preempt.c
/*
* 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 */