Re: [Xen-devel] mini-os: arm: grant mapping

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 13:31 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Ian Campbell, le Mon 22 Sep 2014 12:09:16 +0100, a Ãcrit :
> > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 11:01 +0000, Dave Scott wrote:
> > > I also noticed that the x86 version initialises the âdemand mapping
> > > areaâ from âmax_pfnâ in mm.c. Iâm a bit suspicious about this on arm
> > > since the grant table is being mapped in somewhere pre-ordained in the
> > > device tree (If Iâm reading it correctly) and there could be an
> > > overlap (if weâre unlucky).
> > 
> > AIUI the demand mapping is for the domains own allocated memory (similar
> > to COW/allocate-OW memory on a normal Unix process), not for grant
> > mappings, but I may be confused.
> 
> No, we only implement COW for anonymous mmap and the BSS. "demand
> mapping area" is for getting virtual address space, which is used for
> mapping all kinds of things (mmap, ioremap, and here, grants).

/me stands corrected. thanks.

Ian.


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