[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] xen/arm64: Add support for 64KB page

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.

Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will result to a
guest crash.

This series is a first attempt to allow those Linux running with the current
hypercall interface and PV protocol.

This solution has been chosen because we want to run Linux 64KB in released
Xen ARM version or/and platform using an old version of Linux DOM0.

There is room for improvement, such as support of 64KB grant, modification
of PV protocol to support different page size... They will be explored in a
separate patch series later.

TODO list:
    - Convert swiotlb to 64KB
    - Convert xenfb to 64KB
    - Check if backend in QEMU works with DOM0 64KB
    - It may be possible to move some common define between
    netback/netfront and blkfront/blkback in an header

All patches has been built tested for ARM32, ARM64, x86. But I haven't tested
to run it on x86 as I don't have a box with Xen x86 running. I would be
happy if someone give a try and see possible regression for x86.

A branch based on the latest linux/master can be found here:

git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git branch xen-64k-v3

Comments, suggestions are welcomed.

Sincerely yours,

Cc: david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx

Julien Grall (20):
  net/xen-netback: xenvif_gop_frag_copy: move GSO check out of the loop
  arm/xen: Drop pte_mfn and mfn_pte
  xen: Add Xen specific page definition
  xen/grant: Introduce helpers to split a page into grant
  xen/grant: Add helper gnttab_page_grant_foreign_access_ref_one
  block/xen-blkfront: Split blkif_queue_request in 2
  block/xen-blkfront: Store a page rather a pfn in the grant structure
  block/xen-blkfront: split get_grant in 2
  xen/biomerge: Don't allow biovec to be merge when Linux is not using
    4KB page
  xen/xenbus: Use Xen page definition
  tty/hvc: xen: Use xen page definition
  xen/balloon: Don't rely on the page granularity is the same for Xen
    and Linux
  xen/events: fifo: Make it running on 64KB granularity
  xen/grant-table: Make it running on 64KB granularity
  block/xen-blkfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
  block/xen-blkback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
  net/xen-netfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
  net/xen-netback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
  xen/privcmd: Add support for Linux 64KB page granularity
  arm/xen: Add support for 64KB page granularity

 arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h     |  18 +-
 arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c            |   6 +-
 arch/arm/xen/p2m.c                  |   6 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/page.h     |   2 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |   5 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |  17 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |   9 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        | 552 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h    |  15 +-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c   | 163 +++++++----
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c          | 122 +++++---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c           |   4 +-
 drivers/xen/balloon.c               |  47 ++-
 drivers/xen/biomerge.c              |   8 +
 drivers/xen/events/events_base.c    |   2 +-
 drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c    |   2 +-
 drivers/xen/grant-table.c           |  32 ++-
 drivers/xen/privcmd.c               |   8 +-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c  |   6 +-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c   |   3 +-
 drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c             | 124 +++++---
 include/xen/grant_table.h           |  51 ++++
 include/xen/page.h                  |  27 +-
 23 files changed, 844 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-)

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2.1.4


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