On 14.11.2022 20:20, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > The /dev/mem is used for two purposes: > - reading PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_CTRL_MASKBIT > - reading Pending Bit Array (PBA) > > The first one was originally done because when Xen did not send all > vector ctrl writes to the device model, so QEMU might have outdated old > register value. This has been changed in Xen, so QEMU can now use its > cached value of the register instead. > > The Pending Bit Array (PBA) handling is for the case where it lives on > the same page as the MSI-X table itself. Xen has been extended to handle > this case too (as well as other registers that may live on those pages), > so QEMU handling is not necessary anymore.
Don't you need to check for new enough Xen for both aspects? Jan
