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Message-ID: <52AAE94C.7040702@citrix.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:02:36 +0000
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<george.dunlap@...citrix.com>, <ian.jackson@...citrix.com>,
	<mukesh.rathor@...cle.com>, <tim@....org>, <jbeulich@...e.com>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 05/14] xen/pvh: balloon and grant changes.

On 13/12/13 02:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> From: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@...cle.com>
> 
> For balloon changes we skip setting of local P2M as it's updated
> in Xen. For grant, the shared grant frame is the PFN and not MFN,
> hence its mapped via the same code path as HVM.

It's difficult to see how these are related.  Please split.

I also think Stefano recently submitted an equivalent fix for the
balloon driver.

> --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> @@ -1056,14 +1056,20 @@ static void gnttab_unmap_frames_v2(void)
>  static int gnttab_map(unsigned int start_idx, unsigned int end_idx)
>  {
>  	struct gnttab_setup_table setup;
> +	unsigned long start_gpfn;
>  	xen_pfn_t *frames;
>  	unsigned int nr_gframes = end_idx + 1;
>  	int rc;
>  
> -	if (xen_hvm_domain()) {
> +	if (xen_hvm_domain() || xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap)) {
>  		struct xen_add_to_physmap xatp;
>  		unsigned int i = end_idx;
>  		rc = 0;
> +
> +		if (xen_hvm_domain())
> +			start_gpfn = xen_hvm_resume_frames >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +		else
> +			start_gpfn = virt_to_pfn(gnttab_shared.addr);

Not really clear why PVH diverges from HVM here.

> @@ -1135,7 +1141,7 @@ static void gnttab_request_version(void)
>  	int rc;
>  	struct gnttab_set_version gsv;
>  
> -	if (xen_hvm_domain())
> +	if (xen_hvm_domain() || xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap))
>  		gsv.version = 1;
>  	else
>  		gsv.version = 2;

Why is PVH limited to version 1?

David
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