On 2012-04-16 18:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:13:03PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2012-04-16 18:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:10:07PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> On 2012-04-16 17:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:03:17AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: >>>>>> The discussion on this patch seems to have fizzled, with no clear short >>>>>> term solution. >>>>> >>>>> I think we are in concensus, it's just that there are >>>>> multiple bugs still left to fix. >>>>> >>>>> First, we need to prevent guest from touching command >>>>> register except for the bus master bit. Something like >>>> >>>> INTx is harmless as well. Denying access breaks masking for the guest. >>> >>> We currently mark intx as emulated, no? >> >> If we use the mask also in the kernel for IRQ sharing, we *monitor* it. >> >>> Anyway - care fixing it properly? >> >> There is nothing to fix. >> >> Jan > > Guest access to command register is a bug. > E.g. it has no business enabling SERR as SERR crashes > host when triggered. Maybe a misunderstanding. I agree that other bits are not guest business. But INTx should be excluded from this filtering and handled as is, i.e. passed through. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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