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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: "Aviv B.D." <bd.aviv@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] IOMMU: Integrate between VFIO and vIOMMU to support device assignment
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:34:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160602073417.43735ed3@ul30vt.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM3WwMjzprUXeFpiMRkY61ZFpoTQ=_UofdmAsHHpTpEkf7Yyzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:09:27 +0000
"Aviv B.D." <bd.aviv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In case of hot plug vfio device there should not be any active mapping
> to this device prior the device addition.

Counter example - a device is hot added to a guest booted with iommu=pt.

> Also before it added to a guest
> the guest should not attach the device to any domain as the device is not
> present.

The static identity map domain (ie. passthrough domain) can precede the
device existing.

> With CM enabled the guest must invalidate the domain or individual mappings
> that belong to this new device before any use of those maps.
> 
> I'm still not sure that this functionality is necessary in x86 and
> currently there
> is a scenario (for x86) that use this functionality.

Clearly I disagree, it is necessary.  Thanks,

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-21 16:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] IOMMU: Add Support to VFIO devices with vIOMMU present Aviv B.D
2016-05-21 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] IOMMU: add VTD_CAP_CM to vIOMMU capability exposed to guest Aviv B.D
2016-05-21 16:42   ` Jan Kiszka
2016-06-02  8:44     ` Peter Xu
2016-06-02 13:00       ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-02 13:14         ` Jan Kiszka
2016-06-02 13:17           ` Jan Kiszka
2016-06-02 16:15           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-06  5:04           ` Peter Xu
2016-06-06 13:11             ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-06 13:43               ` Peter Xu
2016-06-06 17:02                 ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-07  3:20                   ` Peter Xu
2016-06-07  3:58                     ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-07  5:00                       ` Peter Xu
2016-06-07  5:21                       ` Huang, Kai
2016-06-07 18:46                         ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-07 22:39                           ` Huang, Kai
2016-05-24  8:14   ` Jason Wang
2016-05-24  9:25     ` Jan Kiszka
2016-05-28 16:12       ` Aviv B.D.
2016-05-28 16:34         ` Kiszka, Jan
2016-05-21 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] IOMMU: change iommu_op->translate's is_write to flags, add support to NO_FAIL flag mode Aviv B.D
2016-06-06  5:04   ` Peter Xu
2016-05-21 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] IOMMU: Integrate between VFIO and vIOMMU to support device assignment Aviv B.D
2016-05-23 17:53   ` Alex Williamson
2016-05-26 20:58     ` Alex Williamson
2016-05-28 10:52       ` Aviv B.D.
2016-05-28 16:02         ` Alex Williamson
2016-05-28 16:10           ` Aviv B.D.
2016-05-28 17:39             ` Alex Williamson
2016-05-28 18:14               ` Aviv B.D.
2016-05-28 19:48                 ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-02 13:09                   ` Aviv B.D.
2016-06-02 13:34                     ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2016-06-06  8:09                       ` Peter Xu
2016-06-06 18:21                         ` Alex Williamson
2016-06-07 13:20                           ` Peter Xu
2016-06-06  7:38     ` Peter Xu
2016-06-06 17:30       ` Alex Williamson

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