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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>, "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/PV: make post-migration page state consistent
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:34:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ed53c1-768c-cc71-a432-553b56f7f0a7@suse.com> (raw)

When a page table page gets de-validated, its type reference count drops
to zero (and PGT_validated gets cleared), but its type remains intact.
XEN_DOMCTL_getpageframeinfo3, therefore, so far reported prior usage for
such pages. An intermediate write to such a page via e.g.
MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE, however, would transition the page's type to
PGT_writable_page, thus altering what XEN_DOMCTL_getpageframeinfo3 would
return. In libxc the decision which pages to normalize / localize
depends solely on the type returned from the domctl. As a result without
further precautions the guest won't be able to tell whether such a page
has had its (apparent) PTE entries transitioned to the new MFNs.

Add a check of PGT_validated, thus consistently avoiding normalization /
localization in the tool stack.

Alongside using XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_NOTAB instead of plain zero for the
change at hand, also change the variable's initializer to use this
constant, too. Take the opportunity and also adjust its type.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/domctl.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domctl.c
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ long arch_do_domctl(
 
         for ( i = 0; i < num; ++i )
         {
-            unsigned long gfn = 0, type = 0;
+            unsigned long gfn = 0;
+            unsigned int type = XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_NOTAB;
             struct page_info *page;
             p2m_type_t t;
 
@@ -255,6 +256,8 @@ long arch_do_domctl(
 
                 if ( page->u.inuse.type_info & PGT_pinned )
                     type |= XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_LPINTAB;
+                else if ( !(page->u.inuse.type_info & PGT_validated) )
+                    type = XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_NOTAB;
 
                 if ( page->count_info & PGC_broken )
                     type = XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_BROKEN;


             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11 10:34 Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-09-11 11:55 ` [PATCH] x86/PV: make post-migration page state consistent Andrew Cooper
2020-09-11 12:37   ` Jan Beulich
2020-09-28 12:16     ` Jan Beulich
2020-10-16 10:21 ` Ping: " Jan Beulich
2020-10-29 13:53 ` Ping²: " Jan Beulich

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