SUPPORT.md doesn't seem to explicitly say whether static memory is
supported, so this commit updates SUPPORT.md to add feature static
allocation tech preview for now.
Signed-off-by: Penny Zheng <penny.zheng@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
c49ee0329f ("SUPPORT.md: limit security support for hosts with very
much memory"), as a result of XSA-385, restricted security support to
8 TiB of host memory. While subsequently further restricted for Arm,
extend this to 12 TiB on x86, putting in place a guest restriction to
8 TiB (or yet less for Arm) in exchange.
A 12 TiB x86 host was certified successfully for use with Xen 4.14 as
per https://www.suse.com/nbswebapp/yesBulletin.jsp?bulletinNumber=150753.
This in particular included running as many guests (2 TiB each) as
possible in parallel, to actually prove that all the memory can be used
like this. It may be relevant to note that the Optane memory there was
used in memory-only mode, with DRAM acting as cache.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Commit a5968a553f "SUPPORT.MD: Correct the amount of physical memory
supported for Arm" added a support statement split over two lines.
Unfortunately, docs/support-matrix-generate throw an error for it:
Generating support matrix (origin/stable-NN )
+ docs/support-matrix-generate HEAD https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/SUPPORT.html origin/stable-NN https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/NN-testing/SUPPORT.html
Status, x86: Supported up to 8 TiB. Hosts with more memory are
supported, but not security supported.
Status, Arm32: Supported up to 12 GiB
Status, Arm64: Supported up to 2 TiB
^ cannot parse status codeblock line:
supported, but not security supported.
? at docs/parse-support-md line 172, <F> chunk 1.
It would be good to allow split support statement (to keep lines below
80 characters) but my knowledge of the script is very limited.
Therefore, workaround the error by describing the support statement
in one long line.
Fixes: a5968a553f "SUPPORT.MD: Correct the amount of physical memory supported for Arm"
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
As part of XSA-385, SUPPORT.MD gained a statement regarding the amount
of physical memory supported.
However, booting Xen on a Arm platform with that amount of memory would
result to a breakage because the frametable area is too small.
The wiki [1] (as of April 2022) claims we were able to support up to
5 TiB on Arm64 and 16 GiB. However, this is not the case because
the struct page_info has always been bigger than expected (56 bytes
for 64-bit and 32-bytes for 32-bit).
I don't have any HW with such amount of memory. So rather than
modifying the code, take the opportunity to use the limit that should
work on Arm (2 TiB for 64-bit and 12 GiB for 32-bit).
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com> #arm part
Add Dom0less to SUPPORT.md to clarify its support status. The feature is
mature enough and small enough to make it security supported.
Clarify that dom0less DomUs memory is not scrubbed at boot when
bootscrub=on or bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters,
and no XSAs will be issued for that.
Also see XSA-372: 371347c5b6 and fd5dc41cea.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Change the support state of Linux and Windows pv frontends from
"supported" to "supported with caveats" in order to reflect that the
frontends can probably be harmed by their respective backends.
Some of the Linux frontends have been hardened already.
This is XSA-376
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Sufficient and in particular regular testing on very large hosts cannot
currently be guaranteed. Anyone wanting us to support larger hosts is
free to propose so, but will need to supply not only test results, but
also a test plan.
This is a follow-up to XSA-385.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Add parameter vpmu to xl domain configuration syntax
to enable the access to PMU registers by disabling
the PMU traps(currently only for ARM).
The current status is that the PMU registers are not
virtualized and the physical registers are directly
accessible when this parameter is enabled. There is no
interrupt support and Xen will not save/restore the
register values on context switches.
According to Arm Arm, section D7.1:
"The Performance Monitors Extension is common
to AArch64 operation and AArch32 operation."
That means we have an ensurance that if PMU is
present in one exception state, it must also be
present in the other.
Please note that this feature is experimental.
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
The support status of 32-bit guests doesn't seem particularly useful.
With it changed to fully unsupported outside of PV-shim, adjust the PV32
Kconfig default accordingly.
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
We shouldn't default to include any unsupported code in the shim. Mark
the setting as off, replacing the ARGO specification. This points out
anomalies with the scheduler configuration: Unsupported schedulers
better don't default to Y in release builds (like is already the case
for ARINC653). Without at least the SCHED_NULL adjustments, the shim
would suddenly build with RTDS as its default scheduler.
As a result, the SCHED_NULL setting can also be dropped from defconfig.
Clearly with the shim defaulting to it, SCHED_NULL must be supported at
least there.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
Support to liveupdate C/OCaml xenstored daemon was added during the
4.15 development cycle. Add two new sections in SUPPORT.MD to explain
what is the support state.
For now, it is a tech preview.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
This wasn't meant to be supported, but wasn't stated this way.
This is XSA-363.
Reported-by: Jan Belich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
The purpose of this patch is to add a possibility for user
to be able to select IOREQ support on Arm (which is disabled
by default) with retaining the current behaviour on x86
(is selected by HVM and it's prompt is not visible).
Also make the IOREQ be depended on CONFIG_EXPERT on Arm since
it is considered as Technological Preview feature and
update SUPPORT.md.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Add support for ARM architected SMMUv3 implementation. It is based on
the Linux SMMUv3 driver.
Driver is currently supported as Tech Preview.
Major differences with regard to Linux driver are as follows:
2. Only Stage-2 translation is supported as compared to the Linux driver
that supports both Stage-1 and Stage-2 translations.
3. Use P2M page table instead of creating one as SMMUv3 has the
capability to share the page tables with the CPU.
4. Tasklets are used in place of threaded IRQ's in Linux for event queue
and priority queue IRQ handling.
5. Latest version of the Linux SMMUv3 code implements the commands queue
access functions based on atomic operations implemented in Linux.
Atomic functions used by the commands queue access functions are not
implemented in XEN therefore we decided to port the earlier version
of the code. Atomic operations are introduced to fix the bottleneck
of the SMMU command queue insertion operation. A new algorithm for
inserting commands into the queue is introduced, which is lock-free
on the fast-path.
Consequence of reverting the patch is that the command queue
insertion will be slow for large systems as spinlock will be used to
serializes accesses from all CPUs to the single queue supported by
the hardware. Once the proper atomic operations will be available in
XEN the driver can be updated.
6. Spin lock is used in place of mutex when attaching a device to the
SMMU, as there is no blocking locks implementation available in XEN.
This might introduce latency in XEN. Need to investigate before
driver is out for tech preview.
7. PCI ATS functionality is not supported, as there is no support
available in XEN to test the functionality. Code is not tested and
compiled. Code is guarded by the flag CONFIG_PCI_ATS.
8. MSI interrupts are not supported as there is no support available in
XEN to request MSI interrupts. Code is not tested and compiled. Code
is guarded by the flag CONFIG_MSI.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Singh <rahul.singh@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
While investigating XSA-335 we discovered that many upstream security
fixes were missing. It is not practical to backport them. There is
no good reason to be running this very ancient version of qemu, except
that it is the only way to run a stub dm which is currently supported
by upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
When a Cortex A57 processor is affected by CPU errata 832075, a guest
not implementing the workaround for it could deadlock the system.
Add a warning during boot informing the user that only trusted guests
should be executed on the system.
An equivalent warning is already given to the user by KVM on cores
affected by this errata.
Also taint the hypervisor as unsecure when this errata applies and
mention Cortex A57 r0p0 - r1p2 as not security supported in SUPPORT.md
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
[fix SUPPORT.md style, 3 printk lines instead of 4]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
SMMUv{1, 2} are both marked as security supported, so we would
technically have to issue an XSA for any IOMMU security bug.
However, at the moment, device passthrough is not security supported
on Arm and there is no plan to change that in the next few months.
Therefore, mark Arm SMMUv{1, 2} as supported but not security supported.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Mark Renesas IPMMU-VMSA as "Supported, not security supported"
and remove dependencies on CONFIG_EXPERT.
We can't treat the IOMMU driver as "Supported" since the device
passthrough feature is not security supported on Arm today.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Add a README and package comment giving a brief overview of the package.
These also help pkg.go.dev generate better documentation.
Also, add a copy of the LGPL (the same license used by libxl) to
tools/golang/xenlight. This is required for the package to be shown
on pkg.go.dev and added to the default module proxy, proxy.golang.org.
Finally, add an entry for the xenlight package to SUPPORT.md.
Signed-off-by: Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@ainfosec.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
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>
Renesas IPMMU-VMSA support (Arm) can be considered
as Technological Preview feature.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
With the latest patches to the mediator, it can be considered
as Technological Preview feature.
Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@epam.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
In order to have a link to the release notes in the feature list
generated from SUPPORT.md add that link in the "Release Support"
section of that file.
The real link needs to be adapted when the version is being released.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This turns all the things which were treated as caveats, but which
don't need to be footnoted in the matrix, into descriptions.
For the benefit of the support matrix generator, this patch (or a
version of it) should be backported to 4.10.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
This commits (more or less) this file to be processed with pandoc,
rather than other markdown processors. There is, unfortunately, no
widely-accepted way to declare a title for the document.
I tested feeding the document to markdown(1) on Debian jessie and it
reproduced the % line as if it were simple text. I guess many other
markdown processors will do something similarly tolerable. My
internet searches did not discover a markdown processor that used
lines starting with % for something else.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
Continuations of bullet list items must be indented by exactly 4
spaces (according to pandoc_markdown(5) on Debian jessie).
This is most easily achieved by making the bullet list items have two
spaces before the `*'.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
Penny Zheng