[Xen-devel] How hypervisor accesses machine address

[LIU Wei <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all

The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor writes: "The hypervisor
already has all of the pages in physical memory mapped into its
address space..."

So, I do following experiment. All operations are done in the
hypervisor, in a hypercall written by myself:

1. provide a mfn, denoted as maddr, which refers to a machine frame of
   an running domain.

2. calculate vaddr=__va(maddr) .

3. access this page through vaddr.

But Xen generates a fatal page fault and the whole system hangs. Since
I'm not very familiar with memory management issue, I don't know how
to let the hypervisor access arbitary machine address. Did I
use wrong macro/function? Or did I misunderstand the book? Any one
can give me a hint?

Thanks in advanced.

Wei LIU

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