By default the sve bits are not set.
This patch adds a new hypercall, xc_altp2m_set_supress_ve_multi(),
to set a range of sve bits.
The core function, p2m_set_suppress_ve_multi(), does not break in case
of a error and it is doing a best effort for setting the bits in the
given range. A check for continuation is made in order to have
preemption on large ranges.
The gfn of the first error is stored in
xen_hvm_altp2m_suppress_ve_multi.first_error_gfn and the error code is
stored in xen_hvm_altp2m_suppress_ve_multi.first_error.
If no error occurred the values will be 0.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Isaila <aisaila@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petre Pircalabu <ppircalabu@bitdefender.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
With the 32 PAE build of Xen gone, 32bit PV guests' top level pagetables no
longer behave exactly like PAE in hardware.
They should have A/D bits set, for the same performance reasons as apply to
other levels. This brings the domain builder in line with how Xen constructs
a 32bit dom0.
As a purely code improvement, make use of range notation to initialise
identical values in adjacent array elements.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
We are shortly going to want to introduce some common x86 fields, so having
x86_pv and x86_hvm as the top level objects is a problem. Insert a
surrounding struct x86 and drop the x86 prefix from the pv/hvm objects.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The code has devating from the prevailing style in many ways. Adjust spacing,
indentation, position of operators, layout of multiline comments, removal of
superfluous comments, constness, trailing commas, and use of unqualified
'unsigned'.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Originally, 'checkpointed' was a boolean signalling the difference between a
plain and a Remus stream. COLO was added later, but several bits of code
retained boolean-style logic. While correct, it is confusing to follow.
Additionally, XC_MIG_STREAM_NONE means "no checkpoints" but reads as "no
stream".
Consolidate all the logic on the term 'stream_type', and rename STREAM_NONE
to STREAM_PLAIN. Re-position the stream_type variable so it isn't
duplicated in both the save and restore unions.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
During migration, we buffer several blobs of data which ultimately need
handing back to Xen at an appropriate time.
Currently, this is all handled in an ad-hoc manner, but more blobs are soon
going to be added. Introduce xc_sr_blob to encapsulate a ptr/size pair, and
update_blob() to handle the memory management aspects.
Switch the HVM_CONTEXT and the four PV_VCPU_* blobs over to this new
infrastructure. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
xc_dom_p2m() and dom->p2m_host[] implement a linear transform for translated
domains, but waste a substantial chunk of RAM doing so.
ARM literally never reads dom->p2m_host[] (because of the xc_dom_translated()
short circuit in xc_dom_p2m()). Drop it all.
x86 HVM does use dom->p2m_host[] for xc_domain_populate_physmap_exact() calls
when populating 4k pages. Reuse the same tactic from 2M/1G ranges and use an
on-stack array instead. Drop the memory allocation.
x86 PV guests do use dom->p2m_host[] as a non-identity transform. Rename the
field to pv_p2m to make it clear it is PV-only.
No change in the constructed guests.
Reported-by: Varad Gautam <vrd@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
In-guest p2m's are a concept specific to x86 PV guests. alloc_p2m_list() is
the only hook which initialises dom->p2m_guest, making
xc_dom_update_guest_p2m() a nop for non-PV guests.
Move p2m_guest into xc_dom_image_x86 and adjust alloc_p2m_list() to match.
Drop xc_dom_update_guest_p2m() entirely.
One caller, move_l3_below_4G(), only uses it to modify a single entry, so
rewriting the whole guest p2m is wasteful - opencode the single update
instead. The other caller is common code. Instead, move the logic into the
setup_pgtables() hooks, which know their own sizeof_pfn and can do away with
the switch statement.
No change in the constructed guests.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Currently, the setup_pgtable() hook is optional, but alloc_pgtable() hook is
not. Both are specific to x86 PV guests, and stubbed in various ways by the
dombuilders for translated guests (x86 HVM, ARM).
Make alloc_pgtables() optional, and drop all the stubs for translated guest
types.
No change in the constructed guests.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
The two xc_dom_params structures for PV pagetables are never modified and can
live in .rodata. Reduce their scope to the alloc_pgtable_*() functions which
construct xc_dom_image_x86 appropriately.
