Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 27/36] sysbus: add a sysbus_mmio_unmap() helper

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 04:52:46PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 11/29/18 5:36 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > On 11/29/18 5:09 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:57:20AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>> This will be used to remove the MMIO regions of the POWER9 XIVE
> >>> interrupt controller when the sPAPR machine is reseted.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> Since the code looks sane.
> >>
> >> Hoever, I think using memory_region_set_enabled() would be a better
> >> idea for our purposes than actually adding/deleting the subregion.
> > 
> > Yes and we might not need this one anymore. 
> 
> As we are destroying the KVM device, we also need to remove the mmap 
> in QEMU, else we will have a VMA with a page fault handler pointing
> on a bogus KVM device.  which means destroying the memory region, so
> we can not use  memory_region_set_enabled(). 
> 
> Anyhow mapping/unmapping works well.

Ah, ok.

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