linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/8] xen/pvh: Prevent PVH guests from using PIC, RTC and IOAPIC

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Message-Id: <1476468318-24422-6-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:05:15 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     david.vrabel@...rix.com, JGross@...e.com
Cc:     roger.pau@...rix.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] xen/pvh: Prevent PVH guests from using PIC, RTC and IOAPIC

Make sure they don't use these devices since they are not emulated
for unprivileged PVH guest.

Also don't initialize hypercall page for them in init_hvm_pv_info()
since this has already been done.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index d38d568..6c1a330 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1803,10 +1803,21 @@ static void __init init_hvm_pv_info(void)
 	minor = eax & 0xffff;
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Xen version %d.%d.\n", major, minor);
 
-	cpuid(base + 2, &pages, &msr, &ecx, &edx);
+	xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
 
-	pfn = __pa(hypercall_page);
-	wrmsr_safe(msr, (u32)pfn, (u32)(pfn >> 32));
+	/* PVH set up hypercall page earlier in xen_prepare_pvh() */
+	if (xen_pvh_domain()) {
+		pv_info.name = "Xen PVH";
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+		/* No PIC or IOAPIC */
+		acpi_irq_model = ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM;
+#endif
+	} else {
+		pv_info.name = "Xen HVM";
+		cpuid(base + 2, &pages, &msr, &ecx, &edx);
+		pfn = __pa(hypercall_page);
+		wrmsr_safe(msr, (u32)pfn, (u32)(pfn >> 32));
+	}
 
 	xen_setup_features();
 
@@ -1815,10 +1826,6 @@ static void __init init_hvm_pv_info(void)
 		this_cpu_write(xen_vcpu_id, ebx);
 	else
 		this_cpu_write(xen_vcpu_id, smp_processor_id());
-
-	pv_info.name = "Xen HVM";
-
-	xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
 }
 
 static int xen_cpu_up_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
@@ -1892,6 +1899,9 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(void)
 
 	init_hvm_pv_info();
 
+	if (xen_pvh_domain())
+		x86_platform.legacy.rtc = 0;
+
 	xen_hvm_init_shared_info();
 
 	xen_panic_handler_init();
-- 
1.8.3.1