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Juergen Gross 42aeed3b53 tools/xenstored: add support for "all domains" node permission
Add support for using DOMID_ANY in node permissions to indicate that
all domains are allowed to access the node.

Add a new feature bit for indicating the support of DOMID_ANY.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
2026-05-21 09:12:54 +02:00
Juergen Gross 464b7f4f26 tools/xs-clients: support depth with xenstore-watch
Add a "-d <depth>" parameter to xenstore-watch, allowing to specify
the depth parameter of the XS_WATCH command.

Using "-d" without support of depth by xenstored will refuse to set
the watch(es).

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
2026-04-22 08:59:03 +02:00
Juergen Gross 27d908e74e tools/libs/store: add support to use watches with a depth parameter
Add a new xs_watch_depth() function to libxenstore allowing to limit
the scope of a Xenstore watch. It can be used only in case Xenstore is
supporting the XENSTORE_SERVER_FEATURE_WATCHDEPTH feature.

For convenience add a xs_watch_try_depth() wrapper, which will call
xs_watch_depth() if supported and xs_watch() otherwise.

Cache the supported features of Xenstore in order not having to get
them from Xenstore for each call of one of the new functions.

While touching xs.c fix a whitespace issue there.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
2026-04-22 08:57:44 +02:00
Juergen Gross ea3099e191 tools/xl: add support for xenstore quota setting via domain config
Add a new "xenstore_quota" domain config parameter for setting the
Xenstore quota of a new domain via a list of <quota>=<val> items.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2026-03-27 12:06:37 +01:00
Juergen Gross 66eed7cbd4 docs: add man page for xenstore-watch
There is no man page for xenstore-watch, add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2026-03-13 17:18:04 +00:00
Juergen Gross a2e95641ab docs: add man page for xenstore-rm
There is no man page for xenstore-rm, add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2026-03-13 17:18:04 +00:00
Juergen Gross 6d8731c384 docs: add man page for xenstore-list
There is no man page for xenstore-list, add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2026-03-13 17:18:04 +00:00
Juergen Gross 94b31456bf docs: add man page for xenstore-exists
There is no man page for xenstore-exists, add it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2026-03-13 17:18:04 +00:00
Juergen Gross 48899ad696 docs: add -h parameter description to xenstore-* man pages
The "-h" parameter is missing in the man pages of the xenstore-*
programs.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2026-03-13 17:18:04 +00:00
James Dingwall d510f9c143 doc/man: Align list of viridian default enlightenments with libxl
The stimer enlightment was removed from the defaults list in commit
e83077a3d1 ("libxl: don't enable synthetic timers by default") but the
corresponding docs change was not made.  Removing from docs as enabling the
enlightenment will hang Windows 10 guests.

Fixes: e83077a3d1 ("libxl: don't enable synthetic timers by default")
Signed-off-by: James Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-Acked-By: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
2025-11-10 16:56:03 +00:00
Jahan Murudi bfa14c7059 docs/xentop: Add documentation for physical CPU monitoring feature
Add man page documentation for the new '-p/--pcpus' flag that displays
physical CPU utilization metrics. This provides hypervisor-level CPU
usage insights alongside existing domain statistics.

Changes include:
- Add '-p' flag to SYNOPSIS section
- Document '--pcpus' option with description
- Maintain consistency with existing documentation style

Signed-off-by: Jahan Murudi <jahan.murudi.zg@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
2025-10-03 15:50:02 +02:00
Leonid Komarianskyi 34ebe82668 doc/man: update description for nr_spis with eSPI
Since eSPI support has been introduced, update the documentation with
the appropriate description.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Komarianskyi <leonid_komarianskyi@epam.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
2025-09-09 16:32:06 -07:00
Grygorii Strashko 10e7473d60 xen/arm: scmi-smc: passthrough SCMI SMC to domain, single agent
The commit 3e322bef8b ("xen/arm: firmware: Add SCMI over SMC calls
handling layer") introduces simple driver which forwards SCMI over SMC
calls from hwdom/dom0 to EL3 firmware (TF-A) with a single SCMI OSPM agent
support. While it is working gracefully for hwdom/dom0 use case it doesn't
cover "thin Dom0 with guest domain, which serves as Driver domain"
use-case. In this case HW need to be enable in Driver domain and dom0 is
performing only control functions.

The EL3 SCMI firmware (TF-A) with a single SCMI OSPM agent support is
pretty generic case for the default vendors SDK and new platforms.

This patch enables passthrough of SCMI SMC single agent interface to the
one guest domain serving as Driver domain.

