The current implementation of x2APIC requires to either use Cluster Logical or
Physical mode for all interrupts. However the selection of Physical vs Logical
is not done at APIC setup, an APIC can be addressed both in Physical or Logical
destination modes concurrently.
Introduce a new x2APIC mode called Mixed, which uses Logical Cluster mode for
IPIs, and Physical mode for external interrupts, thus attempting to use the
best method for each interrupt type.
Using Physical mode for external interrupts allows more vectors to be used, and
interrupt balancing to be more accurate.
Using Logical Cluster mode for IPIs allows fewer accesses to the ICR register
when sending those, as multiple CPUs can be targeted with a single ICR register
write.
A simple test calling flush_tlb_all() 10000 times on a tight loop on AMD EPYC
9754 with 512 CPUs gives the following figures in nano seconds:
x mixed
+ phys
* cluster
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 25 3.5131328e+08 3.5716441e+08 3.5410987e+08 3.5432659e+08 1566737.4
+ 12 1.231082e+09 1.238824e+09 1.2370528e+09 1.2357981e+09 2853892.9
Difference at 95.0% confidence
8.81472e+08 +/- 1.46849e+06
248.774% +/- 0.96566%
(Student's t, pooled s = 2.05985e+06)
* 11 3.5099276e+08 3.5561459e+08 3.5461234e+08 3.5415668e+08 1415071.9
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
So Mixed has no difference when compared to Cluster mode, and Physical mode is
248% slower when compared to either Mixed or Cluster modes with a 95%
confidence.
Note that Xen uses Cluster mode by default, and hence is already using the
fastest way for IPI delivery at the cost of reducing the amount of vectors
available system-wide.
Make the newly introduced mode the default one.
Note the printing of the APIC addressing mode done in connect_bsp_APIC() has
been removed, as with the newly introduced mixed mode this would require more
fine grained printing, or else would be incorrect. The addressing mode can
already be derived from the APIC driver in use, which is printed by different
helpers.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Using enumerators declared in a named enum, such as the one modified,
as operands to arithmetic operators is not allowed by MISRA C:2012 Rule 10.1.
The enumerators of an anonymous enum can be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
The aforementioned directive requires the project to supply documentation
on the measures taken towards the minimization of run-time failures.
The actual content of the documentation still needs feedback from the
community.
The 'rules.rst' file is updated accordingly to mention the newly
added documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Make the command line docs match the actual implementation, and state that the
default behaviour is selected at compile time.
Fixes: 980d6acf15 ("IOMMU: make DMA containment of quarantined devices optional")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
In commit 9d267c049d ("xen/arm64: Rework the memory layout"),
we decided to require Xen to be loaded below 2 TiB to simplify
the logic to enable the MMU. The limit was decided based on
how known platform boot plus some slack.
We had a recent report that this is not sufficient on the AVA
platform with a old firmware [1]. But the restriction is not
going to change in Xen 4.18. So document the limit clearly
in docs/misc/arm/booting.txt.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20231013122658.1270506-3-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
With the addition of per-device quarantine page tables the sink page is now
exclusive for each device, and thus writable. Update the documentation to
reflect the current implementation.
Fixes: 14dd241aad ('IOMMU/x86: use per-device page tables for quarantining')
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
This file contains the deviation that are not marked by
a deviation comment, as specified in
docs/misra/documenting-violations.rst.
Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Introduce a timeout for bootloader execution when running in restricted mode.
Allow overwriting the default time out with an environment provided value.
This is part of XSA-443 / CVE-2023-34325
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Much like the device model depriv mode, add the same kind of support for the
bootloader. Such feature allows passing a UID as a parameter for the
bootloader to run as, together with the bootloader itself taking the necessary
actions to isolate.
Note that the user to run the bootloader as must have the right permissions to
access the guest disk image (in read mode only), and that the bootloader will
be run in non-interactive mode when restricted.
If enabled bootloader restrict mode will attempt to re-use the user(s) from the
QEMU depriv implementation if no user is provided on the configuration file or
the environment. See docs/features/qemu-deprivilege.pandoc for more
information about how to setup those users.
Bootloader restrict mode is not enabled by default as it requires certain
setup to be done first (setup of the user(s) to use in restrict mode).
This is part of XSA-443 / CVE-2023-34325
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
The x86 hypercall ABI really used to have 6-argument hypercalls. V4V, the
downstream predecessor to Argo did take 6th args.
However, the 6th arg being %ebp in the 32bit ABI makes it unusable in
practice, because that's the frame pointer in builds with frame pointers
enabled. Therefore Argo was altered to being a 5-arg hypercall when it was
upstreamed.
c/s 2f531c122e ("x86: limit number of hypercall parameters to 5") removed
the ability for hypercalls to take 6 arguments.
Update the documentation to match reality.
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
During the discussions that led to the acceptance of Rule 2.1, we
decided on a few exceptions that were not properly recorded in
rules.rst. Add them now.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Add 14.3, with project-wide deviations.
Also take the opportunity to clarify that parameters of function pointer
types are expected to have names (Rule 8.2).
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
The credit scheduler tries as hard as it can to ensure that it always
runs scheduling units with positive credit (PRI_TS_UNDER) before
running those with negative credit (PRI_TS_OVER). If the next
runnable scheduling unit is of priority OVER, it will always run the
load balancer, which will scour the system looking for another
scheduling unit of the UNDER priority.
Unfortunately, as the number of cores on a system has grown, the cost
of the work-stealing algorithm has dramatically increased; a recent
trace on a system with 128 cores showed this taking over 50
microseconds.
Add a parameter, load_balance_ratelimit, to limit the frequency of
load balance operations on a given pcpu. Default this to 1
millisecond.
Invert the load balancing conditional to make it more clear, and line
up more closely with the comment above it.
Overall it might be cleaner to have the last_load_balance checking
happen inside csched_load_balance(), but that would require either
passing both now and spc into the function, or looking them up again;
both of which seemed to be worse than simply checking and setting the
values before calling it.
On a system with a vcpu:pcpu ratio of 2:1, running Windows guests
(which will end up calling YIELD during spinlock contention), this
patch increased performance significantly.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Python distutils is deprecated and is going to be removed in Python
3.12. distutils.sysconfig is available as the sysconfig module in
stdlib since Python 2.7 and Python 3.2, so use that directly.
Update the README to reflect that we now depend on Python 2.7.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
[Regen ./configure]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
In the Zen1 microarchitecure, there is one divider in the pipeline which
services uops from both threads. In the case of #DE, the latched result from
the previous DIV to execute will be forwarded speculatively.
This is an interesting covert channel that allows two threads to communicate
without any system calls. In also allows userspace to obtain the result of
the most recent DIV instruction executed (even speculatively) in the core,
which can be from a higher privilege context.
Scrub the result from the divider by executing a non-faulting divide. This
needs performing on the exit-to-guest paths, and ist_exit-to-Xen.
Alternatives in IST context is believed safe now that it's done in NMI
context.
This is XSA-439 / CVE-2023-20588.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
As per the last MISRA C group discussion, let's accept 11.7 (for which
we have no violations) and 11.8.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
As stated in 'docs/misra/rules.rst' the functions that are used only by
asm modules do not need to conform to MISRA C:2012 Rule 8.4.
The deviations are carried out with a SAF comment.
Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
10.1 with several caveats, described in the notes.
10.3 and 10.4 as "aspirational" guidelines, as clarified in the notes.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Not displaying INFO messages by default on release builds is not
helpful, as messages of that level are relevant for hypervisor
operation. For example messages related to livepatches applied and
reverted are of INFO level.
Custom builds that require less verbose output can adjust it using the
command line, but attempt to provide all relevant information by
default on release builds.
Adjust the loglevel of printks that don't have an associated level to
INFO instead of WARNING, since INFO will now be printed by default on
all builds.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
During the discussions that led to the acceptance of the Rules, we
decided on a few exceptions that were not properly recorded in
rules.rst. Other times, the exceptions were decided later when it came
to enabling a rule in ECLAIR.
Either way, update rules.rst with appropriate notes.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
From the Intel SDM: "Hardware-Controlled Performance States (HWP), which
autonomously selects performance states while utilizing OS supplied
performance guidance hints."
Enable HWP to run in autonomous mode by poking the correct MSRs. HWP is
disabled by default, and cpufreq=hwp enables it.
cpufreq= parsing is expanded to allow cpufreq=hwp;xen. This allows
trying HWP and falling back to xen if not available. Only hwp and xen
are supported for this fallback feature. hdc is a sub-option under hwp
(i.e. cpufreq=hwp,hdc=0) as is verbose.
There is no interface to configure - xen_sysctl_pm_op/xenpm will
be extended to configure in subsequent patches. It will run with the
default values, which should be the default 0x80 (out of 0x0-0xff)
energy/performance preference.
Unscientific powertop measurement of an mostly idle, customized OpenXT
install:
A 10th gen 6-core laptop showed battery discharge drop from ~9.x to
~7.x watts.
A 8th gen 4-core laptop dropped from ~10 to ~9
Power usage depends on many factors, especially display brightness, but
this does show a power saving in balanced mode when CPU utilization is
low.
HWP isn't compatible with an external governor - it doesn't take
explicit frequency requests. Therefore a minimal internal governor,
hwp, is also added as a placeholder.
While adding to the xen-command-line.pandoc entry, un-nest verbose from
minfreq. They are independent.
With cpufreq=hwp,verbose, HWP prints processor capabilities that are not
used by the code, like HW_FEEDBACK. This is done because otherwise
there isn't a convenient way to query the information.
Xen doesn't use the HWP interrupt, so it is disabled like in the Linux
pstate driver.
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Add entries to the exclude-list.json for those files that need to be
excluded from the analysis scan.
Signed-off-by: Federico Serafini <federico.serafini@bugseng.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
On native, synthesise the SRSO bits by probing various hardware properties as
given by AMD.
Extend the IBPB-on-entry mitigations to Zen3/4 CPUs. There is a microcode
prerequisite to make this an effective mitigation.
