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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-03-09 19:58:30 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-03-09 19:58:30 +1000
commita8c6ecb3be7029881f7c95e5e201a629094a4e1a (patch)
treeeb006541f40528f51334eefc725f155c4ce386a6 /drivers/xen/preempt.c
parent8dd0eb3566711d81bfbe2b4421b33f0dd723cec4 (diff)
parent9eccca0843205f87c00404b663188b88eb248051 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.0-rc3' into drm-next
Linux 4.0-rc3 backmerge to fix two i915 conflicts, and get some mainline bug fixes needed for my testing box Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
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+/*
+ * Preemptible hypercalls
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Citrix Systems R&D ltd.
+ *
+ * This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <xen/xen-ops.h>
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+
+/*
+ * Some hypercalls issued by the toolstack can take many 10s of
+ * seconds. Allow tasks running hypercalls via the privcmd driver to
+ * be voluntarily preempted even if full kernel preemption is
+ * disabled.
+ *
+ * Such preemptible hypercalls are bracketed by
+ * xen_preemptible_hcall_begin() and xen_preemptible_hcall_end()
+ * calls.
+ */
+
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
+
+asmlinkage __visible void xen_maybe_preempt_hcall(void)
+{
+ if (unlikely(__this_cpu_read(xen_in_preemptible_hcall)
+ && should_resched())) {
+ /*
+ * Clear flag as we may be rescheduled on a different
+ * cpu.
+ */
+ __this_cpu_write(xen_in_preemptible_hcall, false);
+ _cond_resched();
+ __this_cpu_write(xen_in_preemptible_hcall, true);
+ }
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */