This patch adds basic support for configuring and assisting virtio-mmio
based virtio-disk backend (emulator) which is intended to run out of
Qemu and could be run in any domain.
Although the Virtio block device is quite different from traditional
Xen PV block device (vbd) from the toolstack's point of view:
- as the frontend is virtio-blk which is not a Xenbus driver, nothing
written to Xenstore are fetched by the frontend currently ("vdev"
is not passed to the frontend). But this might need to be revised
in future, so frontend data might be written to Xenstore in order to
support hotplugging virtio devices or passing the backend domain id
on arch where the device-tree is not available.
- the ring-ref/event-channel are not used for the backend<->frontend
communication, the proposed IPC for Virtio is IOREQ/DM
it is still a "block device" and ought to be integrated in existing
"disk" handling. So, re-use (and adapt) "disk" parsing/configuration
logic to deal with Virtio devices as well.
For the immediate purpose and an ability to extend that support for
other use-cases in future (Qemu, virtio-pci, etc) perform the following
actions:
- Add new disk backend type (LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_STANDALONE) and reflect
that in the configuration
- Introduce new disk "specification" and "transport" fields to struct
libxl_device_disk. Both are written to the Xenstore. The transport
field is only used for the specification "virtio" and it assumes
only "mmio" value for now.
- Introduce new "specification" option with "xen" communication
protocol being default value.
- Add new device kind (LIBXL__DEVICE_KIND_VIRTIO_DISK) as current
one (LIBXL__DEVICE_KIND_VBD) doesn't fit into Virtio disk model
An example of domain configuration for Virtio disk:
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mmcblk0p3, xvda1, backendtype=standalone, specification=virtio']
Nothing has changed for default Xen disk configuration.
Please note, this patch is not enough for virtio-disk to work
on Xen (Arm), as for every Virtio device (including disk) we need
to allocate Virtio MMIO params (IRQ and memory region) and pass
them to the backend, also update Guest device-tree. The subsequent
patch will add these missing bits. For the current patch,
the default "irq" and "base" are just written to the Xenstore.
This is not an ideal splitting, but this way we avoid breaking
the bisectability.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Jiamei Xie <jiamei.xie@arm.com>
With the introduction of boot time cpupools, Xen can create many
different cpupools at boot time other than cpupool with id 0.
Since these newly created cpupools can't have an
entry in Xenstore, create the entry using xen-init-dom0
helper with the usual convention: Pool-<cpupool id>.
Given the change, remove the check for poolid == 0 from
libxl_cpupoolid_to_name(...).
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
The reference "to shadow the resident processes" is applicable to
domains (potentially) running in shadow mode only. Adjust the
calculations accordingly. This, however, requires further parameters.
Since the original function is deprecated anyway, and since it can't be
changed (for being part of a stable ABI), introduce a new (internal
only) function, with the deprecated one simply becoming a wrapper.
In dom0_paging_pages() also take the opportunity and stop open-coding
DIV_ROUND_UP().
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
This avoid the need to generate the _paths.h header when the
information is from autoconf anyway.
They are no more users of the "buildmakevars2header" macro, so it can
be removed from "Config.mk".
Also removed the extra "-f" flag where "$(RM)" is used (xl/Makefile).
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Libxl bitmap operations for single bits (test, set, reset) take the bit
number as a signed integer without testing the value to be larger than
0.
Correct that by adding the appropriate tests.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Carve out all libxenlight related sources and move them to
tools/libs/light in order to use the generic library build environment.
The closely related sources for libxl-save-helper and the libxl test
environment are being moved, too.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Oleksandr Tyshchenko
Luca Fancellu
Jan Beulich
Anthony PERARD
Juergen Gross