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@@ -85,7 +85,29 @@
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hypercall_page);
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+/*
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+ * Pointer to the xen_vcpu_info structure or
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+ * &HYPERVISOR_shared_info->vcpu_info[cpu]. See xen_hvm_init_shared_info
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+ * and xen_vcpu_setup for details. By default it points to share_info->vcpu_info
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+ * but if the hypervisor supports VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info then it can point
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+ * to xen_vcpu_info. The pointer is used in __xen_evtchn_do_upcall to
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+ * acknowledge pending events.
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+ * Also more subtly it is used by the patched version of irq enable/disable
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+ * e.g. xen_irq_enable_direct and xen_iret in PV mode.
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+ *
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+ * The desire to be able to do those mask/unmask operations as a single
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+ * instruction by using the per-cpu offset held in %gs is the real reason
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+ * vcpu info is in a per-cpu pointer and the original reason for this
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+ * hypercall.
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+ *
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+ */
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DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu_info *, xen_vcpu);
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+
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+/*
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+ * Per CPU pages used if hypervisor supports VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info
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+ * hypercall. This can be used both in PV and PVHVM mode. The structure
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+ * overrides the default per_cpu(xen_vcpu, cpu) value.
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+ */
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DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu_info, xen_vcpu_info);
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enum xen_domain_type xen_domain_type = XEN_NATIVE;
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@@ -187,7 +209,12 @@ static void xen_vcpu_setup(int cpu)
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/* Check to see if the hypervisor will put the vcpu_info
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structure where we want it, which allows direct access via
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- a percpu-variable. */
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+ a percpu-variable.
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+ N.B. This hypercall can _only_ be called once per CPU. Subsequent
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+ calls will error out with -EINVAL. This is due to the fact that
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+ hypervisor has no unregister variant and this hypercall does not
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+ allow to over-write info.mfn and info.offset.
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+ */
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err = HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info, cpu, &info);
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if (err) {
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