Re: [Xen-users] Grant iomem access and map IRQs to a domU guest in Xen for ARM targets

["Kapania, Ashish" <akapania@xxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dario Faggioli [mailto:dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 1:29 AM
> To: Kapania, Ashish
> Cc: Ian Campbell; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Arianna Avanzini
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Grant iomem access and map IRQs to a domU
> guest in Xen for ARM targets
> 
> [Adding Arianna]
> 
> On mar, 2014-06-10 at 01:37 +0000, Kapania, Ashish wrote:
> > > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how people have been triggering these extra mappings.
> I
> > > suppose you could either do it statically for each domid==N e.g. in
> > > arch_domain_create (but then you can't easily restart the guests)
> or
> > > you could add a custom domctl and add a call in the toolstack, or a
> > > new DOMCRF_ flag (which gets passed to arch_domain_create).
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Ian, this helps. I think I am going to go ahead with your
> > Suggestion to create a custom domctl op for now and add a call to it
> > in the xen toolstack. This should allow me to specify the desired
> > mappings in the domU.cfg file.
> >
> What Xen version are we talking about? If that is not a constraint, and
> you can use a fairly recent one --even better work with the git master
> branch directly-- I think I'd dare suggesting to give Arianna's (and
> Julien's) series a look, trying to apply the latest versions of them,
> and see whether they work for you.
> 
> At least for Arianna's one (so "iomem="), there should be no need to
> wait for it to be upstreamed (although, that looks pretty imminent). I
> mean, if you just take the series and apply it, it's already working!
> Things can change in the implementation, but I think I personally would
> prefer this approach as, as soon as the patches will be merged, you'll
> be all set, your RTOS will work with Xen upstream, without the need to
> change anything, nor in the code neither in the config file. I don't
> know whether or not this is important for your use case, though.
> 
> AFAIUI, Arianna's series also allows you to specify the mapping in the
> config file, via "iomem=", as you seem to need.
>

We are not tied to a particular Xen version just yet. I am working
with the master branch (from a few weeks ago) i.e. xen4.5 dev branch
I believe. I can try applying Arianna's patches.
 
> What RTOS, if I can ask?
>

TI-RTOS (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-RTOS)

> Arianna, what's the best version of your series you suggest to apply,
> in order to have something working, and close enough to the final
> version that will land upstream (at least from the interface point of
> view)?
> 
> Regards,
> Dario
> 
> --
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software
> Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

Best,
Ashish
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