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Thanks so much!
Wu
>Hi,
>
>At 09:46 +0100 on 26 May (1243331218), Wu Bingzheng wrote:
>> Shadow-1. Its method of propagating changes from guest pagetables
>> to the shadow pagetables was as follows:
>>
>> 1. Remove write access to any guest pagetable.
>> 2. When a guest attempts to write to the guest pagetable, mark it
>> out-of-sync, add the page to the out-of-sync list and give write
>> permission.
>> 3. On the next page fault or cr3 write, take each page from the
>> out-of-sync list and:
>> - resync the page: look for changes to the guest pagetable,
>> propagate those entries into the shadow pagetable
>> - remove write permission, and clear the out-of-sync bit.
>>
>> My question is that, dose step 2 trap into Xen hypervisor?
>
>Yes, of course. It's done in the #PF handler.
>
>> 2.
>> I think there are 2 kinds of page fault. 1) normal page fault in guest,
>> which should be handled by guest; 2) invoked by guest updating the page
>> table, which should be handled by Xen.
>>
>> So, if there's a page-miss fault in guest, how many times it will trap into Xen?
>> First, page miss, trap into Xen. Xen finds out it's the 1st kind fault,
>> then it go back to guest to handle it
>> Then, in guest, when it updates the page table to fix the page fault,
>> it will invoke the 2nd kind fault, which will trap into Xen again.
>>
>> Am I right?
>
>Yes; and in some circumstances there can be more than two faults
>(e.g. if the guest's new entry hasn't got the Accessed bit set).
>
>> 3.
>> For the user space part, are the attribute bits of the entries
>> in Guest page table and Shadow page table the same?
>
>No; the only guarantee is that the shadow entry won't contain more
>access rights than the guest entry. For PTEs that map MMIO space we try
>to do the right thing with the caching attributes too.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim.
>
>--
>Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd.
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