Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Mon Jul 04 2016 - 03:44:50 EST




On 07/04/2016 03:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 04/07/2016 08:39, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Why the memory mapped by this mmap() is not a portion of MMIO from
underlayer physical device? If it is a valid system memory, is this
interface
really needed to implemented in vfio? (you at least need to set VM_MIXEDMAP
if it mixed system memory with MMIO)

The KVM code does not care if VM_MIXEDMAP is set or not, it works in
either case.

Yes, it is. I mean nvdia's vfio patchset should use VM_MIXEDMAP if the memory
is mixed. :)