Re: [PATCH 2/2] hyperv/synic: Allocate as ram_device

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 12:08:20PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Michael S. Tsirkin (mst@redhat.com) wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:53:53PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > Mark the synic pages as ram_device so that they won't be visible
> > > to vhost.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 
> > I think I disagree with this one.
> >  * A RAM device represents a mapping to a physical device, such as to a PCI
> >  * MMIO BAR of an vfio-pci assigned device.  The memory region may be mapped
> >  * into the VM address space and access to the region will modify memory
> >  * directly.  However, the memory region should not be included in a memory
> >  * dump (device may not be enabled/mapped at the time of the dump), and
> >  * operations incompatible with manipulating MMIO should be avoided.  Replaces
> >  * skip_dump flag.
> > 
> > Looks like an abuse of notation.
> 
> OK, it did feel a bit like that - any suggestions of another way to do
> it?
>   This clearly isn't normal RAM.
> 
> Dave

If it's just an optimization for vhost/postcopy/etc, then I think
an API that says how this isn't normal ram would be ok.
E.g. it's not DMA'd into? Then maybe _nodma?

> > 
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  hw/hyperv/hyperv.c | 14 ++++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/hyperv/hyperv.c b/hw/hyperv/hyperv.c
> > > index da8ce82725..4de3ec411d 100644
> > > --- a/hw/hyperv/hyperv.c
> > > +++ b/hw/hyperv/hyperv.c
> > > @@ -95,12 +95,14 @@ static void synic_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> > >      msgp_name = g_strdup_printf("synic-%u-msg-page", vp_index);
> > >      eventp_name = g_strdup_printf("synic-%u-event-page", vp_index);
> > >  
> > > -    memory_region_init_ram(&synic->msg_page_mr, obj, msgp_name,
> > > -                           sizeof(*synic->msg_page), &error_abort);
> > > -    memory_region_init_ram(&synic->event_page_mr, obj, eventp_name,
> > > -                           sizeof(*synic->event_page), &error_abort);
> > > -    synic->msg_page = memory_region_get_ram_ptr(&synic->msg_page_mr);
> > > -    synic->event_page = memory_region_get_ram_ptr(&synic->event_page_mr);
> > > +    synic->msg_page = qemu_memalign(qemu_real_host_page_size,
> > > +                                    sizeof(*synic->msg_page));
> > > +    synic->event_page = qemu_memalign(qemu_real_host_page_size,
> > > +                                      sizeof(*synic->event_page));
> > > +    memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr(&synic->msg_page_mr, obj, msgp_name,
> > > +                           sizeof(*synic->msg_page), synic->msg_page);
> > > +    memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr(&synic->event_page_mr, obj, eventp_name,
> > > +                           sizeof(*synic->event_page), synic->event_page);
> > >  
> > >      g_free(msgp_name);
> > >      g_free(eventp_name);
> > > -- 
> > > 2.24.1
> > 
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK