[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/6] trace: share t_info pages only in read-only mode

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There's no need to share writably the t_info pages (Dom0 only wants
[and needs] to read it)

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- 2010-06-15.orig/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c     2010-06-29 16:55:30.000000000 
+0200
+++ 2010-06-15/tools/xenmon/xenbaked.c  2010-06-28 10:23:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ typedef struct settings_st {
 } settings_t;
 
 struct t_struct {
-    struct t_info *t_info;  /* Structure with information about individual 
buffers */
+    const struct t_info *t_info; /* Structure with information about 
individual buffers */
     struct t_buf **meta;    /* Pointers to trace buffer metadata */
     unsigned char **data;   /* Pointers to trace buffer data areas */
 };
@@ -376,9 +376,8 @@ static struct t_struct *map_tbufs(unsign
     }
 
     /* Map t_info metadata structure */
-    tbufs.t_info = xc_map_foreign_range(xc_handle, DOMID_XEN,
-                                        tinfo_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-                                        tbufs_mfn);
+    tbufs.t_info = xc_map_foreign_range(xc_handle, DOMID_XEN, tinfo_size,
+                                        PROT_READ, tbufs_mfn);
 
     if ( tbufs.t_info == 0 ) 
     {
@@ -404,7 +403,8 @@ static struct t_struct *map_tbufs(unsign
     for(i=0; i<num; i++)
     {
         
-        uint32_t *mfn_list = ((uint32_t *)tbufs.t_info) + 
tbufs.t_info->mfn_offset[i];
+        const uint32_t *mfn_list = (const uint32_t *)tbufs.t_info
+                                   + tbufs.t_info->mfn_offset[i];
         int j;
         xen_pfn_t pfn_list[tbufs.t_info->tbuf_size];
 
--- 2010-06-15.orig/tools/xentrace/xentrace.c   2010-06-29 16:55:30.000000000 
+0200
+++ 2010-06-15/tools/xentrace/xentrace.c        2010-06-28 10:23:26.000000000 
+0200
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ typedef struct settings_st {
 } settings_t;
 
 struct t_struct {
-    struct t_info *t_info;  /* Structure with information about individual 
buffers */
+    const struct t_info *t_info; /* Structure with information about 
individual buffers */
     struct t_buf **meta;    /* Pointers to trace buffer metadata */
     unsigned char **data;   /* Pointers to trace buffer data areas */
 };
@@ -475,9 +475,8 @@ static struct t_struct *map_tbufs(unsign
     int i;
 
     /* Map t_info metadata structure */
-    tbufs.t_info = xc_map_foreign_range(xc_handle, DOMID_XEN,
-                                        tinfo_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-                                        tbufs_mfn);
+    tbufs.t_info = xc_map_foreign_range(xc_handle, DOMID_XEN, tinfo_size,
+                                        PROT_READ, tbufs_mfn);
 
     if ( tbufs.t_info == 0 ) 
     {
@@ -503,7 +502,8 @@ static struct t_struct *map_tbufs(unsign
     for(i=0; i<num; i++)
     {
         
-        uint32_t *mfn_list = ((uint32_t *)tbufs.t_info) + 
tbufs.t_info->mfn_offset[i];
+        const uint32_t *mfn_list = (const uint32_t *)tbufs.t_info
+                                   + tbufs.t_info->mfn_offset[i];
         int j;
         xen_pfn_t pfn_list[tbufs.t_info->tbuf_size];
 
--- 2010-06-15.orig/xen/common/trace.c  2010-06-28 12:16:05.000000000 +0200
+++ 2010-06-15/xen/common/trace.c       2010-06-28 11:58:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ void __init init_trace_bufs(void)
 
     for(i=0; i<T_INFO_PAGES; i++)
         share_xen_page_with_privileged_guests(
-            virt_to_page(t_info) + i, XENSHARE_writable);
+            virt_to_page(t_info) + i, XENSHARE_readonly);
 
     if ( opt_tbuf_size == 0 )
     {

Attachment: trace-t_info-readonly.patch
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