[RESEND PATCH v2 00/18] Add new board: Xen guest for ARM64
Oleksandr Andrushchenko
Oleksandr_Andrushchenko at epam.com
Thu Aug 13 09:57:57 CEST 2020
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On 8/6/20 12:42 PM, Anastasiia Lukianenko wrote:
> From: Anastasiia Lukianenko <anastasiia_lukianenko at epam.com>
>
> This work introduces Xen [1] guest ARM64 board support in U-Boot with
> para-virtualized (PV) [2] block and serial drivers: xenguest_arm64.
>
> This board is to be run as a virtual Xen guest with U-boot as its
> primary bootloader. The rationale behind introducing this board is a
> better and simpler decoupling of the guest from the initial
> privileged domain which starts a guest’s virtual machine: there are
> cross dependencies between the guest OS and initial privileged domain
> (Domain-0) such as Domain-0 needs guest's kernel and may need its
> device tree to boot it. These dependencies interfere if the kernel or
> guest OS needs to be updated, thus having a unified bootloader in
> Domain-0 allows resolving this:
> 1. U-boot boot scripts, which are stored on the guest’s virtual disk,
> are guest specific, so any change in the guest’s configuration can be
> handled by the guest itself.
> 2. Guest OS’ kernel can be updated if OS’ needs that without any help
> from Domain-0.
> 3. Using the Device Tree Overlay mechanism it is possible to customize
> the device tree entries yet at bootloader stage inside the guest
> itself, so the base device tree provided by Xen can be customized.
>
> Xen support for U-boot was implemented by introducing a new Xen guest
> ARM64 board and porting essential drivers from MiniOS [3] as well as
> some of the work previously done by NXP [4]:
> 1. PV block device front driver with XenStore based device
> enumeration, new UCLASS_PVBLOCK;
> 2. PV serial console device front driver;
> 3. Xen hypervisor support with minimal set of the essential headers
> adapted from Linux kernel;
> 4. grant table support;
> 5. event channel support, without IRQ support, but polling;
> 6. xenbus support;
> 7. dynamic RAM size as defined in the device tree instead of
> statically defined values;
> 8. position-independent pre-relocation code is used as we cannot
> statically define any start addresses at compile time which is up to
> Xen to choose at run-time;
> 9. new defconfig introduced: xenguest_arm64_defconfig.
>
> Please note, that due to the fact that para-virtualized serial driver
> requires some of the Xen functionality available late not all the
> printouts are available at the very start including U-Boot banner,
> memory size etc.
>
> All the above was tested with block driver related commands
> (info/part/read/write), FAT and ext4 operations work properly, the
> Linux kernel can start.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Anastasiia Lukianenko,
> Oleksandr Andrushchenko
>
> Changes since v1:
> =================
>
> 1. Added test for new lib sscanf function
> 2. Fixed data cache maintenance process
> 3. Added more comments and explanations
> 4. Removed unnecessary code, which is not related to ARM64 architecture
> 5. Added board documentation
> 6. Coding style cleanup
> 7. Added MIT License
>
> Anastasiia Lukianenko (7):
> Add MIT License
> xen: pvblock: Add initial support for para-virtualized block driver
> xen: pvblock: Enumerate virtual block devices
> xen: pvblock: Read XenStore configuration and initialize
> xen: pvblock: Implement front-back protocol and do IO
> xen: pvblock: Print found devices indices
> doc: xen: Add Xen guest ARM64 board documentation
>
> Andrii Anisov (2):
> board: Introduce xenguest_arm64 board
> lib: sscanf: add sscanf implementation
>
> Oleksandr Andrushchenko (7):
> xen: Add essential and required interface headers
> xen: Port Xen hypervizor related code from mini-os
> xen: Port Xen event channel driver from mini-os
> linux/compat.h: Add wait_event_timeout macro
> xen: Port Xen bus driver from mini-os
> xen: Port Xen grant table driver from mini-os
> board: xen: De-initialize before jumping to Linux
>
> Peng Fan (2):
> Kconfig: Introduce CONFIG_XEN
> serial: serial_xen: Add Xen PV serial driver
>
> Kconfig | 18 +
> Licenses/README | 1 +
> Licenses/mit.txt | 20 +
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 9 +
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/Makefile | 6 +
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/hypercall.S | 79 ++
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/lowlevel_init.S | 33 +
> arch/arm/include/asm/io.h | 4 +
> arch/arm/include/asm/xen.h | 7 +
> arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 22 +
> arch/arm/include/asm/xen/system.h | 88 +++
> board/xen/xenguest_arm64/Kconfig | 12 +
> board/xen/xenguest_arm64/Makefile | 5 +
> board/xen/xenguest_arm64/xenguest_arm64.c | 202 +++++
> cmd/Kconfig | 7 +
> cmd/Makefile | 1 +
> cmd/pvblock.c | 30 +
> common/board_r.c | 27 +
> configs/xenguest_arm64_defconfig | 60 ++
> disk/part.c | 4 +
> doc/board/index.rst | 1 +
> doc/board/xen/index.rst | 9 +
> doc/board/xen/xenguest_arm64.rst | 81 ++
> drivers/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/block/blk-uclass.c | 2 +
> drivers/serial/Kconfig | 7 +
> drivers/serial/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/serial/serial_xen.c | 182 +++++
> drivers/xen/Kconfig | 10 +
> drivers/xen/Makefile | 10 +
> drivers/xen/events.c | 199 +++++
> drivers/xen/gnttab.c | 216 ++++++
> drivers/xen/hypervisor.c | 252 +++++++
> drivers/xen/pvblock.c | 867 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/xen/xenbus.c | 557 ++++++++++++++
> include/blk.h | 1 +
> include/configs/xenguest_arm64.h | 52 ++
> include/dm/uclass-id.h | 1 +
> include/linux/compat.h | 54 ++
> include/pvblock.h | 17 +
> include/vsprintf.h | 8 +
> include/xen.h | 24 +
> include/xen/arm/interface.h | 88 +++
> include/xen/events.h | 42 ++
> include/xen/gnttab.h | 24 +
> include/xen/hvm.h | 27 +
> include/xen/interface/event_channel.h | 279 +++++++
> include/xen/interface/grant_table.h | 565 ++++++++++++++
> include/xen/interface/hvm/hvm_op.h | 55 ++
> include/xen/interface/hvm/params.h | 116 +++
> include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h | 701 +++++++++++++++++
> include/xen/interface/io/console.h | 39 +
> include/xen/interface/io/protocols.h | 28 +
> include/xen/interface/io/ring.h | 462 ++++++++++++
> include/xen/interface/io/xenbus.h | 64 ++
> include/xen/interface/io/xs_wire.h | 134 ++++
> include/xen/interface/memory.h | 332 +++++++++
> include/xen/interface/sched.h | 171 +++++
> include/xen/interface/xen.h | 208 ++++++
> include/xen/xenbus.h | 116 +++
> lib/Kconfig | 4 +
> lib/Makefile | 1 +
> lib/sscanf.c | 823 ++++++++++++++++++++
> test/lib/Makefile | 1 +
> test/lib/sscanf.c | 174 +++++
> 67 files changed, 7644 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Licenses/mit.txt
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/Makefile
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/hypercall.S
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/xen/lowlevel_init.S
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/xen.h
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/xen/system.h
> create mode 100644 board/xen/xenguest_arm64/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 board/xen/xenguest_arm64/Makefile
> create mode 100644 board/xen/xenguest_arm64/xenguest_arm64.c
> create mode 100644 cmd/pvblock.c
> create mode 100644 configs/xenguest_arm64_defconfig
> create mode 100644 doc/board/xen/index.rst
> create mode 100644 doc/board/xen/xenguest_arm64.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/serial/serial_xen.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/events.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/gnttab.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/hypervisor.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/pvblock.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenbus.c
> create mode 100644 include/configs/xenguest_arm64.h
> create mode 100644 include/pvblock.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/arm/interface.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/events.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/gnttab.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/hvm.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/event_channel.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/grant_table.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/hvm/hvm_op.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/hvm/params.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/console.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/protocols.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/ring.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/xenbus.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/xs_wire.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/memory.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/sched.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/xen.h
> create mode 100644 include/xen/xenbus.h
> create mode 100644 lib/sscanf.c
> create mode 100644 test/lib/sscanf.c
>
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