Benchmarks have shown that per-socket runqueues arrangement
behaves better (e.g., we achieve better load balancing)
than the current per-core default.
Here's an example (coming from
https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-06/msg02287.html ):
|=======================================|
| XEN BUILD TIME, LOW LOAD, NO NOISE |
|---------------------------------------|
| runq=core runq=socket |
| 35.200 33.433 |
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| XEN BUILD TIME, HIGH LOAD, NO NOISE | IPERF, HIGH LOAD, NO NOISE |
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| runq=core runq=socket | runq=core runq=socket |
| 18.013 18.530 | 23.200 23.466 |
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| XEN BUILD TIME, LOW LOAD, WITH NOISE |
|------------------------------------- |
| runq=core runq=socket |
| 45.866 39.493 |
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| XEN BUILD TIME, HIGH LOAD, WITH NOISE | IPERF, HIGH LOAD, WITH NOISE |
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| runq=core runq=socket | runq=core runq=socket |
| 36.840 29.080 | 19.967 21.000 |
|=======================================|==============================|
The only reason why we went for per-core, initially, was to
introduce some form of hyperthreading support. Now we have
hyperthreading support, independently from how runqueues
are organized (9bb9c7388 "xen: credit2: implement true SMT
support"), and thus we can switch to per-socket.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
SMEP/SMAP is a security feature to prevent kernel executing/accessing
user address involuntarily, any such behavior will lead to a page fault.
SMEP/SMAP is open (in CR4) for both Xen and HVM guest in earlier code.
SMEP/SMAP bit set in Xen CR4 would enforce security checking for 32-bit
PV guest which will suffer unknown SMEP/SMAP page fault when guest
kernel attempt to access user address although SMEP/SMAP is close for
PV guests.
This patch introduces a new boot option value "hvm" for "sm{e,a}p", it
is going to diable SMEP/SMAP for Xen hypervisor while enable them for
HVM. In this way, 32-bit PV guest will not suffer SMEP/SMAP security
issue. Users can choose whether open SMEP/SMAP for Xen itself,
especially when they are going to run 32-bit PV guests.
Signed-off-by: He Chen <he.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
[Fixed up command line docs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Couple of reasons:
- It can lead to security issues (see row-hammer, KSM and such
attacks).
- Code is quite complex.
- Deduplication is good if the pages themselves are the same
but that is hardly guaranteed.
- We got some gains (if pages are deduped) but at the cost of
making code less maintainable.
- tze depends on deduplication code.
As such, deleting it.
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Extend the "tsc" boot parameter is to further relax TSC restrictions and
allow it to be used on machines that guarantee reliable TSC across
sockets. This is up to board manufacturers and there's no way for the OS
to probe this property, therefore user needs to explicitly set this option.
Also make one style adjustment that is to remove the unnecessary
parenthesis around clearing TSC_RELIABLE.
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Recent x86/time changes improved a lot of the monotonicity in xen
timekeeping, making it much harder to observe time going backwards.
Although platform timer can't be expected to be perfectly in sync with
TSC and so get_s_time won't be guaranteed to always return
monotonically increasing values across cpus. This is the case in some
of the boxes I am testing with, observing sometimes ~100 warps (of
very few nanoseconds each) after a few hours.
This patch introduces support for using TSC as platform time source
which is the highest resolution time and most performant to get.
Though there are also several problems associated with its usage, and
there isn't a complete (and architecturally defined) guarantee that
all machines will provide reliable and monotonic TSC in all cases (I
believe Intel to be the only that can guarantee that?). For this reason
it's not used unless administrator changes "clocksource" boot option
to "tsc". Initializing TSC clocksource requires all CPUs up to have
the tsc reliability checks performed. init_xen_time is called before
all CPUs are up, so for example we would start with HPET (or ACPI,
PIT) at boot time, and switch later to TSC. The switch then happens on
verify_tsc_reliability initcall that is invoked when all CPUs are up.
