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File 63456175-libxl-per-arch-extra-default-paging-memory.patch of Package xen.28171

# Commit 156a239ea288972425f967ac807b3cb5b5e14874
# Date 2022-10-11 14:28:37 +0200
# Author Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
libxl, docs: Use arch-specific default paging memory

The default paging memory (descibed in `shadow_memory` entry in xl
config) in libxl is used to determine the memory pool size for xl
guests. Currently this size is only used for x86, and contains a part
of RAM to shadow the resident processes. Since on Arm there is no
shadow mode guests, so the part of RAM to shadow the resident processes
is not necessary. Therefore, this commit splits the function
`libxl_get_required_shadow_memory()` to arch specific helpers and
renamed the helper to `libxl__arch_get_required_paging_memory()`.

On x86, this helper calls the original value from
`libxl_get_required_shadow_memory()` so no functional change intended.

On Arm, this helper returns 1MB per vcpu plus 4KB per MiB of RAM
for the P2M map and additional 512KB.

Also update the xl.cfg documentation to add Arm documentation
according to code changes and correct the comment style following Xen
coding style.

This is part of CVE-2022-33747 / XSA-409.

Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>

--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.5.pod.in
@@ -1803,6 +1803,11 @@ are not using hardware assisted paging (
 mode) and your guest workload consists of a very large number of
 similar processes then increasing this value may improve performance.
 
+On Arm, this field is used to determine the size of the guest P2M pages
+pool, and the default value is 1MB per vCPU plus 4KB per MB of RAM for
+the P2M map. Users should adjust this value if bigger P2M pool size is
+needed.
+
 =back
 
 =head3 Processor and Platform Features
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_arch.h
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_arch.h
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ int libxl__arch_extra_memory(libxl__gc *
                              const libxl_domain_build_info *info,
                              uint64_t *out);
 
+_hidden
+unsigned long libxl__arch_get_required_paging_memory(unsigned long maxmem_kb,
+                                                     unsigned int smp_cpus);
+
 #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
 
 #define LAPIC_BASE_ADDRESS  0xfee00000
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_arm.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_arm.c
@@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ out:
     return rc;
 }
 
+unsigned long libxl__arch_get_required_paging_memory(unsigned long maxmem_kb,
+                                                     unsigned int smp_cpus)
+{
+    /*
+     * 256 pages (1MB) per vcpu,
+     * plus 1 page per MiB of RAM for the P2M map,
+     * This is higher than the minimum that Xen would allocate if no value
+     * were given (but the Xen minimum is for safety, not performance).
+     */
+    return 4 * (256 * smp_cpus + maxmem_kb / 1024);
+}
+
 static struct arch_info {
     const char *guest_type;
     const char *timer_compat;
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_utils.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_utils.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 
 #include "libxl_internal.h"
+#include "libxl_arch.h"
 #include "_paths.h"
 
 #ifndef LIBXL_HAVE_NONCONST_LIBXL_BASENAME_RETURN_VALUE
@@ -39,13 +40,7 @@ char *libxl_basename(const char *name)
 
 unsigned long libxl_get_required_shadow_memory(unsigned long maxmem_kb, unsigned int smp_cpus)
 {
-    /* 256 pages (1MB) per vcpu,
-       plus 1 page per MiB of RAM for the P2M map,
-       plus 1 page per MiB of RAM to shadow the resident processes.
-       This is higher than the minimum that Xen would allocate if no value
-       were given (but the Xen minimum is for safety, not performance).
-     */
-    return 4 * (256 * smp_cpus + 2 * (maxmem_kb / 1024));
+    return libxl__arch_get_required_paging_memory(maxmem_kb, smp_cpus);
 }
 
 char *libxl_domid_to_name(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid)
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c
@@ -852,6 +852,18 @@ int libxl__arch_passthrough_mode_setdefa
     return rc;
 }
 
+unsigned long libxl__arch_get_required_paging_memory(unsigned long maxmem_kb,
+                                                     unsigned int smp_cpus)
+{
+    /*
+     * 256 pages (1MB) per vcpu,
+     * plus 1 page per MiB of RAM for the P2M map,
+     * plus 1 page per MiB of RAM to shadow the resident processes.
+     * This is higher than the minimum that Xen would allocate if no value
+     * were given (but the Xen minimum is for safety, not performance).
+     */
+    return 4 * (256 * smp_cpus + 2 * (maxmem_kb / 1024));
+}
 
 /*
  * Local variables:

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