Hi,
At 20:34 +0100 on 20 Apr (1240259658), priya sehgal wrote:
> I was going through the memory management in Xen and little confused
> about shadow page tables for HVM guest and how they work.
Why are you interested? Do you have a project in mind?
> Few of my questions are :
> 1. A shadow page table, is a copy of the guest page table, with actual
> machine frame numbers (MFN), as against the physical page number(PFN) in case
> of guests.
> Do the shadow page tables write protect each of the PTE it contains, or only
> the pages containing the "guest page table" are write protected (to check if
> the guest has modified any entry)?
They write-protect all pagetables and some other things but not all of
memory; that wouldn't be very useful.
> 2. I know that live migration is supported on xen, but not sure if it works
> for HVM guests. In this case also, xen will need to keep a shadow page table,
> which should detect which pages have been modified since the last time the
> pages were migrated. For this, shadow page table should mark all the PTEs as
> write protected. Does xen implement live migration of HVM guests in this way
> ?
> If yes, then is this shadow table same as the one used in (1), or there are
> multiple copies of the shadow tables for different purposes?
There's only one set of shadows, since the MMU can only use one at a
time.
Cheers,
Tim.
> Thanks.
> Priya
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