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Re: [PATCH] xen/arm: p2m: Populate pages for GICv2 mapping in arch_domain_create()
- To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:04:39 +0200
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- Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>, Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx>, Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 13.10.2022 12:58, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 13/10/2022 10:21, Henry Wang wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/arm: p2m: Populate pages for GICv2 mapping in
>>> arch_domain_create()
>>>
>>> On 13/10/2022 09:38, Henry Wang wrote:
>>>> Hardware using GICv2 needs to create a P2M mapping of 8KB GICv2 area
>>>> when the domain is created. Considering the worst case of page tables
>>>
>>> Can you describe in the commit message what is the worst case scenario?
>>
>> The two pages will be consecutive but not necessarily in the same L3 page
>> table so the worst case is 4 + 2, is that correct?
>
> So I agree that the worse case is 6. But I don't understand what you
> mean by '4 + 2' here.
Assuming you have 4 (N) page table levels, isn't it 7 (1 + 2 * (N - 1))?
Or is the root table not taken from the p2m pool?
Jan
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