[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/shadow: don't enable shadow mode with too small a shadow allocation

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

We've had more than one report of host crashes after failed migration,
and in at least one case we've had a hint towards a too far shrunk
shadow allocation pool. Instead of just checking the pool for being
empty, check whether the pool is smaller than what
shadow_set_allocation() would minimally bump it to if it was invoked in
the first place.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/common.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/common.c
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ const u8 sh_type_to_size[] = {
  * allow for more than ninety allocated pages per vcpu.  We round that
  * up to 128 pages, or half a megabyte per vcpu, and add 1 more vcpu's
  * worth to make sure we never return zero. */
-static unsigned int shadow_min_acceptable_pages(struct domain *d)
+static unsigned int shadow_min_acceptable_pages(const struct domain *d)
 {
     return (d->max_vcpus + 1) * 128;
 }
@@ -1369,6 +1369,15 @@ shadow_free_p2m_page(struct domain *d, s
     paging_unlock(d);
 }
 
+static unsigned int sh_min_allocation(const struct domain *d)
+{
+    /*
+     * Don't allocate less than the minimum acceptable, plus one page per
+     * megabyte of RAM (for the p2m table).
+     */
+    return shadow_min_acceptable_pages(d) + (d->tot_pages / 256);
+}
+
 int shadow_set_allocation(struct domain *d, unsigned int pages, bool 
*preempted)
 {
     struct page_info *sp;
@@ -1384,9 +1393,7 @@ int shadow_set_allocation(struct domain
         else
             pages -= d->arch.paging.shadow.p2m_pages;
 
-        /* Don't allocate less than the minimum acceptable, plus one page per
-         * megabyte of RAM (for the p2m table) */
-        lower_bound = shadow_min_acceptable_pages(d) + (d->tot_pages / 256);
+        lower_bound = sh_min_allocation(d);
         if ( pages < lower_bound )
             pages = lower_bound;
     }
@@ -2712,7 +2719,7 @@ int shadow_enable(struct domain *d, u32
 
     /* Init the shadow memory allocation if the user hasn't done so */
     old_pages = d->arch.paging.shadow.total_pages;
-    if ( old_pages == 0 )
+    if ( old_pages < sh_min_allocation(d) + d->arch.paging.shadow.p2m_pages )
     {
         paging_lock(d);
         rv = shadow_set_allocation(d, 1024, NULL); /* Use at least 4MB */





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