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doc: Update MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE requirements.
There are some implicit requirements when using the hypercall which are not mentioned. Mainly the requirement that the pagetable be RO. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson.citrix.com>
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@@ -196,6 +196,40 @@ DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(xen_pfn_t);
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* FD == DOMID_XEN: Map restricted areas of Xen's heap space.
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* ptr[:2] -- Machine address of the page-table entry to modify.
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* val -- Value to write.
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*
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* There also certain implicit requirements when using this hypercall. The
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* pages that make up a pagetable must be mapped read-only in the guest.
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* This prevents uncontrolled guest updates to the pagetable. Xen strictly
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* enforces this, and will disallow any pagetable update which will end up
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* mapping pagetable page RW, and will disallow using any writable page as a
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* pagetable. In practice it means that when constructing a page table for a
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* process, thread, etc, we MUST be very dilligient in following these rules:
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* 1). Start with top-level page (PGD or in Xen language: L4). Fill out
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* the entries.
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* 2). Keep on going, filling out the upper (PUD or L3), and middle (PMD
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* or L2).
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* 3). Start filling out the PTE table (L1) with the PTE entries. Once
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* done, make sure to set each of those entries to RO (so writeable bit
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* is unset). Once that has been completed, set the PMD (L2) for this
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* PTE table as RO.
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* 4). When completed with all of the PMD (L2) entries, and all of them have
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* been set to RO, make sure to set RO the PUD (L3). Do the same
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* operation on PGD (L4) pagetable entries that have a PUD (L3) entry.
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* 5). Now before you can use those pages (so setting the cr3), you MUST also
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* pin them so that the hypervisor can verify the entries. This is done
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* via the HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op(MMUEXT_PIN_L4_TABLE, guest physical frame
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* number of the PGD (L4)). And this point the HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op(
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* MMUEXT_NEW_BASEPTR, guest physical frame number of the PGD (L4)) can be
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* issued.
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* For 32-bit guests, the L4 is not used (as there is less pagetables), so
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* instead use L3.
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* At this point the pagetables can be modified using the MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE
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* hypercall. Also if so desired the OS can also try to write to the PTE
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* and be trapped by the hypervisor (as the PTE entry is RO).
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*
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* To deallocate the pages, the operations are the reverse of the steps
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* mentioned above. The argument is MMUEXT_UNPIN_TABLE for all levels and the
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* pagetable MUST not be in use (meaning that the cr3 is not set to it).
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*
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* ptr[1:0] == MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE:
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* Updates an entry in the machine->pseudo-physical mapping table.
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