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paravirt: helper to disable all IO space
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In a virtual environment, device drivers such as legacy IDE will waste
quite a lot of time probing for their devices which will never appear.
This helper function allows a paravirt implementation to lay claim to
the whole iomem and ioport space, thereby disabling all device drivers
trying to claim IO resources.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored and Jeremy Fitzhardinge committed Jul 18, 2007
1 parent 5f4352f commit d572929
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35 changes: 35 additions & 0 deletions arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
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Expand Up @@ -228,6 +228,41 @@ static int __init print_banner(void)
}
core_initcall(print_banner);

static struct resource reserve_ioports = {
.start = 0,
.end = IO_SPACE_LIMIT,
.name = "paravirt-ioport",
.flags = IORESOURCE_IO | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
};

static struct resource reserve_iomem = {
.start = 0,
.end = -1,
.name = "paravirt-iomem",
.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
};

/*
* Reserve the whole legacy IO space to prevent any legacy drivers
* from wasting time probing for their hardware. This is a fairly
* brute-force approach to disabling all non-virtual drivers.
*
* Note that this must be called very early to have any effect.
*/
int paravirt_disable_iospace(void)
{
int ret;

ret = request_resource(&ioport_resource, &reserve_ioports);
if (ret == 0) {
ret = request_resource(&iomem_resource, &reserve_iomem);
if (ret)
release_resource(&reserve_ioports);
}

return ret;
}

struct paravirt_ops paravirt_ops = {
.name = "bare hardware",
.paravirt_enabled = 0,
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/asm-i386/paravirt.h
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Expand Up @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ unsigned paravirt_patch_default(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *site, unsigned len)
unsigned paravirt_patch_insns(void *site, unsigned len,
const char *start, const char *end);

int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);

/*
* This generates an indirect call based on the operation type number.
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