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virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization,
and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch
Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected.
Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,
we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization
scope too.
Moreover, some architectures might use virtio for both virtualization
and inter-processor communications, so directly sourcing virtio
might yield unexpected results due to conflicting selections.
The simple solution offered by this patch is to always source virtio's
Kconfig in drivers/Kconfig, and remove it from the appropriate arch
Kconfigs. Additionally, a virtio menu entry has been added so virtio
drivers don't show up in the general drivers menu.
This way anyone can use virtio, though it's arguably less accessible
(and neat!) for virtualization users now.
Note: some architectures (mips and sh) seem to have a VIRTUALIZATION
menu merely for sourcing virtio's Kconfig, so that menu is removed too.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (145 commits)
KVM: x86: Add KVM_CAP_X86_ROBUST_SINGLESTEP
KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
KVM: Fix emulate_sys[call, enter, exit]()'s fault handling
KVM: Fix segment descriptor loading
KVM: Fix load_guest_segment_descriptor() to inject page fault
KVM: x86 emulator: Forbid modifying CS segment register by mov instruction
KVM: Convert kvm->requests_lock to raw_spinlock_t
KVM: Convert i8254/i8259 locks to raw_spinlocks
KVM: x86 emulator: disallow opcode 82 in 64-bit mode
KVM: x86 emulator: code style cleanup
KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
KVM: x86 emulator: Add LOCK prefix validity checking
KVM: x86 emulator: Check CPL level during privilege instruction emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: Fix popf emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: Check IOPL level during io instruction emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: Add Virtual-8086 mode of emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: Add group9 instruction decoding
KVM: x86 emulator: Add group8 instruction decoding
KVM: do not store wqh in irqfd
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Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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s390 doesn't have mmio, this will simplify ifdefing it out.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.
There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)
common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.
What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.
How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.
Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.
Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use
Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.
(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Return EOPNOTSUPP for KVM_TRACE_ENABLE/PAUSE/DISABLE ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Archs are free to use vcpu_id as they see fit. For x86 it is used as
vcpu's apic id. New ioctl is added to configure boot vcpu id that was
assumed to be 0 till now.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Reduce Kconfig code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Since kvm-intel modue can't be built-in, make kvm depend on
CONFIG_MODULES.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Two KVM archs support irqchips and two don't. Add a Kconfig item to
make selecting between the two models easier.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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PCI device assignment makes calls to pci code, so require it to be built
into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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kvm/ia64 uses the virtio drivers to optimize its I/O subsytem.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Update the related Makefile and KConfig for kvm build
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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