From: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
To: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Kirti Wankhede" <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
"Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:19:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577B0B2C.8010300@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160704153303.GA18357@nvidia.com>
On 07/04/2016 11:33 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, I think I misread the "allocation" as "mapping". We only delay the
>>> cpu mapping, not the allocation.
>>
>> So how to understand your statement:
>> "at that moment nobody has any knowledge about how the physical mmio gets virtualized"
>>
>> The resource, physical MMIO region, has been allocated, why we do not know the physical
>> address mapped to the VM?
>>
>
>>From a device driver point of view, the physical mmio region never gets allocated until
> the corresponding resource is requested by clients and granted by the mediated device driver.
Hmm... but you told me that you did not delay the allocation. :(
So it returns to my original question: why not allocate the physical mmio region in mmap()?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-05 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-30 13:01 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-30 13:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: prepare to support mapping of VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP frames Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-30 13:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: try to fix up page faults before giving up Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-30 21:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia
2016-07-04 6:39 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 7:03 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-04 7:37 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 7:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-04 7:59 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 8:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-04 8:21 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 8:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-04 7:53 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-04 8:19 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 8:41 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-04 8:45 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 8:54 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 9:16 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-04 10:16 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-04 15:33 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-05 1:19 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2016-07-05 1:35 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-05 4:02 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-05 5:16 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-05 6:26 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-05 7:30 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-05 9:02 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-05 15:07 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-06 2:22 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-06 4:01 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-04 7:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-04 7:40 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-05 5:41 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-05 12:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-05 14:02 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-06 2:00 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-06 2:18 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-06 2:35 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-06 2:57 ` Neo Jia
2016-07-06 4:02 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-06 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-07 2:36 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-07-06 6:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-06 15:50 ` Alex Williamson
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