On Mon, 04/20 22:34, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:10:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > > On 20/04/2015 19:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > At the implementation level, there's one big issue you seem to have > > > missed: DMA to invalid memory addresses causes a crash in memory core. > > > I'm not sure whether it makes sense to recover from virtio core bugs > > > when we can't recover from device bugs. > > > > What do you mean exactly? DMA to invalid memory addresses causes > > address_space_map to return a "short read". > > > > Paolo > > I mean, first of all, a bunch of virtio_XXX_phys calls. > These eventually call qemu_get_ram_ptr, which internally calls > qemu_get_ram_block and ramblock_ptr. > Both abort on errors. > They are VQ manipulating operations, not DMA. Anyway, can we return errors from memory core? Fam _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization