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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, agraf@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] KVM: ioctl for reading/writing guest memory
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:59:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D0C64D.8090400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422965498-11500-1-git-send-email-thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>



On 03/02/2015 13:11, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The userspace (QEMU) then can simply call this ioctl when it wants
> to read or write from/to virtual guest memory. Then kernel then takes
> the IPTE-lock, walks the MMU table of the guest to find out the
> physical address that corresponds to the virtual address, copies
> the requested amount of bytes from the userspace buffer to guest
> memory or the other way round, and finally frees the IPTE-lock again.
> 
> Does that sound like a viable solution (IMHO it does ;-))? Or should
> I maybe try to pursue another approach?

It looks feasible to me as well.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-03 12:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] KVM: ioctl for reading/writing guest memory Thomas Huth
2015-02-03 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] KVM: s390: Add MEMOP " Thomas Huth
2015-02-03 13:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-03 15:16     ` Thomas Huth
2015-02-03 15:22       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-04  7:53         ` Thomas Huth
2015-02-04  8:26         ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-02-04 10:39           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-04 11:25             ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-02-04 11:42               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-04 12:16                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-02-04 10:57           ` Thomas Huth
2015-02-05 13:00           ` Cornelia Huck
2015-02-03 12:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-02-03 13:05   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] KVM: " Christian Borntraeger

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