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Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock |
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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:42:34 +0200 |
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On 09/24/2012 10:32 AM, liu ping fan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 09/24/2012 08:33 AM, liu ping fan wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > On 09/19/2012 12:34 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> What about the following:
>>> >>
>>> >> What we really need to support in practice is MMIO access triggers RAM
>>> >> access of device model. Scenarios where a device access triggers another
>>> >> MMIO access could likely just be rejected without causing troubles.
>>> >>
>>> >> So, when we dispatch a request to a device, we mark that the current
>>> >> thread is in a MMIO dispatch and reject any follow-up c_p_m_rw that does
>>> >> _not_ target RAM, ie. is another, nested MMIO request - independent of
>>> >> its destination. How much of the known issues would this solve? And what
>>> >> would remain open?
>>> >
>>> > Various iommu-like devices re-dispatch I/O, like changing endianness or
>>> > bitband. I don't know whether it targets I/O rather than RAM.
>>> >
>>> Have not found the exact code. But I think the call chain may look
>>> like this: dev mmio-handler --> c_p_m_rw() --> iommu mmio-handler -->
>>> c_p_m_rw()
>>> And I think you worry about the case for "c_p_m_rw() --> iommu
>>> mmio-handler". Right? How about introduce an member can_nest for
>>> MemoryRegionOps of iommu's mr?
>>>
>>
>> I would rather push the iommu logic into the memory API:
>>
>> memory_region_init_iommu(MemoryRegion *mr, const char *name,
>> MemoryRegion *target, MemoryRegionIOMMUOps *ops,
>> unsigned size)
>>
>> struct MemoryRegionIOMMUOps {
>> target_physical_addr_t (*translate)(target_physical_addr_t addr,
>> bool write);
>> void (*fault)(target_physical_addr_t addr);
>> };
>>
> So I guess, after introduce this, the code logic in c_p_m_rw() will
> look like this
>
> c_p_m_rw(dev_virt_addr, ...)
> {
> mr = phys_page_lookup();
> if (mr->iommu_ops)
> real_addr = translate(dev_virt_addr,..);
>
> ptr = qemu_get_ram_ptr(real_addr);
> memcpy(buf, ptr, sz);
> }
>
Something like that. It will be a while loop, to allow for iommus
strung in series.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Jan Kiszka, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Jan Kiszka, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/30