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[Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] libxl: Convert E820_UNUSABLE and E820_RAM to

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] libxl: Convert E820_UNUSABLE and E820_RAM to E820_UNUSABLE as appropriate
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:35:34 -0400
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# HG changeset patch
# User Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1302556594 14400
# Node ID e5a250cf820eb433b904fffe6b21dbdfe260a115
# Parent  75e24fb720fa9a1c529bc7e6b6eb9e1afc554130
libxl: Convert E820_UNUSABLE and E820_RAM to E820_UNUSABLE as appropriate.

Most machines after the RAM regions in the e802 have a couple of
E820_RESERVED, with E820_ACPI and E820_NVS. On some Intel machines, the
E820 looks like swiss cheese:

(XEN) Initial Xen-e820 RAM map:
(XEN)  0000000000000000 - 000000000009d000 (usable)
(XEN)  000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
(XEN)  0000000000100000 - 000000009cf66000 (usable)
(XEN)  000000009cf66000 - 000000009d102000 (ACPI NVS)
(XEN)  000000009d102000 - 000000009f6bd000 (usable)  <--
(XEN)  000000009f6bd000 - 000000009f6bf000 (reserved)
(XEN)  000000009f6bf000 - 000000009f714000 (usable)  <--
(XEN)  000000009f714000 - 000000009f7bf000 (ACPI NVS)
(XEN)  000000009f7bf000 - 000000009f7e0000 (usable)  <--
(XEN)  000000009f7e0000 - 000000009f7ff000 (ACPI data)
(XEN)  000000009f7ff000 - 000000009f800000 (usable)  <--
(XEN)  000000009f800000 - 00000000a0000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000a0000000 - 00000000b0000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000fc000000 - 00000000fd000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000160000000 (usable)

Which means we have to pay attention to the E820_RAM that are
between the E820_[ACPI,NVS,RESERVED]. If we remove those
E820_RAM (b/c the amount of memory passed to the guest
is less that where those E820 regions reside) from the E820, the
Linux kernel interprets those "gaps" as PCI I/O space.
This is what we are currently doing.

This can be disastrous if we pass in an Intel IGD card which tries
to use the first available PCI I/O space - and ends up
using the MFNs which are actually RAM instead of being the
PCI I/O space.

To make this work, we convert all E820_RAM that are above
the 'target_kb' (those that overlap the 'target_kb'
are truncated appropriately) to be E820_UNUSABLE. We also limit this
alternation up to 4GB. This means that an E820 for a guest
from this (target_kb=1024, maxmem=2048):

[    0.000000] Set 405658 page(s) to 1-1 mapping.
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000040000000 - 000000009cf66000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009cf66000 - 000000009d102000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f6bd000 - 000000009f6bf000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f714000 - 000000009f7bf000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f7e0000 - 000000009f7ff000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f800000 - 00000000b0000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fc000000 - 00000000fd000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140800000 (usable)


Will look as so:

[    0.000000] Set 395880 page(s) to 1-1 mapping.
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000040000000 - 000000009cf66000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009cf66000 - 000000009d102000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009d102000 - 000000009f6bd000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f6bd000 - 000000009f6bf000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f6bf000 - 000000009f714000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f714000 - 000000009f7bf000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f7bf000 - 000000009f7e0000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f7e0000 - 000000009f7ff000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f7ff000 - 000000009f800000 (unusable)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 000000009f800000 - 00000000b0000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fc000000 - 00000000fd000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  Xen: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140800000 (usable)

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 75e24fb720fa -r e5a250cf820e tools/libxl/libxl_pci.c
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_pci.c   Mon Apr 11 17:13:54 2011 -0400
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_pci.c   Mon Apr 11 17:16:34 2011 -0400
@@ -1134,22 +1134,98 @@ static int e820_sanitize(libxl_ctx *ctx,
                map_limitkb, ram_end >> 12, delta_kb, start_kb ,start >> 12,
                 balloon_kb);
 
