Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 16/16] xen/arm: Track page accessed between batch of Set/Way operations

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 08.10.18 at 20:33, <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the moment, the implementation of Set/Way operations will go through
> all the entries of the guest P2M and flush them. However, this is very
> expensive and may render unusable a guest OS using them.
> 
> For instance, Linux 32-bit will use Set/Way operations during secondary
> CPU bring-up. As the implementation is really expensive, it may be possible
> to hit the CPU bring-up timeout.
> 
> To limit the Set/Way impact, we track what pages has been of the guest
> has been accessed between batch of Set/Way operations. This is done
> using bit[0] (aka valid bit) of the P2M entry.
> 
> This patch adds a new per-arch helper is introduced to perform actions just
> before the guest is first unpaused. This will be used to invalidate the
> P2M to track access from the start of the guest.

While I'm not opposed to the new arch hook, why don't you create the
p2m entries in their intended state right away? At the very least this
would have the benefit of confining the entire change to Arm code.

Jan



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