Re: [PATCH V3 (resend) 04/19] x86: Lift mapcache variable to the arch level

["Alejandro Vallejo" <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>]

On Mon May 13, 2024 at 2:40 PM BST, Elias El Yandouzi wrote:
> From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
>
> It is going to be needed by HVM and idle domain as well, because without
> the direct map, both need a mapcache to map pages.
>
> This commit lifts the mapcache variable up and initialise it a bit earlier
> for PV and HVM domains.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wawei@amazon.de>
> Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyxia@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
> index 20e83cf38b..507d704f16 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
> @@ -851,6 +851,8 @@ int arch_domain_create(struct domain *d,
>  
>      psr_domain_init(d);
>  
> +    mapcache_domain_init(d);
> +

I think this is missing free_perdomain_mappings() in the error case. (error
handling is already committed).

Can't the callee jump to a "fail" label and do free_perdomain_mappings()
internally?

Cheers,
Alejandro