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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Christian Ehrhardt
	<ehrhardt-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org"
	<kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>,
	kvm-ppc-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Jerone Young <jyoung5-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Hollis Blanchard
	<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:50:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47580C1B.4090708@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4756BB14.1080708-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>

Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Background:
> In our ppc code for the demo we only needed a call to 
> cpu_physical_memory_rw to handle all kind of mmio we needed. Looking 
> at all the callback pointers for read/write mmio in kvm_callbacks I 
> wondered if this can be simplified with cpu_physical_memory_rw for x86 
> too. So I tested it today and it works fine on with kvm-svm on my 
> opteron.
> The only code that did not just redirect to another function was a 
> workaround for a Redhat 7.1 issue, so I merged it in the central call 
> making it easier to find and maintain (was split before) anyway.
> If everyone agrees with it I will create a new patch also affecting 
> the other implementations of this interface e.g. user/main.c and a 
> rebased version of this one.
> But maybe there was a reason to do it that split way with all the 
> callback pointers that was not obvious to me, so please comment.

It may be worthwhile to unify all the reads into a single read, but read 
and write are fundamentally different.  The fact that qemu implements it 
in one function is a detail; libkvm aims to satisfy more than just qemu.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Christian Ehrhardt
	<ehrhardt-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org"
	<kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>,
	kvm-ppc-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Jerone Young <jyoung5-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Hollis Blanchard
	<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm	callback structure
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:50:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47580C1B.4090708@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4756BB14.1080708-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>

Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Background:
> In our ppc code for the demo we only needed a call to 
> cpu_physical_memory_rw to handle all kind of mmio we needed. Looking 
> at all the callback pointers for read/write mmio in kvm_callbacks I 
> wondered if this can be simplified with cpu_physical_memory_rw for x86 
> too. So I tested it today and it works fine on with kvm-svm on my 
> opteron.
> The only code that did not just redirect to another function was a 
> workaround for a Redhat 7.1 issue, so I merged it in the central call 
> making it easier to find and maintain (was split before) anyway.
> If everyone agrees with it I will create a new patch also affecting 
> the other implementations of this interface e.g. user/main.c and a 
> rebased version of this one.
> But maybe there was a reason to do it that split way with all the 
> callback pointers that was not obvious to me, so please comment.

It may be worthwhile to unify all the reads into a single read, but read 
and write are fundamentally different.  The fact that qemu implements it 
in one function is a detail; libkvm aims to satisfy more than just qemu.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05 14:52 [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm Christian Ehrhardt
2007-12-05 14:52 ` [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm callback structure Christian Ehrhardt
     [not found] ` <4756BB14.1080708-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 14:50   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-12-06 14:50     ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <47580C1B.4090708-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-11 13:01       ` [kvm-ppc-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace Christian Ehrhardt
2007-12-11 13:01         ` [PATCH] RFC: simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm callback structure Christian Ehrhardt
2007-12-07 11:38   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH] [0/1] simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm Christian Ehrhardt
2007-12-07 11:38     ` [PATCH] [0/1] simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm callback structure Christian Ehrhardt
     [not found]     ` <475930A6.60301-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-07 11:40       ` [kvm-ppc-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH] [0/1] simplify Avi Kivity
2007-12-07 11:40         ` [PATCH] [0/1] simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm callback structure Avi Kivity
2007-12-07 11:38   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH] [1/1] simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm Christian Ehrhardt
2007-12-07 11:38     ` [PATCH] [1/1] simplify kvm-userspace to qemu-kvm callback structure Christian Ehrhardt

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