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Juergen Gross 51f9df5c19 docs: update xenstore-migration.md
Update connection record details:

- make flags common for sockets and domains (makes it easier to have a
  C union for conn-spec)
- add pending incoming data (needed for handling partially read
  requests when doing live update)
- add partial response length (needed for proper split to individual
  responses after live update)

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
2020-05-29 17:00:50 +01:00
Juergen Gross a659d7cab9 xen: add runtime parameter access support to hypfs
Add support to read and modify values of hypervisor runtime parameters
via the hypervisor file system.

As runtime parameters can be modified via a sysctl, too, this path has
to take the hypfs rw_lock as writer.

For custom runtime parameters the connection between the parameter
value and the file system is done via an init function which will set
the initial value (if needed) and the leaf properties.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-05-29 12:18:36 +02:00
Juergen Gross 58263ed771 xen: add /buildinfo/config entry to hypervisor filesystem
Add the /buildinfo/config entry to the hypervisor filesystem. This
entry contains the .config file used to build the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-05-29 12:15:54 +02:00
Juergen Gross b5d4711d2b xen: provide version information in hypfs
Provide version and compile information in /buildinfo/ node of the
Xen hypervisor file system. As this information is accessible by dom0
only no additional security problem arises.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-05-29 12:14:51 +02:00
Juergen Gross ef716e1dc6 tools: add xenfs tool
Add the xenfs tool for accessing the hypervisor filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
2020-05-29 10:25:02 +02:00
Juergen Gross 0e9dcd0159 docs: add feature document for Xen hypervisor sysfs-like support
On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen
hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store
similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs.

In the beginning there should only be basic support: entries can be
added from the hypervisor itself only, there is a simple hypercall
interface to read the data.

Add a feature document for setting the base of a discussion regarding
the desired functionality and the entries to add.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-05-29 10:15:35 +02:00
Jan Beulich 93401e28a8 x86: clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h
Inspired by Linux commit c49a0a80137c7ca7d6ced4c812c9e07a949f6f24:

    There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on
    some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS
    not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues
    to function properly.

    Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family
    15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family
    15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the
    system will not be placed in suspend, the "cpuid=rdrand" kernel parameter
    can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit.

    Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor
    that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any
    code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD.

Warn if no explicit choice was given on affected hardware.

Check RDRAND functions at boot as well as after S3 resume (the retry
limit chosen is entirely arbitrary).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2020-05-27 09:49:37 +02:00
Jason Andryuk b6af49af60 docs: Add device-model-domid to xenstore-paths
Document device-model-domid for when using a device model stubdomain.

Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-05-19 16:19:15 +01:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 83c845033d libxl: use vchan for QMP access with Linux stubdomain
Access to QMP of QEMU in Linux stubdomain is possible over vchan
connection. Handle the actual vchan connection in a separate process
(vchan-socket-proxy). This simplified integration with QMP (already
quite complex), but also allows preliminary filtering of (potentially
malicious) QMP input.
Since only one client can be connected to vchan server at the same time
and it is not enforced by the libxenvchan itself, additional client-side
locking is needed. It is implicitly implemented by vchan-socket-proxy,
as it handle only one connection at a time. Note that qemu supports only
one simultaneous client on a control socket anyway (but in UNIX socket
case, it enforce it server-side), so it doesn't add any extra
limitation.

libxl qmp client code already has locking to handle concurrent access
attempts to the same qemu qmp interface.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>

Squash in changes of regenerated autotools files.

Kill the vchan-socket-proxy so we don't leak the daemonized processes.
libxl__stubdomain_is_linux_running() works against the guest_domid, but
the xenstore path is beneath the stubdomain.  This leads to the use of
libxl_is_stubdom in addition to libxl__stubdomain_is_linux_running() so
that the stubdomain calls kill for the qmp-proxy.

Also call libxl__qmp_cleanup() to remove the unix sockets used by
vchan-socket-proxy.  vchan-socket-proxy only creates qmp-libxl-$domid,
and libxl__qmp_cleanup removes that as well as qmp-libxenstat-$domid.
However, it tolerates ENOENT, and a stray qmp-libxenstat-$domid should
not exist.

Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-05-19 16:19:15 +01:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki f76a0fa109 xl: add stubdomain related options to xl config parser
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-05-19 16:19:15 +01:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki cd7181308e Document ioemu Linux stubdomain protocol
Add documentation for upcoming Linux stubdomain for qemu-upstream.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-05-18 23:23:44 +01:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki c7c1454701 Document ioemu MiniOS stubdomain protocol
Add documentation based on reverse-engineered toolstack-ioemu stubdomain
protocol.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-05-18 23:23:44 +01:00
Paul Durrant 13dd372834 docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...
... to specify a separate migration stream that will also be suitable for
live update.

The original scope of the document was to support non-cooperative migration
of guests [1] but, since then, live update of xenstored has been brought into
scope. Thus it makes more sense to define a separate image format for
serializing xenstore state that is suitable for both purposes.

The document has been limited to specifying a new image format. The mechanism
for acquiring the image for live update or migration is not covered as that
is more appropriately dealt with by a patch to docs/misc/xenstore.txt. It is
also expected that, when the first implementation of live update or migration
making use of this specification is committed, that the document is moved from
docs/designs into docs/specs.

NOTE: It will only be necessary to save and restore state for active xenstore
      connections, but the documentation for 'RESUME' in xenstore.txt implies
      otherwise. That command is unused so this patch deletes it from the
      specification.

[1] See https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/designs/non-cooperative-migration.md

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-05-13 13:26:06 +01:00
Andrew Cooper 68d757df8d x86/pv: Options to disable and/or compile out 32bit PV support
This is the start of some performance and security-hardening improvements,
based on the fact that 32bit PV guests are few and far between these days.

Ring1 is full of architectural corner cases, such as counting as supervisor
from a paging point of view.  This accounts for a substantial performance hit
on processors from the last 8 years (adjusting SMEP/SMAP on every privilege
transition), and the gap is only going to get bigger with new hardware
features.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-04-29 21:13:00 +01:00
Stefano Stabellini f093b08c47 Introduce a description of the Backport and Fixes tags
Create a new document under docs/process to describe our special tags.
Add a description of the Fixes tag and the new Backport tag. Also
clarify that lines with tags should not be split.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: jbeulich@suse.com
CC: george.dunlap@citrix.com
CC: julien@xen.org
CC: lars.kurth@citrix.com
CC: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
CC: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
2020-04-24 10:47:56 -07:00
Anthony PERARD 4fdb4b71b1 xen/build: introduce if_changed and if_changed_rule
The if_changed macro from Linux, in addition to check if any files
needs an update, check if the command line has changed since the last
invocation. The latter will force a rebuild if any options to the
executable have changed.

if_changed_rule checks dependencies like if_changed, but execute
rule_$(1) instead of cmd_$(1) when a target needs to be rebuilt. A rule_
macro can call more than one cmd_ macro. One of the cmd_ macro in a
rule need to be call using a macro that record the command line, so
cmd_and_record is introduced. It is similar to cmd_and_fixup from
Linux but without a call to fixdep which we don't have yet. (We will
later replace cmd_and_record by cmd_and_fixup.)

Example of a rule_ macro:
define rule_cc_o_c
    $(call cmd_and_record,cc_o_o)
    $(call cmd,objcopy)
endef

This needs one of the call to use cmd_and_record, otherwise no .*.cmd
file will be created, and the target will keep been rebuilt.

In order for if_changed to works correctly, we need to load the .%.cmd
files that the macro generates, this is done by adding targets in to
the $(targets) variable. We use intermediate_targets to add %.init.o
dependency %.o to target since there aren't in obj-y.

We also add $(MAKECMDGOALS) to targets so that when running for
example `make common/memory.i`, make will load the associated .%.cmd
dependency file.

Beside the if_changed*, we import the machinery used for a "beautify
output". The important one is when running make with V=2 which help to
debug the makefiles by printing why a target is been rebuilt, via the
$(echo-why) macro.

if_changed and if_changed_rule aren't used yet.

