> From: JAN KISZKA <[email protected]>
> Date: 1 May 2018 at 18:55
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/19] configs: arm: add comm_region to all inmates
> To: Ralf Ramsauer <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected]
> 
> On 2018-05-01 10:54, Ralf Ramsauer wrote:
>> On 04/27/2018 08:27 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2018-04-27 11:36, Ralf Ramsauer wrote:
>>>> On x86, we already use the communication region to pass certain platform
>>>> specific information to guests. So let's do this on all ARM
>>>> architectures as well. This patch is a preparation for that.
>>>> 
>>>> Let's use guest paddr 0x80000000 (2GiB) for the comm region, which
>>>> doesn't seem to collide with any existing (MMIO) region of our current
>>>> inmates.
>>> 
>>> So you really checked them all? Also validated that there is no
>>> collision with any of the virtual mmcfg region we define (that's in the
>>> system config then)?
>> 
>> I manually checked them, including the mmcfg region. But I think it's
>> worth crosschecking them.
>> 
>> Of course, 0x80000000 overlaps with physical RAM on most ARM platforms,
>> but that's not an issue for the communication region in inmates.
>> 
>> The point of this address is that on most platforms, MMIO regions are
>> spread somewhere below 0x80000000, where it's on the one hand hard to
>> find a common free region, and on the other it's likely to get a new
>> board where that address might be in use.
> 
> Hmm, may work for us - provided we never try to steal RAM for inmates
> from that address onward... OK, will double-check the targets.
> 
> Jan 
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As per "Principles of ARM(R) Memory Maps White Paper", Document number:
ARM DEN 0001C, 

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0001c/DEN0001C_principles_of_arm_memory_maps.pdf


I would say the selected location will never point to MMIO. 

-FF 

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