kernel.git/drivers/xen/Kconfig, branch linux-6.8.y

xen: privcmd: Add support for ioeventfd

2023-10-16T13:18:33Z

Virtio guests send VIRTIO_MMIO_QUEUE_NOTIFY notification when they need to notify the backend of an update to the status of the virtqueue. The backend or another entity, polls the MMIO address for updates to know when the notification is sent. It works well if the backend does this polling by itself. But as we move towards generic backend implementations, we end up implementing this in a separate user-space program. Generally, the Virtio backends are implemented to work with the Eventfd based mechanism. In order to make such backends work with Xen, another software layer needs to do the polling and send an event via eventfd to the backend once the notification from guest is received. This results in an extra context switch. This is not a new problem in Linux though. It is present with other hypervisors like KVM, etc. as well. The generic solution implemented in the kernel for them is to provide an IOCTL call to pass the address to poll and eventfd, which lets the kernel take care of polling and raise an event on the eventfd, instead of handling this in user space (which involves an extra context switch). This patch adds similar support for xen. Inspired by existing implementations for KVM, etc.. This also copies ioreq.h header file (only struct ioreq and related macros) from Xen's source tree (Top commit 5d84f07fe6bf ("xen/pci: drop remaining uses of bool_t")). Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b20d83efba6453037d0c099912813c79c81f7714.1697439990.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen: privcmd: Add support for irqfd

2023-08-22T10:12:50Z

Xen provides support for injecting interrupts to the guests via the HYPERVISOR_dm_op() hypercall. The same is used by the Virtio based device backend implementations, in an inefficient manner currently. Generally, the Virtio backends are implemented to work with the Eventfd based mechanism. In order to make such backends work with Xen, another software layer needs to poll the Eventfds and raise an interrupt to the guest using the Xen based mechanism. This results in an extra context switch. This is not a new problem in Linux though. It is present with other hypervisors like KVM, etc. as well. The generic solution implemented in the kernel for them is to provide an IOCTL call to pass the interrupt details and eventfd, which lets the kernel take care of polling the eventfd and raising of the interrupt, instead of handling this in user space (which involves an extra context switch). This patch adds support to inject a specific interrupt to guest using the eventfd mechanism, by preventing the extra context switch. Inspired by existing implementations for KVM, etc.. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8e724ac1f50c2bc1eb8da9b3ff6166f1372570aa.1692697321.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen: Kconfig: Fix spelling mistake "Maxmium" -> "Maximum"

2022-10-12T06:39:50Z

There is a spelling mistake in a Kconfig description. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007203500.2756787-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests

2022-08-01T05:43:03Z

Commit fa1f57421e0b ("xen/virtio: Enable restricted memory access using Xen grant mappings") introduced a new requirement for using virtio devices: the backend now needs to support the VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM feature. This is an undue requirement for non-PV guests, as those can be operated with existing backends without any problem, as long as those backends are running in dom0. Per default allow virtio devices without grant support for non-PV guests. On Arm require VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM for devices having been listed in the device tree to use grants. Add a new config item to always force use of grants for virtio. Fixes: fa1f57421e0b ("xen/virtio: Enable restricted memory access using Xen grant mappings") Reported-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko # Arm64 guest using Xen Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-4-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen/grant-dma-ops: Retrieve the ID of backend's domain for DT devices

2022-06-06T14:07:30Z

Use the presence of "iommus" property pointed to the IOMMU node with recently introduced "xen,grant-dma" compatible as a clear indicator of enabling Xen grant mappings scheme for that device and read the ID of Xen domain where the corresponding backend is running. The domid (domain ID) is used as an argument to the Xen grant mapping APIs. To avoid the deferred probe timeout which takes place after reusing generic IOMMU device tree bindings (because the IOMMU device never becomes available) enable recently introduced stub IOMMU driver by selecting XEN_GRANT_DMA_IOMMU. Also introduce xen_is_grant_dma_device() to check whether xen-grant DMA ops need to be set for a passed device. Remove the hardcoded domid 0 in xen_grant_setup_dma_ops(). Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1654197833-25362-8-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen/grant-dma-iommu: Introduce stub IOMMU driver

2022-06-06T14:07:30Z

In order to reuse generic IOMMU device tree bindings by Xen grant DMA-mapping layer we need to add this stub driver from a fw_devlink perspective (grant-dma-ops cannot be converted into the proper IOMMU driver). Otherwise, just reusing IOMMU bindings (without having a corresponding driver) leads to the deferred probe timeout afterwards, because the IOMMU device never becomes available. This stub driver does nothing except registering empty iommu_ops, the upper layer "of_iommu" will treat this as NO_IOMMU condition and won't return -EPROBE_DEFER. As this driver is quite different from the most hardware IOMMU implementations and only needed in Xen guests, place it in drivers/xen directory. The subsequent commit will make use of it. Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1654197833-25362-7-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen/virtio: Enable restricted memory access using Xen grant mappings

2022-06-06T14:07:30Z

In order to support virtio in Xen guests add a config option XEN_VIRTIO enabling the user to specify whether in all Xen guests virtio should be able to access memory via Xen grant mappings only on the host side. Also set PLATFORM_VIRTIO_RESTRICTED_MEM_ACCESS feature from the guest initialization code on Arm and x86 if CONFIG_XEN_VIRTIO is enabled. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1654197833-25362-5-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen/grant-dma-ops: Add option to restrict memory access under Xen

2022-06-06T06:54:52Z

Introduce Xen grant DMA-mapping layer which contains special DMA-mapping routines for providing grant references as DMA addresses to be used by frontends (e.g. virtio) in Xen guests. Add the needed functionality by providing a special set of DMA ops handling the needed grant operations for the I/O pages. The subsequent commit will introduce the use case for xen-grant DMA ops layer to enable using virtio devices in Xen guests in a safe manner. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1654197833-25362-4-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

arm/xen: Read extended regions from DT and init Xen resource

2022-01-06T08:53:41Z

This patch implements arch_xen_unpopulated_init() on Arm where the extended regions (if any) are gathered from DT and inserted into specific Xen resource to be used as unused address space for Xen scratch pages by unpopulated-alloc code. The extended region (safe range) is a region of guest physical address space which is unused and could be safely used to create grant/foreign mappings instead of wasting real RAM pages from the domain memory for establishing these mappings. The extended regions are chosen by the hypervisor at the domain creation time and advertised to it via "reg" property under hypervisor node in the guest device-tree. As region 0 is reserved for grant table space (always present), the indexes for extended regions are 1...N. If arch_xen_unpopulated_init() fails for some reason the default behaviour will be restored (allocate xenballooned pages). This patch also removes XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC dependency on x86. Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1639080336-26573-6-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig

2021-11-16T22:13:31Z

This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace. Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive dependency. This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to building as module. [boris: clarified help message per Jan's suggestion] Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky