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* [Qemu-devel] [Minios-devel] [PATCH v7 0/<VARIOUS>] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries
@ 2015-12-16 12:30 Ian Campbell
  2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 00/29] " Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2015-12-16 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel
  Cc: Wei Liu, Stefano Stabellini, Ian Jackson, qemu-devel,
	minios-devel, samuel.thibault, Roger Pau Monne

In <1431963008.4944.80.camel@citrix.com> I proposed stabilising some
parts of the libxenctrl API/ABI by disaggregating into separate
libraries.

This is v7 of that set of series against:
    xen
    qemu-xen
    qemu-xen-traditional
    mini-os

NB: Samuel+minios-devel will only get the mini-os side and Stefano+qemu
-devel the qemu-xen side.

The code for all repos can be found in:

git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/libxenctrl-split/xen.git                  v7
git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/libxenctrl-split/qemu-xen.git             v7
git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/libxenctrl-split/qemu-xen-traditional.git v7
git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/libxenctrl-split/mini-os.git              v7

The tip of the xen.git branch contains an extra patch hacking Config.mk
to point to all the others above, which should get the correct things for
the HEAD of the branch, but not further back in time.

The new libraries here are:

 * libxentoollog: Common logging infrastructure
 * libxenevtchn: Userspace access to evtchns (via /dev/xen/evtchn etc)
 * libxengnttab: Userspace access to grant tables (via /dev/xen/gnt??? etc)
 * libxencall: Making hypercalls (i.e. the IOCTL_PRIVCMD_HYPERCALL type
   functionality)
 * libxenforeignmemory: Privileged mappings of foreign memory
   (IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAP et al)

The first three were actually pretty distinct within libxenctrl already and
have not changed in quite some time.

Although the other two are somewhat new they are based on top of long
standing stable ioctls, which gives me some confidence.

Nonetheless I would appreciate extra review of at least the interface
headers of all of these with a particular eye to the suitability of these
interfaces being maintained in an ABI (_B_, not _P_) stable way going
forward.

Still to come would be libraries for specific out of tree purposes
(device model, kexec), which would be adding new library at the same
level as libxc I think, rather than underneath, i.e. also using the
libraries split out here, but hopefully not libxenctrl itself.

The new libraries use linker version-scripts to hopefully make future
ABI changes be possible in a compatible way.

Since last time:

 * Lots more docs updates based on feedback given and especially the
   discussion around the semantics of the libraries wrt forking without
   exec.
 * s/gnttab_munmap/gnttab_unmap/ and s/gntshr_munmap/gntshr_unshare/      
    in the libxengnttab API.
 * Use O_CLOEXEC on Linux and FreeBSD unconditionally.
 * Fixed a stubdom/Makefile build race issue
 * Dropped -pedantic from headers check, the headers in xen/include/public
   are not -pedantic clean, and the libraries can include headers from
   there (and then the check breaks).
 * Dropped libxencall atform madvise thing, in favour of simpler solution
   of touching the pages to uncow them.
 * The xentoollog patch went in but was reverted, that patch now refers to
   the revisions of qemu and mini-os with the corresponding changes.

Even with the dropped acks mini-os and qemu-xen-trad are fully acked, while
qemu-xen and xen are mostly acked (but had a few dropped acks since last
time).

The whole thing has been build tested on Linux (incl stubdoms), and on
FreeBSD. I have runtime tested on Linux with qemu-xen, qemu-xen-trad and
stubdoms.

Neither NetBSD nor Solaris have been tested at all. It's certainly not
impossible that I've not got the #includes in the new files quite right.

http://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/libxenctrl-split/v7.html is the document
I've been using to try and track what I'm doing. It may not be all that
useful. The history of it is in the v6-with-doc branch of the xen.git
linked to above.

A few of the initial patches went in, but in the meantime I discovered a
wrinkle in the changes to the stubdom build changes, so now there are some
new ones.

    tools: Refactor "xentoollog" into its own library

went in but then came out again and is now blocking on a libvirt patch,
which is in libvirt.git#master waiting to get through our libvirt push
gate.

