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, 11 Jan 2019 18:01:30 +0000 (18:01 +0000)
commitaeef1d0279c3e04bf1e9b9c385ce065939f32fe8
tree5663c827370060450fdd281aecbe98029509b105
parent632022c1a0bee86d4df58f72836b6384611b05f8
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 0030-tools-utility-to-dump-guest-grant-table-info.patch
tools/misc/Makefile
tools/misc/xen-diag.c [new file with mode: 0644]