4 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Jan Beulich 36ce9faad9 libxl{,u}: replace TOSTRING()
Now that common-macros.h has STR() available, which is even slightly
more flexible, use that and drop the custom macros.

No difference in generated code (except for line numbers, of course,
where embedded in code/data).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-04-08 09:39:50 +02:00
Oleksandr Tyshchenko 1eb013ef97 libxl: Add "grant_usage" parameter for virtio disk devices
Allow administrators to control whether Xen grant mappings for
the virtio disk devices should be used. By default (when new
parameter is not specified), the existing behavior is retained
(we enable grants if backend-domid != 0).

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-02-19 12:46:07 +01:00
Oleksandr Tyshchenko 66dd1c62b2 libxl: Add support for Virtio disk configuration
This patch adds basic support for configuring and assisting virtio-mmio
based virtio-disk backend (emulator) which is intended to run out of
Qemu and could be run in any domain.
Although the Virtio block device is quite different from traditional
Xen PV block device (vbd) from the toolstack's point of view:
 - as the frontend is virtio-blk which is not a Xenbus driver, nothing
   written to Xenstore are fetched by the frontend currently ("vdev"
   is not passed to the frontend). But this might need to be revised
   in future, so frontend data might be written to Xenstore in order to
   support hotplugging virtio devices or passing the backend domain id
   on arch where the device-tree is not available.
 - the ring-ref/event-channel are not used for the backend<->frontend
   communication, the proposed IPC for Virtio is IOREQ/DM
it is still a "block device" and ought to be integrated in existing
"disk" handling. So, re-use (and adapt) "disk" parsing/configuration
logic to deal with Virtio devices as well.

For the immediate purpose and an ability to extend that support for
other use-cases in future (Qemu, virtio-pci, etc) perform the following
actions:
- Add new disk backend type (LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_STANDALONE) and reflect
  that in the configuration
- Introduce new disk "specification" and "transport" fields to struct
  libxl_device_disk. Both are written to the Xenstore. The transport
  field is only used for the specification "virtio" and it assumes
  only "mmio" value for now.
- Introduce new "specification" option with "xen" communication
  protocol being default value.
- Add new device kind (LIBXL__DEVICE_KIND_VIRTIO_DISK) as current
  one (LIBXL__DEVICE_KIND_VBD) doesn't fit into Virtio disk model

An example of domain configuration for Virtio disk:
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mmcblk0p3, xvda1, backendtype=standalone, specification=virtio']

Nothing has changed for default Xen disk configuration.

Please note, this patch is not enough for virtio-disk to work
on Xen (Arm), as for every Virtio device (including disk) we need
to allocate Virtio MMIO params (IRQ and memory region) and pass
them to the backend, also update Guest device-tree. The subsequent
patch will add these missing bits. For the current patch,
the default "irq" and "base" are just written to the Xenstore.
This is not an ideal splitting, but this way we avoid breaking
the bisectability.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Jiamei Xie <jiamei.xie@arm.com>
2022-07-28 19:25:43 +01:00
Juergen Gross 3ae0d316f0 tools: move libxlutil to tools/libs/util
Move the libxlutil source to tools/libs/util and delete tools/libxl.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
2020-10-01 13:26:17 +02:00