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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-02-14T18:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-14T18:45:18+00:00</published>
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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2.  Most of this stuff
  has been queued up for a while.  The notable exception is the blk-mq
  changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still.

  The pull request contains:

   - Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid
     or swap.  From Kent.

   - Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph.  A fix for
     integrity bio's from Nic.

   - A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong.

   - xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas
     Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne.

   - Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin.

   - Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria.

   - Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests
     from Shlomo Pongratz.

   - Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun.

   - Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from
     me"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
  block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
  xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct
  blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
  blk-mq: dont assume rq-&gt;errors is set when returning an error from -&gt;queue_rq
  block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios
  block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show
  blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
  null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request
  virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request
  blk-mq: rework I/O completions
  fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h
  fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c
  block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO
  block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments
  block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors
  blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
  blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
  blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
  blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops
  blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
  ...
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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2.  Most of this stuff
  has been queued up for a while.  The notable exception is the blk-mq
  changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still.

  The pull request contains:

   - Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid
     or swap.  From Kent.

   - Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph.  A fix for
     integrity bio's from Nic.

   - A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong.

   - xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas
     Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne.

   - Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin.

   - Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria.

   - Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests
     from Shlomo Pongratz.

   - Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun.

   - Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from
     me"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
  block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
  xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct
  blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
  blk-mq: dont assume rq-&gt;errors is set when returning an error from -&gt;queue_rq
  block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios
  block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show
  blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
  null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request
  virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request
  blk-mq: rework I/O completions
  fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h
  fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c
  block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO
  block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments
  block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors
  blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
  blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
  blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
  blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops
  blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-02-12T20:28:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-12T20:28:05+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has an healthy amount of code being removed - which we do not use
  anymore (the only user of it was ia64 Xen which had been removed
  already).  The other bug-fixes are to make Xen ARM be able to use the
  new event channel mechanism and proper export of header files to
  user-space.

  Summary:
   - Fix ARM and Xen FIFO not working.
   - Remove more Xen ia64 vestigates.
   - Fix UAPI missing Xen files"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 even more
  xen: install xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.h
  xen/events: bind all new interdomain events to VCPU0
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has an healthy amount of code being removed - which we do not use
  anymore (the only user of it was ia64 Xen which had been removed
  already).  The other bug-fixes are to make Xen ARM be able to use the
  new event channel mechanism and proper export of header files to
  user-space.

  Summary:
   - Fix ARM and Xen FIFO not working.
   - Remove more Xen ia64 vestigates.
   - Fix UAPI missing Xen files"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 even more
  xen: install xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.h
  xen/events: bind all new interdomain events to VCPU0
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 even more</title>
<updated>2014-02-11T15:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-08T22:35:43+00:00</published>
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Commit d52eefb47d4e ("ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64") removed
the Kconfig symbol XEN_XENCOMM. But it didn't remove the code depending
on that symbol. Remove that code now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Acked-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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Commit d52eefb47d4e ("ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64") removed
the Kconfig symbol XEN_XENCOMM. But it didn't remove the code depending
on that symbol. Remove that code now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Acked-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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip into for-linus</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T19:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-10T19:52:34+00:00</published>
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Konrad writes:

Please git pull the following branch:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14

which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.

The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.

They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.

There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
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Konrad writes:

Please git pull the following branch:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14

which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.

The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.

They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.

There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
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<entry>
<title>xen-blkif: drop struct blkif_request_segment_aligned</title>
<updated>2014-02-07T18:03:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Pau Monne</name>
<email>roger.pau@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-04T10:26:15+00:00</published>
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This was wrongly introduced in commit 402b27f9, the only difference
between blkif_request_segment_aligned and blkif_request_segment is
that the former has a named padding, while both share the same
memory layout.

Also correct a few minor glitches in the description, including for it
to no longer assume PAGE_SIZE == 4096.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
[Description fix by Jan Beulich]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Rushton &lt;mrushton@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Wilson &lt;msw@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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This was wrongly introduced in commit 402b27f9, the only difference
between blkif_request_segment_aligned and blkif_request_segment is
that the former has a named padding, while both share the same
memory layout.

Also correct a few minor glitches in the description, including for it
to no longer assume PAGE_SIZE == 4096.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
[Description fix by Jan Beulich]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Rushton &lt;mrushton@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Wilson &lt;msw@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T17:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T17:33:40+00:00</published>
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Pull ia64 Xen removal from Tony Luck:
 "Nobody has been maintaining xen in ia64 for a long time.  Rip it all
  out so people do not waste time making updates to broken/dead code"

* tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64
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<pre>
Pull ia64 Xen removal from Tony Luck:
 "Nobody has been maintaining xen in ia64 for a long time.  Rip it all
  out so people do not waste time making updates to broken/dead code"

* tag 'please-pull-rm_xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T15:44:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Rathor</name>
<email>mukesh.rathor@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-31T16:16:25+00:00</published>
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PVH allows PV linux guest to utilize hardware extended capabilities,
such as running MMU updates in a HVM container.

