Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

[Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet]

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Hi,
    I intend to map the DomU kernel memory to the Dom0 using the function xc_map_foreign_range(). For this I need the machine frame number (mfn) for the page I want to map. To get the value of mfn I want to read the value of cr3 from the DomU Vcpu data structure i.e. the value of ctrlreg[3] from a vcpu_guest_context object. Also I have implemented a hypercall and wish to read the cr3 value in the hypercall handler.
Can anyone share some information regarding how read the cr3 value. Any code examples would help me significantly.
Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Jeet

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Re: Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

[Tim Deegan]

At 21:28 +0100 on 04 May (1304544537), Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet wrote:
> Hi,
>     I intend to map the DomU kernel memory to the Dom0 using the
> function xc_map_foreign_range(). For this I need the machine frame
> number (mfn) for the page I want to map. To get the value of mfn I want
> to read the value of cr3 from the DomU Vcpu data structure i.e. the
> value of ctrlreg[3] from a vcpu_guest_context object.

Look at xc_translate_foreign_address() in tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c; it
does VA->MFN translations, including extracting CR3.

Cheers,

Tim.

> Also I have implemented a hypercall and wish to read the cr3 value in the hypercall handler.
> Can anyone share some information regarding how read the cr3 value. Any code examples would help me significantly.
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeet

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Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

RE: Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

[Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet]

Hi Tim,
           I looked at the xc_translate_foreign_address() in tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c and tried to emulate it. The function below void do_jeet1() is a hypercall handler function for my custom hypercall to get the value of CR3 from the guest VCPU. But when I try to call this hypercall, my machine automatically boots up. Any thoughts?

void do_jeet1(void){   

   unsigned long pgdaddr;
   vcpu_guest_context_u ctx;
   printk ("Successfull Hypercall made to __HYPERVISOR_jeet1\n");   
                        
   pgdaddr = xen_cr3_to_pfn(ctx.nat->ctrlreg[3]);

   printk ("PGDADDR:%lx\n", pgdaddr);
                    
}

Thanks.

Regards,
Jeet

________________________________________
From: Tim Deegan [Tim.Deegan@citrix.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:33 AM
To: Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

At 21:28 +0100 on 04 May (1304544537), Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet wrote:
> Hi,
>     I intend to map the DomU kernel memory to the Dom0 using the
> function xc_map_foreign_range(). For this I need the machine frame
> number (mfn) for the page I want to map. To get the value of mfn I want
> to read the value of cr3 from the DomU Vcpu data structure i.e. the
> value of ctrlreg[3] from a vcpu_guest_context object.

Look at xc_translate_foreign_address() in tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c; it
does VA->MFN translations, including extracting CR3.

Cheers,

Tim.

> Also I have implemented a hypercall and wish to read the cr3 value in the hypercall handler.
> Can anyone share some information regarding how read the cr3 value. Any code examples would help me significantly.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Jeet

> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel


--
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

Re: Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU

[Keir Fraser]

On 06/05/2011 17:33, "Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet"
<SatyajeetNimgaonkar@my.unt.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>            I looked at the xc_translate_foreign_address() in
> tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c and tried to emulate it. The function below void
> do_jeet1() is a hypercall handler function for my custom hypercall to get the
> value of CR3 from the guest VCPU. But when I try to call this hypercall, my
> machine automatically boots up. Any thoughts?
> 
> void do_jeet1(void){
> 
>    unsigned long pgdaddr;
>    vcpu_guest_context_u ctx;
>    printk ("Successfull Hypercall made to __HYPERVISOR_jeet1\n");
>                  
>    pgdaddr = xen_cr3_to_pfn(ctx.nat->ctrlreg[3]);

How experienced are you with C? This is so very obviously broken
(dereferencing field 'nat' in uninitialised union 'ctx'), it's surprising
gcc didn't warn and thereby fail the build. It's not really the purpose of
this list to school you.

 -- Keir

>    printk ("PGDADDR:%lx\n", pgdaddr);
>                  
> }
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeet
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Tim Deegan [Tim.Deegan@citrix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:33 AM
> To: Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Read value of CR3 from DomU VCPU
> 
> At 21:28 +0100 on 04 May (1304544537), Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I intend to map the DomU kernel memory to the Dom0 using the
>> function xc_map_foreign_range(). For this I need the machine frame
>> number (mfn) for the page I want to map. To get the value of mfn I want
>> to read the value of cr3 from the DomU Vcpu data structure i.e. the
>> value of ctrlreg[3] from a vcpu_guest_context object.
> 
> Look at xc_translate_foreign_address() in tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c; it
> does VA->MFN translations, including extracting CR3.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim.
> 
>> Also I have implemented a hypercall and wish to read the cr3 value in the
>> hypercall handler.
>> Can anyone share some information regarding how read the cr3 value. Any code
>> examples would help me significantly.
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jeet
> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xen-devel mailing list
>> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> 
> 
> --
> Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
> Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
> Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
> 
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