qemu-devel.nongnu.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH v2 0/5] target/arm: Reduced-IPA space and highmem=off fixes
@ 2021-10-03 16:46 Marc Zyngier
  2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] hw/arm/virt: Key enablement of highmem PCIe on highmem_ecam Marc Zyngier
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2021-10-03 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: Peter Maydell, Andrew Jones, kvm, Eric Auger, kernel-team, kvmarm

Here's another stab at enabling QEMU on systems with pathologically
reduced IPA ranges such as the Apple M1 (original version at [1]).
Eventually, we're able to run a KVM guest with more than just 3GB of
RAM on a system with a 36bit IPA space, and at most 123 vCPUs.

This series does a few things:
- decouple the enabling of the highmem PCIe region from the highmem
  attribute
- introduce a new attribute to control the enabling of the highmem
  GICv3 redistributors
- correctly cap the PA range with highmem is off
- generalise the highmem behaviour to any PA range
- disable both highmem PCIe and GICv3 RDs when they are outside of the
  PA range

This has been tested on an M1-based Mac-mini running Linux v5.15-rc3.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822144441.1290891-1-maz@kernel.org

Marc Zyngier (5):
  hw/arm/virt: Key enablement of highmem PCIe on highmem_ecam
  hw/arm/virt: Add a control for the the highmem redistributors
  hw/arm/virt: Honor highmem setting when computing the memory map
  hw/arm/virt: Use the PA range to compute the memory map
  hw/arm/virt: Disable highmem devices that don't fit in the PA range

 hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c | 12 ++++-----
 hw/arm/virt.c            | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/hw/arm/virt.h    |  4 ++-
 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

-- 
2.30.2



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2022-01-07 17:14 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2021-10-03 16:46 [PATCH v2 0/5] target/arm: Reduced-IPA space and highmem=off fixes Marc Zyngier
2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] hw/arm/virt: Key enablement of highmem PCIe on highmem_ecam Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04  9:41   ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-04 12:00   ` Eric Auger
2021-12-27 15:53     ` Marc Zyngier
2022-01-04 15:31       ` Eric Auger
2022-01-04 22:15         ` Marc Zyngier
2022-01-05  9:41           ` Eric Auger
2022-01-06 19:34             ` Marc Zyngier
2022-01-07 17:10               ` Eric Auger
2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] hw/arm/virt: Add a control for the the highmem redistributors Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04  9:44   ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-04 10:14     ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] hw/arm/virt: Honor highmem setting when computing the memory map Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04  9:44   ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-04 12:23   ` Eric Auger
2021-12-27 16:39     ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] hw/arm/virt: Use the PA range to compute " Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04 10:11   ` Andrew Jones
2021-12-27 20:13     ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04 10:15   ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] hw/arm/virt: Disable highmem devices that don't fit in the PA range Marc Zyngier
2021-10-04 10:12   ` Andrew Jones

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).