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

From	Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date	2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:19:20PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/04/2016 03:53 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:37:35PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On 07/04/2016 03:03 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:39:22PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>On 06/30/2016 09:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>>>>The vGPU folks would like to trap the first access to a BAR by setting
> >>>>>vm_ops on the VMAs produced by mmap-ing a VFIO device.  The fault handler
> >>>>>then can use remap_pfn_range to place some non-reserved pages in the VMA.
> >>>>
> >>>>Why does it require fetching the pfn when the fault is triggered rather
> >>>>than when mmap() is called?
> >>>
> >>>Hi Guangrong,
> >>>
> >>>as such mapping information between virtual mmio to physical mmio is only available
> >>>at runtime.
> >>
> >>Sorry, i do not know what the different between mmap() and the time VM actually
> >>accesses the memory for your case. Could you please more detail?
> >
> >Hi Guangrong,
> >
> >Sure. The mmap() gets called by qemu or any VFIO API userspace consumer when
> >setting up the virtual mmio, at that moment nobody has any knowledge about how
> >the physical mmio gets virtualized.
> >
> >When the vm (or application if we don't want to limit ourselves to vmm term)
> >starts, the virtual and physical mmio gets mapped by mpci kernel module with the
> >help from vendor supplied mediated host driver according to the hw resource
> >assigned to this vm / application.
> 
> Thanks for your expiation.
> 
> It sounds like a strategy of resource allocation, you delay the allocation until VM really
> accesses it, right?

Yes, that is where the fault handler inside mpci code comes to the picture.

Thanks,
Neo

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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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