Use this new driver for both PV and HVM instances.
This driver requires a Xen hypervisor that supports vector callbacks,
VCPUOP hypercalls, and reports that it has a "safe PV clock".
New timer driver:
Submitted by: will
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
PV port to new driver, and bug fixes:
Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
sys/dev/xen/timer/timer.c:
- Register a PV timer device driver which (currently)
implements device_{identify,probe,attach} and stubs
device_detach. The detach routine requires functionality
not provided by timecounters(4). The suspend and resume
routines need additional work (due to Xen requiring that
the hypercalls be executed on the target VCPU), and aren't
needed for our purposes.
- Make sure there can only be one device instance of this
driver, and that it only registers one eventtimers(4) and
one timecounters(4) device interface. Make both interfaces
use PCPU data as needed.
- Match, with a few style cleanups & API differences, the
Xen versions of the "fetch time" functions.
- Document the magic scale_delta() better for the i386 version.
- When registering the event timer, bind a separate event
channel for the timer VIRQ to the device's event timer
interrupt handler for each active VCPU. Describe each
interrupt as "xen_et:c%d", so they can be identified per
CPU in "vmstat -i" or "show intrcnt" in KDB.
- When scheduling a timer into the hypervisor, try up to
60 times if the hypervisor rejects the time as being in
the past. In the common case, this retry shouldn't happen,
and if it does, it should only happen once. This is
because the event timer advertises a minimum period of
100usec, which is only less than the usual hypercall round
trip time about 1 out of every 100 tries. (Unlike other
similar drivers, this one actually checks whether the
hypervisor accepted the singleshot timer set hypercall.)
- Implement a RTC PV clock based on the hypervisor wallclock.
sys/conf/files:
- Add dev/xen/timer/timer.c if the kernel configuration
includes either the XEN or XENHVM options.
sys/conf/files.i386:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen_clock_util.h:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c:
- Remove previous PV timer used in i386 XEN PV kernels, the
new timer introduced in this change is used instead (so
we share the same code between PVHVM and PV).
MFC after: 2 weeks
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