Question about MMU update on HVM guest

From: AnhNN <ngocanh198@gmail.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Question about MMU update on HVM guest
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 06:11:55 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6KD3hpHjvccRCAUR8cT0T0Bj27VR2P-iO_oPJvqLMDfCDK3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

I have some questions about MMU update operation.
I add some logging in function *do_mmu_update* (in file
/xen/arch/x86/mm.c), and start Windows 7 32 bit HVM guest.
After guest started, I look at log and see that MMU update has been called
with every page of guest, with *pt_ower = 0* and *pg_owner = 1*. And with
every page, MMU update called 2 times. The first time, * page->count_info =
0x8000000000000002* after MMU update, but after that it decrease to
*0x8000000000000001* in a different function. At the second time,
*page->count_info
= 0x8000000000000002* after MMU update, and keep that value forever.

So the question is, why domain 0 have a reference to every pages of HVM
guest ?
And why in the second time of MMU update, count_info doesn't decrease to
*0x8000000000000001* ?

Thanks & Best Regards.

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