The current Xen console driver is crashing very quickly when using it on
an ARM guest. This is because the console lock is recursive and it may
lead to recursion on the tty lock and/or corrupt the ring pointer.
Furthermore, the console lock is not always taken where it should be and has
to be released too early because of the way the console has been designed.
Over the years, code has been modified to support various new features but
the driver has not been reworked.
This new driver has been rewritten with the idea of only having a small set
of specific function to write either via the shared ring or the hypercall
interface.
Note that HVM support has been left aside for now because it requires
additional features which are not yet supported. A follow-up patch will be
sent with HVM guest support.
List of items that may be good to have but not mandatory:
- Avoid to flush for each character written when using the tty
- Support multiple consoles
Submitted by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Reviewed by: royger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3698
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Minor fixes to make the Xen Dom0 console work. This includes always
returning there's pending input in xencons_has_input, because on Dom0
there's no shared ring and we cannot test the indexes. The second
fix is to use the CONSOLEIO_read hypercall in order to read input
data from the Xen console.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
- Always return true in xencons_has_input for Dom0.
- Implement Dom0 console support for xencons_handle_input.
Create a dummy bus so top level Xen devices can attach to it (instead
of attaching directly to the nexus). This allows to have all the Xen
related devices grouped under a single bus.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Approved by: gibbs
x86/xen/xenpv.c:
- Attach the xenpv bus when running as a Xen guest.
- Attach the ISA bus if needed, in order to attach syscons.
conf/files.amd6:
conf/files.i386:
- Include the xenpv.c file in the build of i386/amd64 kernels using
XENHVM.
dev/xen/console/console.c:
dev/xen/timer/timer.c:
xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
- Attach to the xenpv bus instead of the Nexus.
dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
- Xen specific devices on PVHVM guests are no longer attached to the
xenpci device, they are instead attached to the xenpv bus, remove
the now unused methods.
Replace usage of db_active in Xen console with kdb_active.
Reported by: Andrzej Tobola <ato@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
This adds and enables the PV console used on XEN kernels to
GENERIC/XENHVM kernels in order for it to be used on PVH.
Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
dev/xen/console/console.c:
- Define console_page.
- Move xc_printf debug function from i386 XEN code to generic console
code.
- Rework xc_printf.
- Use xen_initial_domain instead of open-coded checks for Dom0.
- Gate the attach of the PV console to PV(H) guests.
dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
- Allow the PV Xen console to output earlier by directly signaling
the event channel in start_info if the event channel is not yet
initialized.
- Use HYPERVISOR_start_info instead of xen_start_info.
i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
- Remove prototype for xc_printf since it's now declared in global
xen-os.h
i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
- Remove previous version of xc_printf.
- Remove definition of console_page (now it's defined in the console
itself).
- Fix some printf formatting errors.
x86/xen/pv.c:
- Add some early boot debug messages using xc_printf.
- Set console_page based on the value passed in start_info.
xen/xen-os.h:
- Declare console_page and add prototype for xc_printf.
resist easy conversion since they implement a great deal of their attach
logic inside probe(). Some of this could be fixed by moving it to attach(),
but some requires something more subtle than BUS_PROBE_NOWILDCARD.
Re-structure Xen HVM support so that:
- Xen is detected and hypercalls can be performed very
early in system startup.
- Xen interrupt services are implemented using FreeBSD's native
interrupt delivery infrastructure.
- the Xen interrupt service implementation is shared between PV
and HVM guests.
- Xen interrupt handlers can optionally use a filter handler
in order to avoid the overhead of dispatch to an interrupt
thread.
- interrupt load can be distributed among all available CPUs.
- the overhead of accessing the emulated local and I/O apics
on HVM is removed for event channel port events.
- a similar optimization can eventually, and fairly easily,
be used to optimize MSI.
Early Xen detection, HVM refactoring, PVHVM interrupt infrastructure,
and misc Xen cleanups:
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
Unification of PV & HVM interrupt infrastructure, bug fixes,
and misc Xen cleanups:
Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c:
sys/amd64/include/apicvar.h:
sys/i386/include/apicvar.h:
sys/amd64/amd64/apic_vector.S:
sys/i386/i386/apic_vector.s:
sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
sys/x86/include/segments.h:
Reserve IDT vector 0x93 for the Xen event channel upcall
interrupt handler. On Hypervisors that support the direct
vector callback feature, we can request that this vector be
called directly by an injected HVM interrupt event, instead
of a simulated PCI interrupt on the Xen platform PCI device.
This avoids all of the overhead of dealing with the emulated
I/O APIC and local APIC. It also means that the Hypervisor
can inject these events on any CPU, allowing upcalls for
different ports to be handled in parallel.
sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
Map Xen per-vcpu area during AP startup.
sys/amd64/include/intr_machdep.h:
sys/i386/include/intr_machdep.h:
Increase the FreeBSD IRQ vector table to include space
for event channel interrupt sources.
sys/amd64/include/pcpu.h:
sys/i386/include/pcpu.h:
Remove Xen HVM per-cpu variable data. These fields are now
allocated via the dynamic per-cpu scheme. See xen_intr.c
for details.
sys/amd64/include/xen/hypercall.h:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenvar.h:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
Prefer FreeBSD primatives to Linux ones in Xen support code.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/dev/xen/balloon/balloon.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/include/pmap.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenfunc.h:
sys/i386/isa/npx.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mptable.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/xen/features.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.h:
sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus_if.m:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusb_front.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore_dev.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstorevar.h:
Pull common Xen OS support functions/settings into xen/xen-os.h.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
Remove constants, macros, and functions unused in FreeBSD's Xen
support.
