Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] x86/HVM: latch linear->phys translation results

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/06/16 14:09, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... to avoid re-doing the same translation later again (in a retry, for
> example). This doesn't help very often according to my testing, but
> it's pretty cheap to have, and will be of further use subsequently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
> @@ -678,6 +678,19 @@ static struct hvm_mmio_cache *hvmemul_fi
>      return cache;
>  }
>  
> +static void latch_linear_to_phys(struct hvm_vcpu_io *vio, unsigned long gla,
> +                                 unsigned long gpa, bool_t write)
> +{
> +    if ( vio->mmio_access.gla_valid )
> +        return;
> +
> +    vio->mmio_gva = gla & PAGE_MASK;

This suggest that mmio_vga is mis-named.

Looking at the uses, handle_mmio_with_translation() is used
inconsistently, with virtual addresses from the shadow code, but linear
addresses from nested hap code.

Clearly one of these two users are buggy for guests running in a non
flat way, and it looks to be the shadow side which is buggy.


Following my recent fun with invlpg handling, I am much more conscious
about the distinction between virtual and linear addresses.  I wonder if
we want to go so far as to have a TYPE_SAFE() for it, to try and avoid
further misuse?

~Andrew

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