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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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Hi, all Page offline can be used by many purpose, like memory offline, memory power management, proactive action when multiple CE error happen to one page etc. In virtualization environment without guest offline support, we think offline a page usually means replace the old page with a new one transparently to guest. Currently we are trying to add page offline support in Xen environment .

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.

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We recently observed a problem with Solaris HVM domains. The bug was seen was seen with a higher number of VCPUs (3 or more), and always had the same pattern: some memory was allocated in the guest, but the first reference caused it to crash with a fatal pagefault. However, on inspection of the page tables, the guests'' view of the pagetables was consistent: the page was present.

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

Hi Keir The latest (hybrid) patchset again... Change from v4: 1. Add support for PV clocksource on HVM. (Replace evtchn enabling with pv clock enabling). 2. Update the patch following Tim''s comments. Change from v3: 1. Minor polish the patchset. Replace several specific is_hvm_pv_evtchn_domain() judgement. 2. Name changed... Change from v2: 1. Change the name "hybrid"

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):