Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/8] xen/pvh: Initialize grant table for PVH guests

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Fri Oct 14 2016 - 15:41:52 EST


On 10/14/2016 03:19 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 02:05:16PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> Perhaps add in here:
>
> PVH is like PV in that there are no PCI devices - which HVM
> code would piggyback on to find the Xen PCI platform device and
> use its MMIO space to stash the grants in.
>
> For PVH we balloon out memory and stash the grants in there.
>
> (Which begs the next question - where and when do we balloon out the
> normal memory back in?)

Are you saying that we should get back memory that we gave to grant tables?

-boris


>
>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 8 ++++----
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
>> index bb36b1e..d6786b8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
>> @@ -1146,13 +1146,13 @@ int gnttab_init(void)
>>
>> static int __gnttab_init(void)
>> {
>> + if (!xen_domain())
>> + return -ENODEV;
>> +
>> /* Delay grant-table initialization in the PV on HVM case */
>> - if (xen_hvm_domain())
>> + if (xen_hvm_domain() && !xen_pvh_domain())
>> return 0;
>>
>> - if (!xen_pv_domain())
>> - return -ENODEV;
>> -
>> return gnttab_init();
>> }
>> /* Starts after core_initcall so that xen_pvh_gnttab_setup can be called
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>
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