Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-13 Thread Colin Adams
> That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers > are available in every major programming language, Really? I can't find one for Eiffel. Can you give me a pointer please? - This SF.net email is sp

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:43:59PM -0700, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:14 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > ea. > > > > I don't see why you're bending over so far backwards to accommodate > > this GRU thing that we don't even have numbers for and could actually > > poten

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:14 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > ea. > > I don't see why you're bending over so far backwards to accommodate > this GRU thing that we don't even have numbers for and could actually > potentially be batched up in other ways (eg. using mmu_gather or > mmu_gather-like idea).

[kvm-devel] KVM: LAPIC: ignore pending timers if LVTT is disabled

2008-05-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Only use the APIC pending timers count to break out of HLT emulation if the timer vector is enabled. Certain configurations of Windows simply mask out the vector without disabling the timer. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapi

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM: kvm_vcpu_block task state race

2008-05-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 05:26:06PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >So do you want to give wait_event_interruptible() a try or wait for that > >change until userspace never issues vcpu ioctl's to a possibly busy vcpu > >(and go with the patch above)? > > > > Do we have anything critical that issues v

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:32:38AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:06:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:38, Robin Holt wrote: > > > In order to invalidate the remote page table entries, we need to message > > > (uses XPC) to the remote side. The re

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 1/2] KVM: hlt emulation should take in-kernel APIC/PIT timers into account

2008-05-13 Thread Yang, Sheng
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 00:40:05 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:12:02AM +0800, Yang, Sheng wrote: > > > Did you have kvm.git commit 8ae6dc90ac84d9734e343210c8ec709f50cd9d89 > > > when testing this? > > > > > > I believe it should fix that issue, because "ps->inject_pending" won'

Re: [kvm-devel] Windows PV driver for KVM

2008-05-13 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
Hi, Dor, I just checked the URL and seems it is not updated still, willyou update it? -- Yunhong Jiang Dor Laor wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:17 +0800, Jiang, Yunhong wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> Jiang, Yunhong wrote: I noticed the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:07:08PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > I think this is pretty useful as-is. I think it also gives us a reasonable > > way to move forward that will keep everyone pretty happy. > > > > Here's a short example: > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Anthony Liguori wrote: > I think this is pretty useful as-is. I think it also gives us a reasonable > way to move forward that will keep everyone pretty happy. > > Here's a short example: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/images/linux.img -snapshot -vnc :2 > > Would become `foo.qemu': > > # Main

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
There has been an awful lot of discussion about a configuration file with almost no general agreement except that one is strongly desired. I thought about it a bit, and I think a nice step would be to simply allow the current configuration parameters to be stored in a file using a pretty familiar

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add method to send fragmented packets

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
We need to be able to send fragmented packets in KVM to avoid an extra copy in the TX path. This patch adds a qemu_sendv_packet() function to send fragemented packets. It also provides backwards compatibility for old clients that don't support the new interface. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add fd_readv handler to tap

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
This allows fragmented packets to be sent with no additional copies over the tap interface. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/qemu/vl.c b/qemu/vl.c index 1f0a6ac..7900b76 100644 --- a/qemu/vl.c +++ b/qemu/vl.c @@ -4086,6 +4086,19 @@ static void tap_receive(void *opaq

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Use fragmented send for virtio

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
This patch converts virtio-net to use the new fragmented send interface. We should have always supported this. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c b/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c index 85cc9d2..93bca1d 100644 --- a/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c +++ b/qemu/hw/virtio-

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[kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Validate virtio-net TX header

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Missed this one in my last series. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c b/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c index 93bca1d..ca45775 100644 --- a/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c +++ b/qemu/hw/virtio-net.c @@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ static void virtio_net_flush_tx(VirtIONet *n, Vir

Re: [kvm-devel] pinning, tsc and apic

2008-05-13 Thread Ryan Harper
* Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-12 17:00]: > Ryan Harper wrote: > >>BTW, what if you don't pace-out the startups? Do we still have issues > >>with that? > >> > > > >Do you mean without the 1 second delay or with a longer delay? My > >experience is that delay helps (fewer hangs

