Re: [Xen-devel] reboot driver domain, vifX.Y = NO-CARRIER?

2018-05-04 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 1, 2018, at 08:53, Jason Cooper wrote: > > add the link to xen-users thread of me talking to myself. :-)) > >> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:37:51PM +, Jason Cooper wrote: >> When I was first digging into this, I started a thread on xen-users [1], >> I've

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and safety certification, Minutes of the meeting on Apr 4th

2018-05-12 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 10, 2018, at 15:51, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2018, Praveen Kumar wrote: >>> Yeah, you are right. It looks like turning Dom0 into a DomU is not good >>> enough. Maybe for this option to be viable we would actually have to >>> terminate (or

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-05-18 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 18, 2018, at 06:13, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Dear Community Members, > > just under 3 months ago, we started a community consultation titled "Xen > Security Process Consultation: is there a case to change anything?" (see >

[Xen-devel] Platform Security Summit 2018

2018-05-02 Thread Rich Persaud
PSEC 2018 brings together security researchers and developers from the open-source ecosystems of OpenEmbedded, Xen Project and OpenXT. Presentation topics will include Xen security, LinuxBoot, TPM 2.0, Intel TXT SMI Transfer Monitor (STM), de-privileged QEMU, UEFI, trusted boot (SRTM and

Re: [Xen-devel] Community call: PCI Emulation - Future Direction (Wed, May 2nd, UTC 16:00-17:00 / BST 17:00-18:00)

2018-05-02 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Apr 24, 2018, at 05:19, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > as agreed please find attached the meeting invite > Regards > Lars > > ## Agenda (provisional) > I copied what was discussed on this thread so far >

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 06:35, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, this is a repost of > https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ for > xen-users/xen-devel. If you have questions, please reply to this thread and > we will try and improve the FAQ

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

2018-01-09 Thread Rich Persaud
gt;>>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Stefano Stabellini >>>> <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, George Dunlap wrote: >>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Rich Persaud <pers...@gmail.com> wrote: >>

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

2018-01-08 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 8, 2018, at 12:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > > AIUI we have a series for pv-in-pvh shim which is nearing completion > in the sense that it will have been well-tested (especially the > hypervisor parts) and has good functionality. (Wei is handling the > assembly of

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

2018-01-08 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 8, 2018, at 16:44, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Rich Persaud <pers...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On a similarly pragmatic note: would a variation of Anthony's vixen patch >> series be suitable for pre-P

[Xen-devel] Consensus in Parallel Universe Responses to Spectre/Meltdown

2018-01-10 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 11:39, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Jan Beulich writes ("Re: Radical proposal v2: Publish Amazon's verison now, > Citrix's version soon"): >> There are a couple of instances of "a branch", and I'm not really >> clear on which one that would be, yet in

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal v2: Publish Amazon's verison now, Citrix's version soon

2018-01-11 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 11, 2018, at 11:36, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, George Dunlap wrote: >>> On 01/11/2018 04:23 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 10.01.18 at 18:25, wrote: >> On

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: Meltdown band-aid against malicious 64-bit PV guests

2018-01-15 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 12, 2018, at 05:19, Jan Beulich wrote: > > This is a very simplistic change limiting the amount of memory a running > 64-bit PV guest has mapped (and hence available for attacking): Only the > mappings of stack, IDT, and TSS are being cloned from the direct map > into

[Xen-devel] Xen for Automotive - white paper on virtualization - Call at 1600 UTC, Mon 5th Feb

2018-02-01 Thread Rich Persaud
Over the next few weeks, the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) community will draft a white paper [1] on virtualization. I'm assisting Lars with coordination of Xen contributions. Here is a summary of discussions preceding this message:

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre / Meltdown FAQ (Jan 22 Update)

2018-02-06 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 22, 2018, at 11:18, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > I will post the following new version of the FAQ on > https://blog.xenproject.org/ in a moment. As there are tables in it, I will > post as PDF rather than text. This thread is primarily a placeholder to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: Meltdown band-aid overhead reduction

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 7, 2018, at 11:05, Jan Beulich wrote: > > 1: slightly reduce Meltdown band-aid overhead > 2: remove CR reads from exit-to-guest path > 3: introduce altinstruction_nop assembler macro > 4: NOP out most XPTI entry/exit code when it's not in use > 5: avoid double CR3

Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest with PCI passthrough crash on Xen 4.8.3 inside KVM when booted through OVMF

2018-02-16 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 16, 2018, at 14:02, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > IMO, PCI Passthrough is a trainwreck, and it is a miracle it functions > at all. Would that statement apply to other hypervisors like KVM, VMware ESX or Hyper-V, i.e. are the deficiencies in PCI devices/firmware,

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 Development Update

2018-07-31 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 27, 2018, at 12:19, Juergen Gross wrote: > > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you > would like to see in 4.12 so that people have an idea what is going on and > prioritise accordingly. Two additional items: 1. Linux stub domains, series posted

Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

2018-08-15 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 15, 2018, at 05:29, Julien Grall wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 08/15/2018 12:25 AM, Rich Persaud wrote: >>> On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall wrote: >>> >>> Hi Rich, >>> >>>>> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich

Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

2018-08-14 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall wrote: > > Hi Rich, > >> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote: >>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> >>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is >>&g

Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

2018-08-14 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is > taking too long. Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing? Rich ___ Xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 5/5] x86: use PDEP for PTE flags insertion when available

2018-08-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 17, 2018, at 03:24, Jan Beulich wrote: > > This replaces 5 instructions by a single one, further reducing code size, > cache, and TLB footprint (in particular on systems supporting BMI2). This link claims that BMI2 may be less performant/consistent on AMD Ryzen than Intel:

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Sept 12, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-09-06 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Sep 6, 2018, at 11:35, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Dear community members, > > please send me agenda items for next week’s community call by next > Monday. "Argo" (formerly v4v) inter-VM communication mechanism for Xen 4.12, discussed at Xen Summit 2018 design session and PSEC 2018, design

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-11 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jul 5, 2018, at 22:54, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:52 PM George Dunlap >> wrote: >> >>> Again, there was a sense that some of the issues we are seeing could be solved if we had better CI capability: in other words, some of the issues we were

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen for Automotive - white paper on virtualization

2018-07-12 Thread Rich Persaud
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the AGL virtualization white paper and to Michele Paolino for stewarding it from concept to final publication. I’ve added it to the Xen wiki: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Automotive_Whitepapers Rich___

[Xen-devel] CFP: Platform Security Summit 2018: OpenXT, Xen Project and OpenEmbedded

2018-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
If you are working on commercial, academic or open-source projects which use OpenXT, Xen Project or OpenEmbedded to implement platform components with well-defined security properties, you are invited to present at Platform Security Summit 2018, which will take place on May 23-24 in Fairfax,

Re: [Xen-devel] Setting up a Xen x86 community call

2018-03-02 Thread Rich Persaud
On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:39, Lars Kurth wrote: > I would suggest to start with a 1 hour monthly meeting: possibly every 2nd > Tue or Thu each month (depends on timing). I know that people are spread > across different timezones (from China to the US), so I would like to

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call: Nov 14 - 15:00 - 16:00 UTC - Call reminder

2018-11-14 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Nov 14, 2018, at 04:56, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > > the agenda is as follows: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RxW-iwcFFuKzNjjEqLEtiwFVHgAUlk35c0EtTkRE1k4/edit > * Follow up on previous actions > * PVH resource Mapping: Rian Quinn (AIS) > * TMEM (Jan) If there is time on

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call: Wed Oct 10, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-10-09 Thread Rich Persaud
Lars, This NIST document ("A Methodology for Determining Forensic Data Requirements for Detecting Hypervisor Attacks" [1]) appears to be focused on the application of LibVMI in some contexts. It is a NIST Interagency or Internal Report (NISTIR) document with a narrower scope than other NIST

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 04/15] argo: init, destroy and soft-reset, with enable command line opt

