Re: [Xen-devel] [questions] Dom0/DomU on ARM under Xen

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Alexey Klimov wrote:
> Hello Stefano and Ian,
> 
> I'm trying to run DomU and Dom0 on ARM under Xen and have some
> problems (may be question of configuration).

It is great to see interest in our project!


> I'm using:
> - unstable Xen mercurial repository with your "grant table" patches
> and few patches from Ian Campbell (xcbuild,
> xen_remap_domain_mfn_range, XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_foreign,  ARM support to
> xc_dom).

You also need "libxc/arm: allocate xenstore and console pages".

Unfortunately with the 4.2 tree frozen we still have few missing pieces
here and there in the Xen hypervisor and tools.
I think that Ian intended to setup a Xen tree to be used for development
with all the currently unapplied patches that are actually needed on top
of xen-unstable.

Also the xcbuild patch posted by Ian is quite limited, I am attaching
the xcbuild.c that I am currently using for my tests with PV disk and
network support.


> - your (Stefano's) linux kernel git repository
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git with head
> 3.5-rc7-arm-1. I hope all patches to Linux kernel from Stefano letters
> are there.

You might also need:

"xen/events: fix unmask_evtchn for PV on HVM guests"

this is the last version that I posted:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134263575132006&w=2


> - Fast Models with few models created as described in wiki page
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions/FastModels
> - device trees dts files (vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts and
> vexpress-virt.dts) from Stefano letter on 26 July. v2p-ca15-tc1 is
> attached to Xen using CONFIG_DTB_FILE and vexpress-virt.dtb is
> attached to DomU zImage.

That's correct.


> Well, kernel hangs after message (Calibrating delay loop...) when
> running on models RTSM_VE/Build_Cortex-A15x4 and
> RTSM_VE/Build_Cortex-A15x2. I attached logs (Dom0-A15x2 and A15x4).
> Logs also shows problems with device trees (HBI and arch timer).
> 
> I can boot Dom0 on Cortex-A15x1 model (log file Dom0-A15x1 with
> warning/problems about DT and HBI) and when i'm tryng to boot zImage
> using xcbuild utility then it also hangs with message from Xen "Guest
> data abort: Translation fault at level 3". Log file is also attached.
> 
> Could you please take a look and help?

I have been testing on the Cortex-A15x1 model exclusively so far, so I
am not surprised if there are any errors on the other models.
Also I know that there are still few warnings on boot, but I haven't got
around to fixing them yet.


> May be i miss important config option in Linux kernel or in Xen.
> 
> Is it okay that vexpress-virt descibes V2P-AEMv7A platform and not
> V2P-CA15?

That's should be OK.


> It looks that vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts includes
> vexpress-v2m-rs1-rtsm.dtsi. Could you please also share this file if
> it has specific options?

I am attaching it. I think you might be missing an important change there.


> And what can be reason of errors about
> HBI/arch_timers when running Xen+Linux
> kernel+vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts on Cortex-A15x2 model?

I am not sure yet, but I'll take a look. I'll try to fix them in one of
the following version of my series.


> I can provide/send other info if you want. Thanks in advance.

Let me know if the missing patches and the new
vexpress-v2m-rs1-rtsm.dtsi fix the issue!

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