2023-02-13 08:17:46

by Jürgen Groß

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drivers/xen/hypervisor: Expose Xen SIF flags to userspace

On 03.01.23 14:02, Per Bilse wrote:
> /proc/xen is a legacy pseudo filesystem which predates Xen support
> getting merged into Linux. It has largely been replaced with more
> normal locations for data (/sys/hypervisor/ for info, /dev/xen/ for
> user devices). We want to compile xenfs support out of the dom0 kernel.
>
> There is one item which only exists in /proc/xen, namely
> /proc/xen/capabilities with "control_d" being the signal of "you're in
> the control domain". This ultimately comes from the SIF flags provided
> at VM start.
>
> This patch exposes all SIF flags in /sys/hypervisor/start_flags/ as
> boolean files, one for each bit, returning '1' if set, '0' otherwise.
> Two known flags, 'privileged' and 'initdomain', are explicitly named,
> and all remaining flags can be accessed via generically named files,
> as suggested by Andrew Cooper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Per Bilse <[email protected]>

Pushed to xen/tip.got for-linus-6.3


Juergen


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