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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk | 2012-07-12 13:55:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk | 2012-08-23 11:33:29 -0400 |
| commit | 4fac153a7a260e40e10008a0d7a272719684e4cd (patch) | |
| tree | 93f695f3f80882008edce45508eeb89dd97033ad /arch/x86/xen | |
| parent | 3699aad047e16a5775b1d051425f422a9384270d (diff) | |
xen/mmu: Provide comments describing the _ka and _va aliasing issue
Which is that the level2_kernel_pgt (__ka virtual addresses)
and level2_ident_pgt (__va virtual address) contain the same
PMD entries. So if you modify a PTE in __ka, it will be reflected
in __va (and vice-versa).
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/xen')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c index 4ac21a4c6da4..6ba610098dd9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c @@ -1734,19 +1734,36 @@ void __init xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn) init_level4_pgt[0] = __pgd(0); /* Pre-constructed entries are in pfn, so convert to mfn */ + /* L4[272] -> level3_ident_pgt + * L4[511] -> level3_kernel_pgt */ convert_pfn_mfn(init_level4_pgt); + + /* L3_i[0] -> level2_ident_pgt */ convert_pfn_mfn(level3_ident_pgt); + /* L3_k[510] -> level2_kernel_pgt + * L3_i[511] -> level2_fixmap_pgt */ convert_pfn_mfn(level3_kernel_pgt); + /* We get [511][511] and have Xen's version of level2_kernel_pgt */ l3 = m2v(pgd[pgd_index(__START_KERNEL_map)].pgd); l2 = m2v(l3[pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map)].pud); + /* Graft it onto L4[272][0]. Note that we creating an aliasing problem: + * Both L4[272][0] and L4[511][511] have entries that point to the same + * L2 (PMD) tables. Meaning that if you modify it in __va space + * it will be also modified in the __ka space! (But if you just + * modify the PMD table to point to other PTE's or none, then you + * are OK - which is what cleanup_highmap does) */ memcpy(level2_ident_pgt, l2, sizeof(pmd_t) * PTRS_PER_PMD); + /* Graft it onto L4[511][511] */ memcpy(level2_kernel_pgt, l2, sizeof(pmd_t) * PTRS_PER_PMD); + /* Get [511][510] and graft that in level2_fixmap_pgt */ l3 = m2v(pgd[pgd_index(__START_KERNEL_map + PMD_SIZE)].pgd); l2 = m2v(l3[pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map + PMD_SIZE)].pud); memcpy(level2_fixmap_pgt, l2, sizeof(pmd_t) * PTRS_PER_PMD); + /* Note that we don't do anything with level1_fixmap_pgt which + * we don't need. */ /* Set up identity map */ xen_map_identity_early(level2_ident_pgt, max_pfn); |