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

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On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 08:22 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 15/09/2016 07:54, Raslan, KarimAllah wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Jun 22, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Does my previous reply answer your question?
> 
> Yes, but I'm not sure it's the right way to do it.  Looking at the
> e820 memory map seems pretty hacky.

Can you use region_intersects() for this check?  See memremap() as an
example using this interface.

-Toshi

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Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not "Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de> - 2016-09-15 08:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 08:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-09-15 18:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 18:30 +0200

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