Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] xen/manage: keep track of the on-going suspend mode

[Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
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> Marek: I'm adding you in case you could be able to give this a try and
> make sure it doesn't break suspend for dom0.
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:17:36AM +0000, Anchal Agarwal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:37:05AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
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> > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:47:04PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > > > (Roger, question for you at the very end)
> > > >
> > > > On 7/17/20 3:10 PM, Anchal Agarwal wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 05:18:08PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
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> > > > >> On 7/15/20 4:49 PM, Anchal Agarwal wrote:
> > > > >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
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> > > > >>>> On 7/2/20 2:21 PM, Anchal Agarwal wrote:
> > > > >>>> And PVH dom0.
> > > > >>> That's another good use case to make it work with however, I still
> > > > >>> think that should be tested/worked upon separately as the feature 
> > > > >>> itself
> > > > >>> (PVH Dom0) is very new.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Same question here --- will this break PVH dom0?
> > > > >>
> > > > > I haven't tested it as a part of this series. Is that a blocker here?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I suspect dom0 will not do well now as far as hibernation goes, in which
> > > > case you are not breaking anything.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Roger?
> > >
> > > I sadly don't have any box ATM that supports hibernation where I
> > > could test it. We have hibernation support for PV dom0, so while I
> > > haven't done anything specific to support or test hibernation on PVH
> > > dom0 I would at least aim to not make this any worse, and hence the
> > > check should at least also fail for a PVH dom0?
> > >
> > > if (!xen_hvm_domain() || xen_initial_domain())
> > >     return -ENODEV;
> > >
> > > Ie: none of this should be applied to a PVH dom0, as it doesn't have
> > > PV devices and hence should follow the bare metal device suspend.
> > >
> > So from what I understand you meant for any guest running on pvh dom0 
> > should not
> > hibernate if hibernation is triggered from within the guest or should they?
> 
> Er no to both I think. What I meant is that a PVH dom0 should be able
> to properly suspend, and we should make sure this work doesn't make
> this any harder (or breaks it if it's currently working).
> 
> Or at least that's how I understood the question raised by Boris.
> 
> You are adding code to the generic suspend path that's also used by dom0
> in order to perform bare metal suspension. This is fine now for a PV
> dom0 because the code is gated on xen_hvm_domain, but you should also
> take into account that a PVH dom0 is considered a HVM domain, and
> hence will get the notifier registered.
>
Ok that makes sense now. This is good to be safe, but my patch series is only to
support domU hibernation, so I am not sure if this will affect pvh dom0.
However, since I do not have a good way of testing sure I will add the check.

Moreover, in Patch-0004, I do register suspend/resume syscore_ops specifically 
for domU
hibernation only if its xen_hvm_domain. I don't see any reason that should not
be registered for domU's running on pvh dom0. Those suspend/resume callbacks 
will
only be invoked in case hibernation and will be skipped if generic suspend path
is in progress. Do you see any issue with that?

> > > Also I would contact the QubesOS guys, they rely heavily on the
> > > suspend feature for dom0, and that's something not currently tested by
> > > osstest so any breakages there go unnoticed.
> > >
> > Was this for me or Boris? If its the former then I have no idea how to?
> 
> I've now added Marek.
> 
> Roger.
Anchal