From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Chen, Tiejun" <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [v7][PATCH 13/16] libxl: construct e820 map with RDM information for HVM guest
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:42:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436859727.7019.131.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A4A1D6.2060108@intel.com>
On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 13:44 +0800, Chen, Tiejun wrote:
> On 2015/7/13 18:15, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 17:47 +0800, Chen, Tiejun wrote:
> >>> This approach looks like it should work, and I think given the point in
> >>> the release it would be acceptable for 4.6.
> >>>
> >>> However long term I think it might make sense to try and reuse one of
> >>> the existing libxl__arch hooks, i.e.
> >>> libxl__arch_domain_init_hw_description or
> >>> libxl__arch_domain_finalise_hw_description. On ARM these are to do with
> >>> setting the Device Tree Blob, which included the memory map, so it is
> >>> somewhat morally equivalent to configuring the e820 on x86, I think.
> >>>
> >>> Those hooks are only called from libxl__build_pv today, but calling them
> >>> from libxl__build_hvm seems like it would be good too.
> >>
> >> But seems this is raising some potential risks, isn't this? Although
> >> libxl__arch_domain_init_hw_description() and
> >> libxl__arch_domain_finalise_hw_description() are NOP to x86, they're
> >> really working on ARM side. So if we call them inside
> >> libxl__build_hvm(), any affects to ARM? I'm not very sure at this point
> >> unless anyone can validate this change on ARM, or you really ensure my
> >> concerns is unnecessary.
> >
> > All ARM guests use the PV code path so there is no risk.
>
> Okay but please take a close look at this,
>
> libxl__build_pv(gc, domid, info, state)
> |
> + libxl__arch_domain_finalise_hw_description(libxl__gc *gc,
> libxl_domain_build_info *info,
> struct xc_dom_image *dom)
>
> But in our case we need this parameter, struct xc_hvm_build_args *args,
> so how can we handle this conflict? Its not easy to add this, and it
> doesn't make sense as well in pv case.
This is an internal API, you can feel free to modify it as necessary.
Please note that I started this subthread with "However long term I
think it might make sense ...", This was not a request to redo this
patch now.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 5:33 [v7][PATCH 00/16] Fix RMRR Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 01/16] xen: introduce XENMEM_reserved_device_memory_map Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 02/16] xen/vtd: create RMRR mapping Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 03/16] xen/passthrough: extend hypercall to support rdm reservation policy Tiejun Chen
2015-07-10 13:26 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-10 15:01 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-10 15:07 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-13 6:37 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 5:57 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 6:47 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 10:46 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-14 10:53 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 11:30 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-14 11:45 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 13:25 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 04/16] xen: enable XENMEM_memory_map in hvm Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 05/16] hvmloader: get guest memory map into memory_map[] Tiejun Chen
2015-07-10 13:49 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-13 7:03 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 06/16] hvmloader/pci: skip reserved ranges Tiejun Chen
2015-07-13 13:12 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 6:39 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 9:27 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 10:54 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 11:50 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 0:55 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 4:27 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 8:59 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 9:10 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 9:27 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 10:34 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 11:25 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 11:34 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 13:56 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-15 16:14 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-16 2:05 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-16 9:40 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-16 10:01 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 11:05 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-15 11:20 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 12:43 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-15 13:23 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 11:24 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 11:38 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-15 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 11:40 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 8:32 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 9:04 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-15 12:57 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-15 13:40 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-15 14:00 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 15:19 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 07/16] hvmloader/e820: construct guest e820 table Tiejun Chen
2015-07-13 13:35 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 5:22 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 9:32 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 10:22 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-15 16:00 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-16 1:58 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-16 9:41 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-09 5:33 ` [v7][PATCH 08/16] tools/libxc: Expose new hypercall xc_reserved_device_memory_map Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 09/16] tools: extend xc_assign_device() to support rdm reservation policy Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 10/16] tools: introduce some new parameters to set rdm policy Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 9:20 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-09 9:44 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 10:37 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-09 10:53 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 18:02 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-10 0:46 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 11/16] tools/libxl: detect and avoid conflicts with RDM Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 9:11 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-09 9:41 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 18:14 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-10 3:19 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-10 10:14 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-13 9:19 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 12/16] tools: introduce a new parameter to set a predefined rdm boundary Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 18:14 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 13/16] libxl: construct e820 map with RDM information for HVM guest Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 18:17 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-10 5:40 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-10 9:18 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-13 9:47 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 10:15 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-14 5:44 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 7:42 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-07-14 8:03 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-10 10:15 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 14/16] xen/vtd: enable USB device assignment Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 15/16] xen/vtd: prevent from assign the device with shared rmrr Tiejun Chen
2015-07-13 13:41 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-14 1:42 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-14 9:19 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 5:34 ` [v7][PATCH 16/16] tools: parse to enable new rdm policy parameters Tiejun Chen
2015-07-09 18:23 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-10 6:05 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-10 10:23 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-13 9:31 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 9:40 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-13 9:55 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-13 10:17 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-13 17:08 ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-14 1:29 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-10 14:50 ` [v7][PATCH 00/16] Fix RMRR George Dunlap
2015-07-10 14:56 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 7:55 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 8:03 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-16 8:08 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 8:13 ` Chen, Tiejun
2015-07-16 8:26 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 9:27 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-16 9:44 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 9:59 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-16 8:30 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-16 8:46 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-16 9:45 ` Lars Kurth
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