When attempting to initialize TSC we also check for time warps and if
it has invariant TSC. Note that while we deem reliable a CONSTANT_TSC
with no deep C-states, it might not always be the case, so we're
conservative and allow TSC to be used as platform timer only with
invariant TSC. Additionally we check if CPU Hotplug isn't meant to be
performed on the host which will either be when max vcpus and
num_present_cpu are the same. This is because a newly hotplugged CPU
may not satisfy the condition of having all TSCs synchronized - so
when having tsc clocksource being used we allow offlining CPUs but not
onlining any ones back. Finally we prevent TSC from being used as
clocksource on multiple sockets because it isn't guaranteed to be
invariant. Further relaxing of this last requirement is added in a
separate patch, such that we allow vendors with such guarantee to use
TSC as clocksource. In case any of these conditions is not met, we
keep the clocksource that was previously initialized on init_xen_time.
Since b64438c7c ("x86/time: use correct (local) time stamp in
constant-TSC calibration fast path") updates to cpu time use local
stamps, which means platform timer is only used to seed the initial
cpu time. We further introduce a new rendezvous function
(nop_rendezvous) which doesn't require synchronization between master
and slave CPUS and just reads calibration_rendezvous struct and writes
it down the stime and stamp to the cpu_calibration struct to be used
later on. With clocksource=tsc there is no need to be in sync with
another clocksource, so we reseed the local/master stamps to be values
of TSC and update the platform time stamps accordingly. Time
calibration is set to 1sec after we switch to TSC, thus these stamps
are reseeded to also ensure monotonic returning values right after the
point we switch to TSC. This is to remove the possibility of having
inconsistent readings in this short period (i.e. until calibration
fires).
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
SMEP/SMAP is a security feature to prevent kernel executing/accessing
user address involuntarily, any such behavior will lead to a page fault.
SMEP/SMAP is open (in CR4) for both Xen and HVM guest in earlier code.
SMEP/SMAP bit set in Xen CR4 would enforce security checking for 32-bit
PV guest which will suffer unknown SMEP/SMAP page fault when guest
kernel attempt to access user address although SMEP/SMAP is close for
PV guests.
This patch introduces a new boot option value "hvm" for "sm{e,a}p", it
is going to diable SMEP/SMAP for Xen hypervisor while enable them for
HVM. In this way, 32-bit PV guest will not suffer SMEP/SMAP security
issue. Users can choose whether open SMEP/SMAP for Xen itself,
especially when they are going to run 32-bit PV guests.
Signed-off-by: He Chen <he.chen@linux.intel.com>
[jbeulich: doc and style adjustments]
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
The existing load tracking code was hard to understad and
maintain, and not entirely consistent. This is due to a
number of reasons:
- code and comments were not in perfect sync, making it
difficult to figure out what the intent of a particular
choice was (e.g., the choice of 18 for load_window_shift);
- the math, although effective, was not entirely consistent.
In fact, we were doing (if W is the lenght of the window):
avgload = (delta*load*W + (W - delta)*avgload)/W
avgload = avgload + delta*load - delta*avgload/W
which does not match any known variant of 'smoothing
moving average'. In fact, it should have been:
avgload = avgload + delta*load/W - delta*avgload/W
(for details on why, see the doc comments inside this
patch.). Furthermore, with
avgload ~= avgload + W*load - avgload
avgload ~= W*load
The reason why the formula above sort of worked was because
the number of bits used for the fractional parts of the
values used in fixed point math and the number of bits used
for the lenght of the window were the same (load_window_shift
was being used for both).
This may look handy, but it introduced a (not especially well
documented) dependency between the lenght of the window and
the precision of the calculations, which really should be
two independent things. Especially if treating them as such
(like it is done in this patch) does not lead to more
complex maths (same number of multiplications and shifts, and
there is still room for some optimization).
