From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] MMIO emulation fixes
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:52:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6f65e26-173a-90f4-9efb-f0b0ee895927@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B755FBC0200007?= =?UTF-8?Q?8001DEDBF@suse.com>
On 16/08/18 13:27, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.08.18 at 12:56, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 16/08/18 11:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Following some further discussion with Andrew, he looks to be
>>> convinced that the issue is to be fixed in the balloon driver,
>>> which so far (intentionally afaict) does not remove the direct
>>> map entries for ballooned out pages in the HVM case. I'm not
>>> convinced of this, but I'd nevertheless like to inquire whether
>>> such a change (resulting in shattered super page mappings)
>>> would be acceptable in the first place.
>>
>> We don't tolerate anything else in the directmap pointing to
>> invalid/unimplemented frames. Why should ballooning be any different?
>
> Because ballooning is something virtualization specific, which
> doesn't have any equivalent on bare hardware (memory hot
> unplug doesn't come quite close enough imo, not the least
> because that doesn't work on a page granular basis). Hence
> we're to define the exact behavior here, and hence such a
> definition could as well include special behavior of accesses
> to the involved guest-physical addresses.
If I read drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c correctly KVM does the same
as Xen: ballooned pages are _not_ removed from the direct mappings.
Juergen
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2018-08-16 12:52 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2018-09-04 16:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] MMIO emulation fixes Juergen Gross
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2018-09-04 16:24 ` Andrew Cooper
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2018-09-05 7:10 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 10:37 Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 10:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/hvm/ioreq: MMIO range checking completely ignores direction flag Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 11:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-10 10:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/hvm/emulate: make sure rep I/O emulation does not cross GFN boundaries Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 11:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-10 11:50 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 11:50 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-10 11:59 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 12:10 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 12:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] MMIO emulation fixes Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 12:08 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 12:13 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 12:22 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 12:37 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 12:43 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 12:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-10 15:08 ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-10 15:30 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 15:35 ` Paul Durrant
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2018-08-10 16:00 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-10 16:30 ` George Dunlap
2018-08-10 16:37 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-13 6:50 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-16 11:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-29 10:36 ` Olaf Hering
2018-08-29 10:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-29 11:00 ` Olaf Hering
2018-08-29 11:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-29 11:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-29 11:26 ` Juergen Gross
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2018-08-30 8:23 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-30 10:42 ` Olaf Hering
2018-08-30 8:10 ` Olaf Hering
2018-08-16 10:29 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-16 10:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-08-16 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
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