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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Subject: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 10:37 pm

Hi Linus,


	First attempt at git, so please pull carefully.  I've just put the

three i386 boot changes in the repo for the moment.  If this works I'll pile

on the 44 lguest patches.


	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git


 Documentation/i386/boot.txt        |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S |   15 ++++++++++-

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c |    3 ++

 arch/x86/boot/header.S             |    7 +++++-

 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c   |    7 +++++

 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S          |   44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--

 include/asm-x86/bootparam.h        |    9 +++++-

 include/linux/linkage.h            |    6 +++++

 8 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


commit f160a3a39ba7a5ac03a0eb64c25d3751c342e0e7

Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

Date:   Mon Oct 22 10:56:19 2007 +1000


    i386: paravirt boot sequence


    This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot.

    If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things:


     1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the

        segment registers and clear interrupts.  This is appropriate

        for normal native boot and some paravirtualized environments, but

        inapproprate for others.


     2. Check the hardware architecture, and dispatch to the appropriate

        kernel entrypoint.  If the bootloader doesn't set this, then we

        simply do the normal boot sequence.


    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

    Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

    Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>


commit a706681568ed19f147ab78674388c5a0e6ab8c44

Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

Date:...
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Monday, October 22, 2007 - 10:28 pm

Well, it looked ok, but I had already merged the same patches through

Andrew, so when I pulled, I had no differences. So I ended up unpulling,

but not because there was anything *wrong* with your tree, just because

the pull didn't give me anything but a slightly more complex history ;)


		Linus

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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:03 am

Well, with that out the way, and some scatterlist fixups, please pull from


	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git


This should be fairly clean: 45 lguest patches including the more generic

drivers (aimed to be used by KVM as well, and hopefully others) and the start

of separation of arch-specific from general lguest code.


 Documentation/lguest/Makefile         |   26 +-

 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c         | 1629 ++++++++++++++++++---------------

 Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt       |   72 +-

 arch/i386/Kconfig                     |   32 +-

 arch/i386/Makefile                    |    3 +

 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c      |    1 +

 arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig               |   14 +

 arch/x86/lguest/Makefile              |    1 +

 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c                | 1070 ++++++++++++++++++++++

 arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S           |  115 +++

 arch/x86/xen/Kconfig                  |    5 +-

 drivers/Kconfig                       |    2 +-

 drivers/Makefile                      |    1 +

 drivers/block/Kconfig                 |    6 +

 drivers/block/Makefile                |    2 +-

 drivers/block/lguest_blk.c            |  421 ---------

 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c            |  308 +++++++

 drivers/char/Kconfig                  |    4 +

 drivers/char/Makefile                 |    2 +-

 drivers/char/hvc_lguest.c             |  177 ----

 drivers/char/virtio_console.c         |  225 +++++

 drivers/kvm/Kconfig                   |    4 +

 drivers/lguest/Kconfig                |   13 +-

 drivers/lguest/Makefile               |   10 +-

 drivers/lguest/core.c                 |  568 +-----------

 drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c           |  177 ++---

 drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c |  125 ++-

 drivers/lguest/io.c                   |  626 -------------

 drivers/lguest/lg.h                   |  189 ++---

 drivers/lguest/lguest.c               | 1108 ----------------------

 drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S           |   93 --

 drivers/lguest/lg...
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:10 pm

Ok. However, please include a proper diffstat. And by proper, I mean:


	git diff -M --stat --summary


because right now your diffstat doesn't contain the final "total number of

lines added/removed" (which is the easiest way for me to see that there

isn't anything strange in there), and your diffstat doesn't do renames, so 


but in reality it was not at all thousands of lines changed, but instead a

rename with much smaller changes:


 drivers/lguest/lguest.c => arch/x86/lguest/boot.c  |  102 +-


which is a lot more readable and tells me much more about what is going

on.


