Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 21/22] xen/arm: Add a hypercall for device mmio mapping

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 04.03.16 at 12:00, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 04.03.16 at 07:15, <zhaoshenglong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Overall I wonder whether this wouldn't help PVH on x86 too,
>> where we currently do some hackery to (not even completely)
>> map MMIO into Dom0's p2m. In such a case perhaps
>> map_dev_mmio_regions() should become a general per-arch
>> function right away (declared in a common header and stubbed
>> out in x86 code for now). Boris, Roger?
> 
> I though that we agreed that Xen will take care of doing all the MMIO 
> mappings for HVMlite/PVHv2 guests:
> 
> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-02/msg01609.html 
> 
> My first idea was to use the MMIO device mapping hypercall (just like 
> ARM) on the hardware domain, but I think we can get away without it on x86.

Oh, you're right (albeit that doesn't cover MMIO regions not
represented by BARs, which will need taking care of). Question
back to the ARM folks then: Would such a model work for you
too? (I'd really like to avoid having two different models, if we
can avoid it.)

Jan


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