kernel/linux.git/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

xen: sysfs: make kobj_type structure constant

2023-02-18T15:50:21+00:00

Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.") the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type. Take advantage of this to constify the structure definition to prevent modification at runtime. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216-kobj_type-xen-v1-1-742423de7d71@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

drivers/xen/hypervisor: Expose Xen SIF flags to userspace

2023-02-13T05:53:19+00:00

/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 Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103130213.2129753-1-per.bilse@citrix.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

drivers/xen: use helper macro __ATTR_RW

2022-03-10T15:27:55+00:00

Use helper macro __ATTR_RW to define HYPERVISOR_ATTR_RW to make code more clear. Minor readability improvement. Remove extra whitespace [boris: added this comment] Signed-off-by: zhanglianjie Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220305133823.158961-1-zhanglianjie@uniontech.com Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation # extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen: add sysfs node for hypervisor build id

2017-06-15T06:50:37+00:00

For support of Xen hypervisor live patching the hypervisor build id is needed. Add a node /sys/hypervisor/properties/buildid containing the information. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen: add sysfs node for guest type

2017-06-15T06:50:32+00:00

Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in behavior of some instructions), add a sysfs node /sys/hypervisor/guest_type to explicitly deliver this information as it is known to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

xen: rename xen_pmu_init() in sys-hypervisor.c

2016-08-24T17:45:25+00:00

There are two functions with name xen_pmu_init() in the kernel. Rename the one in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c to avoid shadowing the one in arch/x86/xen/pmu.c To avoid the same problem in future rename some more functions. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

drivers/xen: make sys-hypervisor.c explicitly non-modular

2016-03-21T15:14:03+00:00

The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor" ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit. However one could argue that fs_initcall() might make more sense here. This change means that the one line function xen_properties_destroy() has only one user left, and since that is inside an #ifdef, we just manually inline it there vs. adding more ifdeffery around the function to avoid compile warnings about "defined but not used". In order to be consistent we also manually inline the other _destroy functions that are also just one line sysfs functions calls with only one call site remaing, even though they wouldn't need #ifdeffery. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Signed-off-by: David Vrabel