2019-01-14 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 14, 2019, at 06:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:32 AM Christopher Clark > wrote: >> >> I've written a document about the locking to add to the tree with the >> series, and a copy is at github here: >> >>

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen (both x86 and Arm) Community Call: Jan 9 - 16:00 - 17:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

2019-01-09 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:46, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Quick note: the meeting is in 15 minutes - the agenda is at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ufv9XcQO0zIAVeFbFCAHAeEIB9Ap4Y4srAm4vI8I01I/edit > On the topic of 4.12, I would like to propose moving the merge date by one week, since about

Re: [Xen-devel] XSA-283: Post-mortem

2019-02-25 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 25, 2019, at 10:14, George Dunlap wrote: > > This is an attempt to do a 'post-mortem' on XSA-283, to find out how > the error came about, and consider what changes we could make to code > / processes to prevent such errors from happening in the future. The > Security Team hopes to make

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen (both x86 and Arm) Community Call: Feb 13 - 16:00 - 17:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

2019-02-12 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Feb 11, 2019, at 05:05, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > > we have the community call for February coming up this Wednesday. My sincere > apologies, that I have not asked for agenda items last week. A current agenda > (primarily a skeleton) is available at >

[Xen-devel] Macro supply chains

2019-02-13 Thread Rich Persaud
Synopsys, which owns both Coverity and Black Duck, wrote about software supply-chain integrity for a library with almost two million downloads per week: "EventStream, a highly popular JavaScript library, was compromised with the addition of a third-party dependency, flatmap-stream, containing

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/15] Argo: hypervisor-mediated interdomain communication

2019-02-13 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Feb 4, 2019, at 13:22, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> Yes, v7 was sent to address Jan and Julien's review comments in parallel >>> with our ongoing discussion on v5 macros. v7 also provided a checkpoint >>> for Argo testers to maximize test

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/15] Argo: hypervisor-mediated interdomain communication

2019-02-13 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Feb 4, 2019, at 05:07, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 10:04:29AM -0800, Christopher Clark wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:39 AM Roger Pau Monné >> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:05:30PM -0800, Christopher Clark wrote: >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 for-4.12 10/17] argo: implement the notify op

2019-02-07 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 7, 2019, at 04:04, Julien Grall wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 2/7/19 6:32 AM, Christopher Clark wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:28 AM Julien Grall wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> On 2/6/19 8:55 AM, Christopher Clark wrote: +/* + * XEN_ARGO_OP_notify + * + * Asks Xen for

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 for-4.12 00/17] Argo: hypervisor-mediated interdomain communication

2019-02-07 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 6, 2019, at 08:57, Jan Beulich wrote: On 06.02.19 at 14:53, wrote: >> On 06/02/2019 14:45, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 06.02.19 at 09:54, wrote: Version eight of this series: Note: This version may not address the currently open discussion on the ARM hypercall

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libxl: Add virtio vga interface support for qemu

2019-04-17 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 20:02, Chris Patterson wrote: > > For anyone looking at this... while I have tested and verified that > both virtio-gpu and VirGL work, it's not without some hiccup. > > I have been running Ubuntu 19.04 with this config for a few days and I > have had a couple VM freezes.

Re: [Xen-devel] Anyone using blktap2?

2019-05-17 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 13, 2019, at 11:34, Wei Liu wrote: > > Hello > > Seeing that you were the last people who changed blktap2 in a meaningful > way: do you use it at all? As discussed F2F in a Xen Summit 2017 design session: OpenXT and Citrix XenServer use blktap. VHD encryption support was recently

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] mwait support for AMD processors

2019-05-30 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 11:04, Woods, Brian wrote: > > This patch series add support and enablement for mwait on AMD Naples > and Rome processors. Newer AMD processors support mwait, but only for > c1, and for c2 halt is used. The mwait-idle driver is modified to be > able to use both mwait and

Re: [Xen-devel] Migrating key developer docs to xen.git sphinx docs and refreshing them in the process

