[Lguest] lguest PAE
Matias Zabaljauregui
zabaljauregui at gmail.com
Tue May 26 02:25:49 EST 2009
Jeremy, I fixed the code following your comments (hope you still
remember).
I'd like to ask you again about this one:
> > /* Found in switcher.S */
> > extern unsigned long default_idt_entries[];
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
> > index 0f4ee71..3860153 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h
> > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> > #define LHCALL_SET_PMD 15
> > #define LHCALL_LOAD_TLS 16
> > #define LHCALL_NOTIFY 17
> > +#define LHCALL_SET_PUD 18
> >
>
> PGD is more accurate than PUD (here, and the rest of the patch). The
> pud level of the pagetable is the 4th level used by 64-bit; PAE just has
> PGD, PMD and PTE levels. Due to pagetable level folding, the PGD is
> sometimes referred to as the PUD when looking "up" the pagetable tree
> (ie, the PUD is logically the next level up from the PMD), but its still
> just an alias for the PGD. Since the hypervisor interface shouldn't
> care about how the guest OS manages its pagetables, it should use a
> consistent naming for the levels as they "really" are. Lguest
> traditionally uses the same names that Linux does, so PGD is appropriate.
I understand, but then should we change also the LHCALL_SET_PMD name ?
this is the one used for setting a new pgd when PAE is NOT activated.
So, just to confirm: even if we are implementing pv_mmu_ops.set_pud
replacement (lguest_set_pud in our case), we should use LHCALL_SET_PGD
hypercall name in this code because that is what host is going to
actually do?
static void lguest_set_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pudval)
{
native_set_pud(pudp, pudval);
/* 32 bytes aligned pdpt address. */
lazy_hcall2(LHCALL_SET_PUD, __pa(pudp) & 0xFFFFFFE0,
(__pa(pudp) & 0x1F) / sizeof(pud_t));
}
Thanks,
Matias
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