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> From: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
> Sent: 03 November 2025 13:12
> To: Shameer Kolothum <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/32] hw/arm/smmuv3-accel: Initialize shared
> system address space
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> On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:49:39 +0000
> Shameer Kolothum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > To support accelerated SMMUv3 instances, introduce a shared
> > system-wide AddressSpace (shared_as_sysmem) that aliases the global
> system memory.
> > This shared AddressSpace will be used in a subsequent patch for all
> > vfio-pci devices behind all accelerated SMMUv3 instances within a VM.
> No problem with the patch, but perhaps this description could mention
> something about 'why' this address space is useful thing to have?
Yeah. The "why" is missing. Will add.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Shameer