Rename {alloc,setup}_pgtables() to {alloc,setup}_pgtables_pv() to highlight
that they are PV only, and drop some _x86() suffixes from static helpers.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
XCFLAGS_CHECKPOINT_COMPRESS has been unused since c/s b15bc4345 (2015),
XCFLAGS_HVM since c/s 9e8672f1c (2013), and XCFLAGS_STDVGA since c/s
087d43326 (2007). Drop the constants, and code which sets them.
The separate hvm parameter (appeared in c/s d11bec8a1, 2007 and ultimately
redundant with XCFLAGS_HVM), is used for sanity checking and debug printing,
then discarded and replaced with Xen's idea of whether the domain is PV or
HVM.
Rearrange the logic in xc_domain_save() to ask Xen sightly earlier, and use a
consistent idea of 'hvm' throughout. Removing this parameter removes the
final user of libxl's dss->hvm, so drop that field as well.
Update the doxygen comment to be accurate.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>
There are issues as reported by osstest when Xen is running nested on
itself and the L1 Xen is using x2APIC. While those are being
investigated, disable announcing the x2APIC feature in CPUID when nested
HVM mode is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
The hvm and pae parameters are a remnant of legacy migration. They have 0
passed in from libxl_stream_read.c's process_record(), and are discarded in
xc_domain_restore().
While dropping these, update the doxygen comment to be accurate, and simplify
the other hvm vs pv handling in xc_domain_restore().
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Despite as suggested in c/s 685e922d6f, not all HVM_PARAMs are handled
in the same way. HVM_PARAM_PAE_ENABLED is a toolstack-only value, and
the xc_cpuid_apply_policy() used to be the only consumer.
Reinstate the old behaviour (mad as it is) to avoid regressions.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86 PVH is completely obsolete - it was intended for legacy PVH before that
idea was abandoned. There was an RFC series for ARM in 2015, but there is
plenty of outstanding work which hasn't been done yet.
No functional change. New types can be (re)introduced with the code which
actually implements them.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This record is specific to x86, and should have had a prefix to being with.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
vcpu_guest_context_any_t is currently allocated on the stack, and copied from
a mutable buffer which is freed immediately after its use here. Mutate the
buffer in place instead of duplicating it.
The code is as it is due to how it was developed. Originally,
process_vcpu_basic() operated on a const pointer from the X86_VCPU_BASIC
record, but during upstreaming, the addition of Remus support required
buffering of X86_VCPU_BASIC records each checkpoint.
By the time process_vcpu_basic() runs, we are commited to completing state
restoration and unpausing the guest.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
There have been no users of the xc_compression_*() interface since Migration
v2 replaced legacy migration (2015, c/s b15bc4345).
It would need adjusting to fit into migration v2, and can be pulled out of git
history if someone wants to resurrect it in the future.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The current logic only works by chance, in that XSAVE records also tend to be
a multiple of 128. Implement the missing logic for XSAVE.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
handle_x86_pv_info() has a subtle bug. It uses an 'else if' chain with a
clause in the middle which doesn't exit unconditionally. In practice, this
means that when restoring a 32bit PV guest, later sanity checks are skipped.
Rework the logic a little to be simpler. There are exactly two valid
combinations of fields in X86_PV_INFO, so factor this out and check them all
in one go, before making adjustments to the current domain.
Once adjustments have been completed successfully, sanity check the result
against the X86_PV_INFO settings in one go, rather than piece-wise.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Extend the livepatch list operation to fetch also payloads' metadata.
This is achieved by extending the sysctl list interface with 2 extra
guest handles:
* metadata - an array of arbitrary size strings
* metadata_len - an array of metadata strings' lengths (uin32_t each)
Payloads' metadata is a string of arbitrary size and does not have an
upper bound limit. It may also vary in size between payloads.
In order to let the userland allocate enough space for the incoming
data add a metadata total size field to the list sysctl operation and
fill it with total size of all payloads' metadata.
Extend the libxc to handle the metadata back-to-back data transfers
as well as metadata length array data transfers.
