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Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not
Date 2016-06-22 15:50 +0200
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On 22/06/2016 04:34, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> pfn_valid check is not sufficient because it only checks if a page has a struct
> page or not, if for example "mem=" was passed to the kernel some valid pages
> won't have a struct page. This means that if guests were assigned valid memory
> that lies after the mem= boundary it will be passed uncached to the guest no
> matter what the guest caching attributes are for this memory.

How can you pass memory after the mem= boundary to the guest?

Paolo

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[PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> - 2016-06-22 04:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-06-22 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not "Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de> - 2016-06-22 16:20 +0200

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