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[kvm-devel] Reminder: register now for KVM Forum 2008

2008-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
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Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Robin Holt
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:06:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:38, Robin Holt wrote: > > In order to invalidate the remote page table entries, we need to message > > (uses XPC) to the remote side. The remote side needs to acquire the > > importing process's mmap_sem and

[kvm-devel] Vmware ESX under KVM - guest GPF in installer

2008-05-13 Thread Ian Kirk
Hi, I wanted to try running Vmware ESX without the effort of finding a physical machine. Googling around I found that it is possible to run ESX under other hypervisors/emulators, e.g. Vmware Workstation. So I thought i'd give KVM a go. Using kvm-66 on 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE, the (mostly text mode) in

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 08 May 2008 11:34, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Sorry for not having completely answered to this. I initially thought > stop_machine could work when you mentioned it, but I don't think it > can even removing xpmem block-inside-mmu-notifier-method requirements. > > For stop_machine to solve

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:38, Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:36:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 7 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > I think the spinlock->rwsem conversion is ok under config option, as > > > you can see I complained myself to various of those pat

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Re: [kvm-devel] [CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing

2008-05-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> mandrake 9, 10 and winxp run but neither centos-5.1 i386 nor x86_64 >> are boot:-( i386 give a kernel panic x86_64 simple hang during boot. >> > > Can you post the panic? > > It's probably the 3Dnow! bug which is fixed for kvm-69. unfortunately

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 9071a6c.., userspace 4b1a087..

2008-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Yunfeng Zhao wrote: > Hi All, > > This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git > 9071a6c25634d037adb7129dc84814a7f5c7c34a and kvm-userspace.git > 4b1a087a96ca9a7bf5ed1124367f7f3ac785c0d5. > > Five Old Issues: > > 1. Fails to restore guests in

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] svm.c: tsc unsigned delta calculation

2008-05-13 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:01:02PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > index 5528121..c919ddd 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > @@ -685,8 +685,14 @@ static void svm_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) >

[kvm-devel] can't boot 2.6.26-rcX

2008-05-13 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello, there is a problem booting 2.6.26-rcX (X=1,2). It stops booting at Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4016.92 BogoMIPS (lpj=8033846) The kvm process then takes 100% of my host CPU. This is with kvm-67 on an AM64-X2- I'm not yet familiar with kvm and debugging. Will a sysrq

[kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 9071a6c.., userspace 4b1a087..

2008-05-13 Thread Yunfeng Zhao
Hi All, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 9071a6c25634d037adb7129dc84814a7f5c7c34a and kvm-userspace.git 4b1a087a96ca9a7bf5ed1124367f7f3ac785c0d5. Five Old Issues: 1. Fails to restore guests in real mode https://sourceforge.net/tra

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/4] kvm/host: fix paravirt clocksource to be compatible with xen.

2008-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 63 +++ > 1 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > index 979f983..6906d54 1006

[kvm-devel] Существенные условия договора строительного подряда

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Re: [kvm-devel] performance with guests running 2.4 kernels (specifically RHEL3)

2008-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
David S. Ahern wrote: > That does the trick with kscand. > > Not so fast... the patch updates the flood count to 5. Can you check if a lower value still works? Also, whether updating the flood count to 5 (without the rest of the patch) works? Unconditionally bumping the flood count to 5 w

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 3/4] KVM: VMX: Enable NMI with in-kernel irqchip

2008-05-13 Thread Yang, Sheng
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 14:42:17 Yang, Sheng wrote: > On Monday 12 May 2008 15:54:00 Avi Kivity wrote: > > Yang, Sheng wrote: > > > On Friday 09 May 2008 23:49:13 Avi Kivity wrote: > > >> Yang, Sheng wrote: > > >>> From 4942a5c35c97e5edb6fe1303e04fb86f25cac345 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > >>> 2001 From: