[PATCH 3/6] xen/mmu: Recycle the Xen provided L4, L3, and L2 pages

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

As we are not using them. We end up only using the L1 pagetables
and grafting those to our page-tables.

[v1: Per Stefano's suggestion squashed two commits]
[v2: Per Stefano's suggestion simplified loop]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index a59070b..de4b8fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1708,7 +1708,20 @@ static void convert_pfn_mfn(void *v)
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++)
 		pte[i] = xen_make_pte(pte[i].pte);
 }
-
+static __init check_pt_base(unsigned long *pt_base, unsigned long *pt_end,
+			    unsigned long addr)
+{
+	if (pt_base == PFN_DOWN(__pa(addr))) {
+		set_page_prot((void *)addr, PAGE_KERNEL);
+		clear_page((void *)addr);
+		*pt_base++;
+	}
+	if (pt_end == PFN_DOWN(__pa(addr))) {
+		set_page_prot((void *)addr, PAGE_KERNEL);
+		clear_page((void *)addr);
+		*pt_end--;
+	}
+}
 /*
  * Set up the initial kernel pagetable.
  *
@@ -1724,6 +1737,9 @@ void __init xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn)
 {
 	pud_t *l3;
 	pmd_t *l2;
+	unsigned long addr[3];
+	unsigned long pt_base, pt_end;
+	unsigned i;
 
 	/* max_pfn_mapped is the last pfn mapped in the initial memory
 	 * mappings. Considering that on Xen after the kernel mappings we
@@ -1731,6 +1747,9 @@ void __init xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn)
 	 * set max_pfn_mapped to the last real pfn mapped. */
 	max_pfn_mapped = PFN_DOWN(__pa(xen_start_info->mfn_list));
 
+	pt_base = PFN_DOWN(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base));
+	pt_end = PFN_DOWN(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base + (xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE)));
+
 	/* Zap identity mapping */
 	init_level4_pgt[0] = __pgd(0);
 
@@ -1749,6 +1768,9 @@ void __init xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn)
 	l3 = m2v(pgd[pgd_index(__START_KERNEL_map)].pgd);
 	l2 = m2v(l3[pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map)].pud);
 
+	addr[0] = (unsigned long)pgd;
+	addr[1] = (unsigned long)l3;
+	addr[2] = (unsigned long)l2;
 	/* Graft it onto L4[272][0]. Note that we creating an aliasing problem:
 	 * Both L4[272][0] and L4[511][511] have entries that point to the same
 	 * L2 (PMD) tables. Meaning that if you modify it in __va space
@@ -1782,20 +1804,24 @@ void __init xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long max_pfn)
 	/* Unpin Xen-provided one */
 	pin_pagetable_pfn(MMUEXT_UNPIN_TABLE, PFN_DOWN(__pa(pgd)));
 
-	/* Switch over */
-	pgd = init_level4_pgt;
-
 	/*
 	 * At this stage there can be no user pgd, and no page
 	 * structure to attach it to, so make sure we just set kernel
 	 * pgd.
 	 */
 	xen_mc_batch();
-	__xen_write_cr3(true, __pa(pgd));
+	__xen_write_cr3(true, __pa(init_level4_pgt));
 	xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU);
 
-	memblock_reserve(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base),
-			 xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE);
+	/* We can't that easily rip out L3 and L2, as the Xen pagetables are
+	 * set out this way: [L4], [L1], [L2], [L3], [L1], [L1] ...  for
+	 * the initial domain. For guests using the toolstack, they are in:
+	 * [L4], [L3], [L2], [L1], [L1], order .. */
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(addr); i++)
+		check_pt_base(&pt_base, &pt_end, addr[i]);
+
+	/* Our (by three pages) smaller Xen pagetable that we are using */
+	memblock_reserve(PFN_PHYS(pt_base), (pt_end - pt_base) * PAGE_SIZE);
 }
 #else	/* !CONFIG_X86_64 */
 static RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY(pmd_t, initial_kernel_pmd, PTRS_PER_PMD);
-- 
1.7.7.6

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