This patch addresses a behavior discrepancy in the handling of altp2m views,
where upon the creation and subsequent EPT violation, the page access
permissions were incorrectly inherited from the hostp2m instead of respecting
the altp2m default_access.
Previously, when a new altp2m view was established with restrictive
default_access permissions and activated via xc_altp2m_switch_to_view(),
it failed to trigger an event on the first access violation. This behavior
diverged from the intended mechanism, where the altp2m's default_access
should dictate the initial permissions, ensuring proper event triggering on
access violations.
The correction involves modifying the handling mechanism to respect the
altp2m view's default_access upon its activation, eliminating the need for
setting memory access permissions for the entire altp2m range (e.g. within
xen-access.c). This change not only aligns the behavior with the expected
access control logic but also results in a significant performance improvement
by reducing the overhead associated with setting memory access permissions
across the altp2m range.
Signed-off-by: Petr Beneš <w1benny@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>
In order to better reflect the contents of the header and to make it
more appropriate to use it for different runtime environments like
programs, libraries, and firmware, rename the libs.h include file to
common-macros.h. Additionally add a comment pointing out the need to be
self-contained.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com> # tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c
Acked-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@cloud.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
This avoid the need to create the symbolic link "include/asm".
Whenever a comment refer to an "asm" headers, this patch avoid
spelling the arch when not needed to avoid some code churn.
One unrelated change is to sort entries in MAINTAINERS for "INTEL(R)
VT FOR X86 (VT-X)"
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
xen-access is a tool for a human to use, rather than a test. Move it
into misc/ as a more appropriate location to live.
Move the -DXC_WANT_COMPAT_DEVICEMODEL_API from CFLAGS into xen-access.c itself
to avoid adding Makefile complexity.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>
Petr Beneš
Juergen Gross
Anthony PERARD
Andrew Cooper