At 17:13 +0100 on 31 Aug (1283274786), Kay, Allen M wrote:
> I have updated the patch to indicate valid_mfn() cannot be used here
> as MMIO pages are always above max_mem. Also added sanity checking
> for type == p2m_mmio_direct before clearing page table entry. This
> should fix both VT-d and SR-IOV issues reported recently as there are
> no SR-IOV specific code in Xen. As far as Xen is concern, SR-IOV
> virtual function is just another PCI device.
Applied; thanks for the fix.
Tim.
> Signed-off-by: Allen Kay allen.m.kay@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Egger [mailto:Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:35 AM
> To: Tim Deegan
> Cc: Kay, Allen M; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Keir Fraser
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] re-enable HVM PCI passthrough functionality
>
> On Tuesday 31 August 2010 11:17:27 Tim Deegan wrote:
> > At 02:58 +0100 on 31 Aug (1283223494), Kay, Allen M wrote:
> > > Attached patch reverts back to INVALID_MFN. PCI passthrough
> > > functionality works with this patch.
> >
> > Apologies for missing this - I did ask for this enormous patch to
> > contain only what it said on the tin (and I did read it to check!) but
> > this one got through.
>
> Also apologies from my side. I did what Tim requested for, but that
> one slipped through.
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Allen Kay allen.m.kay@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > This is fine, but please add a comment explaining the rather subtle use
> > of INVALID_MFN here so the next tidy-minded person doesn't "fix" it
> > again. :)
> >
> > In fact would it be better to check the returned type == p2m_mmio_direct
> > instead? That seems like it would fit better with the intention. Or
> > do other callers use this to clean non-mmio entries too?
>
> I'm interested in if this patch fixes the SR-IOV issue. We are still about
> investigation...
>
> Christoph
>
>
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