Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V3 4/5] xen, libxc: Request page fault injection via libxc

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/07/14 13:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrei LUTAS writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V3 4/5] xen, libxc: Request 
> page fault injection via libxc"):
>> The logic with the #PF injection goes like this:
> Sorry, I didn't see this message when I sent my last one asking about
> the motivation.
>
>> - The memory introspection engine wants to inspect (for whatever reason) a
>>    virtual page X insidevirtual address space Y(inside user-mode, although
>>    with proper knowledge about the guest kernel,one can also inject #PF 
>> inside
>>    kernel-mode on Windows - proper IRQL, working set trim inactive, etc.)
> I don't understand why this needs additional hypervisor code.  Can
> this not be done by negotiating with the paging daemon ?
>
> Ian.

The purpose of this is to play with the paging algorithm inside the
guest OS, which can only be done from outside by providing pagefaults
when considered safe to do so.

This has nothing to do with xen-paging transparently playing with the
guest physical address space behind the guests back.

~Andrew



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