These were mostly ones from xen/arch/x86/boot/cmdline.S which are handled early
and therefore do not use the usual infrastructure and so got missed in the
initial trawl.
The document now contains (AFAICT) every still valid option which was
previously documented at:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki?title=Xen_Hypervisor_Boot_Options&oldid=1379
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
On 64bit Xen with 32bit dom0 and crashkernel, xmalloc'ing items such
as the CPU crash notes will go into the xenheap, which tends to be in
upper memory. This causes problems on machines with more than 64GB
(or 4GB if no PAE support) of ram as the crashkernel physically cant
access the crash notes.
The solution is to force Xen to allocate certain structures in lower
memory. This is achieved by introducing two new command line
parameters; low_crashinfo and crashinfo_maxaddr. Because of the
potential impact on 32bit PV guests, and that this problem does not
exist for 64bit dom0 on 64bit Xen, this new functionality defaults to
the codebase's previous behavior, requiring the user to explicitly
add extra command line parameters to change the behavior.
This patch consists of 3 logically distinct but closely related
changes.
1) Add the two new command line parameters.
2) Change crash note allocation to use lower memory when instructed.
3) Change the conring buffer to use lower memory when instructed.
There result is that the crash notes and console ring will be placed
in lower memory so useful information can be recovered in the case of
a crash.
Changes since v1:
- Patch xen-command-line.markdown to document new options
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Introduce a command parameter to set the watchtog timeout. Manually
specifying "watchdog_timeout=<seconds>" on the command line will also
turn the watchdog on. For consistency, move opt_watchdog into nmi.c
along with opt_watchdog_timeout.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Still a work in progress, but submitted as a start.
Changes since v1:
- Include all up to date information from the wiki.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
This shows an example boolean (prot_doms_locked) which can be set at
runtime to prevent dom0 from mapping memory of domains of type
prot_domU_t.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
These examples show how to use constraints and the user field of the
security label to prevent communication between virtual machines of
different customers in a multi-tenant environment.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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>
This document contains several 0xa0 characters (non-breaking spaces). These do
not display correctly in (some) terminals or when the document is rendered by (some)
browsers. Re-encode them as spaces.
I'm not confident that this change will make it through being encoded as a patch
and sent through email. Its effect can be replicated with:
perl -i -p -e 's/\xa0/ /g' docs/misc/sedf_scheduler_mini-HOWTO.txt
[ I ran the rune rather than trying to apply the patch -iwj ]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
I have confirmed that the relevant pages have been transitioned.
What remains is pages which have not yet been moved over:
$ rgrep xenwiki *
tools/libxen/README:http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi
tools/xenballoon/xenballoond.README:http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Open_Topics_For_Discussion?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Memory+Overcommit.pdf
Note that "PythonInXlConfig" never existed in the old wiki and does not exist
in the new. This reference was introduced by 22735:cb94dbe20f97 and was
supposed to have been written prior to the 4.1 release. I have transitioned it
anyway but it's not clear how valuable the message actually is. Perhaps we
should just remove that aspect of it?
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>
I think these are better off deleted than remaining to confuse people.
docs/misc/blkif-drivers-explained.txt:
- Talks about Xen 2.0 beta, talks about the old pre-xenstored IPC mechanism.
docs/misc/cpuid-config-for-guest.txt:
- Doesn't really say anything, in particular doesn't actually describe how to
configure CPUID.
docs/misc/hg-cheatsheet.txt:
- Not out of date per-se wrt mercural but talk about Xen 2.0 and gives URLs
under www.cl.cam.ac.uk. Talks a lot about bitkeeper. Given that mercurial is
hardly unusual anymore I think there must be better guides out there so this
one is not worth resurecting.
docs/misc/network_setup.txt:
- This is more comprehensively documented on the wiki these days.
docs/misc/VMX_changes.txt:
- Is basically a changelog from the initial implementation of VMX in 2004.
I'm not sure about some of the other docs, but these ones seemed fairly
obvious.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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>
Convert to markdown as I go.
