QEMU With E2K User Support
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With a vfio assigned device we lay down a base MemoryRegion registered as an IO region, giving us read & write accessors. If the region supports mmap, we lay down a higher priority sub-region MemoryRegion on top of the base layer initialized as a RAM device pointer to the mmap. Finally, if we have any quirks for the device (ie. address ranges that need additional virtualization support), we put another IO sub-region on top of the mmap MemoryRegion. When this is flattened, we now potentially have sub-page mmap MemoryRegions exposed which cannot be directly mapped through KVM. This is as expected, but a subtle detail of this is that we end up with two different access mechanisms through QEMU. If we disable the mmap MemoryRegion, we make use of the IO MemoryRegion and service accesses using pread and pwrite to the vfio device file descriptor. If the mmap MemoryRegion is enabled and results in one of these sub-page gaps, QEMU handles the access as RAM, using memcpy to the mmap. Using either pread/pwrite or the mmap directly should be correct, but using memcpy causes us problems. I expect that not only does memcpy not necessarily honor the original width and alignment in performing a copy, but it potentially also uses processor instructions not intended for MMIO spaces. It turns out that this has been a problem for Realtek NIC assignment, which has such a quirk that creates a sub-page mmap MemoryRegion access. To resolve this, we disable memory_access_is_direct() for ram_device regions since QEMU assumes that it can use memcpy for those regions. Instead we access through MemoryRegionOps, which replaces the memcpy with simple de-references of standard sizes to the host memory. With this patch we attempt to provide unrestricted access to the RAM device, allowing byte through qword access as well as unaligned access. The assumption here is that accesses initiated by the VM are driven by a device specific driver, which knows the device capabilities. If unaligned accesses are not supported by the device, we don't want them to work in a VM by performing multiple aligned accesses to compose the unaligned access. A down-side of this philosophy is that the xp command from the monitor attempts to use the largest available access weidth, unaware of the underlying device. Using memcpy had this same restriction, but at least now an operator can dump individual registers, even if blocks of device memory may result in access widths beyond the capabilities of a given device (RTL NICs only support up to dword). Reported-by: Thorsten Kohfeldt <thorsten.kohfeldt@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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