kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/26/2011 12:24 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> >
> >  As I see it there are two options: (a) make subsequent accesses from
> >  userspace or the guest result in either a SIGBUS that userspace must
> >  either deal with or die, or (b) replace the mapping with a dummy RO
> >  mapping containing 0xff, with any trapped writes emulated as nops.
>
> The biggest problem with this approach is that it has to happen in the
> context of the given process. Linux can't really modify an mm which
> which belong to another context in a safe way.
>

Is use_mm() insufficient?

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