stub out MSR methods that aren't actually needed.  This fixes a crash
as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems.  A bigger patch should be added to
remove the paravirt machinery completely for the methods which
apparently have no users!

Reported-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120530222356.GA28417@andromeda.dapyr.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pci: don't use PCI BIOS service for configuration space accesses</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:15:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-04T13:29:46+00:00</published>
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commit 76a8df7b49168509df02461f83fab117a4a86e08 upstream.

The accessing PCI configuration space with the PCI BIOS32 service does
not work in PV guests.

On systems without MMCONFIG or where the BIOS hasn't marked the
MMCONFIG region as reserved in the e820 map, the BIOS service is
probed (even though direct access is preferred) and this hangs.

Acked-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
[v1: Fixed compile error when CONFIG_PCI is not set]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 76a8df7b49168509df02461f83fab117a4a86e08 upstream.

The accessing PCI configuration space with the PCI BIOS32 service does
not work in PV guests.

On systems without MMCONFIG or where the BIOS hasn't marked the
MMCONFIG region as reserved in the e820 map, the BIOS service is
probed (even though direct access is preferred) and this hangs.

Acked-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
[v1: Fixed compile error when CONFIG_PCI is not set]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pte: Fix crashes when trying to see non-existent PGD/PMD/PUD/PTEs</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:15:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-03T20:14:14+00:00</published>
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commit b7e5ffe5d83fa40d702976d77452004abbe35791 upstream.

If I try to do "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables"
I end up with:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc7fffffff000
IP: [&lt;ffffffff8106aa51&gt;] ptdump_show+0x221/0x480
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 0
.. snip..
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc00000000fff RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000800000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc7fffffff000

which is due to the fact we are trying to access a PFN that is not
accessible to us. The reason (at least in this case) was that
PGD[256] is set to __HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START which was setup (by the
hypervisor) to point to a read-only linear map of the MFN-&gt;PFN array.
During our parsing we would get the MFN (a valid one), try to look
it up in the MFN-&gt;PFN tree and find it invalid and return ~0 as PFN.
Then pte_mfn_to_pfn would happilly feed that in, attach the flags
and return it back to the caller. 'ptdump_show' bitshifts it and
gets and invalid value that it tries to dereference.

Instead of doing all of that, we detect the ~0 case and just
return !_PAGE_PRESENT.

This bug has been in existence .. at least until 2.6.37 (yikes!)

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b7e5ffe5d83fa40d702976d77452004abbe35791 upstream.

If I try to do "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables"
I end up with:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc7fffffff000
IP: [&lt;ffffffff8106aa51&gt;] ptdump_show+0x221/0x480
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 0
.. snip..
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc00000000fff RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000800000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc7fffffff000

which is due to the fact we are trying to access a PFN that is not
accessible to us. The reason (at least in this case) was that
PGD[256] is set to __HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START which was setup (by the
hypervisor) to point to a read-only linear map of the MFN-&gt;PFN array.
During our parsing we would get the MFN (a valid one), try to look
it up in the MFN-&gt;PFN tree and find it invalid and return ~0 as PFN.
Then pte_mfn_to_pfn would happilly feed that in, attach the flags
and return it back to the caller. 'ptdump_show' bitshifts it and
gets and invalid value that it tries to dereference.

Instead of doing all of that, we detect the ~0 case and just
return !_PAGE_PRESENT.

This bug has been in existence .. at least until 2.6.37 (yikes!)

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/smp: Fix crash when booting with ACPI hotplug CPUs.</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-26T17:50:03+00:00</published>
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commit cf405ae612b0f7e2358db7ff594c0e94846137aa upstream.

