[Xen-changelog] [xen-3.2-testing] Allow older PAE Linux guests to access entire compat m2p.

["Xen patchbot-3.2-testing" <patchbot-3.2-testing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1213291767 -3600
# Node ID 083130789e72ee09bb5e5b9af56ee3dfdc2ae565
# Parent  05ddabd8c9302eb0a234b6ec68b24c00513eb020
Allow older PAE Linux guests to access entire compat m2p.

Older PAE guests (prior to xen-unstable.hg 8924:229c602a075a, Feb
2006, this includes some vendor's kernel in the field) use a limit of
0xf6800000 on their code and data segments (i.e. up to the end of the
read-only m2p table).

Newer kernels use a limit of 4G and rely on the hypervisor to clamp to
the actual maximum allowed. 32on64 mode takes advantage of this to
allow a larger m2p than would fit in the PAEonPAE sized hole.

This means that PAE guests with the hardcoded low limit cannot run on
top of a 64 bit hypervisor on a host machine which has more than 16G
of RAM. Fix this by extending any code or data segment which ends
above the start of the hypervisor hole for that guest.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
xen-unstable changeset:   17809:09dd5492651c34f7cf863683f2ddbca868340eef
xen-unstable date:        Mon Jun 09 17:18:27 2008 +0100
---
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -r 05ddabd8c930 -r 083130789e72 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c  Thu Jun 12 18:28:35 2008 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c  Thu Jun 12 18:29:27 2008 +0100
@@ -397,8 +397,33 @@ int check_descriptor(const struct domain
     /* All code and data segments are okay. No base/limit checking. */
     if ( (b & _SEGMENT_S) )
     {
-        if ( is_pv_32bit_domain(dom) && (b & _SEGMENT_L) )
-            goto bad;
+        if ( is_pv_32bit_domain(dom) )
+        {
+            unsigned long base, limit;
+
+            if ( b & _SEGMENT_L )
+                goto bad;
+
+            /*
+             * Older PAE Linux guests use segments which are limited to
+             * 0xf6800000. Extend these to allow access to the larger read-only
+             * M2P table available in 32on64 mode.
+             */
+            base = (b & (0xff << 24)) | ((b & 0xff) << 16) | (a >> 16);
+
+            limit = (b & 0xf0000) | (a & 0xffff);
+            limit++; /* We add one because limit is inclusive. */
+
+            if ( (b & _SEGMENT_G) )
+                limit <<= 12;
+
+            if ( (base == 0) && (limit > HYPERVISOR_COMPAT_VIRT_START(dom)) )
+            {
+                a |= 0x0000ffff;
+                b |= 0x000f0000;
+            }
+        }
+
         goto good;
     }
 

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