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From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: keir@xen.org, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [xen-unstable test] 13539: regressions - FAIL
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:34:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120803083441.GA25286@ocelot.phlegethon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343980112.21372.4.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

At 08:48 +0100 on 03 Aug (1343983712), Ian Campbell wrote:
> nestedhvm: fix nested page fault build error on 32-bit
> 
>     cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>     hvm.c: In function ???hvm_hap_nested_page_fault???:
>     hvm.c:1282: error: passing argument 2 of ???nestedhvm_hap_nested_page_fault??? from incompatible pointer type /local/scratch/ianc/devel/xen-unstable.hg/xen/include/asm/hvm/nestedhvm.h:55: note: expected ???paddr_t *??? but argument is of type ???long unsigned int *???
> 
> hvm_hap_nested_page_fault takes an unsigned long gpa and passes &gpa
> to nestedhvm_hap_nested_page_fault which takes a paddr_t *. Since both
> of the callers of hvm_hap_nested_page_fault (svm_do_nested_pgfault and
> ept_handle_violation) actually have the gpa which they pass to
> hvm_hap_nested_page_fault as a paddr_t I think it makes sense to
> change the argument to hvm_hap_nested_page_fault.
> 
> The other user of gpa in hvm_hap_nested_page_fault is a call to
> p2m_mem_access_check, which currently also takes a paddr_t gpa but I
> think a paddr_t is appropriate there too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>

I think this is a candidate for backporting, too.  As Jan points out,
this is a HAP bug on 32-bit with >4G guests.

Tim.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-02 23:41 [xen-unstable test] 13539: regressions - FAIL xen.org
2012-08-03  5:12 ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-03  7:48   ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-03  7:57     ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-03  7:59     ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-03  8:00       ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-03  8:44         ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-03  9:11       ` Christoph Egger
2012-08-03  8:34     ` Tim Deegan [this message]
2012-08-03  8:37       ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-03  8:39         ` Tim Deegan
2012-08-03  8:55           ` Ian Campbell

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