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As set value flow is the most complicated one in psr, it will be
divided to some patches to make things clearer. This patch
implements the set value framework to show a whole picture firstly.
It also changes domctl interface to make it more general.
To make the set value flow be general and can support multiple features
at same time, it includes below steps:
1. Test and set dom_ids bit corresponding to the domain. If the old bit is 0
which means the domain's COS ID is invalid, restore COS ID to 0. If the
COS ID is valid, get the COS ID that current domain is using.
2. Gather a value array to store all features current value
into it and replace the current value of the feature which is
being set to the new input value.
3. Find if there is already a COS ID on which all features'
values are same as the array. Then, we can reuse this COS
ID.
4. If fail to find, we need pick an available COS ID. Only COS ID which ref
is 0 or 1 can be picked.
5. Write the feature's MSRs according to the COS ID.
6. Update ref according to COS ID.
7. Save the COS ID into current domain's psr_cos_ids[socket] so that we
can know which COS the domain is using on the socket.
So, some functions are abstracted and the callback functions will be
implemented in next patches.
Here is an example to understand the process. The CPU supports
two featuers, e.g. L3 CAT and L2 CAT. User wants to set L3 CAT
of Dom1 to 0x1ff.
1. At the initial time, the old_cos of Dom1 is 0. The COS registers values
are below at this time.
-------------------------------
| COS 0 | COS 1 | COS 2 | ... |
-------------------------------
L3 CAT | 0x7ff | 0x7ff | 0x7ff | ... |
-------------------------------
L2 CAT | 0xff | 0xff | 0xff | ... |
-------------------------------
2. Gather the value array and insert new value into it:
val[0]: 0x1ff
val[1]: 0xff
3. It cannot find a matching COS.
4. Pick COS 1 to store the value set.
5. Write the L3 CAT COS 1 registers. The COS registers values are
changed to below now.
-------------------------------
| COS 0 | COS 1 | COS 2 | ... |
-------------------------------
L3 CAT | 0x7ff | 0x1ff | ... | ... |
-------------------------------
L2 CAT | 0xff | 0xff | ... | ... |
-------------------------------
6. The ref[1] is increased to 1 because Dom1 is using it now.
7. Save 1 to Dom1's psr_cos_ids[socket].
Then, user wants to set L3 CAT of Dom2 to 0x1ff too. The old_cos
of Dom2 is 0 too. Repeat above flow.
The val array assembled is:
val[0]: 0x1ff
val[1]: 0xff
So, it can find a matching COS, COS 1. Then, it can reuse COS 1
for Dom2.
The ref[1] is increased to 2 now because both Dom1 and Dom2 are
using this COS ID. Set 1 to Dom2's psr_cos_ids[socket].
There is one thing need to emphasize that we need restore domain's COS ID to
0 when socket is offline. Otherwise, a wrong COS ID will be used when the
socket is online again. That may cause user see the wrong CBM shown. But it
takes much time to iterate all domains to restore COS ID to 0. So, we define
a 'dom_ids[]' to represents all domains, one bit corresponds to one domain.
If the bit is 0 when entering 'psr_ctxt_switch_to', that means this is the
first time the domain is switched to this socket or domain's COS ID has not
been set since the socket is online. So, the COS ID set to ASSOC register on
this socket should be default value, 0. If not, that means the domain's COS
ID has been set when the socket was online. So, this COS ID is valid and we
can directly use it. We restore the domain's COS ID to 0 if the bit
corresponding to the domain is 0 but the domain's COS ID is not 0 when
'psr_get_val' and 'psr_set_val' is called. This can avoid CPU serialization
if restoring action is exectued in 'psr_ctxt_switch_to'.
Signed-off-by: Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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What is Xen?
============
Xen is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) originally developed by the
Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory, as part of the UK-EPSRC funded XenoServers project. Xen
is freely-distributable Open Source software, released under the GNU
GPL. Since its initial public release, Xen has grown a large
development community, spearheaded by xen.org (http://www.xen.org).
This file contains some quick-start instructions to install Xen on
your system. For more information see http:/www.xen.org/ and
http://wiki.xen.org/
Quick-Start Guide
=================
First, this is just a quick-start guide. For more comprehensive
information see the INSTALL file and the Xen wiki at
http://wiki.xenproject.org and in particular
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Getting_Started.
Second, there are a number of prerequisites for building a Xen source
release. Make sure you have all the following installed, either by
visiting the project webpage or installing a pre-built package
provided by your OS distributor:
* GNU Make v3.80 or later
* C compiler and linker:
- For x86:
- GCC 4.1.2_20070115 or later
- GNU Binutils 2.16.91.0.5 or later
or
- Clang/LLVM 3.5 or later
- For ARM:
- GCC 4.8 or later
- GNU Binutils 2.24 or later
* Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev)
* Development install of Python v2.3 or later (e.g., python-dev)
* Development install of curses (e.g., libncurses-dev)
* Development install of openssl (e.g., openssl-dev)
* Development install of x11 (e.g. xorg-x11-dev)
* Development install of uuid (e.g. uuid-dev)
* Development install of yajl (e.g. libyajl-dev)
* Development install of libaio (e.g. libaio-dev) version 0.3.107 or
greater.