Therefore, in this patch, we:
- split length of the window and precision (and, since there
is already a command line parameter for length of window,
introduce one for precision too),
- align the math with one proper incarnation of exponential
smoothing (at no added cost),
- add comments, about the details of the algorithm and the
math used.
While there fix a couple of style issues as well (pointless
initialization, long lines, comments).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
This adds a Kconfig option and support for including the XSM policy from
tools/flask/policy in the hypervisor so that the bootloader does not
need to provide a policy to get sane behavior from an XSM-enabled
hypervisor. The policy provided by the bootloader, if present, will
override the built-in policy.
The XSM policy is not moved out of tools because that remains the
primary location for installing and configuring the policy.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
The parameter 'iommu_dev_iotlb_timeout' specifies the timeout
of device IOTLB invalidation in milliseconds. By default, the
timeout is 1000 milliseconds, which can be boot-time changed.
We also confirmed with VT-d hardware team that 1 milliseconds
is large enough for VT-d IOMMU internal invalidation.
the existing panic() is eliminated and we bubble up the timeout
of device IOTLB invalidation for further processing, as the
PCI-e Address Translation Services (ATS) mandates a timeout of
60 seconds for device IOTLB invalidation. Obviously we can't
spin for 60 seconds or otherwise Xen hypervisor hangs.
Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
This adds a Kconfig option and support for including the XSM policy from
tools/flask/policy in the hypervisor so that the bootloader does not
need to provide a policy to get sane behavior from an XSM-enabled
hypervisor. The policy provided by the bootloader, if present, will
override the built-in policy.
Enabling this option only builds the policy if checkpolicy is available
during compilation of the hypervisor; otherwise, it does nothing. The
XSM policy is not moved out of tools because that remains the primary
location for installing and configuring the policy.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Originally hvm_fep was guarded by NDEBUG, which means it was only
available to debug builds.
However there is value in having it in non-debug builds as well. Users
can use it to run tests in a setup that replicates a production
environment.
Make it clear with a sync_console style warning that this option can't
be used in production setup. Update command line documentation
accordingly. Finally mark Xen as tainted when this feature is used.
Add a kconfig option under x86 to configure hvm_fep.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Quite frequently the watchdog would hit an innocent CPU, e.g. one
trying to acquire a spin lock a remote CPU holds for extended periods
of time, or a random CPU in TSC calbration rendezvous. In such cases
the register and stack dump for that CPU doesn't really help in the
analysis of the problem.
To keep things reasonable on large systems, only log CS:RIP by default.
This can be overridden via a new command line option such that full
register/stack state would get logged.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Rather than just allowing a fixed address or fully automatic placement,
also allow for specifying an upper bound. Especially on EFI systems,
where firmware memory use is commonly less predictable than on legacy
BIOS ones, this makes success of the reservation more likely when
automatic placement is not an option (e.g. because of special DMA
restrictions of devices involved in actually carrying out the dump).
Also take the opportunity to actually add text to the "crashkernel"
entry in the command line option doc.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
The command line instructions for FLASK include a note on how to compile
Xen with FLASK but the note was out of date after the change to Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The previous default of "permissive" is meant for developing or
debugging a disaggregated system. However, this default makes it too
easy to accidentally boot a machine in this state, which does not place
any restrictions on guests. This is not suitable for normal systems
because any guest can perform any operation (including operations like
rebooting the machine, kexec, and reading or writing another domain's
memory).
This change will cause the boot to fail if you do not specify an XSM
policy during boot; if you need to load a policy from dom0, use the
"flask=late" boot parameter.
Original patch by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>; modified
to also change the default value of flask_enforcing so that the policy
is not still in permissive mode. This also removes the (no longer
documented) command line argument directly changing that variable since
it has been superseded by the flask= parameter.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
In fact, credit2 uses CPU topology to decide how to arrange
its internal runqueues. Before this change, only 'one runqueue
per socket' was allowed. However, experiments have shown that,
for instance, having one runqueue per physical core improves
performance, especially in case hyperthreading is available.
