Under certain conditions guests can get the CPU stuck in an unbounded
loop without the possibility of an interrupt window to occur on
instruction boundary. This was the case with the scenarios described
in XSA-156.
Make use of the Notify VM Exit mechanism, that will trigger a VM Exit
if no interrupt window occurs for a specified amount of time. Note
that using the Notify VM Exit avoids having to trap #AC and #DB
exceptions, as Xen is guaranteed to get a VM Exit even if the guest
puts the CPU in a loop without an interrupt window, as such disable
the intercepts if the feature is available and enabled.
Setting the notify VM exit window to 0 is safe because there's a
threshold added by the hardware in order to have a sane window value.
Note the handling of EXIT_REASON_NOTIFY in the nested virtualization
case is passed to L0, and hence a nested guest being able to trigger a
notify VM exit with an invalid context would be able to crash the L1
hypervisor (by L0 destroying the domain). Since we don't expose VM
Notify support to L1 it should already enable the required
protections in order to prevent VM Notify from triggering in the first
place.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
x86/vmx: Partially revert "x86/vmx: implement Notify VM Exit"
The original patch tried to do two things - implement VMNotify, and
re-optimise VT-x to not intercept #DB/#AC by default.
The second part is buggy in multiple ways. Both GDBSX and Introspection need
to conditionally intercept #DB, which was not accounted for. Also, #DB
interception has nothing at all to do with cpu_has_monitor_trap_flag.
Revert the second half, leaving #DB/#AC intercepted unilaterally, but with
VMNotify active by default when available.
Fixes: 573279cde1 ("x86/vmx: implement Notify VM Exit")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
master commit: 573279cde1
master date: 2022-12-19 11:24:14 +0100
master commit: 5f08bc9404
master date: 2023-01-20 19:39:32 +0000
Documentation for credit2_runqueue=all says it should create one queue
for all pCPUs on the host. But since introduction
sched_credit2_max_cpus_runqueue, it actually created separate runqueue
per socket, even if the CPUs count is below
sched_credit2_max_cpus_runqueue.
Adjust the condition to skip syblink check in case of
credit2_runqueue=all.
Fixes: 8e2aa76dc1 ("xen: credit2: limit the max number of CPUs in a runqueue")
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
master commit: 1f5747ee92
master date: 2023-02-15 16:12:42 +0100
Refer to Intel SDM Rev 70 (Dec 2022), Vol3 17.2.3 "Supervisor Shadow Stack
Token".
Architecturally, an event delivery which starts in CPL<3 and switches shadow
stack will first validate the Supervisor Shadow Stack Token (setting the busy
bit), then pushes CS/LIP/SSP. One example of this is an NMI interrupting Xen.
Some CPUs suffer from an issue called fracturing, whereby a fault/vmexit/etc
between setting the busy bit and completing the event injection renders the
action non-restartable, because when it comes time to restart, the busy bit is
found to be already set.
This is far more easily encountered under virt, yet it is not the fault of the
hypervisor, nor the fault of the guest kernel. The fault lies somewhere
between the architectural specification, and the uarch behaviour.
Intel have allocated CPUID.7[1].ecx[18] CET_SSS to enumerate that supervisor
shadow stacks are safe to use. Because of how Xen lays out its shadow stacks,
fracturing is not expected to be a problem on native.
Detect this case on boot and default to not using shstk if virtualised.
Specifying `cet=shstk` on the command line will override this heuristic and
enable shadow stacks irrespective.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 01e7477d1b
master date: 2023-02-09 18:26:17 +0000
Some time ago, Linux switched the format of docs to ReST and the format
of device-tree bindings to json-schema.
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
I was really hoping to avoid this, but its now too late in the 4.17 freeze and
we still don't have working fixes.
The in-Xen calculations for assistance capabilities are buggy. For the
avoidance of doubt, the original intention was to be able to control every
aspect of a APIC acceleration so we could comprehensively test Xen's support,
as it has proved to be buggy time and time again.
Even after a protracted discussion on what the new API ought to mean, attempts
to apply it to the existing logic have been unsuccessful, proving that the
API/ABI is too complicated for most people to reason about.
This reverts most of:
2ce11ce2496b2b9b3405
leaving in place the non-APIC specific changes (minimal as they are).
This takes us back to the behaviour of Xen 4.16 where APIC acceleration is
configured on a per system basis.
This work will be revisted in due course.
Fixes: 2ce11ce249 ("x86/HVM: allow per-domain usage of hardware virtualized APIC")
Fixes: 6b2b9b3405 ("x86: report Interrupt Controller Virtualization capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
This fixes an issue with running C code in a GIF=0 region, that's
problematic when using UBSAN or other instrumentation techniques.
