From: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian.Jackson@citrix.com, Paul.Durrant@citrix.com,
Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] hw/passthrough: Prevent QEMU from mapping PCI option ROM at address 0
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:32:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5370E98D.6090409@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5370FC910200007800011815@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 12/05/14 15:53, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 12.05.14 at 16:37, <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com> wrote:
>> The PCI option ROM BAR uses the LSB to indicate if the BAR is enabled.
>> The AMD graphics driver sets the address bit's of the BAR to 0 but leaves the
>> LSB set to 1. Whilst this is not good practice, QEMU should be ignoring the
>> non address parts of the BAR.
>>
>> This patch adds masking of the bits 0-10 (4k page) parts of the BAR
>> before comparing the address to 0.
>
> Sorry, but to avoid confusing (future) readers - this is 2k units, not
> 4k pages.
>
Thanks for pointing that out Jan, I was actually intending to ensure
nothing is allowed to be mapped to the 0 page and did not realise the
option ROM BAR is 2k aligned instead of 4k. I will submit a new patch
using XC_PAGE_MASK instead.
>> Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
>
> With the description corrected:
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-12 14:37 [PATCH v3] hw/passthrough: Prevent QEMU from mapping PCI option ROM at address 0 Malcolm Crossley
2014-05-12 14:53 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-12 15:32 ` Malcolm Crossley [this message]
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