The xen-livepatch userland tool is extended to always display the
metadata for each received module. The metadata is received with the
following format: key=value\0key=value\0...key=value\0. The format is
modified to the following one: key=value;key=value;...key=value.
The new format allows to easily parse the metadata for a given module
by a machine.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
The payloads' name strings can be of arbitrary size (typically small
with an upper bound of XEN_LIVEPATCH_NAME_SIZE).
Current implementation of the list operation interface allows to copy
names in the XEN_LIVEPATCH_NAME_SIZE chunks regardless of its actual
size and enforces space allocation requirements on userland tools.
To unify and simplify the interface, handle the name strings of
arbitrary size by copying them in adhering chunks to the userland.
In order to let the userland allocate enough space for the incoming
data add an auxiliary interface xc_livepatch_list_get_sizes() that
provides the current number of payload entries and the total size of
all name strings. This is achieved by extending the sysctl list
interface with an extra fields: name_total_size.
The xc_livepatch_list_get_sizes() issues the livepatch sysctl list
operation with the nr field set to 0. In this mode the operation
returns the number of payload entries and calculates the total sizes
for all payloads' names.
When the sysctl operation is issued with a non-zero nr field (for
instance with a value obtained earlier with the prior call to the
xc_livepatch_list_get_sizes()) the new field name_total_size provides
the total size of actually copied data.
Extend the libxc to handle the name back-to-back data transfers.
The xen-livepatch tool is modified to start the list operation with a
call to the xc_livepatch_list_get_sizes() to obtain the actual number
of payloads as well as the necessary space for names.
The tool now always requests the actual number of entries and leaves
the preemption handling to the libxc routine. The libxc still returns
'done' and 'left' parameters with the same semantic allowing the tool
to detect anomalies and react to them. At the moment it is expected
that the tool receives the exact number of entries as requested.
The xen-livepatch tool has been also modified to handle the name
back-to-back transfers correctly.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
By default Livepatch enforces the following buildid-based dependency
chain between livepatch modules:
1) first module depends on given hypervisor buildid
2) every consecutive module depends on previous module's buildid
This way proper livepatch stack order is maintained and enforced.
While it is important for production livepatches it limits agility and
blocks usage of testing or debug livepatches. These kinds of livepatch
modules are typically expected to be loaded at any time irrespective
of current state of the modules stack.
To enable testing and debug livepatches allow user dynamically ignore
the inter-modules dependency. In this case only hypervisor buildid
match is verified and enforced.
To allow userland pass additional paremeters for livepatch actions
add support for action flags.
Each of the apply, revert, unload and revert action gets additional
32-bit parameter 'flags' where extra flags can be applied in a mask
form.
Initially only one flag '--nodeps' is added for the apply action.
This flag modifies the default buildid dependency check as described
above.
The global sysctl interface input flag parameter is defined with a
single corresponding flag macro:
LIVEPATCH_ACTION_APPLY_NODEPS (1 << 0)
The userland xen-livepatch tool is modified to support the '--nodeps'
flag for apply and load commands. A general mechanism for specifying
more flags in the future for apply and other action is however added.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Eslam Elnikety <elnikety@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Petre Eftime <epetre@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Changeset ca2eee92df ("x86, hvm: Expose host core/HT topology to HVM
guests") attempted to "fake up" a topology which would induce guest
operating systems to not treat vcpus as sibling hyperthreads. This
involved actually reporting hyperthreading as available, but giving
vcpus every other ApicId; which in turn led to doubling the ApicIds
per core by bumping the ApicIdCoreSize by one. In particular, Ryzen
3xxx series processors, and reportedly EPYC "Rome" cpus -- have an
ApicIdCoreSize of 7; the "fake" topology increases this to 8.
Unfortunately, Windows running on modern AMD hardware -- including
Ryzen 3xxx series processors, and reportedly EPYC "Rome" cpus --
doesn't seem to cope with this value being higher than 7. (Linux
guests have so far continued to cope.)
A "proper" fix is complicated and it's too late to fix it either for
4.13, or to backport to supported branches. As a short-term fix,
limit this value to 7.
This does mean that a Linux guest, booted on such a system without
this change, and then migrating to a system with this change, with
more than 64 vcpus, would see an apparent topology change. This is a
low enough risk in practice that enabling this limit unilaterally, to
allow other guests to boot without manual intervention, is worth it.
Reported-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Reported-by: Andreas Kinzler <hfp@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
The purpose of this change is to stop using xc_cpuid_do_domctl(), and to stop
basing decisions on a local CPUID instruction. This is not a correct or
appropriate way to construct policy information for other domains.
The overwhelming majority of this logic is redundant with the policy logic in
Xen, but has a habit of becoming stale (e.g. c/s 97e4ebdcd7 resulting in the
CPUID.7[1].eax not being offered to guests even when Xen is happy with the
content).
There are a few subtle side effects which need to remain in place. A
successful call to xc_cpuid_apply_policy() must result in a call to
xc_set_domain_cpu_policy() because that is currently the only way the
ITSC/VMX/SVM bits become reflected in the guests CPUID view. Future cleanup
will remove this side effect.
The topology tweaks are local to libxc. Extend struct cpuid_policy with
enough named fields to express the logic, but keep it identical to before.
Fixing topology representation is another future area of work.
No (expected) change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
The purpose of this change is to stop using xc_cpuid_do_domctl(), and to stop
basing decisions on a local CPUID instruction. This is not an appropriate way
to construct policy information for other domains.
Obtain the host and domain-max policies from Xen, and mix the results as
before. Provide rather more error logging than before.
No semantics changes to xc_cpuid_set(). There are conceptual problems with
how the function works, which will be addressed in future toolstack work.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
This patch is broken out just to simplify the following two.
For xc_cpuid_set(), document how the 's' and 'k' options works because it is
quite subtle. Replace a memset() with a for loop of 4 explicit NULL
assigments. This mirrors the free()'s in the fail path.
For xc_cpuid_apply_policy(), const-ify the featureset pointer. It isn't
written to, and was never intended to be mutable.
Drop three pieces of trailing whitespace.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
This hypercall allows the toolstack to present one combined CPUID and MSR
policy for a domain, which can be audited in one go by Xen, which is necessary
for correctness of the auditing.
Reuse the existing set_cpuid XSM access vector, as this is logically the same
operation.
As x86_cpu_policies_are_compatible() is still only a stub, retain the call to
recalculate_cpuid_policy() to discard unsafe toolstack settings.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Commit df29d03f1d ("libxc/x86: avoid certain overflows in CPUID APIC ID
adjustments" introduced a one bit too narrow mask when checking whether
multiplying by 1 (in particular in leaf 1) would result in overflow.
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Recent AMD processors may report up to 128 logical processors in CPUID
leaf 1. Doubling this value produces 0 (which OSes sincerely dislike),
as the respective field is only 8 bits wide. Suppress doubling the value
(and its leaf 0x80000008 counterpart) in such a case.
Note that while there's a similar overflow in intel_xc_cpuid_policy(),
that one is being left alone for now.
Note further that while it was considered to suppress the multiplication
by 2 altogether if the host topology already provides at least one bit
of thread ID within APIC IDs, it was decided to avoid more change here
than really needed at this point.
Also zap leaf 4 (and at the same time leaf 2) EDX output for AMD, as it
should have been from the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
The patch adds a new lib xc function (xc_altp2m_get_vcpu_p2m_idx) that
uses a new hvmop (HVMOP_altp2m_get_p2m_idx) to get the active altp2m
index from a given vcpu.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Isaila <aisaila@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
This functionality is obsolete. It was introduced by c/s 41296317a3 into
Xend, but was never exposed in libxl.
Nothing limits this to PV guests, but it makes no sense for HVM guests.
Looking through the XenServer templates, this was used to work around bugs in
the 32bit RHEL/CentOS 4.7 and 4.8 kernels (fixed in 4.9) and RHEL/CentOS/OEL
5.2 and 5.3 kernels (fixed in 5.4). RHEL 4 as a major version went out of
support in 2017, whereas the 5.2/5.3 kernels went out of support when 5.4 was
released in 2009.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
This functionality is obsolete. It was introduced by c/s 39407bed9c into
Xend, but never exposed in libxl.