2019-06-25 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:34, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 25/06/2019, 14:47, "Andrew Cooper" wrote: > >> On 25/06/2019 13:15, Lars Kurth wrote: >> On 25/06/2019, 10:03, "Julien Grall" wrote: >> > The point here is that we can be flexible and creative about the way to > maintain the

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Community Call June 27th (instead of July 4th): @15:00 UTC Call for agenda items

2019-06-25 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:36, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all: > please add your agenda items. I had only ONE series which was highlighted as > needing attention from others. Is this seriously the only one? Proposed agenda item: in the absence of Jira tickets, would it be useful to have a list

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Community Call June 27th (instead of July 4th): @15:00 UTC Call for agenda items

2019-06-25 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jun 25, 2019, at 16:17, Julien Grall wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > On 6/25/19 8:38 PM, Rich Persaud wrote: >>> On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:36, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> >>> Hi all: >>> please add your agenda items. I had only ONE series which wa

Re: [Xen-devel] Guest Testing in OSSTEST - What distros and versions should we test against

2019-05-09 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 9, 2019, at 21:28, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > > following a discussion with committers about Guest testing in OSSTEST, it > surfaced that we have not updated what distros we test in OSSTEST for a very > long time. All agreed that we should regularly review what we test against:

Re: [Xen-devel] [VOTE] tagging for operational messages sent to xen-devel@ (was Re: Xen 4.13 Development Update)

2019-05-01 Thread Rich Persaud
> On May 1, 2019, at 14:37, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Rich, > as nobody replied to the mail, I am inclined to dismiss the proposal of ANN > for now > Lars What do you think about the suggestion to apply a tag ("ANNOUNCE"?) for emails that are mirrored to xen-devel from the -announce mailing list?

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Community Call June 27th (instead of July 4th): @15:00 UTC Call for agenda items

2019-06-26 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 06:45, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > > On 25/06/2019, 21:27, "Rich Persaud" wrote: > >> On Jun 25, 2019, at 16:17, Julien Grall wrote: >> >> Hi Rich, >> >> On 6/25/19 8:38 PM, Rich Persaud wrote: >>&g

Re: [Xen-devel] [VOTE] tagging for operational messages sent to xen-devel@ (was Re: Xen 4.13 Development Update)

2019-04-25 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:36, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Alright, > > there was a lengthy discussion on this topic on IRC - log attached. The > consensus appears to be to use Canonical messages with a CAPITALISED tag. > E.g. "[TAG] Xen 4.13 Development Update". > > The options which seemed to have

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tests/cpu-policy: fix format-overflow warning by null terminating strings

2019-08-02 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 31, 2019, at 04:11, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> On 31.07.2019 02:22, Dario Faggioli wrote: >> Jan's example above, seem to compile **without any warnings** for me as >> well. If I add a main(), I can even get the code above to print the >> content of the array. >> >> And yet, building the

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Code of Conduct

2019-08-16 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 16, 2019, at 07:19, George Dunlap wrote: > > On 8/15/19 6:23 PM, Rich Persaud wrote: >>> On Aug 9, 2019, at 13:48, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >> >> Hi Lars, >> >>> >>> Following the discussion we h

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Code of Conduct

2019-08-15 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Aug 9, 2019, at 13:48, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, Hi Lars, > > Following the discussion we had at the Developer Summit (see > https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Design_Sessions_2019#Community_Issues_.2F_Improvements_-_Communication.2C_Code_of_Conduct.2C_etc. > for notes) I put

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Code of Conduct

2019-08-15 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 15, 2019, at 14:01, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > thanks for the feedback. I am going to > > On 15/08/2019, 18:23, "Rich Persaud" wrote: > > > On Aug 9, 2019, at 13:48, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > > Hi all, >

Re: [Xen-devel] [win-pv-devel] [RFC] Code of Conduct

2019-08-15 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Aug 15, 2019, at 14:46, Lars Kurth wrote: >> On 15 Aug 2019, at 19:27, Rich Persaud wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2019, at 14:01, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >>> Hi Rich, >>> >>> thanks for the feedback. I am going to >>> >>> On

Re: [Xen-devel] More questions about Xen memory layout/usage, access to guest memory

