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Re: [Xen-devel] Full Shadow Mode and phys_to_machine_mapping
On 2/21/2005 1:29 PM, Michael Vrable wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how full shadow mode is implemented; I
understand that this only works with VMX support at the moment. The
phys_to_machine_mapping function is giving me a bit of trouble.
This function seems to be used to look up an entry in the PFN-to-MFN
mapping table, which as I understand it for full shadow mode should be
maintained by Xen instead of the domain. This table can be up to 4 MB
in size. __phys_to_machine_mapping is set to point at the per-domain
virtual memory area. Isn't this area already used for per-domain
GDT/LDT mappings, leaving no room for the PFN-to-MFN table?
For VMX guests, even though the guest thinks that it's executing in physical
mode, the processor actually has paging enabled. So we need page tables which
map PFNs to MFNs. We call this the 1:1 page table.
Ian suggested that we could reuse the 1:1 page table for this purpose. This
reduces code/data duplication and we also get the support for a sparse physical
map as a bonus!
I haven't
been able to find where in the code the PFN-to-MFN table is ever
initialized, either. What am I missing?
The 1:1 page table is initialized in xc_vmx_build.c and the pdes for PFN-to-MFN
table are setup in alloc_monitor_pagetable()
-Arun
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