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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen/arm: p2m: configure stage-2 page table to support upto 42-bit PA syst
From: Julien Grall <julien.grall () arm ! com>
Date: 2019-05-31 17:52:55
Message-ID: 244fdc8f-cd62-ba15-ed6f-046cb2778637 () arm ! com
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Hi,
Title: s/upto/ I think?
Also how about: "Properly configure stage-2 for 42-bit PA system".
On 30/05/2019 08:59, Vishnu Pajjuri OS wrote:
> XEN configures stage-2 page table to expose 40 bits of IPA
> (Intermediate Physical Address) bits for systems with 42 bits of PA
I think you want to drop the first "bits".
> (Physical Address). This setting prevents the 42-bit PA systems from booting
> DOM0's kernel since access above 40 bits results in a fault.
This sentence is difficult to read if you don't read the next one first.
>
> This patch adds support for 42-bit system
> which has a full 42-bit address range.
The line-wrap looks strange here.
>
> The fix will allocate 8 pages for stage 2 mapping for both DOM0 and guests.
s/mapping/root page-tables/
> It is a bit wasteful but not an issue since most of these systems should have
> sufficiently large memory capacity.
Here a suggestion for the commit message:
"At the moment, on platform supporting 42-bit PA, Xen will only expose 40-bit
worth of IPA to all domains.
The limitation was to prevent allocating too much memory for the root page
tables as those platforms only support 3-levels page-tables. At the time, this
was deemed acceptable because none of the platforms had address wired above 40-bits.
However, newer platforms take advantage of the full address space. This will
result to break Dom0 boot as it can't access anything above 40-bit.
The only way to support 42-bit IPA is to allocate 8 pages for the root
page-tables. This is a bit a waste of memory as Xen does not offer per-guest
stage-2 configuration. But it is considered acceptable as current platforms
support 42-bit PA have a lot of memory.
In the future, we may want to consider per-guest stage-2 configuration to reduce
the waste.
"
If you are happy with the commit message, I will update use it on commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fengkan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu <vishnu@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
It is common to briefly describe after --- the changes you made in the new version.
> xen/arch/arm/p2m.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> index 92c2413..7712991 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> @@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ void __init setup_virt_paging(void)
> [0] = { 32, 32/*32*/, 0, 1 },
> [1] = { 36, 28/*28*/, 0, 1 },
> [2] = { 40, 24/*24*/, 1, 1 },
> - [3] = { 42, 24/*22*/, 1, 1 },
> + [3] = { 42, 22/*22*/, 3, 1 },
> [4] = { 44, 20/*20*/, 0, 2 },
> [5] = { 48, 16/*16*/, 0, 2 },
> [6] = { 0 }, /* Invalid */
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
--
Julien Grall
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