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<title>xen: remove size limit of privcmd-buf mapping interface</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:08:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-01T12:33:07+00:00</published>
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commit 3941552aec1e04d63999988a057ae09a1c56ebeb upstream.

Currently the size of hypercall buffers allocated via
/dev/xen/hypercall is limited to a default of 64 memory pages. For live
migration of guests this might be too small as the page dirty bitmask
needs to be sized according to the size of the guest. This means
migrating a 8GB sized guest is already exhausting the default buffer
size for the dirty bitmap.

There is no sensible way to set a sane limit, so just remove it
completely. The device node's usage is limited to root anyway, so there
is no additional DOS scenario added by allowing unlimited buffers.

While at it make the error path for the -ENOMEM case a little bit
cleaner by setting n_pages to the number of successfully allocated
pages instead of the target size.

Fixes: c51b3c639e01f2 ("xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #4.18
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3941552aec1e04d63999988a057ae09a1c56ebeb upstream.

Currently the size of hypercall buffers allocated via
/dev/xen/hypercall is limited to a default of 64 memory pages. For live
migration of guests this might be too small as the page dirty bitmask
needs to be sized according to the size of the guest. This means
migrating a 8GB sized guest is already exhausting the default buffer
size for the dirty bitmap.

There is no sensible way to set a sane limit, so just remove it
completely. The device node's usage is limited to root anyway, so there
is no additional DOS scenario added by allowing unlimited buffers.

While at it make the error path for the -ENOMEM case a little bit
cleaner by setting n_pages to the number of successfully allocated
pages instead of the target size.

Fixes: c51b3c639e01f2 ("xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #4.18
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>xen/balloon: Support xend-based toolstack</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-07T20:05:38+00:00</published>
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commit 3aa6c19d2f38be9c6e9a8ad5fa8e3c9d29ee3c35 upstream.

Xend-based toolstacks don't have static-max entry in xenstore. The
equivalent node for those toolstacks is memory_static_max.

Fixes: 5266b8e4445c (xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest)
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.13
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3aa6c19d2f38be9c6e9a8ad5fa8e3c9d29ee3c35 upstream.

Xend-based toolstacks don't have static-max entry in xenstore. The
equivalent node for those toolstacks is memory_static_max.

Fixes: 5266b8e4445c (xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest)
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.13
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>xen-swiotlb: use actually allocated size on check physical continuous</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Jin</name>
<email>joe.jin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T22:21:16+00:00</published>
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commit 7250f422da0480d8512b756640f131b9b893ccda upstream.

xen_swiotlb_{alloc,free}_coherent() allocate/free memory based on the
order of the pages and not size argument (bytes). This is inconsistent with
range_straddles_page_boundary and memset which use the 'size' value,
which may lead to not exchanging memory with Xen (range_straddles_page_boundary()
returned true). And then the call to xen_swiotlb_free_coherent() would
actually try to exchange the memory with Xen, leading to the kernel
hitting an BUG (as the hypercall returned an error).

This patch fixes it by making the 'size' variable be of the same size
as the amount of memory allocated.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Helwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dongli Zhang &lt;dongli.zhang@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Sobecki &lt;john.sobecki@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7250f422da0480d8512b756640f131b9b893ccda upstream.

xen_swiotlb_{alloc,free}_coherent() allocate/free memory based on the
order of the pages and not size argument (bytes). This is inconsistent with
range_straddles_page_boundary and memset which use the 'size' value,
which may lead to not exchanging memory with Xen (range_straddles_page_boundary()
returned true). And then the call to xen_swiotlb_free_coherent() would
actually try to exchange the memory with Xen, leading to the kernel
hitting an BUG (as the hypercall returned an error).

This patch fixes it by making the 'size' variable be of the same size
as the amount of memory allocated.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Helwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dongli Zhang &lt;dongli.zhang@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Sobecki &lt;john.sobecki@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>xen: issue warning message when out of grant maptrack entries</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T15:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-19T13:42:33+00:00</published>
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When a driver domain (e.g. dom0) is running out of maptrack entries it
can't map any more foreign domain pages. Instead of silently stalling
the affected domUs issue a rate limited warning in this case in order
to make it easier to detect that situation.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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When a driver domain (e.g. dom0) is running out of maptrack entries it
can't map any more foreign domain pages. Instead of silently stalling
the affected domUs issue a rate limited warning in this case in order
to make it easier to detect that situation.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/gntdev: fix up blockable calls to mn_invl_range_start</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T12:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-04T23:21:39+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mmu_notifiers follow ups".

Tetsuo has noticed some fallouts from 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish
blockable mode for mmu notifiers").  One of them has been fixed and picked
up by AMD/DRM maintainer [1].  XEN issue is fixed by patch 1.  I have also
clarified expectations about blockable semantic of invalidate_range_end.
Finally the last patch removes MMU_INVALIDATE_DOES_NOT_BLOCK which is no
longer used nor needed.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824135257.GU29735@dhcp22.suse.cz

This patch (of 3):

93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers") has
introduced blockable parameter to all mmu_notifiers and the notifier has
to back off when called in !blockable case and it could block down the
road.

The above commit implemented that for mn_invl_range_start but both
in_range checks are done unconditionally regardless of the blockable mode
and as such they would fail all the time for regular calls.  Fix this by
checking blockable parameter as well.

Once we are there we can remove the stale TODO.  The lock has to be
sleepable because we wait for completion down in gnttab_unmap_refs_sync.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827112623.8992-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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Patch series "mmu_notifiers follow ups".

Tetsuo has noticed some fallouts from 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish
blockable mode for mmu notifiers").  One of them has been fixed and picked
up by AMD/DRM maintainer [1].  XEN issue is fixed by patch 1.  I have also
clarified expectations about blockable semantic of invalidate_range_end.
Finally the last patch removes MMU_INVALIDATE_DOES_NOT_BLOCK which is no
longer used nor needed.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824135257.GU29735@dhcp22.suse.cz

This patch (of 3):

93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers") has
introduced blockable parameter to all mmu_notifiers and the notifier has
to back off when called in !blockable case and it could block down the
road.

The above commit implemented that for mn_invl_range_start but both
in_range checks are done unconditionally regardless of the blockable mode
and as such they would fail all the time for regular calls.  Fix this by
checking blockable parameter as well.

Once we are there we can remove the stale TODO.  The lock has to be
sleepable because we wait for completion down in gnttab_unmap_refs_sync.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827112623.8992-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: fix GCC warning and remove duplicate EVTCHN_ROW/EVTCHN_COL usage</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T12:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Abraham</name>
<email>j.abraham1776@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T01:13:54+00:00</published>
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This patch removes duplicate macro useage in events_base.c.

It also fixes gcc warning:
variable ‘col’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: Joshua Abraham &lt;j.abraham1776@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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This patch removes duplicate macro useage in events_base.c.

It also fixes gcc warning:
variable ‘col’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: Joshua Abraham &lt;j.abraham1776@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: avoid crash in disable_hotplug_cpu</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T12:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olaf@aepfle.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-07T14:31:35+00:00</published>
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The command 'xl vcpu-set 0 0', issued in dom0, will crash dom0:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 7 PID: 65 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-1.ga9462db-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520UR/S5520UR, BIOS S5500.86B.01.00.0050.050620101605 05/06/2010
RIP: e030:device_offline+0x9/0xb0
Code: 77 24 00 e9 ce fe ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 68 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 29 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 ea fe ff ff 90 66 66 66 66 90 41 54 55 53 &lt;f6&gt; 87 d8 02 00 00 01 0f 85 88 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 20 09 60 81 31 f6
RSP: e02b:ffffc90040f27e80 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8801f3800000 RSI: ffffc90040f27e70 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff820e47b3 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff822e6d30
R13: dead000000000200 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffffffff8158b4e0
FS:  00007ffa595158c0(0000) GS:ffff8801f39c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 00000001d9602000 CR4: 0000000000002660
Call Trace:
 handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xb5/0xc0
 xenwatch_thread+0x80/0x140
 ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
 kthread+0x112/0x130
 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

This happens because handle_vcpu_hotplug_event is called twice. In the
first iteration cpu_present is still true, in the second iteration
cpu_present is false which causes get_cpu_device to return NULL.
In case of cpu#0, cpu_online is apparently always true.

