[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 06/10] xen/setup: Only set identity mapping in E820 regions when privileged.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:37:01PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 12/21/2010 01:37 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > We do not want to set the identity mapping on E820 reserved
> > regions when running as PV. This is b/c the 0->ISA_END_ADDRESS region
> > would be considered identity and we would try to read DMI information
> > and fail (since the pfn_to_mfn(mfn)==pfn) under PV guests.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/xen/setup.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > index 752c865..34fb906 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> > @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static unsigned long __init xen_set_identity(const 
> > struct e820map *e820)
> >             if (end < start)
> >                     continue;
> >  
> > -           if (e820->map[i].type != E820_RAM) {
> > +           if (xen_initial_domain() && e820->map[i].type != E820_RAM) {
> >                     for (pfn = PFN_UP(start); pfn < PFN_DOWN(end); pfn++)
> >                             set_phys_to_machine(pfn, pfn);
> >                     identity += pfn - PFN_UP(start);
> 
> So you're relying on the fact that the ISA area is the only non-RAM e820
> entry in domU?  I think it would be better to do a specific exclusion
> for the ISA area rather than this.

Ok. I've rolled something along what xen_return_unused regions does in the
function.

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