> -----Original Message----- > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-boun...@lists.xenproject.org] On Behalf > Of Jan Beulich > Sent: 03 January 2018 16:41 > To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > Cc: StefanoStabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Wei Liu > <wei.l...@citrix.com>; Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Tim > (Xen.org) <t...@xen.org>; George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>; > JulienGrall <julien.gr...@arm.com>; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Ian > Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v17 06/11] x86/hvm/ioreq: add a new > mappable resource type... > > >>> On 03.01.18 at 17:06, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > >> Sent: 03 January 2018 15:48 > >> To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > >> Cc: JulienGrall <julien.gr...@arm.com>; Andrew Cooper > >> <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>; George > >> Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson > <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; > >> Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; xen- > de...@lists.xenproject.org; > >> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>; Tim (Xen.org) > >> <t...@xen.org> > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 06/11] x86/hvm/ioreq: add a new mappable > >> resource type... > >> > >> >>> On 03.01.18 at 13:19, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> > +static void hvm_free_ioreq_mfn(struct hvm_ioreq_server *s, bool > buf) > >> > +{ > >> > + struct domain *d = s->domain; > >> > + struct hvm_ioreq_page *iorp = buf ? &s->bufioreq : &s->ioreq; > >> > + > >> > + if ( !iorp->page ) > >> > + return; > >> > + > >> > + page_list_add_tail(iorp->page, &d- > >> >arch.hvm_domain.ioreq_server.pages); > >> > >> Afaict s->domain is the guest, not the domain containing the > >> emulator. Hence this new model of freeing the pages is safe only > >> when the emulator domain is dead by the time the guest is being > >> cleaned up. > > > > From the investigations done w.r.t. the grant table pages I don't think this > > is the case. The emulating domain will have references on the pages and > this > > keeps the target domain in existence, only completing domain destruction > when > > the references are finally dropped. I've tested this by leaving an emulator > > running whilst I 'xl destroy' the domain; the domain remains as a zombie > > until emulator terminates. > > Oh, right, I forgot about that aspect. > > >> What is additionally confusing me is the page ownership: Wasn't > >> the (original) intention to make the pages owned by the emulator > >> domain rather than the guest? I seem to recall you referring to > >> restrictions in do_mmu_update(), but a domain should always be > >> able to map pages it owns, shouldn't it? > > > > I'm sure we had this discussion before. I am trying to make resource > mapping > > as uniform as possible so, like the grant table pages, the ioreq server > > pages > > are assigned to the target domain. Otherwise the domain trying to map > > resources has know which actual domain they are assigned to, rather than > the > > domain they relate to... which is pretty ugly. > > Didn't I suggest a slight change to the interface to actually make > this not as ugly?
Yes, you did but I didn't really want to go that way unless I absolutely had to. If you'd really prefer things that way then I'll re-work the hypercall to allow the domain owning the resource pages to be passed back. Maybe it will ultimately end up neater. > > >> Furthermore you continue to use Xen heap pages rather than > >> domain heap ones. > > > > Yes, this seems reasonable since Xen will always need mappings of the > pages > > and the aforementioned reference counting only works for Xen heap > pages AIUI. > > share_xen_page_with_guest() makes any page a Xen heap one. Oh, that's somewhat counter-intuitive. > See vmx_alloc_vlapic_mapping() for an example. > Ok, thanks. If change back to having the pages owned by the tools domain then I guess this will all be avoided anyway. Paul > Jan > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
