tools: utility to dump guest grant table info
authorDongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Sun, 2 Jul 2017 23:34:13 +0000 (07:34 +0800)
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Fri, 2 Mar 2018 16:07:18 +0000 (16:07 +0000)
commit2150db164bb6c675cfba4ccaa7b00a0fc9b07045
treebe6b2ae31a278b40cab38fc51060b2fa6210c7b1
parent90116300c45f19240b671e178da45742f94da487
tools: utility to dump guest grant table info

As both xen-netfront and xen-blkfront support multi-queue, they would
consume a lot of grant table references when there are many paravirtual
devices and vcpus assigned to guest. Guest domU might panic or hang due to
grant allocation failure when nr_grant_frames in guest has reached its max
value.

This utility would help the administrators to diagnose xen issue. There is
only one command gnttab_query_size so far to monitor the guest grant table
frame usage on dom0 side so that it is not required to debug on guest
kernel side for crash/hang analysis anymore.

It is extensible for adding new commands for more diagnostic functions and
the framework of xen-diag.c is from xen-livepatch.c.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
(cherry picked from commit df36d82e3fc91bee2ff1681fd438c815fa324b6a)

Gbp-Pq: Name tools-utility-to-dump-guest-grant-table-.patch
tools/misc/Makefile
tools/misc/xen-diag.c [new file with mode: 0644]