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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 12/20] xen/domctl: Merge max_vcpus into createdomain


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:27:40 -0400
  • Cc: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Hoes <Rob.Hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, David Scott <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On 03/19/2018 03:13 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus is a mandatory hypercall, but nothing actually prevents a
toolstack from unpausing a domain with no vcpus.

Originally, d->vcpus[] was an embedded array in struct domain, but c/s
fb442e217 "x86_64: allow more vCPU-s per guest" in Xen 4.0 altered it to being
dynamically allocated.  A side effect of this is that d->vcpu[] is NULL until
XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus has completed, but a lot of hypercalls blindly
dereference it.

Even today, the behaviour of XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus is a mandatory singleton
call which can't change the number of vcpus once a value has been chosen.
Therefore, delete XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus (including XSM hooks and toolstack
wrappers) and retain the functionality in XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain.

This will allow future cleanup to ensure that d->vcpus[] is always valid for a
locatable domain, and allow simplification of some creation logic which needs
to size domain-wide objects based on max_cpus, which currently have to be
deferred until vcpu construction.

For the python stubs, extend the domain_create keyword list to take a
max_vcpus parameter, in lieu of deleting the pyxc_domain_max_vcpus function.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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