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>
Allow administrators to notify a frontend driver that it's backend
counterpart is not to be trusted, so the frontend can deploy whatever
mitigations required in order to secure itself.
Allow such option for disk and network frontends only, as those are
the only hardened ones currently supported.
This is part of XSA-403
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Remove generating _libxl_list.h and use the common _xen_list.h instead.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
"change" command as been removed in QEMU 6.0. We can use
"blockdev-change-medium" instead.
Using `id` with "blockdev-change-medium" requires a change to the QEMU
command line, introduced by:
"libxl: Use -device for cd-rom drives"
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
`device` parameter is deprecated since QEMU 2.8.
This requires changes to the command line introduced by:
"libxl: Use -device for cd-rom drives"
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
The seemingly arbitrary use of 'pci' and 'pcidev' in the code in libxl_pci.c
is confusing and also compromises use of some macros used for other device
types. Indeed it seems that DEFINE_DEVICE_TYPE_STRUCT_X exists solely because
of this duality.
This patch purges use of 'pcidev' from the libxl internal code, but
unfortunately the 'pcidevs' and 'num_pcidevs' fields in 'libxl_domain_config'
are part of the API and need to be retained to avoid breaking callers,
particularly libvirt.
DEFINE_DEVICE_TYPE_STRUCT_X is still removed to avoid the special case in
libxl_pci.c but DEFINE_DEVICE_TYPE_STRUCT is given an extra 'array' argument
which is used to identify the fields in 'libxl_domain_config' relating to
the device type.
NOTE: Some of the more gross formatting errors (such as lack of spaces after
keywords) that came into context have been fixed in libxl_pci.c.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.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
Roger Pau Monne
Juergen Gross
Anthony PERARD
Paul Durrant