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>
This patch addresses some of the compile and link issues with the memshr
module.
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.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>
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>
- 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>
is passed a struct-by-value which is not yet fully defined. Thus
defining a request struct which contains a pointer to a function which
is passed-by-value an instance of that request structure is
impossible. We work around it by defining the function poiinter as
void* and then casting in one place.
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>
Wei Liu
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Keir Fraser