[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Xen-devel] how to tell if a DomU (HVM) touches a specific address


  • To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Gianluca Guida <gianluca.guida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:00:48 +0200
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:01:17 -0700
  • Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Fm/vxviX23X2YEXA2sB0Cy3PC3A1F0wIQ8lkmcHTjQ7pwIRS9zW+qACIKXC2+/fzyB WqeaM+rX+OMZKd4qRAYTrLYZR6FFkX6l6Fq1eIZk7sVJudig9hToKVZQZ2+7OWHQmCTy XY12BwzlqlOsNw6gq0k6GU7Lu6kWGkMm16TJQ=
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM, James
Harper<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to know if my Windows DomU attempts to read or write (or even
> map) a certain physical address. Is there a way I could do this? Maybe
> via xentrace?

If you don't want to modify the Shadow/HAP level, an idea would be, in
case it's physical RAM, to create a dummy MMIO device. This way it
will trap at every access to the memory you're interested and be able
to look at it via xentrace/printk/etc.

Thanks,
Gianluca

-- 
It was a type of people I did not know, I found them very strange and
they did not inspire confidence at all. Later I learned that I had been
introduced to electronic engineers.
                                                  E. W. Dijkstra

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel


 


Rackspace

Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our
servers 24x7x365 and backed by RackSpace's Fanatical Support®.