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From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
To: Baozeng <sploving1@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: xen dire-map area
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:58:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120614095816.GF82539@ocelot.phlegethon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP=GMUHmHfeE1rDk37HcoHW5ytVHqSaTqyXHt24M9r+q6QDg=g@mail.gmail.com>

At 17:30 +0800 on 14 Jun (1339695001), Baozeng wrote:
> Hell all,
> 
> I am doing some research work on protecting Xen's data structures.
> I know there is a direct-map area(about 12M), in which we can get  the
> physical address of the data structure from its virtual address.  My
> question is : are the stack and the heap of Xen both located in this
> direct-map area?

On 32-bit x86, anything allocated with alloc_xenheap_* or xmalloc() is
in that area (and that includes Xen's stacks).  Anything allocated with
alloc_domheap_* is not.  Also the frametable and M2P are mapped
separately.  The details are in include/asm-x86/config.h.

Cheers,

Tim.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-14  9:30 xen dire-map area Baozeng
2012-06-14  9:58 ` Tim Deegan [this message]
2012-06-15  7:15   ` Baozeng
2012-06-15 13:16     ` Tim Deegan

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