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[PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen hypervisor behavior

From Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen hypervisor behavior
Date 2017-05-10 06:10 +0200
Message-ID <tFr6N-3LM-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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When booted as pv-guest the p2m list presented by the Xen is already
mapped to virtual addresses. In dom0 case the hypervisor might make use
of 2M- or 1G-pages for this mapping. Unfortunately while being properly
aligned in virtual and machine address space, those pages might not be
aligned properly in guest physical address space.

So when trying to obtain the guest physical address of such a page
pud_pfn() and pmd_pfn() must be avoided as those will mask away guest
physical address bits not being zero in this special case.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
index 9d9ae6650aa1..7397d8b8459d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
@@ -2025,7 +2025,8 @@ static unsigned long __init xen_read_phys_ulong(phys_addr_t addr)
 
 /*
  * Translate a virtual address to a physical one without relying on mapped
- * page tables.
+ * page tables. Don't rely on big pages being aligned in (guest) physical
+ * space!
  */
 static phys_addr_t __init xen_early_virt_to_phys(unsigned long vaddr)
 {
@@ -2046,7 +2047,7 @@ static phys_addr_t __init xen_early_virt_to_phys(unsigned long vaddr)
 						       sizeof(pud)));
 	if (!pud_present(pud))
 		return 0;
-	pa = pud_pfn(pud) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	pa = pud_val(pud) & PTE_PFN_MASK;
 	if (pud_large(pud))
 		return pa + (vaddr & ~PUD_MASK);
 
@@ -2054,7 +2055,7 @@ static phys_addr_t __init xen_early_virt_to_phys(unsigned long vaddr)
 						       sizeof(pmd)));
 	if (!pmd_present(pmd))
 		return 0;
-	pa = pmd_pfn(pmd) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	pa = pmd_val(pmd) & PTE_PFN_MASK;
 	if (pmd_large(pmd))
 		return pa + (vaddr & ~PMD_MASK);
 
-- 
2.12.0

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[PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen hypervisor behavior Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-05-10 06:10 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to  xen hypervisor behavior "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2017-05-10 10:10 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen  hypervisor behavior Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-05-10 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen hypervisor  behavior Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-10 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] xen: adjust early dom0 p2m handling to xen hypervisor  behavior Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-05-10 16:30 +0200

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