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Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:40:51 +0100 |
On 26 July 2015 at 11:17, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 July 2015 at 10:31, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 07/25/15 11:49, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> virtio-vga in vga-compat mode uses a framebuffer with the usual dirty
>>> tracking logic in pci bar 0 (simliar to stdvga). Which is exactly the
>>> thing causing the cache coherency issues on aarch64 if I understand
>>> things correctly.
>>
>> Yes. :(
>
> The question for cache-coherency of an emulated framebuffer with
> KVM is simply "does the guest set up this region of physical address
> space as Normal Cacheable memory, or does it set it up as Device
> or some other non-cacheable memory attribute type?". Whether the
> framebuffer is part of a PCI BAR or shared with "guest RAM" doesn't
> matter for this. (Of course it may matter for the guest if the
> guest makes assumptions about what kind of mapping it needs to
> use for any PCI BAR.)
...and note also that it doesn't matter for this whether the
guest expects the graphics device to automatically notice
writes via dirty-tracking or whether it explicitly says "hey
I wrote to the framebuffer" somehow -- if the guest and QEMU
disagree about whether the memory is cacheable then you are
potentially going to run into corruption problems.
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/07/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Alexander Graf, 2015/07/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/07/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Marc Zyngier, 2015/07/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Gerd Hoffmann, 2015/07/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Peter Maydell, 2015/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA, Marc Zyngier, 2015/07/27