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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] xen/arm: fix "xen_add_mach_to_phys_entry: cannot add" problem



On 07/07/14 21:24, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
Hi all,

Hi Stefano,

Xen support in Linux for ARM and ARM64 suffers from lack of support for
multiple mfn to pfn mappings: whenever a frontend grants the same page
multiple times to the backend, the mfn to pfn accounting in
arch/arm/xen/p2m.c fails. The issue has become critical since v3.15,
when xen-netfront/xen-netback switched from grant copies to grant
mappings, therefore causing the issue to happen much more often.

Fixing the mfn to pfn accounting in p2m.c is difficult and expensive,
therefore we are looking for alternative solutions. One idea is avoiding
mfn to pfn conversions altogether. The only code path that needs them is
swiotlb-xen:unmap_page (and single_for_cpu and single_for_device).

To avoid mfn to pfn conversions we rely on a second p2m mapping done by
Xen, see the attached patch. In Linux we use it to perform the cache
maintenance operations without mfns conversions.

I tried this series on midway with a FreeBSD guest. I got those errors in DOM0 log:

xen_add_phys_to_mach_entry: cannot add pfn=0x002d99330003cdc7 -> mfn=0x00000001002d9933: pfn=0x002d99330003e3ea -> mfn=0x00000001002d9933 already exists xen_add_phys_to_mach_entry: cannot add pfn=0x002d99330003d47a -> mfn=0x00000001002d9933: pfn=0x002d99330003e3ea -> mfn=0x00000001002d9933 already exists

It looks like you forgot to modify xen_add_phys_to_mach_entry.

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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