It has its uses in a domU as well as dom0. Xen will prevent an
unprivileged domain from doing anything untoward.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
The privcmd interface in xenfs allows the tool stack in the privileged
domain to get fairly direct access to the hypervisor in order to do
various management things such as domain construction.
[ Impact: new xenfs interface for privileged operations ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
These are used by the userspace xenstore daemon, which runs in dom0.
Xenstored is what's behind the xenfs "xenbus" filesystem.
[ Impact: provide mapping and port to usermode for xenstore ]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
The xenfs filesystem exports various interfaces to usermode. Initially
this exports a file to allow usermode to interact with xenbus/xenstore.
Traditionally this appeared in /proc/xen. Rather than extending procfs,
this patch adds a backward-compat mountpoint on /proc/xen, and provides
a xenfs filesystem which can be mounted there.
Signed-off-by: Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge