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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:59:25 +0200
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] xen: add capability to remap non-RAM pages to
different PFNs
On 20.08.24 11:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.08.2024 10:20, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> When running as a Xen PV dom0 it can happen that the kernel is being
>> loaded to a guest physical address conflicting with the host memory
>> map.
>>
>> In order to be able to resolve this conflict, add the capability to
>> remap non-RAM areas to different guest PFNs. A function to use this
>> remapping information for other purposes than doing the remap will be
>> added when needed.
>>
>> As the number of conflicts should be rather low (currently only
>> machines with max. 1 conflict are known), save the remap data in a
>> small statically allocated array.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>> ---
>> V2:
>> - split off from patch 5 of V1 of the series
>> - moved to p2m.c
>> ---
>> arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 3 ++
>> 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
>> index 7c735b730acd..bb55e0fe1a04 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
>> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
>> #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
>> #include <xen/balloon.h>
>> #include <xen/grant_table.h>
>> +#include <xen/hvc-console.h>
>>
>> #include "xen-ops.h"
>>
>> @@ -792,6 +793,70 @@ int clear_foreign_p2m_mapping(struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref *unmap_ops,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> +/* Remapped non-RAM areas */
>> +#define NR_NONRAM_REMAP 4
>> +static struct nonram_remap {
>> + phys_addr_t maddr;
>> + phys_addr_t paddr;
>> + unsigned long size;
>
> size_t?
Fine with me.
>
>> +} xen_nonram_remap[NR_NONRAM_REMAP];
>> +static unsigned int nr_nonram_remap;
>
> Both __initdata? Or, considering patch 6, at least __ro_after_init?
__ro_after_init should be fine.
>
>> +/*
>> + * Do the real remapping of non-RAM regions as specified in the
>> + * xen_nonram_remap[] array.
>> + * In case of an error just crash the system.
>> + */
>> +void __init xen_do_remap_nonram(void)
>> +{
>> + unsigned int i;
>> + unsigned int remapped = 0;
>> + struct nonram_remap *remap = xen_nonram_remap;
>> + unsigned long pfn, mfn, len;
>> +
>> + if (!nr_nonram_remap)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < nr_nonram_remap; i++) {
>> + pfn = PFN_DOWN(remap->paddr);
>> + mfn = PFN_DOWN(remap->maddr);
>> + for (len = 0; len < remap->size; len += PAGE_SIZE) {
>> + if (!set_phys_to_machine(pfn, mfn)) {
>> + pr_err("Failed to set p2m mapping for pfn=%ld mfn=%ld\n",
>
> I'm not convinced that frame numbers logged in decimal are overly useful.
I agree. Will switch to hex.
>
>> + pfn, mfn);
>> + BUG();
>> + }
>> +
>> + pfn++;
>> + mfn++;
>> + remapped++;
>> + }
>> +
>> + remap++;
>> + }
>> +
>> + pr_info("Remapped %u non-RAM page(s)\n", remapped);
>
> This message may be useful in a log also when nothing was remapped - maybe
> drop the initial if()?
Fine with me.
>
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Add a new non-RAM remap entry.
>> + * In case of no free entry found, just crash the system.
>> + */
>> +void __init xen_add_remap_nonram(phys_addr_t maddr, phys_addr_t paddr,
>> + unsigned long size)
>> +{
>> + if (nr_nonram_remap == NR_NONRAM_REMAP) {
>> + xen_raw_console_write("Number of required E820 entry remapping actions exceed maximum value\n");
>> + BUG();
>> + }
>> +
>> + xen_nonram_remap[nr_nonram_remap].maddr = maddr;
>> + xen_nonram_remap[nr_nonram_remap].paddr = paddr;
>> + xen_nonram_remap[nr_nonram_remap].size = size;
>> +
>> + nr_nonram_remap++;
>> +}
>
> You don't enforce any constraints on the addresses / size here. With
> this the loop in xen_do_remap_nonram() may terminate too early if non-
> page-aligned values were passed into here. Both addresses not having
> the same offset-into-page may also end up anomalous. Might be worth
> switching to frame numbers / number-of-pages for the tracking struct.
Hmm, I'd like to at least WARN() in case someone tries to access a remapped
area out of bounds, which requires to keep the original non-page-aligned
values.
I'll fix the xen_do_remap_nonram() loop.
Juergen
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