Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/physmap: Do not permit a guest to populate PoD pages for itself

2016-08-19 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 19.08.16 at 18:00, wrote: > PoD is supposed to be entirely transparent to guest, but this interface has > been left exposed for a long time. > > The use of PoD requires careful co-ordination by the toolstack with the > XENMEM_{get,set}_pod_target hypercalls, and

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/physmap: Do not permit a guest to populate PoD pages for itself

2016-08-19 Thread Andrew Cooper
PoD is supposed to be entirely transparent to guest, but this interface has been left exposed for a long time. The use of PoD requires careful co-ordination by the toolstack with the XENMEM_{get,set}_pod_target hypercalls, and xenstore ballooning target. The best a guest can do without toolstack