On 6/22/16, 3:41 PM, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >On 22/06/2016 04:34, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote: >> pfn_valid check is not sufficient because it only checks if a page has a struct >> page or not, if for example "mem=" was passed to the kernel some valid pages >> won't have a struct page. This means that if guests were assigned valid memory >> that lies after the mem= boundary it will be passed uncached to the guest no >> matter what the guest caching attributes are for this memory. > >How can you pass memory after the mem= boundary to the guest? Memory regions can be assigned to the guest as long as you've a valid host virtual address. You can always get a host virtual address for any RAM that lives after 'mem=' for example by simply mmaping /dev/mem or even using some special kernel module to mmap these regions from user space. > >Paolo > ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����o�^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