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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv5 08/13] qemu: add support for resizing regions
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090618164444.GB19553@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906181735.10458.paul@codesourcery.com>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:32:11PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Make it possible to resize PCI regions.  This will be used by virtio
> > with MSI-X, where the region size depends on whether MSI-X is enabled,
> > and can change across load/save.
> 
> I thought we'd agreed we shouldn't be doing this.
> i.e. if the user tries to load the wrong device, just bail out.
> 
> Paul

We need a way to generally prevent load from changing registers in a way
that can not be done by a guest.  I haven't implemented this feature yet
though.

-- 
MST

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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv5 08/13] qemu: add support for resizing regions
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090618164444.GB19553@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906181735.10458.paul@codesourcery.com>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:32:11PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Make it possible to resize PCI regions.  This will be used by virtio
> > with MSI-X, where the region size depends on whether MSI-X is enabled,
> > and can change across load/save.
> 
> I thought we'd agreed we shouldn't be doing this.
> i.e. if the user tries to load the wrong device, just bail out.
> 
> Paul

We need a way to generally prevent load from changing registers in a way
that can not be done by a guest.  I haven't implemented this feature yet
though.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1245330293.git.mst@redhat.com>
2009-06-18 13:12 ` [PATCHv5 01/13] qemu: make default_write_config use mask table Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:12   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` [PATCHv5 02/13] qemu: capability bits in pci save/restore Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` [PATCHv5 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` [PATCHv5 04/13] qemu: helper routines for pci access Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` [PATCHv5 05/13] qemu: MSI-X support functions Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` [PATCHv5 06/13] qemu: add flag to disable MSI-X by default Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` [PATCHv5 07/13] qemu: minimal MSI/MSI-X implementation for PC Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` [PATCHv5 08/13] qemu: add support for resizing regions Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 16:32   ` Paul Brook
2009-06-18 16:32     ` Paul Brook
2009-06-18 16:44     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-06-18 16:44       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 16:44     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 16:32   ` Paul Brook
2009-06-18 13:14 ` [PATCHv5 09/13] qemu: virtio support for many interrupt vectors Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` [PATCHv5 10/13] qemu: MSI-X support in virtio PCI Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` [PATCHv5 11/13] qemu: request 3 vectors in virtio-net Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` [PATCHv5 12/13] qemu: virtio save/load bindings Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` [PATCHv5 13/13] qemu: add pci_get/set_byte Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-18 13:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin

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