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Re: [PATCH v11 05/11] vfio/migration: Block multiple devices migration


From: Jason Gunthorpe
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 05/11] vfio/migration: Block multiple devices migration
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 13:11:30 -0300

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 02:35:21PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:

> Ok. Got it. So it depends on what SMMU does for that mapping and is not
> related to migration per se and has the potential to crash the system if 
> SMMU go ahead with that memory access. Isn't it a more generic problem
> then when we have multiple devices attached to the VM? 

It is, and I am hoping to solve it when I get P2P support into iommufd

> I need to check if there is anything in SMMU spec that forbids this
> access.

There isn't, it is up to the integration how it handles 'hairpin'
traffic. A good implementation will work correctly as Intel and other
CPUs do. A very bad implementation will crash. Medium is to return
error tlps.

Jason



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