Re: [Xen-devel] sharing memory between qemu and domu without grant tables or vmexits...

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>]

On 17/10/2010 09:23, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm still not sure I understand it all... might the following work them:
> 1. Allocate a page of memory in my windows code
> 2. Write the PFN to a known io port (with some sort of interlock so that
> a random io write that hits that port isn't going to do anything bad)
> 3. qemu is called when the io port is triggered and maps the page to its
> own space

Oh yes, that is probably the best way for you to get a page of memory.

> Can qemu map an actual page of domu memory without a grant reference
> (remember, grant table is not set up at this point)? Or do I need to map
> a page of shared memory into the memory hole I allocated?

Qemu can map domU memory with no need for a grant reference. Assuming you
allocated a page of RAM in step 1 above, you have not allocated a 'memory
hole' and so there is no mapping into that pseudophysical frame slot to be
done.

> What calls should I be making in qemu to actually map the page?

Probably 'xc_map_foreign_range(xc_handle, domid, XC_PAGE_SIZE,
PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, pfn_from_your_windows_driver)'

 -- Keir



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