I'm seeing pvgrub crashing when running CTORs. It appears its because
the magic in the linker script is generating junk. If I get ld to
output a map, I see:
.ctors 0x0000000000097000 0x18
0x0000000000097000 __CTOR_LIST__ = .
0x0000000000097000 0x4 LONG 0x25c04
(((__CTOR_END__ - __CTOR_LIST__) / 0x4) - 0x2)
*(.ctors)
.ctors 0x0000000000097004 0x10
/home/jeremy/hg/xen/unstable/stubdom/mini-os-x86_32-grub/mini-os.o
0x0000000000097014 0x4 LONG 0x0
0x0000000000097018 __CTOR_END__ = .
In other words, somehow ((0x97018-0x97000) / 4) - 2 = 0x25c04
The specific crash is that the ctor loop tries to call the NULL
sentinel. I'm seeing the same with the DTOR list.
Avoid this by terminating the loop with the NULL sentinel, and get rid
of the CTOR count entirely.
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Its access controls are really not OK. In particular, it's not good for
libxl, which stores per-VM config blobs in a directory that is exported
to all VMs.
This will break stub-qemu save/restore, which is the only user of
fs-front that I'm aware of, but:
- It's currently broken anyway (fs-back isn't run by default and crashes
if it is run manually); and
- Stefano has a plan to plumb qemu save records through a dedicated
console channel instead.
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
this patch implements dynamic connections and disconnections in
pcifront.
This feature is required to properly support pci hotplug, because when
no pci devices are assigned to a guest, xend will remove the pci
backend altogether.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Obviously save\restore is not going to work if fs-backend is missing,
but at least the stubdom will be able to work correctly in all the
other cases.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Network support is still provided the same way: using the tap
interface, created in qemu using netfront.
The lwip stack is still available to avoid additional compilation
issues.
However the stubdom is not going to have its own vif anymore,
this means that the only vnc server supported is the one in dom0.
You can still enable the vnc server in a stubdom at compile time, if
you want so.
Probably the most important change caused by this patch to xen users
is that you don't have to specify two vif in the stubdom config file
anymore, but just one:
-vif = [ '', 'ip=10.0.1.1,mac=aa:00:00:12:23:34']
+vif = ['ip=10.0.1.1,mac=aa:00:00:12:23:34']
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
This makes stubdom use the host's gcc instead of downloading/compiling
binutils+gcc. That requires a bunch of changes and even uncovered a
few bugs, but saves a lot of time.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
This fetches GRUB1 sources, applies the {graphical, print function,
save default, and ext3_256byte} patches from debian, and applies a
patch to make it work on x86_64 and port it to Mini-OS. By using
libxc, PV-GRUB can then "kexec" the loaded kernel from inside the
domain itself, hence permitting to avoid the security-concerned
pygrub.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
which permits to easily compile mini-os in various flavors. Also clean
some parts of stubdom build.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
into stubdom/ as possible. That also permits to build all of
ioemu, c and caml stubdoms at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
markers at its beginning and end, and then link with mini-os.
That permits to stick a bit more to upstream qemu.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
- Move PAGE_SIZE and STACK_SIZE into __PAGE_SIZE and __STACK_SIZE in
arch_limits.h so as to permit getting them from there without
pulling all the internal Mini-OS defines.
- Setup a xen-elf cross-compilation environment in stubdom/cross-root
- Add a POSIX layer on top of Mini-OS by linking against the newlib C
library and lwIP, and implementing the Unixish part in mini-os/lib/sys.c
- Cross-compile zlib and libpci too.
- Add an xs.h-compatible layer on top of Mini-OS' xenbus.
- Cross-compile libxc with an additional xc_minios.c and a few things
disabled.
- Cross-compile ioemu with an additional block-vbd, but without sound,
tpm and other details. A few hacks are needed:
- Align ide and scsi buffers at least on sector size to permit
direct transmission to the block backend. While we are at it, just
page-align it to possibly save a segment. Also, limit the scsi
buffer size because of limitations of the block paravirtualization
protocol.
- Allocate big tables dynamically rather that letting them go to
bss: when Mini-OS gets installed in memory, bss is not lazily
allocated, and doing so during Mini-OS is unnecessarily trick while
we can simply use malloc.
- Had to change the Mini-OS compilation somehow, so as to export
Mini-OS compilation flags to the Makefiles of libxc and ioemu.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Tim Deegan
Keir Fraser