ELF spec is unclear about whether .bss must me cleared by the loader.
Currently the domain builder does it when loading the guest but because
it is not (or rather may not be) guaranteed we should zero it out
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Direct Xen to place the initial P->M table outside of the initial
mapping, as otherwise the 1G (implementation) / 2G (theoretical)
restriction on the size of the initial mapping limits the amount
of memory a domain can be handed initially.
As the initial P->M table is copied rather early during boot to
domain private memory and it's initial virtual mapping is dropped,
the easiest way to avoid virtual address conflicts with other
addresses in the kernel is to use a user address area for the
virtual address of the initial P->M table. This allows us to just
throw away the page tables of the initial mapping after the copy
without having to care about address invalidation.
It should be noted that this patch won't enable a pv-domain to USE
more than 512 GB of RAM. It just enables it to be started with a
P->M table covering more memory. This is especially important for
being able to boot a Dom0 on a system with more than 512 GB memory.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Instead of manually list each hypercall in arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
use the auto generated symbol list.
This also corrects the wrong address of xen_hypercall_mca which was
located 32 bytes higher than it should.
Symbol addresses have been verified to match the correct ones via
objdump output.
Based-on-patch-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
This fixes two bugs in PVH guests:
- Not setting EFER.NX means the NX bit in page table entries is
ignored on Intel processors and causes reserved bit page faults on
AMD processors.
- After the Xen commit 7645640d6ff1 ("x86/PVH: don't set EFER_SCE for
pvh guest") PVH guests are required to set EFER.SCE to enable the
SYSCALL instruction.
Secondary VCPUs are started with pagetables with the NX bit set so
EFER.NX must be set before using any stack or data segment.
xen_pvh_cpu_early_init() is the new secondary VCPU entry point that
sets EFER before jumping to cpu_bringup_and_idle().
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd
getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need
the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to avoid
the mapping and hence the restriction.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
PVH allows PV linux guest to utilize hardware extended capabilities,
such as running MMU updates in a HVM container.
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."
Use .ascii and .asciz to define xen feature string. Note, the PVH
string must be in a single line (not multiple lines with \) to keep the
assembler from putting null char after each string before \.
This patch allows it to be configured and enabled.
We also use introduce the 'XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES' ELF note to
tell the hypervisor that 'hvm_callback_vector' is what the kernel
needs. We can not put it in 'XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES' as older hypervisor
parse fields they don't understand as errors and refuse to load
the kernel. This work-around fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
This allows us in perf to have this:
99.67% [kernel] [k] xen_hypercall_sched_op
0.11% [kernel] [k] xen_hypercall_xen_version
instead of the borring ever-encompassing:
99.13% [kernel] [k] hypercall_page
[v2: Use a macro to define the name and skip]
[v3: Use balign per Jan's suggestion]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
PAGE_SIZE_asm, PAGE_SHIFT_asm, THREAD_SIZE_asm can be safely removed from
asm-offsets.c, and be replaced by their non-'_asm' counterparts in the code
that uses them, since the _AC macro defined in include/linux/const.h makes
PAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SHIFT/THREAD_SIZE work with as.
Signed-off-by: Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
LKML-Reference: <1298666774-17646-2-git-send-email-psomas@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
In general, the only definitions that assembly files can use
are in _types.S headers (where available), so convert them.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Add the Xen entrypoint and ELF notes to head_64.S. Adapts xen-head.S
to compile either 32-bit or 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
into the .text segment so that it is executable.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Define recently added XEN_ELFNOTEs, and use them appropriately.
Most significantly, this enables domain checkpointing (xm save -c).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is
rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped
non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been
broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
additional section for .init.text appending a number.
A side effect of this was a section mismatch warning because modpost did
not recognize a .init.text section named .init.text.1: WARNING:
vmlinux.o(.text.head+0x247): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text.1:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87')
Fix this by hardcoding the "ax" in the pushsection. Thanks to Torlaf for
reporting this.
Alan Modra provided the hint that made me able to locate the root cause of
this warning. And Mike Frysinger told me how to properly fix it using
__INIT/__FINIT.
Fix following Section mismatch warning in addition:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14c8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:vsyscall_int80_start (between 'fiddle_vdso' and 'xen_setup_features')
fiddle_vdso was only used from a __init function - so declare it __init.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Linus Torvalds
Boris Ostrovsky
Adam Buchbinder
Juergen Gross
Mukesh Rathor
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Stratos Psomadakis
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Sam Ravnborg
Thomas Gleixner