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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] arm: Fix asynchronous aborts (SError exceptions) due to bogus PTEs





On 06/04/16 19:57, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
Hi Julien/Stefano,

Hi Shanker,


Any other comments to be addressed? Please propose an alternative
solution to fix the problem if this patch changes are not appropriate.

All the comments have been addressed.


On 03/28/2016 11:46 PM, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
From: Vikram Sethi <vikrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ARMv8 architecture allows performing prefetch data/instructions
from memory locations marked as normal memory. Prefetch does not
mean that the data/instruction has to be used/executed in code
flow. All PTEs that appear to be valid to MMU must contain valid
physical address with proper attributes otherwise MMU table walk
might cause imprecise asynchronous aborts.

The way current XEN code is preparing page tables for frametable
and xenheap memory can create bogus PTEs. This patch fixes the
issue by clearing page table memory before populating EL2 L0/L1
PTEs. Without this patch XEN crashes on Qualcomm Technologies
server chips due to asynchronous aborts.

The speculative/prefetch feature explanation is scattered everywhere
in ARM specification but below two sections have useful information.

E2.8 Memory types and attributes (ver DDI0487A_h)
G4.12.6 External abort on a translation table walk (ver DDI0487A_h)

Signed-off-by: Vikram Sethi <vikrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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