Re: CVMSEG Emulation

[Jiaxun Yang]

Hi,

This address range is located in KSEG3… Doesn’t seems to be a good location
for userspace program.

I think you have two options to make target_mmap work, the first would be rising
TARGET_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_BITS to 64 bit. That may break some user space
applications storing pointer tags on higher bits.

The second would be mask CVMSEG base with TARGET_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_BITS
before mmap, As higher VM address bits will be dropped when addressing guest VM,
that should provide a similar behaviour. Though you’ll have multiple alias for 
CVMSEG in
memory and application will be able to access CVMSEG with bits higher than
TARGET_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_BITS set to any value. Don’t know if it will break 
anything,
AFAIK normal applications won't use this range.

Thanks
- Jiaxun 


> 2022年12月8日 15:08，Christopher Wrogg <cwrogg@umich.edu> 写道：
> 
> In userspace emulation how do I make a set of addresses always valid and 
> initialized to 0 even though the process does not map it in? In particular I 
> want to map the CVMSEG for Cavium qemu-mips64 and qemu-mipsn32. The addresses 
> would be 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF8000 - 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFBFFF. I've looked at target_mmap 
> but it can't handle addresses that large. The lack of an emulated mmu for 64 
> bit guests is going to be a problem.