Most of this code is copied from Linux v5.4, including the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-04-24 15:01:11 +02:00
Anthony PERARD 16055cb50c build: introduce documentation for xen Makefiles
This start explainning the variables that can be used in the many
Makefiles in xen/.

Most of the document copies and modifies text from Linux v5.4 document
linux.git/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst. Modification are mostly
to avoid mentioning kbuild. Thus I've added the SPDX tag which was
only in index.rst in linux.git.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-04-24 15:00:37 +02:00
Andrew Cooper 37053578e8 docs: Render .md files using pandoc
This fixes the fact that qemu-deprivilege.md, non-cooperative-migration.md and
xenstore-migration.md don't currently get rendered at all, and are therefore
missing from xenbits.xen.org/docs

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Backport: 4.12
2020-04-03 20:11:46 +01:00
Anthony PERARD f41eb7ba3e xen/arm: Configure early printk via Kconfig
At the moment, early printk can only be configured on the make command
line. It is not very handy because a user has to remove the option
everytime it is using another command other than compiling the
hypervisor.

Furthermore, early printk is one of the few odds one that are not
using Kconfig.

So this is about time to move it to Kconfig.

The new kconfigs options allow a user to eather select a UART driver
to use at boot time, and set the parameters, or it is still possible
to select a platform which will set the parameters.

If CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is present in the environment or on the make
command line, make will return an error.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-04-01 10:49:33 +01:00
Ian Jackson 9465fac25e docs etc.: https: Fix references to other Xen pages
Change the url scheme to https.  This is all in-tree references to
xenbits and the main website except for those in Config.mk.

We leave Config.mk alone for now because those urls are used by CI
systems and we need to check that nothing breaks when we change the
download method.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-03-30 15:27:17 +01:00
Ian Jackson 7e1867b121 docs etc.: https: Fix references to wiki.xen[project].org
Change the url scheme to https.  This is all in-tree references to the
Xen wiki.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-03-30 15:27:06 +01:00
Paul Durrant a87676c4a3 docs/designs: Add a design document for migration of xenstore data
This patch details proposes extra migration data and xenstore protocol
extensions to support non-cooperative live migration of guests.

NOTE: doc/misc/xenstore.txt is also amended to replace the <mfn> term
      for the INTRODUCE operation with the <gfn>, since this is what
      it actually is.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-03-27 17:12:21 +00:00
Paul Durrant 775a02452d docs/designs: Add a design document for non-cooperative live migration
It has become apparent to some large cloud providers that the current
model of cooperative migration of guests under Xen is not usable as it
relies on software running inside the guest, which is likely beyond the
provider's control.
This patch introduces a proposal for non-cooperative live migration,
designed not to rely on any guest-side software.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
2020-03-27 17:09:35 +00:00
Paul Durrant f18f8d9d63 libxl: make creation of xenstore 'suspend event channel' node optional...
... and, if it is not created, make the top level 'device' node in
xenstore writable by the guest instead.

The purpose and semantics of the suspend event channel node are explained
in xenstore-paths.pandoc [1]. It was originally introduced in xend by
commit 17636f47a4 "Teach xc_save to use event-channel-based domain
suspend if available.". Note that, because, the top-level frontend
'device' node was created writable by the guest in xend, there was no
need to explicitly create the 'suspend-event-channel' node as a writable
node.

However, libxl creates the 'device' node as read-only by the guest and so
explicit creation of the 'suspend-event-channel' node is necessary to make
it usable. This unfortunately has the side-effect of making some old
Windows PV drivers [2] cease to function. This is because they scan the top
level 'device' node, find the 'suspend' node and expect it to contain the
usual sub-nodes describing a PV frontend. When this is found not to be the
case, enumeration ceases and (because the 'suspend' node is observed before
the 'vbd' node) no system disk is enumerated. Windows will then crash with
bugcheck code 0x7B (missing system disk).

