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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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When an interrupt for an PCI (or PCIe) passthrough device is to be sent
to a guest, we find the appropiate 'hvm_dirq_dpci' structure for the
interrupt (PIRQ), set a bit (masked), and schedule an tasklet.
Then the 'hvm_dirq_assist' tasklet gets called with the 'struct domain'
from where it iterates over the the radix-tree of 'hvm_dirq_dpci' (from
zero to the number of PIRQs allocated) which are masked to the guest
and calls each 'hvm_pirq_assist'. If the PIRQ has a bit set (masked) it
figures out how to inject the PIRQ to the guest.
This is inefficient and not fair as:
- We iterate starting at PIRQ 0 and up every time. That means the PCIe
devices that have lower PIRQs get to be called first.
- If we have many PCIe devices passed in with many PIRQs and if most
of the time only the highest numbered PIRQ get an interrupt (as the
initial ones are for control) we end up iterating over many PIRQs.
But we could do beter - the 'hvm_dirq_dpci' has the field for
'struct domain', which we can use instead of having to pass in the
'struct domain'.
As such this patch moves the tasklet to the 'struct hvm_dirq_dpci' and
sets the 'dom' field to the domain. We also double-check that the
'->dom' is not reset before using it.
We have to be careful with this as that means we MUST have 'dom' set
before pirq_guest_bind() is called. As such we add the
'pirq_dpci->dom = d;' to cover for such cases.
The mechanism to tear it down is more complex as there are two ways it
can be executed:
a) pci_clean_dpci_irq. This gets called when the guest is being
destroyed. We end up calling 'tasklet_kill'.
The scenarios in which the 'struct pirq' (and subsequently the
'hvm_pirq_dpci') gets destroyed is when:
- guest did not use the pirq at all after setup.
- guest did use pirq, but decided to mask and left it in that
state.
- guest did use pirq, but crashed.
In all of those scenarios we end up calling 'tasklet_kill' which
will spin on the tasklet if it is running.
b) pt_irq_destroy_bind (guest disables the MSI). We double-check that
the softirq has run by piggy-backing on the existing
'pirq_cleanup_check' mechanism which calls 'pt_pirq_cleanup_check'.
We add the extra call to 'pt_pirq_softirq_active' in
'pt_pirq_cleanup_check'.
NOTE: Guests that use event channels unbind first the event channel
from PIRQs, so the 'pt_pirq_cleanup_check' won't be called as event
is set to zero. In that case we either clean it up via the a)
mechanism. It is OK to re-use the tasklet when 'pt_irq_create_bind'
is called afterwards.
There is an extra scenario regardless of event being set or not:
the guest did 'pt_irq_destroy_bind' while an interrupt was
triggered and tasklet was scheduled (but had not been run). It is
OK to still run the tasklet as hvm_dirq_assist won't do anything
(as the flags are set to zero). As such we can exit out of
hvm_dirq_assist without doing anything.
Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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http://www.xen.org/
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).
The 4.3 release offers a number of improvements, including NUMA
scheduling affinity, openvswitch integration, and defaulting to
qemu-xen rather than qemu-traditional for non-stubdom guests.
(qemu-xen is kept very close to the upstream project.) We also have a
number of updates to vTPM, and improvements to XSM and Flask to allow
greater disaggregation. Additionally, 4.3 contains a basic version of
Xen for the new ARM server architecture, both 32- and 64-bit. And as
always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
improvements under-the hood.
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, 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:
* GCC v4.1 or later
* GNU Make
* GNU Binutils
* 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
* 16-bit x86 assembler, loader and compiler (dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs)
* ACPI ASL compiler (iasl)
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.
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.