Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] nvdimm acpi: add _CRS

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 05:17:19PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > So what would happen when PCI MMIO BAR would be mapped over above range,
> > > since guest thinks it's free to use it as unused resource?  
> > 
> > IIRC, allocating MMIO BAR over RAM would make the MMIO invisible,
> > irrespective of whether the RAM range is being used for anything.
> An then driver would start writing 'garbage' to RAM, resulting in
> strange guest behavior and not work PCI device.

Do you observe such behaviour?

> that's why reserving region is a good idea if it could be done.

Which region? Reserve all of RAM in _CRS?

> > 
> > >   
> > > >   
> > > > > So we should either reserve range or punch a hole in PCI0._CRS.
> > > > > Reserving ranges is simpler and that's what we've switched to
> > > > > from manual hole punching, see PCI/CPU/Memory hotplug and other
> > > > > motherboard resources.    
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux