[v1] grant table and add-to-physmap adjustments on top of XSAs 379 and 384

[PATCH 0/2] grant table and add-to-physmap adjustments on top of XSAs 379 and 384

Posted by Jan Beulich 3 years, 2 months ago

I'm prepared for the "how" aspect of the 1st patch here to end up
controversial. Since the observed quirk will imo want dealing with,
I'd appreciate any objection to the proposed change to be accompanied
by an alternative suggestion. An intention of mine was to not further
increase the number of arch hooks needed. I further realize that this
change conflicts with Oleksandr's "xen/gnttab: Store frame GFN in
struct page_info on Arm", at the very least contextually.

1: gnttab: remove guest_physmap_remove_page() call from gnttab_map_frame()
2: memory: XENMEM_add_to_physmap (almost) wrapping checks

Jan

Re: [PATCH 0/2] grant table and add-to-physmap adjustments on top of XSAs 379 and 384

Posted by Oleksandr 3 years, 2 months ago

On 13.09.21 09:39, Jan Beulich wrote:

Hi Jan

> I'm prepared for the "how" aspect of the 1st patch here to end up
> controversial. Since the observed quirk will imo want dealing with,
> I'd appreciate any objection to the proposed change to be accompanied
> by an alternative suggestion. An intention of mine was to not further
> increase the number of arch hooks needed. I further realize that this
> change conflicts with Oleksandr's "xen/gnttab: Store frame GFN in
> struct page_info on Arm", at the very least contextually.
FYI, I have a rebased version of my patch on top of your patch #1 
locally. I preliminary checked that combination on my setup (Arm64) and 
didn't see any issues.


>
> 1: gnttab: remove guest_physmap_remove_page() call from gnttab_map_frame()
> 2: memory: XENMEM_add_to_physmap (almost) wrapping checks
>
> Jan
>
>
-- 
Regards,

Oleksandr Tyshchenko