Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/8] xen/pvh: Prevent PVH guests from using PIC, RTC and IOAPIC

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Oct 14 2016 - 15:19:38 EST


On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 02:05:15PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Make sure they don't use these devices since they are not emulated
> for unprivileged PVH guest.

Which means they would just return 0 ? Or would it get worst since
the in/out would go to the hypervisor which would kill the guest?
>
> Also don't initialize hypercall page for them in init_hvm_pv_info()
> since this has already been done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> index d38d568..6c1a330 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -1803,10 +1803,21 @@ static void __init init_hvm_pv_info(void)
> minor = eax & 0xffff;
> printk(KERN_INFO "Xen version %d.%d.\n", major, minor);
>
> - cpuid(base + 2, &pages, &msr, &ecx, &edx);
> + xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
>
> - pfn = __pa(hypercall_page);
> - wrmsr_safe(msr, (u32)pfn, (u32)(pfn >> 32));
> + /* PVH set up hypercall page earlier in xen_prepare_pvh() */

A period at the end?
> + if (xen_pvh_domain()) {
> + pv_info.name = "Xen PVH";
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> + /* No PIC or IOAPIC */

Here?
> + acpi_irq_model = ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM;
> +#endif
> + } else {
> + pv_info.name = "Xen HVM";
> + cpuid(base + 2, &pages, &msr, &ecx, &edx);

Could you use cpuid_ebx ?
> + pfn = __pa(hypercall_page);
> + wrmsr_safe(msr, (u32)pfn, (u32)(pfn >> 32));
> + }
>
> xen_setup_features();
>
> @@ -1815,10 +1826,6 @@ static void __init init_hvm_pv_info(void)
> this_cpu_write(xen_vcpu_id, ebx);
> else
> this_cpu_write(xen_vcpu_id, smp_processor_id());
> -
> - pv_info.name = "Xen HVM";
> -
> - xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
> }
>
> static int xen_cpu_up_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
> @@ -1892,6 +1899,9 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_guest_init(void)
>
> init_hvm_pv_info();
>
> + if (xen_pvh_domain())
> + x86_platform.legacy.rtc = 0;
> +
> xen_hvm_init_shared_info();
>
> xen_panic_handler_init();
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
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