Re: [PATCH 0/3] target/arm: Reduced-IPA space and highmem=off fixes

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On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 15:45, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With the availability of a fruity range of arm64 systems, it becomes
> obvious that QEMU doesn't deal very well with limited IPA ranges when
> used as a front-end for KVM.
>
> This short series aims at making usable on such systems:
> - the first patch makes the creation of a scratch VM IPA-limit aware
> - the second one actually removes the highmem devices from the
> computed IPA range when highmem=off
> - the last one addresses an imprecision in the documentation for the
> highmem option
>
> This has been tested on an M1-based Mac-mini running Linux v5.14-rc6.
>
> Marc Zyngier (3):
>   hw/arm/virt: KVM: Probe for KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE when creating
>     scratch VM
>   hw/arm/virt: Honor highmem setting when computing highest_gpa
>   docs/system/arm/virt: Fix documentation for the 'highmem' option

I've applied patch 1 to target-arm.next; thanks.

-- PMM



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