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Re: [Xen-devel] Can't map the page referenced by HVM-DomU CR3 in Dom0

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Can't map the page referenced by HVM-DomU CR3 in Dom0
From: david <david_n@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:44:08 +0200
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On 04/18/2011 11:34 AM, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 14:45 +0100 on 15 Apr (1302878734), david wrote:
I'm trying to access the page containing the paging information for a
DomU from Dom0.

I'm doing that by translating the address contained in the DomU CR3
register with xc_translate_foreign_address (libxc) and try to map the
returned frame number with xc_map_foreign_range.

The problem is, that the return value from xc_translate_foreign_address
is 0 (guest cr3 is 0x002f3000 in my case), which indicates an error
(corresponding to the code comments). After some debugging I have
discovered, that pte becomes 0 when level=2 and therefore the function
returns 0 on line 79:

How often does this happen?  On every attempt or only from time to time?
Have you checked (say, from inside the guest) that the level-2 PTE isn't
actually zero?

hi,

it happens for every cr3 value. I made some quick and dirty code, which reads 10 different cr3 values and tries to map the corresponding page:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
...
...
int crfinder = 1;

if(crfinder == 1){
        int m;
        unsigned long cr3s[10] = {0};
        unsigned long mfn = 0;
vcpu_guest_context_any_t *ctxt = malloc(sizeof(vcpu_guest_context_any_t));
        unsigned long cr3 = ctxt->c.ctrlreg[3];

        while(1 == 1){

xc_vcpu_getcontext(xcinterface, domain, dominfo.max_vcpu_id, ctxt);
                cr3 = ctxt->c.ctrlreg[3];

                for(m = 0; m < 10; m++){

                        //already stored?
                        if(cr3s[m] == cr3){

                                break;
                        //checked all stored cr3 values?
                        }else if (cr3s[m] != 0){

                                continue;
                        //obviously new one found
                        }else{
                                cr3s[m] = cr3;
printf("new cr3 found %08x, stored in %d\n", cr3, m);

mfn = xc_translate_foreign_address(xcinterface, domain, 0, cr3s[m]); printf("calculated mfn %08d for address %08x\n", mfn, cr3s[m]);
                                break;
                        }
                }

                if(m == 10)
                       return 0;
        }
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------

the corresponding output is:

new cr3 found 002f3000, stored in 0
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 002f3000
new cr3 found 06ac01a0, stored in 1
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac01a0
new cr3 found 06ac0040, stored in 2
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac0040
new cr3 found 06ac00a0, stored in 3
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac00a0
new cr3 found 06ac01e0, stored in 4
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac01e0
new cr3 found 06ac0320, stored in 5
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac0320
new cr3 found 06ac02a0, stored in 6
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac02a0
new cr3 found 06ac01c0, stored in 7
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac01c0
new cr3 found 06ac0200, stored in 8
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac0200
new cr3 found 06ac0060, stored in 9
calculated mfn 00000000 for address 06ac0060

so, every try to translate a cr3 address to a frame number (I don't know what's the correct wording for frame numbers in hvm domains, .. mfn?) ends in 0. Maybe it's a failure in my code? I can't find it currently :) ... I'm trying now, to read the cr3 values inside the domain, to check if the values are the same.

greets,
david



Cheers,

Tim.


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