[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [PATCH 0/4] x86/PVH: Dom0 building adjustments
The code building PVH Dom0 made use of sequences of P2M changes which are disallowed as of XSA-378. First of all population of the first Mb of memory needs to be redone. Then, largely as a workaround, checking introduced by XSA-378 needs to be slightly relaxed. Note that with these adjustments I get Dom0 to start booting on my development system, but the Dom0 kernel then gets stuck. Since it was the first time for me to try PVH Dom0 in this context (see below for why I was hesitant), I cannot tell yet whether this is due further fallout from the XSA, or some further unrelated problem. Dom0's BSP is in VPF_blocked state while all APs are still in VPF_down. The 'd' debug key, unhelpfully, doesn't produce any output, so it's non-trivial to check whether (like PV likes to do) Dom0 has panic()ed without leaving any (visible) output. [And there was another rather basic issue to fight first (patch will be submitted separately): vPCI wasn't aware of hidden PCI devices, hitting an ASSERT(). Obviously I couldn't afford not having a functioning serial console.] In the course I ran into an oom condition while populating Dom0's RAM. Hence next some re-work of dom0_compute_nr_pages(). In turn in the course of putting that together I did notice that PV Dom0, when run in shadow mode, wouldn't have its shadow allocation properly set. 1: PVH: de-duplicate mappings for first Mb of Dom0 memory 2: P2M: relax guarding of MMIO entries 3: PVH: improve Dom0 memory size calculation 4: PV: properly set shadow allocation for Dom0 Jan
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