Xen traditionally allows customizing guest behavior by passing arguments
to the VM kernel via the kernel command line. This is no longer possible
when using GRUB with Xen, as the kernel command line is decided by the
GRUB configuration file within the guest, not data passed to the guest
by Xen.
To work around this limitation, enable GRUB to parse a command line
passed to it by Xen, and expose data from the command line to the GRUB
configuration as environment variables. These variables can be used in
the GRUB configuration for any desired purpose, such as extending the
kernel command line passed to the guest. The command line format is
inspired by the Linux kernel's command line format.
To reduce the risk of misuse, abuse, or accidents in production, the
command line will only be parsed if it consists entirely of 7-bit ASCII
characters, only alphabetical characters and underscores are permitted
in variable names, and all variable names must start with the string
"xen_grub_env_". This also allows room for expanding the command line
arguments accepted by GRUB in the future, should other arguments end up
becoming desirable in the future.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Add the hooks to current code needed for Xen PVH. They will be filled
with code later when the related functionality is being added.
loader/i386/linux.c needs to include machine/kernel.h now as it needs
to get GRUB_KERNEL_USE_RSDP_ADDR from there. This in turn requires to
add an empty kernel.h header for some i386 platforms (efi, coreboot,
ieee1275, xen) and for x86_64 efi.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>
grub_xen_ptr2mfn() returns the machine frame number for a given pointer
value. For Xen-PVH guests this is just the PFN. Add the PVH specific
variant.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>
Rearrange grub-core/kern/xen/init.c to prepare adding PVH mode support
to it. This includes putting some code under #ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_XEN
as it will not be used when running as PVH.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>
Initialize the grant tab in a dedicated function. This will enable
using it for PVH guests, too.
Call the new function from grub_machine_init() as this will later
be common between Xen PV and Xen PVH mode.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>
