- 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.
disks to other domains) from Jed Davis, <jld@panix.com>:
* Issue multiple requests when necessary rather than
assuming that arbitrary requests can be mapped into single
contiguous virtual address ranges.
* Don't assume that all data for a request is consecutive
in memory. With some client OSes, it's not.
The above two changes fix data corruption issues with Linux
clients with certain filesystem block sizes.
* Gracefully handle memory or pool allocation failures after
beginning to handle a request from the ring.
* Merge contiguous requests to avoid the "64K turns into 44K + 20K
and doubles the transactions per second at the disk" problem
caused by the 11-page limit caused by the structure of Xen
ring entries. This causes a very slight performance decrease
for sequential 64K I/O if the disk is not already saturated with
requests (about 1%) but halves the transactions per second we
hit the disk with -- or better. It even compensates for bizarre
Linux behaviour like breaking long requests up into 5.5K pieces.
* Probably some stuff I forgot to mention.
Disk throughput (though not latency) is now much, much closer to the
"raw hardware" case than it was before.
- don't use managed mappings/backing objects for wired memory allocations.
save some resources like pv_entry. also fix (most of) PR/27030.
- simplify kernel memory management API.
- simplify pmap bootstrap of some ports.
- some related cleanups.
Protect the callback queue with splvm()
XXX some debug printf about the callback stuff is left here. This is because
I've not been able to trigger this condition yet, so I've left them
until we sure the code works as intended.
