linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: arm64: allow the VM to select DEVICE_* and NORMAL

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Date:   Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:39:03 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, ankita@...dia.com,
        Shameerali Kolothum Thodi 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: arm64: allow the VM to select DEVICE_* and NORMAL_NC for IO memory

On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:40:42 +0000,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:50:27PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:33:01 +0000,
> > Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> > > Ideally we should do this for vfio only but we don't have an easy
> > > way to convey this to KVM.
> > 
> > But if we want to limit this to PCIe, we'll have to find out. The
> > initial proposal (a long while ago) had a flag conveying some
> > information, and I'd definitely feel more confident having something
> > like that.
> 
> We can add a VM_PCI_IO in the high vma flags to be set by
> vfio_pci_core_mmap(), though it limits it to 64-bit architectures. KVM
> knows this is PCI and relaxes things a bit. It's not generic though if
> we need this later for something else.

Either that, or something actually describing the attributes that VFIO
wants.

And I very much want it to be a buy-in behaviour, not something that
automagically happens and changes the default behaviour for everyone
based on some hand-wavy assertions.

If that means a userspace change, fine by me. The VMM better know what
is happening.

	M.

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