1 menu "Xen driver support"
5 bool "Xen memory balloon driver"
8 The balloon driver allows the Xen domain to request more memory from
9 the system to expand the domain's memory allocation, or alternatively
10 return unneeded memory to the system.
12 config XEN_SELFBALLOONING
13 bool "Dynamically self-balloon kernel memory to target"
14 depends on XEN && XEN_BALLOON && CLEANCACHE && SWAP && XEN_TMEM
17 Self-ballooning dynamically balloons available kernel memory driven
18 by the current usage of anonymous memory ("committed AS") and
19 controlled by various sysfs-settable parameters. Configuring
20 FRONTSWAP is highly recommended; if it is not configured, self-
21 ballooning is disabled by default. If FRONTSWAP is configured,
22 frontswap-selfshrinking is enabled by default but can be disabled
23 with the 'tmem.selfshrink=0' kernel boot parameter; and self-ballooning
24 is enabled by default but can be disabled with the 'tmem.selfballooning=0'
25 kernel boot parameter. Note that systems without a sufficiently
26 large swap device should not enable self-ballooning.
28 config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
29 bool "Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver"
31 depends on XEN_BALLOON && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
33 Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver allows expanding memory
34 available for the system above limit declared at system startup.
35 It is very useful on critical systems which require long
36 run without rebooting.
38 Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
40 1) target domain: ensure that memory auto online policy is in
41 effect by checking /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
42 file (should be 'online').
44 2) control domain: xl mem-max <target-domain> <maxmem>
45 where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
47 3) control domain: xl mem-set <target-domain> <memory>
48 where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
49 could be added by writing proper value to
50 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
51 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on the
54 Alternatively, if memory auto onlining was not requested at step 1
55 the newly added memory can be manually onlined in the target domain
56 by doing the following:
58 for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
59 [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
61 or by adding the following line to udev rules:
63 SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'"
65 config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_LIMIT
66 int "Hotplugged memory limit (in GiB) for a PV guest"
70 depends on XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
71 depends on XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
73 Maxmium amount of memory (in GiB) that a PV guest can be
74 expanded to when using memory hotplug.
76 A PV guest can have more memory than this limit if is
77 started with a larger maximum.
79 This value is used to allocate enough space in internal
80 tables needed for physical memory administration.
82 config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
83 bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system"
84 depends on XEN_BALLOON
87 Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by
88 other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data
89 is not accidentally visible to other domains. Is it more
90 secure, but slightly less efficient.
94 tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
97 The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
98 channels and to receive notification of an event channel
100 If in doubt, say yes.
103 bool "Backend driver support"
107 Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
108 to other virtual machines.
111 tristate "Xen filesystem"
115 The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
116 information with each other and with the hypervisor.
117 For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
118 may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
119 If in doubt, say yes.
121 config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
122 bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
126 The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
127 under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
128 xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
129 the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
131 If in doubt, say yes.
133 config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
134 bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
136 select SYS_HYPERVISOR
139 Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
140 hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
141 virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
142 but will have no xen contents.
144 config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
148 tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
153 Allows userspace processes to use grants.
155 config XEN_GNTDEV_DMABUF
156 bool "Add support for dma-buf grant access device driver extension"
157 depends on XEN_GNTDEV && XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC && DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
159 Allows userspace processes and kernel modules to use Xen backed
160 dma-buf implementation. With this extension grant references to
161 the pages of an imported dma-buf can be exported for other domain
162 use and grant references coming from a foreign domain can be
163 converted into a local dma-buf for local export.
165 config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
166 tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
170 Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
171 to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
172 or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
174 config XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
175 bool "Allow allocating DMA capable buffers with grant reference module"
176 depends on XEN && HAS_DMA
178 Extends grant table module API to allow allocating DMA capable
179 buffers and mapping foreign grant references on top of it.
180 The resulting buffer is similar to one allocated by the balloon
181 driver in that proper memory reservation is made by
182 ({increase|decrease}_reservation and VA mappings are updated if
184 This is useful for sharing foreign buffers with HW drivers which
185 cannot work with scattered buffers provided by the balloon driver,
186 but require DMAable memory instead.
194 depends on !ARM && !ARM64
195 default m if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP)
197 Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks
198 (e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls.
200 config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
201 tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
202 depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
203 depends on XEN_BACKEND
206 The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
207 PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
208 will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
209 you want to make visible to other guests.
211 The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
212 devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
213 PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
214 the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
216 The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
217 into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
218 from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
219 xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
223 config XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND
224 tristate "XEN PV Calls frontend driver"
225 depends on INET && XEN
227 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
229 Experimental frontend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
230 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
231 sends a small set of POSIX calls to the backend, which
234 config XEN_PVCALLS_BACKEND
235 bool "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
236 depends on INET && XEN && XEN_BACKEND
239 Experimental backend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
240 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
241 allows PV Calls frontends to send POSIX calls to the backend,
242 which implements them.
246 config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
247 tristate "XEN SCSI backend driver"
248 depends on XEN && XEN_BACKEND && TARGET_CORE
250 The SCSI backend driver allows the kernel to export its SCSI Devices
251 to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface.
252 Only needed for systems running as XEN driver domains (e.g. Dom0) and
253 if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
261 bool "Xen stub drivers"
262 depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
265 Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
266 i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
267 so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
269 To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
271 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
272 tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
273 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
276 This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
278 Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
279 to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
280 removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
282 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
283 tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
284 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
285 select ACPI_CONTAINER
288 Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
290 For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
291 If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
292 be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
294 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
295 tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
296 depends on XEN && XEN_DOM0 && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
299 This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
302 To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
303 said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
304 select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
305 SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
308 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
309 called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
310 M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
313 bool "Xen platform mcelog"
314 depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
317 Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
318 converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
320 config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
325 depends on (ARM || ARM64 || X86_64) && EFI
327 config XEN_AUTO_XLATE
329 depends on ARM || ARM64 || XEN_PVHVM
331 Support for auto-translated physmap guests.
335 depends on X86 && ACPI
339 depends on X86 && XEN_DOM0 && XENFS
340 default y if KALLSYMS
342 Exports hypervisor symbols (along with their types and addresses) via
343 /proc/xen/xensyms file, similar to /proc/kallsyms