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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 255046 29-Aug-2013 gibbs

Introduce a new, HVM compatible, paravirtualized timer driver for Xen.
Use this new driver for both PV and HVM instances.

This driver requires a Xen hypervisor that supports vector callbacks,
VCPUOP hypercalls, and reports that it has a "safe PV clock".

New timer driver:
Submitted by: will
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation

PV port to new driver, and bug fixes:
Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

sys/dev/xen/timer/timer.c:
- Register a PV timer device driver which (currently)
implements device_{identify,probe,attach} and stubs
device_detach. The detach routine requires functionality
not provided by timecounters(4). The suspend and resume
routines need additional work (due to Xen requiring that
the hypercalls be executed on the target VCPU), and aren't
needed for our purposes.

- Make sure there can only be one device instance of this
driver, and that it only registers one eventtimers(4) and
one timecounters(4) device interface. Make both interfaces
use PCPU data as needed.

- Match, with a few style cleanups & API differences, the
Xen versions of the "fetch time" functions.

- Document the magic scale_delta() better for the i386 version.

- When registering the event timer, bind a separate event
channel for the timer VIRQ to the device's event timer
interrupt handler for each active VCPU. Describe each
interrupt as "xen_et:c%d", so they can be identified per
CPU in "vmstat -i" or "show intrcnt" in KDB.

- When scheduling a timer into the hypervisor, try up to
60 times if the hypervisor rejects the time as being in
the past. In the common case, this retry shouldn't happen,
and if it does, it should only happen once. This is
because the event timer advertises a minimum period of
100usec, which is only less than the usual hypercall round
trip time about 1 out of every 100 tries. (Unlike other
similar drivers, this one actually checks whether the
hypervisor accepted the singleshot timer set hypercall.)

- Implement a RTC PV clock based on the hypervisor wallclock.

sys/conf/files:
- Add dev/xen/timer/timer.c if the kernel configuration
includes either the XEN or XENHVM options.

sys/conf/files.i386:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen_clock_util.h:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c:
- Remove previous PV timer used in i386 XEN PV kernels, the
new timer introduced in this change is used instead (so
we share the same code between PVHVM and PV).

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 255040 29-Aug-2013 gibbs

Implement vector callback for PVHVM and unify event channel implementations

Re-structure Xen HVM support so that:
- Xen is detected and hypercalls can be performed very
early in system startup.
- Xen interrupt services are implemented using FreeBSD's native
interrupt delivery infrastructure.
- the Xen interrupt service implementation is shared between PV
and HVM guests.
- Xen interrupt handlers can optionally use a filter handler
in order to avoid the overhead of dispatch to an interrupt
thread.
- interrupt load can be distributed among all available CPUs.
- the overhead of accessing the emulated local and I/O apics
on HVM is removed for event channel port events.
- a similar optimization can eventually, and fairly easily,
be used to optimize MSI.

Early Xen detection, HVM refactoring, PVHVM interrupt infrastructure,
and misc Xen cleanups:

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation

Unification of PV & HVM interrupt infrastructure, bug fixes,
and misc Xen cleanups:

Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c:
sys/amd64/include/apicvar.h:
sys/i386/include/apicvar.h:
sys/amd64/amd64/apic_vector.S:
sys/i386/i386/apic_vector.s:
sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
sys/x86/include/segments.h:
Reserve IDT vector 0x93 for the Xen event channel upcall
interrupt handler. On Hypervisors that support the direct
vector callback feature, we can request that this vector be
called directly by an injected HVM interrupt event, instead
of a simulated PCI interrupt on the Xen platform PCI device.
This avoids all of the overhead of dealing with the emulated
I/O APIC and local APIC. It also means that the Hypervisor
can inject these events on any CPU, allowing upcalls for
different ports to be handled in parallel.

sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
Map Xen per-vcpu area during AP startup.

sys/amd64/include/intr_machdep.h:
sys/i386/include/intr_machdep.h:
Increase the FreeBSD IRQ vector table to include space
for event channel interrupt sources.

sys/amd64/include/pcpu.h:
sys/i386/include/pcpu.h:
Remove Xen HVM per-cpu variable data. These fields are now
allocated via the dynamic per-cpu scheme. See xen_intr.c
for details.

sys/amd64/include/xen/hypercall.h:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenvar.h:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
Prefer FreeBSD primatives to Linux ones in Xen support code.

sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/dev/xen/balloon/balloon.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/include/pmap.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenfunc.h:
sys/i386/isa/npx.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mptable.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/xen/features.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.h:
sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus_if.m:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusb_front.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore_dev.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstorevar.h:
Pull common Xen OS support functions/settings into xen/xen-os.h.

sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
Remove constants, macros, and functions unused in FreeBSD's Xen
support.

sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Introduce new functions xen_domain(), xen_pv_domain(), and
xen_hvm_domain(). These are used in favor of #ifdefs so that
FreeBSD can dynamically detect and adapt to the presence of
a hypervisor. The goal is to have an HVM optimized GENERIC,
but more is necessary before this is possible.

sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
sys/sys/kernel.h:
Refactor magic ioport, Hypercall table and Hypervisor shared
information page setup, and move it to a dedicated HVM support
module.

HVM mode initialization is now triggered during the
SI_SUB_HYPERVISOR phase of system startup. This currently
occurs just after the kernel VM is fully setup which is
just enough infrastructure to allow the hypercall table
and shared info page to be properly mapped.

sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add definitions and a method for configuring Hypervisor event
delievery via a direct vector callback.

sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:

sys/conf/files:
sys/conf/files.amd64:
sys/conf/files.i386:
Adjust kernel build to reflect the refactoring of early
Xen startup code and Xen interrupt services.

sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/block.h:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/console.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c
Adjust drivers to use new xen_intr_*() API.

sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
Since blkback defers all event handling to a taskqueue,
convert this task queue to a "fast" taskqueue, and schedule
it via an interrupt filter. This avoids an unnecessary
ithread context switch.

sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
The xenstore driver is MPSAFE. Indicate as much when
registering its interrupt handler.

sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
Remove unused event channel APIs.

sys/xen/evtchn.h:
Remove all kernel Xen interrupt service API definitions
from this file. It is now only used for structure and
ioctl definitions related to the event channel userland
device driver.

Update the definitions in this file to match those from
NetBSD. Implementing this interface will be necessary for
Dom0 support.

sys/xen/evtchn/evtchnvar.h:
Add a header file for implemenation internal APIs related
to managing event channels event delivery. This is used
to allow, for example, the event channel userland device
driver to access low-level routines that typical kernel
consumers of event channel services should never access.

sys/xen/interface/event_channel.h:
sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
Standardize on the evtchn_port_t type for referring to
an event channel port id. In order to prevent low-level
event channel APIs from leaking to kernel consumers who
should not have access to this data, the type is defined
twice: Once in the Xen provided event_channel.h, and again
in xen/xen_intr.h. The double declaration is protected by
__XEN_EVTCHN_PORT_DEFINED__ to ensure it is never declared
twice within a given compilation unit.

sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn.c:
sys/x86/xen/xen_intr.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/evtchn.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
New implementation of Xen interrupt services. This is
similar in many respects to the i386 PV implementation with
the exception that events for bound to event channel ports
(i.e. not IPI, virtual IRQ, or physical IRQ) are further
optimized to avoid mask/unmask operations that aren't
necessary for these edge triggered events.

Stubs exist for supporting physical IRQ binding, but will
need additional work before this implementation can be
fully shared between PV and HVM.

sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add support for placing vcpu_info into an arbritary memory
page instead of using HYPERVISOR_shared_info->vcpu_info.
This allows the creation of domains with more than 32 vcpus.

sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
Add support for new event channle implementation.


# 247463 28-Feb-2013 mav

MFcalloutng:
Switch eventtimers(9) from using struct bintime to sbintime_t.
Even before this not a single driver really supported full dynamic range of
struct bintime even in theory, not speaking about practical inexpediency.
This change legitimates the status quo and cleans up the code.


# 242931 12-Nov-2012 dim

Fix a minor warning in sys/i386/xen/clock.c.

MFC after: 3 days


# 221835 13-May-2011 mav

Refactor Xen PV code to use new event timers subsystem. That uses one-shot
Xen timer and time counter to provide one-shot and periodic time events.

On my tests this reduces idle interruts rate down to about 30Hz, and accor-
ding to Xen VM Manager reduces host CPU load by three times comparing to
the previous periodic 100Hz clock. Also now, when needed, it is possible to
increase HZ rate without useless CPU burning during idle periods.

Now only ia64 and some ARMs left not migrated to the new event timers.


