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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>,
	"maran.wilson@oracle.com" <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
	"Montes, Julio" <julio.montes@intel.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"kraxel@redhat.com" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	"rth@twiddle.net" <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"sgarzare@redhat.com" <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce the microvm machine type
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:35:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d318abf-4afa-a1dc-a4e8-3a2d0a6de297@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190725104331-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On 25/07/19 16:46, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Actually, I think I have a better idea.
> At the moment we just get an exit on these reads and return all-ones.
> Yes, in theory there could be a UR bit set in a bunch of
> registers but in practice no one cares about these,
> and I don't think we implement them.
> So how about mapping a single page, read-only, and filling it
> with all-ones?

Yes, that's nice indeed. :)  But it does have some cost, in terms of
either number of VMAs or QEMU RSS since the MMCONFIG area is large.

What breaks if we return all zeroes?  Zero is not a valid vendor ID.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-02 12:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] hw/virtio: Factorize virtio-mmio headers Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25  9:46   ` Liam Merwick
2019-07-25  9:58     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:03       ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 10:36       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] hw/i386: Add an Intel MPTable generator Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] hw/i386: Factorize PVH related functions Sergio Lopez
2019-07-23  8:39   ` Liam Merwick
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 13:58   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-25 10:47   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 15:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] " no-reply
2019-07-02 15:23 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-02 17:34   ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 18:04     ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-02 22:04       ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25  9:59         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:05           ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 10:10             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:52               ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 10:42             ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 11:23               ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 12:01                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-25 12:10                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 13:26                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-25 13:43                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 13:54                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:13                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:42                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:04                         ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 14:26                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:35                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:42                         ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 14:58                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:01                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:39                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 17:38                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 12:46                                   ` Igor Mammedov
2019-07-25 15:49                               ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 13:48                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-02 15:30 ` no-reply
2019-07-03  9:58 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-18 15:21   ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-19 10:29     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-19 13:48       ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-19 15:09         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-19 15:42           ` Montes, Julio
2019-07-23  8:43             ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-23  9:47               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-23 10:01                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-24 11:14                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25  9:35                     ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 10:03                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:55                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:46                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:35                       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-07-25 17:33                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 20:30                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26  7:57                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-26 11:10                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 11:30                 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-24 15:23                   ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-08-29  9:02 ` Jing Liu
2019-08-29 15:46   ` Sergio Lopez
2019-08-30  4:53     ` Jing Liu
2019-08-30 14:27       ` Sergio Lopez
2019-09-02  5:43         ` Jing Liu

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