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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Zhuangyanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
Cc: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
	arei.gonglei@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] ivshmem: Fix 64 bit memory bar configuration
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:27:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmxegrs9.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479385863-7648-1-git-send-email-ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com> (Zhuangyanying's message of "Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:31:03 +0800")

Zhuangyanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com> writes:

> From: Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
>
>     Device ivshmem property use64=0 is designed to make the device
>     expose a 32 bit shared memory BAR instead of 64 bit one.  The
>     default is a 64 bit BAR, except pc-1.2 and older retain a 32 bit
>     BAR.  A 32 bit BAR can support only up to 1 GiB of shared memory.
>
>     This worked as designed until commit 5400c02 accidentally flipped
>     its sense: since then, we misinterpret use64=0 as use64=1 and vice
>     versa.  Worse, the default got flipped as well.  Devices
>     ivshmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell are not affected.
>
>     Fix by restoring the test of IVShmemState member not_legacy_32bit
>     that got messed up in commit 5400c02.  Also update its
>     initialization for devices ivhsmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell.
>     Without that, they'd regress to 32 bit BARs.
>
>     Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
>     Signed-off-by: Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Marc-Andr. Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

Commit message should not be indented, and Marc-André's name got
mangled.  Both could be touched up on commit.

Thanks again for cleaning up my mess.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-17 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17 12:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] ivshmem: Fix 64 bit memory bar configuration Zhuangyanying
2016-11-17 13:27 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2016-11-17 16:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-11-18 15:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-11-18 15:30   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-11-18 17:30   ` Paolo Bonzini

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