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

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On 15/09/2016 07:54, Raslan, KarimAllah wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
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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.
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>> How can you pass memory after the mem= boundary to the guest?
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> 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.

Paolo

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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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