Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm/arm64: KVM: use kernel mapping to perform invalidation on page fault

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 01:41:03PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 13 January 2015 at 13:35, Christoffer Dall
> <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Wouldn't a guest (and I believe Linux does this) reserve ASID 0 for
> > additional cores and use ASID 1+++ for itself?
> 
> If the guest reserves an ASID for "MMU disabled" then yes, that would
> work. The question of course is whether all guests do that...
> 
which ASID would match for MMU disabled?  Did you come across that in
the ARM ARM somewhere?

The fact that Linux does it would indicate that this may be a
requirement on real hardware too and therefore all guests have to do
it...

-Christoffer
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