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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:46:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r254549 - head/sys/amd64/vmm/intel
Message-ID:  <201308200646.r7K6kf0Q067844@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: neel
Date: Tue Aug 20 06:46:40 2013
New Revision: 254549
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/254549

Log:
  Do not create superpage mappings in the iommu.
  
  This is a workaround to hide the fact that we do not have any code to
  demote a superpage mapping before we unmap a single page that is part
  of the superpage.

Modified:
  head/sys/amd64/vmm/intel/vtd.c

Modified: head/sys/amd64/vmm/intel/vtd.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/amd64/vmm/intel/vtd.c	Tue Aug 20 06:20:05 2013	(r254548)
+++ head/sys/amd64/vmm/intel/vtd.c	Tue Aug 20 06:46:40 2013	(r254549)
@@ -611,13 +611,30 @@ vtd_create_domain(vm_paddr_t maxaddr)
 	dom = malloc(sizeof(struct domain), M_VTD, M_ZERO | M_WAITOK);
 	dom->pt_levels = pt_levels;
 	dom->addrwidth = addrwidth;
-	dom->spsmask = VTD_CAP_SPS(vtdmap->cap);
 	dom->id = domain_id();
 	dom->maxaddr = maxaddr;
 	dom->ptp = malloc(PAGE_SIZE, M_VTD, M_ZERO | M_WAITOK);
 	if ((uintptr_t)dom->ptp & PAGE_MASK)
 		panic("vtd_create_domain: ptp (%p) not page aligned", dom->ptp);
 
+#ifdef notyet
+	/*
+	 * XXX superpage mappings for the iommu do not work correctly.
+	 *
+	 * By default all physical memory is mapped into the host_domain.
+	 * When a VM is allocated wired memory the pages belonging to it
+	 * are removed from the host_domain and added to the vm's domain.
+	 *
+	 * If the page being removed was mapped using a superpage mapping
+	 * in the host_domain then we need to demote the mapping before
+	 * removing the page.
+	 *
+	 * There is not any code to deal with the demotion at the moment
+	 * so we disable superpage mappings altogether.
+	 */
+	dom->spsmask = VTD_CAP_SPS(vtdmap->cap);
+#endif
+
 	SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&domhead, dom, next);
 
 	return (dom);



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