[PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisation

Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be
replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native
operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT.

This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized
instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure.  Currently these are
function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops
structure with their own variants.

All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific
register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier.

And:

+From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>

The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup().
Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86:

    arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of
                `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior

Move memory_setup() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 1f0f7b60995e..bb1fa061c6cf 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -182,6 +182,17 @@ config X86_ES7000
 
 endchoice
 
+config PARAVIRT
+	bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  Paravirtualization is a way of running multiple instances of
+	  Linux on the same machine, under a hypervisor.  This option
+	  changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
+	  under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly.
+	  However, when run without a hypervisor the kernel is
+	  theoretically slower.  If in doubt, say N.
+
 config ACPI_SRAT
 	bool
 	default y