This patch adds a boolean 'xend_suspend_evtchn_compat' field into
libxl_create_info and a similarly named option in xl.cfg to set it.
If the value is true then the xenstore node is not created. Instead the
old xend behaviour of making top level device node writable by the guest is
re-instated. If the value is false (the default) then the current libxl
behaviour persists.

xenstore-paths.pandoc is also modified to say that the suspend event
channel node may not exist and, if it does not exist, then the guest may
create it. A note is also added concerning the writability of the top
level device node.

[1] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/misc/xenstore-paths.pandoc;hb=HEAD#l177
[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/para-virtualized_windows_drivers_guide/sect-para-virtualized_windows_drivers_guide-installing_and_configuring_the_para_virtualized_drivers-installing_the_para_virtualized_drivers

NOTE: While adding the new LIBXL_HAVE_CREATEINFO_... definition into
      libxl.h, this patch corrects the previous stanza which erroneously
      implies libxl_domain_create_info is a function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-03-19 15:56:54 +00:00
Paul Durrant 1f706eace3 libxl: create domain 'error' node in xenstore
Several PV drivers (both historically and currently [1]) report errors
by writing text into /local/domain/$DOMID/error. This patch creates the
node in libxl and makes it writable by the domain, and also adds some
text into xenstore-paths.pandoc to state what the node is for.

[1] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=pvdrivers/win/xenvif.git;a=blob;f=src/xenvif/frontend.c;hb=HEAD#l459

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-03-19 15:56:00 +00:00
Jan Beulich 4ccbb9c337 IOMMU: iommu_intpost is x86/HVM-only
Provide a #define for all other cases.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
2020-03-10 15:33:56 +01:00
Jan Beulich 5f62fdcb4c IOMMU: iommu_intremap is x86-only
Provide a #define for other cases; it didn't seem worthwhile to me to
introduce an IOMMU_INTREMAP Kconfig option at this point.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
2020-03-10 15:32:16 +01:00
Wei Liu d90bcb5f10 x86/pvh: drop v2 suffix from pvh.pandoc
There is now only one version of PVH implementation in Xen. Drop "v2" to
avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
2020-02-25 17:21:45 +00:00
Paul Durrant e465fecbfd xl: allow domid to be preserved on save/restore or migrate
This patch adds a '-D' command line option to save and migrate to allow
the domain id to be incorporated into the saved domain configuration and
hence be preserved.

NOTE: Logically it may seem as though preservation of domid should be
      dealt with by libxl, but the libxl migration stream has no record
      in which to transfer domid and remote domain creation occurs before
      the migration stream is parsed. Hence this patch modifies xl rather
      then libxl.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-02-24 17:17:35 +00:00
Paul Durrant 64fe38f246 xl.conf: introduce 'domid_policy'
This patch adds a new global 'domid_policy' configuration option to decide
how domain id values are allocated for new domains. It may be set to one of
two values:

"xen", the default value, will cause an invalid domid value to be passed
to do_domain_create() preserving the existing behaviour of having Xen
choose the domid value during domain_create().

"random" will cause the special RANDOM_DOMID value to be passed to
do_domain_create() such that libxl__domain_make() will select a random
domid value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-02-24 17:17:35 +00:00
Andrew Cooper b25fb1a04e xen/pvh: Fix segment selector ABI
The written ABI states that %es will be set up, but libxc doesn't do so.  In
practice, it breaks `rep movs` inside guests before they reload %es.

The written ABI doesn't mention %ss, but libxc does set it up.  Having %ds
different to %ss is obnoxous to work with, as different registers have
different implicit segments.

Modify the spec to state that %ss is set up as a flat read/write segment.
This a) matches the Multiboot 1 spec, b) matches what is set up in practice,
and c) is the more sane behaviour for guests to use.

Fixes: 68e1183411 ('libxc: introduce a xc_dom_arch for hvm-3.0-x86_32 guests')
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
2020-02-10 15:26:09 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne be8c70373b docs/xl: fix typo in xl.cfg
The name of the option is nographic.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
2020-02-03 12:15:48 +00:00
Sarah Newman 443fd9d5bd docs/misc: xen-command-line: fix parameters in sample serial configuration
The names of the serial parameters use hyphens, not underscores.

