[Xen-devel] Problem with (Mini-OS) page-table setup

[Livio Soares <livio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hello,

  I'm  working  on small  kernel  on  top of  Xen,  and  am having  serious
headaches  after upgrading  from  Xen 3.0.3  to  Xen-unstable. The  problem
appears while I'm trying to extend my initial page-table. 

  In fact, my  page-table code was strongly based on  Mini-OS' code. I have
tried to boot  Mini-OS (as DomU) in my environment  with similar amounts of
memory (from  1024 to 2048  MiB) and Mini-OS  also crashes in  an analogous
form.  When it tries to extend its initial page-table for a "demand-paging"
area, it dies with:

"PTE for new page table page could not be updated"

  After an  unsuccessful mmu_update() call. This  is what I get  in the xen
console:

(XEN) /home/liviobs/xen-unstable.hg/xen/include/asm/mm.h:186:d43 Error pfn 
24000: rd=ffff8300cee12100, od=ffff8300ceef2100, caf=80000002, 
taf=00000000e8000001
(XEN) mm.c:649:d43 Error getting mfn 24000 (pfn 2031c) from L1 entry 
0000000024000125 for dom43

  While trying smaller memory sizes (16MiB, for example), everything works.

  I am at loss  at what could be the problem. I've  tried make sure my page
table pages  have been marked  as read-only before calling  mmu_update() to
update  the higher-level level  page-table entry.  I've trying  pinning the
page after making it read-only;  I've trying starting a new page-table from
scratch and switching to it later. 

  If anyone can give me some tips  as to what could be going wrong, I would
really  appreciate it...  starting with  trying  to make  Mini-OS work  for
larger memory sizes  (I've actually been able to  reproduce this issue with
128MiB). 

  My environment:

Host: Intel x86_64
Xen: unstable (changeset: 15521:1f348e70a5af)
GCC: 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
Dom0: Linux 2.6.18 (changeset: 103:a70de77dd8d3)

  Thanks and don't hesitate to bug me,


                            Livio

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