When we boot on a machine that can hotplug CPUs and we
are using 'dom0_max_vcpus=X' on the Xen hypervisor line
to clip the amount of CPUs available to the initial domain,
we get this:

(XEN) Command line: com1=115200,8n1 dom0_mem=8G noreboot dom0_max_vcpus=8 sync_console mce_verbosity=verbose console=com1,vga loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
.. snip..
DMI: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x032.072520111118 07/25/2011
.. snip.
SMP: Allowing 64 CPUs, 32 hotplug CPUs
installing Xen timer for CPU 7
cpu 7 spinlock event irq 361
NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu7): hardware events not enabled
Brought up 8 CPUs
.. snip..
	[acpi processor finds the CPUs are not initialized and starts calling
	arch_register_cpu, which creates /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/online]
CPU 8 got hotplugged
CPU 9 got hotplugged
CPU 10 got hotplugged
.. snip..
initcall 1_acpi_battery_init_async+0x0/0x1b returned 0 after 406 usecs
calling  erst_init+0x0/0x2bb @ 1

	[and the scheduler sticks newly started tasks on the new CPUs, but
	said CPUs cannot be initialized b/c the hypervisor has limited the
	amount of vCPUS to 8 - as per the dom0_max_vcpus=8 flag.
	The spinlock tries to kick the other CPU, but the structure for that
	is not initialized and we crash.]
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffed8
IP: [&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
PGD 180d067 PUD 180e067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU 7
Modules linked in:

Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.4.0-rc2upstream-00001-gf5154e8 #1 Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP
RIP: e030:[&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
RSP: e02b:ffff8801fb9b3a70  EFLAGS: 00010282

With this patch, we cap the amount of vCPUS that the initial domain
can run, to exactly what dom0_max_vcpus=X has specified.

In the future, if there is a hypercall that will allow a running
domain to expand past its initial set of vCPUS, this patch should
be re-evaluated.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit cf405ae612b0f7e2358db7ff594c0e94846137aa upstream.

When we boot on a machine that can hotplug CPUs and we
are using 'dom0_max_vcpus=X' on the Xen hypervisor line
to clip the amount of CPUs available to the initial domain,
we get this:

(XEN) Command line: com1=115200,8n1 dom0_mem=8G noreboot dom0_max_vcpus=8 sync_console mce_verbosity=verbose console=com1,vga loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
.. snip..
DMI: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x032.072520111118 07/25/2011
.. snip.
SMP: Allowing 64 CPUs, 32 hotplug CPUs
installing Xen timer for CPU 7
cpu 7 spinlock event irq 361
NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu7): hardware events not enabled
Brought up 8 CPUs
.. snip..
	[acpi processor finds the CPUs are not initialized and starts calling
	arch_register_cpu, which creates /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/online]
CPU 8 got hotplugged
CPU 9 got hotplugged
CPU 10 got hotplugged
.. snip..
initcall 1_acpi_battery_init_async+0x0/0x1b returned 0 after 406 usecs
calling  erst_init+0x0/0x2bb @ 1

	[and the scheduler sticks newly started tasks on the new CPUs, but
	said CPUs cannot be initialized b/c the hypervisor has limited the
	amount of vCPUS to 8 - as per the dom0_max_vcpus=8 flag.
	The spinlock tries to kick the other CPU, but the structure for that
	is not initialized and we crash.]
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffed8
IP: [&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
PGD 180d067 PUD 180e067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU 7
Modules linked in:

Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.4.0-rc2upstream-00001-gf5154e8 #1 Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP
RIP: e030:[&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81035289&gt;] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
RSP: e02b:ffff8801fb9b3a70  EFLAGS: 00010282

With this patch, we cap the amount of vCPUS that the initial domain
can run, to exactly what dom0_max_vcpus=X has specified.

In the future, if there is a hypercall that will allow a running
domain to expand past its initial set of vCPUS, this patch should
be re-evaluated.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: correctly check for pending events when restoring irq flags</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-26T18:44:06+00:00</published>
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commit 7eb7ce4d2e8991aff4ecb71a81949a907ca755ac upstream.

In xen_restore_fl_direct(), xen_force_evtchn_callback() was being
called even if no events were pending.  This resulted in (depending on
workload) about a 100 times as many xen_version hypercalls as
necessary.

Fix this by correcting the sense of the conditional jump.

This seems to give a significant performance benefit for some
workloads.

There is some subtle tricksy "..since the check here is trying to
check both pending and masked in a single cmpw, but I think this is
correct. It will call check_events now only when the combined
mask+pending word is 0x0001 (aka unmasked, pending)." (Ian)

Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7eb7ce4d2e8991aff4ecb71a81949a907ca755ac upstream.

In xen_restore_fl_direct(), xen_force_evtchn_callback() was being
called even if no events were pending.  This resulted in (depending on
workload) about a 100 times as many xen_version hypercalls as
necessary.

Fix this by correcting the sense of the conditional jump.

This seems to give a significant performance benefit for some
workloads.

There is some subtle tricksy "..since the check here is trying to
check both pending and masked in a single cmpw, but I think this is
correct. It will call check_events now only when the combined
mask+pending word is 0x0001 (aka unmasked, pending)." (Ian)

Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: xen: size struct xen_spinlock to always fit in arch_spinlock_t</title>
<updated>2012-02-03T17:21:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-23T19:32:25+00:00</published>
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commit 7a7546b377bdaa25ac77f33d9433c59f259b9688 upstream.

If NR_CPUS &lt; 256 then arch_spinlock_t is only 16 bits wide but struct
xen_spinlock is 32 bits.  When a spin lock is contended and
xl-&gt;spinners is modified the two bytes immediately after the spin lock
would be corrupted.

This is a regression caused by 84eb950db13ca40a0572ce9957e14723500943d6
(x86, ticketlock: Clean up types and accessors) which reduced the size
of arch_spinlock_t.

Fix this by making xl-&gt;spinners a u8 if NR_CPUS &lt; 256.  A
BUILD_BUG_ON() is also added to check the sizes of the two structures
are compatible.

In many cases this was not noticable as there would often be padding
bytes after the lock (e.g., if any of CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK,
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, or CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC were enabled).

The bnx2 driver is affected. In struct bnx2, phy_lock and
indirect_lock may have no padding after them.  Contention on phy_lock
would corrupt indirect_lock making it appear locked and the driver
would deadlock.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7a7546b377bdaa25ac77f33d9433c59f259b9688 upstream.

If NR_CPUS &lt; 256 then arch_spinlock_t is only 16 bits wide but struct
xen_spinlock is 32 bits.  When a spin lock is contended and
xl-&gt;spinners is modified the two bytes immediately after the spin lock
would be corrupted.

This is a regression caused by 84eb950db13ca40a0572ce9957e14723500943d6
(x86, ticketlock: Clean up types and accessors) which reduced the size
of arch_spinlock_t.

Fix this by making xl-&gt;spinners a u8 if NR_CPUS &lt; 256.  A
BUILD_BUG_ON() is also added to check the sizes of the two structures
are compatible.

In many cases this was not noticable as there would often be padding
bytes after the lock (e.g., if any of CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK,
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, or CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC were enabled).

The bnx2 driver is affected. In struct bnx2, phy_lock and
indirect_lock may have no padding after them.  Contention on phy_lock
would corrupt indirect_lock making it appear locked and the driver
would deadlock.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T18:52:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-15T18:52:40+00:00</published>
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* 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/swiotlb: Use page alignment for early buffer allocation.
  xen: only limit memory map to maximum reservation for domain 0.
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* 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/swiotlb: Use page alignment for early buffer allocation.
  xen: only limit memory map to maximum reservation for domain 0.
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<title>xen: only limit memory map to maximum reservation for domain 0.</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T16:24:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>Ian.Campbell@citrix.com</email>
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<published>2011-12-14T12:16:08+00:00</published>
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d312ae878b6a "xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM"
clamped the total amount of RAM to the current maximum reservation. This is
correct for dom0 but is not correct for guest domains. In order to boot a guest
"pre-ballooned" (e.g. with memory=1G but maxmem=2G) in order to allow for
future memory expansion the guest must derive max_pfn from the e820 provided by
the toolstack and not the current maximum reservation (which can reflect only
the current maximum, not the guest lifetime max). The existing algorithm
already behaves this correctly if we do not artificially limit the maximum
number of pages for the guest case.

For a guest booted with maxmem=512, memory=128 this results in:
 [    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 [    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 [    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
-[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008100000 (usable)
-[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000008100000 - 0000000020800000 (unusable)
+[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
...
 [    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
 [    0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
 [    0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==&gt; (reserved)
 [    0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)
-[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x8100 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
+[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x20800 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
 [    0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 027ff000
 [    0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [c009f000] 9f000 size 4096
-[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000008100000
-[    0.000000]  0000000000 - 0008100000 page 4k
-[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 8100000 @ 27bb000-27ff000
+[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000020800000
+[    0.000000]  0000000000 - 0020800000 page 4k
+[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 20800000 @ 26f8000-27ff000
 [    0.000000] xen: setting RW the range 27e8000 - 27ff000
 [    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
-[    0.000000] 129MB LOWMEM available.
-[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 08100000
-[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 08100000
+[    0.000000] 520MB LOWMEM available.
+[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 20800000
+[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 20800000

With this change "xl mem-set &lt;domain&gt; 512M" will successfully increase the
guest RAM (by reducing the balloon).

There is no change for dom0.

Reported-and-Tested-by:  George Shuklin &lt;george.shuklin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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d312ae878b6a "xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM"
clamped the total amount of RAM to the current maximum reservation. This is
correct for dom0 but is not correct for guest domains. In order to boot a guest
"pre-ballooned" (e.g. with memory=1G but maxmem=2G) in order to allow for
future memory expansion the guest must derive max_pfn from the e820 provided by
the toolstack and not the current maximum reservation (which can reflect only
the current maximum, not the guest lifetime max). The existing algorithm
already behaves this correctly if we do not artificially limit the maximum
number of pages for the guest case.

For a guest booted with maxmem=512, memory=128 this results in:
 [    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 [    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 [    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
-[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008100000 (usable)
-[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000008100000 - 0000000020800000 (unusable)
+[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
...
 [    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
 [    0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
 [    0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==&gt; (reserved)
 [    0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)
-[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x8100 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
+[    0.000000] last_pfn = 0x20800 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
 [    0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 027ff000
 [    0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [c009f000] 9f000 size 4096
-[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000008100000
-[    0.000000]  0000000000 - 0008100000 page 4k
-[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 8100000 @ 27bb000-27ff000
+[    0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000020800000
+[    0.000000]  0000000000 - 0020800000 page 4k
+[    0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 20800000 @ 26f8000-27ff000
 [    0.000000] xen: setting RW the range 27e8000 - 27ff000
 [    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
-[    0.000000] 129MB LOWMEM available.
-[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 08100000
-[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 08100000
+[    0.000000] 520MB LOWMEM available.
+[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 20800000
+[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 20800000

With this change "xl mem-set &lt;domain&gt; 512M" will successfully increase the
guest RAM (by reducing the balloon).

There is no change for dom0.

Reported-and-Tested-by:  George Shuklin &lt;george.shuklin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen.</title>
<updated>2011-12-03T18:49:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T23:02:02+00:00</published>
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The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code.  It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).

But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle.  This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.

In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:

  Brought up 2 CPUs
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
  RIP: e030:[&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff8100e2ed&gt;] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
   [&lt;ffffffff8149ee78&gt;] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
  RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
   RSP &lt;ffff8801d28ddf10&gt;

In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall.  Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.

The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.

We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen.  This patch
does that.

Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code.  It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).

But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle.  This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.

In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:

  Brought up 2 CPUs
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
  RIP: e030:[&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff8100e2ed&gt;] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
   [&lt;ffffffff8149ee78&gt;] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
  RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81015d1d&gt;] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
   RSP &lt;ffff8801d28ddf10&gt;

In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall.  Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.

The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.

We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen.  This patch
does that.

Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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