1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2 menu "Xen driver support"
6 bool "Xen memory balloon driver"
9 The balloon driver allows the Xen domain to request more memory from
10 the system to expand the domain's memory allocation, or alternatively
11 return unneeded memory to the system.
13 config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
14 bool "Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver"
15 depends on XEN_BALLOON && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
18 Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver allows expanding memory
19 available for the system above limit declared at system startup.
20 It is very useful on critical systems which require long
21 run without rebooting.
23 It's also very useful for non PV domains to obtain unpopulated physical
24 memory ranges to use in order to map foreign memory or grants.
26 Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
28 1) target domain: ensure that memory auto online policy is in
29 effect by checking /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
30 file (should be 'online').
32 2) control domain: xl mem-max <target-domain> <maxmem>
33 where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
35 3) control domain: xl mem-set <target-domain> <memory>
36 where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
37 could be added by writing proper value to
38 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
39 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on the
42 Alternatively, if memory auto onlining was not requested at step 1
43 the newly added memory can be manually onlined in the target domain
44 by doing the following:
46 for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
47 [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
49 or by adding the following line to udev rules:
51 SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'"
53 config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_LIMIT
54 int "Hotplugged memory limit (in GiB) for a PV guest"
56 depends on XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
57 depends on XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
59 Maxmium amount of memory (in GiB) that a PV guest can be
60 expanded to when using memory hotplug.
62 A PV guest can have more memory than this limit if is
63 started with a larger maximum.
65 This value is used to allocate enough space in internal
66 tables needed for physical memory administration.
68 config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT
69 bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system by default"
70 depends on XEN_BALLOON
73 Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by
74 other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data
75 is not accidentally visible to other domains. It is more
76 secure, but slightly less efficient. This can be controlled with
77 xen_scrub_pages=0 parameter and
78 /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
79 This option only sets the default value.
84 tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
87 The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to trigger event
88 channels and to receive notification of an event channel
93 bool "Backend driver support"
96 Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services
97 to other virtual machines.
100 tristate "Xen filesystem"
104 The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share
105 information with each other and with the hypervisor.
106 For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests
107 may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain.
108 If in doubt, say yes.
110 config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS
111 bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen"
115 The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus"
116 under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the
117 xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create
118 the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on
120 If in doubt, say yes.
122 config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
123 bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
125 select SYS_HYPERVISOR
128 Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen
129 hypervisor environment. When running native or in another
130 virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present,
131 but will have no xen contents.
133 config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
137 tristate "userspace grant access device driver"
142 Allows userspace processes to use grants.
144 config XEN_GNTDEV_DMABUF
145 bool "Add support for dma-buf grant access device driver extension"
146 depends on XEN_GNTDEV && XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
147 select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
149 Allows userspace processes and kernel modules to use Xen backed
150 dma-buf implementation. With this extension grant references to
151 the pages of an imported dma-buf can be exported for other domain
152 use and grant references coming from a foreign domain can be
153 converted into a local dma-buf for local export.
155 config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC
156 tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver"
160 Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted
161 to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers
162 or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel.
164 config XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
165 bool "Allow allocating DMA capable buffers with grant reference module"
166 depends on XEN && HAS_DMA
168 Extends grant table module API to allow allocating DMA capable
169 buffers and mapping foreign grant references on top of it.
170 The resulting buffer is similar to one allocated by the balloon
171 driver in that proper memory reservation is made by
172 ({increase|decrease}_reservation and VA mappings are updated if
174 This is useful for sharing foreign buffers with HW drivers which
175 cannot work with scattered buffers provided by the balloon driver,
176 but require DMAable memory instead.
183 config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
184 tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver"
185 depends on PCI && X86 && XEN
186 depends on XEN_BACKEND
189 The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary
190 PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you
191 will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s)
192 you want to make visible to other guests.
194 The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI
195 devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where
196 PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want
197 the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host.
199 The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled
200 into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module
201 from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs:
202 xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0)
206 config XEN_PVCALLS_FRONTEND
207 tristate "XEN PV Calls frontend driver"
208 depends on INET && XEN
209 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
211 Experimental frontend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
212 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
213 sends a small set of POSIX calls to the backend, which
216 config XEN_PVCALLS_BACKEND
217 bool "XEN PV Calls backend driver"
218 depends on INET && XEN && XEN_BACKEND
220 Experimental backend for the Xen PV Calls protocol
221 (https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvcalls.html). It
222 allows PV Calls frontends to send POSIX calls to the backend,
223 which implements them.
227 config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
228 tristate "XEN SCSI backend driver"
229 depends on XEN && XEN_BACKEND && TARGET_CORE
231 The SCSI backend driver allows the kernel to export its SCSI Devices
232 to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface.
233 Only needed for systems running as XEN driver domains (e.g. Dom0) and
234 if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
242 bool "Xen stub drivers"
243 depends on XEN && X86_64 && BROKEN
245 Allow kernel to install stub drivers, to reserve space for Xen drivers,
246 i.e. memory hotplug and cpu hotplug, and to block native drivers loaded,
247 so that real Xen drivers can be modular.
249 To enable Xen features like cpu and memory hotplug, select Y here.
251 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
252 tristate "Xen ACPI memory hotplug"
253 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
255 This is Xen ACPI memory hotplug.
257 Currently Xen only support ACPI memory hot-add. If you want
258 to hot-add memory at runtime (the hot-added memory cannot be
259 removed until machine stop), select Y/M here, otherwise select N.
261 config XEN_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
262 tristate "Xen ACPI cpu hotplug"
263 depends on XEN_DOM0 && XEN_STUB && ACPI
264 select ACPI_CONTAINER
266 Xen ACPI cpu enumerating and hotplugging
268 For hotplugging, currently Xen only support ACPI cpu hotadd.
269 If you want to hotadd cpu at runtime (the hotadded cpu cannot
270 be removed until machine stop), select Y/M here.
272 config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR
273 tristate "Xen ACPI processor"
274 depends on XEN && XEN_DOM0 && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ
277 This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen
280 To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads
281 said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can
282 select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itself as the
283 SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will
286 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
287 called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select
288 M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here.
291 bool "Xen platform mcelog"
292 depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_MCE
294 Allow kernel fetching MCE error from Xen platform and
295 converting it into Linux mcelog format for mcelog tools
297 config XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
302 depends on (ARM || ARM64 || X86_64) && EFI
304 config XEN_AUTO_XLATE
306 depends on ARM || ARM64 || XEN_PVHVM
308 Support for auto-translated physmap guests.
312 depends on X86 && ACPI
316 depends on X86 && XEN_DOM0 && XENFS
317 default y if KALLSYMS
319 Exports hypervisor symbols (along with their types and addresses) via
320 /proc/xen/xensyms file, similar to /proc/kallsyms
325 config XEN_FRONT_PGDIR_SHBUF
328 config XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC
329 bool "Use unpopulated memory ranges for guest mappings"
330 depends on X86 && ZONE_DEVICE
331 default XEN_BACKEND || XEN_GNTDEV || XEN_DOM0
333 Use unpopulated memory ranges in order to create mappings for guest
334 memory regions, including grant maps and foreign pages. This avoids
335 having to balloon out RAM regions in order to obtain physical memory
336 space to create such mappings.