KVM: Xen PV-on-HVM guest support

Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in
userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen
hypercall blob into guest address space.

A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill
and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future.  Thus this patch
adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR.

I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell
KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address
and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that
userspace has loaded from files.  When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM
copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest.

I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace
code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices.

[jan: fix i386 build warning]
[avi: future proof abi with a flags field]

Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index 5a4bc8cf..3e8684e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -593,6 +593,30 @@ struct kvm_irqchip {
 	} chip;
 };
 
+4.27 KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM
+Architectures: x86
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_xen_hvm_config (in)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+Sets the MSR that the Xen HVM guest uses to initialize its hypercall
+page, and provides the starting address and size of the hypercall
+blobs in userspace.  When the guest writes the MSR, kvm copies one
+page of a blob (32- or 64-bit, depending on the vcpu mode) to guest
+memory.
+
+struct kvm_xen_hvm_config {
+	__u32 flags;
+	__u32 msr;
+	__u64 blob_addr_32;
+	__u64 blob_addr_64;
+	__u8 blob_size_32;
+	__u8 blob_size_64;
+	__u8 pad2[30];
+};
+
 5. The kvm_run structure
 
 Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by