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_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_LIMIT
59 int "Hotplugged memory limit (in GiB) for a PV guest"
63 depends on XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
64 depends on XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
66 Maxmium amount of memory (in GiB) that a PV guest can be
67 expanded to when using memory hotplug.
69 A PV guest can have more memory than this limit if is
70 started with a larger maximum.
72 This value is used to allocate enough space in internal
73 tables needed for physical memory administration.
75 config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
76 bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system"
77 depends on XEN_BALLOON
80 Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by
81 other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data
82 is not accidentally visible to other domains. Is it more
83 secure, but slightly less efficient.
87 tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
90 The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
91 channels and to receive notification of an event channel
96 bool "Backend driver support"
100 Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
101 to other virtual machines.
104 tristate "Xen filesystem"
108 The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
109 information with each other and with the hypervisor.
110 For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
111 may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
112 If in doubt, say yes.
114 config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
115 bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
119 The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
120 under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
121 xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
122 the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
124 If in doubt, say yes.
126 config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
127 bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
129 select SYS_HYPERVISOR
132 Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
133 hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
134 virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
135 but will have no xen contents.
137 config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
141 tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
146 Allows userspace processes to use grants.
148 config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
149 tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
153 Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
154 to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
155 or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
163 depends on !ARM && !ARM64
164 default m if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP)
166 Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks
167 (e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls.
169 config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
170 tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
171 depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
172 depends on XEN_BACKEND
175 The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
176 PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
177 will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
178 you want to make visible to other guests.
180 The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
181 devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
182 PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
183 the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
185 The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
186 into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
187 from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
188 xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
192 config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
193 tristate "XEN SCSI backend driver"
194 depends on XEN && XEN_BACKEND && TARGET_CORE
196 The SCSI backend driver allows the kernel to export its SCSI Devices
197 to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface.
198 Only needed for systems running as XEN driver domains (e.g. Dom0) and
199 if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
207 bool "Xen stub drivers"
208 depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
211 Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
212 i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
213 so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
215 To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
217 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
218 tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
219 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
222 This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
224 Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
225 to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
226 removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
228 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
229 tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
230 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
231 select ACPI_CONTAINER
234 Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
236 For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
237 If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
238 be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
240 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
241 tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
242 depends on XEN && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
245 This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
248 To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
249 said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
250 select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
251 SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
254 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
255 called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
256 M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
259 bool "Xen platform mcelog"
260 depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
263 Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
264 converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
266 config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
271 depends on X86_64 && EFI
273 config XEN_AUTO_XLATE
275 depends on ARM || ARM64 || XEN_PVHVM
277 Support for auto-translated physmap guests.
281 depends on X86 && ACPI