Ian.

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2015-12-16 12:30 [Qemu-devel] [Minios-devel] [PATCH v7 0/<VARIOUS>] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31 ` [PATCH XEN v7 00/29] " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 01/29] stubdom: recurse into tools/include in mk-headers-$(XEN_TARGET_ARCH) rule Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 22:13     ` Samuel Thibault
2016-01-05 14:52       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-19  3:14     ` Wei Liu
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 02/29] tools: Refactor "xentoollog" into its own library Ian Campbell
2016-01-05 14:53     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 03/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for xc_evtchn Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 04/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/evtchn wrappers into libxenevtchn Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 10:39     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 05/29] tools: Arrange to check public headers for ANSI compatiblity Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 06/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for xc_gnt{shr, tab} Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 07/29] tools: Refactor /dev/xen/gnt{dev, shr} wrappers into libxengnttab Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 18:40     ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-17  8:37       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 08/29] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for privcmd Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 09/29] tools: Refactor hypercall calling wrappers into libxencall Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 10/29] tools/libxc: drop xc_map_foreign_bulk_compat wrappers Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 11/29] tools: Remove xc_map_foreign_batch Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 12/29] tools: Implement xc_map_foreign_range(s) in terms of common helper Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 13/29] tools: Refactor foreign memory mapping into libxenforeignmemory Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 14/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: provide xenforeignmemory_unmap Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 15/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: use size_t for size arguments Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 16/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: Mention restrictions on fork in docs Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 17/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: Support err == NULL to map Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 18/29] tools/libs/foreignmemory: pull array length argument to map forward Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 19/29] tools/libs/evtchn: Review and update doc comments Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 20/29] tools/libs: Clean up hard tabs Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 21/29] tools/libs/gnttab: Extensive updates to API documentation Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 22/29] tools/libs/call: Update some log messages to not refer to xc Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 23/29] tools/libs/call: Describe return values and error semantics for xencall* Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:38     ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 24/29] tools/libs/call: Avoid xc_memalign in netbsd and solaris backends Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 25/29] tools/libs/call: linux: touch newly allocated pages after madvise lockdown Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 26/29] tools/libs/{call, evtchn}: Document requirements around forking Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 27/29] tools/libs/*: Use O_CLOEXEC on Linux and FreeBSD Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:37     ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-12-16 13:16     ` Jan Beulich
2015-12-16 14:04       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 14:43         ` Jan Beulich
2015-12-16 14:50           ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 28/29] tools: Update CFLAGS for qemu-xen to allow it to use new libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:31   ` [PATCH XEN v7 29/29] HACK: Update Config.mk to pull all the right bits from my xenbits trees Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 17:17   ` [PATCH XEN-BONUS v7] tools/libs/*: Introduce APIs to restrict handles to a specific domain Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 0/8] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 1/8] xen_console: correctly cleanup primary console on teardown Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 2/8] xen: Switch to libxenevtchn interface for compat shims Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 3/8] xen: Switch to libxengnttab " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 4/8] xen: Switch uses of xc_map_foreign_range into xc_map_foreign_pages Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 5/8] xen: Switch uses of xc_map_foreign_{pages, bulk} to use libxenforeignmemory API Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 14:39     ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-12-16 14:39     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2015-12-16 14:44       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 14:44       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 6/8] xen: Use stable library interfaces when they are available Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 7/8] xen: domainbuild: reopen libxenctrl interface after forking for domain watcher Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 8/8] xen: make it possible to build without the Xen PV domain builder Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN v7 0/8] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 0/4] " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 1/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Use libxenevtchn Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 2/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Use libxengnttab Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 3/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Add libxencall to rpath-link Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH QEMU-XEN-TRADITIONAL v7 4/4] qemu-xen-traditional: Add libxenforeignmemory " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32 ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 0/4] Begin to disentangle libxenctrl and provide some stable libraries Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 1/4] mini-os: Include libxenevtchn with libxc Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 2/4] mini-os: Include libxengnttab " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 3/4] mini-os: Include libxencall " Ian Campbell
2015-12-16 12:32   ` [PATCH MINI-OS v7 4/4] mini-os: Include libxenforeignmemory " Ian Campbell

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