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    xen/gndev: Xen backend support for paged out grant targets V4. · c571898f
    Andres Lagar-Cavilla authored
    Since Xen-4.2, hvm domains may have portions of their memory paged out. When a
    foreign domain (such as dom0) attempts to map these frames, the map will
    initially fail. The hypervisor returns a suitable errno, and kicks an
    asynchronous page-in operation carried out by a helper. The foreign domain is
    expected to retry the mapping operation until it eventually succeeds. The
    foreign domain is not put to sleep because itself could be the one running the
    pager assist (typical scenario for dom0).
    
    This patch adds support for this mechanism for backend drivers using grant
    mapping and copying operations. Specifically, this covers the blkback and
    gntdev drivers (which map foreign grants), and the netback driver (which copies
    foreign grants).
    
    * Add a retry method for grants that fail with GNTST_eagain (i.e. because the
      target foreign frame is paged out).
    * Insert hooks with appropriate wrappers in the aforementioned drivers.
    
    The retry loop is only invoked if the grant operation status is GNTST_eagain.
    It guarantees to leave a new status code different from GNTST_eagain. Any other
    status code results in identical code execution as before.
    
    The retry loop performs 256 attempts with increasing time intervals through a
    32 second period. It uses msleep to yield while waiting for the next retry.
    
    V2 after feedback from David Vrabel:
    * Explicit MAX_DELAY instead of wrap-around delay into zero
    * Abstract GNTST_eagain check into core grant table code for netback module.
    
    V3 after feedback from Ian Campbell:
    * Add placeholder in array of grant table error descriptions for unrelated
      error code we jump over.
    * Eliminate single map and retry macro in favor of a generic batch flavor.
    * Some renaming.
    * Bury most implementation in grant_table.c, cleaner interface.
    
    V4 rebased on top of sync of Xen grant table interface headers.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
    [v5: Fixed whitespace issues]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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