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SubjectRe: Summary of LPC guest MSI discussion in Santa Fe
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 03:17:09PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:31:45 +0000
> Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:23:03PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >
> > > (I suppose it's technically possible to get around this issue by letting
> > > QEMU place RAM wherever it wants but tell the guest to never use a
> > > particular subset of its RAM for DMA, because that would conflict with
> > > the doorbell IOVA or be seen as p2p transactions. But I think we all
> > > probably agree that it's a disgusting idea.)
> >
> > Disgusting, yes, but Ben's idea of hotplugging on the host controller with
> > firmware tables describing the reserved regions is something that we could
> > do in the distant future. In the meantime, I don't think that VFIO should
> > explicitly reject overlapping mappings if userspace asks for them.
>
> I'm confused by the last sentence here, rejecting user mappings that
> overlap reserved ranges, such as MSI doorbell pages, is exactly how
> we'd reject hot-adding a device when we meet such a conflict. If we
> don't reject such a mapping, we're knowingly creating a situation that
> potentially leads to data loss. Minimally, QEMU would need to know
> about the reserved region, map around it through VFIO, and take
> responsibility (somehow) for making sure that region is never used for
> DMA. Thanks,

Yes, but my point is that it should be up to QEMU to abort the hotplug, not
the host kernel, since there may be ways in which a guest can tolerate the
overlapping region (e.g. by avoiding that range of memory for DMA).

Will

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