And at the end, I really do want to see the details like this:


	 70 files changed, 4822 insertions(+), 4401 deletions(-)

	 create mode 100644 arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig

	 create mode 100644 arch/x86/lguest/Makefile

	 rename drivers/lguest/lguest.c => arch/x86/lguest/boot.c (93%)

	 rename drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S => arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S (73%)

	 delete mode 100644 drivers/block/lguest_blk.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

	 delete mode 100644 drivers/char/hvc_lguest.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/char/virtio_console.c

	 delete mode 100644 drivers/lguest/io.c

	 delete mode 100644 drivers/lguest/lguest_bus.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/lguest/x86/core.c

	 rename drivers/lguest/{switcher.S => x86/switcher_32.S} (99%)

	 delete mode 100644 drivers/net/lguest_net.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio_net.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/Kconfig

	 create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/Makefile

	 create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/config.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio.c

	 create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c

	 create mode 100644 include/asm-x86/lguest.h

	 create mode 100644 include/asm-x86/lguest_hcall.h

	 delete mode 100644 include/linux/lguest_bus.h

	 create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio.h

	 create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_blk.h

	 create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_config...
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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 1:19 am

Thanks, that is much better.  I was just happy to locate git diff in the 133

git commands on my system; finding options 4, 8 and 22 was beyond my skill.


So, this time for sure!  I haven't figured out how everyone does those neat

committer: commits* lists, but I'm sure there's an option here somewhere...


Please pull from:


	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest.git


 Rusty Russell - lguest: documentation update

 Rusty Russell - lguest: Add to maintainers file.

 Jeff Garzik - lguest: build fix

 Rusty Russell - lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.h

 Rusty Russell - lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest

 Rusty Russell - lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers

 Rusty Russell - lguest: example launcher header cleanup.


Without the documentation update (which only changes comments and whitespace),

the diff looks like this:


 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c   |   23 +++++++++++------------

 MAINTAINERS                     |    7 +++++++

 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c          |    6 +++---

 drivers/lguest/lg.h             |    3 ---

 drivers/lguest/x86/core.c       |    2 +-

 include/linux/lguest_launcher.h |   18 ++++--------------

 6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)


Including the documentation update, it looks scarier:


 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c         |  178 +++++++++++++++++++-------------

 MAINTAINERS                           |    7 ++

 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c                |   54 +++++-----

 arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S           |    8 +-

 drivers/lguest/core.c                 |    5 +-

 drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c           |   11 +-

 drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c |   37 ++++++--

 drivers/lguest/lg.h                   |    7 +-

 drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c        |   11 ++-

 drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c          |   23 ++--

 drivers/lguest/page_tables.c          |  113 +++++++++++++--------

 drivers/lguest/segments.c             |   48 ++++++----

 drivers/lguest/x86/core.c...
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 6:41 pm

Hey, we give you the power. Actually realizing it all and getting used to

it may take some time. In the meantime, you can use the pre-canned helper

functions and just cut-and-paste from emails ;)


One of the 133 git commands is actually "git request-pull" that does this

all for you. I always forget it, because I don't use it myself, and quite

frankly, it's just a shell-script helper to do this all for you. But if

you're into that kind of thing, you can actually read that shell-script

(and others) and learn more that way ;)


		Linus

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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 2:31 am

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:19:05 +1000 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wr=

..


try "git request-pull ..."


--=20

Cheers,

Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, <virtualization@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 4:37 pm

Also, please add a "lguest: " prefix to all future commits.


Otherwise, in the one-line summary, it is impossible to tell what

portion of the kernel is being updated:


	Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher

	Loading bzImage directly.

	Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.

	Pagetables to use normal kernel types

	Move register setup into i386_core.c

	Accept elf files that are valid but have sections that can not

		be mmap'ed for some reason.


git tools are all keyed to use that first line as a summary of the

changeset, without giving any other context whatsoever.  See Linus's

2.6.X-rcY announcements, for example.


This is also described in akpm's

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt or my

http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html


	Jeff


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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...>
To: <virtualization@...>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 2:55 am

Having virtio in Linus tree would make my life easier wiring it up for

virtualization on s390.


For all virtio patches:


Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>


That reminds me that I promised Rusty to look at one small issue in virtio

net driver. Nothing that should hold of the merge. I will sent the patch via

Rusty when its ready.

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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...>
Cc: <virtualization@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, lguest <lguest@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [git pull] lguest: paravirt boot code
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 3:44 am

Indeed.  And given lguest's lack of interface guarantees, it make sense to use

it as the first virtio guinea pig.  I expect changes as we adapt it for 


Thanks,

Rusty.

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