No, I mean 0x3fff doesn't mask the low 14 bits but 0x7f only leave the low 7
bits. How I get the p2m_type which between 8 to 14 bit?
best regards
yang
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Deegan [mailto:Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 9:41 PM
> To: Zhang, Yang Z
> Cc: Kay, Allen M; Wei Wang; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] AMD IOMMU: Share p2m table with
> iommu
>
> 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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