At 14:33 +0100 on 23 May (1306161213), Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> Another question? Does this change ok? How to covert the p2m_type
> whose value great than 7 to flags, like the type p2m_ram_shared which
> equal to 13?
The mask is 7F, not 7.
Tim.
> diff -r 51d89366c859 -r 78145a98915c xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c Mon Apr 18 15:12:04 2011 +0100
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c Mon Apr 18 17:24:21 2011 +0100
> @@ -80,7 +80,12 @@
> {
> unsigned long flags;
> #ifdef __x86_64__
> - flags = (unsigned long)(t & 0x3fff) << 9;
> + /*
> + * AMD IOMMU: When we share p2m table with iommu, bit 9 - bit 11 will be
> + * used for iommu hardware to encode next io page level. Bit 59 - bit 62
> + * are used for iommu flags, We could not use these bits to store p2m
> types.
> + */
> + flags = (unsigned long)(t & 0x7f) << 12;
>
> best regards
> yang
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Deegan [mailto:Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 6:58 PM
> > To: Kay, Allen M
> > Cc: Zhang, Yang Z; Wei Wang; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] AMD IOMMU: Share p2m table with
> > iommu
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > At 01:51 +0100 on 21 May (1305942710), Kay, Allen M wrote:
> > > The common code that caused problem is the following.
> > >
> > > typedef enum {
> > > - p2m_invalid = 0, /* Nothing mapped here */
> > > - p2m_ram_rw = 1, /* Normal read/write guest RAM */
> > > + p2m_ram_rw = 0, /* Normal read/write guest RAM */
> > > + p2m_invalid = 1, /* Nothing mapped here */
> > >
> > > With the above change, guest with device direct assignment fails to
> > > boot. QEMU VGA displays some weird color patterns.
> >
> > Unfortunately this change seems to be necessary for AMD IOMMU to share
> > pagetables with the p2m. I'd rather we didn't have it, because it means
> > empty ptes look like RAM mappings of frame 0. :(
> >
> > Wei, is there any way we can reorganise the AMD IOMMU pagetables so we
> > can store the p2m type somewhere that's not required to be zero? If not,
> > I'm
> > inclined to revert the p2m-sharing for AMD IOMMUs, since at the very least
> > we'd like to be able to handle types other than ram_rw (e.g. ram_ro).
> >
> > In the meantime, Allen, does the attached patch make things any better for
> > you?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team Citrix Systems UK Ltd.
> > (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
--
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd. (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
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