A manpage `foo.7.pod' must start with
=head NAME
foo - some summary of what foo is or what this manpage is
because otherwise manpage catalogue systems cannot generate a proper
`whatis' entry.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Currently, the toolstack is considering Arm guest always PV. However,
they are very similar to PVH because HW virtualization extension are used
and QEMU is not started. So switch Arm guest type to PVH.
To keep compatibility with toolstack creating Arm guest with PV type
(e.g libvirt), libxl will now convert those guests to PVH.
Furthermore, the default type for Arm in xl will now be PVH to allow
smooth transition for user.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
XSA-273 involves one hyperthread being able to use Spectre-like
techniques to "spy" on another thread. The details are somewhat
complicated, but the upshot is that after all Xen-based mitigations
have been applied:
* PV guests cannot spy on sibling threads
* HVM guests can spy on sibling threads
(NB that for purposes of this vulnerability, PVH and HVM guests are
identical. Whenever this comment refers to 'HVM', this includes PVH.)
There are many possible mitigations to this, including disabling
hyperthreading entirely. But another solution would be:
* Specify some cores as PV-only, others as PV or HVM
* Allow HVM guests to only run on thread 0 of the "HVM-or-PV" cores
* Allow PV guests to run on the above cores, as well as any thread of the PV-only cores.
For example, suppose you had 16 threads across 8 cores (0-7). You
could specify 0-3 as PV-only, and 4-7 as HVM-or-PV. Then you'd set
the affinity of the HVM guests as follows (binary representation):
0000000010101010
And the affinity of the PV guests as follows:
1111111110101010
In order to make this easy, this patches introduces three "global affinity
masks", placed in xl.conf:
vm.cpumask
vm.hvm.cpumask
vm.pv.cpumask
These are parsed just like the 'cpus' and 'cpus_soft' options in the
per-domain xl configuration files. The resulting mask is AND-ed with
whatever mask results at the end of the xl configuration file.
`vm.cpumask` would be applied to all guest types, `vm.hvm.cpumask`
would be applied to HVM and PVH guest types, and `vm.pv.cpumask`
would be applied to PV guest types.
The idea would be that to implement the above mask across all your
VMs, you'd simply add the following two lines to the configuration
file:
vm.hvm.cpumask=8,10,12,14
vm.pv.cpumask=0-8,10,12,14
See xl.conf manpage for details.
This is part of XSA-273 / CVE-2018-3646.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Parsing/generating the escape sequences used by xenstore-client is non
trivial. So make scripting (for use in stubdom) easier by adding a raw
option.
[added man page entries, facor out expand_buffer]
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
In the display protocol connector's id is named as unique-id. This patch renames
it in the libxl/xl code and uses XENDISPL_FIELD... definitions from the protocol
header.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Grytsov <oleksandr_grytsov@epam.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Add a short entry to the xl.cfg man page about pvcalls.
Also add LIBXL_HAVE_PVCALLS to mark the presence of pvcalls support in
libxl.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano@aporeto.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Make it possible to get and set a (Credit1) scheduler's
vCPU migration delay via the SCHEDOP sysctl, from both
libxl and xl (no change needed in libxc).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
The man for xl.cfg have the "devtype=hostdev" option, but xl only
understand "type=hostdev", fix the manual to reflect actual
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
XSA-256 forces the local APIC to always be enabled for PVH guests, so
ignore any apic option for PVH guests. Update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The previous version simply states that a symlink has to be created
without telling where the symlink should point to.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
HVC is shown underlined, the underscores are missing.
Fix it by using underscores.
Remove stale I.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Remove sched=null from shim cmdline and doc
We use the default scheduler (credit1 as of writing). The NULL
scheduler still has bugs to fix.
Update shim.config.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
There was no default documented but inspecting
libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault() shows the default to be
LIBXL_TIMER_MODE_NO_DELAY_FOR_MISSED_TICKS.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Right now, this is broken because libxl__build_device_model_args_new
is used also for the qemu run for pv guests for qdisk devices, pvfb,
etc.
We can either make this option properly HVM-specific, or make it
generic.
In principle it is a reasonable request, to make the PV qemu
deprivileged (even though it is not likely to be implemented any time
soon). So make this option generic.
We retain the name "device model" even though it is arguably
inaccurate, because the xl docs already say, for example
For a PV guest a device-model is sometimes used to provide backends
for certain PV devices
The documentation patch here is pure code motion. For ease of review
we will fix up the docs, so the wording to be right for the new
context, in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reported-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
---
v2: Change xl too, to avoid breaking the build.
Fix manpage pod syntax.
Ross reports that stdvga guests do not work, and cirrus guests are
slow, because qemu tries to do xc_domain_add_to_physmap. We will need
another dmop to fix this properly.
For now, document the problem.
(In the cirrus case, the vram remains mapped at the old guest-physical
addresses, while the guest runs. We are not sure whether this is a
correctness or security problem and we should advise against it.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reported-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
If the config specifies a user we use that. Otherwise:
When we are not restricting qemu, there is very little point running
it as a different user than root. Indeed, previously, creating the
"magic" users would cause qemu to become slightly dysfunctional (for
example, you can't insert a cd that the qemu user can't read).
So, in that case, default to running it as root.
Conversely, if restriction is requested, we must insist on running
qemu as a non-root user.
Sadly the admin is still required to create 2^16-epsilon users!
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This functionality is still quite imperfect, but it will be useful in
certain restricted use cases.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This is in line with the previous behavior, setting the number of
maptrack frames to 0 will prevent driver domains from working
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
And the xl.cfg man page documentation.
It should be possible to re-introduce it in the future with a proper
implementation, in order to create a HVM guest without a device model,
which is slightly different from a PVHv2 guest.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The new guest type is introduced to the libxl IDL. libxl__domain_make
is also modified to save the guest type, and libxl__domain_type is
expanded to fetch that information when detecting guest type.
This is required because the hypervisor only differentiates between PV
and HVM guests, so libxl needs some extra information in order to
differentiate between a HVM and a PVH guest.
The new PVH guest type and its options are documented on the xl.cfg
man page.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
The new firmware option aims to provide a coherent way to set the
firmware for the different kind of guests Xen supports.
For PV guests the available firmwares are pvgrub{32|64}, and for HVM
the following are supported: bios, uefi, seabios, rombios and ovmf.
Note that uefi maps to ovmf, and bios maps to the default firmware for
each device model.
The xl.cfg man page is updated to document the new feature.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Introduce a new type option to xl configuration files in order to
specify the domain type. This supersedes the current builder option.
The new option is documented in the xl.cfg man page, and the previous
builder option is marked as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add new domain config items for setting the limits for the maximum
numbers of grant table frames and maptrack frames of a domain.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add xl.conf config items for default values of grant limits:
max_grant_frames will set the default for the maximum number of grant
frames for a domain which will take effect if the domain's config file
doesn't specify a value. If max_grant_frames isn't set in xl.conf it
will default to 32 for hosts with all memory below 16TB and to 64 for
hosts with memory above 16TB.
max_maptrack_frames will set the default for the maximum number of
maptrack frames for a domain. If max_maptrack_frames isn't set in
xl.conf it will default to 0, as normally only backend domains need
maptrack frames.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add a new xl command "set-parameters" to set hypervisor parameters at
runtime similar to boot time parameters via command line.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Convert source for xl-numa-placement.7 from markdown to pod.
This removes the buildtime requirement for pandoc, and subsequently the
need for ghc, in the chain for BuildRequires of xen.rpm.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Convert source for xl-network-configuration.5 from markdown to pod.
This removes the buildtime requirement for pandoc, and subsequently the
need for ghc, in the chain for BuildRequires of xen.rpm.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Convert source for xen-pv-channel.7 from markdown to pod.
This removes the buildtime requirement for pandoc, and subsequently the
need for ghc, in the chain for BuildRequires of xen.rpm.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
If LMCE is supported by host and ' mca_caps = [ "lmce" ] ' is present
in xl config, the LMCE capability will be exposed in guest MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP.
By default, LMCE is not exposed to guest so as to keep the backwards migration
compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> for hypervisor side
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This is result of parsing cpu_map.xml from libvirt.
The most important part is handling leaf 0x00000007, but while at it add
other bits too.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
- fixed some minor numbering and syntax issues in the CPU allocation
examples for the 'cpus' option
- semantic fixes to make explanations more clear throughout
- fixed all the typo's I could see
- general styling and makeup fixes to make everything look more consistent
Signed-off-by: Armando Vega <armando@greenhost.nl>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Alexander Schulz
Ian Jackson
Julien Grall
Wei Liu
Simon Gaiser
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Oleksandr Grytsov
Stefano Stabellini
Dario Faggioli
Anthony PERARD
Roger Pau Monne
Olaf Hering
Yi Sun
Doug Goldstein
Ian Jackson
Meng Xu
Bhupinder Thakur
Juergen Gross
Haozhong Zhang
Armando Vega