Re: 回复: Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix gpu passthrough into vm on arm64

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Fri Mar 25 2022 - 09:06:29 EST


On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:06:17 +0000,
谢明 <xieming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> thanks for your reply !
> you are right, 'If the device supports NORMAL_NC, this should
> be known by the host kernel and exposed to KVM', accordding the kvm
> combining rules on arm64, stage1 is setting to NORMAL_NC, so can
> we add a conditional judement when ioremapping on stage2, if the
> device suppurt NORMAL_NC we setting the memory attribute to
> PAGE_S2_NC ?

The question remains: how do you convey that capability to the host?
There is nothing currently telling KVM what memory type to use.

M.

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