From: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Wei.Chen@arm.com,
Henry.Wang@arm.com, Penny.Zheng@arm.com,
Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFCv2 11/15] xen/arm: mm: Allow page-table allocation from the boot allocator
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2105131556050.5018@sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210425201318.15447-12-julien@xen.org>
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
>
> At the moment, page-table can only be allocated from domheap. This means
> it is not possible to create mapping in the page-tables via
> map_pages_to_xen() if page-table needs to be allocated.
>
> In order to avoid open-coding page-tables update in early boot, we need
> to be able to allocate page-tables much earlier. Thankfully, we have the
> boot allocator for those cases.
>
> create_xen_table() is updated to cater early boot allocation by using
> alloc_boot_pages().
>
> Note, this is not sufficient to bootstrap the page-tables (i.e mapping
> before any memory is actually mapped). This will be addressed
> separately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - New patch
> ---
> xen/arch/arm/mm.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/mm.c b/xen/arch/arm/mm.c
> index ae5a07ea956b..d090fdfd5994 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/mm.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/mm.c
> @@ -1011,19 +1011,27 @@ static void xen_unmap_table(const lpae_t *table)
>
> static int create_xen_table(lpae_t *entry)
> {
> - struct page_info *pg;
> + mfn_t mfn;
> void *p;
> lpae_t pte;
>
> - pg = alloc_domheap_page(NULL, 0);
> - if ( pg == NULL )
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + if ( system_state != SYS_STATE_early_boot )
> + {
> + struct page_info *pg = alloc_domheap_page(NULL, 0);
> +
> + if ( pg == NULL )
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + mfn = page_to_mfn(pg);
> + }
> + else
> + mfn = alloc_boot_pages(1, 1);
>
> - p = xen_map_table(page_to_mfn(pg));
> + p = xen_map_table(mfn);
> clear_page(p);
> xen_unmap_table(p);
>
> - pte = mfn_to_xen_entry(page_to_mfn(pg), MT_NORMAL);
> + pte = mfn_to_xen_entry(mfn, MT_NORMAL);
> pte.pt.table = 1;
> write_pte(entry, pte);
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-13 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 20:13 [PATCH RFCv2 00/15] xen/arm: mm: Remove open-coding mappings Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 01/15] xen/arm: lpae: Rename LPAE_ENTRIES_MASK_GS to LPAE_ENTRY_MASK_GS Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 02/15] xen/arm: lpae: Use the generic helpers to defined the Xen PT helpers Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-12 14:26 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-12 21:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-12 22:16 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-13 22:44 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-07-03 17:32 ` Julien Grall
2021-07-13 20:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-07-14 17:40 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 03/15] xen/arm: p2m: Replace level_{orders, masks} arrays with LEVEL_{ORDER, MASK} Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-12 14:39 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 04/15] xen/arm: mm: Allow other mapping size in xen_pt_update_entry() Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:42 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 05/15] xen/arm: mm: Avoid flushing the TLBs when mapping are inserted Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 06/15] xen/arm: mm: Don't open-code Xen PT update in remove_early_mappings() Julien Grall
2021-05-11 22:58 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 07/15] xen/arm: mm: Re-implement early_fdt_map() using map_pages_to_xen() Julien Grall
2021-05-12 21:41 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-12 22:18 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 08/15] xen/arm32: mm: Check if the virtual address is shared before updating it Julien Grall
2021-05-12 22:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-12 22:23 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-13 22:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-13 22:59 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-14 1:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 09/15] xen/arm32: mm: Re-implement setup_xenheap_mappings() using map_pages_to_xen() Julien Grall
2021-05-12 22:07 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-13 17:55 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 10/15] xen/arm: mm: Allocate xen page tables in domheap rather than xenheap Julien Grall
2021-05-12 22:44 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-13 18:09 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-13 22:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-15 8:48 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-18 0:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 11/15] xen/arm: mm: Allow page-table allocation from the boot allocator Julien Grall
2021-05-13 22:58 ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 12/15] xen/arm: add Persistent Map (PMAP) infrastructure Julien Grall
2021-04-26 9:41 ` Xia, Hongyan
2021-07-03 17:57 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-28 21:47 ` Wei Liu
2021-05-14 23:25 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-15 8:54 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 13/15] xen/arm: mm: Use the PMAP helpers in xen_{,un}map_table() Julien Grall
2021-05-14 23:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-15 9:03 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 14/15] xen/arm: mm: Rework setup_xenheap_mappings() Julien Grall
2021-05-14 23:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-15 9:21 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-18 0:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-02-12 19:16 ` Julien Grall
2021-04-25 20:13 ` [PATCH RFCv2 15/15] xen/arm: mm: Re-implement setup_frame_table_mappings() with map_pages_to_xen() Julien Grall
2021-05-15 0:02 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-05-15 9:25 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-18 0:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
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