In general, it makes sense to allow users to pick one runqueue
arrangement at boot time, so that:
- more experiments can be easily performed to even better
assess and improve performance;
- one can select the best configuration for his specific
use case and/or hardware.
This patch enables the above.
Note that, for correctly arranging runqueues to be per-core,
just checking cpu_to_core() on the host CPUs is not enough.
In fact, cores (and hyperthreads) on different sockets, can
have the same core (and thread) IDs! We, therefore, need to
check whether the full topology of two CPUs matches, for
them to be put in the same runqueue.
Note also that the default (although not functional) for
credit2, since now, has been per-socket runqueue. This patch
leaves things that way, to avoid mixing policy and technical
changes.
Finally, it would be a nice feature to be able to select
a particular runqueue arrangement, even when creating a
Credit2 cpupool. This is left as future work.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
We've been told by Intel that inconsistent cachability between
multiple mappings of the same page can affect system stability only
when the affected page is an MMIO one. Since the stale data issue is
of no relevance to the hypervisor (since all guest memory accesses go
through proper accessors and validation), handling of RAM pages
remains unchanged here. Any MMIO mapped by domains however needs to be
done consistently (all cachable mappings or all uncachable ones), in
order to avoid Machine Check exceptions. Since converting existing
cachable mappings to uncachable (at the time an uncachable mapping
gets established) would in the PV case require tracking all mappings,
allow MMIO to only get mapped uncachable (UC, UC-, or WC).
This also implies that in the PV case we mustn't use the L1 PTE update
fast path when cachability flags get altered.
Since in the HVM case at least for now we want to continue honoring
pinned cachability attributes for pages not mapped by the hypervisor,
special case handling of r/o MMIO pages (forcing UC) gets added there.
Arguably the counterpart change to p2m-pt.c may not be necessary, since
UC- (which already gets enforced there) is probably strict enough.
Note that the shadow code changes include fixing the write protection
of r/o MMIO ranges: shadow_l1e_remove_flags() and its siblings, other
than l1e_remove_flags() and alike, return the new PTE (and hence
ignoring their return values makes them no-ops).
This is CVE-2016-2270 / XSA-154.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
gnttab_max_frames incorrectly referred to numbers of grant tab
operations and gnttab_max_maptrack_frames was confusingly worded.
Add the default for gnttab_max_frames while here (it's currently the
same on all arches since no arch uses the available arch override) and
adjust the default for gnttab_max_maptrack_frames to match the normal
form.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
This introduces a way to have a restricted VPMU, by specifying one of two
predefined groups of PMCs to make available. For secure environments, this
allows the VPMU to be used without needing to enable all PMCs.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Introduce and enforce separate limits for ordinary DomU, DomU with
pass-through device(s), control domain, and hardware domain.
The DomU defaults were determined based on what so far was allowed by
multipage_allocation_permitted().
The x86 hwdom default was chosen based on linux-2.6.18-xen.hg c/s
1102:82782f1361a9 indicating 2Mb is not enough, plus some slack.
The ARM hwdom default was chosen to allow 2Mb (order-9) mappings, plus
a little bit of slack.
This is CVE-2015-8338 / XSA-158.
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Since PML series were merged (but disabled by default) we have conducted lots of
PML tests (live migration, GUI display) and PML has been working fine, therefore
turn it on by default.
Document of PML command line is adjusted accordingly as well.
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Robert Hu <robert.hu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
First and foremost: fix documentation: The use of "clock_hz", when
"base_baud" was meant, has taken me several hours (suspecting a more
complicated problem with the PCIe card I've been trying to get
working). At once correct the "gdb" option, which is more like
"console", not like "com<N>".
Next, fix the types of ns_{read,write}_reg(): Especially the former
having had a signed return type so far caused quite interesting effects
when determining to baud rate if "auto" was specified. In that same
code, also avoid dividing by zero when in fact the baud rate was not
previously set up.
Further, accept I/O port based serial PCI cards with a port range wider
than 8 bytes.
