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

From Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date 2016-07-05 03:30 +0200
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On 07/04/2016 11:33 PM, Neo Jia wrote:

>>>
>>> Sorry, I think I misread the "allocation" as "mapping". We only delay the
>>> cpu mapping, not the allocation.
>>
>> So how to understand your statement:
>> "at that moment nobody has any knowledge about how the physical mmio gets virtualized"
>>
>> The resource, physical MMIO region, has been allocated, why we do not know the physical
>> address mapped to the VM?
>>
>
>>From a device driver point of view, the physical mmio region never gets allocated until
> the corresponding resource is requested by clients and granted by the mediated device driver.

Hmm... but you told me that you did not delay the allocation. :(

So it returns to my original question: why not allocate the physical mmio region in mmap()?

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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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