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2008-06-25xen: add mechanism to extend existing multicallsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Some Xen hypercalls accept an array of operations to work on. In general this is because its more efficient for the hypercall to the work all at once rather than as separate hypercalls (even batched as a multicall). This patch adds a mechanism (xen_mc_extend_args()) to allocate more argument space to the last-issued multicall, in order to extend its argument list. The user of this mechanism is xen/mmu.c, which uses it to extend the args array of mmu_update. This is particularly valuable when doing the update for a large mprotect, which goes via ptep_modify_prot_commit(), but it also manages to batch updates to pgd/pmds as well. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/xen/multicalls.cPaolo Ciarrocchi
Before: total: 2 errors, 2 warnings, 138 lines checked After: total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 138 lines checked No code changed: arch/x86/xen/multicalls.o: text data bss dec hex filename 887 2832 0 3719 e87 multicalls.o.before 887 2832 0 3719 e87 multicalls.o.after md5: cf6d72d9db6dc5a3ebe01eec9f05e95f multicalls.o.before.asm cf6d72d9db6dc5a3ebe01eec9f05e95f multicalls.o.after.asm Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-16xen: add some debug output for failed multicallsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Multicalls are expected to never fail, and the normal response to a failed multicall is very terse. In the interests of better debuggability, add some more verbose output. It may be worth turning this off once it all seems more tested. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
2007-10-16xen: add batch completion callbacksJeremy Fitzhardinge
This adds a mechanism to register a callback function to be called once a batch of hypercalls has been issued. This is typically used to unlock things which must remain locked until the hypercall has taken place. [ Stable folks: pre-req for 2.6.23 bugfix "xen: deal with stale cr3 values when unpinning pagetables" ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
2007-10-11i386: move xenThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>