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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] Xen PCI + Xen PCI frontend driver.
>>> On 04.10.10 at 20:13, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch set contains the supporting patches and the driver itself for
> Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices (the git
> tree
> is git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
> devel/xen-pcifront-0.7).
> This patch-set is also utilized in Stefano's PV on HVM MSI/MSI-X patchset [1].
>
> The Xen PCI frontend driver can be used by PV guests on IOMMU hardware
> (or IOMMU-less). Without the hardware IOMMU you have a potential security
> hole wherein a guest domain can use the hardware to map pages outside its
> memory range and slurp pages up. As such, this is more restricted to a
> Privileged PV domain, aka - device driver domain (similar to Qubes but a
> poor-man mechanism [2]).
Somehow this patch series appears to be incomplete: Neither on
xen-devel nor on patchwork I can find patches 6, 11, 18, 19, and 20.
> The first set of patches are specific to the Xen subsystem, where
> we introduce an IRQ chip for Physical IRQs, along with the supporting
> harness code:
> xen: Don't disable the I/O space
> xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE()
> xen: implement pirq type event channels
> xen: identity map gsi->irqs
> xen: dynamically allocate irq & event structures
> xen: set pirq name to something useful.
> xen: statically initialize cpu_evtchn_mask_p
> xen: Find an unbound irq number in reverse order (high to low).
> xen: Provide a variant of xen_poll_irq with timeout.
> xen: fix shared irq device passthrough
>
> The next set of patches expose functionality for module drivers to be able
> to
> enumerate and iomap (using the _PAGE_IOMAP flag) PCI devices.
>
> x86/io_apic: add get_nr_irqs_gsi()
> x86/PCI: Clean up pci_cache_line_size
> x86/PCI: make sure _PAGE_IOMAP it set on pci mappings
> x86/PCI: Export pci_walk_bus function.
>
> The next two patches abstract the MSI/MSI-X architecture calls so that the
> default native one (used on bare-metal) can be overwritten when running
> in virtualized mode (right now on Xen). The implementation is a simple
> function pointer structure.
>
> x86: Copy-n-paste arch_teardown_msi_irqs from msi.c to io_apic.c.
> x86: Introduce x86_msi_ops
>
> Next, the Xen PCI stub driver. I've put it in the same location
> where other sub-platform PCI drivers are. It hooks up to the
> PCI legacy IRQ setup ('pcibios_enable_irq'), and MSI/MSI-X
> allocation/de-allocation (via the x86_msi_ops introduced in earlier patches).
>
> xen/x86/PCI: Add support for the Xen PCI subsystem
>
> Lastly, the Xen PCI front-end driver which is responsible for hooking up
> to the PCI configuration read/write methods via the 'pci_scan_bus_parented'
> call.
> In essence all pci_conf_read/write in the guest will be tunneled via
> pcifront_bus_[read|write] methods. The MSI/MSI-X calls will be handled
> by the Xen-PCI front-end driver as well.
>
> xen-pcifront: Xen PCI frontend driver.
>
> The next two are a bug fix and updating the MAINTAINER file:
>
> MAINTAINERS: Add myself for Xen PCI and Xen SWIOTLB maintainer.
> xen/pci: Request ACS when Xen-SWIOTLB is activated.
Also, up to here I count only 20 patch descriptions...
> The shortlog and the diffstat:
>
> Alex Nixon (3):
> xen: Don't disable the I/O space
> x86/PCI: Clean up pci_cache_line_size
> xen/x86/PCI: Add support for the Xen PCI subsystem
>
> Gerd Hoffmann (1):
> xen: set pirq name to something useful.
>
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (5):
> xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE()
> xen: implement pirq type event channels
> x86/io_apic: add get_nr_irqs_gsi()
> xen: statically initialize cpu_evtchn_mask_p
> x86/PCI: make sure _PAGE_IOMAP it set on pci mappings
>
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (8):
> xen: identity map gsi->irqs
> xen: dynamically allocate irq & event structures
> xen: Find an unbound irq number in reverse order (high to low).
> xen: Provide a variant of xen_poll_irq with timeout.
> x86/PCI: Export pci_walk_bus function.
> x86: Copy-n-paste arch_teardown_msi_irqs from msi.c to io_apic.c.
> xen/pci: Request ACS when Xen-SWIOTLB is activated.
> MAINTAINERS: Add myself for Xen PCI and Xen SWIOTLB maintainer.
>
> Noboru Iwamatsu (1):
> xenbus: prevent warnings on unhandled enumeration values
>
> Ryan Wilson (1):
> xen-pcifront: Xen PCI frontend driver.
>
> Stefano Stabellini (1):
> x86: Introduce x86_msi_ops
>
> Weidong Han (1):
> xen: fix shared irq device passthrough
>
> Yosuke Iwamatsu (1):
> xenbus: Xen paravirtualised PCI hotplug support.
... while these sum up to the announced (in the actual series) 22.
Jan
> MAINTAINERS | 14 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 13 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h | 25 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 9 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/xen/pci.h | 53 ++
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 23 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c | 6 +
> arch/x86/pci/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/pci/common.c | 17 +-
> arch/x86/pci/i386.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/pci/xen.c | 147 +++++
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 3 +
> arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb-xen.c | 4 +
> arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 -
> drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 2 +
> drivers/input/xen-kbdfront.c | 2 +
> drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 2 +
> drivers/pci/Kconfig | 16 +
> drivers/pci/Makefile | 2 +
> drivers/pci/bus.c | 1 +
> drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c | 1157
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c | 2 +
> drivers/xen/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/xen/biomerge.c | 13 +
> drivers/xen/events.c | 338 ++++++++++-
> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 2 +
> include/xen/events.h | 18 +
> include/xen/interface/io/pciif.h | 122 ++++
> include/xen/interface/io/xenbus.h | 8 +-
> 32 files changed, 1982 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> P.S.
> [1]. git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git
> 2.6.36-rc1-pvhvm-pirq-v3
>
> [2]: http://qubes-os.org/ which utilizes hardware IOMMU to run seperate
> domains wherein
> each has specific access to hardware.
>
> [3] Some of the authors of the patches have moved on, so their e-mails
> are bouncing. Any thoughts of what to do about that? Just leave it as is?
>
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