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Andrew Cooper 5b42c82f55 tools/libxc: Fix domid parameter types
Mixed throughout libxc are uint32_t, int, and domid_t for domid parameters.
With a signed type, and an explicitly 16-bit type, it is exceedingly difficult
to construct an INVALID_DOMID constant which works with all of them.  (The
main problem being that domid_t gets unconditionally zero extended when
promoted to int for arithmatic.)

Libxl uses uint32_t consistently everywhere, so alter libxc to match.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
[ wei: fix compilation error in libxl ]
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
2017-10-11 12:20:17 +01:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 7bacfe38b6 tmem: Parse UUIDs correctly.
A simple
xl tmem-shared-auth -u 00000000-0000-000A-0000-000000000001 -A 0 0

resulted in uuid_low = 1 (correct) and uuid_high = 0 (umm?).

The issue was that for hex values above 'A' (or 'a') we forgot
to add 10.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2017-04-05 09:39:56 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 1144c8f12b xen/libxc: Move TMEM_AUTH to XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SET_AUTH
which surprisingly (or maybe not) looks like
XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SET_POOLS.

This hypercall came about, as explained in docs/misc/tmem-internals.html:

When tmem was first proposed to the linux kernel mailing list
(LKML), there was concern expressed about security of shared ephemeral
pools.  The initial tmem implementation only
required a client to provide a 128-bit UUID to identify a shared pool, and the
linux-side tmem implementation obtained this UUID from the superblock of the
shared filesystem (in ocfs2).  It was
pointed out on LKML that the UUID was essentially a security key and any
malicious domain that guessed it would have access to any data from the shared
filesystem that found its way into tmem.
..
As a result, a Xen boot option -- tmem_shared_auth; -- was
added.  The option defaults to disabled,
but when it is enabled, management tools must explicitly authenticate (or may
explicitly deny) shared pool access to any client.
On Xen, this is done with the xm tmem-shared-auth command.
"

However the implementation has some rather large holes:

a) The hypercall was accessed from any guest.

b) If the ->domain id value is 0xFFFF then one can toggle the
   tmem_global.shared_auth knob on/off. That with a)
   made it pretty bad.

c) If one toggles the tmem_global.shared_auth off, then the
  'tmem_shared_auth=1' bootup parameter is ignored and
   one can join any shared pool (if UUID is known)!

d) If the 'tmem_shared_auth=1' and tmem_global.shared_auth is
  set to 1, then one can only join an shared pool if the
  UUID has been set by 'xl tmem-shared-auth'. Otherwise
  the joining of a pool fails and a non-shared pool is
  created (without errors to guest). Not exactly sure if
  the shared pool creation at that point should error out
  or not.

e) If a guest is migrated, the policy values (which UUID
  can be shared, whether tmem_global.shared_auth is set, etc)
  are completely ignored.

This patch only fixes a) and only allows the hypercall to
be called by the control domain. Subsequent patches will
fix the remaining issues.

We also have to call client_create as the guest at this
point may not have done any tmem hypercalls - and hence
the '->tmem' from 'struct domain' is still NULL. Us calling
client_create fixes this.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> [libxc changes]
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> [hypervisor changes]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2017-04-05 09:39:20 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 8cd9fa11e1 xen/libcx/tmem: Replace TMEM_RESTORE_NEW with XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SET_POOLS
This used to be done under TMEM_RESTORE_NEW which was an hypercall
accessible by the guest. However there are couple of reasons
not to do it:
 - No checking of domid on TMEM_RESTORE_NEW which meant that
   any guest could create TMEM pools for other guests.
 - The guest can already create pools using TMEM_NEW_POOL
   (which is limited to guest doing the hypercall)
 - This functionality is only needed during migration - there
   is no need for the guest to have this functionality.

However to move this we also have to allocate the 'struct domain'
->tmem pointer. It is by default set to NULL and would be initialized
via the guest do_tmem() hypercalls. Presumarily that was the
initial reason that TMEM_RESTORE_NEW was in the guest accessible
hypercalls.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> [libxc change]
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> [hypervisor changes]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2017-04-05 09:35:41 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk b3d54cead6 tmem: Batch and squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_POOL_[FLAGS,NPAGES,UUID]
in one sub-call: XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_GET_POOLS.

These operations are used during the save process of migration.
Instead of doing 64 hypercalls lets do just one. We modify
the 'struct xen_tmem_client' structure (used in
XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[GET|SET]_CLIENT_INFO) to have an extra field
'nr_pools'. Armed with that the code slurping up pages from the
hypervisor can allocate a big enough structure (struct tmem_pool_info)
to contain all the active pools. And then just iterate over each
one and save it in the stream.

We are also re-using one of the subcommands numbers for this,
as such the XEN_SYSCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION should be incremented
and that was done in the patch titled:
"tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE].."

In the xc_tmem_[save|restore] we also added proper memory handling
of the 'buf' and 'pools'. Because of the loops and to make it as
easy as possible to review we add a goto label and for almost
all error conditions jump in it.

The include for inttypes is required for the PRId64 macro to
work (which is needed to compile this code under 32-bit).

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:27:05 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk c146975553 tmem/xc_tmem_control: Rename 'arg1' to 'len' and 'arg2' to arg.
That is what they are used for. Lets make it more clear.

Of all the various sub-commands, the only one that needed
semantic change is XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_BEGIN. That in the
past used 'arg1', and now we are moving it to use 'arg'.
Since that code is only used during migration which is tied
to the toolstack it is OK to change it.

We should increment the XEN_SYSCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION because
of this, and that was fortunatly done in the patch titled:
"tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE].."

While at it, also fix xc_tmem_control_oid to properly handle
the 'buf' and bounce it as appropiate.

Acked-by: Andrew cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:27:01 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 4ca5e0103d tmem: Unify XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[[SAVE_[BEGIN|END]|RESTORE_BEGIN]
return values. For success they used to be 1 ([SAVE,RESTORE]_BEGIN),
0 if guest did not have any tmem (but only for SAVE_BEGIN), and
-1 for any type of failure.

And SAVE_END (which you would think would mirror SAVE_BEGIN)
had 0 for success and -1 if guest did not any tmem enabled for it.

This is confusing. Now the code will return 0 if the operation was
success.  Various XEN_EXX values are returned if tmem is not enabled
or the operation could not performed.

The xc_tmem.c code only needs one place to check - where we use
SAVE_BEGIN. The place where RESTORE_BEGIN is used will have errno
with the proper error value and return will be -1, so will still
fail properly.

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:26:57 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk c4a398701e tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE]..
Specifically:

XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SET_[WEIGHT,COMPRESS] are now done via:

 XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_SET_CLIENT_INFO

and XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_[VERSION,MAXPOOLS,
CLIENT_WEIGHT, CLIENT_FLAGS] can now be retrieved via:

 XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_GET_CLIENT_INFO

All this information is now in 'struct xen_tmem_client' and
that is what we pass around.

We also rev up the XEN_SYSCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION as we are
re-using the value number of the deleted ones (and henceforth
the information is retrieved differently).

On the toolstack, prior to this patch, the xc_tmem_control
would use the bounce buffer only when arg1 was set and the cmd
was to list. With the 'XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SET_[WEIGHT|COMPRESS]'
that made sense as the 'arg1' would have the value. However
for the other ones (say XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_POOL_UUID)
the 'arg1' would be the length of the 'buf'. If this
confusing don't despair, patch patch titled:
tmem/xc_tmem_control: Rename 'arg1' to 'len' and 'arg2' to arg.
takes care of that.

The acute reader of the toolstack code will discover that
we only used the bounce buffer for LIST, not for any other
subcommands that used 'buf'!?! Which means that the contents
of 'buf' would never be copied back to the calleer 'buf'!

The author is not sure how this could possibly work, perhaps Xen 4.1
(when this was introduced) was more relaxed about the bounce buffer
being enabled. Anyhow this fixes xc_tmem_control to do it for
any subcommand that has 'arg1'.

Lastly some of the checks in xc_tmem_[restore|save] are removed
as they can't ever be reached (not even sure how they could
have been reached in the original submission). One of them
is the check for the weight against -1 when in fact the
hypervisor would never have provided that value.

Now the checks are simple - as the hypercall always returns
->version and ->maxpools (which is mirroring how it was done
prior to this patch). But if one wants to check the if a guest
has any tmem activity then the patch titled
"tmem: Batch and squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_POOL_
[FLAGS,NPAGES,UUID] in one sub-call: XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_GET_POOLS."
adds an ->nr_pools to check for that.

Also we add the check for ->version and ->maxpools and remove
the TODO.

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:26:45 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 92928ab277 tmem/sysctl: Add union in struct xen_sysctl_tmem_op
No functional change. We do this to prepare for another
entry to be added in the union. See patch titled:
"tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE]"

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:26:41 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 840c5c9e66 tmem: Retire XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET_CAP|SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP]
It is not used by anything. Its intent was to complement
the 'weight' attribute but there hadn't been any request for this.

If there is a need to resurface it, it can be integrated back
via the XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_SET_CLIENT_INFO introduced in
"tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE].."

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:26:14 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk f62c86e497 libxc/tmem/restore: Remove call to XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_VERSION
The only thing this hypercall returns is TMEM_SPEC_VERSION.

The comment around is also misleading - this call does not
do any domain operation.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-09-30 15:26:10 -04:00
Ian Campbell 3e9b0d5408 tools: Refactor hypercall calling wrappers into libxencall.
libxencall will provide a stable API and ABI for calling hypercalls
(although those hypercalls themselves may not have a stable API). As
well as the hypercall buffer infrastructure needed in order to safely
provide pointer arguments to hypercalls.

libxenctrl encapsulates a instance of this interface, so users of that
library are not currently subjected to any actual changes. However all
hypercalls made internally by libxc now use the correct interface. It
is expected that most users of this library will be other libraries
providing a higher level interface, rather than applications directly.

Only the basic functionality to allocate hypercall safe memory is
moved, the type safe stuff and bounce buffers remain in libxc.

Note that the functionality to map foreign pages using privcmd is not
yet moved, meaning that an xc_interface will now contain two open
privcmd file descriptors. Foreign memory mapping is logically separate
functionality and will be moved into its own library.

The new library uses a version script to ensure that only expected
symbols are exported and to version them such that ABI guarantees can
be kept in the future.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- updated MINIOS_UPSTREAM_REVISION and QEMU_TRADITIONAL_REVISION ]
2016-01-22 12:23:30 +00:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 880699a8bd tmem: Use 'struct xen_tmem_oid' in tmem_handle and move it to sysctl header.
Instead of the three member uint64_t structure.

The structure is used by the control stack for
XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_NEXT_[PAGE|INV] only so
moving it to the sysctl header.

Also modified tmemc_save_get_next_page to deal with
the new type - and converted some of the on-stack
usage of the array to use an pointer.

Further work will be to make the xen_sysctl_tmem_op have
an union with proper type for the two: ..GET_NEXT_[PAGE|INV]
operations.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2015-09-02 08:48:12 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 987e64e05c tmem: Make the uint64_t oid[3] a proper structure: xen_tmem_oid
And use it almost everywhere. It is easy to use it for the
sysctl since the hypervisor and toolstack are intertwined.

But for the tmem hypercall we need to be dilligient (as it
is guest facing) so delaying that to another patch:
"tmem: Use 'struct xen_tmem_oid' for every user" to help
with bisection issues.

We also move some of the parameters on functions to be within
the right location.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jen Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2015-09-02 08:48:00 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk d0edc15a6c tmem: Move TMEM_CONTROL subop of tmem hypercall to sysctl.
The operations are to be used by an control domain to set parameters,
list pools, clients, and to be used during migration.

There is no need to have them in the tmem hypercall path.

This patch moves code without adding fixes - and in fact in
some cases makes the parameters soo long that they hurt eyes - but
that is for another patch.

Note that in regards to existing users:

 - Only the control domain could call it - which meant that if
   a guest called it would get -EPERM, so we are OK there.
   In practice no guests called this TMEM_CONTROL command.

 - The spec: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/api/tmemspec-v001.pdf
   mentions: "TBD [Not sure if this is really needed.]"
   which is a carte blanche as any to do this!

Note: The XSM check is the same - we just move it from do_tmem_op
to do_sysctl.

We also add an 32-bit pad to make the sysctl structure have the same
exact size under 32 and 64-bit toolstacks and not worry about aligment
issues.

And the XLAT does not need to deal with the buf as it has been
moved to another structure which is 32/64 fixed.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Jen Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2015-09-02 08:48:00 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 54a51b1766 tmem: Remove xc_tmem_control mystical arg3
It mentions it but it is never used. The hypercall interface
knows nothing of this sort of thing either. Lets just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> [release + toolstack]
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2015-09-02 08:48:00 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 1682d2fdf6 tmem: Remove in xc_tmem_control_oid duplicate set_xen_guest_handle call
We are doing another call to set_xen_guest_handle right
after the xc_hypercall_bounce_pre (the correct place to do it).

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
2015-09-02 08:47:59 -04:00
Ian Campbell 443701ef0c Replace FSF street address with canonical URL
As recommended in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html.

This is the result of:
$ git grep -El Mass\|Temple\|Franklin | xargs ./fsf.pl

Where fsf.pl is:
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w -pi.bak -0777
    my $repl = 'If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.';
    my $br = qr/(?:\s*\n\s*(?:[\*\#]|\/\/|\.\\" )?\s*|\s+)/;

    my $inwt = qr/[Ii]f${br}not,${br}write${br}(?:to${br})?the${br}Free${br}Software${br}Foundation,(?:${br}Inc\.,)?/;

    my $mass = qr/675${br}Mass${br}Ave,?${br}Cambridge,?${br}MA${br}02139,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
    my $franklin = qr/51${br}Franklin${br}St(?:reet)?(?:,${br}| - )Fifth${br}Floor,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}02110-1301,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
    my $temple = qr/59${br}Temple${br}Place(?:,${br}| - )Suite${br}330,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}021110?-1307,?${br}USA,?\.?/;

    s|$inwt$br$mass|$repl|m;
    s|$inwt$br$franklin|$repl|m;
    s|$inwt$br$temple|$repl|m;

The only remaining mentions of these addresses are in COPYING files which I
haven't touched.

Some of the changed files are imports from elsewhere, however
filtering them out is tricky, I think it is tolerable to have these
files be modified here and then perhaps reverted on the next sync,
since it's only 1-2 lines and obvious what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2015-07-29 11:14:07 +01:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk af5d428947 libxc: Fix xc_tmem_control to return proper error.
The API returns now negative values on error and stashes
the error in errno. Fix the user of this API.

The 'xc_hypercall_bounce_pre' can fail - and if so it will
stash its errno values - no need to over-write it.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2015-03-20 16:06:42 +00:00
Andrew Cooper b1dfc531d8 tools/libxc: Remove valgrind conditional sections from libxc
The ifdef sections are not enabled at all in tree, and their justification is
out of date now that Xen hypercall support exists upstream in valgrind.

This also removes a commented-out tweak to CFLAGS in the libxc Makefile which
is not being used, and becomes stale given this patch.  In the unlikely event
that any developers were using the line, the results can be more easily
achieved by tweaking APPEND_CFLAGS in the environment.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2014-04-16 17:08:54 +01:00
David Vrabel 82639998a5 Fix emacs local variable block to use correct C style variable.
The emacs variable to set the C style from a local variable block is
c-file-style, not c-set-style.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com
2013-02-21 16:12:46 +00:00
Olaf Hering 8860b1cacc gcc-4.6 compile fix: tools/libxc/xc_tmem.c
xc_tmem.c: In function 'xc_tmem_restore':
xc_tmem.c:393:14: error: variable 'save_max_pools' set but not used
[-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
2011-05-20 09:17:46 +01:00
Keir Fraser ac989b123e tmem: Use of 'new' clashes with C++ reserved namespace.
Rename to 'creat', which does not conflict.

Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2010-12-10 11:01:19 +00:00
Ian Campbell 4fd0fc305b libxc: finalise transition to hypercall buffers.
Rename xc_set_xen_guest_handle to set_xen_guest_handle[0] and remove now
unused functions:
  - xc_memalign
  - lock_pages
  - unlock_pages
  - hcall_buf_prep
  - hcall_buf_release

[0] sed -i -e 's/xc_set_xen_guest_handle/set_xen_guest_handle/g' \
	tools/libxc/*.[ch] \
	tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c \
	tools/python/xen/lowlevel/acm/acm.c \
	tools/libxc/ia64/xc_ia64_stubs.c \
	tools/security/secpol_tool.c \
	tools/misc/xenpm.c

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2010-10-22 15:14:51 +01:00
Ian Campbell d1fcead770 libxc: convert tmem interface over to hypercall buffers
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2010-10-22 15:14:51 +01:00
Ian Campbell f114466a23 libxc: pass an xc_interface handle to page locking functions
Not actually used here but useful to confirm that a handle is passed
down to each location where it will be required once we switch to
hypercall buffers.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2010-10-18 16:43:58 +01:00
Keir Fraser 66d799b9d9 libxc, tmem: Fix build after fd2e5008c2e0
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
2010-09-13 17:17:01 +01:00
Keir Fraser 4678d349a1 tmem (tools): move to new ABI version to handle long object-ids
After a great deal of discussion and review with linux
kernel developers, it appears there are "next-generation"
filesystems (such as btrfs, xfs, Lustre) that will not
be able to use tmem due to an ABI limitation... a field
that represents a unique file identifier is 64-bits in
the tmem ABI and may need to be as large as 192-bits.
So to support these guest filesystems, the tmem ABI must be
revised, from "v0" to "v1".

I *think* it is still the case that tmem is experimental
and is not used anywhere yet in production.

The tmem ABI is designed to support multiple revisions,
so the Xen tmem implementation could be updated to
handle both v0 and v1.  However this is a bit
messy and would require data structures for both v0
and v1 to appear in public Xen header files.

I am inclined to update the Xen tmem implementation
to only support v1 and gracefully fail v0.  This would
result in only a performance loss (as if tmem were
disabled) for newly launched tmem-v0-enabled guests,
but live-migration between old tmem-v0 Xen and new
tmem-v1 Xen machines would fail, and saved tmem-v0
guests will not be able to be restored on a tmem-v1
Xen machine.  I would plan to update both pre-4.0.2
and unstable (future 4.1) to only support v1.

I believe these restrictions are reasonable at this
point in the tmem lifecycle, though they may not
be reasonable in the near future; should the tmem
ABI need to be revised from v1 to v2, I understand
backwards compatibility will be required.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
2010-09-13 17:11:04 +01:00
Ian Campbell 6993e9f5ce # HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
# Date 1282671421 -3600
# Node ID d1dd29a470ef1b9d2c77478a123326036dfe90bb
# Parent  d7a4adad9c328decbd384d87b23001aea8951b86
tools/libxc, tools/libelf: Relicense under LGPL v2.1

Relicense these two libraries under LGPL v2.1 only except where
individual files already included the "or later" provision.

Copyright holders have been contacted by Stephen Spector and have all
agreed this change.

Removed tools/libxc/ia64/aclinux.h since it appeared to be
unused. There is a separate, more up to date, copy in
xen/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h which does appear to be used.

Clarify the license of MiniOS privcmd.h under the same terms as other
tools/include/xen-sys headers.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-24 18:42:59 +01:00
Keir Fraser 5cc436c1d2 libxc: eliminate static variables, use xentoollog; API change
This patch eliminate the global variables in libxenctrl (used for
logging and error reporting).

Instead the information which was in the global variables is now in a
new xc_interface* opaque structure, which xc_interface open returns
instead of the raw file descriptor; furthermore, logging is done via
xentoollog.

There are three new parameters to xc_interface_open to control the
logging, but existing callers can just pass "0" for all three to get
the old behaviour.

All libxc callers have been adjusted accordingly.

Also update QEMU_TAG for corresponding qemu change.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2010-05-28 09:30:19 +01:00
Keir Fraser 734a7f6677 tmem: save/restore/migrate/livemigrate and shared pool authentication
Attached patch implements save/restore/migration/livemigration
for transcendent memory ("tmem").  Without this patch, domains
using tmem may in some cases lose data when doing save/restore
or migrate/livemigrate.  Also included in this patch is
support for a new (privileged) hypercall for authorizing
domains to share pools; this provides the foundation to
accomodate upstream linux requests for security for shared
pools.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
2009-08-06 09:19:55 +01:00
Keir Fraser c93bd0e6ea tmem: fix 32-on-64 support
This implicitly required coverting the tmem_op structure from
anonymous to standard struct/union sub-fields, and extending the
get-fields.sh helper script to deal with typedef-ed guest handles used
as types of translated compound type fields.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
2009-06-17 07:14:02 +01:00
Keir Fraser 6009f4ddb2 Transcendent memory ("tmem") for Xen.
Tmem, when called from a tmem-capable (paravirtualized) guest, makes
use of otherwise unutilized ("fallow") memory to create and manage
pools of pages that can be accessed from the guest either as
"ephemeral" pages or as "persistent" pages.  In either case, the pages
are not directly addressible by the guest, only copied to and fro via
the tmem interface.  Ephemeral pages are a nice place for a guest to
put recently evicted clean pages that it might need again; these pages
can be reclaimed synchronously by Xen for other guests or other uses.
Persistent pages are a nice place for a guest to put "swap" pages to
avoid sending them to disk.  These pages retain data as long as the
guest lives, but count against the guest memory allocation.

Tmem pages may optionally be compressed and, in certain cases, can be
shared between guests.  Tmem also handles concurrency nicely and
provides limited QoS settings to combat malicious DoS attempts.
Save/restore and live migration support is not yet provided.

Tmem is primarily targeted for an x86 64-bit hypervisor.  On a 32-bit
x86 hypervisor, it has limited functionality and testing due to
limitations of the xen heap.  Nearly all of tmem is
architecture-independent; three routines remain to be ported to ia64
and it should work on that architecture too.  It is also structured to
be portable to non-Xen environments.

Tmem defaults off (for now) and must be enabled with a "tmem" xen boot
option (and does nothing unless a tmem-capable guest is running).  The
"tmem_compress" boot option enables compression which takes about 10x
more CPU but approximately doubles the number of pages that can be
stored.

Tmem can be controlled via several "xm" commands and many interesting
tmem statistics can be obtained.  A README and internal specification
will follow, but lots of useful prose about tmem, as well as Linux
patches, can be found at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem .

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
2009-05-26 11:05:04 +01:00