8 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-ia64-develRE: [Xen-ia64-devel] domU address space
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Dong, Eddie23 Jan 2008 17:28 
Isaku Yamahata23 Jan 2008 18:28 
Kouya Shimura23 Jan 2008 23:23 
Dong, Eddie25 Jan 2008 01:37 
tgin...@free.fr25 Jan 2008 02:31 
Kouya Shimura25 Jan 2008 03:14 
tgin...@free.fr25 Jan 2008 03:55 
Dong, Eddie25 Jan 2008 06:45 
Subject:RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] domU address space
From:Kouya Shimura (kou@jp.fujitsu.com)
Date:01/25/2008 03:14:19 AM
List:com.xensource.lists.xen-ia64-devel

tgin@free.fr writes:

Do we have checks when inserting guest TLB for PV dom? Seems not,

Yes, we do. See vcpu.c:check_xen_space_overlap

It's only for xen area (region 7). domU can use full 60 bit VA on other region in spite of IMPL_VA_MSB = 50.

Eddie, Ideally we should check it. But current xen implementation requires full 64bit VA and there is no such an Itanium2 with IMPL_VA_MSB <60. (except VTi) So mis-using TLB cannot be. (i.e. unimplemented VA fault never be happened)

If we support xen on xen, it should be fixed in order to prevent a guest xen crashing. :)

Thanks, Kouya