Re: [PATCH] fix -kernel option

[Izik Eidus <izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:
> Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
>>
>> Currently, the -kernel option is not working.
>>
>> Reason is, because we're registering chunks for regions 0-0xa0000 and
>> 0x100000-ram_size, the phys_ram_addr + PA is broken.
>> The real fix should be to rewrite all the load_linux() code to not rely
>> on this, but meanwhile, filling in the gap up to 0xc0000 - the beginning
>> of extended memory - makes it work again
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>> ---
>>  qemu/hw/pc.c |   11 ++++++++---
>>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/qemu/hw/pc.c b/qemu/hw/pc.c
>> index 6c71b09..e4a5f2d 100644
>> --- a/qemu/hw/pc.c
>> +++ b/qemu/hw/pc.c
>> @@ -725,13 +725,18 @@ static void pc_init1(ram_addr_t ram_size, int 
>> vga_ram_size, int boot_device,
>>  #ifdef USE_KVM
>>   #ifdef KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY
>>      if (kvm_allowed && kvm_qemu_check_extension(KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY)) {
>> +        ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(0xa0000);
>> +        cpu_register_physical_memory(0, 0xa0000, ram_addr);
>> +        kvm_cpu_register_physical_memory(0, 0xa0000, ram_addr);
>> +
>> +       /* move the pointer up to 0xc0000, which is the next
>> +           address we'll touch */
>> +        qemu_ram_alloc(0x20000);
>>
> It should be 0x60000 instead of 0x20000 since the code below should 
> start at offset of
> 0x100000.
> This finally solved my problem with running virtio using kvm, before 
> it only worked for -no-kvm.
> In general this fixes phys_mem_base + PA.
>
> Regards,
> Dor.
you will get problems using virtio with above 4 giga as well in this case,
why not just using cpu_memory_write/cpu_memory_read??? (as i understand 
from how that cpu_register_physical_memory built this is the qemu way)

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