[XEN] localtime support for paravirtualized guests

It is quite minimal
in its approach, satisfying the purposes of the paravirtualized
NetWare operating system as well as any others that expect the time
base to be provided in localtime.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>

tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c

@@ -869,6 +869,30 @@ static PyObject *pyxc_domain_iomem_permission(PyObject *self,
     return zero;
 }
 
+static PyObject *pyxc_domain_set_time_offset(XcObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+    uint32_t dom;
+    int32_t time_offset_seconds;
+    time_t calendar_time;
+    struct tm local_time;
+    struct tm utc_time;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i", &dom))
+        return NULL;
+
+    calendar_time = time(NULL);
+    localtime_r(&calendar_time, &local_time);
+    gmtime_r(&calendar_time, &utc_time);
+    /* set up to get calendar time based on utc_time, with local dst setting */
+    utc_time.tm_isdst = local_time.tm_isdst;
+    time_offset_seconds = (int32_t)difftime(calendar_time, mktime(&utc_time));
+
+    if (xc_domain_set_time_offset(self->xc_handle, dom, time_offset_seconds) != 0)
+        return NULL;
+
+    Py_INCREF(zero);
+    return zero;
+}
 
 static PyObject *dom_op(XcObject *self, PyObject *args,
                         int (*fn)(int, uint32_t))
@@ -1208,6 +1232,13 @@ static PyMethodDef pyxc_methods[] = {
       "Returns: [int]: The size in KiB of memory spanning the given number "
       "of pages.\n" },
 
+    { "domain_set_time_offset",
+      (PyCFunction)pyxc_domain_set_time_offset,
+      METH_VARARGS, "\n"
+      "Set a domain's time offset to Dom0's localtime\n"
+      " dom        [int]: Domain whose time offset is being set.\n"
+      "Returns: [int] 0 on success; -1 on error.\n" },
+
     { NULL, NULL, 0, NULL }
 };
 

tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ ROUNDTRIPPING_CONFIG_ENTRIES = [
     ('bootloader', str),
     ('bootloader_args', str),
     ('features', str),
+    ('localtime', int),
     ]
 
 ROUNDTRIPPING_CONFIG_ENTRIES += VM_CONFIG_PARAMS
@@ -1260,6 +1261,10 @@ class XendDomainInfo:
                                       self.info['image'],
                                       self.info['device'])
 
+            localtime = self.info['localtime']
+            if localtime is not None and localtime == 1:
+                xc.domain_set_time_offset(self.domid)
+
             xc.domain_setcpuweight(self.domid, self.info['cpu_weight'])
 
             # repin domain vcpus if a restricted cpus list is provided

tools/python/xen/xm/create.py

@@ -672,6 +672,8 @@ def make_config(vals):
         config.append(['backend', ['netif']])
     if vals.tpmif:
         config.append(['backend', ['tpmif']])
+    if vals.localtime:
+        config.append(['localtime', vals.localtime])
 
     config_image = configure_image(vals)
     if vals.bootloader: