In a remus scenario, libxc will write a CHECKPOINT record, then hand
ownership of the fd to libxl. Libxl then writes any records required
and finishes with a CHECKPOINT_END record, then hands ownership of the
fd back to libxc.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
A platform may have a GIC compatible with previous version of the
device.
This is allow to virtualize an unmodified OS on new hardware if the GIC
is compatible with older version.
When a guest is created, the vGIC will emulate same version as the
hardware. Although, the user can specify in the configuration file the
preferred version (currently only GICv2 and GICv3 are supported).
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Usage:
hdtype=ide|ahci (default=ide)
If hdtype=ahci adds ich9 disk controller in ahci mode and uses it with
upstream qemu to emulate disks instead of ide.
It doesn't support cdroms which still using ide (cdroms will use
"-device ide-cd" as new qemu parameter)
Ahci requires new qemu parameter but for now other emulated disks cases
remains with old ones (I did it in other patch, not needed by this one)
I did it as libxl parameter disabled by default to avoid possible
problems:
- with save/restore/migration (restoring with ahci a domU that was with
ide instead)
- windows < 8 without pv drivers (a registry key change is needed for
AHCI<->IDE change FWIK to avoid possible blue screen)
- windows XP or older that many not support ahci by default.
Setting AHCI with libxl parameter and default to disabled seems the best
solution.
AHCI increase hvm domUs boot performance. On linux hvm domU I saw up to
only 20% of the previous total boot time, whereas boot time decrease a
lot on W7 domUs for most of boots I have done. Small difference in boot
time compared to ide mode on W8 and newer (probably other xen
improvements or fixes are needed not ahci related)
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- adjust name of LIBXL_HAVE #define as discussed on list,
fixup pod syntax in xl.cfg.pod.5 ]
Add document to introduce basic concepts and terms in PSR family
technologies and the xl interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This is the xc/xl changes to support Intel Cache Allocation
Technology(CAT).
'xl psr-hwinfo' is updated to show CAT info and two new commands
for CAT are introduced:
- xl psr-cat-cbm-set [-s socket] <domain> <cbm>
Set cache capacity bitmasks(CBM) for a domain.
- xl psr-cat-show <domain>
Show CAT domain information.
Examples:
[root@vmm-psr vmm]# xl psr-hwinfo --cat
Cache Allocation Technology (CAT):
Socket ID : 0
L3 Cache : 12288KB
Maximum COS : 15
CBM length : 12
Default CBM : 0xfff
[root@vmm-psr vmm]# xl psr-cat-cbm-set 0 0xff
[root@vmm-psr vmm]# xl psr-cat-show
Socket ID : 0
L3 Cache : 12288KB
Default CBM : 0xfff
ID NAME CBM
0 Domain-0 0xff
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Detect Intel Cache Allocation Technology(CAT) feature and store the
cpuid information for later use. Currently only L3 cache allocation is
supported. The L3 CAT features may vary among sockets so per-socket
feature information is stored. The initialization can happen either at
boot time or when CPU(s) is hot plugged after booting.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Use -1 as notifier priority. Fix typos.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
A find option was forgotten in commit 6592bf60be
"docs: Look for documentation in sub-directories" resulting to get some
docs duplicated and other missing.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The ARM documentation is living in a specific folder under misc. Until
now, it was skipped during building.
In order to avoid missing future directory, use find to look for a
specific file pattern through all the directory.
Note the we already use find in other Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
In combination with the per-active entry locks, the grant table lock
can be made a read-write lock since the majority of cases only the
read lock is required. The grant table read lock protects against
changes to the table version or size (which are done with the write
lock held).
The write lock is also required when two active entries must be
acquired.
The double lock is still required when updating IOMMU page tables.
With the lock contention being only on the maptrack lock (unless IOMMU
updates are required), performance and scalability is improved.
Based on a patch originally by Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Split grant table lock into two separate locks. One to protect
maptrack free list (maptrack_lock) and one for everything else (lock).
Based on a patch originally by Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Introduce a per-active entry spin lock to protect active entry state
The grant table lock must be locked before acquiring (locking) an
active entry.
This is a step in reducing contention on the grant table lock, but
will only do so once the grant table lock is turned into a read-write
lock.
Based on a patch originally by Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
For example on Dell machines we see:
(XEN) 00000fed18000-00000fed19fff type=11 attr=8000000000000000
(XEN) Unknown cachability for MFNs 0xfed18-0xfed19
Let's allow them to be mapped as UC.
We also alter the 'efi-rs' to be 'efi=rs' or 'efi=no-rs'.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Olaf reports:
[ 146s] man/xl.pod.1 around line 1529: '=item' outside of any '=over'
[ 146s] man/xl.pod.1 around line 1531: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
[ 146s] POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2text line 84.
[ 146s] Makefile:167: recipe for target 'txt/man/xl.1.txt' failed
[ 146s] make[1]: *** [txt/man/xl.1.txt] Error 255
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
The current base directory /var/xen/dump for domU dumps will be patched
to /var/lib/xen/dump by most distros to follow FHS.
This change does three things:
- change the default from /var/xen/dump to /var/lib/xen/dump
- provide a configure option to avoid patching the source.
- update docs to refer to the new default location
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- s,/var,LOCALSTATEDIR, in help test, ran autogen.sh ]
Add default security contexts to the XSM policy for use by the toolstack
when a domain is created without specifying an explicit security label.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
xm migrate would do non-live migration (effectively, save, transfer
and restore) by default, unless you specified --live.
xl migrate always does live migration. Honour (by ignoring) --live
for compatibility with old callers. Document this.
(This patch should be backported as far as possible.)
Reported-by: Matthew Vernon <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Matthew Vernon <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Note that the example is done on Midway whose SMMU driver is not
supported on Xen upstream.
Currently, I don't have other platform where I can test Device Tree
passthrough.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The partial device tree may contains phandle. The Device Tree Compiler
tends to allocate the phandle from 1.
Reserve the ID 65000 for the GIC phandle. I think we can safely assume
that the partial device tree will never contain a such ID.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Allow the user to pass additional nodes to the guest device tree. For
this purpose, everything in the node /passthrough from the partial
device tree will be copied into the guest device tree.
The node /aliases will be also copied to allow the user to define
aliases which can be used by the guest kernel.
A simple partial device tree will look like:
/dts-v1/;
/ {
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;
passthrough {
compatible = "simple-bus";
ranges;
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;
/* List of your nodes */
}
};
Note that:
* The interrupt-parent property will be added by the toolstack in
the root node
* The properties compatible, ranges, #address-cells and #size-cells
in /passthrough are mandatory.
The helpers provided by the libfdt don't perform all the necessary
security check on a given device tree. Therefore, only trusted device
tree should be used.
Note: The partial device tree code requires the presence of libfdt
functions which have been only correctly exported in libfdt 1.4.0 and
higher. All the major distributions but Debian Wheezy are using v1.4.0
or higher. It has been decided to disable partial device tree support on
OSes where libfdt doesn't meet the requirement.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- ran autogen.sh ]
Usage:
vga="qxl"
Qxl vga support many resolutions that not supported by stdvga,
mainly the 16:9 ones and other high up to 2560x1600.
With QXL you can get improved performance and smooth video also
with high resolutions and high quality.
Require their drivers installed in the domU and spice used
otherwise act as a simple stdvga.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Signed-off-by: Zhou Peng <zpengxen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Add the specification for a new migration stream format. The document
includes all the details but to summarize:
The existing (legacy) format is dependant on the word size of the
toolstack. This prevents domains from migrating from hosts running
32-bit toolstacks to hosts running 64-bit toolstacks (and vice-versa).
The legacy format lacks any version information making it difficult to
extend in compatible way.
The new format has a header (the image header) with version information,
a domain header with basic information of the domain and a stream of
records for the image data.
The format will be used for future domain types (such as on ARM).
The specification is pandoc format (an extended markdown format) and the
documentation build system is extended to support pandoc format documents.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
A top level EPT parameter "ept=<options>" and a sub boolean "opt_pml_enabled"
are added to control PML. Other booleans can be further added for any other EPT
related features.
The document description for the new parameter is also added.
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
For top-level targets which use more than a single program to produce content
(txt already, pdf once pandoc is supported), these current checks are
unsuitable.
By moving the the install checks to the rules which actually use the programs,
it is now possible to build a subset of a top-level target depending on the
installed programs.
As a bonus, it removes the need to recurse for txt, man-pages and pdf targets.
A side effect of this is that every individual source which cannot be
generated will have a specific message logged, giving the file and program.
As such, these message are updated to consistently report the target file
which was not generated.
Finally, update "ifdef foo" to "ifneq($(foo),)" to be more resilient to errors
caused by having foo defined as an empty string.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
In this patch we mechanically rename mem_event to vm_event. This patch
introduces no logic changes to the code. Using the name vm_event better
describes the intended use of this subsystem, which is not limited to memory
events. It can be used for off-loading the decision making logic into helper
applications when encountering various events during a VM's execution.
Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@zentific.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
When a device is marked for passthrough (via the new property
"xen,passthrough"), dom0 must not access to the device (i.e not
loading a driver), but should be able to manage the MMIO/interrupt
of the passthrough device.
The latter part will allow the toolstack to map MMIO/IRQ when a device
is pass through to a guest.
The property "xen,passthrough" will be translated as 'status="disabled"'
in the device tree to avoid DOM0 using the device. We assume that DOM0 is
able to cope with this property (already the case for Linux, and
required by ePAPR).
Rework the function map_device (renamed into handle_device) to:
* For a given device node:
- Give permission to manage IRQ/MMIO for this device
- Retrieve the IRQ configuration (i.e edge/level) from the device
tree
* When the device is not marked for guest passthrough:
- Assign the device to the guest if it's protected by an IOMMU
- Map the IRQs and MMIOs regions to the guest
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Commit 2090f14c5c ("sysctl: make XEN_SYSCTL_topologyinfo sysctl a
little more efficient") renamed XEN_SYSCTL_topologyinfo to
XEN_SYSCTL_cputopoinfo.
It, however, neglected to update this macro for flask-related files.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This allows for early-printk to be specified (for existing UARTS at
least) without the need to edit Rules.mk.
The existing shortcuts are retained, but in a much more compact
fashion.
An unused EARLY_PRINTK_BAUD was removed from the zynqmq settings.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Several users have reported that their available free memory in the
guest when they used maxmem >> memory was much smaller than when
maxmem == memory. This is the unavoidable consequence of how
ballooning works, but it's not something users expect.
Warn them of this effect in the place we tell them how to make it
happen, so they aren't surprised.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Andrew Cooper