From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: zach@vmware.com, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [6/12] x86_64: Early segment setup for VT
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:41:33 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070809124133.D559014F3B@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070809241.425881000@suse.de>
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
VT is very picky about when it can enter execution.
Get all segments setup and get LDT and TR into valid state to allow
VT execution under VMware and KVM (untested).
This makes the boot decompression run under VT, which makes it several
orders of magnitude faster on 64-bit Intel hardware.
Before, I was seeing times up to a minute or more to decompress a 1.3MB kernel
on a very fast box.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
---
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
Index: linux/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
movl %eax, %ds
movl %eax, %es
movl %eax, %ss
+ movl %eax, %fs
+ movl %eax, %gs
+ lldt %ax
+ movl $0x20, %eax
+ ltr %ax
/* Compute the decompressed kernel start address. It is where
* we were loaded at aligned to a 2M boundary. %rbp contains the
@@ -295,6 +300,8 @@ gdt:
.quad 0x0000000000000000 /* NULL descriptor */
.quad 0x00af9a000000ffff /* __KERNEL_CS */
.quad 0x00cf92000000ffff /* __KERNEL_DS */
+ .quad 0x0080890000000000 /* TS descriptor */
+ .quad 0x0000000000000000 /* TS continued */
gdt_end:
.bss
/* Stack for uncompression */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-09 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 12:41 [PATCH] [0/12] x86 Late merge bug fixes for 2.6.23 Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD Fam10h Andi Kleen
2007-08-10 10:19 ` [patches] " Joachim Deguara
2007-08-12 9:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-12 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-13 3:06 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-13 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-13 3:38 ` dean gaudet
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [2/12] x86_64: Calgary - Fix mis-handled PCI topology Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [3/12] x86_64: Don't mark __exitcall as __cold Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [4/12] x86_64: Disable CLFLUSH support again Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:54 ` [patches] " Jan Beulich
2007-08-09 13:11 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 13:29 ` [patches] " Jan Beulich
2007-08-09 16:24 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue Andi Kleen
2007-08-18 0:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-18 0:11 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 9:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-18 20:32 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-18 21:31 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 22:28 ` [PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate Chris Wright
2007-08-19 3:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-19 5:55 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-18 21:58 ` [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-20 1:50 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-20 2:07 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-20 6:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-21 7:30 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-21 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 12:26 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-09 12:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-11 21:30 ` [PATCH] [6/12] x86_64: Early segment setup for VT H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [7/12] x86_64: really stop MCEs during code patching Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [8/12] x86_64: Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 16:46 ` Cal Peake
2007-08-09 16:50 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [9/12] x86_64: Avoid NMI Watchdog and/or long wait in setup_APIC_timer Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [10/12] x86_64: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [11/12] x86_64: vdso.lds in arch/x86_64/vdso/.gitignore Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [12/12] x86_64: Fix start_kernel warning Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 13:06 ` [PATCH] [0/12] x86 Late merge bug fixes for 2.6.23 Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
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