Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] auto balloon initial domain and fix dom0_mem=X inconsistencies (v5).

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:27:27PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 03/05/12 16:15, David Vrabel wrote:
> > 
> > xen: update VA mapping when releasing memory during setup
> > 
> > In xen_memory_setup(), if a page that is being released has a VA
> > mapping this must also be updated.  Otherwise, the page will be not
> > released completely -- it will still be referenced in Xen and won't be
> > freed util the mapping is removed and this prevents it from being
> > reallocated at a different PFN.
> > 
> > This was already being done for the ISA memory region in
> > xen_ident_map_ISA() but on many systems this was omitting a few pages
> > as many systems marked a few pages below the ISA memory region as
> > reserved in the e820 map.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> [...]
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> > @@ -1929,29 +1929,6 @@ static void xen_set_fixmap(unsigned idx, phys_addr_t 
> > phys, pgprot_t prot)
> >  #endif
> >  }
> >  
> > -void __init xen_ident_map_ISA(void)
> > -{
> > -   unsigned long pa;
> > -
> > -   /*
> > -    * If we're dom0, then linear map the ISA machine addresses into
> > -    * the kernel's address space.
> > -    */
> > -   if (!xen_initial_domain())
> > -           return;
> 
> It might look like this test has gone, however the new code which
> updates the VA mapping uses the e820 map and for a domU its map will not
> have a ISA region so there's no mapping to be updated.

What if you use e820_hole=1 and the pci=xx in the guest?
> 
> David
> 
> > -
> > -   xen_raw_printk("Xen: setup ISA identity maps\n");
> > -
> > -   for (pa = ISA_START_ADDRESS; pa < ISA_END_ADDRESS; pa += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > -           pte_t pte = mfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(pa), PAGE_KERNEL_IO);
> > -
> > -           if (HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(PAGE_OFFSET + pa, pte, 0))
> > -                   BUG();
> > -   }
> > -
> > -   xen_flush_tlb();
> > -}
> > -
> >  static void __init xen_post_allocator_init(void)
> >  {
> >     pv_mmu_ops.set_pte = xen_set_pte;
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > index 506a3e6..d5f8714 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > @@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ static unsigned long __init xen_do_chunk(unsigned long 
> > start,
> >  
> >     return len;
> >  }
> > +
> > +static unsigned long __init xen_release_chunk(unsigned long start,
> > +                                         unsigned long end)
> > +{
> > +   return xen_do_chunk(start, end, true);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static unsigned long __init xen_populate_chunk(
> >     const struct e820entry *list, size_t map_size,
> >     unsigned long max_pfn, unsigned long *last_pfn,
> > @@ -197,6 +204,29 @@ static unsigned long __init xen_populate_chunk(
> >     }
> >     return done;
> >  }
> > +
> > +static void __init xen_set_identity_and_release_chunk(
> > +   unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> > +   unsigned long *released, unsigned long *identity)
> > +{
> > +   unsigned long pfn;
> > +
> > +   /*
> > +    * If the PFNs are currently mapped, the VA mapping also needs
> > +    * to be updated to be 1:1.
> > +    */
> > +   for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn <= max_pfn_mapped && pfn < end_pfn; pfn++)
> > +           (void)HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(
> > +                   (unsigned long)__va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
> > +                   mfn_pte(pfn, PAGE_KERNEL_IO), 0);
> > +
> > +   if (start_pfn < nr_pages)
> > +           *released += xen_release_chunk(
> > +                   start_pfn, min(end_pfn, nr_pages));
> > +
> > +   *identity += set_phys_range_identity(start_pfn, end_pfn);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static unsigned long __init xen_set_identity_and_release(
> >     const struct e820entry *list, size_t map_size, unsigned long nr_pages)
> >  {
> > @@ -226,14 +256,11 @@ static unsigned long __init 
> > xen_set_identity_and_release(
> >                     if (entry->type == E820_RAM)
> >                             end_pfn = PFN_UP(entry->addr);
> >  
> > -                   if (start_pfn < end_pfn) {
> > -                           if (start_pfn < nr_pages)
> > -                                   released += xen_do_chunk(
> > -                                           start_pfn, min(end_pfn, 
> > nr_pages), true);
> > +                   if (start_pfn < end_pfn)
> > +                           xen_set_identity_and_release_chunk(
> > +                                   start_pfn, end_pfn, nr_pages,
> > +                                   &released, &identity);
> >  
> > -                           identity += set_phys_range_identity(
> > -                                   start_pfn, end_pfn);
> > -                   }
> >                     start = end;
> >             }
> >     }
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h b/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
> > index b095739..506fa08 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
> > @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ void xen_setup_shared_info(void);
> >  void xen_build_mfn_list_list(void);
> >  void xen_setup_machphys_mapping(void);
> >  pgd_t *xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn);
> > -void xen_ident_map_ISA(void);
> >  void xen_reserve_top(void);
> >  extern unsigned long xen_max_p2m_pfn;
> >  
> 
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