linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] xen/m2p: use GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace to reinstate the original mapping

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:17:18 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<dcrisan@...xiant.com>, <alex@...x.org.uk>,
	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] xen/m2p: use GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace to
 reinstate the original mapping

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > GNTTABOP_unmap_grant_ref unmaps a grant and replaces it with a 0
> > mapping instead of reinstating the original mapping.
> > Doing so separately would be racy.
> > 
> > To unmap a grant and reinstate the original mapping atomically we use
> > GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace.
> > GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace doesn't work with GNTMAP_contains_pte, so
> > don't use it for kmaps.  GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace zeroes the mapping
> > passed in new_addr so we have to reinstate it, however that is a
> > per-cpu mapping only used for balloon scratch pages, so we can be sure that
> > it's not going to be accessed while the mapping is not valid.
> 
> This looks to be depend on a new structure, which is not in Linux kernel?
> Are you missing a dependency patch?

Nope, GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace and struct gnttab_unmap_and_replace are
already present in include/xen/interface/grant_table.h.


> Shouldn't we use some logic to figure out which hypercall to use if the
> hypervisor does not support it?

GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace is not a new hypercall, it has been supported
by Xen for a very long time.

In a previous iteration of this patch series, I did introduce a new
hypercall, but then I dropped it because I figured out that I could
achieve the same thing with the existing hypercall.
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