from doc/BRANCHES:
idle lwp, and some changes depending on it.
1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
(cf. gmcgarry_ctxsw)
2. implement idle lwp.
3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
4. make scheduler(s) modular.
- kernel (both dom0 and domU) boot, console is functionnal and it can starts
software from a ramdisk
- there is no driver front-end expect console for domU yet.
- dom0 can probe devices and ex(4) work when Xen3 is booted without acpi
and apic support. But the on-board IDE doens't get interrupts.
The PCI code still needs work (it's hardcoded to mode 1). Some of this
code should be shared with ../x86
The physical insterrupt code needs to get MPBIOS and ACPI support, and
do interrupt routing to properly interract with Xen.
To enable Xen-3.0 support, add
options XEN3
to your kernel config file (this will disable Xen2 support)
Changes affecting Xen-2.0 support (no functionnal changes intended):
- get more constants from genassym for assembly code
- remove some unneeded registers move from start()
- map the shared info page from start(), and remove the pte = 0xffffffff hack
- vector.S: in hypervisor_callback() make sure %esi points to
HYPERVISOR_shared_info before accessing the info page. Remplace some
hand-written assembly with the equivalent macro defined in frameasm.h
- more debug code, dissabled by default.
while here added my copyright on some files I worked on in 2005.
- move per VP data into struct sadata_vp referenced from l->l_savp
* VP id
* lock on VP data
* LWP on VP
* recently blocked LWP on VP
* queue of LWPs woken which ran on this VP before sleep
* faultaddr
* LWP cache for upcalls
* upcall queue
- add current concurrency and requested concurrency variables
- make process exit run LWP on all VPs
- make signal delivery consider all VPs
- make timer events consider all VPs
- add sa_newsavp to allocate new sadata_vp structure
- add sa_increaseconcurrency to prepare new VP
- make sys_sa_setconcurrency request new VP or wakeup idle VP
- make sa_yield lower current concurrency
- set sa_cpu = VP id in upcalls
- maintain cached LWPs per VP