The current logic for AMD SSBD context switches it on every
vm{entry,exit} if the Xen and guest selections don't match. This is
expensive when not using SPEC_CTRL, and hence should be avoided as
much as possible.
When SSBD is not being set from SPEC_CTRL on AMD don't context switch
at vm{entry,exit} and instead only context switch SSBD when switching
vCPUs. This has the side effect of running Xen code with the guest
selection of SSBD, the documentation is updated to note this behavior.
Also note that then when `ssbd` is selected on the command line guest
SSBD selection will not have an effect, and the hypervisor will run
with SSBD unconditionally enabled when not using SPEC_CTRL itself.
As a result of no longer running the code to set SSBD in a GIF=0
region the locking of amd_set_legacy_ssbd() can be done using normal
spinlocks, and some more checks can be added to assure it works as
intended.
Finally it's also worth noticing that since the guest SSBD selection
is no longer set on vmentry the VIRT_SPEC_MSR handling needs to
propagate the value to the hardware as part of handling the wrmsr.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Extend the msrs->virt_spec_ctrl context switching comment.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
XEN_LIB_STORED is serving no real purpose, as it is a mount point for
a tmpfs, so it can be replaced easily by XEN_RUN_STORED.
XENSTORED_ROOTDIR is basically unused already, there is just a single
reference in xs_daemon_rootdir() with a fallback to XEN_LIB_STORED,
and a .gdbinit file setting it.
Remove the .gdbinit file, as it is not known having been used since
ages, and make xs_daemon_rootdir() an alias of xs_daemon_rundir().
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
The permission scheme of Xenstore nodes is not really covered by
docs/misc/xenstore.txt, other than referring to the Xen wiki.
Add a paragraph explaining the permissions of nodes, and especially
mentioning removal of nodes when a domain has been removed from
Xenstore.
This is part of XSA-419.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Edwin Török <edvin.torok@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Add a xenstore-control command "quota" to:
- show current quota settings
- change quota settings
- show current quota related values of a domain
Note that in the case the new quota is lower than existing one,
Xenstored may continue to handle requests from a domain exceeding the
new limit (depends on which one has been broken) and the amount of
resource used will not change. However the domain will not be able to
create more resource (associated to the quota) until it is back to below
the limit.
This is part of XSA-326.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
On Sapphire Rapids Xeon (SPR) the C1 and C1E states are basically mutually
exclusive - only one of them can be enabled. By default, 'intel_idle' driver
enables C1 and disables C1E. However, some users prefer to use C1E instead of
C1, because it saves more energy.
This patch adds a new module parameter ('preferred_cstates') for enabling C1E
and disabling C1. Here is the idea behind it.
1. This option has effect only for "mutually exclusive" C-states like C1 and
C1E on SPR.
2. It does not have any effect on independent C-states, which do not require
other C-states to be disabled (most states on most platforms as of today).
3. For mutually exclusive C-states, the 'intel_idle' driver always has a
reasonable default, such as enabling C1 on SPR by default. On other
platforms, the default may be different.
4. Users can override the default using the 'preferred_cstates' parameter.
5. The parameter accepts the preferred C-states bit-mask, similarly to the
existing 'states_off' parameter.
6. This parameter is not limited to C1/C1E, and leaves room for supporting
other mutually exclusive C-states, if they come in the future.
Today 'intel_idle' can only be compiled-in, which means that on SPR, in order
to disable C1 and enable C1E, users should boot with the following kernel
argument: intel_idle.preferred_cstates=4
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Origin: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git da0e58c038e6
Enable C1E (if requested) not only on the BSP's socket / package. Alter
command line option to fit our model, and extend it to also accept
string form arguments.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
This commit sets/tearsdown of p2m pages pool for non-privileged Arm
guests by calling `p2m_set_allocation` and `p2m_teardown_allocation`.
- For dom0, P2M pages should come from heap directly instead of p2m
pool, so that the kernel may take advantage of the extended regions.
- For xl guests, the setting of the p2m pool is called in
`XEN_DOMCTL_shadow_op` and the p2m pool is destroyed in
`domain_relinquish_resources`. Note that domctl->u.shadow_op.mb is
updated with the new size when setting the p2m pool.
- For dom0less domUs, the setting of the p2m pool is called before
allocating memory during domain creation. Users can specify the p2m
pool size by `xen,domain-p2m-mem-mb` dts property.
