[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Ben-Ami Yassour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Enable a guest to access a device's memory mapped I/O regions directly.
> Userspace sends the mmio regions that the guest can access. On the first
> page fault for an access to an mmio address the host translates the gva to 
> hpa,
> and updates the sptes.
>
>   

Can you explain why you're not using the regular memory slot mechanism? 
i.e. have userspace mmap(/dev/mem) and create a memslot containing that 
at the appropriate guest physical address?

There are some issues with refcounting, but Andrea has some tricks to 
deal with that.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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