Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] vfio: Move container list to DMAContext

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 24/04/2013 17:12, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
>> > At the moment, vfio maintains a global list of containers that are assumed
>> > to be more or less interchangeable, since they are all set up with a
>> > MemoryListener to have all of system memory mapped.  However, that only
>> > makes sense if all the containers are used on devices which really do
>> > expect a dma address space identical to system memory.
>> > 
>> > This patch moves towards that by making the list of containers per
>> > DMAContext (which corresponds to a dma address space) instead of global.
> This seems like an unnecessary intrusion into common code.  Why not
> create a vfio specific list of dma objects, each with a list of
> containers?  Thanks,

Yeah, I suggest that this is re-evaluated on top of the iommu patches.

You can find them at git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git, branch iommu.
It seems to work with pseries, at least my guest crashes at the same
place with and without.  USB works, and so do VGA and spapr-vscsi.

Paolo