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) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
41 where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
43 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory>
44 where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
45 could be added by writing proper value to
46 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
47 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU,
49 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
50 [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
52 Memory could be onlined automatically on domU by adding following line to udev rules:
54 SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'"
56 In that case step 3 should be omitted.
58 config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
59 bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system"
60 depends on XEN_BALLOON
63 Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by
64 other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data
65 is not accidentally visible to other domains. Is it more
66 secure, but slightly less efficient.
70 tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
73 The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
74 channels and to receive notification of an event channel
79 bool "Backend driver support"
83 Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
84 to other virtual machines.
87 tristate "Xen filesystem"
91 The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
92 information with each other and with the hypervisor.
93 For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
94 may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
97 config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
98 bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
102 The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
103 under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
104 xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
105 the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
107 If in doubt, say yes.
109 config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
110 bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
112 select SYS_HYPERVISOR
115 Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
116 hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
117 virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
118 but will have no xen contents.
120 config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
124 tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
129 Allows userspace processes to use grants.
131 config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
132 tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
136 Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
137 to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
138 or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
146 depends on !ARM && !ARM64
147 default m if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP)
149 Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks
150 (e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls.
152 config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
153 tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
154 depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
155 depends on XEN_BACKEND
158 The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
159 PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
160 will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
161 you want to make visible to other guests.
163 The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
164 devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
165 PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
166 the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
168 The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
169 into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
170 from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
171 xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
175 config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
176 tristate "XEN SCSI backend driver"
177 depends on XEN && XEN_BACKEND && TARGET_CORE
179 The SCSI backend driver allows the kernel to export its SCSI Devices
180 to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface.
181 Only needed for systems running as XEN driver domains (e.g. Dom0) and
182 if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
190 bool "Xen stub drivers"
191 depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
194 Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
195 i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
196 so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
198 To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
200 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
201 tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
202 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
205 This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
207 Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
208 to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
209 removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
211 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
212 tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
213 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
214 select ACPI_CONTAINER
217 Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
219 For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
220 If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
221 be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
223 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
224 tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
225 depends on XEN && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
228 This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
231 To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
232 said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
233 select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
234 SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
237 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
238 called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
239 M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
242 bool "Xen platform mcelog"
243 depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
246 Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
247 converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
249 config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
254 depends on X86_64 && EFI