Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC/PATCH] Fix guest OS panic when 64bit BAR is present

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:51:06PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Please look at HPET lines. HPET is mapped to 0xfed00000.
> > Size of ivshmem is 32MB. During pci enumeration ivshmem will corrupt the 
> > range from 0xfe000000 - 0xffffffff.
> > It overlaps HPET memory. When Linux does late_hpet init, it finds garbage 
> > and this is causing panic.
> >
> 
> Let me see if I get this right: during BAR sizing, the guest sets the
> BAR to ~1, which means 4GB-32MB -> 4GB, which overlaps the HPET.  If so,
> that's expected behaviour.

Yes BAR sizing temporarily sets the BAR to an invalid value then
restores it.  What I don't understand is how come something accesses the
HPET range in between.

> If the guest doesn't want this memory there,
> it should disable mmio.

Recent kernels do this for most devices, but not for
platform devices.

> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function