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Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date 2016-07-04 09:40 +0200
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On 04/07/2016 08:39, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Why the memory mapped by this mmap() is not a portion of MMIO from
> underlayer physical device? If it is a valid system memory, is this
> interface
> really needed to implemented in vfio? (you at least need to set VM_MIXEDMAP
> if it mixed system memory with MMIO)

The KVM code does not care if VM_MIXEDMAP is set or not, it works in
either case.

Paolo

> IIUC, the kernel assumes that VM_PFNMAP is a continuous memory, e.g, like
> current KVM and vaddr_get_pfn() in vfio, but it seems nvdia's patchset
> breaks this semantic as ops->validate_map_request() can adjust the physical
> address arbitrarily. (again, the name 'validate' should be changed to match
> the thing as it is really doing)
> 
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[PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-06-30 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: prepare to support mapping of VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP frames Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-06-30 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-01 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 08:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 10:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 10:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 03:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 03:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 06:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 07:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 08:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 09:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 06:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 12:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 11:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 09:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-05 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 04:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 05:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 06:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 13:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-07 04:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 08:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 18:00 +0200

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