Commit f7116284 authored by Ian Campbell's avatar Ian Campbell Committed by Jeremy Fitzhardinge

xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver

This driver is used by application which wish to receive notifications
from the hypervisor or other guests via Xen's event channel
mechanism. In particular it is used by the xenstore daemon in domain
0.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
parent d4c04536
......@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ config XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
secure, but slightly less efficient.
If in doubt, say yes.
config XEN_DEV_EVTCHN
tristate "Xen /dev/xen/evtchn device"
depends on XEN
default y
help
The evtchn driver allows a userspace process to triger event
channels and to receive notification of an event channel
firing.
If in doubt, say yes.
config XENFS
tristate "Xen filesystem"
depends on XEN
......
......@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ obj-y += xenbus/
obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) += cpu_hotplug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_XENCOMM) += xencomm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON) += balloon.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XENFS) += xenfs/
\ No newline at end of file
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN) += evtchn.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XENFS) += xenfs/
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/******************************************************************************
* evtchn.h
*
* Interface to /dev/xen/evtchn.
*
* Copyright (c) 2003-2005, K A Fraser
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; or, when distributed
* separately from the Linux kernel or incorporated into other
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*
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*
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*/
#ifndef __LINUX_PUBLIC_EVTCHN_H__
#define __LINUX_PUBLIC_EVTCHN_H__
/*
* Bind a fresh port to VIRQ @virq.
* Return allocated port.
*/
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_BIND_VIRQ \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 0, sizeof(struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_virq))
struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_virq {
unsigned int virq;
};
/*
* Bind a fresh port to remote <@remote_domain, @remote_port>.
* Return allocated port.
*/
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_BIND_INTERDOMAIN \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 1, sizeof(struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_interdomain))
struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_interdomain {
unsigned int remote_domain, remote_port;
};
/*
* Allocate a fresh port for binding to @remote_domain.
* Return allocated port.
*/
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_BIND_UNBOUND_PORT \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 2, sizeof(struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_unbound_port))
struct ioctl_evtchn_bind_unbound_port {
unsigned int remote_domain;
};
/*
* Unbind previously allocated @port.
*/
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_UNBIND \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 3, sizeof(struct ioctl_evtchn_unbind))
struct ioctl_evtchn_unbind {
unsigned int port;
};
/*
* Unbind previously allocated @port.
*/
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_NOTIFY \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 4, sizeof(struct ioctl_evtchn_notify))
struct ioctl_evtchn_notify {
unsigned int port;
};
/* Clear and reinitialise the event buffer. Clear error condition. */
#define IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESET \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'E', 5, 0)
#endif /* __LINUX_PUBLIC_EVTCHN_H__ */
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