[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] [XEN] Simplify CR3 switching code (remove slow path that allows old

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# HG changeset patch
# User kaf24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Date 1169072876 0
# Node ID e5f585514b1696a1e3be5047f39ba5d4eacaa618
# Parent  05c1db1b8cb9a6bf7371ed75895b19c3baefd3ec
[XEN] Simplify CR3 switching code (remove slow path that allows old
page tables to be writable in new page tables -- shadow mode cannot
handle the failure case and it is easy to work around this in the
guest anyway). Also remove broken shadow-refcount compat-mode case.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/mm.c |   63 +++++++++++-------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff -r 05c1db1b8cb9 -r e5f585514b16 xen/arch/x86/mm.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c Wed Jan 17 21:07:43 2007 +0000
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c Wed Jan 17 22:27:56 2007 +0000
@@ -1768,25 +1768,14 @@ int new_guest_cr3(unsigned long mfn)
     int okay;
     unsigned long old_base_mfn;
 
-    if ( is_hvm_domain(d) && !hvm_paging_enabled(v) )
-        return 0;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
     if ( IS_COMPAT(d) )
     {
-        l4_pgentry_t l4e = l4e_from_pfn(
-            mfn, _PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_RW|_PAGE_USER|_PAGE_ACCESSED);
-
-        if ( shadow_mode_refcounts(d) )
-        {
-            okay = get_page_from_pagenr(mfn, d);
-            old_base_mfn = l4e_get_pfn(l4e);
-            if ( okay && old_base_mfn )
-                put_page(mfn_to_page(old_base_mfn));
-        }
-        else
-            okay = mod_l4_entry(__va(pagetable_get_paddr(v->arch.guest_table)),
-                                l4e, 0);
+        okay = shadow_mode_refcounts(d)
+            ? 0 /* Old code was broken, but what should it be? */
+            : mod_l4_entry(__va(pagetable_get_paddr(v->arch.guest_table)),
+                           l4e_from_pfn(mfn, (_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_RW|
+                                              _PAGE_USER|_PAGE_ACCESSED)), 0);
         if ( unlikely(!okay) )
         {
             MEM_LOG("Error while installing new compat baseptr %lx", mfn);
@@ -1799,39 +1788,13 @@ int new_guest_cr3(unsigned long mfn)
         return 1;
     }
 #endif
-    if ( shadow_mode_refcounts(d) )
-    {
-        okay = get_page_from_pagenr(mfn, d);
-        if ( unlikely(!okay) )
-        {
-            MEM_LOG("Error while installing new baseptr %lx", mfn);
-            return 0;
-        }
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        okay = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(mfn, PGT_root_page_table, d);
-        if ( unlikely(!okay) )
-        {
-            /* Switch to idle pagetable: this VCPU has no active p.t. now. */
-            MEM_LOG("New baseptr %lx: slow path via idle pagetables", mfn);
-            old_base_mfn = pagetable_get_pfn(v->arch.guest_table);
-            v->arch.guest_table = pagetable_null();
-            update_cr3(v);
-            write_cr3(__pa(idle_pg_table));
-            if ( old_base_mfn != 0 )
-                put_page_and_type(mfn_to_page(old_base_mfn));
-
-            /* Retry the validation with no active p.t. for this VCPU. */
-            okay = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(mfn, PGT_root_page_table, d);
-            if ( !okay )
-            {
-                /* Failure here is unrecoverable: the VCPU has no pagetable! */
-                MEM_LOG("Fatal error while installing new baseptr %lx", mfn);
-                domain_crash(d);
-                return 0;
-            }
-        }
+    okay = shadow_mode_refcounts(d)
+        ? get_page_from_pagenr(mfn, d)
+        : get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(mfn, PGT_root_page_table, d);
+    if ( unlikely(!okay) )
+    {
+        MEM_LOG("Error while installing new baseptr %lx", mfn);
+        return 0;
     }
 
     invalidate_shadow_ldt(v);
@@ -1839,7 +1802,7 @@ int new_guest_cr3(unsigned long mfn)
     old_base_mfn = pagetable_get_pfn(v->arch.guest_table);
 
     v->arch.guest_table = pagetable_from_pfn(mfn);
-    update_cr3(v); /* update shadow_table and cr3 fields of vcpu struct */
+    update_cr3(v);
 
     write_ptbase(v);
 

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