Re: [Xen-devel] pagetable RO

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 11.10.13 at 19:27, åæ<zhangzhi2022@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've read the source code of do_mmu_update and could only find that macro: 
> define_get_linear_pagetable(l2) checks whether its entry is read-only. 
> However, this function does execute only when 
> get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(mfn, PGT_l1_page_table, ...) returns an invalid 
> value. Is this the point or somewhere else about checking whether the new 
> PGT_l1_page_table as read-only ? I did not find the check points in the 
> function: get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(mfn, PGT_l1_page_table, ...) as well 
> as its sub-branch functions.

That's not how it works. A page is read-only if it's of one of the types
that require it to be and has non-zero type reference count, or if it's
of no particular type (i.e. its type reference count is zero). Any
mapping with _PAGE_RW set would cause the page to have a non-
zero type reference count and be of type PGT_writable, and hence
it couldn't be transitioned to any of the other (read-only) types. The
core function here is __get_page_type().

Jan

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