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From: julien.grall@citrix•com (Julien Grall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:11:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C4E6A6.3010808@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438966019-19322-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@citrix.com>

On 07/08/15 17:46, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
> hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.
> 
> Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will result to a
> guest crash.
> 
> This series is a first attempt to allow those Linux running with the current
> hypercall interface and PV protocol.
> 
> This solution has been chosen because we want to run Linux 64KB in released
> Xen ARM version or/and platform using an old version of Linux DOM0.
> 
> There is room for improvement, such as support of 64KB grant, modification
> of PV protocol to support different page size... They will be explored in a
> separate patch series later.
> 
> TODO list:
>     - Convert swiotlb to 64KB
>     - Convert xenfb to 64KB
>     - Check if backend in QEMU works with DOM0 64KB
>     - It may be possible to move some common define between
>     netback/netfront and blkfront/blkback in an header
> 
> All patches has been built tested for ARM32, ARM64, x86. But I haven't tested
> to run it on x86 as I don't have a box with Xen x86 running. I would be
> happy if someone give a try and see possible regression for x86.
> 
> A branch based on the latest linux/master can be found here:

Sorry, I forgot to update this bits in the cover letter.

It's based on xentip for-linus-4.3 and depends on "Use correctly the Xen
memory terminologies". The v3 has been sent few minutes ago [1]


> 
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git branch xen-64k-v3
> 
> Comments, suggestions are welcomed.
> 
> Sincerely yours,

[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-08/msg00619.html


-- 
Julien Grall

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07 16:46 [PATCH v3 00/20] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 01/20] net/xen-netback: xenvif_gop_frag_copy: move GSO check out of the loop Julien Grall
2015-08-08 13:59   ` Wei Liu
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 02/20] arm/xen: Drop pte_mfn and mfn_pte Julien Grall
2015-08-10 10:10   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 03/20] xen: Add Xen specific page definition Julien Grall
2015-08-10 10:46   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-20  9:49   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 04/20] xen/grant: Introduce helpers to split a page into grant Julien Grall
2015-08-10 10:44   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-20  9:51   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-28 14:29     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 05/20] xen/grant: Add helper gnttab_page_grant_foreign_access_ref_one Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 06/20] block/xen-blkfront: Split blkif_queue_request in 2 Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 07/20] block/xen-blkfront: Store a page rather a pfn in the grant structure Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 08/20] block/xen-blkfront: split get_grant in 2 Julien Grall
2015-08-20  7:33   ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 09/20] xen/biomerge: Don't allow biovec to be merge when Linux is not using 4KB page Julien Grall
2015-08-10 10:50   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 11:24     ` [Xen-devel] " Julien Grall
2015-08-10 11:25       ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 11:32         ` Julien Grall
2015-08-10 12:41           ` David Vrabel
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 10/20] xen/xenbus: Use Xen page definition Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 11/20] tty/hvc: xen: Use xen " Julien Grall
2015-08-20  9:55   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-28 15:03     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 12/20] xen/balloon: Don't rely on the page granularity is the same for Xen and Linux Julien Grall
2015-08-10 11:18   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 11:31     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-10 12:55       ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 13:36         ` Julien Grall
2015-08-20  9:59   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-28 15:10     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 13/20] xen/events: fifo: Make it running on 64KB granularity Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 14/20] xen/grant-table: " Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 15/20] block/xen-blkfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity Julien Grall
2015-08-20  8:10   ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-08-28 15:33     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 16/20] block/xen-blkback: " Julien Grall
2015-08-20  8:14   ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 17/20] net/xen-netfront: " Julien Grall
2015-08-20 10:03   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 18/20] net/xen-netback: " Julien Grall
2015-08-08 14:55   ` Wei Liu
2015-08-10  9:57     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-10 11:39       ` Wei Liu
2015-08-10 12:00         ` Julien Grall
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 19/20] xen/privcmd: Add support for Linux " Julien Grall
2015-08-10 12:03   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 12:14     ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-10 12:57       ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-10 13:25         ` Julien Grall
2015-09-01 17:10     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-20 10:08   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-08-07 16:46 ` [PATCH v3 20/20] arm/xen: Add support for " Julien Grall
2015-08-10 12:52   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-07 17:11 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2015-08-20  0:40 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page Julien Grall
2015-08-20  8:15   ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-08-20 10:11   ` David Vrabel
2015-08-20 15:03     ` Julien Grall
2015-08-20 15:15       ` David Vrabel

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