similar to: linux'' X86_MSR config option

Could anyone summarize what the support status of cpu frequency changes is at present. I don''t seem to recall generic changes to the hpyervisor in that respect, but the linux tree has fairly extensive changes to the powernow-k8 driver (which would make sense to me only if all other cpufreq drivers are fully supported now, too). Thanks, Jan

Is it intentional that - under SVM, 32-bit guests can freely set EFER.LME - under VMX, 32-bit guests can''t access EFER at all? Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

>I''ve been seeing these pretty regularly on a single-socket dual-core Athlon >system for the last couple of months, and only on Friday finally found time >to start looking into these. Besides the messages above, I also see hangs >in about every other boot attempt but only if I do *not* use serial output >(which makes debugging a little harder), and never once initial boot

Under the assumption that in these cases recurring faults aren''t a security issue and it can be expected that the drivers there are going to try to take care of the problem. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_init.c +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_init.c @@ -625,6 +625,18 @@ static void parse_event_log_entry(struct

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Index: 2008-09-19/xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c =================================================================== --- 2008-09-19.orig/xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c 2008-09-19 14:12:02.000000000 +0200 +++ 2008-09-19/xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c 2008-09-19 14:12:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ #include <xen/acpi.h>

With pretty trivial user mode programs being able to crash the kernel due to the ref counter widths in Xen being more narrow than in Linux, I started an attempt to put together a kernel side fix. While addressing the plain hypercalls is pretty strait forward, dealing with multicalls (both when using them for lazy mmu mode batching and when explicitly using them in e.g. netback - the backends are

This follows Linux commit 39fe05e58c5e448601ce46e6b03900d5bf31c4b0, noticing that all this setup is pointless when ARAT support is there, and knowing that on SLED11''s native kernel it has actually caused S3 resume issues. A question would be whether HPET legacy interrupts should be forced off in this case (rather than leaving whatever came from firmware). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich

During debugging of another problem I found that in x2APIC mode, the destination field of the low address value wasn''t passed back correctly. While this is benign in most cases (as the value isn''t being used anywhere), it can be confusing (and misguiding) when printing the value read or when comparing it to the one previously passed into the inverse function. Signed-off-by: Jan

The first and third patches are cleaned up versions of an earlier v3 submission by Yang. 1: Nested VMX: check VMX capability before read VMX related MSRs 2: VMX: clean up capability checks 3: Nested VMX: fix IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 msr emulation 4: x86: make hvm_cpuid() tolerate NULL pointers Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Hi, while testing some APERF/MPERF semantics I discovered that this feature is enabled in Xen Dom0, but is not reliable. The Linux kernel''s scheduler uses this feature if it sees the CPUID bit, leading to costly RDMSR traps (a few 100,000s during a kernel compile) and bogus values due to VCPU migration during the measurement. The attached patch explicitly disables this CPU capability

Hi! I catched two pieces with debug and crash_debug enabled. One of them fixes a build error even without the -Wcast-qual flag. Patch attached. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

The initial values of the wallclock time in the shared info page are set for PVHVM guests when the hypercall page is initialized, since the hypercall page is not reinitialized on resume, the hypervisor wallclock time is not properly set on resume. Fix it by forcing an update of the wallclock values when the shared info page is mapped. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Can someone provide instructions and the necessary environment/toolchain support needed to get Xen to build and boot on a native EFI system (i.e. with no CSM/legacy support)? Joe

Hi, Keir, This patch is a bugfix for saving and restoring MSI/MSI-X across S3. Currently, Dom0''s PCI layer unmaps MSI when S3 and maps them back when resuming. However, this triggers unexpected behaviors. For example, if the drivers still holds that irq at the point of unmapping MSI, Xen will force unbind that pirq. But after resume, we have no mechanism to rebind that pirq. The device

Finally I got around to breaking up the similarly named monolithic patch that caused a regression shortly before the 4.2 release and got therefore reverted. This series consists of the broken up pieces that - according to my testing - don''t expose the reported lockup; the 7th will need debugging to understand what''s wrong there. 1: use RTC_* names instead of literal numbers 2:

One could even debate whether reserved bit faults are always fatal (and should never be propagated to the guest)... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Index: 2008-01-28/xen/arch/x86/traps.c =================================================================== --- 2008-01-28.orig/xen/arch/x86/traps.c 2008-01-28 11:31:44.000000000 +0100 +++ 2008-01-28/xen/arch/x86/traps.c

While adding code to create the compatibility p2m table mappings it seemed to me that the creation of the native ones is restricted to memory below the 512G boundary - otherwise, additional L2 tables would need to be allocated (currently other memory following the one L2 page getting allocated would be blindly overwritten). While I realize that machines this big aren''t likely to be

All the resources allocated based on xen_blkif_reqs are global in blkback. While (without having measured anything) I think that this is bad from a QoS perspective (not the least implied from a warning issued by Citrix''es multi-page-ring patches: if (blkif_reqs < BLK_RING_SIZE(order)) printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: " "I/O request space (%d reqs) < ring

clear_IO_APIC_pin() ignores entries that are set to delivery mode SMI. While this seems reasonable if the entry was unmasked, I consider it dubious for masked entries. In Linux, such behavior is benign since when the entry later is being used for some normal interrupt, the old setting is simply overwritten. In Xen, however, ioapic_guest_write() uses the vector field to determine the previous

The DMI checks that force the use of the bigsmp APIC driver are for systems that are no longer supported by Xen (32-bit x86). Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> --- xen/arch/x86/genapic/bigsmp.c | 30 +----------------------------- 1 files changed, 1