Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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When Hyper-V sends an interrupt to the guest, the guest has to figure out which channel the interrupt is associated with. Hyper-V sets a bit in a memory page that is shared with the guest, indicating a particular "relid" that the interrupt is associated with. The current Linux code then uses a set of per-CPU linked lists to map a given "relid" to a pointer to a channel structure. This design introduces a synchronization problem if the CPU that Hyper-V will interrupt for a certain channel is changed. If the interrupt comes on the "old CPU" and the channel was already moved to the per-CPU list of the "new CPU", then the relid -> channel mapping will fail and the interrupt is dropped. Similarly, if the interrupt comes on the new CPU but the channel was not moved to the per-CPU list of the new CPU, then the mapping will fail and the interrupt is dropped. Relids are integers ranging from 0 to 2047. The mapping from relids to channel structures can be done by setting up an array with 2048 entries, each entry being a pointer to a channel structure (hence total size ~16K bytes, which is not a problem). The array is global, so there are no per-CPU linked lists to update. The array can be searched and updated by loading from/storing to the array at the specified index. With no per-CPU data structures, the above mentioned synchronization problem is avoided and the relid2channel() function gets simpler. Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200406001514.19876-4-parri.andrea@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> |
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certs | ||
crypto | ||
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drivers | ||
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include | ||
init | ||
ipc | ||
kernel | ||
lib | ||
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mm | ||
net | ||
samples | ||
scripts | ||
security | ||
sound | ||
tools | ||
usr | ||
virt | ||
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.mailmap | ||
COPYING | ||
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Kbuild | ||
Kconfig | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
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README |
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.