[PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: arm64: allow the VM to select DEVICE_* and NORMAL_NC for IO memory

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:01:28PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:43:18 +0000,
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 04:22:33PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > That's an argument to restrict this feature to PCIe. It's really about
> > > fewer arguments on the behaviour of other devices. Marc did raise
> > > another issue with the GIC VCPU interface (does this even have a vma in
> > > the host VMM?). That's a class of devices where the mapping is
> > > context-switched, so the TLBI+DSB rules don't help.
> 
> There is no vma. The CPU interface is entirely under control of KVM.
> Userspace only provides the IPA for the mapping.

That's good to know. We can solve the GIC issue by limiting the
relaxation to those mappings that have a user vma. Ideally we should do
this for vfio only but we don't have an easy way to convey this to KVM.

-- 
Catalin