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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/dom0: attempt to fixup p2m page-faults for PVH dom0


  • To: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:58:20 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:58:26 +0000
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On 18.02.2025 16:44, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:35:04PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
>> +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
>> @@ -822,7 +822,8 @@ Specify the bit width of the DMA heap.
>>  
>>  ### dom0
>>      = List of [ pv | pvh, shadow=<bool>, verbose=<bool>,
>> -                cpuid-faulting=<bool>, msr-relaxed=<bool> ] (x86)
>> +                cpuid-faulting=<bool>, msr-relaxed=<bool>,
>> +                pf-fixup=<bool> ] (x86)
>>  
>>      = List of [ sve=<integer> ] (Arm64)
>>  
>> @@ -883,6 +884,19 @@ Controls for how dom0 is constructed on x86 systems.
>>  
>>      If using this option is necessary to fix an issue, please report a bug.
>>  
>> +*   The `pf-fixup` boolean is only applicable when using a PVH dom0 and
>> +    defaults to false.
> 
> I'm considering whether the default should instead be true, so that
> PVH is closer to what which regions a classic PV dom0 gets access to.

I was wondering about this too, but then thought that we may want to do
this in a separate step, once we've had some more coverage.

Jan



 


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