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Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] arm/mpu: Populate a new region in Xen MPU mapping table


  • To: Hari Limaye <Hari.Limaye@xxxxxxx>
  • From: "Orzel, Michal" <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:28:26 +0200
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On 11/07/2025 17:10, Hari Limaye wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
>>> +int map_pages_to_xen(unsigned long virt, mfn_t mfn, unsigned long nr_mfns,
>>> +                     unsigned int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    int rc = xen_mpumap_update(mfn_to_maddr(mfn),
>> What do you expect to be passed as virt? I would expect maddr which could 
>> save
>> you the conversion here.
> 
> I think you should be correct here and it should be fine to use virt 
> directly. However, the one place in common code that I can see 
> xen_mpumap_update is called is in `xen/common/vmap.c`; and here the virtual 
> address is not the same as the machine address, but it looks like this is 
> only used for LIVEPATCH and we perhaps don’t care about this on MPU systems?
AFAICT you will not enable VMAP on MPU.

~Michal




 


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