Signed-off-by: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-02-03 13:09:13 +01:00
Anthony PERARD f80fe2b34f xen: Update Kconfig to Linux v5.4
This patch updates Kconfig to a more recent version of Kconfig, found
in Linux v5.4.0, 219d54332a09 ("Linux 5.4").

With the updated version of Kconfig, other changes are necessary to
avoid breaking the build.

Kconfig files:
- fix Kconfig files that where using option env=*:
  Since Linux commit 104daea149c4 ("kconfig: reference environment
  variables directly and remove 'option env='"), we can access the
  environment directly via $() and "option env=" as been removed.
- CONFIG_EXPERT='y' will now appear in .config file if
  XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT=y in the environment. The alternative is to change
  "EXPERT" to "$(XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT)" in all Kconfig files.

Makefile:
- silentoldconfig target as been removed from Kconfig. To update
  include/generated/autoconf.h, we need to use syncconfig target
  instead.

Makefile.kconfig:
- Import newer needed code from Linux's Makefile.lib and
  Kbuild.include and Makefile.build.
- Set Q to empty, Xen build system doesn't silence commands. Having Q
  empty mean we can import stuff from Linux without having to remove the
  leading $(Q) from build commands. And quiet='' means commands will be
  echoed.
- Add $(PHONY) to .PHONY. Like it is intended by Kbuild.

Makefile.host is also updated and copied from Linux.

Dependency change:
- Now depends on flex/bison, maybe we could _shipped those files like
  before. Linux doesn't do that anymore.

The .gitignore in kconfig/ has more entries, compared to upstream, for
file generated by Makefile.host.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2020-01-30 11:54:33 +00:00
Juergen Gross f910c3ebc6 docs: document CONTROL command of xenstore protocol
The CONTROL command (former DEBUG command) isn't specified in the
xenstore protocol doc. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Backport: 4.9+
2020-01-28 18:04:02 +00:00
Wei Liu 4d009db0a3 docs: fix StudlyCaps in libxl-migration-stream.pandoc
Note that "LibxlFmt" in the stream should remain unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2020-01-28 12:43:12 +00:00
Ian Jackson 460d7b4895 docs: Fix StudlyCaps in libxc-migration-stream.pandoc and xl.1.pod
$ git-grep libxenctrl | wc -l
99
$ git-grep libxc | wc -l
206
$ git-grep libxenlight | wc -l
48
$ git-grep libxl | wc -l
13433
$ git-grep LibXen | wc -l
2
$

Reported-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
2020-01-28 12:35:27 +00:00
Juergen Gross 94a0252c10 docs: add DIRECTORY_PART specification do xenstore protocol doc
DIRECTORY_PART was missing in docs/misc/xenstore.txt. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Backport: 4.9+
2020-01-28 12:32:49 +00:00
Ian Jackson 58172945c0 Revert "docs: retrospectively add XS_DIRECTORY_PART to the xenstore protocol..."
Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com> points out that this is entirely wrong.

Adding the "Backport" tag so we find this revert too.

This reverts commit d34dc88098.

Backport: 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-01-27 15:46:39 +00:00
Paul Durrant d34dc88098 docs: retrospectively add XS_DIRECTORY_PART to the xenstore protocol...
... specification.

This was added by commit 0ca64ed8 "xenstore: add support for reading
directory with many children" but not added to the specification at that
point. A version of xenstored supporting the command was first released
in Xen 4.9.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Backport: 4.9+
2020-01-27 15:34:04 +00:00
Eslam Elnikety 6e73e7186d x86/microcode: improve documentation for ucode=
Specify applicability and the default value. Also state that, in case of
EFI, the microcode update blob specified in the EFI cfg takes precedence
over `ucode=scan`, if the latter is specified on Xen commend line.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Eslam Elnikety <elnikety@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-01-24 10:30:54 +01:00
Igor Druzhinin b05ec9263e x86/sm{e, a}p: do not enable SMEP/SMAP in PV shim by default on AMD
Due to AMD and Hygon being unable to selectively trap CR4 bit modifications
running 32-bit PV guest inside PV shim comes with significant performance
hit. Moreover, for SMEP in particular every time CR4.SMEP changes on context
switch to/from 32-bit PV guest, it gets trapped by L0 Xen which then
tries to perform global TLB invalidation for PV shim domain. This usually
results in eventual hang of a PV shim with at least several vCPUs.

