Re: Limitation in HVM physmap

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> Hi Jan, Tim and Keir
> 
> I currently run into the limitation of HVM's physmap: one MFN can only
> be mapped into one guest physical frame. Why is it designed like that?
> 
> The scenario is that: when QEMU boots with OVMF (UEFI firmware), OVMF
> will first map the framebuffer to 0x80000000, resulting the framebuffer
> MFNs added to corresponding slots in physmap. A few moments later when
> Linux kernel loads, it tries to map framebuffer MFNs to 0xf00000000,
> which fails because those MFNs have already been mapped in other
> locations. Is there a way to fix this?
> 

FWIW I tested this on real hardware, a Dell R710 server.

dmesg:
[   39.394807] efifb: probing for efifb
[   39.437552] efifb: framebuffer at 0xd5800000, mapped to 0xffffc90013f00000, using 1216k, total 1216k
[   39.546549] efifb: mode is 640x480x32, linelength=2560, pages=1
[   39.617140] efifb: scrolling: redraw
[   39.659709] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0

lspci -vvv:
0b:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R710 MGA G200eW WPCM450
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at d5800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
        Region 1: Memory at de7fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Region 2: Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at de000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

So I think the behavior of OVMF is consistent with real hardware.

Wei.

> Thanks
> Wei