Since commit 96d4f267e40f ("Remove 'type' argument from access_ok()
function") in v5.0-rc1, the type argument of access_ok() was dropped.
The same commit also dropped macros VERIFY_READ and VERIFY_WRITE so check
for their existence on pre-5.0 kernels to allow build against kernels with
this change backported.
The do_gettimeofday() helper was removed by commit e4b92b108c6c
("timekeeping: remove obsolete time accessors") in v5.0-rc1. Bring it back
for users in vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c.
This feels like a quick and clumsy band aid to allow build with post-4.20
kernels. On a closer look, the whole gymnastics around uptimeState and
HostIFReadUptimeWork() with jiffies and wall time checking and correcting
each other seems to be a workaround for an absence of high resolution
monotonic time. Considering ktime_get_ts64() is available since 3.17 and
before that, ktime_get_ts() since 2.6.17, perhaps the time has come to
clean all this machinery up. But something like this would be beyond the
scope of this repository.
Since commit ca79b0c211af ("mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages
variables to atomic") in v5.0-rc1, totalram_pages() is an accessor function
and the actual variable is an atomic.
Since commit 0126be38d988 ("kbuild: announce removal of SUBDIRS if used")
in v5.0-rc1, using SUBDIRS when building out of tree modules produces
a deprecation warning. As M used to work since pretty much ever, use it
unconditionally.
Since commit 11c5ad0ec441 ("eventpoll: switch to ->poll_mask") in
v4.18-rc1, eventpoll switched from ->poll() to ->poll_mask(). Rather than
calling the callback directly (which would result in null pointer
dereference), use vfs_poll() wrapper. As this wrapper is only available
since 4.18-rc1 cycle as well, provide a copy to use when building against
older kernels.
Makefiles in *-only copy the object file module is created from into the
parent directory but do not delete them on "make clean". Clean these files
up in "clean" target of top level makefile.
Remove .cache.mk inside vmmon-only and vmnet-only when executing
"make clean". This file can cause issues when upgrading gcc as make will
still look for includes inside older gcc includes directory.
File .cache.mk with cache of generated variables is created by build since
kernel v4.15-rc1, commit 3298b690b21c ("kbuild: Add a cache for generated
variables").
Build against kernel with retpoline support issues warning
objtool: Task_Switch()+0x425: indirect call found in RETPOLINE build
This is because an indirect call in TaskSwitchToMonitor() is encoded using
inline assembler so that it bypasses retpoline generation. For this
purpose, macro CALL_NOSPEC exists since v4.15-rc8 (and has been backported
into some distribution kernels with the rest of retpoline support). Use the
macro if available and fallback to the original code if not.
Function declared with __attribute__((always_inline)) should also be
declared as inline, otherwise gcc issues a warning "always_inline function
might not be inlinable". It's just cosmetic but getting rid of known
harmless warnings makes it easier to spot actual problems. Use the
__always_inline macro for LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs() as this is how always
inline functions should be declared in kernel code.
The MSR_K7_HWCR_SMMLOCK macro is defined in mainline since commit
18c71ce9c882 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Add the Secure Encrypted Virtualization CPU
feature") in v4.16-rc1.
Add a top level makefile to make common tasks easier. Supported targets:
make - build modules
make install - install modules (honors DESTDIR)
make clean - clean up
make tarballs - create source tarballs from current HEAD
Note: "make tarballs" uses "git archive" so that it only works in a local
copy of the git repository, not in a directory created by unpacking
a tarball.
Add *.tar to .gitignore to hide tarballs created by "make tarballs".
With version 4.15-rc1, conversion to new timer interface is finished and
old interface using init_timer() is no longer available. Convert all users
to new one.
As discussed in
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059674
the reason for multiple objtool warnings is the fact that vmmon module
defines its own Panic() function which never returns. While it is marked as
such which is used by the compiler for optimization, there is no way to
find this from object file.
While this seems innocuous, it might result in problems with unwinder
later. The quickest way around is to replace vmmon's own Panic() with
standard kernel panic() until a cleaner solution is found.
global_page_state() was renamed to global_zone_page_state() by commit
c41f012ade0b ("mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state").
However, some more changes are needed (and were in fact needed even with
kernels older than 4.14.
Since commit 385386cff4c6 ("mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to
node counters") in v4.13-rc1, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE needs to be used with
global_node_page_state(), in-tree callers were fixed by commit d507e2ebd2c7
("mm: fix global NR_SLAB_.*CLAIMABLE counter reads").
Since commit 599d0c954f91 ("mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node") in
v4.8-rc1, NR_UNEVICTABLE needs global_node_page_state() rather than
global_page_state().
Since commit 50658e2e04c1 ("mm: move page mapped accounting to the node")
in v4.8-rc1, NR_ANON_PAGES needs global_node_page_state() as well. This was
shortly before it was renamed to NR_ANON_MAPPED but as both got into
mainline in v4.8-rc1, we can do with one #ifdef.
To keep HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit() readable, extract the version
dependent calls into inline helpers.
The CR3_PCID_MASK is defined in mainline asm/processor-flags.h since
commit 6c690ee1039b ("x86/mm: Split read_cr3() into read_cr3_pa() and
__read_cr3()") in v4.13-rc1.
With commit 633547973ffc ("net: convert sk_buff.users from atomic_t to
refcount_t") in v4.13-rc1, sk_buff::users changed its type from atomic_t
to refcount_t. Use skb_get() to increment the counter as that's going to
work on both old and new kernels.
The MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES macro is defined in mainline since commit
ab6d9468631a ("x86/msr: Rename MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES to
MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES") in v4.12-rc1.
The MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES_CPUID_FAULT macro is defined in mainline
since commit e9ea1e7f53b8 ("x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID") in
v4.12-rc1.
The PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE macro is defined in mainline pci_ids.h since
commit 94e57fea6202 ("PCI: Move PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE to pci_ids.h")
in v3.18-rc1.
Michal Kubecek
Theo Bertacchini