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xen: add sysfs node for guest type Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in behavior of some instructions), add a sysfs node /sys/hypervisor/guest_type to explicitly deliver this information as it is known to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 17:12:45 +02:00
What: /sys/hypervisor/guest_type
xen: add sysfs node for hypervisor build id For support of Xen hypervisor live patching the hypervisor build id is needed. Add a node /sys/hypervisor/properties/buildid containing the information. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 19:23:52 +02:00
Date: June 2017
xen: add sysfs node for guest type Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in behavior of some instructions), add a sysfs node /sys/hypervisor/guest_type to explicitly deliver this information as it is known to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 17:12:45 +02:00
KernelVersion: 4.13
Contact: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Description: If running under Xen:
Type of guest:
"Xen": standard guest type on arm
"HVM": fully virtualized guest (x86)
"PV": paravirtualized guest (x86)
"PVH": fully virtualized guest without legacy emulation (x86)
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-08-10 16:34:33 -04:00
What: /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode
Date: August 2015
KernelVersion: 4.3
Contact: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
xen: add sysfs node for guest type Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in behavior of some instructions), add a sysfs node /sys/hypervisor/guest_type to explicitly deliver this information as it is known to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 17:12:45 +02:00
Description: If running under Xen:
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-08-10 16:34:33 -04:00
Describes mode that Xen's performance-monitoring unit (PMU)
docs: ABI: testing: make the files compatible with ReST output Some files over there won't parse well by Sphinx. Fix them. Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> # for IIO Acked-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/58cf3c2d611e0197fb215652719ebd82ca2658db.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 08:40:39 +01:00
uses. Accepted values are:
====== ============================================
"off" PMU is disabled
"self" The guest can profile itself
"hv" The guest can profile itself and, if it is
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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privileged (e.g. dom0), the hypervisor
docs: ABI: testing: make the files compatible with ReST output Some files over there won't parse well by Sphinx. Fix them. Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> # for IIO Acked-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/58cf3c2d611e0197fb215652719ebd82ca2658db.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 08:40:39 +01:00
"all" The guest can profile itself, the hypervisor
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-08-10 16:34:33 -04:00
and all other guests. Only available to
privileged guests.
docs: ABI: testing: make the files compatible with ReST output Some files over there won't parse well by Sphinx. Fix them. Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> # for IIO Acked-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/58cf3c2d611e0197fb215652719ebd82ca2658db.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 08:40:39 +01:00
====== ============================================
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-08-10 16:34:33 -04:00
What: /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_features
Date: August 2015
KernelVersion: 4.3
Contact: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
xen: add sysfs node for guest type Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in behavior of some instructions), add a sysfs node /sys/hypervisor/guest_type to explicitly deliver this information as it is known to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 17:12:45 +02:00
Description: If running under Xen:
xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode Set Xen's PMU mode via /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode. Add XENPMU hypercall. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-08-10 16:34:33 -04:00
Describes Xen PMU features (as an integer). A set bit indicates
that the corresponding feature is enabled. See
include/xen/interface/xenpmu.h for available features
xen: add sysfs node for hypervisor build id For support of Xen hypervisor live patching the hypervisor build id is needed. Add a node /sys/hypervisor/properties/buildid containing the information. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-06-14 19:23:52 +02:00
What: /sys/hypervisor/properties/buildid
Date: June 2017
KernelVersion: 4.13
Contact: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Description: If running under Xen:
Build id of the hypervisor, needed for hypervisor live patching.
Might return "<denied>" in case of special security settings
in the hypervisor.
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