To actually allocate/free pages from the p2m pool, this commit adds
two helper functions namely `p2m_alloc_page` and `p2m_free_page` to
`struct p2m_domain`. By replacing the `alloc_domheap_page` and
`free_domheap_page` with these two helper functions, p2m pages can
be added/removed from the list of p2m pool rather than from the heap.
Since page from `p2m_alloc_page` is cleaned, take the opportunity
to remove the redundant `clean_page` in `p2m_create_table`.
This is part of CVE-2022-33747 / XSA-409.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
This commit adds a per-arch macro `EXTRA_DEFAULT_PAGING_MEM_MB`
to the default paging memory size, in order to cover the p2m
pool for extended regions of a xl-based guest on Arm.
For Arm, the extra default paging memory is 128MB.
For x86, the extra default paging memory is zero, since there
are no extended regions on x86.
Also update the xl.cfg documentation to add Arm documentation
according to code changes.
This is part of CVE-2022-33747 / XSA-409.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
That's possible, because the capability was designed specifically to
allow separate driver handle it, in parallel to unmodified xhci driver
(separate set of registers, pretending the port is "disconnected" for
the main xhci driver etc). It works with Linux dom0, although requires
an awful hack - re-enabling bus mastering behind dom0's backs.
Linux driver does similar thing - see
drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c:xdbc_handle_events().
When controller sharing is enabled in kconfig (option marked as
experimental), dom0 is allowed to use the controller even if Xen uses it
for debug console. Additionally, option `dbgp=xhci,share=` is available
to either prevent even dom0 from using it (`no` value), or allow any
domain using it (`any` value).
In any case, to avoid Linux messing with the DbC, mark this MMIO area as
read-only. This might cause issues for Linux's driver (if it tries to
write something on the same page - like anoter xcap), but makes Xen's
use safe. In practice, as of Linux 5.18, it seems to work without
issues.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Add another work ring buffer for received data, and point IN TRB at it.
Ensure there is always at least one pending IN TRB, so the controller
has a way to send incoming data to the driver.
Note that both "success" and "short packet" completion codes are okay -
in fact it will be "short packet" most of the time, as the TRB length is
about maximum size, not required size.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
This allows configuring EHCI and XHCI consoles separately,
simultaneously, such that e.g. one can be used for the console and the
other by the debugger.
This changes string_param() to custom_param() in both ehci and xhci
drivers. Both drivers parse only values applicable to them.
Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
In order to keep consistency in the device tree binding, there is
no need for static memory allocation feature to define a specific
set of address and size cells for "xen,static-mem" property.
Therefore, this commit reuses the regular #{address,size}-cells
for parsing the device tree "xen,static-mem" property. Update
the documentation accordingly.
Also, take the chance to remove the unnecessary "#address-cells"
and "#size-cells" in the domU1 node of the device tree to only
emphasize the related part that the example is showing.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
This patch series introduces a new feature: setting up static
shared memory on a dom0less system, through device tree configuration.
This commit parses shared memory node at boot-time, and reserve it in
bootinfo.reserved_mem to avoid other use.
This commits proposes a new Kconfig CONFIG_STATIC_SHM to wrap
static-shm-related codes, and this option depends on static memory(
CONFIG_STATIC_MEMORY). That's because that later we want to reuse a few
helpers, guarded with CONFIG_STATIC_MEMORY, like acquire_staticmem_pages, etc,
on static shared memory.
Signed-off-by: Penny Zheng <penny.zheng@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
The static-heap dt-binding should be placed after the last feature,
namely static-evtchn.
Fixes: 4596329291 ("docs, xen/arm: Introduce static heap memory")
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Extend the definition of the Xenstore migration stream to cover new
features:
- per domain features
- extended watches (watch depth)
- per domain quota
Some of those additions (per domain features and extended watches)
require bumping the migration stream version to "2", as usage of those
features will require to transport mandatory new information in the
migration stream.
One note regarding the GLOBAL_QUOTA_DATA record: the split of quota
between global and per-domain ones is meant to support the possibility
to pass on unknown quota settings for newly created domains to other
Xenstore instances:
Imagine Xenstore A knows about global quota g and domain quota d, while
Xenstore B doesn't know both. Initially I'm running Xenstore A on a
host, then I'm live-updating to B.
B gets the information that g is global, and d is per-domain, but has
no other idea what to do with the values of g and d. OTOH it knows that
each new domain should get d with the related value, so it can set d
for each newly created domain.
When B is either downgraded to A again, or a domain is migrated to
another host running A, B can add the quota information of d for all
domains.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
This commit introduces the static heap memory, which is parts of RAM
reserved in the beginning of the boot time for heap.
