Re: [XenPPC] Question? Re: [PATCH] Fix paddr_to_maddr panic message

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:07 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> 
> Hollis, ASAICT the only way Amos could have gotten here (and passed  
> the BUG() in pfn2mfn()) is if one of the user_copy routines tried to  
> access a PFN_TYPE_REMOTE or PFN_TYPE_IO, that paddr is not an IO type  
> so the question I have for you is:
>    Is it possible for Xen (on behalf of a privileged domain) use a  
> user_copy routine to access another domains memory?

No. Because copy_*_guest() require a xencomm_desc structure to do
anything[1], they can only copy into areas of memory the domain expects.

However, if we need that functionality, we can create a parallel API to
do this. x86 does that right now with copy_*_user() -- that API only
exists in x86-specific code, and it directly accesses the "user" virtual
address.

[1] If we go with IA64's proposed "inline" extension to the xencomm
stuff, this isn't strictly true and I think we could copy to physically
contiguous areas that way.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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