* Development install of GLib v2.0 (e.g. libglib2.0-dev)
* Development install of Pixman (e.g. libpixman-1-dev)
* pkg-config
* bridge-utils package (/sbin/brctl)
* iproute package (/sbin/ip)
* GNU bison and GNU flex
* GNU gettext
* ACPI ASL compiler (iasl)
* Libc multiarch package (e.g. libc6-dev-i386 / glibc-devel.i686).
Required when building on a 64-bit platform to build
32-bit components which are enabled on a default build.
In addition to the above there are a number of optional build
prerequisites. Omitting these will cause the related features to be
disabled at compile time:
* Development install of Ocaml (e.g. ocaml-nox and
ocaml-findlib). Required to build ocaml components which
includes the alternative ocaml xenstored.
* cmake (if building vtpm stub domains)
* markdown
* figlet (for generating the traditional Xen start of day banner)
* systemd daemon development files
* Development install of libnl3 (e.g., libnl-3-200,
libnl-3-dev, etc). Required if network buffering is desired
when using Remus with libxl. See docs/README.remus for detailed
information.
* 16-bit x86 assembler, loader and compiler for qemu-traditional / rombios
(dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs)
* Development install of liblzma for rombios
Second, you need to acquire a suitable kernel for use in domain 0. If
possible you should use a kernel provided by your OS distributor. If
no suitable kernel is available from your OS distributor then refer to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenDom0Kernels for suggestions for
suitable kernels to use.
If you are looking to compile a Dom0 kernel from source, please refer to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenParavirtOps.
[NB. Unless noted otherwise, all the following steps should be
performed with root privileges.]
1. Download and untar the source tarball file. This will be a
file named xen-unstable-src.tgz, or xen-$version-src.tgz.
You can also pull the current version from the git or mercurial
repositories at http://xenbits.xen.org/
# tar xzf xen-unstable-src.tgz
Assuming you are using the unstable tree, this will
untar into xen-unstable. The rest of the instructions
use the unstable tree as an example, substitute the
version for unstable.
2. cd to xen-unstable (or whatever you sensibly rename it to).
3. For the very first build, or if you want to destroy build trees,
perform the following steps:
# ./configure
# make world
# make install
See the documentation in the INSTALL file for more info.
This will create and install onto the local machine. It will build
the xen binary (xen.gz), the tools and the documentation.
You can override the destination for make install by setting DESTDIR
to some value.
4. To rebuild an existing tree without modifying the config:
# make dist
This will build and install xen, tools, and docs into the local dist/
directory.
You can override the destination for make install by setting DISTDIR
to some value.
make install and make dist differ in that make install does the
right things for your local machine (installing the appropriate
version of udev scripts, for example), but make dist includes all
versions of those scripts, so that you can copy the dist directory
to another machine and install from that distribution.
xenstore: xenstored and oxenstored
====================================
Xen uses a configuration database called xenstore [0] to maintain configuration
and status information shared between domains. A daemon is implemented as part
of xenstore to act as an interface for access to the database for dom0 and
guests. Two xenstored daemons are supported, one written in C which we refer
to as the xenstored (sometimes referred to as cxenstored), and another written
in Ocaml called oxenstored. Details for xenstore and the different
implementations can be found on the wiki's xenstore reference guide [1] and
the xenstored [2] page. You can choose which xenstore you want to enable as
default on a system through configure:
./configure --with-xenstored=xenstored
./configure --with-xenstored=oxenstored
By default oxenstored will be used if the ocaml development tools are found.
If you enable oxenstored the xenstored will still be built and installed,
the xenstored used can be changed through the configuration file:
/etc/sysconfig/xencommons
or
/etc/default/xencommons
You can change the preferred xenstored you want to use in the configuration
but since we cannot stop the daemon a reboot will be required to make the
change take effect.
[0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStore
[1] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStoreReference
[2] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xenstored
Python Runtime Libraries
========================
Various tools, such as pygrub, have the following runtime dependencies:
* Python 2.3 or later.
URL: http://www.python.org/
Debian: python
Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology Support
=============================================
Intel's technology for safer computing, Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology
(Intel(R) TXT), defines platform-level enhancements that provide the building
blocks for creating trusted platforms. For more information, see
http://www.intel.com/technology/security/.
Intel(R) TXT support is provided by the Trusted Boot (tboot) module in
conjunction with minimal logic in the Xen hypervisor.
Tboot is an open source, pre- kernel/VMM module that uses Intel(R) TXT to
perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM.
The Trusted Boot module is available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot. This project hosts the code in a
mercurial repo at http://tboot.sourceforge.net/hg/tboot.hg and contains
tarballs of the source. Instructions in the tboot README describe how
to modify grub.conf to use tboot to launch Xen.
There are optional targets as part of Xen's top-level makefile that will
download and build tboot: install-tboot, build-tboot, dist-tboot, clean-tboot.
These will download the latest tar file from the SourceForge site using wget,
then build/install/dist according to Xen's settings.