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Aug 22, 2019, at 09:51, Andrew Cooper wrote: > >> On 22/08/2019 03:06, Johnson, Ethan wrote: >> >> For HVM, obviously anything that can't be virtualized natively by the >> hardware needs to be emulated by Xen/QEMU (since the guest kernel isn't >> expected to be cooperative to issue PV

Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Call for agenda items for September 5th Community Call @ 15:00 UTC

2019-09-05 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 04:36, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 05/09/2019, 09:33, "Juergen Gross" wrote: > >>On 05.09.19 10:14, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> On 05/09/2019 08:49, Lars Kurth wrote: >>>> On 05/09/2019, 08:41, "Rich Persaud" wro

Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Call for agenda items for September 5th Community Call @ 15:00 UTC

2019-09-05 Thread Rich Persaud
On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:12, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > We can defer the xenstoreless name service topic to the October monthly > > call. > > > > For today's call, can we discuss the previously posted high-level design > > for unification of the domB RFC with dom0less, as "domB mode" for > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Call for agenda items for September 5th Community Call @ 15:00 UTC

2019-09-04 Thread Rich Persaud
Agenda item: Domain name service for nested virt and disaggregation (text based on draft by Daniel Smith, who will speak to this agenda item) If a future, minimal "L0 Xen" hypervisor can be optimized for nested virtualization in greenfield deployments (i.e. no requirement to maintain

Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Call for agenda items for September 5th Community Call @ 15:00 UTC

2019-09-05 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 03:19, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> On 05.09.2019 04:32, Rich Persaud wrote: >> Agenda item: Domain name service for nested virt and disaggregation >> >> (text based on draft by Daniel Smith, who will speak to this agenda item) >> >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs/sphinx: todo/wishlist

2019-07-28 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 22, 2019, at 15:20, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > a.k.a. (at least in this form) Andrew's "work which might be offloadable to > someone else" list. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper > --- > CC: George Dunlap > CC: Ian Jackson > CC: Jan Beulich > CC: Stefano Stabellini > CC: Tim Deegan

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session notes: Build system gripe session

2019-08-08 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 09:27, George Dunlap wrote: > ... > https://hackmd.io/mAGT5bU9T6-aXJVj88deYw > ... > > 3. meta virtualization build system (yocto) needs to pull simlink > tricks, xen's build system stomp on that Are more details available on this item? This script can be used to

[Xen-devel] Xen Summit 2019 Design Session - Nested Virtualization

2019-08-08 Thread Rich Persaud
Session notes attached in markdown and PDF format, please revise as needed.Rich xen-summit-2019-nested-virt-design-session.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document # Nested Virtualization Design Session Xen Design and Developer Summit, [11 July

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Adding Intel TXT maintainter

2019-08-01 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:45, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> On 29.07.2019 16:39, Lukasz Hawrylko wrote: >> Support for Intel TXT has orphaned status right now because >> no active maintainter is listed. Adding myself as active maintainter, >> so it could be reverted to supported state. > > Which you

Re: [Xen-devel] Terminology for "guest" - Was: [PATCH] docs/sphinx: Introduction

2019-08-08 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 8, 2019, at 06:49, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> On 08.08.2019 11:13, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >>> On 08/08/2019 10:04, Jan Beulich wrote: On 08.08.2019 10:43, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 08/08/2019 07:22, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 07.08.2019 21:41, Andrew Cooper wrote:

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] golang/xenlight: Fixing compilation for go 1.11

2019-07-18 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 07:41, George Dunlap wrote: > > On 4/25/19 12:40 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 18.04.19 at 15:11, wrote: On 4/18/19 2:52 AM, Daniel P. Smith wrote: This deals with two casting issues for compiling under go 1.11: - explicitly cast to *C.xentoollog_logger

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] xen: Add .astylerc for automated style-formatting

2019-07-19 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:43, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: > > Using astyle (http://astyle.sourceforge.net) can greatly reduce the overhead > of > manually checking and applying style-fixes to source-code. The included > .astylerc is the closest approximation of the established Xen style (including >

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] xen: Add .astylerc for automated style-formatting

2019-07-19 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jul 19, 2019, at 09:31, Julien Grall wrote: >> On 19/07/2019 14:24, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hi Tamas, >>> On 19/07/2019 14:14, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 7:11 AM Julien Grall wrote: Hi Tamas, > On 19/07/2019 14:00, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: >> On

Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.12.1

2019-07-24 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 17:05, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:00 PM Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 02:23:44PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> the release is due in early August. Please point out backports you >>> find missing

Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] After upgrade to Xen 4.12.0 iommu=no-igfx

2019-07-24 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 19, 2019, at 15:31, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > Hi! > > we're using Xen on Advantech ARK-2250 Embedded Box PC: > > https://www.elmark.com.pl/web/uploaded/karty_produktow/advantech/ark-2250l/ark-2250l_instrukcja-uzytkownika.pdf Roman, Good to see Xen being used on fanless

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tboot: remove maintainers and declare orphaned

2019-07-25 Thread Rich Persaud
(cc Intel and tboot-devel) Hi Roger, Thanks for your interest in documenting the status of maintenance for Intel TXT support in Xen. Intel TXT and Xen are deployed in production today by OpenXT and QubesOS for boot integrity. Xen was a pioneering adopter of DRTM, almost a decade ago, but

[Xen-devel] Virtualization videos from Platform Security Summit 2019

2019-11-06 Thread Rich Persaud
Xen, OpenXT, QubesOS and embedded developers may be interested in these videos. The first (IBM ppc Ultravisor with extended Q) is related to past discussions of minimal L0 Xen in firmware, similar to HP/Bromium nesting-optimized hypervisor. The second is related to kexec and TrenchBoot,

Re: [Xen-devel] Likely regression in efi=no-rs option

2019-11-16 Thread Rich Persaud
I don't know if there's a change in efi=no-rs behavior, but some EFI fixes were merged on 10/25, which (on some machines) have reduced the need to disable UEFI runtime services to work around non-spec UEFI firmware. This should increase hardware compatibility with Xen. Of course, there could

Re: [Xen-devel] Status of 4.13

2019-11-21 Thread Rich Persaud
On Nov 21, 2019, at 17:11, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:39:14AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 9:38 AM Andrew Cooper >>> wrote: >>> On 21/11/2019 17:31, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:06 PM Jürgen

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Documentation formats, licenses and file system structure

2019-10-14 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Oct 11, 2019, at 07:11, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 11/10/2019, 02:24, "Stefano Stabellini" wrote: > >>On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Lars Kurth wrote: >> * Would we ever include API docs generated from GPLv2 code? E.g. for safety >> use-cases? >> @Stefano, @Artem: I guess this one is for you.

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Documentation formats, licenses and file system structure

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:55, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Rich Persaud wrote: >>> On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:32, Stefano Stabellini >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Lars Kurth wrote: >>>> On 16/10/2019, 17:3

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Documentation formats, licenses and file system structure

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:32, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Lars Kurth wrote: >> On 16/10/2019, 17:35, "Rich Persaud" wrote: >> >>>> On Oct 15, 2019, at 08:27, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> My point

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Documentation formats, licenses and file system structure

2019-10-16 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Oct 15, 2019, at 08:27, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi Rich, > >>>> On 15 Oct 2019, at 02:58, Rich Persaud wrote: >>>>> On Oct 11, 2019, at 07:11, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> On 11/10/2019, 02:24, "Stefano Stabellini" wrote: >>>>

Re: [Xen-devel] Likely regression in efi=no-rs option

2019-11-18 Thread Rich Persaud
this is clearly a regression from RC1 (just verified). > > Thanks, > Roman. > >>>> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:47 PM Rich Persaud wrote: >> I don't know if there's a change in efi=no-rs behavior, but some EFI fixes >> were merged on 10/25, which (on some machines

Re: [Xen-devel] UEFI support on Dell boxes (was: Re: Status of 4.13)