Configure Dom0 to enable SCMI passthrough:

 - dom0: add scmi-smc-passthrough to the Xen Command Line

Enabled SCMI passthrough for guest using toolstack in the following way:

 - domD: xl.cfg add "arm_sci" option as below

   arm_sci = "type=scmi_smc"

 - domD: xl.cfg enable access to the "arm,scmi-shmem"

iomem = [
    "47ff0,1@22001",
]

 - domD: add SCMI nodes to the Driver domain partial device tree as in the
 below example:

passthrough {
   scmi_shm_0: sram@22001000 {
       compatible = "arm,scmi-shmem";
       reg = <0x0 0x22001000 0x0 0x1000>;
   };

   firmware {
        compatible = "simple-bus";
            scmi: scmi {
                compatible = "arm,scmi-smc";
                shmem = <&scmi_shm_0>;
                ...
            }
    }
}

dom0less case configuration:

- add "xen,sci_type" property for required DomU ("xen,domain") node

   xen,sci_type="scmi_smc"

- add scmi nodes to the Driver domain partial device tree the same way
as above and enable access to the "arm,scmi-shmem" according to
dom0less documentation. For example:

  scmi_shm_0: sram@22001000 {
        compatible = "arm,scmi-shmem";
        reg = <0x00 0x22001000 0x00 0x1000>;
->        xen,reg = <0x0 0x47ff0000 0x0 0x1000 0x0 0x22001000>;
->        xen,force-assign-without-iommu;
  };

The SCMI SMC single agent interface can be enabled for one and only one
domain. In general, the configuration is similar to any other HW
passthrough, except explicitly enabling SCMI with "arm_sci" xl.cfg option.

Note that "arm,scmi-smc" and "arm,scmi-shmem" nodes will be removed from
dom0/hwdom DT when "scmi-smc-passthrough" cmdline parameter was provided.

Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii_strashko@epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksii Moisieiev <oleksii_moisieiev@epam.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech> # tools
2025-09-04 12:11:44 -07:00
Juergen Gross 4efc1da300 tools/xl: hide xenstore-features behind option
In order to be able to use "xl info" before Xenstore has been started
or after it has crashed, hide obtaining the available Xenstore features
behind the new option "-x".

Fixes: ecce7970cf ("tools/xl: add available Xenstore features to xl info output")
Reported-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-08-22 23:34:07 +01:00
Juergen Gross f6c990ac3c tools: allow to limit xenstore features via guest config
Add a guest config parameter "xenstore_feature_mask" allowing to limit
the Xenstore features the guest can see and use. This can be needed in
order to allow migrating a guest to a host running a Xenstore version
providing less features than the source host.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Acked-by: Nick Rosbrook <enr0n@ubuntu.com> # tools/golang
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-08-01 16:00:13 +02:00
Petr Beneš 0d0816c1c1 docs/man: Add altp2m_count parameter to the xl.cfg manual
Update manual pages to include detailed information about the altp2m_count
configuration parameter.

Signed-off-by: Petr Beneš <w1benny@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-07-22 08:51:36 +02:00
Jan Beulich 39e5fbd0af Revert "docs/man: Add altp2m_count parameter to the xl.cfg manual"
This reverts commit f14392d6bb.
2025-07-07 16:23:52 +02:00
Petr Beneš f14392d6bb docs/man: Add altp2m_count parameter to the xl.cfg manual
Update manual pages to include detailed information about the altp2m_count
configuration parameter.

Signed-off-by: Petr Beneš <w1benny@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-07-07 11:48:15 +02:00
Roger Pau Monne 22650d6054 x86/hvmloader: select xen platform pci MMIO BAR UC or WB MTRR cache attribute
The Xen platform PCI device (vendor ID 0x5853) exposed to x86 HVM guests
doesn't have the functionality of a traditional PCI device.  The exposed
MMIO BAR is used by some guests (including Linux) as a safe place to map
foreign memory, including the grant table itself.

Traditionally BARs from devices have the uncacheable (UC) cache attribute
from the MTRR, to ensure correct functionality of such devices.  hvmloader
mimics this behavior and sets the MTRR attributes of both the low and high
PCI MMIO windows (where BARs of PCI devices reside) as UC in MTRR.

This however causes performance issues for users of the Xen platform PCI
device BAR, as for the purposes of mapping remote memory there's no need to
use the UC attribute.  On Intel systems this is worked around by using
iPAT, that allows the hypervisor to force the effective cache attribute of
a p2m entry regardless of the guest PAT value.  AMD however doesn't have an
equivalent of iPAT, and guest PAT values are always considered.

