From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, konrad@kernel.org,
ross.lagerwall@citrix.com, mpohlack@amazon.de,
sasha.levin@oracle.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/24] arm/x86/vmap: Add vmalloc_type and vm_init_type
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:32:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5707CF27.7070806@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460000983-28170-8-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Hi Konrad,
On 07/04/16 04:49, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> For those users who want to use the virtual addresses that
> are in the hypervisor's virtual address space - these two new
> functions allow that. Along with providing the underlaying
> MFNs for the user's (such as changing page table permissions).
>
> Implementation wise the vmap API keeps track of two virtual
> address regions now:
> a) VMAP_VIRT_START
> b) Any provided virtual address space (need start and end).
>
> The a) one is the default one and the existing behavior
> for users of vmalloc, vmap, etc is the same.
>
> If however one wishes to use the b) one only has to use
> the vm_init_type to initalize and the vmalloc_type to utilize it.
NIT: s/initalize/initialize/
>
> This allows users (such as xSplice) to provide their own
> mechanism to change the the page flags, and also use virtual
> addresses closer to the hypervisor virtual addresses (at least
> on x86) while not having to deal with the allocation of
> pages.
>
> For example of users, see patch titled "xsplice: Implement payload
> loading", where we parse the payload's ELF relocations - which
> is defined to be signed 32-bit (so max displacement is 2GB virtual
> spacE). The displacement of the hypervisor virtual addresses to the
> vmalloc (on x86) is more than 32-bits - which means that ELF relocations
> would truncate the 34 and 33th bit. Hence this alternate API
NIT: Missing full stop.
>
> We also add add extra checks in case the b) range has not been initialized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
For the ARM parts:
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Regards,
--
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 3:49 [PATCH v6] xSplice v1 design and implementation Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 01/24] xsplice: Design document Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 16:34 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 02/24] xen/xsplice: Hypervisor implementation of XEN_XSPLICE_op Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 14:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 18:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 03/24] libxc: Implementation of XEN_XSPLICE_op in libxc Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 19:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 04/24] xen-xsplice: Tool to manipulate xsplice payloads Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 05/24] arm/x86: Use struct virtual_region to do bug, symbol, and (x86) exception tables lookup Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 20:12 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 15:30 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 06/24] x86: Alter nmi_callback_t typedef Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 16:35 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-07 20:13 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 20:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 07/24] arm/x86/vmap: Add vmalloc_type and vm_init_type Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 14:22 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 17:19 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-09 1:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:32 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 08/24] xsplice: Add helper elf routines Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 16:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-07 17:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 20:32 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 13:26 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-07 20:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 14:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 21:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 22:10 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 22:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 09/24] xsplice: Implement payload loading Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:31 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 21:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 21:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-08 22:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 22:50 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-09 0:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-09 11:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 15:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-11 16:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 16:34 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 16:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-11 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 17:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-11 18:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-11 18:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:35 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 10/24] xsplice: Implement support for applying/reverting/replacing patches Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:36 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-08 16:33 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 11/24] x86/xen_hello_world.xsplice: Test payload for patching 'xen_extra_version' Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:37 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-08 16:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-09 0:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 12/24] xsplice, symbols: Implement symbol name resolution on address Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 16:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 13/24] x86, xsplice: Print payload's symbol name and payload name in backtraces Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 17:00 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 14/24] xsplice: Add support for bug frames Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 17:03 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 15/24] xsplice: Add support for exception tables Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 17:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 16/24] xsplice: Add support for alternatives Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 17:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 17:57 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 17/24] build_id: Provide ld-embedded build-ids Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 15:39 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-08 18:07 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 19:34 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 18/24] HYPERCALL_version_op: Add VERSION_build_id to retrieve build-id Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:07 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 19/24] libxl: info: Display build_id of the hypervisor using XEN_VERSION_build_id Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 20/24] xsplice: Print build_id in keyhandler and on bootup Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:12 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 21/24] xsplice: Stacking build-id dependency checking Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-09 1:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 22/24] xsplice/xen_replace_world: Test-case for XSPLICE_ACTION_REPLACE Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:20 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 23/24] xsplice: Prevent duplicate payloads from being loaded Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 16:36 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-08 18:21 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 3:49 ` [PATCH v6 24/24] MAINTAINERS/xsplice: Add myself and Ross as the maintainers Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:21 ` Andrew Cooper
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