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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] ide: IOMMU support
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:33:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007151133.14493.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3E2C2E.70507@codemonkey.ws>

> > Depending how the we decide to handle IOMMU invalidation, it may also be
> > necessary to augment the memory_map API to allow the system to request a
> > mapping be revoked.  However this issue is not specific to the IOMMU
> > implementation. Such bugs are already present on any system that allows
> > dynamic reconfiguration of the address space, e.g. by changing PCI BARs.
> 
> That's why the memory_map API today does not allow mappings to persist
> after trips back to the main loop.

Sure it does.  If you can't combine zero-copy memory access with asynchronous 
IO then IMO it's fairly useless. See e.g. dma-helpers.c

Paul

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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] ide: IOMMU support
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:33:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007151133.14493.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3E2C2E.70507@codemonkey.ws>

> > Depending how the we decide to handle IOMMU invalidation, it may also be
> > necessary to augment the memory_map API to allow the system to request a
> > mapping be revoked.  However this issue is not specific to the IOMMU
> > implementation. Such bugs are already present on any system that allows
> > dynamic reconfiguration of the address space, e.g. by changing PCI BARs.
> 
> That's why the memory_map API today does not allow mappings to persist
> after trips back to the main loop.

Sure it does.  If you can't combine zero-copy memory access with asynchronous 
IO then IMO it's fairly useless. See e.g. dma-helpers.c

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-15 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-14  5:45 [RFC PATCH 0/7] AMD IOMMU emulation patchset Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] Generic IOMMU layer Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  6:07   ` malc
2010-07-14  6:07     ` [Qemu-devel] " malc
2010-07-14 22:47     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 22:47       ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] AMD IOMMU emulation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 20:16   ` Paul Brook
2010-07-14 20:16     ` Paul Brook
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] pci: call IOMMU hooks Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  7:37   ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-07-14  7:37     ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-07-14 22:50     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 22:50       ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] ide: IOMMU support Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 13:53   ` Paul Brook
2010-07-14 13:53     ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Brook
2010-07-14 18:33     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-14 18:33       ` [Qemu-devel] " Joerg Roedel
2010-07-14 20:13       ` Paul Brook
2010-07-14 21:29         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-14 21:29           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-14 22:24           ` Chris Wright
2010-07-14 22:24             ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 10:28             ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 10:28               ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 16:52               ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 16:52                 ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:02                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-15 17:02                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-15 17:17                   ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:17                     ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:22                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-15 17:22                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-15 17:25                       ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:25                         ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:27                     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15 17:27                       ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15 17:22                   ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 17:22                     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 17:14                 ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15 17:14                   ` Chris Wright
2010-07-15  9:10           ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15  9:10             ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 12:45             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 12:45               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 14:45               ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 14:45                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 16:45               ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15 16:45                 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15 17:42                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 17:42                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 10:33           ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-07-15 10:33             ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 12:42             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 12:42               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-15 14:02               ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 14:02                 ` Paul Brook
2010-07-14 23:39         ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 23:39           ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15  9:22         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15  9:22           ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 10:49           ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 10:49             ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 14:59             ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 14:59               ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-14 23:11     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14 23:11       ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-15 10:58       ` Paul Brook
2010-07-15 10:58         ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Brook
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] rtl8139: " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] eepro100: " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] ac97: " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  5:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-07-14  6:09   ` malc
2010-07-14  6:09     ` [Qemu-devel] " malc

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