On 26.09.2025 06:41, Penny, Zheng wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2025 10:29 PM
>>
>> On 25.09.2025 11:41, Penny, Zheng wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2025 9:30 PM
>>>>
>>>> On 10.09.2025 09:38, Penny Zheng wrote:
>>>>> --- a/xen/include/xsm/xsm.h
>>>>> +++ b/xen/include/xsm/xsm.h
>>>>> @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ struct xsm_ops {
>>>>>      void (*security_domaininfo)(struct domain *d,
>>>>>                                  struct xen_domctl_getdomaininfo *info);
>>>>>      int (*domain_create)(struct domain *d, uint32_t ssidref);
>>>>> -    int (*getdomaininfo)(struct domain *d);
>>>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_MGMT_HYPERCALLS
>>>>> +    int (*getdomaininfo)(struct domain *d);
>>>>>      int (*domctl_scheduler_op)(struct domain *d, int op);
>>>>>      int (*sysctl_scheduler_op)(int op);
>>>>>      int (*set_target)(struct domain *d, struct domain *e); @@
>>>>> -234,7
>>>>> +234,11 @@ static inline int xsm_domain_create(
>>>>>
>>>>>  static inline int xsm_getdomaininfo(xsm_default_t def, struct
>>>>> domain
>>>>> *d)  {
>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MGMT_HYPERCALLS
>>>>>      return alternative_call(xsm_ops.getdomaininfo, d);
>>>>> +#else
>>>>> +    return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>>> +#endif
>>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> This is in use by a Xenstore sysctl and a Xenstore domctl. The sysctl
>>>> is hence already broken with the earlier series. Now the domctl is
>>>> also being screwed up. I don't think MGMT_HYPERCALLS really ought to
>>>> extend to any operations available to other than the core toolstack.
>>>> That's the Xenstore ones here, but also the ones used by qemu (whether run 
>>>> in
>> Dom0 or a stubdom).
>>>
>>> Maybe not only limited to the core toolstack. In dom0less/hyperlaunched
>> scenarios, hypercalls are strictly limited. QEMU is also limited to pvh 
>> machine type
>> and with very restricted functionality(, only acting as a few virtio-pci 
>> devices
>> backend). @Andryuk, Jason @Stabellini, Stefano Am I understanding correctly 
>> and
>> thoroughly about our scenario here for upstream?
>>> Tracking the codes, if Xenstore is created as a stub domain, it requires
>> getdomaininfo-domctl to acquire related info.  Sorry, I haven't found how it 
>> was
>> called in QEMU...
>>
>> It's not "it"; it's different ones. First and foremost I was thinking of
>>  * XEN_DOMCTL_ioport_mapping
>>  * XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping
>>  * XEN_DOMCTL_bind_pt_irq
>>  * XEN_DOMCTL_unbind_pt_irq
>> but there may be others (albeit per the dummy xsm_domctl() this is the full 
>> set). As
>> a general criteria, anything using XSM_DM_PRIV checking can in principle be
>> called by qemu.
>>
> 
> Understood.
> I assume that they are all for device passthrough. We are not accepting 
> device passthrough via core toolstack in dom0less/hyperlaunch-ed scenarios. 
> Jason has developed device passthrough through device tree to only accept 
> "static configured" passthrough in dom0less/hyperlaunch-ed scenario, while it 
> is still internal , it may be the only accept way to do device passthrough in 
> dom0less/hyperlaunch-ed scenario.

Right, but no matter what your goals, the upstream contributions need to be 
self-
consistent. I.e. not (risk to) break other functionality. (Really the four 
domctl-s
mentioned above might better have been put elsewhere, e.g. as dm-ops. Moving 
them
may be an option here.)

Jan

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