similar to: [PATCH 0 of 5] v2: Nested-p2m cleanups and locking changes

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):

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

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) &&

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

And can we make p2m memory allocation from domain heap directly? -Xin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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 .

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

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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

Another bundle of issues from Coverity triage. The first one is in x86/mm, and looks scarier than it is. The others are all in xen/drivers and AFAICT are pretty minor. Cheers, Tim.

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

Tim, was it really intended for "x86/hvm: use unlocked p2m lookups in hvmemul_rep_movs()" to special case p2m_mmio_dm but not p2m_mmio_direct? Jan

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

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

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.]

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, all I''m reading the code of QEMU''s virtio infrastructure (hw/virtio.c) and Linux''s virtio driver (virtio_blk.c, virtio_net.c). Virtio drivers utilize scatter gather infrastructure in the Linux kernel. It stores the physical addresses in scatter list. In Xen''s hvm case, QEMU can access guest address space with cpu_physical_memory_map. However, in

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, 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