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Re: [Xen-devel] How works Xen mmu ?

To: Sylvestre Gallon <syl@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] How works Xen mmu ?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:29:18 +0100
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On 03/06/2010 14:16, "Sylvestre Gallon" <syl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> addr = get_cr3();                     // getting page directory
> addr &= 0xfffff000;                   // remove pdir flags
> addr = ((uint32_t*) addr_[0];     // get address of first page dir
> (0xb8000 is in the first pdir)
> addr += 0xb8 * 4;                    // 0xb8000 must be the pte 0xb8 into pdir
> 0
> 
> mmu.ptr = pte | MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE;
> mmu.val = 0xb8000 | 0x3;        // 0x3 for pte present and rw flags
> 
> HYPERVISOR_mmu_update(&mmu, 1, NULL, DOMID_SELF);
> 
> while(42);
> 
> But when I try this code I get an unhandled page fault :/
> 
> Do I have misunderstood something ?

This is closer, but page table entries will be 64 bits not 32 bits (hence
use uint64_t). And also the page tables will have three or four levels
(depending on whether your guest is 32-bit PAE or 64-bit). So in the 64-bit
case for example, you would read cr3 to get pagedir_1, then index into
pagedir_1 to get pagedir_2, then index into pagedir_2 to get pagedir_3, then
index into pagedir_3 to get the pagetable. And mmu.ptr would point at an
entry in that pagetable.

 -- Keir



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