Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] kvm/arm64: Try stage2 block mapping for host device MMIO

[Keqian Zhu]

Hi Marc,

On 2021/4/8 15:28, Keqian Zhu wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On 2021/4/7 21:18, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:43:38 +0000,
>> Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
[...]

>>>  
>>> +/*
>>> + * Find a mapping size that properly insides the intersection of vma and
>>> + * memslot. And hva and pa have the same alignment to this mapping size.
>>> + * It's rough because there are still other restrictions, which will be
>>> + * checked by the following fault_supports_stage2_huge_mapping().
>>
>> I don't think these restrictions make complete sense to me. If this is
>> a PFNMAP VMA, we should use the biggest mapping size that covers the
>> VMA, and not more than the VMA.
> But as described by kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(), the memslot may not fully
> cover the VMA. If that's true and we just consider the boundary of the VMA, our
> block mapping may beyond the boundary of memslot. Is this a problem?
emm... Sorry I missed something. The fault_supports_stage2_huge_mapping() will check
the boundary of memslot, so we don't need to check it here. I have send v3, please
check that.

BRs,
Keqian