[SeaBIOS] ohci bulk?

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 08:48:58 CET 2010


On 11/23/2010 09:45 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >
> >  Yes.  We could define a set of alternate memory slots to be used
> >  when SMM is active.  The mmu is already prepared (like we support
> >  vcpus with different paging modes simultaneously).
> >
> But memory slots resides below mmu. The responsible of mmu is to
> translate gva to gpa. After that memory slots are used to translate
> gpa into hva and at this point it is not per vcpu. With SMM one vcpu
> can generate MMIO access and another one memory access with the same
> gpa.

The mmu would translate gva to a (gpa, smm) pair (when tdp is enabled, 
translate gpa or ngpa to (gpa, smm).  gfn_to_page() translates a (gpa, 
smm) pair to a struct page.

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