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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] best way to implement a "memclear" type instruction in TCG?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:06:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E016C9.3010608@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8vZqRw6gH2GBaTtAzhrpbPjCK9oF6z51rSd-0nwd+_3w@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/22/2014 10:58 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> In theory we could just find the pointer to the memory QEMU is backing
> the guest RAM with and call memset on it...

That's more or less what we do for the s390 insn XC.
See mem_helper.c, especially mvc_fast_memset.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22 18:58 [Qemu-devel] best way to implement a "memclear" type instruction in TCG? Peter Maydell
2014-01-22 19:06 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2014-01-22 19:24   ` Xin Tong
2014-01-22 19:30     ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-27 16:23   ` Peter Maydell

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