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David Vrabel fdfd811ddd x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted
Hypercalls submitted by user space tools via the privcmd driver can
take a long time (potentially many 10s of seconds) if the hypercall
has many sub-operations.

A fully preemptible kernel may deschedule such as task in any upcall
called from a hypercall continuation.

However, in a kernel with voluntary or no preemption, hypercall
continuations in Xen allow event handlers to be run but the task
issuing the hypercall will not be descheduled until the hypercall is
complete and the ioctl returns to user space.  These long running
tasks may also trigger the kernel's soft lockup detection.

Add xen_preemptible_hcall_begin() and xen_preemptible_hcall_end() to
bracket hypercalls that may be preempted.  Use these in the privcmd
driver.

When returning from an upcall, call xen_maybe_preempt_hcall() which
adds a schedule point if if the current task was within a preemptible
hypercall.

Since _cond_resched() can move the task to a different CPU, clear and
set xen_in_preemptible_hcall around the call.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-02-23 16:30:24 +00:00
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alpha asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
arc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2015-02-18 08:49:20 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2015-02-22 09:57:16 -08:00
arm64 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
avr32 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2015-02-21 12:59:04 -08:00
c6x all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
cris CRIS changes for 3.20 2015-02-15 18:02:02 -08:00
frv asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
hexagon all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
ia64 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
m32r asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
m68k asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
metag asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
microblaze all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-02-21 19:41:38 -08:00
mn10300 OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
nios2 nios2 for v3.20 2015-02-17 14:23:42 -08:00
openrisc asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
parisc Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2015-02-19 10:07:08 -08:00
powerpc The clock framework changes for 3.20 contain the usual driver additions, 2015-02-21 12:30:30 -08:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-02-22 17:42:14 -08:00
score all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
sh asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
sparc asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
tile tile: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
um all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
unicore32 mm: vmalloc: pass additional vm_flags to __vmalloc_node_range() 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
x86 x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted 2015-02-23 16:30:24 +00:00
xtensa asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
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