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  1. Jan 31, 2014
    • Zoltan Kiss's avatar
      xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping · 08ece5bb
      Zoltan Kiss authored 
      

The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it,
for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as
those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following:
- the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a new
  parameter m2p_override
- based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or just set
  the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine
- gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs with
  m2p_override false
- a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old behaviour

It also removes a stray space from page.h and change ret to 0 if
XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap, as that is the only possible return value
there.

v2:
- move the storing of the old mfn in page->index to gnttab_map_refs
- move the function header update to a separate patch

v3:
- a new approach to retain old behaviour where it needed
- squash the patches into one

v4:
- move out the common bits from m2p* functions, and pass pfn/mfn as parameter
- clear page->private before doing anything with the page, so m2p_find_override
  won't race with this

v5:
- change return value handling in __gnttab_[un]map_refs
- remove a stray space in page.h
- add detail why ret = 0 now at some places

v6:
- don't pass pfn to m2p* functions, just get it locally

Signed-off-by: default avatarZoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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  3. Jan 30, 2014
  5. Jan 22, 2014
    • Roger Pau Monne's avatar
      xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2) · c9f6e997
      Roger Pau Monne authored 
      

otherwise we will get for some user-space applications
that use 'clone' with CLONE_CHILD_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID
end up hitting an assert in glibc manifested by:

general protection ip:7f80720d364c sp:7fff98fd8a80 error:0 in
libc-2.13.so[7f807209e000+180000]

This is due to the nature of said operations which sets and clears
the PID.  "In the successful one I can see that the page table of
the parent process has been updated successfully to use a
different physical page, so the write of the tid on
that page only affects the child...

On the other hand, in the failed case, the write seems to happen before
the copy of the original page is done, so both the parent and the child
end up with the same value (because the parent copies the page after
the write of the child tid has already happened)."
(Roger's analysis). The nature of this is due to the Xen's commit
of 51e2cac257ec8b4080d89f0855c498cbbd76a5e5
"x86/pvh: set only minimal cr0 and cr4 flags in order to use paging"
the CR0_WP was removed so COW features of the Linux kernel were not
operating properly.

While doing that also update the rest of the CR0 flags to be inline
with what a baremetal Linux kernel would set them to.

In 'secondary_startup_64' (baremetal Linux) sets:

X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_MP | X86_CR0_ET | X86_CR0_NE | X86_CR0_WP |
X86_CR0_AM | X86_CR0_PG

The hypervisor for HVM type guests (which PVH is a bit) sets:
X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_ET | X86_CR0_TS
For PVH it specifically sets:
X86_CR0_PG

Which means we need to set the rest: X86_CR0_MP | X86_CR0_NE  |
X86_CR0_WP | X86_CR0_AM to have full parity.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Took out the cr4 writes to be a seperate patch]
[v2: 0-DAY kernel found xen_setup_gdt to be missing a static]
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