Xen devel - Mar 2006 - Overhead incurred due to Xen for a page fault

I would like to get some help on estimating the cost of page fault handling in
Xen. Can someone help me identify where I need to put the hooks into the xen
source.

Thanks
Kris

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pak333@comcast.net wrote:
> I would like to get some help on estimating the cost of page fault  
> handling in Xen. Can someone help me identify where I need to put  
> the hooks into the xen source.
Check arch/x86/traps.c, look for the function:

asmlinkage int do_page_fault(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)

It has some hooks for measuring counts.  You can add timing information.

Note that page faults are fundamentally handled by the guest O/S, Xen  
simply forwards them.

-- Randy

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Fault path:

vmx_vmexit_handler
   vmx_do_page_fault
      shadow_fault (shadow_fault_64)

Put memory based trace code in shadow_fault_64, or, I presume, 
shadow_fault_32.
You''ll see shadow_fault_64 get entered multiple times. I believe the 
faults are as
follows:
  1. The data page fault.
  2. The fault for the gos accessing the pte.
  3. The second fault for the data page.

This is for fully virtualized mode. I have not been looking at 
paravirtualized.
I see page fault times at 20-25 usec.

regards,
Dave



pak333@comcast.net wrote:
> I would like to get some help on estimating the cost of page fault 
> handling in Xen. Can someone help me identify where I need to put the 
> hooks into the xen source.
>  
> Thanks
> Kris
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Hi, 
Thanks for the pointer for the do_page_fault function!

I need to find out whether the page fault was raised by GuestOS or HostOS inside
do_page_fault() function. Is there a way to identify this ?
If so how?

Thanks


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From: pak333@comcast.net 

I would like to get some help on estimating the cost of page fault handling in
Xen. Can someone help me identify where I need to put the hooks into the xen
source.

Thanks
Kris


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