Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] x86/mem-sharing: copy GADDR based shared guest areas

[Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:55 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In preparation of the introduction of new vCPU operations allowing to
> register the respective areas (one of the two is x86-specific) by
> guest-physical address, add the necessary fork handling (with the
> backing function yet to be filled in).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> @@ -1653,6 +1653,65 @@ static void copy_vcpu_nonreg_state(struc
>      hvm_set_nonreg_state(cd_vcpu, &nrs);
>  }
>
> +static int copy_guest_area(struct guest_area *cd_area,
> +                           const struct guest_area *d_area,
> +                           struct vcpu *cd_vcpu,
> +                           const struct domain *d)
> +{
> +    mfn_t d_mfn, cd_mfn;
> +
> +    if ( !d_area->pg )
> +        return 0;
> +
> +    d_mfn = page_to_mfn(d_area->pg);
> +
> +    /* Allocate & map a page for the area if it hasn't been already. */
> +    if ( !cd_area->pg )
> +    {
> +        gfn_t gfn = mfn_to_gfn(d, d_mfn);
> +        struct p2m_domain *p2m = p2m_get_hostp2m(cd_vcpu->domain);
> +        p2m_type_t p2mt;
> +        p2m_access_t p2ma;
> +        unsigned int offset;
> +        int ret;
> +
> +        cd_mfn = p2m->get_entry(p2m, gfn, &p2mt, &p2ma, 0, NULL, NULL);
> +        if ( mfn_eq(cd_mfn, INVALID_MFN) )
> +        {
> +            struct page_info *pg = alloc_domheap_page(cd_vcpu->domain, 0);
> +
> +            if ( !pg )
> +                return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +            cd_mfn = page_to_mfn(pg);
> +            set_gpfn_from_mfn(mfn_x(cd_mfn), gfn_x(gfn));
> +
> +            ret = p2m->set_entry(p2m, gfn, cd_mfn, PAGE_ORDER_4K, p2m_ram_rw,
> +                                 p2m->default_access, -1);
> +            if ( ret )
> +                return ret;
> +        }
> +        else if ( p2mt != p2m_ram_rw )
> +            return -EBUSY;
> +
> +        /*
> +         * Simply specify the entire range up to the end of the page. All the
> +         * function uses it for is a check for not crossing page boundaries.
> +         */
> +        offset = PAGE_OFFSET(d_area->map);
> +        ret = map_guest_area(cd_vcpu, gfn_to_gaddr(gfn) + offset,
> +                             PAGE_SIZE - offset, cd_area, NULL);
> +        if ( ret )
> +            return ret;
> +    }
> +    else

> +        cd_mfn = page_to_mfn(cd_area->pg);

Everything to this point seems to be non mem-sharing/forking related. Could these live somewhere else? There must be some other place where allocating these areas happens already for non-fork VMs so it would make sense to just refactor that code to be callable from here.

> +
> +    copy_domain_page(cd_mfn, d_mfn);
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int copy_vpmu(struct vcpu *d_vcpu, struct vcpu *cd_vcpu)
>  {
>      struct vpmu_struct *d_vpmu = vcpu_vpmu(d_vcpu);
> @@ -1745,6 +1804,16 @@ static int copy_vcpu_settings(struct dom
>              copy_domain_page(new_vcpu_info_mfn, vcpu_info_mfn);
>          }
>
> +        /* Same for the (physically registered) runstate and time info areas. */
> +        ret = copy_guest_area(&cd_vcpu->runstate_guest_area,
> +                              &d_vcpu->runstate_guest_area, cd_vcpu, d);
> +        if ( ret )
> +            return ret;
> +        ret = copy_guest_area(&cd_vcpu->arch.time_guest_area,
> +                              &d_vcpu->arch.time_guest_area, cd_vcpu, d);
> +        if ( ret )
> +            return ret;
> +
>          ret = copy_vpmu(d_vcpu, cd_vcpu);
>          if ( ret )
>              return ret;
> @@ -1987,7 +2056,10 @@ int mem_sharing_fork_reset(struct domain
>
>   state:
>      if ( reset_state )
> +    {
>          rc = copy_settings(d, pd);

> +        /* TBD: What to do here with -ERESTART? */

Where does ERESTART coming from?