Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/24] xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:33 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Check for a "/xen" node in the device tree, if it is present set
> > xen_domain_type to XEN_HVM_DOMAIN and continue initialization.
> > 
> > Map the real shared info page using XENMEM_add_to_physmap with
> > XENMAPSPACE_shared_info.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c |   56 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > index d27c2a6..8c923af 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
> >  #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
> >  #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
> >  #include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/of.h>
> > +#include <linux/of_irq.h>
> > +#include <linux/of_address.h>
> >  
> >  struct start_info _xen_start_info;
> >  struct start_info *xen_start_info = &_xen_start_info;
> > @@ -33,3 +36,56 @@ int xen_remap_domain_mfn_range(struct vm_area_struct 
> > *vma,
> >     return -ENOSYS;
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_remap_domain_mfn_range);
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * == Xen Device Tree format ==
> > + * - /xen node;
> > + * - compatible "arm,xen";
> > + * - one interrupt for Xen event notifications;
> > + * - one memory region to map the grant_table.
> > + */
> > +static int __init xen_guest_init(void)
> > +{
> > +   int cpu;
> > +   struct xen_add_to_physmap xatp;
> > +   static struct shared_info *shared_info_page = 0;
> > +   struct device_node *node;
> > +
> > +   node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "arm,xen");
> > +   if (!node) {
> > +           pr_info("No Xen support\n");
> > +           return 0;
> > +   }
> 
> This should either only print in the success case (to avoid spamming
> everyone) or we need a little bit of infrastructure like on x86 so that
> we print exactly one of:
>       "Booting natively on bearmetal"
>       "Booting paravirtualised on %s", hypervisor->name

This function is only going to be called once (actually it might be
called twice with the change introduced by "xen/arm: Introduce
xen_guest_init").

I thought that it would be an acceptible level of verbosity for pr_info.
Maybe I should just turn the pr_info into pr_debug?


> > +   xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
> > +
> > +   if (!shared_info_page)
> > +           shared_info_page = (struct shared_info *)
> > +                   get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   if (!shared_info_page) {
> > +           pr_err("not enough memory");
> > +           return -ENOMEM;
> > +   }
> > +   xatp.domid = DOMID_SELF;
> > +   xatp.idx = 0;
> > +   xatp.space = XENMAPSPACE_shared_info;
> > +   xatp.gpfn = __pa(shared_info_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +   if (HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_add_to_physmap, &xatp))
> > +           BUG();
> > +
> > +   HYPERVISOR_shared_info = (struct shared_info *)shared_info_page;
> > +
> > +   /* xen_vcpu is a pointer to the vcpu_info struct in the shared_info
> > +    * page, we use it in the event channel upcall and in some pvclock
> > +    * related functions. We don't need the vcpu_info placement
> > +    * optimizations because we don't use any pv_mmu or pv_irq op on
> > +    * HVM.
> > +    * When xen_hvm_init_shared_info is run at boot time only vcpu 0 is
> > +    * online but xen_hvm_init_shared_info is run at resume time too and
> > +    * in that case multiple vcpus might be online. */
> > +   for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > +           per_cpu(xen_vcpu, cpu) =
> > +                   &HYPERVISOR_shared_info->vcpu_info[cpu];
> 
> On ARM the shared info contains exactly 1 CPU (the boot CPU). The guest
> is required to use VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info to place vcpu info for
> secondary CPUs as they are brought up.

OK

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