Linux commit:

41925b105e34 xen: replace xen_remap() with memremap()

Attempted to mitigate this by forcing mappings of the grant-table to use
the write-back (WB) cache attribute.  However Linux memremap() takes MTRRs
into account to calculate which PAT type to use, and seeing the MTRR cache
attribute for the region being UC the PAT also ends up as UC, regardless of
the caller having requested WB.

As a workaround to allow current Linux to map the grant-table as WB using
memremap() introduce an xl.cfg option (xen_platform_pci_bar_uc=0) that can
be used to select whether the Xen platform PCI device BAR will have the UC
attribute in MTRR.  Such workaround in hvmloader should also be paired with
a fix for Linux so it attempts to change the MTRR of the Xen platform PCI
device BAR to WB by itself.

Overall, the long term solution would be to provide the guest with a safe
range in the guest physical address space where mappings to foreign pages
can be created.

Some vif throughput performance figures provided by Anthoine from a 8
vCPUs, 4GB of RAM HVM guest(s) running on AMD hardware:

Without this patch:
vm -> dom0: 1.1Gb/s
vm -> vm:   5.0Gb/s

With the patch:
vm -> dom0: 4.5Gb/s
vm -> vm:   7.0Gb/s

Reported-by: Anthoine Bourgeois <anthoine.bourgeois@vates.tech>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksii Kurochko<oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> # hvmloader
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-06-18 09:30:11 +02:00
Edgar E. Iglesias d057628757 tools/arm: Add the trap_unmapped_accesses xl config option
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
2025-06-17 10:59:04 -07:00
Juergen Gross b1763edcea docs: remove qemu-traditional support from documentation
In preparation to no longer support qemu-traditional (including
qemu-stubdom), remove it from documentation.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2025-06-02 10:31:21 +02:00
Frediano Ziglio 14694975cd docs: Add some details on XenServer PCI devices
Describe the usage of devices 5853:0002 and 5853:C000.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>
2025-03-25 09:22:43 +01:00
Michal Orzel 55d62b8d46 tools/arm: Reject configuration with incorrect nr_spis value
If the calculated value for nr_spis by the toolstack is bigger than the
value provided by the user, we silently ignore the latter. This is not
consistent with the approach we have in Xen on Arm when we try to reject
incorrect configuration. Also, the documentation for nr_spis is
incorrect as it mentions 991 as the number of max SPIs, where it should
be 960 i.e. (1020 - 32) rounded down to the nearest multiple of 32.

Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
2025-03-13 08:10:48 +01:00
Bernhard Kaindl 24c685286d Manual pages: Fix a few typos
While skimming through the manual pages, I spotted a few typos.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2025-01-17 08:54:25 +01:00
Bernhard Kaindl d68de81344 docs: Improve spelling of few cases in the documentation
Skimming the docs, I came across a few places for spelling improvements.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2025-01-15 16:01:39 +01:00
Maximilian Engelhardt c6d0d89c30 docs/man: fix typo: hexidecimal -> hexadecimal
This was found by the lintian tool (Debian package checker) during
packaging xen for Debian.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2024-12-30 21:40:35 +00:00
Ian Jackson 5becb6bbad docs/man/xen-vbd-interface.7: Provide properly-formatted NAME section
This manpage was omitted from
   docs/man: Provide properly-formatted NAME sections
   (423c4def1f)
because I was previously building with markdown not installed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2024-12-30 21:40:31 +00:00
Carlo Nonato 748bd725fb tools: add support for cache coloring configuration
Add a new "llc_colors" parameter that defines the LLC color assignment for
a domain. The user can specify one or more color ranges using the same
syntax used everywhere else for color config described in the
documentation.
The parameter is defined as a list of strings that represent the color
ranges.

Documentation is also added.
Golang bindings are regenerated.

Based on original work from: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Carlo Nonato <carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech>
Signed-off-by: Marco Solieri <marco.solieri@minervasys.tech>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2024-12-19 19:24:31 +01:00
zithro / Cyril Rébert dc8e1b33a5 tools/xl: add suspend and resume subcommands
The xl command doesn't provide suspend/resume, so add them :
  xl suspend <Domain>
  xl resume <Domain>

This patch follows a discussion on XenDevel: when you want the
virtualized equivalent of "sleep"-ing a host, it's better to
suspend/resume than to pause/unpause a domain.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyril Rébert (zithro) <slack@rabbit.lu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
2024-12-05 19:28:44 +00:00
Henry Wang 6f588194d9 tools/arm: Introduce the "nr_spis" xl config entry
Currently, the number of SPIs allocated to the domain is only
configurable for Dom0less DomUs. Xen domains are supposed to be
platform agnostics and therefore the numbers of SPIs for libxl
guests should not be based on the hardware.

Introduce a new xl config entry for Arm to provide a method for
user to decide the number of SPIs. This would help to avoid
bumping the `config->arch.nr_spis` in libxl everytime there is a
new platform with increased SPI numbers.

Update the doc and the golang bindings accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <xin.wang2@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
2024-05-24 16:26:22 -07:00
George Dunlap 2a40b106e9 tools/xentrace: Remove xentrace_format
xentrace_format was always of limited utility, since trace records
across pcpus were processed out of order; it was superseded by xenalyze
over a decade ago.

But for several releases, the `formats` file it has depended on for
proper operation has not even been included in `make install` (which
generally means it doesn't get picked up by distros either); yet
nobody has seemed to complain.

Simple remove xentrace_format, and point people to xenalyze instead.

NB that there is no man page for xenalyze, so the "see also" on the
xentrace man page is simply removed for now.

Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
2024-05-23 15:05:13 +01:00
Leigh Brown 0cc01c603f tools/xl: add vlan keyword to vif option
Update parse_nic_config() to support a new `vlan' keyword. This
keyword specifies the VLAN configuration to assign to the VIF when
attaching it to the bridge port, on operating systems that support
the capability (e.g. Linux). The vlan keyword will allow one or
more VLANs to be configured on the VIF when adding it to the bridge
port. This will be done by the vif-bridge script and functions.

Signed-off-by: Leigh Brown <leigh@solinno.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
2024-05-15 19:59:52 +01:00
Leigh Brown 70d46b51e2 docs/man: Add xenwatchdog manual page
Add a manual page for xenwatchdogd.

Signed-off-by: Leigh Brown <leigh@solinno.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-04-23 14:11:14 +02:00
Jason Andryuk 3c7482b73c libxl: Use vkb=[] for HVMs
xl/libxl only applies vkb=[] to PV & PVH guests.  HVM gets only a single
vkb by default, but that can be disabled by the vkb_device boolean.
Notably the HVM vkb cannot be configured, so feature-abs-pointer or the
backend-type cannot be specified.

Re-arrange the logic so that vkb=[] is handled regardless of domain
type.  If vkb is empty or unspecified, follow the vkb_device boolean for
HVMs.  Nothing changes for PVH & PV.  HVMs can now get a configured vkb
instead of just the default one.

The chance for regression is an HVM config with
vkb=["$something"]
vkb_device=false

Which would now get a vkb.

This is useful for vGlass which provides a VKB to HVMs.  vGlass wants to
specify feature-abs-pointer, but that is racily written by vGlass
instead of coming through the xl.cfg.  Unhelpfully, Linux xen-kbdfront
reads the backend nodes without checking that the backend is in
InitWait.

Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-04-11 16:39:10 +01:00
Juergen Gross 4287a71f9b tools/xl: support new 9pfs backend xen_9pfsd
Add support for the new 9pfs backend "xen_9pfsd". For this backend type
the tag defaults to "Xen" and the host side path to
"/var/log/xen/guests/<dom-name>".

Do most of the default settings in libxl. Unfortunately the default
path can't easily be set in libxl, as the domain name isn't available
in the related 9pfs specific function.

Settings the defaults in libxl requires to move the sanity checking
of 9pfs parameters from xl to libxl, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-02-23 17:43:06 +00:00
Oleksandr Tyshchenko 1eb013ef97 libxl: Add "grant_usage" parameter for virtio disk devices
Allow administrators to control whether Xen grant mappings for
the virtio disk devices should be used. By default (when new
parameter is not specified), the existing behavior is retained
(we enable grants if backend-domid != 0).

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-02-19 12:46:07 +01:00
Cyril Rébert 03e08d44c8 tools/xentop: add option to display dom0 first
Add a command line option to xentop to be able to display dom0 first, on top of the list.
This is unconditional, so sorting domains with the S option will also ignore dom0.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Rébert (zithro) <slack@rabbit.lu>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-02-14 10:41:43 +01:00
Jason Andryuk 6d7d8d2b3e libxl: Add support for blktap vbd3
This patch re-introduces blktap support to libxl.  Unlike earlier
versions, it does not link against any blktap library.  libxl changes
are needed to write to the vbd3 backend XenStore nodes.

blktap has three components.  tapdisk is a daemon implementing the disk
IO, NBD (Network Block Device), and Xen PV interfaces.  tap-ctl is a
tool to control tapdisks - creating, starting, stopping and freeing.
tapback manages the XenStore operations and instructs tapdisk to
connect.

It is notable that tapdisk performs the grant and event channel ops, but
doesn't interact with XenStore.  tapback performs XenStore operations
and notifies tapdisks of values and changes.

The flow is: libxl writes to the "vbd3" XenStore nodes and runs the
block-tap script.  The block-tap script runs tap-ctl to create a tapdisk
instance as the physical device.  tapback then sees the tapdisk and
instructs the tapdisk to connect up the PV blkif interface.

This is expected to work without the kernel blktap driver, so the
block-tap script is modified accordingly to write the UNIX NBD path.

backendtype=tap was not fully removed previously, but it would never
succeed since it would hit the hardcoded error in disk_try_backend().
It is reused now.

An example command to attach a vhd:
xl block-attach vm 'vdev=xvdf,backendtype=tap,format=vhd,target=/srv/target.vhd'

Format raw also works to run an "aio:" tapdisk.

Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2024-02-13 09:28:58 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 024e7131be tools: don't expose XENFEAT_hvm_pirqs by default
The HVM pirq feature allows routing interrupts from both physical and emulated
devices over event channels, this was done a performance improvement.  However
its usage is fully undocumented, and the only reference implementation is in
Linux.  It defeats the purpose of local APIC hardware virtualization, because
when using it interrupts avoid the usage of the local APIC altogether.

It has also been reported to not work properly with certain devices, at least
when using some AMD GPUs Linux attempts to route interrupts over event
channels, but Xen doesn't correctly detect such routing, which leads to the
hypervisor complaining with:

(XEN) d15v0: Unsupported MSI delivery mode 7 for Dom15

When MSIs are attempted to be routed over event channels the entry delivery
mode is set to ExtINT, but Xen doesn't detect such routing and attempts to
inject the interrupt following the native MSI path, and the ExtINT delivery
mode is not supported.

Disable HVM PIRQs by default and provide a per-domain option in xl.cfg to
enable such feature.  Also for backwards compatibility keep the feature enabled
for any resumed domains that don't have an explicit selection.

Note that the only user of the feature (Linux) is also able to handle native
interrupts fine, as the feature was already not used if Xen reported local APIC
hardware virtualization active.

Link: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7971
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2024-01-25 17:46:57 +00:00
Roger Pau Monne 9c114178ff libxl: limit bootloader execution in restricted mode
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>
2023-10-11 06:36:50 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne 1f762642d2 libxl: add support for running bootloader in restricted mode
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>
2023-10-11 06:36:50 +01:00
Jens Wiklander e6cb27f2f2 docs: add Arm FF-A mediator
Describes a FF-A version 1.1 [1] mediator to communicate with a Secure
Partition in secure world.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0077/latest

Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2023-08-18 09:29:23 +01:00
Peter Hoyes 10d25fc47d xl: Add escape character argument to xl console
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>
2023-07-31 15:03:14 +02:00
Olaf Hering 6b49fdfdb4 xentrace: remove unimplemented option from man page
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>
2023-07-28 21:36:24 +01:00
Roger Pau Monne d638fe233c libxl: use the cpuid feature names from cpufeatureset.h
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>
2023-07-26 10:56:27 +01:00
Viresh Kumar c14254065f libxl: arm: Add grant_usage parameter for virtio devices
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>
2023-07-24 14:11:35 +02:00
Luca Fancellu 0c2d0d32b3 docs: Fix xl.cfg documentation
A recent change to the documentation for the xl.cfg introduced a build
error, fix the issue.

Fixes: b46e8207d0 ("xen/tools: add sve parameter in XL configuration")
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Tested-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
2023-06-07 16:18:01 +01:00
Luca Fancellu b46e8207d0 xen/tools: add sve parameter in XL configuration
Add sve parameter in XL configuration to allow guests to use
SVE feature.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
2023-06-07 11:21:41 +01:00
Yann Dirson 8b1ac353b4 docs/man: fix xenstore-write synopsis
Reported-by: zithro <slack@rabbit.lu>
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <yann.dirson@vates.fr>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
2023-05-09 10:37:29 +01:00
Viresh Kumar f8135d234a docs: allow generic virtio device types to contain device-id
For generic virtio devices, where we don't need to add compatible or
other special DT properties, the type field is set to "virtio,device".

But this misses the case where the user sets the type with a valid
virtio device id as well, like "virtio,device1a" for file system device.
The complete list of virtio device ids is mentioned here:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/cs01/virtio-v1.2-cs01.html#x1-2160005

Update documentation to support that as well.

Fixes: dd54ea500b ("docs: add documentation for generic virtio devices")
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
2023-05-03 13:35:40 +02:00