Firstly, since a new type of memory bank is needed for marking the
memory bank solely as the heap, this commit defines `enum membank_type`
and use this enum in function device_tree_get_meminfo(). Changes of
code are done accordingly following the introduction of this enum.
Also, this commit introduces the logic to parse the static heap
configuration in device tree. If the memory bank is reserved as heap
through `xen,static-heap` property in device tree `chosen` node, the
memory will be marked as static heap type.
A documentation section is added, describing the definition of static
heap memory and the method of enabling the static heap memory through
device tree at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Penny Zheng <penny.zheng@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Introduce a new sub-node under /chosen node to establish static event
channel communication between domains on dom0less systems.
An event channel will be created beforehand to allow the domains to
send notifications to each other.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Singh <rahul.singh@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Introduce a new "xen,enhanced" dom0less property value "no-xenstore" to
disable xenstore interface for dom0less guests.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Singh <rahul.singh@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Add documentation for an extension of the WATCH command used to limit
the scope of watched paths. Additionally it enables to receive more
information in the events related to special watches (@introduceDomain
or @releaseDomain).
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Add documentation for two new Xenstore wire commands SET_QUOTA and
GET_QUOTA used to set or query the global Xenstore quota or those of
a given domain.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Drop mentioning the non-existent read-only socket in the migration
stream description document.
The related record field was removed in commit 8868a0e3f6 ("docs:
update the xenstore migration stream documentation).
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
-soundhw is deprecated since 825ff02911c9 ("audio: add soundhw
deprecation notice"), QEMU v5.1, and is been remove for upcoming v7.1
by 039a68373c45 ("introduce -audio as a replacement for -soundhw").
Instead we can just add the sound card with "-device", for most option
that "-soundhw" could handle. "-device" is an option that existed
before QEMU 1.0, and could already be used to add audio hardware.
The list of possible option for libxl's "soundhw" is taken the list
from QEMU 7.0.
The list of options for "soundhw" are listed in order of preference in
the manual. The first three (hda, ac97, es1370) are PCI devices and
easy to test on Linux, and the last four are ISA devices which doesn't
seems to work out of the box on linux.
The sound card 'pcspk' isn't listed even if it used to be accepted by
'-soundhw' because QEMU crash when trying to add it to a Xen domain.
Also, it wouldn't work with "-device" might need to be "-machine
pcspk-audiodev=default" instead.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Handle parameters similar to dbgp=ehci.
Implement this by not resettting dbc->sbdf again in dbc_init_xhc(), but
using a value found there if non-zero. Additionally, add xue->xhc_num to
select n-th controller.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
[Connor]
Xue is a cross-platform USB 3 debugger that drives the Debug
Capability (DbC) of xHCI-compliant host controllers. This patch
implements the operations needed for xue to initialize the host
controller's DbC and communicate with it. It also implements a struct
uart_driver that uses xue as a backend. Note that only target -> host
communication is supported for now. To use Xue as a console, add
'console=dbgp dbgp=xhci' to the command line.
[Marek]
The Xue driver is taken from https://github.com/connojd/xue and heavily
refactored to fit into Xen code base. Major changes include:
- rename to xhci_dbc
- drop support for non-Xen systems
- drop xue_ops abstraction
- use Xen's native helper functions for PCI access
- move all the code to xue.c, drop "inline"
- build for x86 only
- annotate functions with cf_check
- adjust for Xen's code style
At this stage, only the first xHCI is considered, and only output is
supported. Later patches add support for choosing specific device, and
input handling.
The driver is initiallized before memory allocator works, so all the
transfer buffers (about 230KiB of them) are allocated statically and will
use memory even if XUE console is not selected. The driver can be
disabled build time to reclaim this memory.
Most of this memory is shared with the controller via DMA. Later patch
will adjust structures placement to avoid anything else to be placed on
those DMA-reachable pages. This also means str_buf cannot use static
initializer, without reserving (at least) a whole page page in .data (or
more, when combined with other structures).
Signed-off-by: Connor Davis <davisc@ainfosec.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Not even the types were correct, let alone defaults being spelled out or
the purpose of the options actually mentioned in any way.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Add documentation for two new Xenstore wire commands SET_FEATURE and
GET_FEATURE used to set or query the Xenstore features visible in the
ring page of a given domain.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Add git commands examples that can be used to generate fixes and how to
use the pretty configuration for git.
This should make it easier for contributors to have the right format.
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
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>
Before actually enabling their use, provide a means to suppress it in
case of problems. Note that using the option can also affect the sharing
of page tables in the VT-d / EPT combination: If EPT would use large
page mappings but the option is in effect, page table sharing would be
suppressed (to properly fulfill the admin request).
Requested-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
With debug info retained, xen.efi can be quite large. Unlike for xen.gz
there's no intermediate step (mkelf32 there) involved which would strip
debug info kind of as a side effect. While the installing of xen.efi on
the EFI partition is an optional step (intended to be a courtesy to the
developer), adjust it also for the purpose of documenting what distros
would be expected to do during boot loader configuration (which is what
would normally put xen.efi into the EFI partition).
Model the control over stripping after Linux'es module installation,
except that the stripped executable is constructed in the build area
instead of in the destination location. This is to conserve on space
used there - EFI partitions tend to be only a few hundred Mb in size.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Tested-by: Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@arm.com> # arm
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Add documentation for an extension of the WATCH command used to limit
the scope of watched paths. Additionally it enables to receive more
information in the events related to special watches (@introduceDomain
or @releaseDomain).
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Add documentation for two new Xenstore wire commands SET_QUOTA and
GET_QUOTA used to set or query the Xenstore quota of a given domain.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Add documentation for two new Xenstore wire commands SET_FEATURE and
GET_FEATURE used to set or query the Xenstore features visible in the
ring page of a given domain.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Branch Type Confusion affects AMD/Hygon CPUs on Zen2 and earlier. To
mitigate, we require SMT safety (STIBP on Zen2, no-SMT on Zen1), and to issue
an IBPB on each entry to Xen, to flush the BTB.
Due to performance concerns, dom0 (which is trusted in most configurations) is
excluded from protections by default.
Therefore:
* Use STIBP by default on Zen2 too, which now means we want it on by default
on all hardware supporting STIBP.
* Break the current IBPB logic out into a new function, extending it with
IBPB-at-entry logic.
* Change the existing IBPB-at-ctxt-switch boolean to be tristate, and disable
it by default when IBPB-at-entry is providing sufficient safety.
If all PV guests on the system are trusted, then it is recommended to boot
with `spec-ctrl=ibpb-entry=no-pv`, as this will provide an additional marginal
perf improvement.
This is part of XSA-407 / CVE-2022-23825.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Support controling the PV/HVM suboption of msr-sc/rsb/md-clear, which
previously wasn't possible.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Introduce a new per-domain creation x86 specific flag to
select whether hardware assisted virtualization should be used for
x{2}APIC.
A per-domain option is added to xl in order to select the usage of
x{2}APIC hardware assisted virtualization, as well as a global
configuration option.
Having all APIC interaction exit to Xen for emulation is slow and can
induce much overhead. Hardware can speed up x{2}APIC by decoding the
APIC access and providing a VM exit with a more specific exit reason
than a regular EPT fault or by altogether avoiding a VM exit.
On the other hand, being able to disable x{2}APIC hardware assisted
virtualization can be useful for testing and debugging purposes.
Note:
- vmx_install_vlapic_mapping doesn't require modifications regardless
of whether the guest has "Virtualize APIC accesses" enabled or not,
i.e., setting the APIC_ACCESS_ADDR VMCS field is fine so long as
virtualize_apic_accesses is supported by the CPU.
- Both per-domain and global assisted_x{2}apic options are not part of
the migration stream, unless explicitly set in the respective
configuration files. Default settings of assisted_x{2}apic done
internally by the toolstack, based on host capabilities at create
time, are not migrated.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jane Malalane <jane.malalane@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a
reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been
selected in the release management documentation.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Allow administrators to notify a frontend driver that it's backend
counterpart is not to be trusted, so the frontend can deploy whatever
mitigations required in order to secure itself.
Allow such option for disk and network frontends only, as those are
the only hardened ones currently supported.
This is part of XSA-403
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Add instructions on how to build cppcheck, the version currently used
and an example to use the cppcheck integration to run the analysis on
the Xen codebase
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
STIBP and PSFD are slightly weird bits, because they're both implied by other
bits in MSR_SPEC_CTRL. Add fine grain controls for them, and take the
implications into account when setting IBRS/SSBD.
Rearrange the IBPB text/variables/logic to keep all the MSR_SPEC_CTRL bits
together, for consistency.
However, AMD have a hardware hint CPUID bit recommending that STIBP be set
unilaterally. This is advertised on Zen3, so follow the recommendation.
Furthermore, in such cases, set STIBP behind the guest's back for now. This
has negligible overhead for the guest, but saves a WRMSR on vmentry. This is
the only default change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Instead of specifying the feature bits in xenstore-ring.txt as a mask
value use bit numbers. This will make the specification easier to read
when adding more features.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Yann Dirson