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- FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000 events (2^17),
16 different event priorities, improved fairness in event latency through
the use of FIFOs.
- Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with paravirtualized
disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and timers, no emulated devices
of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS or legacy boot — but instead of
requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM hardware extensions to virtualize the
pagetables, as well as system calls and other privileged operations."
(from "The Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")
Bug-fixes:
- Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
- Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
- Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
- Refactors in event channels.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Two major features that Xen community is excited about:
The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
queue with priorities. This lets us be able to handle more events,
have lower latency, and better scalability. Good stuff.
The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor. In short, PV is a mode where the
kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc. With
EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
hypervisor doing it for us.
In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
within the guest container. It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
name - a PV guest within an HVM container.
The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.
It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone. But it is
pretty awesome and we are excited about it.
Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.
In short, this pull has awesome features.
Features:
- FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000
events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
event latency through the use of FIFOs.
- Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")
Bug-fixes:
- Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
- Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
- Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
- Refactors in event channels"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
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menu "Xen driver support"
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depends on XEN
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config XEN_BALLOON
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bool "Xen memory balloon driver"
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default y
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help
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The balloon driver allows the Xen domain to request more memory from
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the system to expand the domain's memory allocation, or alternatively
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return unneeded memory to the system.
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config XEN_SELFBALLOONING
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bool "Dynamically self-balloon kernel memory to target"
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depends on XEN && XEN_BALLOON && CLEANCACHE && SWAP && XEN_TMEM
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default n
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help
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Self-ballooning dynamically balloons available kernel memory driven
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by the current usage of anonymous memory ("committed AS") and
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controlled by various sysfs-settable parameters. Configuring
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FRONTSWAP is highly recommended; if it is not configured, self-
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ballooning is disabled by default. If FRONTSWAP is configured,
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frontswap-selfshrinking is enabled by default but can be disabled
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with the 'tmem.selfshrink=0' kernel boot parameter; and self-ballooning
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is enabled by default but can be disabled with the 'tmem.selfballooning=0'
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kernel boot parameter. Note that systems without a sufficiently
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large swap device should not enable self-ballooning.
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config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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bool "Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver"
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default n
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depends on XEN_BALLOON && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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help
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Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver allows expanding memory
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available for the system above limit declared at system startup.
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It is very useful on critical systems which require long
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run without rebooting.
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Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
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1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
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where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
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2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory>
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where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
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could be added by writing proper value to
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/sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
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/sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU,
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3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
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[ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
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Memory could be onlined automatically on domU by adding following line to udev rules:
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SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'"
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In that case step 3 should be omitted.
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config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
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bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system"
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depends on XEN_BALLOON
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default y
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help
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Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by
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other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data
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is not accidentally visible to other domains. Is it more
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secure, but slightly less efficient.
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If in doubt, say yes.
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config XEN_DEV_EVTCHN
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tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
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default y
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help
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The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
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channels and to receive notification of an event channel
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firing.
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If in doubt, say yes.
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config XEN_BACKEND
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bool "Backend driver support"
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depends on XEN_DOM0
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default y
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help
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Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
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to other virtual machines.
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config XENFS
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tristate "Xen filesystem"
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select XEN_PRIVCMD
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default y
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help
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The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
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information with each other and with the hypervisor.
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For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
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may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
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If in doubt, say yes.
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config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
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bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
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depends on XENFS
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default y
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help
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The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
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under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
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xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
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the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
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a xen platform.
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If in doubt, say yes.
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config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
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bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
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depends on SYSFS
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select SYS_HYPERVISOR
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default y
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help
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Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
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hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
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virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
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but will have no xen contents.
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config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
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tristate
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config XEN_GNTDEV
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tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
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depends on XEN
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default m
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select MMU_NOTIFIER
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help
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Allows userspace processes to use grants.
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config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
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tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
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depends on XEN
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default m
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help
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Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
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to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
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or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
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config SWIOTLB_XEN
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def_bool y
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select SWIOTLB
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config XEN_TMEM
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tristate
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depends on !ARM && !ARM64
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default m if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP)
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help
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Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks
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(e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls.
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config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
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tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
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depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
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depends on XEN_BACKEND
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default m
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help
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The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
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PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
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will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
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you want to make visible to other guests.
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The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
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devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
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PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
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the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
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The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
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into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
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from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
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xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
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If in doubt, say m.
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config XEN_PRIVCMD
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tristate
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depends on XEN
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default m
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config XEN_STUB
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bool "Xen stub drivers"
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depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
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default n
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help
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Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
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i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
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so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
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To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
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config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
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tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
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depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
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default n
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help
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This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
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Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
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to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
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removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
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config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
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tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
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depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
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select ACPI_CONTAINER
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default n
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help
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Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
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For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
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If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
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be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
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config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
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tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
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depends on XEN && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
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default m
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help
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This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
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hypervisor.
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To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
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said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
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select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
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SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
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not load.
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To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
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called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
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M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
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config XEN_MCE_LOG
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bool "Xen platform mcelog"
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depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
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default n
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help
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Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
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converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
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config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
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bool
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endmenu
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