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Mukesh Rathor ddc416cbc4 xen/pvh/x86: Define what an PVH guest is (v3).
Which is a PV guest with auto page translation enabled
and with vector callback. It is a cross between PVHVM and PV.

The Xen side defines PVH as (from docs/misc/pvh-readme.txt,
with modifications):

"* the guest uses auto translate:
 - p2m is managed by Xen
 - pagetables are owned by the guest
 - mmu_update hypercall not available
* it uses event callback and not vlapic emulation,
* IDT is native, so set_trap_table hcall is also N/A for a PVH guest.

For a full list of hcalls supported for PVH, see pvh_hypercall64_table
in arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in xen.  From the ABI prespective, it's mostly a
PV guest with auto translate, although it does use hvm_op for setting
callback vector."

Also we use the PV cpuid, albeit we can use the HVM (native) cpuid.
However, we do have a fair bit of filtering in the xen_cpuid and
we can piggyback on that until the hypervisor/toolstack filters
the appropiate cpuids. Once that is done we can swap over to
use the native one.

We setup a Kconfig entry that is disabled by default and
cannot be enabled.

Note that on ARM the concept of PVH is non-existent. As Ian
put it: "an ARM guest is neither PV nor HVM nor PVHVM.
It's a bit like PVH but is different also (it's further towards
the H end of the spectrum than even PVH).". As such these
options (PVHVM, PVH) are never enabled nor seen on ARM
compilations.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-01-06 10:43:58 -05:00
Stefano Stabellini 4ed5978bdd xen/xen_initial_domain: check that xen_start_info is initialized
Since commit commit 4c071ee526 ("arm:
initial Xen support") PV on HVM guests can be xen_initial_domain.
However PV on HVM guests might have an unitialized xen_start_info, so
check before accessing its fields.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-10-03 13:03:32 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini 4c071ee526 arm: initial Xen support
- Basic hypervisor.h and interface.h definitions.
- Skeleton enlighten.c, set xen_start_info to an empty struct.
- Make xen_initial_domain dependent on the SIF_PRIVILIGED_BIT.

The new code only compiles when CONFIG_XEN is set, that is going to be
added to arch/arm/Kconfig in patch #11 "xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on
ARM".

Changes in v3:

- improve comments.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-09-14 13:53:39 +00:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1ccbf5344c xen: move Xen-testing predicates to common header
Move xen_domain and related tests out of asm-x86 to xen/xen.h so they
can be included whenever they are necessary.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-11-04 08:47:24 -08:00