Replace the firmware loaded into HVM guests with an OS kernel. Since the HVM
builder now uses the PV xc_dom_* set of functions this kernel will be parsed
and loaded inside the guest like on PV, but the container is a pure HVM
guest.
Also, if device_model_version is set to none or a device model for the
specified domain is not present unconditinally set the nic type to
LIBXL_NIC_TYPE_VIF.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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>
The Microsoft Hypervisor Top Level Functional Spec. (section 3.4) defines
two bits in CPUID leaf 0x40000004:EAX for the hypervisor to recommend
whether or not to issue a hypercall for local or remote TLB flush.
Whilst it's doubtful whether using a hypercall for local TLB flush would
be any more efficient than a specific INVLPG VMEXIT, a remote TLB flush
may well be more efficiently done. This is because the alternative
mechanism is to IPI all the vCPUs in question which (in the absence of
APIC virtualisation) will require emulation and scheduling of the vCPUs
only to have them immediately VMEXIT for local TLB flush.
This patch therefore adds a viridian option which, if selected, enables
the hypercall for remote TLB flush and implements it using ASID
invalidation for targetted vCPUs followed by an IPI only to the set of
CPUs that happened to be running a targetted vCPU (which may be the empty
set). The flush may be more severe than requested since the hypercall can
request flush only for a specific address space (CR3) but Xen neither
keeps a mapping of ASID to guest CR3 nor allows invalidation of a specific
ASID, but on a host with contended CPUs performance is still likely to
be better than a more specific flush using IPIs.
The implementation of the patch introduces per-vCPU viridian_init() and
viridian_deinit() functions to allow a scratch cpumask to be allocated.
This avoids needing to put this potentially large data structure on stack
during hypercall processing. It also modifies the hypercall input and
output bit-fields to allow a check for the 'fast' calling convention,
and a white-space fix in the definition of HVMPV_feature_mask (to remove
hard tabs).
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Try to use "xen-qemuuser-domid$domid" first, then
"xen-qemuuser-shared" and root if everything else fails.
The uids need to be manually created by the user or, more likely, by the
xen package maintainer.
Expose a device_model_user setting in libxl_domain_build_info, so that
opinionated callers, such as libvirt, can set any user they like. Do not
fall back to root if device_model_user is set. Users can also set
device_model_user by hand in the xl domain config file.
QEMU is going to setuid and setgid to the user ID and the group ID of
the specified user, soon after initialization, before starting to deal
with any guest IO.
To actually secure QEMU when running in Dom0, we need at least to
deprivilege the privcmd and xenstore interfaces, this is just the first
step in that direction.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
This is the xl/xc changes to support Intel Code/Data Prioritization.
CAT xl commands to set/get CBMs are extended to support CDP.
Add new CDP options with CAT commands in xl interface man page.
Add description of CDP in xl-psr.markdown.
Signed-off-by: He Chen <he.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Since XSA-131 qemu-xen has defaulted to non-permissive mode and the
option was extended to cover that case in 015a373351 "tools: libxl:
allow permissive qemu-upstream pci passthrough".
Since I was rewrapping to adjust the text anyway I've split the safety
warning into a separate paragraph to make it more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Section 'IGNORED FOR COMPATIBILITY WITH XM' separates 'CACHE MONITORING
TECHNOLOGY' and 'CACHE ALLOCATION TECHNOLOGY' but they really should be
put together.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Although we already have 'gfx_passthru' in b_info, this doesn't suffice
after we want to handle IGD specifically. Now we define a new field of
type, gfx_passthru_kind, to indicate we're trying to pass IGD. Actually
this means we can benefit this to support other specific devices just
by extending gfx_passthru_kind. And then we can cooperate with
gfx_passthru to address IGD cases as follows:
gfx_passthru = 0 => sets build_info.u.gfx_passthru to false
gfx_passthru = 1 => sets build_info.u.gfx_passthru to true and
build_info.u.gfx_passthru_kind to DEFAULT
gfx_passthru = "igd" => sets build_info.u.gfx_passthru to true
and build_info.u.gfx_passthru_kind to IGD
Here if gfx_passthru_kind = DEFAULT, we will call
libxl__is_igd_vga_passthru() to check if we're hitting that table to need
to pass that option to qemu. But if gfx_passthru_kind = "igd" we always
force to pass that.
And "-gfx_passthru" is just introduced to work for qemu-xen-traditional
so we should get this away from libxl__build_device_model_args_new() in
the case of qemu upstream.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Use existing create/restore path to perform 'soft reset' for HVM
domains. Tear everything down, e.g. destroy domain's device model,
remove the domain from xenstore, save toolstack record and start
over.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This is because the migration stream does not preserve node information.
Note this is not a regression for migration v2 vs legacy migration
because neither of them preserves node information.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- some grammar fixes to the doc and fixed a comment ]
Use letter 'S' to indicate a domain in such state. Introduce new
'on_soft_reset' action and default it to 'restart' for now.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
And transform to POD to match our other manpages.
The content is identical, although the formatting was altered slightly
to conform to more usual manpage layout.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
And transform to POD to match our other manpages.
The content is identical (other than one correction), although the
layout differs slightly with certain indentation.
As a correction, remove the reference to xentrace_cpusplit(1) which was
removed in c/s 9b9ca98b6a, more than 10 years ago!
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
And transform to POD to match our other manpages.
The content is identical, although the layout differs slightly with
certain indentation.
In addition, adjust the MAN{1,5}SRC-y `find` runes to be more general.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This patch introduces user configurable parameters to specify RDM
resource and according policies,
Global RDM parameter:
rdm = "strategy=host,policy=strict/relaxed"
Per-device RDM parameter:
pci = [ 'sbdf, rdm_policy=strict/relaxed' ]
Global RDM parameter, "strategy", allows user to specify reserved regions
explicitly, Currently, using 'host' to include all reserved regions reported
on this platform which is good to handle hotplug scenario. In the future
this parameter may be further extended to allow specifying random regions,
e.g. even those belonging to another platform as a preparation for live
migration with passthrough devices. By default this isn't set so we don't
check all rdms. Instead, we just check rdm specific to a given device if
you're assigning this kind of device. Note this option is not recommended
unless you can make sure any conflict does exist.
'strict/relaxed' policy decides how to handle conflict when reserving RDM
regions in pfn space. If conflict exists, 'strict' means an immediate error
so VM can't keep running, while 'relaxed' allows moving forward with a
warning message thrown out.
Default per-device RDM policy is same as default global RDM policy as being
'relaxed'. And the per-device policy would override the global policy like
others.
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>
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Checked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.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>
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 ]
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>
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>
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>
Since b642ed6775 making docs
fail with:
man/xl.cfg.pod.5 around line 273: Unterminated B<...> sequence
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2text line 84.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
instead of just list of single pCPUs or NUMA node IDs, as
it happens right now.
On the other hand, after this change, strings containing
pCPUs and NUMA node ranges is supported. The syntax is the
same one supported by the "cpus" and "cpus_soft" config
switch, i.e., "4-8" or "node:1,12-18,^14".
This make things more flexible, more consistent, and also
improves error handling, as the pCPU range parsing routine
already present in xl is more reliable than just a call
to atoi().
While there, remove a redundant error check in the legacy syntax
handling (libxl_bitmap_test() already checks the index being
within the size of the bitmap).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
in fact, right now, xl sub-commands 'cpupool-cpu-add' and
'cpupool-cpu-remove' only accept the specification of one
pCPU to be added or removed to/from a cpupool.
With this change, they can deal with ranges, like "4-8",
or "node:1,12-18,^14". The syntax is exactly the same one
that is supported by the 'vcpu-pin' subcommand, and
specifying just one pCPU still works, of course.
This make things more flexible, more consistent, and also
improves error handling, as the pCPU range parsing routine
already present in xl is more reliable than just a call
to atoi().
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@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>
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>
Usage:
spice_streaming_video=[filter|all|off]
Specifies what streaming video setting is to be used by spice (if
given),
otherwise the qemu default will be used.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Usage:
spice_image_compression=[auto_glz|auto_lz|quic|glz|lz|off]
Specifies what image compression is to be used by spice (if given),
otherwise the qemu default will be used.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The presence of the partition reference time enlightenment persuades newer
versions of Windows to prefer the TSC as their primary time source. Hence,
if rdtsc is not being emulated and is invariant then many vmexits (for
alternative time sources such as the HPET or reference counter MSR) can
be avoided.
The implementation is not yet complete as no attempt is made to prevent
emulation of rdtsc if the enlightenment is active and guest and host
TSC frequencies differ. To do that requires invasive changes in the core
x86 time code and hence a lot more testing.
This patch avoids the issue by disabling the enlightenment if rdtsc is
being emulated, causing Windows to choose another time source. This is
safe, but may cause a big variation in performance of guests migrated
between hosts of differing TSC frequency. Thus the enlightenment is not
enabled in the default set, but may be enabled to improve guest performance
where such migrations are not a concern.
See section 15.4 of the Microsoft Hypervisor Top Level Functional
Specification v4.0a for details.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>
If you add enough PCI devices then all mmio may not fit below 4G
which may not be the layout the user wanted. This allows you to
increase the below 4G address space that PCI devices can use and
therefore in more cases not have any mmio that is above 4G.
There are real PCI cards that do not support mmio over 4G, so if you
want to emulate them precisely, you may also need to increase the
space below 4G for them. There are drivers for these cards that also
do not work if they have their mmio space mapped above 4G.
This allows growing the MMIO hole to the size needed.
This may help with using pci passthru and HVM.
In the tools this is named mmio_hole_memkb.
Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- fixed build error in xl_cmdimpl.c with s/%PRIu64/%ld/.
Reworded title ]
Haozhong Zhang