From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Re: Doubt regarding virtual memory mapping from hypervisor to a domain Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:13:22 -0500 Message-ID: <20110210151322.GA9981@dumpdata.com> References: <7270db8c-d71a-4ab7-84fb-02ee256b44b7@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Kaustubh Kabra Cc: Dan Magenheimer , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, vasani.ashwin@gmail.com, Tim.Deegan@citrix.com, jeremy@goop.org, kabrakaustubh@gmail.com, keir@xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:56:52PM +0530, Kaustubh Kabra wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Dan Magenheimer > wrote: > > > > From: Kaustubh Kabra [mailto:kaustubhwise@gmail.com] > > > I have allocated few order=9 pages in Xen memory space using > > > alloc_domheap_pages(NULL,9,0) during boot time just before domain is > > > created (dom0 = domain_create(0, DOMCRF_s3_integrity, DOM0_SSIDREF) in > > > xen/arch/x86/setup.c). > > > > > > I got the following virtual addresses in xen log message- > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011cc00000 MFN:11cc00 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011ca00000 MFN:11ca00 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011c800000 MFN:11c800 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011c600000 MFN:11c600 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011c400000 MFN:11c400 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011c200000 MFN:11c200 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011c000000 MFN:11c000 > > > (XEN) a2k2: Virt_addr:ffff83011be00000 MFN:11be00 > > > > > > As per config.h file Xen memory map,the virtual mapping shows that the > > > memory is allocated in > > > 1:1 direct mapping of all physical memory .Can anyone elaborate > > > regarding this mapping ? > > > > It's not clear what you are asking. Can you be more precise? > > > > > Now can I allocate this mapped memory reserved by Xen hypervisor to > > > any domain through any existing or my new hypercall? > > > > > Precisely, i want to allocate this mfn to a requesting domain by making a > PMD entry. I tried using xen_set_pte and other hugetlb functions but it > cannot write as it is in read-only area . So, I passed this new formed PTE > formed using this mfn to hypervisor and tried setting the required PMD entry > to this new PTE, but xen crashes . With what?