+    /* This whole code below is to guard against if the Intel IGD is passed 
into
+     * the guest. If we don't pass in IGD, this whole code can be ignored.
+     *
+     * The reason for this code is that Intel boxes fill their E820 with
+     * E820_RAM amongst E820_RESERVED and we can't just ditch the E820_RAM.
+     * That is b/c any "gaps" in the E820 is considered PCI I/O space by
+     * Linux and it would be utilized by the Intel IGD as I/O space while
+     * in reality it was an RAM region.
+     *
+     * What this means is that we have to walk the E820 and for any region
+     * that is RAM and below 4GB and above ram_end, needs to change its type
+     * to E820_UNUSED. We also need to move some of the E820_RAM regions if
+     * the overlap with ram_end. */
+    for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+       uint64_t end = src[i].addr + src[i].size;
+
+       /* We don't care about E820_UNUSABLE, but we need to
+         * change the type to zero b/c the loop after this
+         * sticks E820_UNUSABLE on the guest's E820 but ignores
+         * the ones with type zero. */
+        if ((src[i].type == E820_UNUSABLE) ||
+           /* Any region that is within the "RAM region" can
+             * be safely ditched. */
+            (end < ram_end)) {
+               src[i].type = 0;
+                continue;
+        }
+
+        /* Look only at RAM regions. */
+       if (src[i].type != E820_RAM)
+            continue;
+
+        /* We only care about RAM regions below 4GB. */
+        if (src[i].addr >= (1ULL<<32))
+            continue;
+
+       /* E820_RAM overlaps with our RAM region. Move it */
+       if (src[i].addr < ram_end) {
+               uint64_t delta;
+
+               src[i].type = E820_UNUSABLE;
+               delta = ram_end - src[i].addr;
+               /* The end < ram_end should weed this out */
+               if (src[i].size - delta < 0)
+                       src[i].type = 0;
+               else {
+                       src[i].size -= delta;
+                       src[i].addr = ram_end;
+               }
+               if (src[i].addr + src[i].size != end) {
+                       /* We messed up somewhere */
+                       src[i].type = 0;
+                        LIBXL__LOG_ERRNO(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "Computed E820 
wrongly. Continuing on.");
+               }
+       }
+       /* Lastly, convert the RAM to UNSUABLE. Look in the Linux kernel
+           at git commit 2f14ddc3a7146ea4cd5a3d1ecd993f85f2e4f948
+            "xen/setup: Inhibit resource API from using System RAM E820
+           gaps as PCI mem gaps" for full explanation. */
+       if (end > ram_end)
+          src[i].type = E820_UNUSABLE;
+    }
+
     /* Check if there is a region between ram_end and start. */
     if (start > ram_end) {
+        int add_unusable = 1;
+        for (i = 0; i < nr && add_unusable; i++) {
+          if (src[i].type != E820_UNUSABLE)
+            continue;
+          if (ram_end != src[i].addr)
+            continue;
+          if (start != src[i].addr + src[i].size)
+            /* there is one, adjust it */
+            src[i].size = start - src[i].addr;
+
+          add_unusable = 0;
+      }
       /* .. and if not present, add it in. This is to guard against
        the Linux guest assuming that the gap between the end of
        RAM region and the start of the E820_[ACPI,NVS,RESERVED]
        is PCI I/O space. Which it certainly is _not_. */
-      e820[idx].type = E820_UNUSABLE;
-      e820[idx].addr = ram_end;
-      e820[idx].size = start - ram_end;
-      idx++;
+      if (add_unusable) {
+        e820[idx].type = E820_UNUSABLE;
+        e820[idx].addr = ram_end;
+        e820[idx].size = start - ram_end;
+        idx++;
+      }
     } 
-     /* Almost done: copy them over, ignoring the undesireable ones */
-     for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+    /* Almost done: copy them over, ignoring the undesireable ones */
+    for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
             if ((src[i].type == E820_RAM) ||
-               (src[i].type == E820_UNUSABLE) ||
-                (src[i].type == 0))
+               (src[i].type == 0))
                continue;
             e820[idx].type = src[i].type;
             e820[idx].addr = src[i].addr;



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