[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] tools: arm: report an error if the guest RAM is too large

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Due to the layout of the guest physical address space we cannot support more
than 768M of RAM before overrunning the area set aside for the grant table. Due
to the presence of the magic pages at the end of the RAM region guests are
actually limited to 767M.

Catch this case during domain build and fail gracefully instead of obscurely
later on.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This is the only patch in this series which I consider to be suitable for
backporting to Xen 4.4
---
 tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c      |    8 ++++++++
 xen/include/public/arch-arm.h |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
index 3330f12..c085b4a 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
@@ -262,6 +262,14 @@ int arch_setup_meminit(struct xc_dom_image *dom)
     const uint64_t modsize = dtb_size + ramdisk_size;
     const uint64_t ram128mb = rambase + (128<<20);
 
+    if ( ramend - 1 > GUEST_RAM_END - NR_MAGIC_PAGES*XC_PAGE_SIZE )
+    {
+        DOMPRINTF("%s: ram size is too large for guest address space: "
+                  "%"PRIx64" > %"PRIx64,
+                  __FUNCTION__, ramend, GUEST_RAM_END);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     rc = set_mode(dom->xch, dom->guest_domid, dom->guest_type);
     if ( rc )
         return rc;
diff --git a/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h b/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
index 7496556..dc11040 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ typedef uint64_t xen_callback_t;
 #define GUEST_GICC_BASE   0x2c002000ULL
 #define GUEST_GICC_SIZE   0x100ULL
 
-#define GUEST_RAM_BASE    0x80000000ULL
+#define GUEST_RAM_BASE    0x80000000ULL /* 768M at 2GB*/
+#define GUEST_RAM_END     0xafffffffULL
 
 #define GUEST_GNTTAB_BASE 0xb0000000ULL
 #define GUEST_GNTTAB_SIZE 0x00020000ULL
-- 
1.7.10.4


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