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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

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

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) &&

The guest handle checks should use paging_* predicates, not shadow_*. Also tidy up a few places where p2m definitions were being imported via asm/guest_access.h -> asm/shadow.h -> asm/p2m.h Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com> -- Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com> Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd. [Company #02300071, SL9 0DZ, UK.]

Hi all, Can some one tell me where phys_to_machine_mapping is being initialized for a domU having paging mode set to PG_translate. I see that, populate_physmap() after calling __alloc_xen_heap_pages only updates the machine_to_physmap but how is the mfn for the allocated page being updated/set for phys_to_machine_mapping?? I see that phys_to_machine_mapping is a #defined to RO_MPT_VIRT_START

Trying to migrate a 64bit PV guest with 64GB running medium to heavy load on xen 3.4.0, it is showing lot of soft lockups. The softlockups are causing dom0 reboot by the cluster FS. The hardware has 256GB and 32 CPUs. Looking into the hypervisor thru kdb, I see one cpu in sh_resync_all() while all other 31 appear spinning on the shadow_lock. I vaguely remember seeing some thread on this while

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!

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

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''ve recently noticed that my windows crash dumps fail at around 40-50% under GPLPV. ''xm dmesg'' shows the following: (XEN) grant_table.c:350:d0 Iomem mapping not permitted ffffffffffffffff (domain 865) At first I thought that the cause was just a bug in my grant ref code but it just occurred to me that this could be happening when Windows tries to write out the

Hi, I am really confused about NPT walks for guest page table , and eager to know the details about it. It is treated as data writes even if the access itself is a code read in AMD NPT.I just want to know : is it the same in EPT? Could anyone help me? I would like to know that very much Thank you in advance Bo Ma _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list

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

Hi all, I had posted about MCA support for Intel64 before. It had only a function to log the MCA error data received from hypervisor. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00876.html I attach patches that support not only error logging but also Page Offlining function. The page where an MCA occurs will offline and not reuse. A new flag ''PGC_reserved''

We''ve got reports of that change causing HVM data corruption issues. While I can''t see what''s wrong with the patch, I''d suggest at least reverting it from the 3.3 tree (which is what our code is based upon) for the time being. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

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

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)

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Hi all, When i do ''xm dmesg'' the last statement says "*** Serial input -> DOM0 (type ''CTRL-a'' three times to switch input to Xen)" (i have no clue what''s that supposed to mean??) But when i press ctrl-a three times at the serial console, nothing happens. Iam using minicom to connect to the serial port of xen machine. Once xen

Just found this patch in house which I thought sent out already. :-) Still one thing remaining is to special case for UP guest which suffers overhead from this change... ---- Remove lock on first guest table walk Existing shadow fault path grabs big lock before walking guest tables, to ensure consistency with shadow content lest concurrent change from other vcpu in a bad OS. But this lock