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diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea20c51d --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +menu "Xen driver support" + depends on XEN + +config XEN_BALLOON + bool "Xen memory balloon driver" + default y + help + The balloon driver allows the Xen domain to request more memory from + the system to expand the domain's memory allocation, or alternatively + return unneeded memory to the system. + +config XEN_SELFBALLOONING + bool "Dynamically self-balloon kernel memory to target" + depends on XEN && XEN_BALLOON && CLEANCACHE && SWAP && XEN_TMEM + default n + help + Self-ballooning dynamically balloons available kernel memory driven + by the current usage of anonymous memory ("committed AS") and + controlled by various sysfs-settable parameters. Configuring + FRONTSWAP is highly recommended; if it is not configured, self- + ballooning is disabled by default but can be enabled with the + 'selfballooning' kernel boot parameter. If FRONTSWAP is configured, + frontswap-selfshrinking is enabled by default but can be disabled + with the 'noselfshrink' kernel boot parameter; and self-ballooning + is enabled by default but can be disabled with the 'noselfballooning' + kernel boot parameter. Note that systems without a sufficiently + large swap device should not enable self-ballooning. + +config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG + bool "Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver" + default n + depends on XEN_BALLOON && MEMORY_HOTPLUG + help + Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver allows expanding memory + available for the system above limit declared at system startup. + It is very useful on critical systems which require long + run without rebooting. + + Memory could be hotplugged in following steps: + + 1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem> + where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size, + + 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory> + where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory + could be added by writing proper value to + /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or + /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU, + + 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \ + [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done + + Memory could be onlined automatically on domU by adding following line to udev rules: + + SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'" + + In that case step 3 should be omitted. + +config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES + bool "Scrub pages before returning them to system" + depends on XEN_BALLOON + default y + help + Scrub pages before returning them to the system for reuse by + other domains. This makes sure that any confidential data + is not accidentally visible to other domains. Is it more + secure, but slightly less efficient. + If in doubt, say yes. + +config XEN_DEV_EVTCHN + tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device" + default y + help + The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to triger event + channels and to receive notification of an event channel + firing. + If in doubt, say yes. + +config XEN_BACKEND + bool "Backend driver support" + depends on XEN_DOM0 + default y + help + Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services + to other virtual machines. + +config XENFS + tristate "Xen filesystem" + select XEN_PRIVCMD + default y + help + The xen filesystem provides a way for domains to share + information with each other and with the hypervisor. + For example, by reading and writing the "xenbus" file, guests + may pass arbitrary information to the initial domain. + If in doubt, say yes. + +config XEN_COMPAT_XENFS + bool "Create compatibility mount point /proc/xen" + depends on XENFS + default y + help + The old xenstore userspace tools expect to find "xenbus" + under /proc/xen, but "xenbus" is now found at the root of the + xenfs filesystem. Selecting this causes the kernel to create + the compatibility mount point /proc/xen if it is running on + a xen platform. + If in doubt, say yes. + +config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR + bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor" + depends on SYSFS + select SYS_HYPERVISOR + default y + help + Create entries under /sys/hypervisor describing the Xen + hypervisor environment. When running native or in another + virtual environment, /sys/hypervisor will still be present, + but will have no xen contents. + +config XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND + tristate + +config XEN_GNTDEV + tristate "userspace grant access device driver" + depends on XEN + default m + select MMU_NOTIFIER + help + Allows userspace processes to use grants. + +config XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC + tristate "User-space grant reference allocator driver" + depends on XEN + default m + help + Allows userspace processes to create pages with access granted + to other domains. This can be used to implement frontend drivers + or as part of an inter-domain shared memory channel. + +config SWIOTLB_XEN + def_bool y + depends on PCI + select SWIOTLB + +config XEN_TMEM + bool + default y if (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) + help + Shim to interface in-kernel Transcendent Memory hooks + (e.g. cleancache and frontswap) to Xen tmem hypercalls. + +config XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND + tristate "Xen PCI-device backend driver" + depends on PCI && X86 && XEN + depends on XEN_BACKEND + default m + help + The PCI device backend driver allows the kernel to export arbitrary + PCI devices to other guests. If you select this to be a module, you + will need to make sure no other driver has bound to the device(s) + you want to make visible to other guests. + + The parameter "passthrough" allows you specify how you want the PCI + devices to appear in the guest. You can choose the default (0) where + PCI topology starts at 00.00.0, or (1) for passthrough if you want + the PCI devices topology appear the same as in the host. + + The "hide" parameter (only applicable if backend driver is compiled + into the kernel) allows you to bind the PCI devices to this module + from the default device drivers. The argument is the list of PCI BDFs: + xen-pciback.hide=(03:00.0)(04:00.0) + + If in doubt, say m. + +config XEN_PRIVCMD + tristate + depends on XEN + default m + +config XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR + tristate "Xen ACPI processor" + depends on XEN && X86 && ACPI_PROCESSOR && CPU_FREQ + default m + help + This ACPI processor uploads Power Management information to the Xen + hypervisor. + + To do that the driver parses the Power Management data and uploads + said information to the Xen hypervisor. Then the Xen hypervisor can + select the proper Cx and Pxx states. It also registers itslef as the + SMM so that other drivers (such as ACPI cpufreq scaling driver) will + not load. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be + called xen_acpi_processor If you do not know what to choose, select + M here. If the CPUFREQ drivers are built in, select Y here. + +endmenu |