2019-11-26 Thread Rich Persaud
On Nov 26, 2019, at 15:23, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 26/11/2019 20:12, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki >>> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:56:25AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi Marek, after applying Jan's patch I'm making

Re: [Xen-devel] UEFI support on Dell boxes (was: Re: Status of 4.13)

2019-11-27 Thread Rich Persaud
On Nov 27, 2019, at 04:16, Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 26.11.2019 22:20, Rich Persaud wrote: >> As an intermediate step, could we have an umbrella opt-in >> Kconfig option (CONFIG_EFI_NONSPEC_COMPATIBILITY?) that >> enables multiple EFI options for maximu

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/6] Add Code Review Guide

2019-11-28 Thread Rich Persaud
On Nov 28, 2019, at 05:12, Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 28.11.2019 01:54, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> From: Lars Kurth >>> >>> This document highlights what reviewers such as maintainers and committers >>> look >>> for when reviewing code. It sets

Re: [Xen-devel] [MirageOS-devel] [PATCH v2 4/6] Add Code Review Guide

2019-11-28 Thread Rich Persaud
On Nov 28, 2019, at 09:05, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 28/11/2019, 07:37, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > >>On 28.11.2019 14:06, Lars Kurth wrote: >> I can certainly add something on the timing , along the lines of >> * For complex series, consider the time it takes to do reviews (maybe with a >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tools/helpers: Introduce cmp-fd-file-inode utility

2020-02-26 Thread Rich Persaud
On Feb 26, 2020, at 11:07, Jason Andryuk wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:48 AM Ian Jackson wrote: >> Jason Andryuk writes ("[PATCH 1/2] tools/helpers: Introduce >> cmp-fd-file-inode utility"): >>> This is a C implementation of the perl code inside of locking.sh to >>> check that the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2020-01-26 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 21, 2020, at 03:45, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen > hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store > similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs. Is there a short summary of the most recent use cases for this

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 12/16] libxl: use vchan for QMP access with Linux stubdomain

2020-01-24 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 24, 2020, at 09:07, Jason Andryuk wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:46 PM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > wrote: > + +sdss->qmp_proxy_spawn.timeout_ms = LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_START_TIMEOUT * 1000; +sdss->qmp_proxy_spawn.midproc_cb = libxl__spawn_record_pid;

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: get rid of old udev related code

2020-01-09 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Dec 16, 2019, at 03:31, Jürgen Groß wrote: > > On 16.12.19 09:18, Durrant, Paul wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Jürgen Groß >>> Sent: 16 December 2019 08:10 >>> To: Durrant, Paul ; David Miller >>> >>> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; wei@kernel.org; linux- >>>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 13/16] Regenerate autotools files

2020-01-15 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jan 14, 2020, at 21:42, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > wrote: > Since we have those generated files committed to the repo (why?!), > update them after changing configure.ac. Is there any reason not to remove the generated configure files? A developer using generated files on system B

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: xen-pciback: Reset MSI-X state when exposing a device

2020-01-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Sep 26, 2019, at 06:17, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hello Stanislav, > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:28:20PM +0800, Chao Gao wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:02:24AM +, Spassov, Stanislav wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:54, Chao Gao wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 2/2] Xen/PCIback: Implement PCI flr/slot/bus reset with 'reset' SysFS attribute

2020-01-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 26, 2019, at 17:08, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hi, > >> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:32:45AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>> On 10/3/18 11:51 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:05:26AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 02:09:53PM -0400, Boris

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 11/16] tools: add simple vchan-socket-proxy

2020-01-17 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 14, 2020, at 21:42, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > diff --git a/tools/libvchan/Makefile b/tools/libvchan/Makefile > index 7892750..1c845ca 100644 > --- a/tools/libvchan/Makefile > +++ b/tools/libvchan/Makefile > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ LIBVCHAN_PIC_OBJS = $(patsubst

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 13/16] Regenerate autotools files

2020-01-21 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jan 21, 2020, at 15:58, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:57:29PM -0500, Rich Persaud wrote: >>>> On Jan 14, 2020, at 21:42, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki >>>> wrote: >>> Since we have those generated files committed to

[Xen-devel] Making save/restore optional in toolstack, for edge/embedded derivatives

2020-01-02 Thread Rich Persaud
Linux stubdom patches currently require qemu in dom0 for consoles [1], due to the upstream toolstack need for save/restore. Until a long-term solution is available (multiple console support in xenconsoled), would tools maintainers consider a patch that made save/restore build-time configurable

Re: XenSummit 2020 *will* be held virtuaully in June!

