[xen] Provide 18 4kB receive buffers to work around xen-netback bug
The Xen network backend (xen-netback) suffered from a regression
between upstream Linux kernels 3.18 and 4.2 inclusive, which would
cause packet reception to fail unless at least 18 receive buffers were
available. This bug was fixed in kernel commit 1d5d485 ("xen-netback:
require fewer guest Rx slots when not using GSO").
Work around this bug in affected versions of xen-netback by providing
the requisite 18 receive buffers.
Reported-by: Taylor Schneider <tschneider@live.com>
Tested-by: Taylor Schneider <tschneider@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[base16] Add buffer size parameter to base16_encode() and base16_decode()
The current API for Base16 (and Base64) encoding requires the caller
to always provide sufficient buffer space. This prevents the use of
the generic encoding/decoding functionality in some situations, such
as in formatting the hex setting types.
Implement a generic hex_encode() (based on the existing
format_hex_setting()), implement base16_encode() and base16_decode()
in terms of the more generic hex_encode() and hex_decode(), and update
all callers to provide the additional buffer length parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[xen] Set the "feature-rx-notify" flag for netfront devices
iPXE already sends RX notifications to the backend when needed, but
does not set the "feature-rx-notify" flag. As of XenServer 6.5, this
flag is mandatory and omitting it will cause the backend to fail.
Fix by setting the "feature-rx-notify" flag, to inform the backend
that we will send notifications.
Reported-by: Shalom Bhooshi <shalom.bhooshi@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Under some circumstances (e.g. if iPXE itself is booted via iSCSI, or
after an unclean reboot), the backend may not be in the expected
InitWait state when iPXE starts up.
There is no generic reset mechanism for Xenbus devices. Recent
versions of xen-netback will gracefully perform all of the required
steps if the frontend sets its state to Initialising. Older versions
(such as that found in XenServer 6.2.0) require the frontend to
transition through Closed before reaching Initialising.
Add a reset mechanism for netfront devices which does the following:
- read current backend state
- if backend state is anything other than InitWait, then set the
frontend state to Closed and wait for the backend to also reach
Closed
- set the frontend state to Initialising and wait for the backend to
reach InitWait.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Using version 1 grant tables limits guests to using 16TB of grantable
RAM, and prevents the use of subpage grants. Some versions of the Xen
hypervisor refuse to allow the grant table version to be set after the
first grant references have been created, so the loaded operating
system may be stuck with whatever choice we make here. We therefore
currently use version 2 grant tables, since they give the most
flexibility to the loaded OS.
Current versions (7.2.0) of the Windows PV drivers have no support for
version 2 grant tables, and will merrily create version 1 entries in
what the hypervisor believes to be a version 2 table. This causes
some confusion.
Avoid this problem by attempting to use version 1 tables, since
otherwise we may render Windows unable to boot.
Play nicely with other potential bootloaders by accepting either
version 1 or version 2 grant tables (if we are unable to set our
requested version).
Note that the use of version 1 tables on a 64-bit system introduces a
possible failure path in which a frame number cannot fit into the
32-bit field within the v1 structure. This in turn introduces
additional failure paths into netfront_transmit() and
netfront_refill_rx().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown