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[103.229.18.19]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r11sm37416569pgn.35.2017.06.06.03.05.15 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:05:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhupinder Thakur To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:35:12 +0530 Message-Id: <1496743512-16142-1-git-send-email-bhupinder.thakur@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Cc: Wei Liu , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Ian Jackson Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 14/14 v4] xen/arm: vpl011: Update documentation for vuart console support X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xen.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 1. Update documentation for a new vuart option added. 2. Update documentation about SPI irq reserved for vpl011. Signed-off-by: Bhupinder Thakur Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini Acked-by: Wei Liu --- docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in | 9 +++++++++ docs/misc/console.txt | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in index 13167ff..3397cda 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in @@ -1085,6 +1085,15 @@ Allow a guest to access specific physical IRQs. It is recommended to use this option only for trusted VMs under administrator control. +If the virtual uart is enabled then irq 32 is reserved for it. By +default, it is disabled. If the user specifies the following option in +the VM config file then the vuart gets enabled. Today, only the +"pl011" model is supported. + +vuart = "pl011" + +Currently vuart console is available only for ARM64. + =item B Limit the guest to using at most N event channels (PV interrupts). diff --git a/docs/misc/console.txt b/docs/misc/console.txt index 16da805..48fe914 100644 --- a/docs/misc/console.txt +++ b/docs/misc/console.txt @@ -19,7 +19,20 @@ The first PV console path in xenstore remains: /local/domain/$DOMID/console -the other PV consoles follow the conventional xenstore device path and +The virtual UART console path in xenstore is defined as: + +/local/domain/$DOMID/vuart/0 + +The vuart console provides access to a virtual pl011 UART on ARM64 systems. +To enable vuart the following line has to be added to the guest configuration +file: + +vuart = "pl011" + +In Linux you can select the virtual pl011 UART by using the "ttyAMA0" +console instead of "hvc0". + +The other PV consoles follow the conventional xenstore device path and live in: /local/domain/$DOMID/device/console/$DEVID. @@ -61,6 +74,14 @@ output = pty The backend will write the pty device name to the "tty" node in the console frontend. +For the PV console the tty node is added at + +/local/domain/$DOMID/console/tty + +For the virtual UART console the tty node is added at + +/local/domain/$DOMID/vuart/0/tty + If the toolstack wants a listening Unix domain socket to be created at path , a connection accepted and data proxied to the console, it will write: @@ -79,8 +100,8 @@ For example: ioemu The supported values are only xenconsoled or ioemu; xenconsoled has -several limitations: it can only be used for the first PV console and it -can only connect to a pty. +several limitations: it can only be used for the first PV or virtual UART +console and it can only connect to a pty. Emulated serials are provided by qemu-dm only to hvm guests; the number of emulated serials depends on how many "-serial" command line options @@ -90,14 +111,15 @@ xenstore in the following path: /local/domain/$DOMID/serial/$SERIAL_NUM/tty -xenconsole is the tool to connect to a PV console or an emulated serial -that has a pty as output. Xenconsole takes a domid as parameter plus an -optional console type (pv for PV consoles or serial for emulated -serials) and console number. Depending on the type and console -number, xenconsole will look for the tty node in different xenstore -paths, as described above. If the user doesn't specify the console type -xenconsole will try to guess: if the guest is a pv guest it defaults to -PV console, if the guest is an hvm guest it defaults to emulated serial. +xenconsole is the tool to connect to a PV or virtual UART console or an +emulated serial that has a pty as output. Xenconsole takes a domid as +parameter plus an optional console type (pv for PV consoles, vuart for +virtual UART or serial for emulated serials) and console number. +Depending on the type and console number, xenconsole will look for the tty +node in different xenstore paths, as described above. If the user doesn't +specify the console type xenconsole will try to guess: if the guest is a pv +guest it defaults to PV console, if the guest is an hvm guest it defaults to +emulated serial. By default xl creates a pv console for hvm guests, plus an emulated serial if the user specified 'serial = "pty"' in the VM config file.