[RFC 07/13] KVM: arm64: ITS: Change entry_size and indirect bit in BASER

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Jan 12 09:05:29 PST 2017


On 12/01/17 15:56, Eric Auger wrote:
> Change the device table entry_size to 16 bytes instead of 8.
> We also Store the device and collection device in the its
> struct.
> 
> The patch also clears the indirect bit for the device BASER.
> The indirect bit is set as read-only.

Err... Why? We *really* want to continue supporting indirect tables, as
this is a massive memory saver for the guest.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> TODO: investigate support of 2 level tables, ie. enabling
> Indirect = 1. Support of 2 level tables is implementation
> defined.

Clearly, that's a regression. What exactly is the issue that decided you
to disable it?

Thanks,

	M.
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