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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] Nested p2m: clarify logic in p2m_get_nest

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] Nested p2m: clarify logic in p2m_get_nestedp2m()
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:53:36 +0200
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On 06/24/11 16:37, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 15:25 +0100 on 24 Jun (1308929140), Christoph Egger wrote:
diff -r dcb8ae5e3eaf -r b265371addbb xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c     Wed Jun 22 17:04:08 2011 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c     Wed Jun 22 17:04:08 2011 +0100
@@ -1131,11 +1131,9 @@ p2m_get_nestedp2m(struct vcpu *v, uint64

       d = v->domain;
       nestedp2m_lock(d);
-    for (i = 0; i<   MAX_NESTEDP2M; i++) {
-        p2m = d->arch.nested_p2m[i];
-        if ((p2m->cr3 != cr3&&   p2m->cr3 != CR3_EADDR) || (p2m != nv->nv_p2m))
-            continue;
-
+    p2m = nv->nv_p2m;
+    if ( p2m&&   (p2m->cr3 == cr3 || p2m->cr3 == CR3_EADDR) )
+    {
           nv->nv_flushp2m = 0;
           p2m_getlru_nestedp2m(d, p2m);
           nv->nv_p2m = p2m;



Ok, thanks.

In p2m_get_nestedp2m() replace this code hunk

      for (i = 0; i<  MAX_NESTEDP2M; i++) {
          p2m = p2m_getlru_nestedp2m(d, NULL);
          p2m_flush_locked(p2m);
      }

with

      p2m = p2m_getlru_nestedp2m(d, NULL);
      p2m_flush_locked(p2m);

That seems like an improvement.  I'll put it into my queue.

More generally, I think that you need to figure out exactly what
behaviour you want from this function.  For example in the current code
there's no way that two vcpus with the same ncr3 value can share a
nested-p2m.  Is that deliberate?


By 'current code' do you mean with or w/o this patch ?

It is deliberate that two vcpus with the same ncr3 share a nested-p2m.
But fixing the p2m locking problem in upstream tree has a higher
priority right now and we can work on that after the p2m locking
issue is fixed upstream.

Christoph


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