Re: [PATCH 03/12] x86/xen: Introduce new function to map HYPERVISOR_shared_info on Resume

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 5/19/20 7:25 PM, Anchal Agarwal wrote:
> Introduce a small function which re-uses shared page's PA allocated
> during guest initialization time in reserve_shared_info() and not
> allocate new page during resume flow.
> It also  does the mapping of shared_info_page by calling
> xen_hvm_init_shared_info() to use the function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c | 7 +++++++
>  arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h       | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> index e138f7de52d2..75b1ec7a0fcd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
>  
>  static unsigned long shared_info_pfn;
>  
> +void xen_hvm_map_shared_info(void)
> +{
> +	xen_hvm_init_shared_info();
> +	if (shared_info_pfn)
> +		HYPERVISOR_shared_info = __va(PFN_PHYS(shared_info_pfn));
> +}
> +


AFAICT it is only called once so I don't see a need for new routine.


And is it possible for shared_info_pfn to be NULL in resume path (which
is where this is called)?


-boris