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Keir Fraser cd95bce19e libxl: libxl_qmp.c should use libxl's own list macros, since they
exist. Also, older Linux versions do not have SIMPLEQ macros in
sys/queue.h.

Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2012-01-21 16:47:00 +00:00
Paul Durrant 09923b7296 libxl: VM generation ID: Add missing gate for HVM domain.
This will fix localhost migrate failures found by the automatic tests.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Ian Campbell 6031949b0f libxl: drop vfs path -- fsback/front were deleted some time ago
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-16 17:56:07 +00:00
Ian Campbell e00ef46e17 ocaml: Correct ocaml type name for Aggregate types.
No change to the generated code because this path isn't used yet.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-10 16:19:09 +00:00
Ian Jackson a54239be9a libxl: Fix leaks on context init failure
Several of the error exits from libxl_ctx_alloc leaked the context
struct itself and sometimes other resources too.

Fix this by using the standard "rc = ERROR_FOO; goto out" error
handling style throughout.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-13 16:54:27 +00:00
Ian Jackson 2fe29aed9d libxl: Provide more formal libxl__ctx_lock and _unlock
Previously the only official interface for the ctx lock was the
CTX_LOCK and CTX_UNLOCK convenience macros, which assume and use "ctx"
from the surrounding scope.

Instead, provide libxl__ctx_lock and _unlock functions which can be
used by these convenience macros, and other callers who have
nonstandard requirements.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-13 16:54:27 +00:00
Ian Jackson 8fc051a10f libxl: move a lot more includes into libxl_internal.h
Move a lot of
  #include <stdfoo.h>
from individual files into libxl_internal.h.  This helps avoid
portability mistakes where necessary system headers are omitted from
individual files, and is also of course a convenience when developing.

Also add
  #include "libxl_osdeps.h" /* must come before any other headers */
to the top of most libxl*.c files, so that anyone who adds any headers
before libxl_internal.h will put the in the right place.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-13 16:54:19 +00:00
Ian Jackson 3607a75236 xenstore: New function xs_path_is_subpath
This utility function compares two paths, textually and reports
whether one is a subpath (a child path) of the other.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-13 16:54:11 +00:00
Ian Jackson 50c5cd458d libxl: make LIBXL_INIT_GC a statement, not an initialiser
Previously LIBXL_INIT_GC was an initialiser, which you were expected
to use like this:
    libxl__gc gc = LIBXL_INIT_GC(ctx);

But we are going to want to put things in the gc which are to be
initialised using other macros.  That means that LIBXL_INIT_GC has to
become a statement too.  So instead, we make it so that it's used like this:
    libxl_gc gc;
    LIBXL_INIT_GC(gc,ctx);

In fact there are only a couple of callers now,
including GC_INIT which uses this trick:
    libxl_gc gc[1];
    LIBXL_INIT_GC(gc[0],ctx);

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-13 16:54:11 +00:00
Jan Beulich bf86c81a81 libxl: fix build with make prior to 3.81
Up to 3.80, make only supported simple 'else' constructs, which got
violated by 24432:e0effa7c04f5.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-12 17:51:11 +00:00
Olaf Hering e31a66a2b8 xenpaging: convert mem_event_t to struct mem_event
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-09 17:07:32 +01:00
Olaf Hering f08f1c8755 xenpaging: convert xenpaging_t to struct xenpaging
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-09 17:07:26 +01:00
Olaf Hering 98eda193b6 xenpaging: convert xenpaging_victim_t to struct victim
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-09 17:07:21 +01:00
Jan Beulich 0e6f8cfd47 xenpm: assorted adjustments
- use consistent error values (stop mixing of [positive] errno values
  with literal -E... ones)
- properly format output
- don't use leading zeros in decimal output
- move printing of average frequency into P-state conditional (rather
  than a C-state one)
- don't print some C-state related info when CPU idle management is
  disabled in the hypervisor
- use calloc() for array allocations that also got cleared via memset()
  so far

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-10 16:24:50 +00:00
Olaf Hering 17c9cd6d20 libxl: add feature flag to xenstore for XS_RESET_WATCHES
Tell guest about availibilty of xenstoreds XS_RESET_WATCHES function.
Guests can not issue this command unconditionally because some buggy
toolstacks (such as EC2) do not ignore unknown commands properly.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-05 19:40:40 +01:00
Daniel De Graaf fa1d65c22f flask/policy: add missing manage_domain rules
The updated example policy did not include rules to allow managing the
created domains (pause, unpause, destroy); allow these actions.

Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-10 16:04:26 +00:00
Daniel De Graaf ed6ec8137c docs: Update xsm-flask documentation
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-10 16:04:25 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne a69dda2bce blktap2/vhd: add -liconv when linking if using libiconv
If libiconv is detected on the system add -liconv when linking the
libvhd library.

If -liconv is not added when compiling libvhd with libiconv the
following error occours when linking vhd-util and vhd-update:

gcc     -o vhd-util vhd-util.o -Llib -lvhd
lib/libvhd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
lib/libvhd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
lib/libvhd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv'

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 08:31:40 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 2f8f5504ff blktap2: remove local definitions and include byteswap.h
Use the same approach as tools/blktap2/include/libvhd.h, remove local
definitions of bswap* and include byteswap.h. Also remove the
HAVE_BYTESWAP_H ifdef, since it was not defined in this context (it's
defined by QEMU).

