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From: pbonzini@redhat.com # HG changeset patch # User Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> # Date 1318837036 -7200 # Node ID eb896361fc70b60b9a257d0c82e19633a11b9d41 # Parent 3c900d6a5f6a51ff1547f21fef30ab8b92feccc9 netback: disable features not supported by netfront Netback works by first setting all possible features, and then resetting some after connection, if the front-end

Hi, I implemented my own Hypercall in xen. Now I wish my application under dom0 could talk to Xen via my hypercall. Currently, I make a stub in dom0''s kernel, which works as a proxy to forward the request. So, my application first makes a system call to dom0, which then makes hypercall to xen. Is this design necessary? May I call hypercalls from user application under dom0 directly?

hi I've some problems with netback 1.what's mmap_pages for, which come from balloon operation ？ mmap_pages = alloc_empty_pages_and_pagevec(MAX_PENDING_REQS) 2.what's the meaning of "refcnt" defined in netif_t (netif->refcnt) 3.irq enable and disable such as disable_irq(netif->irq); why netback use such enable & disable operations while netfront dont use for its

hi. trying to understand the idea behind _notify in #define RING_PUSH_REQUESTS_AND_CHECK_NOTIFY(_r, _notify) do { \ RING_IDX __old = (_r)->sring->req_prod; \ RING_IDX __new = (_r)->req_prod_pvt; \ wmb(); /* back sees requests /before/ updated producer index */ \ (_r)->sring->req_prod = __new;

I was following an email chain in the xen mailing list on HVM hypercalls on grant tables and the email chain link is below http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-03/msg00688.html This link says that we need not required hypercalls to share memory b/w HVM''s. But as far as my understanding of sharing memory is concerned, I think the memory is shared using grant table

Hi I have a doubt regarding Mini-OS and Xen. If it is true that Xen reserves in the virtual address space the top 64MB on 32bit systems and 168MB in PAE systems, doesn''t it exist with a Mini-OS kernel which has only 32MB in size i.e. going by its default config file? Obviously I''m missing something. Regards, Bhaskar. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel

Hi, I''m trying to use the SYSCALL/SYSRET opcodes with a minios kernel without much success. Going by the manuals (and linux sources) I first have to setup the STAR and LSTAR registers to define the segment and instruction pointer to be used for SYSCALL: /* * LSTAR and STAR live in a bit strange symbiosis. * They both write to the same internal register. STAR allows

In blkback driver, after I/O requests are submitted to Dom-0 block I/O subsystem, blkback goes to ''sleep'' effectively without letting blkfront know about it (req_event isn''t set appropriately). Hence blkfront doesn''t notify blkback when it submits a new I/O thus delaying the ''dispatch'' of the new I/O to Dom-0 block I/O subsystem. The new I/O is

I am shame to say that I have never met a function whose return value is void*. This is the first time~~~ So, can anyone told me the meaning of the return value of this function -----xc_map_foreign_range? Is it a pointer pointed to a memory area corresponding the machine frame number(the last parameter passed to the function)? And the third parameter named size: the unit of size is in bytes or

Hi, I''d like to do some operation every time an hypercall is issued in a domU kernel. I started modifying include/asm-i386/mach-xen/asm/hypercall.h but I don''t think it''s such a great idea, so I think that, as a last chance, I''ll have to substitute all of the hypercall function call with some wrapper function of my own. Can anyone tell me if

Another checksum offload problem was reported on xen-users, when using a domU as a firewall: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-04/msg01150.html It also fails without VLANs. The path from dom0->domU with ip_summed==CHECKSUM_HW/proto_csum_blank==1 is broken. - skb_checksum_setup() assumes that a checksum will definitely be calculated in dev_queue_xmit(), but the

Good morning, I am new to Xen, and trying to understand how Xen works. I have some questions about virtualization of interrupts on Xen. Thanks in advance for all helps. 1) From papers about Xen architecture found at Xen homepage, Xen seemingly intercepts interrupts of Dom1 (paravirtualization). So interrupts occur in Dom1''s context are sent to Xen, and Xen handles them. Is that correct?

Hi, We are running into a situation where rsp_prod index in the shared ring is not getting updated for the netfront tx ring by the netback. We see that rsp_cons is the same value as rsp_prod, with req_prod 236 slots away(tx ring is full). From looking at the netfront driver code, it looks as if xennet_tx_buf_gc processing only happens if rsp_prod is more than rsp_cons. Our

Hi, We are running into a situation where rsp_prod index in the shared ring is not getting updated for the netfront tx ring by the netback. We see that rsp_cons is the same value as rsp_prod, with req_prod 236 slots away(tx ring is full). From looking at the netfront driver code, it looks as if xennet_tx_buf_gc processing only happens if rsp_prod is more than rsp_cons. Our

Hi , Are there any options with xenstored to access xenstore ? Can I look up contents of xenstore ? Thanks, Sanket _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Hi , Are there any options with xenstored to access xenstore ? Can I look up contents of xenstore ? Thanks, Sanket _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

This is netback multithread support patchset version 4. Main Changes from v3: 1. Patchset is against xen/next tree. 2. Merge group and idx into netif->mapping. 3. Use vmalloc to allocate netbk structures. Main Changes from v2: 1. Merge "group" and "idx" into "netif->mapping", therefore page_ext is not used now. 2. Put netbk_add_netif() and netbk_remove_netif()

Hi, I have a question about memory page tables in Xen. As far as I understood, every modification to page table will go through Xen(hypervisor). Is it so that all page tables are actually allocated in Xen(hypervisor) instead of guest OS(domain)? Also, is it the case that Xen(hypervisor) needs to maintain a page table for each process running in every domain? Thanks Haifeng

Patrick, there following patches fix xenpaging for me. Granttable handling is incomplete. If a page is gone, a GNTST_eagain should be returned to the caller to inidcate the hypercall has to be retried after a while, until the page is available again. Please review. Olaf _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

Not tested in any way. The original code for offload setting seems broken as it resets the features on every netback reconnect. This will set GSO_ROBUST at device creation time (earlier than connect time). RX checksum offload is forced on - so advertise as it is. Signed-off-by: Micha? Miros?aw <mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl> --- [I don't know Xen code enough to say this is correct. There