Greetings,
On 11/01/2018 03:45 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 14:10, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> On 11/01/2018 12:39 PM, Shai Fultheim (Shai@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>>> On 01/11/18 11:37, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>
>>>> VSMP support is built even if CONFIG_X86_VSMP is not set. This leads to a build
>>>> breakage when CONFIG_PCI is disabled as well.
>>>>
>>>> Build VSMP code only when selected.
>>>
>>> This patch disables detect_vsmp_box() on systems without CONFIG_X86_VSMP, due to
>>> the recent 6da63eb241a05b0e676d68975e793c0521387141. This is significant
>>> regression that will affect significant number of deployments.
>>>
>>> We will reply shortly with an updated patch that fix the dependency on pv_irq_ops,
>>> and revert to CONFIG_PARAVIRT, with proper protection for CONFIG_PCI.
>>>
>>
>> here is the proper patch which fixes the issue on hand:
>> From ebff534f8cfa55d7c3ab798c44abe879f3fbe2b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eial Czerwacki <eial@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 15:08:32 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] x86/build: Build VSMP support only if CONFIG_PCI is
>> selected
>>
>> vsmp dependency of pv_irq_ops removed some years ago, so now let's clean
>> it up from vsmp_64.c.
>>
>> In short, "cap & ctl & (1 << 4)" was always returning 0, as such we can
>> remove all the PARAVIRT/PARAVIRT_XXL code handling that.
>>
>> However, the rest of the code depends on CONFIG_PCI, so fix it accordingly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eial Czerwacki <eial@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
>> arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c | 80
>> +++--------------------------------------------
>> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index c51c989..4b187ca 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ config X86_VSMP
>> bool "ScaleMP vSMP"
>> select HYPERVISOR_GUEST
>> select PARAVIRT
>
> Do you really still need PARAVIRT and HYPERVISOR_GUEST?
> Maybe you want IRQ_REMAP instead?
>
Better performance is achieved with PARAVIRTed kernel. Hence we keep
them both in.
>> - select PARAVIRT_XXL
>> depends on X86_64 && PCI
>> depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
>> depends on SMP
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
>> index 1eae5af..c6d2b76 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
>> @@ -26,64 +26,7 @@
>>
>> #define TOPOLOGY_REGISTER_OFFSET 0x10
>>
>> -#if defined CONFIG_PCI && defined CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL
>> -/*
>> - * Interrupt control on vSMPowered systems:
>> - * ~AC is a shadow of IF. If IF is 'on' AC should be 'off'
>> - * and vice versa.
>> - */
>> -
>> -asmlinkage __visible unsigned long vsmp_save_fl(void)
>> -{
>> - unsigned long flags = native_save_fl();
>> -
>> - if (!(flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF) || (flags & X86_EFLAGS_AC))
>> - flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_IF;
>> - return flags;
>> -}
>> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(vsmp_save_fl);
>> -
>> -__visible void vsmp_restore_fl(unsigned long flags)
>> -{
>> - if (flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF)
>> - flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_AC;
>> - else
>> - flags |= X86_EFLAGS_AC;
>> - native_restore_fl(flags);
>> -}
>> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(vsmp_restore_fl);
>> -
>> -asmlinkage __visible void vsmp_irq_disable(void)
>> -{
>> - unsigned long flags = native_save_fl();
>> -
>> - native_restore_fl((flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IF) | X86_EFLAGS_AC);
>> -}
>> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(vsmp_irq_disable);
>> -
>> -asmlinkage __visible void vsmp_irq_enable(void)
>> -{
>> - unsigned long flags = native_save_fl();
>> -
>> - native_restore_fl((flags | X86_EFLAGS_IF) & (~X86_EFLAGS_AC));
>> -}
>> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(vsmp_irq_enable);
>> -
>> -static unsigned __init vsmp_patch(u8 type, void *ibuf,
>> - unsigned long addr, unsigned len)
>> -{
>> - switch (type) {
>> - case PARAVIRT_PATCH(irq.irq_enable):
>> - case PARAVIRT_PATCH(irq.irq_disable):
>> - case PARAVIRT_PATCH(irq.save_fl):
>> - case PARAVIRT_PATCH(irq.restore_fl):
>> - return paravirt_patch_default(type, ibuf, addr, len);
>> - default:
>> - return native_patch(type, ibuf, addr, len);
>> - }
>> -
>> -}
>> -
>> +#if defined CONFIG_PCI
>> static void __init set_vsmp_pv_ops(void)
>
> Wouldn't be a rename of the function be appropriate now?
you are correct, I'll fix and resend the patch.
>
>
> Juergen
>