This is part of XSA-434 / CVE-2023-20569
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cortex-A77 cores (r0p0, r1p0) could deadlock on a sequence of a
store-exclusive or read of PAR_EL1 and a load with device or non-cacheable
memory attributes.
A workaround is available, but it depends on a firmware counterpart.
The proposed workaround from the errata document is to modify the software
running at EL1 and above to include a DMB SY before and after accessing
PAR_EL1.
In conjunction to the above, the firmware needs to use a specific write
sequence to several IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED registers to have the hardware
insert a DMB SY after all load-exclusive and store-exclusive instructions.
Apply the workaround to Xen where PAR_EL1 is read, implementing an helper
function to do that.
Since Xen can be interrupted by irqs in any moment, add a barrier on
entry/exit when we are running on the affected cores.
A guest without the workaround can deadlock the system, so warn the users
of Xen with the above type of cores to use only trusted guests, by
printing a message on Xen startup.
This is XSA-436 / CVE-2023-34320.
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
This option is particularly dubious as Xen does not use Protection Keys, owing
to the sharing of pagetables with PV guests. All this option does is hide PKU
by default from HVM guests, and is therefore redundant with the more generic
cpuid=no-pku.
The variable ought to be in __initdata given it's single user, but deleting it
entirely looks to be a better course of action.
Visibility of PKU to guests should be handled via its vm.cfg file.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Add -e argument to xl console and pass to new escape_character argument
of libxl_console_exec.
Introduce a new API version to support this new argument and advertise
the new functionality in libxl.h
In libxl_console_exec, there are currently two call sites to execl,
which uses varargs, in order to support optionally passing
'start-notify-fd' to the console client. In order to support passing
the 'escape' argument optionally too, refactor to instead have a single
call site to execv, which has the same behavior but takes an array of
arguments.
If -e is not specified, --escape is not passed to the console client and
the existing value (^]) is used as a default.
Update the xl docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hoyes <Peter.Hoyes@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
The documented option --usage worked because every unknown option
showed the help.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
The current implementation in libxl_cpuid_parse_config() requires
keeping a list of cpuid feature bits that should be mostly in sync
with the contents of cpufeatureset.h.
Avoid such duplication by using the automatically generated list of
cpuid features in INIT_FEATURE_NAMES in order to map feature names to
featureset bits, and then translate from featureset bits into cpuid
leaf, subleaf, register tuple.
Note that the full contents of the previous cpuid translation table
can't be removed. That's because some feature names allowed by libxl
are not described in the featuresets, or because naming has diverged
and the previous nomenclature is preserved for compatibility reasons.
Should result in no functional change observed by callers, albeit some
new cpuid features will be available as a result of the change.
While there constify cpuid_flags name field.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
The usage of a documented GNU extension that allows a range of elements
in an array to be initalized to the same value using a designated
initalizer is added to this document, to fully comply with
MISRA C:2012 Rule 1.1.
Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
In the commit d661611d08 ("docs/markdown: Switch to using pandoc, and
fix underscore escaping"), the documentation suffix was changed from
".markdown" to ".pandoc"; however, the reference was missed to update.
This patch updates the documentation name to xen-command-line.pandoc.
Fixes: d661611d08 ("docs/markdown: Switch to using pandoc, and fix underscore escaping")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Rule 1.1 is uncontroversial and we are already following it.
Rule 5.6 has been deemed a good rule to have by the MISRA C group.
However, we do have a significant amount of violations that will take
time to resolve and might require partial deviations in the form of
in-code comments or MISRA C scanners special configurations (ECLAIR).
For new code, we want this rule to generally apply hence the addition to
docs/misra/rules.rst.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Currently, the grant mapping related device tree properties are added if
the backend domain is not Dom0. While Dom0 is privileged and can do
foreign mapping for the entire guest memory, it is still desired for
Dom0 to access guest's memory via grant mappings and hence map only what
is required.
This commit adds the "grant_usage" parameter for virtio devices, which
provides better control over the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Fix the right border of the silicon-errata.txt table
Fixes: 1814a626fb ("xen/arm: Update silicon-errata.txt with the Neovers AT erratum")
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
This document specifies the C language dialect used by Xen and
the assumptions Xen makes on the translation toolchain.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Bagnara <roberto.bagnara@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Rule 9.4 is non-controversial and we have no violations.
Rule 7.4 is considered a good idea with the caveat that assigning a
string literal to const void is allowed. I added a note to specify it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
It creates confusion since the new format of documenting violations can
be found in: docs/misra/documenting-violations.rst.
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
There are implementations of PL011 that can only handle 32-bit accesses
as oppose to the normal behavior where accesses are 8/16-bit wide. This
is usually advertised by setting a dt property 'reg-io-width' to 4.
Introduce CONFIG_EARLY_UART_PL011_MMIO32 Kconfig option to be able to
enable the use of 32-bit only accessors in PL011 early printk code.
Define macros PL011_{STRH,STRB,LDRH} to distinguish accessors for normal
case from 32-bit MMIO one and use them in arm32/arm64 pl011 early printk
code.
Update documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Tested-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Roger Pau Monne