[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Per vcpu vm_event channels

[Petre Pircalabu <ppircalabu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This patchset adds a new mechanism of sending synchronous vm_event
requests and handling vm_event responses without using a ring.
As each synchronous request pauses the vcpu until the corresponding
response is handled, it can be stored in a slotted memory buffer
(one per vcpu) shared between the hypervisor and the controlling domain.

The main advantages of this approach are:
- the ability to dynamicaly allocate the necessary memory used to hold
the requests/responses (the size of vm_event_request_t/vm_event_response_t
can grow unrestricted by the ring's one page limitation)
- the ring's waitqueue logic is unnecessary in this case because the
vcpu sending the request is blocked until a response is received.



Petre Pircalabu (9):
  tools/libxc: Consistent usage of xc_vm_event_* interface
  vm_event: Define VM_EVENT type
  vm_event: Make ‘local’ functions ‘static’
  vm_event: Remove "ring" suffix from vm_event_check_ring
  vm_event: Simplify vm_event interface
  vm_event: Move struct vm_event_domain to vm_event.c
  vm_event: Decouple implementation details from interface.
  vm_event: Add vm_event_ng interface
  xen-access: Add support for vm_event_ng interface

 tools/libxc/include/xenctrl.h        |  56 +---
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_paging.c          |  23 +-
 tools/libxc/xc_memshr.c              |  34 ---
 tools/libxc/xc_monitor.c             |  46 ++-
 tools/libxc/xc_private.h             |  16 +-
 tools/libxc/xc_vm_event.c            | 175 +++++++-----
 tools/tests/xen-access/Makefile      |   7 +-
 tools/tests/xen-access/vm-event-ng.c | 210 ++++++++++++++
 tools/tests/xen-access/vm-event.c    | 193 +++++++++++++
 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access.c  | 408 ++++++++++-----------------
 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access.h  |  91 ++++++
 tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c          |  42 +--
 xen/arch/arm/mem_access.c            |   2 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm.c                    |   5 +
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_access.c         |   4 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_paging.c         |   2 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c        |   5 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c                |  11 +-
 xen/common/Makefile                  |   1 +
 xen/common/domctl.c                  |   7 +
 xen/common/mem_access.c              |   2 +-
 xen/common/monitor.c                 |   4 +-
 xen/common/vm_event.c                | 527 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 xen/common/vm_event_ng.c             | 449 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/drivers/passthrough/pci.c        |   2 +-
 xen/include/public/domctl.h          | 101 +++----
 xen/include/public/memory.h          |   2 +
 xen/include/public/vm_event.h        |  47 ++++
 xen/include/xen/sched.h              |  25 +-
 xen/include/xen/vm_event.h           |  80 +++++-
 30 files changed, 1720 insertions(+), 857 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/tests/xen-access/vm-event-ng.c
 create mode 100644 tools/tests/xen-access/vm-event.c
 create mode 100644 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access.h
 create mode 100644 xen/common/vm_event_ng.c

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2.7.4


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