Remove costly mem_sharing audits from the inline path, and instead make them
callable as a memop.
Have the audit function return the number of errors detected.
Update memshrtool to be able to trigger audits.
Set sharing audits as enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Per page operations in the paging, sharing, and access tracking subsystems are
all implemented with domctls (e.g. a domctl to evict one page, or to share one
page).
Under heavy load, the domctl path reveals a lack of scalability. The domctl
lock serializes dom0's vcpus in the hypervisor. When performing thousands of
per-page operations on dozens of domains, these vcpus will spin in the
hypervisor. Beyond the aggressive locking, an added inefficiency of blocking
vcpus in the domctl lock is that dom0 is prevented from re-scheduling any of
its other work-starved processes.
We retain the domctl interface for setting up and tearing down
paging/sharing/mem access for a domain. But we migrate all the per page
operations to use the memory_op hypercalls (e.g XENMEM_*).
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Instead of placing string parsing inside the hypervisor, use binary
structures like other Xen hypercalls do.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
This library has been deprecated since July 2010; remove the in-tree
users and library.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
This patch sends global VIRQs to a domain designated as the VIRQ
handler
instead of sending all global VIRQ events to dom0. This is required in
order to run xenstored in a stubdom, because VIRQ_DOM_EXC must be sent
to xenstored for domain destruction to work properly.
This patch was inspired by the xenstored stubdomain patch series sent
to xen-devel by Alex Zeffertt in 2009.
Signed-off-by: Diego Ongaro <diego.ongaro@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
This patch is the folded version of API updates, along with the associated tool
changes to ensure that the build is always consistent.
API updates:
- The source domain in the sharing calls is no longer assumed to be dom0.
- Previously, the mem sharing code would return an opaque handle to index
shared pages (and nominees) in its global hash table. By removing the hash
table, the handle becomes a version, to avoid sharing a stale version of a
page. Thus, libxc wrappers and tools need to be updated to recall the share
functions with the information needed to fetch the page (which they readily
have).
Tool updates:
The only (in-tree, that we know of) consumer of the mem sharing API is the
memshr tool. This is updated to use the new API.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Currently the memshr functions use uint32_t for the domid. This actually leads
to a funny domid_t -> uint32_t -> domid_t sequence of casts. This patch
updates the API functions to be domid_t in the first place.
No tools need to be modified with this patch, the casts were implicit.
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
It's not really any more useful than explicitly setting new M2P
entries to the invalid value.
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Instead of sending dirty pages of guest memory as-is, use a simple compression
algorithm that sends a RLE-encoded XOR of the page against its last sent copy.
A small LRU cache is used to hold recently dirtied pages. Pagetable pages are
sent as-is, as they are canonicalized at sender side and uncanonicalized at
receiver.
[ Fixed up a conflict in sg_save_restore.h. I had to increase the
ID values used from -11 and -12 to -12 and -13 because -11 had
been taken by ..._HVM_VIRIDIAN in the meantime. -iwj ]
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Brendan Cully <brendan@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Move (page aligned) buffer allocations in {os}_privcmd_alloc_hypercall_buffer
into a global function xc_memalign. This API is also used by Remus
compression code to allocate compression caches that need to be page aligned.
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Brendan Cully <brendan@cs.ubc.ca>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Sandy bridge introduces new MSR to get cc7/pc2 residency (core C-state
7/package C-state 2). Print the cc7/pc2 residency when on sandy bridge
platform.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
These functions and the xc_gntshr device (/dev/xen/gntalloc on linux)
allow applications to create pages shared with other domains.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Normally, when a userspace process mapping a grant crashes, the domain
providing the reference receives no indication that its peer has
crashed, possibly leading to unexpected freezes or timeouts. This
function provides a notification of the unmap by signalling an event
channel and/or clearing a specific byte in the page.
This also unifies the 3 very similar grant-mapping osdep interfaces into
a single function instead of introducing yet another minor variation.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The toolstack should know how many pages are paged-out at a given point
in time so it could make smarter decisions about how many pages should
be paged or ballooned.
Add a new member to xen_domctl_getdomaininfo and bump interface version.
Use the new member in xc_dominfo_t.
The SONAME of libxc should be changed if this patch gets applied.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Up to now a single ring buffer was used for mem_share, xenpaging and
xen-access. Each helper would have to cooperate and pull only its own
requests from the ring. Unfortunately this was not implemented. And
even if it was, it would make the whole concept fragile because a crash
or early exit of one helper would stall the others.
What happend up to now is that active xenpaging + memory_sharing would
push memsharing requests in the buffer. xenpaging is not prepared for
such requests.
This patch creates an independet ring buffer for mem_share, xenpaging
and xen-access and adds also new functions to enable xenpaging and
xen-access. The xc_mem_event_enable/xc_mem_event_disable functions will
be removed. The various XEN_DOMCTL_MEM_EVENT_* macros were cleaned up.
Due to the removal the API changed, so the SONAME will be changed too.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
.. as there is no need to keep that internal header file anymore.
We export two functions xc_domain_[set|get]_memory_map which
depend on the 'struct e820entry' defined in 'xc_e820.h'.
We move the contents of the 'xc_e820.h' to the 'xenctrl.h' fixing
compiler errors when applications outside the Xen tree are trying
to compile against the libraries.
Tested-by: Daniel Castro <evil.dani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add these two functions.
The later retrieves the E820 as seen by the hypervisor (completely
unchanged) and the second call sets the E820 for the specified guest.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
* Creates HVMOPs for setting and getting memory access. The hypercalls
can set individual pages or the default access for new/refreshed
pages.
* Added functions to libxc to access these hypercalls.
Signed-off-by: Joe Epstein <jepstein98@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
i.e. not running on a real hypervisor
Allows users of the library to adjust behaviour. I don't especially
like this violation of the abstraction but both oxenstored and xapi
use this to avoid difficult to simulate operations when running on the
simulator.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
The xc_interface previously passed to xc_gnttab_* was only used for
logging which can now be done via the xc_gnttab handle instead.
This makes the interface consistent with the changes made to the main
interface in 21483:779c0ef9682c.
Also update QEMU_TAG to pull in the corresponding qemu change.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This makes the interface consistent with the changes made to the main
interface in 21483:779c0ef9682c.
Also fix some references to "struct xc_interface" which should have
been simply "xc_interface" in tools/xenpaging, and update QEMU_TAG to
pull in the corresponding qemu change.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cpumap types in tools (libxc and libxl) are changed to be based on bytes like
in the interface to the hypervisor.
To make handling easier the size of used cpumaps is always based on the
number of physical cpus supported by the hypervisor. This eliminates the need
to keep track of the cpumap size in external interfaces.
In libxl a macro for cycling through a cpumap is added (libxl_for_each_cpu).
Interfaces changed:
libxl_set_vcpuaffinity()
libxl_cpumap_alloc()
xc_vcpu_setaffinity()
xc_vcpu_getaffinity()
xc_cpupool_freeinfo()
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
(Modified version of this patch, with updated #includes in
xc_hcall_buf.c to fix stubdomain build.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To be able to support arbitrary numbers of physical cpus it was necessary to
include the size of cpumaps in the xc-interfaces for cpu pools.
These were:
definition of xc_cpupoolinfo_t
xc_cpupool_getinfo()
xc_cpupool_freeinfo()
xc_cpupool_getinfo() and xc_cpupool_freeinfo() are changed to allocate the
needed buffer and return it.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The function isn't really ia64 specific but since the result isn't
actually used in the only caller and the same info is available via
xc_domain_getinfo simply drop the function.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Current function has heavily overloaded semantics for the various
arguments. Separate out into more specific functions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Current function has heavily overloaded semantics for the various
arguments. Separate out into more specific functions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Now that all XENMEM_* callers go via an op specific function make
xc_memory_op private to libxc (and rename to do_memory_op for
consistency with other private functions).
Also change the interface to take a size parameter so that
do_memory_op knows how much memory to lock for the top-level argument,
removing some of the introspection.
[ Compatibility note: this breaks qemu-xen before 706bc8c588cb ]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
George Dunlap
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Daniel De Graaf
Keir Fraser
Tim Deegan
Shriram Rajagopalan
Yang Zhang
Olaf Hering
Olaf Hering
Ian Campbell
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Wei Liu
Ian Jackson
Joe Epstein
Juergen Gross