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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Frank Yang <lfy@google.com>,
	virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define shared memory regions
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:31:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215133142.2bcbaf58.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190215111908.GC2630@work-vm>

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:19:09 +0000
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:

> What I'm missing here is why the behaviour of the s390's traditional channel program
> matters to the design of an entirely emulated device.

I mostly wrote this up as an explanation...

> 
> As long as the s390 allows:
>   a) The host to map a region of HVA into GPA at an arbitrary GPA
> address
>   b) Not tell the guest that (a) is RAM
>   c) Find a non-RAM GPA for (a)

I think (b) and (c) are what we need to come up with a solution for...
DavidH's idea looks like a good starting point for that.

>   d) Allow the guest to set up a page table pointing to (c)
>   e) Discover (c) via the scheme you described
> 
> Then that's all that's needed - and I'm not seeing what is different on
> s390 about a-d from any other architecture.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-15 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 11:41 [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/3] Large shared memory regions Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 12:15   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-11 12:26     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-15 10:10       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-15 11:23         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-16 10:56           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-16 20:06             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-11 21:52               ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-13 18:37                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 10:58                   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 16:37                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 17:43                       ` Frank Yang
2019-02-15 11:07                         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 11:19                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 12:31                             ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2019-02-18 15:28                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 11:26                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:28                             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:33                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:37                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:59                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 13:50                                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 13:56                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 14:02                                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 14:13                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 15:14                                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 21:42                                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 22:08                                             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:51                     ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 13:33                       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-23 15:12         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-11 15:29     ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-11 16:07       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-11 17:57         ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-15  9:33           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-13  2:25   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 10:44     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14  3:43       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 2/3] shared memory: Define PCI capability Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:30   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:42 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 3/3] shared memory: Define mmio registers Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:33   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 16:52     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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