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Re: [for-4.15][PATCH v2 1/5] xen/x86: p2m: Don't map the special pages in the IOMMU page-tables


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:24:55 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:12:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 10.02.2021 12:54, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:48:40AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> >> It feels wrong to me to setup a per-domain mapping when initializing the
> >> first vCPU.
> >>
> >> But, I was under the impression that there is plan to remove
> >> XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus. So it would only buy just a bit of time...
> > 
> > I was also under that impression. We could setup the lapic access page
> > at vlapic_init for the BSP (which is part of XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus
> > ATM).
> > 
> > But then I think there should be some kind of check to prevent
> > populating either the CPU or the IOMMU page tables at domain creation
> > hypercall, and so the logic to free CPU table tables on failure could
> > be removed.
> 
> I can spot paging_final_teardown() on an error path there, but I
> don't suppose that's what you mean? I guess I'm not looking in
> the right place (there are quite a few after all) ...

Well, I assume some freeing of the EPT page tables must happen on
error paths, or else we would be leaking them like IOMMU tables are
leaked currently?

Maybe I've not correctly understanding the issue here.

Roger.



 


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