This patch is the folded version of API updates, along with the associated tool
changes to ensure that the build is always consistent.
API updates:
- The source domain in the sharing calls is no longer assumed to be dom0.
- Previously, the mem sharing code would return an opaque handle to index
shared pages (and nominees) in its global hash table. By removing the hash
table, the handle becomes a version, to avoid sharing a stale version of a
page. Thus, libxc wrappers and tools need to be updated to recall the share
functions with the information needed to fetch the page (which they readily
have).
Tool updates:
The only (in-tree, that we know of) consumer of the mem sharing API is the
memshr tool. This is updated to use the new API.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
I don't think protocol specific data really belongs in this header
but since it is already there and we seem to be stuck with it let's at
least make the users explicit lest people get caught out by future new
fields moving the pad field around.
This is the Xen portion of this change. The kernel portion will be
sent separately. There is no dependency between the two.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Cc: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Tapdisk control in userspace, a replacement for the original blktap2
control stack, which had to pass a kernel space interface based on
sysfs nodes.
All tapdisk processes listen for commands on a unix stream socket. The
control library supports scanning the socket namespace for running
tapdisks, VBD minors allocated, associated images and state inquiry.
Control operations include allocating/releasing devices, spawning
tapdisks, opening/closing images, attaching disk images to
devices. disk pause/resume operations and runtime switching of disk
images.
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Stop coercing drivers/disktype code into the tool stack. Make both
blktapctrl and tap-ctl transfer type/path pairs as "<type>:<path>"
strings. Remove the message.disktype integer altogether.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Hide tapdisk support for different raw I/O interfaces behind a new
struct tio. Libaio remains to dominate the interface, requiring
everyone to dispatch iocb/ioevent structs.
Backends:
- lio: Kernel AIO via libaio.
- rwio: Canonical read/write() mode.
Misc:
- Fixes a bug in tapdisk-vbd which locks up the sync io mode.
- Wants a PERROR macro in blktaplib.h
- Removes dead code in qcow2raw to make it link again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Attached patch makes memshr optional for blktap/blktap2.
This fixes build for platforms where memshr isn't build on.
While there, make indentation consistent.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
a single map is used to store mappings between sharing handles and disk blocks.
This is used to share pages which store data read of the same blocks on
(virtual) disk.
Note that the map is stored in a shared memory region, as it needs to be
accessed by multiple tapdisk processes. This complicates memory allocation
(malloc cannot be used), prevents poniters to be stored directly (as the shared
memory region might and is mapped at different base address) and finally pthread
locks need to be multi-process aware.
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Milos <Grzegorz.Milos@citrix.com>
Currently blktap2 opens a driver stack, closes it, and re-opens
it. This causes problems with our remus driver: the primary may
connect to the backup in between the first and second open.
This is a temporary fix.
Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Connor <rjo@cs.ubc.ca>
Blktap2 allows block device drivers to be layered to create more
advanced virtual block devices. However, composing a layered driver is
not exposed to the user. This patch fixes this, and allows the user to
explicitly specify a driver chain when starting a tapdisk process,
using the pipe character ('|') to explicitly seperate layers in a
blktap2 configuration string.
for example, the command:
~$ tapdisk2 -n "log:|aio:/path/to/file.img"
will create a blktap2 device where read and write requests are passed
to the 'log' driver, then forwarded to the 'aio' driver.
Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Connor <rjo@cs.ubc.ca>
- Use standard off_t and lseek() instead of non-portable off64_t and
lseek64()
- Use uuid API as documented in DCE 1.1 RPC specification
- Add NetBSD implementation for blk_getimagesize() and
blk_getsectorsize()
- Use blk_getimagesize() and blk_getsectorsize()
- Fix uuid header check
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
Benefits to blktap2 over the old version of blktap:
* Isolation from xenstore - Blktap devices are now created directly on
the linux dom0 command line, rather than being spawned in response
to XenStore events. This is handy for debugging, makes blktap
generally easier to work with, and is a step toward a generic
user-level block device implementation that is not Xen-specific.
* Improved tapdisk infrastructure: simpler request forwarding, new
request scheduler, request merging, more efficient use of AIO.
* Improved tapdisk error handling and memory management. No
allocations on the block data path, IO retry logic to protect
guests
transient block device failures. This has been tested and is known
to work on weird environments such as NFS soft mounts.
* Pause and snapshot of live virtual disks (see xmsnap script).
* VHD support. The VHD code in this release has been rigorously
tested, and represents a very mature implementation of the VHD
image
format.
* No more duplication of mechanism with blkback. The blktap kernel
module has changed dramatically from the original blktap. Blkback
is now always used to talk to Xen guests, blktap just presents a
Linux gendisk that blkback can export. This is done while
preserving the zero-copy data path from domU to physical device.
These patches deprecate the old blktap code, which can hopefully be
removed from the tree completely at some point in the future.
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dutch Meyer <dmeyer@cs.ubc.ca>
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Keir Fraser