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 08:31:40 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 5b4d77e1bd blktap: remove local definitions and include byteswap.h
Use the same approach as tools/blktap2/include/libvhd.h, remove local
definitions of bswap* and include byteswap.h. Also remove the
HAVE_BYTESWAP_H ifdef, since it was not defined in this context (it's
defined by QEMU).

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 08:31:40 +01:00
Paul Durrant 8f76fc6c98 tools: VM generation ID save/restore and migrate.
Add code to track the address of the VM generation ID buffer across a
save/restore or migrate, and increment it as necessary.
The address of the buffer is written into xenstore by hvmloader at
boot time. It must be read from xenstore by the caller of
xc_domain_save() and then written back again by the caller of
xc_domain_restore().

Note that the changes to xc_save.c and xc_restore.c are merely
sufficient for them to build.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-16 14:54:14 +00:00
Paul Durrant be9b274df1 libxl: Add hvm specific ro and rw nodes.
The hvmloader node was created by libxl__create_device_model() but it
needs to be moved earlier so that it can parent the new rw
generation-id-address node.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-16 14:54:13 +00:00
Paul Durrant e77389f816 libxl: Open code rw and ro node creation.
Use a new libxl__xs_mkdir() to do this and also clean up extraneous
node creation while in the neighbourhood. Checking 'xenstore-ls -fp'
output before and after shows that, as well as the disappearance of
error, drivers, messages and domid, the following perms change is also
present:

-device/suspend = ""   (ndomU)
+device/suspend = ""   (n0,rdomU)

I believe the new perms are more desirable than the old ones.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-16 14:54:13 +00:00
Andres Lagar-Cavilla 2b82a7ad97 Add correct const-ness to memshr tool functions
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>
2012-01-10 15:38:08 +00:00
Andres Lagar-Cavilla b4ec697c64 Fix types used in xc_memshr_* functions
Currently the memshr functions use uint32_t for the domid.  This actually leads
to a funny domid_t -> uint32_t -> domid_t sequence of casts.  This patch
updates the API functions to be domid_t in the first place.

No tools need to be modified with this patch, the casts were implicit.

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>
2012-01-10 15:38:08 +00:00
Andres Lagar-Cavilla e9f7017afe libxc: Only retry mapping pages when ENOENT is returned
If the return value from the ioctl() is not ENOENT, it's possible that err[i]
will not be updated and libxc will just loop forever.  Although it's unlikely
that err[i] would not be updated after the ioctl() gets through at least once,
it's better to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-10 15:35:01 +00:00
Ian Campbell 3df05a9641 ipxe: remove tarball on clean
This prevents us picking up a stale tarball when the tag changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-05 17:21:04 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne bde83b1e10 pygrub: fix extlinux parsing
pygrub was unable to parse extlinux config files correctly, exactly
the ones like:

LABEL grsec
  KERNEL vmlinuz-3.0.10-grsec
  APPEND initrd=initramfs-3.0.10-grsec
root=UUID=cfd4a7b4-8c40-4025-b877-8205f1c622ee
modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 xen quiet

This patch fixes it, adding a new case when parsing the "append" line,
that searches for the initrd image.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-03 13:11:46 +01:00
Wei Liu a5e66ebdeb libxl: write vifname in xenstore if set.
Simple fix to enable user to specify vif names.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-05 17:13:33 +00:00
Wei Liu 02e9a7dcb5 libxl: print out vifname in create dryrun.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2012-01-05 17:13:33 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne 792988396a ipxe: update to upstream version
Updated ipxe to current tree, which is
540e5960dc6b49eacf367f7c319fd0546474b845:

Provide PXENV_FILE_EXIT_HOOK only for ipxelinux.0 builds

Removed all the backported patches and updated
boot_prompt_option.patch to apply against current ipxe.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 08:21:11 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 3302c64fd5 xenpaging: remove _XOPEN_SOURCE
The _XOPEN_SOURCE define was breaking the compilation under NetBSD.
I've removed it becasue it is not necessary.

Error message:

gcc  -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m64 -g -fno-strict-aliasing
-std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-value
-Wdeclaration-after-statement   -D__XEN_TOOLS__ -MMD -MF
.xenpaging.o.d -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
-I/root/xen-04102011/tools/xenpaging/../../tools/libxc
-I/root/xen-04102011/tools/xenpaging/../../tools/include
-I/root/xen-04102011/tools/xenpaging/../../tools/xenstore
-I/root/xen-04102011/tools/xenpaging/../../tools/include -Werror
-Wno-unused -g  -c -o xenpaging.o xenpaging.c  -I/usr/xen42/include
-I/usr/include
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
xenpaging.c: In function 'xenpaging_init':
xenpaging.c:333: warning: implicit declaration of function 'asprintf'

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2012-01-05 14:35:38 +00:00
Ian Campbell 8528d14fd1 libxl: report failure to reboot/shutdown due to lackof PV interfaces to caller
This allow the caller to react as they think is appropriate. xl now prints a
message much like the library did previously, although hopefully somewhat more
informative.

Update the xl(1) man page to be similarly more informative.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-21 10:47:30 +00:00
Ian Campbell 79e1628850 libxl: split libxl_domain_shutdown into libxl_domain_shutdown,..._reboot
The other integer request types which shutdown supported are not
useful. Specifically:

 * "suspend" is not usable via this interface since it requires other
   scaffolding, libxl_domain_suspend provides this already.
 * "halt" is the same as "poweroff".
 * "crash" is unused and at least Linux does not implement it. If a user
   steps forward then libxl_domain_crash is trivial to add.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-21 10:47:11 +00:00
Anthony PERARD 1a061168bd libxl: Fix, specify open mode to QEMU state file.
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-21 14:47:26 +00:00
Daniel De Graaf fba7e0e2d3 flask/policy: Update example policy
Rewrite the example policy to make it easier to understand and
demonstrate some of the security goals that FLASK can enforce.

Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 18:19:53 +00:00
Ian Campbell 7b83f96ce7 libxl: add libxl__domain_pvcontrol_{available,read,write}
Use instead of open coding.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
2011-12-16 09:34:46 +00:00
Ian Campbell 4df7055e77 libxl: improve error handling when saving device model state.
Do not leak a file descriptor (fd2 when used with upstream qemu) or a file (the
save file which is leaked on failure).

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-20 18:14:53 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne 5b4f1759a0 libxl: remove force parameter from libxl__devices_destroy
Remove the force flag, and always use forced destruction.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-15 18:55:46 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 0b5c5ae1bd libxl: remove force parameter from libxl_domain_destroy
Since a destroy is considered a forced shutdown, there's no point in
passing a force parameter. All the occurences of this function have
been replaced with the proper syntax.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-15 18:55:46 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 8e4cd77b8a libxl: fix incorrect log message in libxl_domain_destroy
Fix a log message that was referring to libxl_devices_dispose instead
of libxl__devices_destroy.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-15 18:55:46 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne c811f6765b hotplug: remove debug messages from NetBSD hotplug scripts
Remove unecessary debug messages from NetBSD hotplug scripts, left
error messages only.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-15 18:55:46 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 888fa55351 libxl: introduce libxl__wait_for_device_state
This is a generic function, that waits for xs watches to reach a
certain state and then executes the passed helper function. Removed
wait_for_dev_destroy and used this new function instead. This
function will also be used by future patches that need to wait for
the initialization of devices before executing hotplug scripts.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-15 18:55:45 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 97ee1f5d72 libxl: add support for image files for NetBSD
Created a helper function to detect if the OS is capable of using
image files as phy backends. Create two OS specific files, and
changed the Makefile to choose the correct one at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-09-30 14:38:55 +02:00
Paul Durrant 183048e2da hvmloader: Re-name xenstore key used to save VM generation ID buffer address.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
2011-12-18 14:40:39 +00:00
Liu, Jinsong 9ff59ff119 X86-MCE: fix a bug of xen-mceinj tool
Fix a bug of xen-mceinj tool which used to test mce by software way.

Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2011-12-18 14:40:00 +00:00
Daniel De Graaf 875756ca34 xsm: Add missing access checks
Actions requiring IS_PRIV should also require some XSM access control
in order for XSM to be useful in confining multiple privileged
domains. Add XSM hooks for new hypercalls and sub-commands that are
under IS_PRIV but not currently under any access checks.

Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
2011-12-18 14:33:48 +00:00
Daniel De Graaf 4c1b911bbc xsm: add remote_remap permission
The mmu_update hypercall can be used to manipulate the page tables of
a remote domain. Add a check for this in the XSM hook in addition to
the existing check on mapping pages of a remote domain.

Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
2011-12-18 14:33:19 +00:00
Ian Campbell f7506e96aa Linux/xencommons: Use oxenstored by default when available
oxenstored is an ocaml implementation of the xenstore daemon. It is faster,
more scalable and more reliable than the C xenstored.

In particular the transaction model in oxenstored does not involve taking a
complete copy of the database and aborting on any (even non-conflicting) other
change.

There is a paper on the design and implementation of oxenstored at
http://gazagnaire.org/pub/GH09.pdf which includes a performance evaluation and
comparison with the C daemon etc.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
2011-12-16 18:46:27 +00:00
Jan Beulich a1b22e625d x86/emulator: workaround for AMD erratum 573
The only cases where we might end up emulating fsincos (as any other
x87 operations without memory operands) are
- when a HVM guest is in real mode (not applicable on AMD)
- between two half page table updates in PAE mode (unlikely, and not
  doing the emulation here does affect only performance, not
  correctness)
- when a guest maliciously (or erroneously) modifies an (MMIO or page
  table update) instruction under emulation (unspecified behavior)

Hence, in order to avoid the erratum to cause harm to the entire host,
don't emulate fsincos on the affected AMD CPU families.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2011-12-16 15:45:40 +01:00