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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Eric Camachat <eric.camachat@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Can I specify a physical memory region for a domU
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:59:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908125920.GC28591@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACeEFf6dh0AZ2Py2a3YWtGkQoHmVWMehFgz52tUBNJ80d+n7HQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:47:46PM -0700, Eric Camachat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am porting our drivers to XEN's PV domU (with PV PCI passthrouth), I

Use the DMA API that Linux provides (I presume that is what you meant
by PV DomU), and use the dma_alloc_coherent to set your regions.

Also pass in 'iommu=soft' on your Linux command line to enable the
Xen SWIOTLB DMA system.

> have to allocate a memory block and tell the hardware to access it.
> But the hardware can address 32-bit only, so I want dedicate a region
> of memory that below 2GB for the domU only.

Uh, don't you mean 4GB? - 32bit is up to 4GB.
> How do that in XEN?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Eric
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08  0:47 Can I specify a physical memory region for a domU Eric Camachat
2011-09-08  8:50 ` Tim Deegan
2011-09-08 12:59 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-09-08 17:22   ` Eric Camachat
2011-09-08 18:12     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-08 18:56       ` Eric Camachat
2011-09-08 20:00         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-09  0:15           ` Eric Camachat
2011-09-09  1:05             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-09 16:10               ` Eric Camachat
2011-09-09 16:48                 ` Eric Camachat
2011-09-09 18:06                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-09 19:19                     ` Eric Camachat

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