From: pbonzini@redhat.com (Paolo Bonzini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:03:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F73ACF.1090605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150304142943.GU28951@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On 04/03/2015 15:29, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> I disagree it is 100% a host-side issue. It is a host-side issue _if_
> the host tells the guest that the (virtual) device is non-coherent (or,
> more precisely, it does not explicitly tell the guest that the device is
> coherent). If the guest thinks the (virtual) device is non-coherent
> because of information passed by the host, I fully agree that the host
> needs to manage the cache coherency.
>
> However, the host could also pass a "dma-coherent" property in the DT
> given to the guest and avoid any form of cache maintenance. If the guest
> does not honour such coherency property, it's a guest problem and it
> needs fixing in the guest. This isn't any different from a real physical
> device behaviour.
Can you add that property to the device tree for PCI devices too?
Paolo
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-19 10:54 [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] arm64: KVM: handle some sysreg writes in EL2 Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-03 17:59 ` Mario Smarduch
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 2/3] arm64: KVM: mangle MAIR register to prevent uncached guest mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 3/3] arm64: KVM: keep trapping of VM sysreg writes enabled Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 13:40 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-02-19 13:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 15:19 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-02-19 15:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 14:50 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings Alexander Graf
2015-02-19 14:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 15:27 ` Alexander Graf
2015-02-19 15:31 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 16:57 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-19 17:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 17:55 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-19 17:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-20 14:29 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-20 14:37 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-20 15:36 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-24 14:55 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-24 17:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-24 19:12 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-02 16:31 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-03-02 16:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-02 16:55 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-03-02 17:05 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-02 16:48 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-03 2:20 ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-04 11:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 11:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-04 12:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 12:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-04 14:12 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-04 14:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 14:34 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-04 17:03 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-03-04 17:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 10:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-05 11:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 11:52 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-05 12:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 12:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-05 14:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 17:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-06 21:08 ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-09 14:26 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-09 15:33 ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-05 19:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-06 20:33 ` Mario Smarduch
2015-02-19 18:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-03 17:34 ` Alexander Graf
2015-03-03 18:13 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-03-03 20:58 ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-03 18:32 ` Catalin Marinas
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