# 217072 06-Jan-2011 jhb

Remove bogus usage of INTR_FAST. "Fast" interrupts are now indicated by
registering a filter handler rather than a threaded handler. Also remove
a bogus use of INTR_MPSAFE for a filter.


# 216385 11-Dec-2010 cperciva

Reduce the Xen timecounter from 1GHz to 2^-9 GHz, thereby increasing the
timecounter period from 2^32 ns (~4.3s) to 2^41 ns (~36m39s). Some time
sharing systems can skip clock interrupts for a few seconds when under
load (e.g., if we've recently used more than our fair share of CPU and
someone else wants a burst of CPU) and we were losing time in quanta of
2^32 ns due to timecounter wrapping.

Increasing the timecounter period up to 2^41 ns is definitely overkill,
but we still have microsecond timecounter precision, and anyone using
paravirtualized hardware when they need submicrosecond timing is crazy.


# 216382 11-Dec-2010 cperciva

Make the machdep.independent_wallclock sysctl do what it says on the box.


# 215663 22-Nov-2010 cperciva

In xen_get_timecount, return the full ns-precision time rather than
rounding to 1/HZ precision.

I have no idea why the rounding was introduced in the first place, but
it makes FreeBSD unhappy.


# 204309 25-Feb-2010 attilio

Introduce the new kernel sub-tree x86 which should contain all the code
shared and generalized between our current amd64, i386 and pc98.

This is just an initial step that should lead to a more complete effort.
For the moment, a very simple porting of cpufreq modules, BIOS calls and
the whole MD specific ISA bus part is added to the sub-tree but ideally
a lot of code might be added and more shared support should grow.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib, jhb, imp
Discussed on: arch
MFC: 3 weeks


# 193033 29-May-2009 adrian

Fix the Xen TOD update when the hypervisor wall clock is nudged.

The "wall clock" in the current code is actually the hypervisor start time.
The time of day is the "start time" plus the hypervisor "uptime".

Large enough bumps in the dom0 clock lead to a hypervisor "bump" which is
implemented as a bump in the start time, not the uptime. The clock.c routines
were reading in the hypervisor start time and then using this as the TOD.
This meant that any hypervisor time bump would cause the FreeBSD DomU to
set its TOD to the hypervisor start time, rather than the actual TOD.

This fix is a bit hacky and some reshuffling should be done later on
to clarify what is going on. I've left the wall clock code alone.
(The code which updates shadow_tv and shadow_tv_version.)
A new routine adds the uptime to the shadow_tv, which is then used to
update the TOD.

I've included some debugging so it is obvious when the clock is nudged.

PR: 135008


# 191766 03-May-2009 mav

Rename statclock_disable variable to atrtcclock_disable that it actually is,
and hide it inside of atrtc driver. Add new tunable hint.atrtc.0.clock
controlling it. Setting it to 0 disables using RTC clock as stat-/
profclock sources.

Teach i386 and amd64 SMP platforms to emulate stat-/profclocks using i8254
hardclock, when LAPIC and RTC clocks are disabled.

This allows to reduce global interrupt rate of idle system down to about
100 interrupts per core, permitting C3 and deeper C-states provide maximum
CPU power efficiency.


# 188637 15-Feb-2009 kmacy

- fix formatting
- fix types in ticks_to_system_time


# 188138 05-Feb-2009 kmacy

pass in smp_processor_id to identify the cpu in use


# 188134 05-Feb-2009 kmacy

adjust the way that idle happens so as to avoid missing timer interrupts


# 186557 29-Dec-2008 kmacy

merge 186535, 186537, and 186538 from releng_7_xen

Log:
- merge in latest xenbus from dfr's xenhvm
- fix race condition in xs_read_reply by converting tsleep to mtx_sleep

Log:
unmask evtchn in bind_{virq, ipi}_to_irq

Log:
- remove code for handling case of not being able to sleep
- eliminate tsleep - make sleeps atomic


# 184266 25-Oct-2008 kmacy

only call hardclock on cpu0

pointed out by: Scott Long


# 184198 23-Oct-2008 kmacy

Fix IPI support


# 184111 21-Oct-2008 kmacy

Add routine for initializing AP clock


# 181747 15-Aug-2008 kmacy

Compile fixes for xen build.

MFC after: 1 month.


# 181641 12-Aug-2008 kmacy

Import i386 xen sub-arch files.

MFC after: 2 weeks