[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Grant table version
On 28.10.2013 19:39, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 28/10/13 18:06, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Hello, all. I'm working on pvgrub2 and my problem is following: >> When you first use grant tables you commit yourself to a particular >> grant table version. GRUB has to read from disk and hence use grant >> tables. By doing so it commits anything that it loads to the same version. >> Would it be possible to have a hypercall to reset grant table version? >> Of course, before doing such a call one would need to revoke all grants >> or this call would discard all current grants. > > You can change back and forth with grant table versions using the > GNTTABOP_set_version hypercall, so long as you have no active grants. > > It is not possible to revoke a grant, as the grant ABI guarantees that a > successful grant stays mapped until explicitly unmapped. Otherwise, a > reset would cause unexpected pagefaults in the mapper domain. > > For compatibility reasons it is not strictly required, but it is > certainly expected that a new kernel explicitly chooses a gnttab version > using the hypercall. There is certainly an area for problems if pvgrub2 > uses grant v2, then leaves v2 active and hands off to an older kernel > who expects v1 and doesn't explicitly set the version. > > From this point of view, the safe course of action is to use whichever > type of grants you want, then tear down all the front/back pairs, and > reset the version to v1 before handing off. > Thank you, that's what I did now. > ~Andrew > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel > Attachment:
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