Currently this lives in qemu-xen.git i386-dm/README.hvm-pv-magic-ioport-disable
and I can never find it when I want it. As we transition to upstream qemu this
location becomes less useful.
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>
During kexec all old watches have to be removed, otherwise the new
kernel will receive unexpected events. Allow a guest to reset itself
and cleanup all of its watches and transactions.
Add a new XS_RESET_WATCHES command to do the reset on behalf of the
guest.
(Changes by iwj: specify the argument to be a single nul byte. Permit
read-only clients to use the new command.)
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Build has been broken since at least 18969:d6889b3b6423 (early
2009) and it has been unhooked from the top level build since forever
AFAICT. The last actual development (as opposed to tree wide
cleanups and build fixes) appears to have been 11594:6d7bba6443ef in
2006. The functionality of vnet has apparently been superceded by
VLANs, ebtables, Ethernet-over-IP etc all of which are well integrated
with upstream kernels and distros.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Update a comment about NetworkManager not supporting bridging in
Fedora 11 to refer instead to Fedora 14. Clarify the wording.
Signed-off-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Write up some sparse documentation about xenpaging usage.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
In b59f87f56b1e, the defaults for some of the directory config
variables implicitly changed. In this commit we arrange for the
defaults to be auto-detected (with the same logic as the run-time
scripts use).
This will make the build more likely to produce answers which the
builder intends. (And, in particular, it should un-break the
automated tests, which didn't set these variables explicitly and
therefore got broken by b59f87f56b1e.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Introduce CONFIG_LEAF_DIR, SUBSYS_DIR, INITD_DIR variables to cope
better with variation between distributions.
See docs/misc/distro_mapping.txt for details.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Edge <bruce.edge@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This patch implements the new protocol for handling pv consoles and
emulated serials as described in the document docs/misc/console.txt.
The changes are:
- xenconsoled: do not write the pty under serial in xenstore if
xenconsoled is handling a consolepath;
- xenconsole: implement support for an explicit console type parameter;
the parameter can be "pv", to specify that the user wants to
connect to a pv console, or "serial", to specify that the user wants to
connect to an emulated serial. If the type parameter hasn't been
specified be the user, xenconsole tries to guess which type of console
it has to connect to, defaulting to pv console for pv guests and
emulated serial for hvm guests.
- xenconsole: use the new xenstore paths;
- libxl: rename libxl_console_constype to libxl_console_consback:
constype is used to to specify whether qemu or xenconsoled provides the
backend, so I renamed it to libxl_console_consback to make it more
obvious that we are talking about backends;
- libxl: add a new libxl_console_constype to specify if the console is
an emulated serial or a pv console;
- libxl: support the new xenconsole "type" command line parameter;
- libxl: use the "output" node under console in xenstore to tell qemu
where do we want the output of this pv console to go;
- remove the legacy "serialpath" from xenconsoled altogether
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Also: update the QEMU_TAG to pull in the qemu part of these changes.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add support for Xen ocontext records to enable device polices. The
default policy will not be changed and instructions have been added to
enable the new functionality. Examples on how to use the new policy
language have been added but commented out. The newest version of
checkpolicy (>= 2.0.20) and libsepol (>= 2.0.39) is needed in order to
compile it. Devices can be labeled and enforced using the following
new commands; pirqcon, iomemcon, ioportcon and pcidevicecon.
Signed-off-by : George Coker <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by : Paul Nuzzi <pjnuzzi@tycho.ncsc.mil>
Update the XSM Flask documentation to reflect the support for
policy.24, the updated policy and policy build infrastructure, and how
to enable the optional MLS policy.
Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: George S. Coker, II <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
- A simple txt howto based on previous list discussions and observations
- A oneliner patch to address a compiler type cast error for x86_64
Signed-off-by: George S. Coker, II <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>
Add "iommu=1" option in grub, due to VT-d is not enabled by default.
In addition, describes how to enable MSI/MSI-x for assigned devices.
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Ian Campbell