While not explicitly limited to PV guests, this is PV-only by virtue of its
position in the pagefault handler.
Looking though the XenServer templates, this was used to work around bugs in
the 32bit RHEL/CentOS 4.{5..7} kernels (fixed in 4.8). RHEL 4 as a major
version when out if support in 2017.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Make handling in do_pm_op() more homogeneous: Before interpreting
op->cpuid as such, handle all operations not acting on a particular
CPU. Also expose the setting via xenpm.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Add Hygon Dhyana support to caculate the cpuid policies for creating PV
or HVM guest by using the code path of AMD.
Signed-off-by: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
[Rebase over 0cd074144c "x86/cpu: Renumber X86_VENDOR_* to form a bitmap"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
This was probably useful as a sanity check when the "__xen_guest"
section were not legacy. But now ELF notes are prefered and
"should live in a PT_NOTE segment" (elfnote.h).
This check is unnecessary as elf_xen_parse() from xen/common/libelf
will do the right thing and look for ELFNOTEs in the different places
in order of preference. elf_xen_parse() will still be able to also
look for the legacy "__xen_guest" section without the check in libxc.
This patch would allow to write a simpler ELF header for an OVMF blob
(which isn't an ELF) and allow it to be loaded as a PVH kernel. The
header only needs to declare two program segments:
- one to tell an ELF loader where to put the blob,
- one for a Xen ELFNOTE.
The ELFNOTE is to comply to the pvh design which wants the
XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY to declare a blob as compaptible with the PVH
boot ABI.
Note that without the ELFNOTE, libxc will load an ELF but with
the plain ELF loader, which doesn't check for shstrtab.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Remove all tmem related code in libxc.
Leave some stubs in libxl in case anyone has linked to those functions
before the removal.
Remove all tmem related commands in xl, all tmem related code in other
utilities we ship.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Currently, a user can in principle combine the output of `xl info -n`, the
APCI tables, and some manual CPUID data to figure out which CPU numbers to
feed into `xen-hptool cpu-offline` to effectively disable SMT at runtime.
A more convenient option is to teach Xen how to perform this action.
Extend XEN_SYSCTL_cpu_hotplug with two new operations. Introduce a new
smt_up_down_helper() which wraps the cpu_{up,down}_helper() helpers with logic
which understands siblings based on their APIC_ID.
Add libxc stubs, and extend xen-hptool with smt-{enable,disable} options.
These are intended to be shorthands for a loop over cpu-{online,offline}.
To simplify the implemention, they will strictly enable/disable secondary
siblings (those with a non-zero thread id). This functionality is intended
for use in production scenarios where debugging options such as `maxcpus=` or
other manual plug/unplug configuration has not been used.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This doesn't address any of the assumptions that "anything which isn't AMD is
Intel". This logic is expected to be replaced wholesale with libx86 in the
longterm.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
f969bc9fc9 forbid get_address_size call on HVM guests, because that
didn't make sense. It broke core dump functionality on HVM because
libxc unconditionally asked for guest width.
Force guest_width to a sensible value.
Reported-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Currently, the VM_EVENT_INTERFACE_VERSION is determined at runtime, by
inspecting the corresponding field in a vm_event_request. This helper
opcode will query the hypervisor supported version before the vm_event
related structures and layout are set-up.
Signed-off-by: Petre Pircalabu <ppircalabu@bitdefender.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>
Allow altp2m users to disable #VE/VMFUNC alone. Currently it is
only possible to disable this functionality when we disable altp2m
completely; #VE/VMFUNC can only be enabled once per altp2m session.
In addition to making things complete, disabling #VE is also a
workaround for CFW116 ("When Virtualization Exceptions are Enabled,
EPT Violations May Generate Erroneous Virtualization Exceptions")
on Xeon E-2100 CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Alexandru Stefan ISAILA
Andrew Cooper
Roger Pau Monne
Wei Liu
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Tamas K Lengyel
Pawel Wieczorkiewicz
George Dunlap
Jan Beulich
Chao Gao
Ross Lagerwall
Pu Wen
Anthony PERARD
Wei Liu
Petre Pircalabu
Razvan Cojocaru