[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 7/7] xen/dom0: Add a dom0-iommu=none option

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For development purposes, it is very convenient to boot Xen as a PVH guest,
with an XTF PV or PVH "dom0".  The edit-compile-go cycle is a matter of
seconds, and you can reasonably insert printk() debugging in places which
which would be completely infeasible when booting fully-fledged guests.

However, the PVH dom0 path insists on having a working IOMMU, which doesn't
exist when virtualised as a PVH guest, and isn't necessary for XTF anyway.

Introduce a developer mode to skip the IOMMU requirement.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
CC: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

v2:
 * Retain `none` as opposed to repurposing `passthrough`.  It turns out
   that they are different.
 * Update cmdline_strcmp() to look only for commas.
v3:
 * Rebase over splitting cmdline_strcmp() out into a standalone fix.
---
 docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc | 8 +++++++-
 xen/drivers/passthrough/iommu.c   | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc 
b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
index ccfad4c..410a7f6 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ Controls for how dom0 is constructed on x86 systems.
     information during the dom0 build.  It defaults to false.
 
 ### dom0-iommu
-    = List of [ passthrough=<bool>, strict=<bool>, map-reserved=<bool> ]
+    = List of [ passthrough=<bool>, strict=<bool>, map-reserved=<bool>, none ]
 
 Controls for the dom0 IOMMU setup.
 
@@ -709,6 +709,12 @@ Controls for the dom0 IOMMU setup.
     This option is enabled by default on x86 systems, and invalid on ARM
     systems.
 
+*   The `none` option is intended for development purposes only, and skips
+    certain safety checks pertaining to the correct IOMMU configuration for
+    dom0 to boot.
+
+    Incorrect use of this option may result in a malfunctioning system.
+
 ### dom0_ioports_disable (x86)
 > `= List of <hex>-<hex>`
 
diff --git a/xen/drivers/passthrough/iommu.c b/xen/drivers/passthrough/iommu.c
index 696d189..0e0fe67 100644
--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/iommu.c
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/iommu.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ bool_t __read_mostly iommu_snoop = 1;
 bool_t __read_mostly iommu_qinval = 1;
 bool_t __read_mostly iommu_intremap = 1;
 
+static bool __hwdom_initdata iommu_hwdom_none;
 bool __hwdom_initdata iommu_hwdom_strict;
 bool __read_mostly iommu_hwdom_passthrough;
 int8_t __hwdom_initdata iommu_hwdom_reserved = -1;
@@ -128,6 +129,8 @@ static int __init parse_dom0_iommu_param(const char *s)
             iommu_hwdom_strict = val;
         else if ( (val = parse_boolean("map-reserved", s, ss)) >= 0 )
             iommu_hwdom_reserved = val;
+        else if ( !cmdline_strcmp(s, "none") )
+            iommu_hwdom_none = true;
         else
             rc = -EINVAL;
 
@@ -156,7 +159,7 @@ int iommu_domain_init(struct domain *d)
 
 static void __hwdom_init check_hwdom_reqs(struct domain *d)
 {
-    if ( !paging_mode_translate(d) )
+    if ( iommu_hwdom_none || !paging_mode_translate(d) )
         return;
 
     arch_iommu_check_autotranslated_hwdom(d);
-- 
2.1.4


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