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_DEFAULT
83 bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system by default"
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. This can be controlled with
91 xen_scrub_pages=0 parameter and
92 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
93 This option only sets the default value.
98 tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
101 The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
102 channels and to receive notification of an event channel
104 If in doubt, say yes.
107 bool "Backend driver support"
111 Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
112 to other virtual machines.
115 tristate "Xen filesystem"
119 The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
120 information with each other and with the hypervisor.
121 For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
122 may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
123 If in doubt, say yes.
125 config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
126 bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
130 The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
131 under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
132 xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
133 the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
135 If in doubt, say yes.
137 config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
138 bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
140 select SYS_HYPERVISOR
143 Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
144 hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
145 virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
146 but will have no xen contents.
148 config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
152 tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
157 Allows userspace processes to use grants.
159 config XEN_GNTDEV_DMABUF
160 bool "Add support for dma-buf grant access device driver extension"
161 depends on XEN_GNTDEV && XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
162 select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
164 Allows userspace processes and kernel modules to use Xen backed
165 dma-buf implementation. With this extension grant references to
166 the pages of an imported dma-buf can be exported for other domain
167 use and grant references coming from a foreign domain can be
168 converted into a local dma-buf for local export.
170 config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
171 tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
175 Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
176 to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
177 or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
179 config XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
180 bool "Allow allocating DMA capable buffers with grant reference module"
181 depends on XEN && HAS_DMA
183 Extends grant table module API to allow allocating DMA capable
184 buffers and mapping foreign grant references on top of it.
185 The resulting buffer is similar to one allocated by the balloon
186 driver in that proper memory reservation is made by
187 ({increase|decrease}_reservation and VA mappings are updated if
189 This is useful for sharing foreign buffers with HW drivers which
190 cannot work with scattered buffers provided by the balloon driver,
191 but require DMAable memory instead.
199 depends on !ARM && !ARM64
200 default m if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP)
202 Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks
203 (e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls.
205 config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
206 tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
207 depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
208 depends on XEN_BACKEND
211 The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
212 PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
213 will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
214 you want to make visible to other guests.
216 The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
217 devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
218 PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
219 the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
221 The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
222 into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
223 from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
224 xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
228 config XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND
229 tristate "XEN PV Calls frontend driver"
230 depends on INET && XEN
232 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
234 Experimental frontend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
235 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
236 sends a small set of POSIX calls to the backend, which
239 config XEN_PVCALLS_BACKEND
240 bool "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
241 depends on INET && XEN && XEN_BACKEND
244 Experimental backend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
245 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
246 allows PV Calls frontends to send POSIX calls to the backend,
247 which implements them.
251 config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
252 tristate "XEN SCSI backend driver"
253 depends on XEN && XEN_BACKEND && TARGET_CORE
255 The SCSI backend driver allows the kernel to export its SCSI Devices
256 to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface.
257 Only needed for systems running as XEN driver domains (e.g. Dom0) and
258 if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
266 bool "Xen stub drivers"
267 depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
270 Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
271 i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
272 so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
274 To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
276 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
277 tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
278 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
281 This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
283 Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
284 to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
285 removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
287 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
288 tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
289 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
290 select ACPI_CONTAINER
293 Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
295 For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
296 If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
297 be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
299 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
300 tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
301 depends on XEN && XEN_DOM0 && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
304 This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
307 To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
308 said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
309 select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
310 SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
313 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
314 called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
315 M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
318 bool "Xen platform mcelog"
319 depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
322 Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
323 converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
325 config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
330 depends on (ARM || ARM64 || X86_64) && EFI
332 config XEN_AUTO_XLATE
334 depends on ARM || ARM64 || XEN_PVHVM
336 Support for auto-translated physmap guests.
340 depends on X86 && ACPI
344 depends on X86 && XEN_DOM0 && XENFS
345 default y if KALLSYMS
347 Exports hypervisor symbols (along with their types and addresses) via
348 /proc/xen/xensyms file, similar to /proc/kallsyms