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From: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 15:40:58 +0800
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On 07/04/2016 03:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 04/07/2016 08:39, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> Why the memory mapped by this mmap() is not a portion of MMIO from
>> underlayer physical device? If it is a valid system memory, is this
>> interface
>> really needed to implemented in vfio? (you at least need to set VM_MIXEDMAP
>> if it mixed system memory with MMIO)
>
> The KVM code does not care if VM_MIXEDMAP is set or not, it works in
> either case.

Yes, it is. I mean nvdia's vfio patchset should use VM_MIXEDMAP if the memory
is mixed. :)