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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/drivers/xen/preempt.c')
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diff --git a/kernel/drivers/xen/preempt.c b/kernel/drivers/xen/preempt.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a1800c150 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/drivers/xen/preempt.c @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +/* + * 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 */ |