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Re: [PATCH 06/15] x86/PVH: keep a copy of Dom0's initial E820 map


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:57:44 +0200
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  • Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Le 12/10/2026 à 10:23, Jan Beulich a écrit :
pvh_populate_p2m() needs to populate RAM according to the initial map
established, prior to any stealing by pvh_steal_ram(). Subsequently the
invocations of those functions will (need to) move ahead of
pvh_populate_p2m(), so what to act on is no longer Dom0's memory map at
the time of invocation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  #include <xen/multiboot.h>
  #include <xen/pci.h>
  #include <xen/softirq.h>
+#include <xen/xvmalloc.h>
#include <acpi/actables.h> @@ -413,7 +414,10 @@ static void __init pvh_init_p2m(struct d
      } while ( preempted );
  }
-static int __init pvh_populate_p2m(struct domain *d)
+static int __init pvh_populate_p2m(
+    struct domain *d,
+    const struct e820entry *e820,
+    unsigned int nr_e820)
  {
      struct vcpu *v = d->vcpu[0];
      unsigned int i;
@@ -421,15 +425,15 @@ static int __init pvh_populate_p2m(struc
  #define MB1_PAGES PFN_DOWN(MB(1))
/* Populate memory map. */
-    for ( i = 0; i < d->arch.nr_e820; i++ )
+    for ( i = 0; i < nr_e820; i++ )
      {
          unsigned long addr, size;
- if ( d->arch.e820[i].type != E820_RAM )
+        if ( e820[i].type != E820_RAM )
              continue;
- addr = PFN_DOWN(d->arch.e820[i].addr);
-        size = PFN_DOWN(d->arch.e820[i].size);
+        addr = PFN_DOWN(e820[i].addr);
+        size = PFN_DOWN(e820[i].size);
rc = pvh_populate_memory_range(d, addr, size);
          if ( rc )
@@ -438,11 +442,11 @@ static int __init pvh_populate_p2m(struc
          if ( addr < MB1_PAGES )
          {
              uint64_t end = min_t(uint64_t, MB(1),
-                                 d->arch.e820[i].addr + d->arch.e820[i].size);
+                                 e820[i].addr + e820[i].size);
              enum hvm_translation_result res =
                   hvm_copy_to_guest_phys(mfn_to_maddr(_mfn(addr)),
                                          mfn_to_virt(addr),
-                                        end - d->arch.e820[i].addr,
+                                        end - e820[i].addr,
                                          v);
if ( res != HVMTRANS_okay )
@@ -1352,6 +1356,8 @@ int __init dom0_construct_pvh(const stru
      paddr_t entry, start_info;
      struct domain *d = bd->d;
      struct elf_binary elf;
+    struct e820entry *orig_e820;
+    unsigned int nr_orig_e820;
      int rc;
printk(XENLOG_INFO "*** Building a PVH Dom%d ***\n", d->domain_id);
@@ -1389,6 +1395,15 @@ int __init dom0_construct_pvh(const stru
iommu_hwdom_init(d); + nr_orig_e820 = d->arch.nr_e820;
+    orig_e820 = xvmalloc_array(struct e820entry, nr_orig_e820);
+    if ( !orig_e820 )
+    {
+        printk("No memory for copy of E820 map (%u entries)\n", nr_orig_e820);
+        return -ENOMEM;
+    }
+    memcpy(orig_e820, d->arch.e820, nr_orig_e820 * sizeof(*orig_e820));
+

I don't know if that matters much, but if anything after (pvh_place_kernel, pvh_place_acpi, ...) fails, we leak orig_e820.

      rc = pvh_place_kernel(bd, &elf, &entry);
      if ( rc )
      {
@@ -1396,13 +1411,15 @@ int __init dom0_construct_pvh(const stru
          return rc;
      }
- rc = pvh_populate_p2m(d);
+    rc = pvh_populate_p2m(d, orig_e820, nr_orig_e820);
      if ( rc )
      {
          printk("Failed to setup Dom0 physical memory map\n");
          return rc;
      }
+ xvfree(orig_e820);
+
      rc = pvh_load_kernel(bd, &elf, &start_info);
      if ( rc )
      {

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