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Message-ID: <20131024144921.GB29944@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:49:21 -0400
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@...aro.org>
Cc: ian.campbell@...rix.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/hvc-console: Make it work with HVM
guests.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:08:01PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>
>
> On 10/23/2013 05:15 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:52:40PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> >>On 09/30/2013 03:45 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:49:37PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> >>>>On 09/27/2013 10:25 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>@@ -641,7 +641,20 @@ struct console xenboot_console = {
> >>>>>
> >>>>> void xen_raw_console_write(const char *str)
> >>>>> {
> >>>>>- dom0_write_console(0, str, strlen(str));
> >>>>>+ ssize_t len = strlen(str);
> >>>>>+ int rc = 0;
> >>>>>+
> >>>>>+ if (xen_domain()) {
> >>>>>+ dom0_write_console(0, str, len);
> >>>>>+ if (rc == -ENOSYS && xen_hvm_domain())
> >>>>>+ goto outb_print;
> >>>>>+
> >>>>>+ } else if (xen_cpuid_base()) {
> >>>>>+ int i;
> >>>>>+outb_print:
> >>>>>+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> >>>>>+ outb(str[i], 0xe9);
> >>>>>+ }
> >>>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>>xen_cpuid_base and outb(0xe9) is x86 specific and won't compile on ARM.
> >>>
> >>>Odd, I see outb defined in arch/arm and arch/arm64 ?(arch/arm[|64]/include/asm.io.h)
> >>
> >>On ARM32 the IO access is memory mapped (the exact address depends
> >>on Linux configuration).
> >>The main problem is not the outb macro but the ioport 0xe9.On ARM,
> >>this ioport is not trapped by Xen.
> >>
> >>>You are of course right about xen_cpuid_base.
> >>>
> >>>How about this:
> >>
> >>For the ARM side, the code looks good.
> >
> >Can I that as 'Acked-by' ? thanks
>
> Actually, I looked closer the code, with the new solution
> xen_raw_printk/xen_raw_console_write can't be call on ARM during
> early init.
>
> On ARM, xen_domain_type is initialized during a core initcall. So
> it's not possible to call the function before.
OK, so won't work and won't harm. That is OK I think.
>
> >>> From 04b772d2b819f0dda2163e3193fa7cd447a6245c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>>From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> >>>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:18:13 -0400
> >>>Subject: [PATCH] xen/hvc: If we use xen_raw_printk let it also work on HVM
> >>> guests.
> >>>
> >>>The xen_raw_printk works great for debugging purposes. We use
> >>>for PV guests and we can also use it for HVM guests.
> >>>
> >>>However, for HVM guests we have a fallback of using the 0xe9
> >>>port in case the hypervisor does not support an HVM guest of
> >>>using the console_io hypercall. As such lets use 0xe9 during
> >>>early bootup, and once the hyper-page is setup and if the
> >>>console_io hypercall is supported - use that. Otherwise we
> >>>will fallback to using the 0xe9 after early bootup.
> >>>
> >>>We also alter the return value for dom0_write_console to return
> >>>an error value instead of zero. The HVC API has been supporting
> >>>returning error values for quite some time.
> >>>
> >>>P.S.
> >>>To use (and to see the output in the Xen ring buffer) one has to build
> >>>the hypervisor with 'debug=y'.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> >>>[v1: ifdef xen_cpuid_base as it is X86 specific]
> >>>---
> >>> drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> >>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> >>>index e61c36c..6458c9f 100644
> >>>--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> >>>+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
> >>>@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int dom0_write_console(uint32_t vtermno, const char *str, int len)
> >>> {
> >>> int rc = HYPERVISOR_console_io(CONSOLEIO_write, len, (char *)str);
> >>> if (rc < 0)
> >>>- return 0;
> >>>+ return rc;
> >>>
> >>> return len;
> >>> }
> >>>@@ -641,7 +641,22 @@ struct console xenboot_console = {
> >>>
> >>> void xen_raw_console_write(const char *str)
> >>> {
> >>>- dom0_write_console(0, str, strlen(str));
> >>>+ ssize_t len = strlen(str);
> >>>+ int rc = 0;
> >>>+
> >>>+ if (xen_domain()) {
> >>>+ rc = dom0_write_console(0, str, len);
> >>>+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> >>>+ if (rc == -ENOSYS && xen_hvm_domain())
> >>>+ goto outb_print;
> >>>+
> >>>+ } else if (xen_cpuid_base()) {
> >>>+ int i;
> >>>+outb_print:
> >>>+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> >>>+ outb(str[i], 0xe9);
> >>>+#endif
> >>>+ }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> void xen_raw_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
>
> --
> Julien Grall
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