[PATCH 18/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add passthrough support

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Tue Jan 22 16:26:57 AEDT 2019


On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:10:05PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Clear the ESB pages from the VMA of the IRQ being pass through to the
> guest and let the fault handler repopulate the VMA when the ESB pages
> are accessed for an EOI or for a trigger.

Why do we want to do this?

I don't see any possible advantage to removing the PTEs from the
userspace mapping.  You'll need to explain further.

Paul.


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