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Introduce new functions xen_domain(), xen_pv_domain(), and
xen_hvm_domain(). These are used in favor of #ifdefs so that
FreeBSD can dynamically detect and adapt to the presence of
a hypervisor. The goal is to have an HVM optimized GENERIC,
but more is necessary before this is possible.
sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
sys/sys/kernel.h:
Refactor magic ioport, Hypercall table and Hypervisor shared
information page setup, and move it to a dedicated HVM support
module.
HVM mode initialization is now triggered during the
SI_SUB_HYPERVISOR phase of system startup. This currently
occurs just after the kernel VM is fully setup which is
just enough infrastructure to allow the hypercall table
and shared info page to be properly mapped.
sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add definitions and a method for configuring Hypervisor event
delievery via a direct vector callback.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
sys/conf/files:
sys/conf/files.amd64:
sys/conf/files.i386:
Adjust kernel build to reflect the refactoring of early
Xen startup code and Xen interrupt services.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/block.h:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/console.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c
Adjust drivers to use new xen_intr_*() API.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
Since blkback defers all event handling to a taskqueue,
convert this task queue to a "fast" taskqueue, and schedule
it via an interrupt filter. This avoids an unnecessary
ithread context switch.
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
The xenstore driver is MPSAFE. Indicate as much when
registering its interrupt handler.
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
Remove unused event channel APIs.
sys/xen/evtchn.h:
Remove all kernel Xen interrupt service API definitions
from this file. It is now only used for structure and
ioctl definitions related to the event channel userland
device driver.
Update the definitions in this file to match those from
NetBSD. Implementing this interface will be necessary for
Dom0 support.
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchnvar.h:
Add a header file for implemenation internal APIs related
to managing event channels event delivery. This is used
to allow, for example, the event channel userland device
driver to access low-level routines that typical kernel
consumers of event channel services should never access.
sys/xen/interface/event_channel.h:
sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
Standardize on the evtchn_port_t type for referring to
an event channel port id. In order to prevent low-level
event channel APIs from leaking to kernel consumers who
should not have access to this data, the type is defined
twice: Once in the Xen provided event_channel.h, and again
in xen/xen_intr.h. The double declaration is protected by
__XEN_EVTCHN_PORT_DEFINED__ to ensure it is never declared
twice within a given compilation unit.
sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn.c:
sys/x86/xen/xen_intr.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/evtchn.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
New implementation of Xen interrupt services. This is
similar in many respects to the i386 PV implementation with
the exception that events for bound to event channel ports
(i.e. not IPI, virtual IRQ, or physical IRQ) are further
optimized to avoid mask/unmask operations that aren't
necessary for these edge triggered events.
Stubs exist for supporting physical IRQ binding, but will
need additional work before this implementation can be
fully shared between PV and HVM.
sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add support for placing vcpu_info into an arbritary memory
page instead of using HYPERVISOR_shared_info->vcpu_info.
This allows the creation of domains with more than 32 vcpus.
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
Add support for new event channle implementation.
At the moment grab and ungrab methods of all console drivers are no-ops.
Current intended meaning of the calls is that the kernel takes control of
console input. In the future the semantics may be extended to mean that
the calling thread takes full ownership of the console (e.g. console
output from other threads could be suspended).
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
- Use CONSOLE_DRIVER() instead of the deprecated CONS_DRIVER() declaration.
- This means we cannot use cn_checkc anymore, which is supposed to do
the same as cn_getc nowadays. Remove the cn_getc implementation (that
was never being called) and rename cn_checkc to cn_getc.
- Don't run-time patch cn_putc, but add the logic to xc_cnputc().
This means I could do some cleanups to our console code...
Tested by: nobody on hackers@
I don't want people to override the mutex when allocating a TTY. It has
to be there, to keep drivers like syscons happy. So I'm creating a
tty_alloc_mutex() which can be used in those cases. tty_alloc_mutex()
should eventually be removed.
The advantage of this approach, is that we can just remove a function,
without breaking the regular API in the future.
Log:
- merge in latest xenbus from dfr's xenhvm
- fix race condition in xs_read_reply by converting tsleep to mtx_sleep
Log:
unmask evtchn in bind_{virq, ipi}_to_irq
Log:
- remove code for handling case of not being able to sleep
- eliminate tsleep - make sleeps atomic
The cn_unit and cn_tp fields don't seem to be used anywhere. Some
drivers set them, while others don't. Just remove them, in an attempt to
make our consdev code a little easier to understand.
After I removed all the unit2minor()/minor2unit() calls from the kernel
yesterday, I realised calling minor() everywhere is quite confusing.
Character devices now only have the ability to store a unit number, not
a minor number. Remove the confusion by using dev2unit() everywhere.
This commit could also be considered as a bug fix. A lot of drivers call
minor(), while they should actually be calling dev2unit(). In -CURRENT
this isn't a problem, but it turns out we never had any problem reports
related to that issue in the past. I suspect not many people connect
more than 256 pieces of the same hardware.
Reviewed by: kib
I initially didn't want to integrate the Xen console driver, because it
did not receive any testing. Kip Macy suggested that I'd better check it
in right now, because this is the easiest way for him to test it while
he is working on the Xen import.
Requested by: kmacy
