linux-toradex.git/drivers/xen/Kconfig, branch v3.19

xen-scsiback: Add Xen PV SCSI backend driver

2014-09-23T13:36:19+00:00

Introduces the Xen pvSCSI backend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a
Xen domU to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that
domU. The SCSI commands are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver
domain (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device. This
allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a Xen domU.

The code is taken from the pvSCSI implementation in Xen done by
Fujitsu based on Linux kernel 2.6.18.

Changes from the original version are:
- port to upstream kernel
- put all code in just one source file
- adapt to Linux style guide
- use target core infrastructure instead doing pure pass-through
- enable module unloading
- support SG-list in grant page(s)
- support task abort
- remove redundant struct backend
- allocate resources dynamically
- correct minor error in scsiback_fast_flush_area
- free allocated resources in case of error during I/O preparation
- remove CDB emulation, now handled by target core infrastructure

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

xen: Put EFI machinery in place

2014-07-18T20:23:58+00:00

This patch enables EFI usage under Xen dom0. Standard EFI Linux
Kernel infrastructure cannot be used because it requires direct
access to EFI data and code. However, in dom0 case it is not possible
because above mentioned EFI stuff is fully owned and controlled
by Xen hypervisor. In this case all calls from dom0 to EFI must
be requested via special hypercall which in turn executes relevant
EFI code in behalf of dom0.

When dom0 kernel boots it checks for EFI availability on a machine.
If it is detected then artificial EFI system table is filled.
Native EFI callas are replaced by functions which mimics them
by calling relevant hypercall. Later pointer to EFI system table
is passed to standard EFI machinery and it continues EFI subsystem
initialization taking into account that there is no direct access
to EFI boot services, runtime, tables, structures, etc. After that
system runs as usual.

This patch is based on Jan Beulich and Tang Liang work.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Tang Liang 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper 
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel 
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini

Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00

Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...

xen: balloon: enable for ARM

2014-01-06T15:07:26+00:00

Since c275a57f5ec3 "xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number of
existing RAM pages" the balloon driver appears to work fine on ARM as far as I
can tell. Prior to that commit it was broken because on ARM RAM doesn't
typically start at zero, effectively leaving a big MMIO hole at the start.
This would cause the balloon driver to give away all of RAM at start of day,
which is rather inconvenient.

It was already enabled (or rather not excluded) on ARM64. The
c1d15f5c8bc1170dafe16e988e55437245966dfe
"xen/balloon: Seperate the auto-translate logic properly (v2)"
added in the proper plumbing to work with ARM and PVH type guests.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: David Vrabel 
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini 
[v2: Added the bit about PVH]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

2013-12-19T14:08:32+00:00

Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things
in tree (efi-stub).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

treewide: Fix typo in Kconfig

2013-12-02T13:54:57+00:00

Correct spelling typo in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

xen/arm,arm64: enable SWIOTLB_XEN

2013-10-10T13:40:44+00:00

Xen on arm and arm64 needs SWIOTLB_XEN: when running on Xen we need to
program the hardware with mfns rather than pfns for dma addresses.
Remove SWIOTLB_XEN dependency on X86 and PCI and make XEN select
SWIOTLB_XEN on arm and arm64.

At the moment always rely on swiotlb-xen, but when Xen starts supporting
hardware IOMMUs we'll be able to avoid it conditionally on the presence
of an IOMMU on the platform.

Implement xen_create_contiguous_region on arm and arm64: for the moment
we assume that dom0 has been mapped 1:1 (physical addresses == machine
addresses) therefore we don't need to call XENMEM_exchange. Simply
return the physical address as dma address.

Initialize the xen-swiotlb from xen_early_init (before the native
dma_ops are initialized), set xen_dma_ops to &xen_swiotlb_dma_ops.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini 


Changes in v8:
- assume dom0 is mapped 1:1, no need to call XENMEM_exchange.

Changes in v7:
- call __set_phys_to_machine_multi from xen_create_contiguous_region and
xen_destroy_contiguous_region to update the P2M;
- don't call XENMEM_unpin, it has been removed;
- call XENMEM_exchange instead of XENMEM_exchange_and_pin;
- set nr_exchanged to 0 before calling the hypercall.

Changes in v6:
- introduce and export xen_dma_ops;
- call xen_mm_init from as arch_initcall.

Changes in v4:
- remove redefinition of DMA_ERROR_CODE;
- update the code to use XENMEM_exchange_and_pin and XENMEM_unpin;
- add a note about hardware IOMMU in the commit message.

Changes in v3:
- code style changes;
- warn on XENMEM_put_dma_buf failures.

xen/tmem: do not allow XEN_TMEM on ARM64

2013-07-30T17:44:02+00:00

tmem is not supported on arm or arm64 yet. Will revert this
once the Xen hypervisor supports it.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

xen/tmem: Remove the usage of '[no|]selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballooning' bool instead.

2013-05-15T14:27:49+00:00

As the 'tmem' driver is the one that actually sets whether
it will use it (or not) so might as well make tmem responsible
for this knob.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.

2013-05-15T14:27:48+00:00

As the 'tmem' driver is the one that actually sets whether
it will use it or not so might as well make tmem responsible
for this knob.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk