Jim Fehlig wrote:
On 05/27/2015 09:06 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 06:45:02PM +0300, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
>> The libxl tries to check if it's running in dom0 by parsing
>> /proc/xen/capabilities and if that fails it doesn't load.
>>
>> There's no procfs interface in Xen on FreeBSD, so this check always
>> fails.
>>
>> In addition to checking procfs, check if /dev/xen/xenstored, that's enough
to
>> check if we're running in dom0 in FreeBSD case.
>> ---
>> src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>> index 12be816..fddafa1 100644
>> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ VIR_LOG_INIT("libxl.libxl_driver");
>> #define LIBXL_CONFIG_FORMAT_SEXPR "xen-sxpr"
>>
>> #define HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES "/proc/xen/capabilities"
>> +#define HYPERVISOR_XENSTORED "/dev/xen/xenstored"
>>
>> /* Number of Xen scheduler parameters */
>> #define XEN_SCHED_CREDIT_NPARAM 2
>> @@ -427,8 +428,6 @@ static bool
>> libxlDriverShouldLoad(bool privileged)
>> {
>> bool ret = false;
>> - int status;
>> - char *output = NULL;
>>
>> /* Don't load if non-root */
>> if (!privileged) {
>> @@ -436,24 +435,27 @@ libxlDriverShouldLoad(bool privileged)
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> - if (!virFileExists(HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES)) {
>> - VIR_INFO("Disabling driver as " HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES
>> - " does not exist");
>> - return ret;
>> - }
>> - /*
>> - * Don't load if not running on a Xen control domain (dom0). It is not
>> - * sufficient to check for the file to exist as any guest can mount
>> - * xenfs to /proc/xen.
>> - */
>> - status = virFileReadAll(HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES, 10, &output);
>> - if (status >= 0)
>> - status = strncmp(output, "control_d", 9);
>> - VIR_FREE(output);
>> - if (status) {
>> - VIR_INFO("No Xen capabilities detected, probably not running
"
>> - "in a Xen Dom0. Disabling libxenlight driver");
>> -
>> + if (virFileExists(HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES)) {
>> + int status;
>> + char *output = NULL;
>> + /*
>> + * Don't load if not running on a Xen control domain (dom0). It is
not
>> + * sufficient to check for the file to exist as any guest can mount
>> + * xenfs to /proc/xen.
>> + */
>> + status = virFileReadAll(HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES, 10, &output);
>> + if (status >= 0)
>> + status = strncmp(output, "control_d", 9);
>> + VIR_FREE(output);
>> + if (status) {
>> + VIR_INFO("No Xen capabilities detected, probably not running
"
>> + "in a Xen Dom0. Disabling libxenlight
driver");
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> + }
>> + } else if (!virFileExists(HYPERVISOR_XENSTORED)) {
>> + VIR_INFO("Disabling driver as neither "
HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES
>> + " nor " HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES "
exist");
>
> s/HYPERVISOR_CAPABILITIES/HYPERVISOR_XENSTORED/
>
> ACK with that changed.
For the record, I tested this on Linux. Looks good with Martin's comment addressed.
Regards,
Jim
Thanks for giving it a test!
Is this safe to push during the freeze?
Roman Bogorodskiy