Re: [PATCHv4 18/33] x86/xen: convert __xen_pgd_walk() and xen_cleanmfnmap() to support p4d

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>> Don't we need to pass vaddr down to all routines so that they select
>> appropriate tables? You seem to always be choosing the first one.
> IIUC, we clear whole page table subtree covered by one pgd entry.
> So, no, there's no need to pass vaddr down. Just pointer to page table
> entry is enough.
>
> But I know virtually nothing about Xen. Please re-check my reasoning.

Yes, we effectively remove the whole page table for vaddr so I guess
it's OK.

>
> I would also appreciate help with getting x86 Xen code work with 5-level
> paging enabled. For now I make CONFIG_XEN dependent on !CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL.

Hmmm... that's a problem since this requires changes in the hypervisor
and even if/when these changes are made older version of hypervisor
still will not be able to run those guests.

This affects only PV guests and there is a series under review that
provides clean code separation with CONFIG_XEN_PV but because, for
example, dom0 (Xen control domain) is PV this will significantly limit
availability of dom0-capable kernels (because I assume distros will want
to have CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL).


>
> Fixup:

Yes, that works. (But then it worked even without this change because
problems caused by missing the flush would be intermittent. And a joy to
debug).

-boris

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