linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/21] Xen-paravirt: paravirt

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:34:28 -0800
From:	Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 05/21] Xen-paravirt: paravirt_ops: allocate a fixmap slot

On 02/13/2007 05:36 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Dan Hecht wrote:
>> Why doesn't Xen allocate the shared_info page from the pseudo-physical
>> space?  Doesn't it already have to steal pages from the
>> pseudo-physical space for e.g. initial page tables, console, etc?  Why
>> not do the same for shared_info, and then you don't need a reserve the
>> fixmap slot.
> 
> Unlike the pagetable pages or the console page, the shared info page
> doesn't have a pseudo-physical address, so in order to map it we need to
> directly construct a pte containing the mfn for that page. 

Right.  But that is only because Xen decides to allocate the page from 
the (machine) physical space, rather than from the pseudo-physical 
space.  My question is: why doesn't Xen allocate shared_info from the 
pseudo-physical space?  If it had, then this page wouldn't need to be 
treated specially.  I'm not sure, but I seem to remember on 64-bit 
Xen/XenLinux allocated shared_info from pseudo-physical space already...

  Inserting
> this mapping into the fixmap space seems like the easiest way to do
> this.  It's not like a fixmap slot costs anything.
> 
>

I don't really have an objection to stealing a fixmap slot, just seems 
cleaner if you didn't have to special case the shared_info.

Dan
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