Hi, On 2/5/20 5:16 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:35:06PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote: >> The guest memory layout created by kvmtool is fixed: regular MMIO is below >> 1G, PCI MMIO is below 2G, and the RAM always starts at the 2G mark. Real >> hardware can have a different memory layout, and being able to create a >> specific memory layout can be very useful for testing the guest kernel. >> >> This series allows the user the specify the memory layout for the >> virtual machine by expanding the -m/--mem option to take an <addr> >> parameter, and by adding architecture specific options to define the I/O >> ports, regular MMIO and PCI MMIO memory regions. >> >> The user defined memory regions are implemented in patch #16; I consider >> the patch to be an RFC because I'm not really sure that my approach is the >> correct one; for example, I decided to make the options arch dependent >> because that seemed like the path of least resistance, but they could have >> just as easily implemented as arch independent and each architecture >> advertised having support for them via a define (like with RAM base >> address). > Do you plan to repost this with Andre's comments addressed? The series will conflict with my other series which add support for assignable BARs and PCIE. I am definitely still interested in reposting this because I think it's very useful, and I'll do it after the other patches get merged. Thank you for taking a look! Thanks, Alex > > Will
