Re: [PATCH 1/9] pci-assign: Optionally enable 64bit BARs in guest

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:08:38PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 15:33 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 01/31/2012 03:21 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > > On 2012-01-31 14:10, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > > On 01/31/2012 02:57 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > > >>>>> Seems fine, but do we really need the option?  If it doesn't work we
> > > >>>>> should treat it as an ordinary but and fix it.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> So far it's against the architecture of the emulated system: our current
> > > >>>> chipset predates 64 bit PCI.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Then it should be enabled/disabled at the chipset level.
> > > >>
> > > >> Makes me wonder if we already do some filtering if the device supports
> > > >> 64 bit but the next bridge does not.
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > Our 440fx does support 64-bit bars, so the question doesn't arise for
> > > > x86.  Instead we violate the spec.
> > >
> > > If you mean by "our" the 440fx-qemu, not the real 440fx. That one does
> > > not even support >1GB RAM.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I meant.  It also supports pci hotplug, more slots, cpu
> > hotplug, etc.
> 
> I'll drop this patch for now, it was just something I enabled based on a
> query from MST and didn't want to lose it.  Maybe we need the option in
> PCI core, but I'm just turn it on and hope for the best w/o giving users
> a way to disable it.  Thanks,
> 
> Alex

The patch itself makes sense to me.
Avi found some bugs in 64 bit BAR handling, let's wait till that is
fixed then merge this patch.
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