Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754828Ab3JFUwp (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:52:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:36910 "EHLO mail-wi0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754698Ab3JFUwn (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: <5251CD98.70807@linaro.org> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:52:40 +0100 From: Julien Grall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: ian.campbell@citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/hvc-console: Make it work with HVM guests. References: <1380317117-21719-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <5245FD71.3080408@linaro.org> <20130930144513.GM3106@phenom.dumpdata.com> In-Reply-To: <20130930144513.GM3106@phenom.dumpdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3677 Lines: 117 On 09/30/2013 03:45 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:49:37PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> On 09/27/2013 10:25 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> >>> @@ -641,7 +641,20 @@ struct console xenboot_console = { >>> >>> void xen_raw_console_write(const char *str) >>> { >>> - dom0_write_console(0, str, strlen(str)); >>> + ssize_t len = strlen(str); >>> + int rc = 0; >>> + >>> + if (xen_domain()) { >>> + dom0_write_console(0, str, len); >>> + if (rc == -ENOSYS && xen_hvm_domain()) >>> + goto outb_print; >>> + >>> + } else if (xen_cpuid_base()) { >>> + int i; >>> +outb_print: >>> + for (i = 0; i < len; i++) >>> + outb(str[i], 0xe9); >>> + } >>> } >> >> xen_cpuid_base and outb(0xe9) is x86 specific and won't compile on ARM. > > Odd, I see outb defined in arch/arm and arch/arm64 ?(arch/arm[|64]/include/asm.io.h) On ARM32 the IO access is memory mapped (the exact address depends on Linux configuration). The main problem is not the outb macro but the ioport 0xe9.On ARM, this ioport is not trapped by Xen. > You are of course right about xen_cpuid_base. > > How about this: For the ARM side, the code looks good. > From 04b772d2b819f0dda2163e3193fa7cd447a6245c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:18:13 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] xen/hvc: If we use xen_raw_printk let it also work on HVM > guests. > > The xen_raw_printk works great for debugging purposes. We use > for PV guests and we can also use it for HVM guests. > > However, for HVM guests we have a fallback of using the 0xe9 > port in case the hypervisor does not support an HVM guest of > using the console_io hypercall. As such lets use 0xe9 during > early bootup, and once the hyper-page is setup and if the > console_io hypercall is supported - use that. Otherwise we > will fallback to using the 0xe9 after early bootup. > > We also alter the return value for dom0_write_console to return > an error value instead of zero. The HVC API has been supporting > returning error values for quite some time. > > P.S. > To use (and to see the output in the Xen ring buffer) one has to build > the hypervisor with 'debug=y'. > > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > [v1: ifdef xen_cpuid_base as it is X86 specific] > --- > drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c > index e61c36c..6458c9f 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c > @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int dom0_write_console(uint32_t vtermno, const char *str, int len) > { > int rc = HYPERVISOR_console_io(CONSOLEIO_write, len, (char *)str); > if (rc < 0) > - return 0; > + return rc; > > return len; > } > @@ -641,7 +641,22 @@ struct console xenboot_console = { > > void xen_raw_console_write(const char *str) > { > - dom0_write_console(0, str, strlen(str)); > + ssize_t len = strlen(str); > + int rc = 0; > + > + if (xen_domain()) { > + rc = dom0_write_console(0, str, len); > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86 > + if (rc == -ENOSYS && xen_hvm_domain()) > + goto outb_print; > + > + } else if (xen_cpuid_base()) { > + int i; > +outb_print: > + for (i = 0; i < len; i++) > + outb(str[i], 0xe9); > +#endif > + } > } > > void xen_raw_printk(const char *fmt, ...) > -- Julien Grall -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/