similar to: Some problems about xenpaging

Hello, Recently many advanced memory mechanisms are introduced into Xen. One problem we found is the conflict between p2m query and setting. For example, backend drivers always map domU’s page to its own space, during the mapping procedure, situations as follow may happen, when mfn is obtained by gfn_to_mfn(), this mfn is likely to be paged out. first case: grant mapping

The following two patches allow the parallel use of memsharing, xenpaging and xen-access by using an independent ring buffer for each feature. Please review. v2: - update mem_event_check_ring arguments, check domain rather than domain_id - check ring_full first because its value was just evaluated - check if ring buffer is initialized before calling mem_access_domctl/mem_paging_domctl

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 following two patches are about how to speed up in xenpaging when page in pages. On suse11-64 with 4G memory,if we page out 2G pages,it will cost about 15.5 seconds, but take 2088 seconds to finish paging in.If page-in costs too much time,it will cause unmesurable problems when vm or dom0 access the paged_out page,such as BSOD,crash. What鈥檚 more,the dom0 is always in high I/O pressure.

ging_prep ensures that an mfn is backing the paged-out gfn, and transitions to the next state in the paging state machine for this page. Foreign mappings of the gfn will now succeed. This is the key idea, as it allows the pager to now map the gfn and fill in its contents. Unfortunately, it also allows any other foreign mapper to map the gfn and read its contents. This is particularly dangerous

# HG changeset patch # User h00166998@h00166998.china.huawei.com # Date 1328777881 -28800 # Node ID 68eae0b487aef8349f168518f56264ce61afb0a1 # Parent 9f4640e40d4f31563885427a5a8d9eae2e110514 xenpaging:add the dealing of MEM_EVENT_FLAG_EVICT_FAIL request in tools/xenpaging If a page is nominated but not evicted,then dom0 accesses the page,it will change the page''s p2mt to be

This patch series tidies up a few bits ofthe nested p2m code. The main thing it does is reorganize the locking so that most of the changes to nested p2m tables happen only under the p2m lock, and the nestedp2m lock is only needed to reassign p2m tables to new cr3 values. Changes since v1: - a few minor fixes - more sensible flushing policy in p2m_get_nestedp2m() - smoke-tested this time!

Patrick, there following patches fix xenpaging for me. Granttable handling is incomplete. If a page is gone, a GNTST_eagain should be returned to the caller to inidcate the hypercall has to be retried after a while, until the page is available again. Please review. Olaf _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

Dear All: I am pretty new to xen-devel, please correct me in the following. Assume we have the following terms GPT: guest page table SPT: shadow page table (Question a) When guest OS is running, is it always using SPT for address translation? If it is the case, how does guest OS refer and modify its own GPT content? It seems that there is a page table entry in SPT for the GPT page. (Question

There has been some progress, but still no joy. Definitely not intended for inclusion at this point. Tim, Wei, I added a Xen command line toggle to disable IOMMU and P2M table sharing. Tim, I verified that changes to p2m-pt.c don''t break shadow mode (64bit hypervisor and Win 7 guest). Hongkaixing, I incorporated your suggestion in patch 2, so I should add your Signed-off-by eventually.

This patch series includes a series of bugs related to p2m, ept, and PoD code which were found as part of our XenServer product testing. Each of these fixes actual bugs, and the 3.4-based version of the patch has been tested thoroughly. (There may be bugs in porting the patches, but most of them are simple enough as to make it unlikely.) Each patch is conceptually independent, so they can each

2011/7/19 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>: > CC''ing Tim and xen-devel > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Jiageng Yu wrote: >> 2011/7/16 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>: >> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Jiageng Yu wrote: >> >> 2011/7/15 Jiageng Yu <yujiageng734@gmail.com>: >> >> > 2011/7/15

# HG changeset patch # User Patrick Colp <Patrick.Colp@citrix.com> # Date 1249555177 -3600 # Node ID 684c8fc69d658d058246eb9edfc8eba187ae6f2c # Parent 68e8b8379244e293c55875e7dc3692fc81d3d212 hvm emul: fix cmpxchg emulation to use an atomic operation. Currently HVM cmpxchg emulation is done by doing a normal emulated write, which is not atomic. This patch changes it to use a cmpxchg

CC''ing Tim and xen-devel On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Jiageng Yu wrote: > 2011/7/16 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>: > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Jiageng Yu wrote: > >> 2011/7/15 Jiageng Yu <yujiageng734@gmail.com>: > >> > 2011/7/15 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>: > >> >> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011,

Hi, V6: The only change from V5 is in patch #6: - changed comment to reflect autoxlate - removed a redundant ASSERT - reworked logic a bit so that get_page_from_gfn() is called with NULL for p2m type as before. arm has ASSERT wanting it to be NULL. Tim: patch 4 needs your approval. Daniel: patch 5 needs your approval. These patches implement PVH dom0. Patches 1 and 2

Hi,Olaf, I have some questions about event channel in Xenpaging to ask you. 1) In xenpaging it uses Inter-Domainain Commnication (IDC) between dom0 and domU to build bidirectional connection,but I found there is only an event channel notification from xen to dom0 when page faults happens.It seems that xenpaging_resume_page()->xc_evtchn_notify() doesn''t make any difference.So why

# HG changeset patch # User hongkaixing<hongkaixing@huawei.com> # Date 1325149704 -28800 # Node ID 052727b8165ce6e05002184ae894096214c8b537 # Parent 54a5e994a241a506900ee0e197bb42e5f1d8e759 xenpaging:add a new array to speed up page-in in xenpaging This patch adds a new array named page_out_index to reserve the victim''s index. When page in a page,it has to go through a for loop

From: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> With virtual EPT support, L1 hyerpvisor can use EPT hardware for L2 guest''s memory virtualization. In this way, L2 guest''s performance can be improved sharply. According to our testing, some benchmarks can show > 5x performance gain. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Zhang Xiantao (11):

X86: implement PCID/INVPCID for hvm This patch handle PCID/INVPCID for hvm: For hap hvm, we enable PCID/INVPCID, since no need to intercept INVPCID, and we just set INVPCID non-root behavior as running natively; For shadow hvm, we disable PCID/INVPCID, otherwise we need to emulate INVPCID at vmm by setting INVPCID non-root behavior as vmexit. Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong

The patch deals with the situation which guest OS uses unused page table pages as data pages and write data to them. The pages will still be grabbed by Xen as page table pages, and lots of unnecessary page faults occur. The patch will check if the data guest writes to the page table contains valid mfn or not, if not, we believe it is a data page now and then unshadow the page. The patch