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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] libxc: Defer initialization of start_page for HVM guests



On 01/07/2016 06:43 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
El 06/01/16 a les 21.03, Boris Ostrovsky ha escrit:
static int bootlate_hvm(struct xc_dom_image *dom)
  {
-    DOMPRINTF("%s: doing nothing", __func__);
+    uint32_t domid = dom->guest_domid;
+    xc_interface *xch = dom->xch;
+
+    if ( !dom->device_model )
+    {
+        struct hvm_start_info *start_info;
+        size_t start_info_size = sizeof(*start_info);
+        void *start_page;
+        struct hvm_modlist_entry *modlist;
+        size_t cmdline_size = 0;
+
+        if ( dom->cmdline )
+        {
+            cmdline_size = ROUNDUP(strlen(dom->cmdline) + 1, 8);
+            start_info_size += cmdline_size;
+        }
+        if ( dom->ramdisk_blob )
+            start_info_size += sizeof(*modlist); /* Limited to one module. */
The size calculations are duplicated, could you either stash
start_info_size into xc_dom_image, or simply do the memory allocation
(xc_dom_alloc_segment) inside of bootlate_hvm? (I think the latter would
be better if possible).

I didn't want to do the first because we'd use that information (two pieces --- we need to to know both the size of the extra chunk and where modlist starts) only once and it's not on a critical path. You can, of course, argue that we increase text size.

The problem with the second approach is that while it does seem to work I don't know whether we can delay allocations until bootlate(): notice how we print dom->virt_alloc_end in xc_dom_build_image() which to me indicates some "finality" as far as allocations for domain are concerned.


-boris

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