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Hi, I looked at the function xc_translate_foreign_address(), and see that it walks the page table of the guest VM. So at best, it should return the pfn of the guest (?) We can see taht the Later part of the function is like this: ... if (pt_levels >= 3) mfn = (pte & L0_PAGETABLE_MASK_PAE) >> PAGE_SHIFT; else mfn = (pte & L0_PAGETABLE_MASK)

This patch applies to c/s #15522. Nativedom 1:1 memory enabling - Done by "stealing" memory from Xen''s e820 at boot time. The pages are later being allocated to NativeDom using a special allocator. x86-64 ====== The 512KB-1MB region is remapped (because of the ROMs) to an address above 16MB. As far as NativeDom can see: 1. The 0-512KB

Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver This patch series is the second result of my work last summer on decreasing fragmentation of superpages in a guests'' p2m when using populate-on-demand. This patch series is against 4.1; I''m posting it to get feedback on the viability of getting a ported version of this patch into 4.2. As with the previous

The patch ''mem_event: use wait queue when ring is full'' I just sent out makes use of the waitqueue feature. There are two issues I get with the change applied: I think I got the logic right, and in my testing vcpu->pause_count drops to zero in p2m_mem_paging_resume(). But for some reason the vcpu does not make progress after the first wakeup. In my debugging there is one

This patch series is based on the VM introspection patches (https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20200721210922.7646-1-alazar at bitdefender.com/), extending the introspection API with EPT Views and Virtualization Exceptions (#VE) support. The purpose of this series is to get an initial feedback and to see if we are on the right track, especially because the changes made to add the EPT views are not small