PVHv2 guests, unlike HVM guests, won't have the option to route interrupts
from physical or emulated devices over event channels using PIRQs. This
applies to both DomU and Dom0 PVHv2 guests.
Introduce a new XEN_X86_EMU_USE_PIRQ to notify Xen whether a HVM guest can
route physical interrupts (even from emulated devices) over event channels,
and is thus allowed to use some of the PHYSDEV ops.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
It is possible for PVHv2 guests to get the hardware description from ACPI
tables, add this to the documentation also.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
On PVHv2 guests the local APIC can also be used to start APs if present.
Amend the documentation in order to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The C struct in the document is no more in sync with the actual
definition of the PVHv2 boot start info.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The discussion in [1] lead to an agreement of the missing pieces in PVH
(or HVM without a device-model) in order to progress with it's
implementation.
One of the missing pieces is a new boot ABI, that replaces the PV boot
ABI. The aim of this new boot ABI is to remove the limitations of the
PV boot ABI, that are no longer present when using auto-translated
guests. The new boot protocol should allow to use the same entry point
for both 32bit and 64bit guests, and let the guest choose it's bitness
and paging mode at run time without the domain builder knowing in
advance.
This patch introduces a new document called hvmlite.markdown, with the
intention of merging it into pvh.markdown once the HVMlite implementation
has feature parity with PVH and the old PVH ABI is replaced with the
HVMlite one.
[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg00258.html
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Roger Pau Monné
Anthony PERARD