[PATCH 3/6] arm/arm64: KVM: add 'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Sep 29 05:23:32 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:03:18PM -0700, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> Is DEVICE type the correct default, for device
> regions that are prefetchable? The guest might
> want something less restrictive to optimize device
> access.
> 
We don't have a use case for this yet, and we aren't supporting generic
platform device passthrough yet.

So far this patch is solving a real problem, but if we need something
more flexible, then patches are welcome :)

-Christoffer



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