Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
From: Neo Jia
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 10:02:34 EST
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:18:28PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 05/07/2016 07:41, Neo Jia wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:01:49PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> The vGPU folks would like to trap the first access to a BAR by setting
> >> vm_ops on the VMAs produced by mmap-ing a VFIO device. The fault handler
> >> then can use remap_pfn_range to place some non-reserved pages in the VMA.
> >>
> >> KVM lacks support for this kind of non-linear VM_PFNMAP mapping, and these
> >> patches should fix this.
> >
> > Hi Paolo,
> >
> > I have tested your patches with the mediated passthru patchset that is being
> > reviewed in KVM and QEMU mailing list.
> >
> > The fault handler gets called successfully and the previously mapped memory gets
> > unmmaped correctly via unmap_mapping_range.
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> Great, then I'll include them in 4.8.
Thanks!
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> Paolo
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