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Olaf Hering 5028e9bb65 tools/libxc: remove volatile keyword for bitmap operations
All bitmaps maintained by xc_bitops.h are used in single threaded
applications. So nothing will change the bitmaps content, adding
volatile adds just unneeded memory reloads.

xenpaging uses bitmaps alot and using non-volatile versions will
slightly improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2012-01-31 11:35:07 +00:00
Olaf Hering f91b416707 libxc: add bitmap_clear function
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-11-20 17:02:40 +01:00
Olaf Hering aa1355f971 tools: merge several bitop functions into xc_bitops.h
Bitmaps are used in save/restore, xenpaging and blktap2.  Merge the code into a
private xc_bitops.h file. All users are single threaded, so locking is not an
issue. The array of bits is handled as volatile because the x86 save/restore
code passes the bitmap to the hypervisor which in turn modifies the bitmap.

blktap2 uses a private bitmap. There was a possible overflow in the
bitmap_size() function, the remainder was not considered.

ia64 save/restore uses a bitmap to send the number of vcpus to the host.

x86 save/restore uses a bitmap to track dirty pages. This bitmap is shared with
the hypervisor. An unused function count_bits() was removed and a new
bitmap_size() function is now used.

xenpaging uses 3 private bitmaps to track the gfns which are in paged-out
state.  It had a copy of some Linux bitops.h, which is now obsolete. Also the
BITS_PER_LONG macro was hardcoded to 64 which made it impossible to run 32bit
tools on a 64bit host. Wether this works at all has to be tested, yet.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-06-10 10:47:03 +02:00