Fix this crash by checking if the cpu can be hotplugged, which is false
for a cpu that was just removed.

Also check if the cpu was actually offlined by device_remove, otherwise
leave the cpu_present state as it is.

Rearrange to code to do all work with device_hotplug_lock held.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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The command 'xl vcpu-set 0 0', issued in dom0, will crash dom0:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 7 PID: 65 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-1.ga9462db-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520UR/S5520UR, BIOS S5500.86B.01.00.0050.050620101605 05/06/2010
RIP: e030:device_offline+0x9/0xb0
Code: 77 24 00 e9 ce fe ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 68 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 29 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 ea fe ff ff 90 66 66 66 66 90 41 54 55 53 &lt;f6&gt; 87 d8 02 00 00 01 0f 85 88 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 20 09 60 81 31 f6
RSP: e02b:ffffc90040f27e80 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8801f3800000 RSI: ffffc90040f27e70 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff820e47b3 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff822e6d30
R13: dead000000000200 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffffffff8158b4e0
FS:  00007ffa595158c0(0000) GS:ffff8801f39c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 00000001d9602000 CR4: 0000000000002660
Call Trace:
 handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xb5/0xc0
 xenwatch_thread+0x80/0x140
 ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
 kthread+0x112/0x130
 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

This happens because handle_vcpu_hotplug_event is called twice. In the
first iteration cpu_present is still true, in the second iteration
cpu_present is false which causes get_cpu_device to return NULL.
In case of cpu#0, cpu_online is apparently always true.

Fix this crash by checking if the cpu can be hotplugged, which is false
for a cpu that was just removed.

Also check if the cpu was actually offlined by device_remove, otherwise
leave the cpu_present state as it is.

Rearrange to code to do all work with device_hotplug_lock held.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T12:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Marczykowski-Górecki</name>
<email>marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-07T16:49:08+00:00</published>
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Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
(from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
returned to Xen.

Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
kicks in).
Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
switch.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki &lt;marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
(from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
returned to Xen.

Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
kicks in).
Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
switch.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki &lt;marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/manage: don't complain about an empty value in control/sysrq node</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T12:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-06T11:26:08+00:00</published>
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When guest receives a sysrq request from the host it acknowledges it by
writing '\0' to control/sysrq xenstore node. This, however, make xenstore
watch fire again but xenbus_scanf() fails to parse empty value with "%c"
format string:

 sysrq: SysRq : Emergency Sync
 Emergency Sync complete
 xen:manage: Error -34 reading sysrq code in control/sysrq

Ignore -ERANGE the same way we already ignore -ENOENT, empty value in
control/sysrq is totally legal.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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When guest receives a sysrq request from the host it acknowledges it by
writing '\0' to control/sysrq xenstore node. This, however, make xenstore
watch fire again but xenbus_scanf() fails to parse empty value with "%c"
format string:

 sysrq: SysRq : Emergency Sync
 Emergency Sync complete
 xen:manage: Error -34 reading sysrq code in control/sysrq

Ignore -ERANGE the same way we already ignore -ENOENT, empty value in
control/sysrq is totally legal.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-4.19b-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-31T15:45:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-31T15:45:16+00:00</published>
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Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross:

 - minor cleanup avoiding a warning when building with new gcc

 - a patch to add a new sysfs node for Xen frontend/backend drivers to
   make it easier to obtain the state of a pv device

 - two fixes for 32-bit pv-guests to avoid intermediate L1TF vulnerable
   PTEs

* tag 'for-linus-4.19b-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  x86/xen: remove redundant variable save_pud
  xen: export device state to sysfs
  x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear
  x86/xen: don't write ptes directly in 32-bit PV guests
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Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross:

 - minor cleanup avoiding a warning when building with new gcc

 - a patch to add a new sysfs node for Xen frontend/backend drivers to
   make it easier to obtain the state of a pv device

 - two fixes for 32-bit pv-guests to avoid intermediate L1TF vulnerable
   PTEs

* tag 'for-linus-4.19b-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  x86/xen: remove redundant variable save_pud
  xen: export device state to sysfs
  x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear
  x86/xen: don't write ptes directly in 32-bit PV guests
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