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Re: [Xen-devel] Is there a way to map pv guest pseudo physical address i

To: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Is there a way to map pv guest pseudo physical address into dom0?
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:17:33 +0100
Cc: Anthony, Perard <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:10 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think you want one of xc_map_* provided by libxc (see xenctrl.h). (But
> > avoid xc_map_foreign_batch which is deprecated).
> >
> 
> AFAICT, they take MFN as parameter, but I have pseudo physical addresses. :-(

You need to arrange for the Xen specific bit of the virtio frontend to
do the p2m translation. All externally visible addresses from a PV guest
must be in MFN space.

Otherwise you only option is to pause the guest and map his p2m. Which
would obviously suck.

Ian.



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