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Re: [PATCH v4] memory: Directly dispatch alias accesses on origin memory
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Peter Xu |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v4] memory: Directly dispatch alias accesses on origin memory region |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:08:50 -0400 |
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 07:57:08AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Since commit 2cdfcf272d ("memory: assign MemoryRegionOps to all
> regions"), all newly created regions are assigned with
> unassigned_mem_ops (which might be then overwritten).
>
> When using aliased container regions, and there is no region mapped
> at address 0 in the container, the memory_region_dispatch_read()
> and memory_region_dispatch_write() calls incorrectly return the
> container unassigned_mem_ops, because the alias offset is not used.
>
> Consider the following setup:
>
> +--------------------+ < - - - - - - - - - - - +
> | Container | mr
> | (unassigned_mem) | |
> | |
> | | |
> | | alias_offset
> + + <- - - - - - +----------+---------+
> | +----------------+ | | |
> | | MemoryRegion0 | | | |
> | +----------------+ | | Alias | addr1
> | | MemoryRegion1 | | <~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | | <~~~~~~
> | +----------------+ | | |
> | | +--------------------+
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | +----------------+ |
> | | MemoryRegionX | |
> | +----------------+ |
> | | MemoryRegionY | |
> | +----------------+ |
> | | MemoryRegionZ | |
> | +----------------+ |
> +--------------------+
>
> The memory_region_init_alias() flow is:
>
> memory_region_init_alias()
> -> memory_region_init()
> -> object_initialize(TYPE_MEMORY_REGION)
> -> memory_region_initfn()
> -> mr->ops = &unassigned_mem_ops;
>
> Later when accessing offset=addr1 via the alias, we expect to hit
> MemoryRegion1. The memory_region_dispatch_read() flow is:
>
> memory_region_dispatch_read(addr1)
> -> memory_region_access_valid(mr) <- addr1 offset is ignored
> -> mr->ops->valid.accepts()
> -> unassigned_mem_accepts()
> <- false
> <- false
> <- MEMTX_DECODE_ERROR
>
> The caller gets a MEMTX_DECODE_ERROR while the access is OK.
>
> Fix by dispatching aliases recursively, accessing its origin region
> after adding the alias offset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Peter Xu