Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] xen: allow guest_remove_page to remove p2m_mmio_direct pages

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> 06/19/14 1:08 PM >>>
>At 14:36 +0100 on 18 Jun (1403098594), Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 18.06.14 at 13:38, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Finally, how is this same situation going to be handled for PVH driver
>> domains or disaggregated PVH control domains? The
>> is_hardware_domain() here seems too much of a special case too...
>
>Agreed -- that is_hardware_domain() should be removed.  And with that
>removed, this patch has my ack.

I'm inclined to nak it with that part removed: Without it, the guest can get its
P2M out of sync wrt qemu's view, which might end up being a security issue.
IOW, no matter whether that part is there or not, there are problems, leading
us back to needing a proper solution rather than a hack like this.

Jan

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