The Xen side defines PVH as (from docs/misc/pvh-readme.txt,
with modifications):

"* the guest uses auto translate:
 - p2m is managed by Xen
 - pagetables are owned by the guest
 - mmu_update hypercall not available
* it uses event callback and not vlapic emulation,
* IDT is native, so set_trap_table hcall is also N/A for a PVH guest.

For a full list of hcalls supported for PVH, see pvh_hypercall64_table
in arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in xen.  From the ABI prespective, it's mostly a
PV guest with auto translate, although it does use hvm_op for setting
callback vector."

Use .ascii and .asciz to define xen feature string. Note, the PVH
string must be in a single line (not multiple lines with \) to keep the
assembler from putting null char after each string before \.
This patch allows it to be configured and enabled.

We also use introduce the 'XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES' ELF note to
tell the hypervisor that 'hvm_callback_vector' is what the kernel
needs. We can not put it in 'XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES' as older hypervisor
parse fields they don't understand as errors and refuse to load
the kernel. This work-around fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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PVH allows PV linux guest to utilize hardware extended capabilities,
such as running MMU updates in a HVM container.

The Xen side defines PVH as (from docs/misc/pvh-readme.txt,
with modifications):

"* the guest uses auto translate:
 - p2m is managed by Xen
 - pagetables are owned by the guest
 - mmu_update hypercall not available
* it uses event callback and not vlapic emulation,
* IDT is native, so set_trap_table hcall is also N/A for a PVH guest.

For a full list of hcalls supported for PVH, see pvh_hypercall64_table
in arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in xen.  From the ABI prespective, it's mostly a
PV guest with auto translate, although it does use hvm_op for setting
callback vector."

Use .ascii and .asciz to define xen feature string. Note, the PVH
string must be in a single line (not multiple lines with \) to keep the
assembler from putting null char after each string before \.
This patch allows it to be configured and enabled.

We also use introduce the 'XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES' ELF note to
tell the hypervisor that 'hvm_callback_vector' is what the kernel
needs. We can not put it in 'XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES' as older hypervisor
parse fields they don't understand as errors and refuse to load
the kernel. This work-around fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mukesh.rathor@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/events: Add the hypervisor interface for the FIFO-based event channels</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T15:07:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T10:55:41+00:00</published>
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Add the hypercall sub-ops and the structures for the shared data used
in the FIFO-based event channel ABI.

The design document for this new ABI is available here:

    http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-H.pdf

In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array
of event words.  Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits
and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue.

There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU.

Key advantages of this new ABI include:

- Support for over 100,000 events (2^17).
- 16 different event priorities.
- Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs.

The ABI is available in Xen 4.4 and later.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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Add the hypercall sub-ops and the structures for the shared data used
in the FIFO-based event channel ABI.

The design document for this new ABI is available here:

    http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-H.pdf

In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array
of event words.  Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits
and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue.

There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU.

Key advantages of this new ABI include:

- Support for over 100,000 events (2^17).
- 16 different event priorities.
- Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs.

The ABI is available in Xen 4.4 and later.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T17:34:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T17:34:54+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix balloon driver for auto-translate guests (PVHVM, ARM) to not use
   scratch pages.
 - Fix block API header for ARM32 and ARM64 to have proper layout
 - On ARM when mapping guests, stick on PTE_SPECIAL
 - When using SWIOTLB under ARM, don't call swiotlb functions twice
 - When unmapping guests memory and if we fail, don't return pages which
   failed to be unmapped.
 - Grant driver was using the wrong address on ARM.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/balloon: Seperate the auto-translate logic properly (v2)
  xen/block: Correctly define structures in public headers on ARM32 and ARM64
  arm: xen: foreign mapping PTEs are special.
  xen/arm64: do not call the swiotlb functions twice
  xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to unmap
  XEN: Grant table address, xen_hvm_resume_frames, is a phys_addr not a pfn
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix balloon driver for auto-translate guests (PVHVM, ARM) to not use
   scratch pages.
 - Fix block API header for ARM32 and ARM64 to have proper layout
 - On ARM when mapping guests, stick on PTE_SPECIAL
 - When using SWIOTLB under ARM, don't call swiotlb functions twice
 - When unmapping guests memory and if we fail, don't return pages which
   failed to be unmapped.
 - Grant driver was using the wrong address on ARM.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.13-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/balloon: Seperate the auto-translate logic properly (v2)
  xen/block: Correctly define structures in public headers on ARM32 and ARM64
  arm: xen: foreign mapping PTEs are special.
  xen/arm64: do not call the swiotlb functions twice
  xen: privcmd: do not return pages which we have failed to unmap
  XEN: Grant table address, xen_hvm_resume_frames, is a phys_addr not a pfn
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