From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <olekstysh@gmail.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 21/23] xen/arm: Add mapcache invalidation handling
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:56:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e638b6b7-1939-4542-85fa-70d8e1f5e9d6@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b074eb70-a770-1f96-3d68-b06476b963ca@xen.org>
On 16.10.2020 10:41, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 16/10/2020 07:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Given how p2m_free_entry() works (or is supposed to work in the
>> long run), is the new code you add guaranteed to only alter leaf
>> entries?
>
> This path may also be called with tables. I think we want to move the
> check in p2m_free_entry() so we can find the correct leaf type.
>
>> If not, the freeing of page tables needs deferring until
>> after qemu has dropped its mappings.
>
> Freeing the page tables doesn't release a page. So may I ask why we
> would need to defer it?
Oh, sorry - qemu of course doesn't use the same p2m, so the
intermediate page tables are private to the subject guest.
>> And with there being refcounting only for foreign pages, how do
>> you prevent the freeing of the page just unmapped before qemu has
>> dropped its possible mapping?
> QEMU mappings can only be done using the foreign mapping interface. This
> means that page reference count will be incremented for each QEMU
> mappings. Therefore the page cannot disappear until QEMU dropped the
> last reference.
Okay, sorry for the noise then.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-16 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 16:44 [PATCH V2 00/23] IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 01/23] x86/ioreq: Prepare IOREQ feature for making it common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 7:13 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-04 9:06 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-04 9:59 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-12 10:58 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 11:09 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-13 11:20 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 12:45 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-13 14:31 ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 02/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's IOREQ feature common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 7:57 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-10 16:45 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-17 14:47 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-17 15:29 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-17 16:29 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-17 19:43 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-12 11:11 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 13:11 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 03/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_ioreq_needs_completion() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 7:59 ` Paul Durrant
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 04/23] xen/ioreq: Provide alias for the handle_mmio() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 9:14 ` Paul Durrant
2020-10-20 10:05 ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-20 10:38 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-10 19:44 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 7:27 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-11 8:09 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 8:16 ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 05/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_mmio_first(last)_byte() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 9:15 ` Paul Durrant
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 06/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_ioreq_(page/vcpu/server) structs common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 07/23] xen/ioreq: Move x86's ioreq_gfn(server) to struct domain Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 14:05 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-18 12:09 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-18 12:29 ` Paul Durrant
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 08/23] xen/ioreq: Introduce ioreq_params to abstract accesses to arch.hvm.params Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 10:41 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-10 20:00 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 09/23] xen/dm: Make x86's DM feature common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:32 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 14:28 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 10/23] xen/mm: Make x86's XENMEM_resource_ioreq_server handling common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 15:00 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 11/23] xen/ioreq: Move x86's io_completion/io_req fields to struct vcpu Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 10:55 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-10 20:59 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 8:04 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-11 8:14 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 12/23] xen/ioreq: Remove "hvm" prefixes from involved function names Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:45 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-12 12:14 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-13 15:53 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-23 14:39 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-23 14:56 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-23 15:47 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-23 15:54 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-23 16:36 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 13/23] xen/ioreq: Use guest_cmpxchg64() instead of cmpxchg() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 14/23] arm/ioreq: Introduce arch specific bits for IOREQ/DM features Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:48 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 15:48 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 15/23] xen/arm: Stick around in leave_hypervisor_to_guest until I/O has completed Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 16/23] xen/mm: Handle properly reference in set_foreign_p2m_entry() on Arm Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 12:18 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 17:00 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 17/23] xen/ioreq: Introduce domain_has_ioreq_server() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-20 10:51 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-10 20:53 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 8:08 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-11 8:41 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 13:27 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-11 16:28 ` Paul Durrant
2020-11-11 17:33 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 17:31 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 18/23] xen/dm: Introduce xendevicemodel_set_irq_level DM op Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 19/23] xen/arm: io: Abstract sign-extension Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 20/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's send_invalidate_req() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-12 11:55 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-13 16:03 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 21/23] xen/arm: Add mapcache invalidation handling Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-16 6:29 ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-16 8:41 ` Julien Grall
2020-10-16 8:56 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-11-11 0:03 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 19:27 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-11 19:42 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 22/23] libxl: Introduce basic virtio-mmio support on Arm Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-15 16:44 ` [PATCH V2 23/23] [RFC] libxl: Add support for virtio-disk configuration Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-09 6:45 ` Wei Chen
2020-11-11 0:53 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-11 4:28 ` Wei Chen
2020-11-13 17:38 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-29 7:41 ` [PATCH V2 00/23] IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm Masami Hiramatsu
2020-10-29 18:48 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-29 19:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-10-29 21:13 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-10-29 21:34 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-10-30 11:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-10-31 21:10 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-02 7:23 ` Wei Chen
2020-11-02 18:05 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-03 14:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-11-03 21:09 ` Oleksandr
2020-10-29 20:03 ` Alex Bennée
2020-10-29 20:10 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-10-29 22:06 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
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