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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 9387377eb7 xen/privcmd: make privcmd visible in domU
It has its uses in a domU as well as dom0.  Xen will prevent an
unprivileged domain from doing anything untoward.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2010-10-20 16:29:43 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1c5de1939c xen: add privcmd driver
The privcmd interface in xenfs allows the tool stack in the privileged
domain to get fairly direct access to the hypervisor in order to do
various management things such as domain construction.

[ Impact: new xenfs interface for privileged operations ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2010-10-20 16:22:29 -07:00
Ian Campbell 655d406a7c xen: add /proc/xen/xsd_{kva,port} to xenfs
These are used by the userspace xenstore daemon, which runs in dom0.
Xenstored is what's behind the xenfs "xenbus" filesystem.

[ Impact: provide mapping and port to usermode for xenstore ]

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2010-10-20 16:22:26 -07:00
Alex Zeffertt 1107ba885e xen: add xenfs to allow usermode <-> Xen interaction
The xenfs filesystem exports various interfaces to usermode.  Initially
this exports a file to allow usermode to interact with xenbus/xenstore.

Traditionally this appeared in /proc/xen.  Rather than extending procfs,
this patch adds a backward-compat mountpoint on /proc/xen, and provides
a xenfs filesystem which can be mounted there.

Signed-off-by: Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:30:59 -08:00