similar to: Why p2m allocation is from hap or shadow preallocated memory?

In sh_page_fault(), there are some code like following, why we think it is mmio only when paging_vcpu_mode_translate(v)? Thanks Yunhong Jiang /* What mfn is the guest trying to access? */ gfn = guest_l1e_get_gfn(gw.eff_l1e); gmfn = vcpu_gfn_to_mfn(v, gfn); mmio = (is_hvm_domain(d) && paging_vcpu_mode_translate(v) &&

Hi, I have a question about memory page tables in Xen. As far as I understood, every modification to page table will go through Xen(hypervisor). Is it so that all page tables are actually allocated in Xen(hypervisor) instead of guest OS(domain)? Also, is it the case that Xen(hypervisor) needs to maintain a page table for each process running in every domain? Thanks Haifeng

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!

Hi! Attached patch removes gfn_to_mfn_current(). It is redundant and effectively unused. All remaining users now use proper replacement function. => No functional change. While here, silence stdvga and use page_mode_hap() consequently. Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> -- ---to satisfy European Law for business letters: Advanced Micro Devices GmbH

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

I''m not seeing the problem that Fan Zhao is reporting, instead I get this one. Not sure if ti''s the same one or a different problem... This happens with my simple-guest [i.e. not using hvmloader, as I described before]. This worked fine yesterday. (XEN) event_channel.c:178:d0 EVTCHNOP failure: domain 0, error -22, line 178 (XEN) bad shared page: 0 (XEN) domain_crash_sync called

I would like to know approximately the overall execution flow when the guest O/S page fault - how is the page fault transfer to a page fault in the host O/S? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

This fixes a bug in changeset 22526:7a5ee3800417, where the wrong value is read when deciding whether to flush the VTd tables. The effect is minor: in situations where the p2m entry is changed but the mfn is the same, the VTd tables will be unnecessarily flushed. old_entry is left untouched in the second case, since having a present old_entry will cause the an unnecessary check to be taken at

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

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This patch series restores the use of superpages when restoring or migrating a VM, while retaining efficient batching of 4k pages when superpages are not appropriate or available. Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

I want to know any difference between writing, reading and shadow page table (for example performance). I am thankful for any help or resource for that. -- Best Regards Mohamad Taghi Mir Mohamad Rezaie Iran University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science & Engineering System Software Group _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list

Not just dom0. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> --- xen/arch/arm/domain.c | 3 +++ xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c | 3 --- xen/arch/arm/p2m.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c index 5702399..4b38790 100644 --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c @@

Hi Tim, Could you please have a look at this bug? Thanks a lot. http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1774 Best Regards, Yongjie Ren (Jay) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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

Hi all, I''ve been reading through the code regarding paging --> spending a lot of time in mm/*.*, as well as some of the other parts up a level or two, but I''m still unclear as to some key things. Here''s what I think I know: I think I know how a domain''s shadow page table is first allocated E.G. the hash_table is xmalloc''ed and when it is

Hi, --- background ---------------------------------------------------- * what the makedumpfile is: To shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of creating the dumpfile, makedumpfile copies only the necessary pages for analysis to the dumpfile from /proc/vmcore. You can specify the kind of unnecessary pages with dump_level. If you want to shorten the size further, enable the

Hi all, Can Xen hypervisor modify HVM domU's Shadow page table, under the dom0's context, like trapped from dom0's hypercall? I think it have to call 2 functions at least: guest_walk_tables() and flush_tlb_all(). Can these 2 functions called in dom0's context? In my test, if hypervisor tries to modify HVM's shadow page table, it will bring down the whole system. I am not

I ran a bisect to find out when Windows XP 32 bit becomes unusably slow. And I found the changeset that caused it. ========== The problem: ========== Windows 8 64 bit and 32 bit run fast and fine in the newest xen versions. Windows XP 32 bit runs unusably slow in anything new that I built from xen-unstable, but runs fast in 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 stable. While it is running slow, "xm top" or

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):