Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] xen/memory : Add a stats_table resource type

[Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matiasevara@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 03:10:53PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 17.02.2023 10:29, Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 09:57:43AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> On 17.02.2023 09:50, Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 08:56:57AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> On 14.12.2022 08:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 07.10.2022 14:39, Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen wrote:
> >>>>>> +static int stats_vcpu_alloc_mfn(struct domain *d)
> >>>>>> +{
> >>>>>> +    struct page_info *pg;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> +    pg = alloc_domheap_page(d, MEMF_no_refcount);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The ioreq and vmtrace resources are also allocated this way, but they're
> >>>>> HVM-specific. The one here being supposed to be VM-type independent, I'm
> >>>>> afraid such pages will be accessible by an "owning" PV domain (it'll
> >>>>> need to guess the MFN, but that's no excuse).
> >>>>
> >>>> Which might be tolerable if it then can't write to the page. That would
> >>>> require "locking" the page r/o (from guest pov), which ought to be
> >>>> possible by leveraging a variant of what share_xen_page_with_guest()
> >>>> does: It marks pages PGT_none with a single type ref. This would mean
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>>> +    if ( !pg )
> >>>>>> +        return -ENOMEM;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> +    if ( !get_page_and_type(pg, d, PGT_writable_page) ) {
> >>>>
> >>>> ... using PGT_none here. Afaict this _should_ work, but we have no
> >>>> precedent of doing so in the tree, and I may be overlooking something
> >>>> which prevents that from working.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I do not fully understand this. I checked share_xen_page_with_guest() and I
> >>> think you're talking about doing something like this for each allocated page to
> >>> set them ro from a pv guest pov:
> >>>
> >>> pg->u.inuse.type_info = PGT_none;
> >>> pg->u.inuse.type_info |= PGT_validated | 1;
> >>> page_set_owner(page, d); // not sure if this is needed
> >>>
> >>> Then, I should use PGT_none instead of PGT_writable_page in
> >>> get_page_and_type(). Am I right?
> >>
> >> No, if at all possible you should avoid open-coding anything. As said,
> >> simply passing PGT_none to get_page_and_type() ought to work (again, as
> >> said, unless I'm overlooking something). share_xen_page_with_guest()
> >> can do what it does because the page isn't owned yet. For a page with
> >> owner you may not fiddle with type_info in such an open-coded manner.
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks. I got the following bug when passing PGT_none:
> > 
> > (XEN) Bad type in validate_page 0 t=0000000000000001 c=8040000000000002
> > (XEN) Xen BUG at mm.c:2643
> 
> The caller of the function needs to avoid the call not only for writable
> and shared pages, but also for this new case of PGT_none.

Thanks. If I understand correctly, _get_page_type() needs to avoid to call
validate_page() when type = PGT_none. For the writable and shared pages, this
is avoided by setting nx |= PGT_validated. Am I right?

Matias