On 30 April 2018 at 13:54, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 30/04/2018 14:24, Peter Maydell wrote: >> - /* Set this up to provide customized IOMMU replay function */ >> + /* Set this up to provide customized IOMMU replay function. >> + * Optional method. >> + */ >> void (*replay)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, IOMMUNotifier *notifier); > > replay is needed if you want to support IOMMU notifiers. After > memory_region_register_iommu_notifier you're only notified about future > changes to the mappings; memory_region_iommu_replay calls the replay > method so that the IOMMUNotifier is called for each existing mapping.
Is it then unrelated to record-and-replay ? That's what I guessed it was for... Also, some IOMMUs (eg spapr_iommu.c) seem to support notifiers but don't implement it. thanks -- PMM