Finally, slightly rearrange struct ns16550 to reduce holes.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
I was quite surprised to find "cpufreq=off" not doing what one would
expect it to do. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Add boot parameter `psr=cdp` to enable CDP at boot time.
Intel Code/Data Prioritization (CDP) feature is based on CAT. Note that
cos_max would be half when CDP is on. struct psr_cat_cbm is extended to
support CDP operation. Extend psr_get_cat_l3_info sysctl to get CDP
status.
Signed-off-by: He Chen <he.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Since commit 191b3f3344 ("p2m/ept: enable PML in p2m-ept for
log-dirty"), the A and D bits of EPT paging entries are set
unconditionally, regardless of whether PML is enabled or not. This
causes a regression in Xen 4.6 on some processors due to Intel Errata
AVR41 -- HVM guests get severe memory corruption when the A bit is set
due to incorrect TLB flushing on mov to cr3. The erratum affects the
Atom C2000 family (Avoton).
To fix, do not set the A bit on this processor family.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Move feature suppression to feature detection code. Add command line
override.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
When using Linux >= 3.19 (commit 47591df) as dom0 on some Intel Ironlake
devices, It is possible to encounter graphics issues that make screen
unreadable or crash the system. It was reported in freedesktop bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90037
As we still cannot find a proper fix for this problem, this patch adds
iommu=igfx option to control whether Intel graphics IOMMU is enabled.
Running Xen with iommu=no-igfx is similar to running Linux with
intel_iommu=igfx_off, which disables IOMMU for Intel GPU. This can be
used by users to manually workaround the problem before a fix is
available for i915 driver.
Signed-off-by: Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
As implemented here, only supported on platforms with VMX HAP.
By default this functionality is force-disabled, it can be enabled
by specifying altp2m=1 on the Xen command line.
Signed-off-by: Ed White <edmund.h.white@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
In setup_mm(), the value passed as xenheap_megabytes gets
converted to pages and passed to setup_xenheap_mappings(),
which in turn passes it to create_32mb_mappings(), which
contains an ASSERT that the value passed is a multiple of
32MB. So specifying any value that is not an integer multiple
of 32 will cause Xen to hit this assert and fail to boot.
Signed-off-by: Chris Brand <chris.brand@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@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>
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>
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>
The way this method works allows for honoring "warm" reboot requested
by the user and additionally has a way to power-cycle the machine.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
By default we will always use EFI reboot mechanism when
running under EFI platforms. However some EFI platforms
are buggy and need to use the ACPI mechanism to
reboot (such as Lenovo ThinkCentre M57). As such
respect the 'reboot=' override and DMI overrides
for EFI platforms.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
- BOOT_INVALID is just zero
- also consider acpi_disabled in BOOT_INVALID resolution
- duplicate BOOT_INVALID resolution in machine_restart()
- don't fall back from BOOT_ACPI to BOOT_EFI (if it was overridden, it
surely was for a reason)
- adjust doc change formatting
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
This unifies the flask_enforcing and flask_enabled boot parameters into
a single parameter with additional states. Defined options are:
enforcing - require policy to be loaded at boot time and enforce it
permissive - a missing or broken policy does not panic
disabled - revert to dummy (no XSM) policy. Was flask_enabled=0
late - bootloader policy is not used; later loadpolicy is enforcing
The default mode remains "permissive" and the flask_enforcing boot
parameter is retained for compatibility. If flask_enforcing=1 is
specified and flask= is not, the bootloader policy will be loaded in
enforcing mode if present, but errors will disable access controls until
a successful loadpolicy instead of causing a panic at boot.
Suggested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
... by introducing a "dom0_nodes" option augmenting the "dom0_mem" and
"dom0_max_vcpus" ones.
Note that this gives meaning to MEMF_exact_node specified alone (i.e.
implicitly combined with NUMA_NO_NODE): In such a case any node inside
the domain's node mask is acceptable, but no other node. This changed
behavior is (implicitly) being exposed through the memop hypercalls.
