Re: [Xen-devel] [XEN PATCH v2 1/2] Check zone before merging adjacent blocks in heap

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 14:12 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I think we have a viable path to fixing that, by folding PGC_broken in to
> the state bits so that we can disambiguate. Will experiment.

Here, it looks something like this. First we fold PGC_broken into the
state bits giving us 8 possible states of which only 6 are currently in
use.

Then in the second patch we can move PGC_state_inuse from zero (the
default contents of the frame table at startup), and make a new state
PGC_state_uninitialised with the value zero.

We can make free_xenheap_pages() and free_domheap_pages() call
init_heap_pages() instead of free_heap_pages() if they see a page range
which is still in PGC_state_uninitialised.

We need to fix up a couple of asserts not only to cope with
PGC_state_inuse not being zero (as Julien has already looked at) but
also to take PGC_state_uninitialised pages.

In assign_pages() that's because we map the multiboot module containing
the initramfs to dom0. That might actually cross node boundaries,
contain MFN#0, etc. — so if/when that gets released by dom0 we'd want
those pages to be passed to init_heap_pages() just the same as boot-
allocated memory.

In share_xen_page_with_guest() it happens because we share all non-RAM
page frames with dom0.

(2 patches follow...)

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