From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:32:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C67AE0.5060503@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d93ba619c716c45cca0.1220826073@localhost>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Use one of the software-defined PTE bits to indicate that a mapping is
> intended for an IO address. On native hardware this is irrelevent,
> since a physical address is a physical address. But in a virtual
> environment, physical addresses are also virtualized, so there needs
> to be some way to distinguish between pseudo-physical addresses and
> actual hardware addresses; _PAGE_IOMAP indicates this intent.
>
> By default, __supported_pte_mask masks out _PAGE_IOMAP, so it doesn't
> even appear in the final pagetable.
>
Could PTE_SPECIAL, added for get_user_pages_really_fast(), be reused for
this?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 22:21 [PATCH 0 of 7] x86: lay groundwork for Xen domain 0 support Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-09 13:32 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-09 14:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-09 14:56 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-09 15:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2008-09-09 15:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-09 16:05 ` Keir Fraser
2008-09-10 9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 16:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-10 16:55 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 17:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] x86: remove duplicate early_ioremap declarations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] x86: add early_memremap() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] x86: use early_memremap() in setup.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] x86-64: don't check for map replacement Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 23:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 0:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-08 14:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 16:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-08 19:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-10 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 16:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-11 7:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-11 18:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-11 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-11 20:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-11 21:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-12 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-12 17:31 ` Yinghai Lu
[not found] ` <20080911125748.GA14698@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 21:33 ` [PATCH] acpi: remove final __acpi_map_table mapping before setting acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 22:21 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] x86: always explicitly map acpi memory Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 23:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Yinghai Lu
2008-09-08 0:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-08 0:14 ` Yinghai Lu
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