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Re: [Xen-devel] Remapping memory in a HVM DomU from one pfn to another?


  • To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:15:05 +0100
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:15:47 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Remapping memory in a HVM DomU from one pfn to another?

On 10/6/08 13:02, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> XENMEM_exchange. Look at 'struct xen_memory_exchange' in
>> xen/include/public/memory.h. Note that GMFN means PFN for an HVM
> guest.
>> Hopefully it is all self-explanatory enough.
>> 
> 
> I tried it and 'xm dmesg' says:
> 
> (XEN) hvm.c:747:d11 memory_op 11.
> 
> And looking in hvm.c, it appears that this occurs in
> do_memory_op_compat32(...) and the only supported memory_op function is
> XENMEM_add_to_physmap. Does that mean I'm out of luck?

It does for now. We should be using the existing PV 32-on-64 compat shim for
memory_op() hypercall for HVM 32-on-64 too. As soon as someone does that
work, this hypercall will be available to you. It would already work for HVM
64-on-64 or 32-on-32.

 -- Keir



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