2020-05-11 Thread Rich Persaud
 > > On May 7, 2020, at 18:50, George Dunlap wrote: > We’re still ironing out all the details, but it’s absolutely confirmed that > XenSummit 2020 will be held virtually in June. > > In addition, the new version of the Design Sessions website is now live: > >

Re: XenSummit 2020 *will* be held virtuaully in June!

2020-05-11 Thread Rich Persaud
On May 7, 2020, at 18:50, George Dunlap wrote: > > We’re still ironing out all the details, but it’s absolutely confirmed that > XenSummit 2020 will be held virtually in June. > > In addition, the new version of the Design Sessions website is now live: > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Moving Forward on XenSummit

2020-03-24 Thread Rich Persaud
On Mar 24, 2020, at 14:03, George Dunlap wrote: > > I wanted to let everyone know that the XenProject is moving forward with > plans to hold XenSummit this year, one way or another. > > There are two basic approaches the Advisory Board has been considering: > Postponing the even until later

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 2/2] Xen/PCIback: Implement PCI flr/slot/bus reset with 'reset' SysFS attribute

2020-10-19 Thread Rich Persaud
On Oct 19, 2020, at 11:52, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > >  > Den 19.10.2020 17:16, skrev Håkon Alstadheim: >> Den 19.10.2020 13:00, skrev George Dunlap: >>> >>>> On Jan 31, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Wei Liu wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2

Re: Xen 4.14.0 fails on Dell IoT Gateway without efi=no-rs

2020-08-20 Thread Rich Persaud
On Aug 20, 2020, at 07:24, George Dunlap wrote: >  >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 9:35 AM Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >> As far as making cases like this work by default, I'm afraid it'll >> need to be proposed to replace me as the maintainer of EFI code in >> Xen. I will remain on the position that

Re: [XEN RFC for-4.14] Re: use of "stat -"

2020-06-25 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jun 24, 2020, at 22:39, Jason Andryuk wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:19 PM Ian Jackson wrote: >> >> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: use of "stat -""): >>> [CAUTION - EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT reply, click links, or open attachments >>> unless you have verified the sender and know the content

Re: [PATCH v1] tools: fix usage of strncpy

2020-06-09 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jun 8, 2020, at 10:12, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Am Mon, 8 Jun 2020 08:43:50 -0400 > schrieb Jason Andryuk : > >> I added a length check in this patch: > > gcc will not recognize such runtime checks and will (most likely) complain > about the strncpy usage anyway, just as it does now in >

Re: Porting Xen to Jetson Nano

2020-07-28 Thread Rich Persaud
On Jul 28, 2020, at 13:19, Srinivas Bangalore wrote: > >  >> >> I struggled to find your comment inline as your e-mail client doesn't >> quote my answer. Please configure your e-mail client to use some form >> of quoting (the usual is '>'). >> >> [] Done! Sorry about that. > > Thanks this

Re: Saved notes for design sessions

2020-07-23 Thread Rich Persaud
> On Jul 16, 2020, at 07:55, George Dunlap wrote: > Hey all, > > PDFs of the saved shared notes for the design sessions can be found in this > zipfile: > > https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/LoJZpSq+vHKNoisVqdsPj3Z9/ > > The files are labeled with the start/end time and the room in which they

Re: [PATCH v2] xen: EXPERT clean-up and introduce UNSUPPORTED

2020-11-21 Thread Rich Persaud
 On Nov 20, 2020, at 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 19.11.2020 22:40, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 18.11.2020 22:00, Stefano Stabellini wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 18.11.2020 01:50, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>

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