Since the overall security risk is generally lower for shim Xen as it being
there more of a defense-in-depth mechanism, choose to disable SMEP/SMAP in
it by default on AMD and Hygon unless a user chose otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2020-01-17 16:18:20 +01:00
Julien Grall f1cf75c2d1 docs/misc: livepatch: Escape backslash
pandoc is currently failing to generate the pdf with the following
error:
! Undefined control sequence.
l.1048   metadata string format is: key=value\0

In this case, we want to print \0 so we need to backslash-escape the
first character.

Interestingly pandoc will not complain when creating html and will just
ignore \0 completely.

Fixes: 5083e0ff93 ("livepatch: Add metadata runtime retrieval mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
2020-01-14 13:34:50 +00:00
Julien Grall 9c8705f8fe docs/misc: pvcalls: Verbatim block should be indented with 4 spaces
At the moment, the diagram is only indented with 2 spaces. So pandoc
will try to badly interpret it and not display it correctly.

Fix it by indenting all the block by 4 spaces (i.e an extra 2 spaces).

Fixes: d661611d08 ("docs/markdown: Switch to using pandoc, and fix underscore escaping")
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
2020-01-14 13:34:44 +00:00
Ian Jackson 585972dc10 docs/process/branching-checklist: Fix a broken rune
cr-daily-branch ought to be called via cr-for-branches so that we take
the lock.  Otherwise strange things can occur if cron runs
cr-daily-branch in the same directory - in particular, it will be
likely to update the osstest revision, breaking everything.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2020-01-02 14:59:50 +00:00
Andrew Cooper 279521aed9 libxc/migration: Drop unimplemented domain types
x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
idea was abandoned.  There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.

No functional change.  New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
actually implements them.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2019-12-24 14:59:04 +00:00
Andrew Cooper 50ea2445f4 libxc/migration: Rename TSC_INFO to X86_TSC_INFO
This record is specific to x86, and should have had a prefix to being with.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2019-12-24 14:59:04 +00:00
Andrew Cooper 4c2bc295d5 docs/migration: Remove numbering for typical records
The numbers aren't referenced directly, and explicit numbering makes an
unnecesserily large diff when inserting something new in the middle.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2019-12-24 14:59:04 +00:00
Roger Pau Monné c08cbf7fb8 x86/apic: force phys mode if interrupt remapping is disabled
Cluster mode can only be used with interrupt remapping support, since
the top 16bits of the APIC ID are filled with the cluster ID, and
hence on systems where the physical ID is still smaller than 255 the
cluster ID is not. Force x2APIC to use physical mode if there's no
interrupt remapping support.

Note that this requires a further patch in order to enable x2APIC
without interrupt remapping support.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2019-12-20 16:27:48 +01:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 25164571fc Merge branch 'livepatch.aws.v6' into staging
* livepatch.aws.v6:
  livepatch: Add metadata runtime retrieval mechanism
  livepatch: Handle arbitrary size names with the list operation
  livepatch: Add support for modules .modinfo section metadata
  livepatch: Add support for inline asm livepatching expectations
  livepatch: Add per-function applied/reverted state tracking marker
  livepatch: Do not enforce ELF_LIVEPATCH_FUNC section presence
  livepatch: Add support for apply|revert action replacement hooks
  livepatch: Implement pre-|post- apply|revert hooks
  livepatch: Export payload structure via livepatch_payload.h
  livepatch: Allow to override inter-modules buildid dependency
  livepatch: Always check hypervisor build ID upon livepatch upload

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2019-12-19 20:16:43 -05:00