Re: [PATCH] x86/pvh: fix population of the low 1MB for dom0

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 24.01.2022 16:23, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> RMRRs are setup ahead of populating the p2m and hence the ASSERT when
> populating the low 1MB needs to be relaxed when it finds an existing
> entry: it's either RAM or a RMRR resulting from the IOMMU setup.
> 
> Rework the logic a bit and introduce a local mfn variable in order to
> assert that if the gfn is populated and not RAM it is an identity map.
> 
> Fixes: 6b4f6a31ac ('x86/PVH: de-duplicate mappings for first Mb of Dom0 
> memory')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
albeit ...

> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
> @@ -466,11 +466,17 @@ static int __init pvh_populate_p2m(struct domain *d)
>      for ( i = rc = 0; i < MB1_PAGES; ++i )
>      {
>          p2m_type_t p2mt;
> +        mfn_t mfn;
>  
> -        if ( mfn_eq(get_gfn_query(d, i, &p2mt), INVALID_MFN) )
> +        mfn = get_gfn_query(d, i, &p2mt);

... preferably with this becoming the initializer of the variable then
and ...

> +        if ( mfn_eq(mfn, INVALID_MFN) )
>              rc = set_mmio_p2m_entry(d, _gfn(i), _mfn(i), PAGE_ORDER_4K);
> -        else
> -            ASSERT(p2mt == p2m_ram_rw);
> +        else if ( p2mt != p2m_ram_rw && !mfn_eq(mfn, _mfn(i)) )
> +                /*
> +                 * If the p2m entry is already set it must belong to a RMRR 
> and
> +                 * already be identity mapped, or be a RAM region.
> +                 */
> +                ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();

... (not just preferably) indentation reduced by a level here. (I wonder
why you didn't simply extend the existing ASSERT() - ASSERT_UNREACHABLE()
is nice in certain cases, but the expression it logs is entirely unhelpful
for disambiguating the reason without looking at the source.)

Jan