vhost does not support RO protections on memory at the moment - adding ROMs would mean that e.g. a buggy guest might change them in-memory - a condition from which guest reset does not recover. Not nice.
We also definitely don't want to try logging writes into ROMs - in particular guests set very high addresses for ROM BARs so logging these writes would waste a lot of memory. Maybe ROMs could be supported with the iotlb variant - not sure, but there seems to be no good reason for virtio to try to do DMA from ROM. So let's just skip ROM memory. Suggested-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> --- hw/virtio/vhost.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c index b124d97..febe519 100644 --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c @@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ static void vhost_set_memory(MemoryListener *listener, static bool vhost_section(MemoryRegionSection *section) { - return memory_region_is_ram(section->mr); + return memory_region_is_ram(section->mr) && + !memory_region_is_rom(section->mr); } static void vhost_begin(MemoryListener *listener) -- MST