Note further that this change doesn't take care of moving the initrd
image into memory matching Dom0's affinity when the initrd doesn't get
copied (because of being part of the initial mapping) anyway.
And note finally that this doesn't get us meaningfully closer to
handing vNUMA information to Dom0 (which will require the current
striping of allocations to become node-specific in order for the passed
on information to be meaningful).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@cirix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Add Memory Bandwidth Monitoring(MBM) for VMs. Two types of monitoring
are supported: total and local memory bandwidth monitoring. To use it,
CMT should be enabled in hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
... and make it tunable via the command line.
1/8 of RAM is 128M on a 1GB system and 256M on a 2GB system etc,
which is a lot. 1/32 of RAM seems more reasonable. Also drop the
minimum to 32M.
Leave the maximum at 1GB.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Cc: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
NMI watchdog sets APIC_LVTPC register to generate an NMI when PMU counter
overflow occurs. This may be overwritten by VPMU code later, effectively
turning off the watchdog.
We should disable VPMU when NMI watchdog is running.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Prevent Dom0 from accessing HPET MMIO region by adding the HPET mfn to the
list of forbiden memory regions (if ACPI_HPET_PAGE_PROTECT4 or
ACPI_HPET_PAGE_PROTECT64 flag is set) or to the list of read-only regions.
Also provide an option that prevents adding the HPET to the read-only memory
regions called ro-hpet, in case there are systems that put other stuff in
the HPET page.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Don't loop over iomem_deny_access() for consecutive MFNs.
Put new command line option's doc entry in right spot.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
',' is a valid character in a device-tree path (see ePAPR v1.1 Table
2-1), in fact ',' is actually pretty common in node names.
Using ',' as a separator breaks for example on fast models. If you use
the full path (/smb/motherboard/iofpga@3,00000000/uart@090000) rather
than the alias then earlyprintk gives:
(XEN) Looking for UART console /smb/motherboard/iofpga@3
(XEN) Unable to find device "/smb/motherboard/iofpga@3"
(XEN) Bad console= option 'dtuart'
I actually noticed this on Jetson where the uart is
"/serial@0,70006300" and there happened to be no alias defined.
Instead use ':' as the separator, it is defined to terminate the path
in the context of /chosen/stdout-path (Table 3-4) which is pretty
closely analogous to the dtuart= option and so makes a pretty good
choice (especially since the next patch adds support for stdout-path).
Since no DT aware driver current supports any options there is no
point in retaining support for ',' for backwards compatibility.
Additionally, expand the buffer for the dtuart option, a path can be
far longer than 30 characters (in fact the maximum size of a single
node name is 31, so it's not even necessarily enough for an alias).
128 is completely arbitrary and allows for paths at least 8 deep even
with worst case node names.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
We've had reports of systems where CMCIs would surface at a relatively
high rate during certain periods of time, without them apparently
causing subsequent more severe problems (see Xeon E7-8800/4800/2800
specification clarification SC1). Give the admin a knob to lower the
impact on the system logs.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@alibaba-inc.com>
`font` had a trailing single quote which was out of place.
`gnttab_max_frames` was missing escapes for the underscores which caused the
underscores to take their markdown meaning, causing 'max' in the middle to be
italicised. Escape the underscores, and make all command line parameters
bold, to be consistent with the existing style.
Clarify how the default for `nmi` changes between debug and non debug builds
of Xen.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@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>
Dario Faggioli
He Chen
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Joao Martins
Jan Beulich
Daniel De Graaf
Quan Xu
Wei Liu
Doug Goldstein
Feng Wu
Ian Campbell
Brendan Gregg
Huaitong Han
Kai Huang
Ross Lagerwall
Ting-Wei Lan
Ed White
Chris (Christopher) Brand
Chao Peng
Boris Ostrovsky
Andrew Cooper
Roger Pau Monné