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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 16/18] arm/altp2m: Extended libxl to activate altp2m on ARM.



Hello,

On 25/07/16 10:04, Sergej Proskurin wrote:
On 07/25/2016 10:32 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Sergej Proskurin wrote:
+        xc_hvm_param_set(handle, domid, HVM_PARAM_ALTP2M,
+                         libxl_defbool_val(info->u.pv.altp2m));
+}
+#endif
+
 static void hvm_set_conf_params(xc_interface *handle, uint32_t domid,
                                 libxl_domain_build_info *const info)
 {
@@ -433,6 +443,10 @@ int libxl__build_pre(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t domid,
             return rc;
 #endif
     }
+#if defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__)
+    else /* info->type == LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_PV */
+        pv_set_conf_params(ctx->xch, domid, info);
+#endif

     rc = libxl__arch_domain_create(gc, d_config, domid);

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl b/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
index ef614be..0a164f9 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
@@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ libxl_domain_build_info = Struct("domain_build_info",[
                                       ("features", string, {'const': True}),
                                       # Use host's E820 for PCI passthrough.
                                       ("e820_host", libxl_defbool),
+                                      ("altp2m", libxl_defbool),
Why is this placed in PV instead of arch_arm?

The current implementation mirrors the x86's altp2m, where the altp2m
field represents a property of HVM guests in b_info->u.hvm.altp2m. Since
guests on ARM are marked as PV, I have placed the field altp2m into
b_info->u.pv.altp2m.

However, if you believe that it would make more sense to place altp2m
into b_info->arch_arm.altp2m, I will try to adapt the affected fields.

OK. I don't think that one should be placed in u.pv because that union
is for x86. However it is also not suitable to just promote that to
a common field because x86 pv doesn't have altp2m support.

I think arch_arm would be a better location.


Alright, I will move the field altp2m to arch_arm and adopt the
initialization routines.

Would not it make more sense to introduce a generic field 'altp2m' (i.e outside of hvm and arch_arm)?

Otherwise, toolstack such as libvirt will need to have specific code to handle ARM and x86.

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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