There is a corner case of using the Cloud Hypervisor on AArch64:
If the VM is started on a device where RAM is limited, and if the user
allocates nearly as much memory for the guest as is still free on the
host, we need to enable the swap memory.
This commit documented this corner case with explanation.
Also, this commit corrects the hardware requirement of the GIC interrupt
controller for running the Cloud Hypervisor on AArch64, accroding to
[1].
Fixes: https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/issues/3419
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.html
Bumping the OVMF binary version along with UEFI documentation to
reflect the latest set of patches on top of tianocore/edk2 'master'
branch, which can be found on the Cloud Hypervisor fork on 'ch' branch.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Current `Getting Started` section only contains steps for the x86_64
platform, as we have a documentation doing the same thing for AArch64,
we can point users to the correct documentation.
Also, this commit modifies the `docs/arm64.md` to fit the documentation
style within the project.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Creating some brief documentation for TDX, summarizing the links on
where to find more information about TDX, as well as how to run Cloud
Hypervisor on it.
Fixes#3318
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Fixing a few inconsistencies and extending the document to tackle
multiple devices use case, as well as having multiple devices under the
same IOMMU group.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The proper way to refer to the project is "Cloud Hypervisor" without the
hyphen in the middle. On the other hand, if one refers to the binary
name, it is "cloud-hypervisor".
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
This new document describes the available options for the parameter
`--cpus`, how to use them and what is their usage.
Fixes#3317
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The purpose is to add more info while running
spdk vhost tgt. For example, adding more info
(total_size, block_size) to describe the meaning
on creating malloc bdev inside spdk vhost tgt.
Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com>
The elements of a list should be using commas as the correct delimiter
now that it is supported. Deprecate use of colons as delimiter.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Update introduction of option `prefault`.
In addition, this commit also did the following:
- Rearrange options, synchronize order with `config.rs`.
- Break long lines in `hugepages`.
- Update old example of `hugepages` in memory zone.
Signed-off-by: Li Yu <liyu.yukiteru@bytedance.com>
Added a section in "Usage" chapter of "iommu.md" to introduce the
special behavior when virtio-iommu is working with FDT on AArch64.
Signed-off-by: Michael Zhao <michael.zhao@arm.com>
To enable live-migration for vhost-user devices, we now always shutdown
the source VM when the migration is completed. This patch reflects this
change in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
Change the block size to the standard 512 byte sector size to that
disk images can be used (since their partition tables will be specified
in terms of 512 byte sectors.)
Also remove the hugepages=on option from the command line as it is not
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
It is forbidden that the same memory zone belongs to more than one
NUMA node. This commit adds related validation to the `--numa`
parameter to prevent the user from specifying such configuration.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Replacing QCOW mentions with other viable options. There is still
docs/custom-image.md which talks about creating QCOW, however it
might be more convenient to be touched when the actual changes
are indeed there.
Related to #1985.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>
Add missing option of hugepage_size in argument of memory,
and add some details about lacking huge pages.
Signed-off-by: Yu Li <liyu.yukiteru@bytedance.com>
The edk2 upstream has already suppoorted AArch64 Cloud Hypervisor,
and hence we can use upstream edk2 in CI and doc.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
This new option allows the user to define a list of SGX EPC sections
attached to a specific NUMA node.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In order to uniquely identify each SGX EPC section, we introduce a
mandatory option `id` to the `--sgx-epc` parameter.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Simplified the build instruction on arm64.
And the binary built with default option can be used for both UEFI and
direct-kernel test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Zhao <michael.zhao@arm.com>
Make sure the unique PCI bus is tied to the default NUMA node 0, and
update the documentation to let the users know about this special case.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Some new integration tests will require the "stress" binary to be
present in the guest in order to run correctly.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Updated the obsoleted instructions and scripts, based on Open vSwitch
v2.13.1, DPDK stable v19.11.3, and Cloud Hypervisor v15.0 (on Ubuntu
20.04.1).
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
The latest kvm-sgx code has renamed sgx_virt_epc device node
to sgx_vepc. Update cloud-hypervisor code and documentation to
follow this.
Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@intel.com>
With recent kernels, it is now expected to use "bind" control from the
sysfs in order to bind a specific device to the vfio-pci driver.
The use of "new_id" is still required but it is only needed once per
device type. Let's say you want to bind two virtio-net devices, you will
need to add the device_id:vendor_id pair through "new_id", while you
will be required to use "bind" for each device.
Fixes#2545
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The MCRS method returns a 64-bit memory range descriptor. The
calculation is supposed to be done as follows:
max = min + len - 1
However, every operand is represented not as a QWORD but as combination
of two DWORDs for high and low part. Till now, the calculation was done
this way, please see also inline comments:
max.lo = min.lo + len.lo //this may overflow, need to carry over to high
max.hi = min.hi + len.hi
max.hi = max.hi - 1 // subtraction needs to happen on the low part
This calculation has been corrected the following way:
max.lo = min.lo + len.lo
max.hi = min.hi + len.hi + (max.lo < min.lo) // check for overflow
max.lo = max.lo - 1 // subtract from low part
The relevant part from the generated ASL for the MCRS method:
```
Method (MCRS, 1, Serialized)
{
Acquire (MLCK, 0xFFFF)
\_SB.MHPC.MSEL = Arg0
Name (MR64, ResourceTemplate ()
{
QWordMemory (ResourceProducer, PosDecode, MinFixed, MaxFixed, Cacheable, ReadWrite,
0x0000000000000000, // Granularity
0x0000000000000000, // Range Minimum
0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE, // Range Maximum
0x0000000000000000, // Translation Offset
0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, // Length
,, _Y00, AddressRangeMemory, TypeStatic)
})
CreateQWordField (MR64, \_SB.MHPC.MCRS._Y00._MIN, MINL) // _MIN: Minimum Base Address
CreateDWordField (MR64, 0x12, MINH)
CreateQWordField (MR64, \_SB.MHPC.MCRS._Y00._MAX, MAXL) // _MAX: Maximum Base Address
CreateDWordField (MR64, 0x1A, MAXH)
CreateQWordField (MR64, \_SB.MHPC.MCRS._Y00._LEN, LENL) // _LEN: Length
CreateDWordField (MR64, 0x2A, LENH)
MINL = \_SB.MHPC.MHBL
MINH = \_SB.MHPC.MHBH
LENL = \_SB.MHPC.MHLL
LENH = \_SB.MHPC.MHLH
MAXL = (MINL + LENL) /* \_SB_.MHPC.MCRS.LENL */
MAXH = (MINH + LENH) /* \_SB_.MHPC.MCRS.LENH */
If ((MAXL < MINL))
{
MAXH += One /* \_SB_.MHPC.MCRS.MAXH */
}
MAXL -= One
Release (MLCK)
Return (MR64) /* \_SB_.MHPC.MCRS.MR64 */
}
```
Fixes#1800.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>
Both changes aim to document the absence of the CPU hot-remove
functionality on Windows.
Closes#2457.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>
